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Mayor, we have a quorum.
Very well. Thank you Madam Clerk. There are 42 present.
There are um, eight that are absent.
So we do have a quorum.
There are two members that do wish to participate remotely.
They have requested to participate in today's meeting
remotely for reasons that are stated in Rule 59.
Uh, Madam Clerk, can we confirm that Alders Curtis
and Taylor are with us remotely.
Alderwoman Curtis, are you
there? I'm sorry. Alderman Curtis.
Hey, present. Uh, Clark.
Sorry about that. Curtis is present. Alderwoman Taylor.
Okay. Not present
Very well. Can I get a motion
to approve the
remote participation of Alders Curtis?
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of Alder Curtis signify by saying aye.
Any opposed, say nay. And the opinion of the chair?
The ayes have it. Madam Clerk, please um, add
Alderman Curtis to the roll call.
Uh, the chair recognizes Alderman Martin.
Thank you Mr. President.
I would just like to be recognized for quorum.
Very well. Madam Clerk,
could you please add Alderman Martin
as a part of the quorum roll call?
Very well. Can we stand all for the pledge of allegiance?
I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty
and justice for all.
Please remain standing for our invocation,
which will be delivered today by Reverend Marshall Hatch Jr.
From the new Mount Rim Missionary Baptist Church on the
great west side of Chicago.
Let us pray. Spirit of the living God,
we honor your presence
and approach your throne of grace
saying thank you for another day.
We're mindful of the fact that on this day
154 years ago, the people of this great city worked together
to rebuild after a raging fire.
And today we find ourselves under fire of another kind.
Today many people in our communities are feeling hopeless
and helpless in the face of a federal government
that is feeding the flames of fear,
intimidation and indifference.
But you did not give us the spirit of fear,
but of power, love, and the sound mind.
And you do not favor systems of government that abuse power,
but you bless the ones who use their levers of power
to lift the power less so today.
Remind us who we are at our best.
Remind us that our shoulders are broad enough to
with stand the cruelty and callousness of misleads.
Remind us that our shoulders are broad enough
to bear the weight of division and petty politics.
Remind us that our shoulders are broad enough
to embrace the most vulnerable among us.
Lift us, oh God, to a higher calling
and allow us to be a city on a hill
that guides this country back to its highest aspirations.
Bless the mayor and the members of this chamber.
Allow them to see in each other your image, your likeness,
and allow them to be shepherds
after your own heart repairs of the breach.
And as you lead us to do justice, love, mercy
and walk humbly with you.
We pray that your spirit guides a budget
that creates conditions extending life expectancies from
Edgewater to Englewood near North to North Lawndale
and from the Gold Coast to Garfield Park.
A budget that moves a tale of two cities
into a vision of one.
We pray this prayer in the name of the one who said,
as you have done unto the least of these,
you've done unto me. A man and
Asha. Amen. Thank you. You
may be seated.
I'm all smart. Yeah, yeah. Okay.
Public comments. The council will now begin
the public comment period which is limited
to a maximum of 30 minutes.
Each speaker is limited to three minutes.
Speakers cannot yield
or transfer their time to another speaker.
Any written comments that have been submitted will be posted
and made available for all automatic review.
Our first speaker this morning is Rita Pritchett.
Good Morning
to your honorable Mayor Johnson
and the esteemed alder people.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today.
My name is Dr. Rita Pritt.
I'm a retired Chicago police officer.
I'm speaking on behalf of the committee to rename the Grand
Crossing third district police station
building at 7 0 4 9 South Cottage Grove
to honor third district police officer Dera c Brandon,
who was tragically killed 25 January, 1984
and the performance of her duties
as is Chicago police officer while assigned
to the third district.
She was the first
female police officer killed in the line
of duty in the history of the Chicago Police Department.
This committee is comprised of the family
of Officer Brandon, her husband, retired police officer,
Matthew Brandon, fellow law enforcement officers active and
or retired, and the citizenry in which she served.
We have signed petitions for this effort available.
Upon request, we acknowledged third District Commander
Melvin, branch Alderman Tyler Farrow
for his efforts in both Alderman Hall
and Yancy for their support to make this movement a reality,
they have assured us that they are in the process
of drafting legislation in with other alter people
to Witt Harris, Taylor
and Mitchell as a collective body to submit an ordinance
to the Esteem Council
to rename the Grand Crossing Police Station
to honor Darrell Brandon.
We trust the language in the petition indicates
that the name will remain with the building
should its location change.
There have been many female police officers
who have made the ultimate sacrifice
and there are still yet those who are still making
strides to serve
within the Chicago Police Department.
At a time when public trust
and civic unity matter more than ever
historical justice, such
as honoring the first female police officer killed
in the line of duty.
Darl c Brandon can help heal, connect,
and affirm our shared values in recognizing women
in law enforcement.
Thank you for your kind indulgence in this regard.
Thank you very much for your comments.
Our next speaker this morning is Danielle Carter,
President Trump.
I'm speaking directly to you.
This is Danielle Carter Walters from Chicago Flips red.
Today we stood downstairs for two hours
and were denied entry in the building
that we the citizens paid for.
We were told that this is a ticketed event
for reservations in the public meeting where we,
the people in the residents of Chicago pay for
our civil and constitutional rights were violated
all while this mayor, this mayor folk
and this actively fighting for illegal aliens
and shutting out the people of Chicago,
the people that he hate.
We are asking President Trump that you send us help.
We need help because this is unconstitutional.
The very people he told
to stand down while legal aliens
and terrorists were attacking federal officers,
he turned around, used those same very police officers on
the residents of Chicago, the Americans.
This this is what this dictator did.
This is what this poor excuse of a mayor did
to the real residents of Chicago, the ones
who built this city.
We were not backed down
and we're speaking on behalf of all the residents
of Chicago, the true Chicago residents, the ones
that have been annoyed.
All the branding bodies, the 59 are there
where he took shot's father from in our community we're
speaking on behalf of all the mothers
and families that lost their children,
lost their family members.
And all he gave us was crime is down.
Why he walk around
with 150 police detail protecting him
and his family spending millions of dollars
of all tax dollars on the police resources While our
communities are underfund unfunded
with police officers, we're speaking on behalf
of all the residents that have been ignored.
All the citizens that are losing homes while he actively pay
for illegal alien gang members to take over residents
and buildings in our community.
We're seeking on behalf of the forgotten residents
of Chicago, president Trump, we employ you.
We employ you. The beautiful black
you've been speaking about.
Say our name, Chicago Red.
We're fighting we our city and our country
and and these dictators.
Thank you very much for your comments.
Our next speaker this morning is John Kenza Jr.
Can you even look up here up in the peasant row up here,
back in the Rosa Park aisle in the back
of the bus where you stuck us.
'cause you're too ignorant. You pack,
you packed everybody downstairs with your trained seals
that are gonna clap for you like you're some
God, you're a joke.
Fraud is the word I'd like to use.
Before I start though, I'd like to echo support
for Sister Pritchard's campaign
to rename the third district in honor of Dorell c Brandon.
She deserves that honor
and the FOP absolutely supports that endeavor.
But let's go back to fraud. Why are you a fraud?
I've been by your house, you got a big backyard.
How many migrants you had housed in that backyard
or in that house paying outta your own pocket to feed 'em.
Spoilers are zero.
You're really good at using city resources
and city dollars instead of supporting the citizens
that were born here legally live here
and everything else to spend on everywhere else.
Now you got a billion dollar budget hole, great.
When are you gonna return to the pre COVID budget
that this city used to have?
Now that you're not getting the federal tax dollars from Joe
Biden and your cronies in Washington DC
you're not going back to that day.
Shame on you because that should be the starting point
for this budget and figure out how to get to to that number.
You want more fraudulent examples.
I've seen time and time again protests in this chamber
over Palestine and as cease fire.
Where's your resolution thanking President Trump
for a cease fire?
'cause he made it happen. Not you. He released the hostages.
Not you, but you guys can't give credit where credit is due
and that's absolutely where it's due.
Shame on you. You want more examples? I got 'em coming.
No problem. I see nobody wearing masks down there.
Shouldn't you? Would all the police in this chamber be
wearing masks since there was sickness?
You might get ill, but that's not happening. Oh, why?
Because you don't want the ice agents to wear masks.
So then your crazy Antifa friends can dox 'em,
intimidate 'em, threaten them and their families
and then when they get their asses beat as they deserve,
then they, then they cry foul.
Kinda like your crazy alderman down there
who organizes a little incident in again time
after time after time.
So many of you have proven to be frauds.
You give nothing but relief to your friends,
your communists, your socialist partners,
your beliefs, your agencies.
And for the minister who spoke
before this, I pray
to God the national government revokes your tax free exempt
because far too often these ministers pose as men
of God when they're all political preachers.
They should not be talking about politics.
That's against their tax free exemption.
And I hope to God the federal government
starts making them pay taxes.
It'll certainly go a long way to balance in the budget.
Have a good day fraud. Let your seals clap for you.
Thank you very much for your comments.
Speakers are reminded that people of all ages are listening
to public comments and we ask
that you please maintain respect for others
and refrain from personal attacks or using profanity.
Thank you. Our next speaker this morning is Nat.
Hey, what's up y'all? I'm Nat.
I'm here on behalf of the People's Unity platform
and the babies Before Billionaires campaign.
I'm in with Black Youth Project 100.
I just wanna say it is wild hearing the literal
devil Costanza.
George Costanza mentioned Rosa Parks when he is the person
who like, like his police beat up black people.
His police are the ones who literally were beating us up
and keep us segregated.
Like he's literally those people he talking about.
Oh man, I hope y'all get beat up.
Yeah, 'cause you have a gun. Take that gun and badge off.
See what happens. Okay, so next, next.
No, you got the whole state behind you. Next.
I'm here on the behalf of the People's Unity platform
and babies before billionaires.
We are advocating for progressive revenue to make up
for the budget deficit that politicians, that these cops,
that these corporations have created in our communities
by stealing our resources, that is
what they consistently do.
The police make up 40% of our budget.
We are demanding that we take money from Google
through a data mining tax.
We are demanding that we take money from these corporations
through a corporate head tax.
We are demanding that we take money from the largest
universities through a pilot tax.
And we are demanding that we give all of this money
to real measures to create public safety.
We are demanding that all of CPD vacancies
that they cannot fill because no one wants to be a pig
and no one wants to beat up black people.
We are demanding that these vacancies go into community
funding that we have seen actually prevent violence.
All CPD does is come into our neighborhoods hurt us.
No one wants them here, bro. No one wants them here.
Well, good for y'all. Good for y'all.
Thank you for beating us up. We know that violence is down.
We know that if we resource our community,
our people do not do these things.
People do things because they don't have resources.
People do things
because we have no access to the mainstream economy.
We have been kept out and we need our resources.
Our communities have been underdeveloped. Thank you.
I'm Nat again. George Cassandra can go f**k himself.
Speakers are once again reminded that people
of all ages are listening to public comments
and we ask that you please refrain.
Please maintain respect for others
and refrain from personal attacks or using profanity.
Thank you all. Our next speaker this morning is Zoe Lee.
Our next speaker is Zoe Lee.
Hi. Hey. Yeah, you, you.
Hey. And my time. And my time is going and that's cool.
That's cool. My name is Zoe Lee.
I am the founder of Chicago Flips Red
and I founded Chicago Flips Red
because of the corruption in Chicago.
And under this administration, Brandon Johnson,
administration with Mary Richardson Lowery.
Sitting next to him is corporation council.
The city of Chicago has been violating my family's due
process for the last two years.
And you guys continue to pay these corrupt judges,
these corrupt prosecutors, these corrupt lawyers
to continue to stall my case.
I'm homeless. My mother, 76 years old
and she's sleeping on the couch.
But you're out here every week protesting
for illegal aliens due process.
President Trump, I'm asking you,
I'm pleading President Trump.
Please bring in the IRS criminal division,
the Department of Justice, atf, the feds,
and please get forensic audits on every dollar
that was spent in this man's administration.
Also, I'm pleading for you
to please have the DOJ look into my family's case.
It's full of fraud, starting
with the Emanuel administration.
Mary Richardson Lowry knows about it.
Um, um, Marlene Hopkins, the Department of Buildings,
she knows about it
because she's the one
who made sure it was knocked down without a court order.
I need help. Send the military in if you have to.
These paid protests will not win. Never win.
Not gonna, and think that you're gonna win this war.
My mother was born
and raised in this city college educated Catholic.
My my, my second cousin was Jesse Brown.
Y'all disrespecting veterans. Y'all disrespecting my mother.
You're disrespecting my godfather's business
that was in there since 1969.
The andon der
that's not standing behind me, but y'all stand.
Domestic violence. When I'm getting domestically violent.
Violent, they're violently beating my
ass economically.
Please trump, please come operation.
Great Lord, it's Rico time.
Thank you very much for your comments.
Speakers once again are reminded that people
of all ages are listening to the public comments
and we ask that you please maintain respect for others
and refrain from personal attacks or using profanity.
Thank you. Our next speaker this morning is Jimmy Rothchild.
Morning everybody. Uh, gotta lower the mic here.
Uh, my name is Jimmy Rothchild.
I live in the 33rd Ward
and I'm a community organizer at the Jewish
Council on Urban Affairs.
Every day in my work I see the people in this city are
struggling, struggling to stay safe, struggling
to put food on the table, struggling to stay housed,
struggling to send their kids to daycare
and it's only getting worse with Trump's uh, tax cuts,
sending billions of dollars from working families
to his crony billionaire friends.
And it's only getting worse
with Trump's thugs occupying our city
and violating our neighbor's rights.
I come from a family of refugees
and immigrants who fled persecution
and genocide to come to this,
the greatest city in the world.
To see that type of violence enacted here on the city
that my family was fleeing is horrifying.
And I'm now raising my daughter
as the sixth generation in my family to call this city home.
In that city no one should be struggling to find a place
to live, to put food on the table,
to send their kids to daycare.
We need to invest in mental health.
We need to invest in real public safety.
We need to invest in housing.
We need to expand the investments
that we've been making Currently,
the mental health first response units only operate in
certain wards and only operate nine to five.
And we know that people have mental health crises at night.
We need to make more investments in affordable housing
to stem the tide of, uh,
of displacement happening in the city so
that people in every single neighborhood,
all 77 neighborhoods in this city can thrive.
And there are common sense ways
that we can get this money from the wealthiest people
and corporations in the city back to the people first.
We can reinstate the corporate head tax.
So major corporations are paying their fair share.
Once again at $40 an employee which would be in line
with an inflation adjusted rate from the original tax,
we could bring in nearly half a
billion dollars just from that.
We need to implement a data mining tax
so the predatory social media companies are
paying to use our data.
We need to get money back from expiring
and surplus tips so
that money is flowing back into the city.
And finally, we need to eliminate the thousand vacant
police positions in this budget.
These are ghost cops.
They're not even uniforms on the street.
They're doing nothing to keep ourselves safe.
And we can use all of that money
to invest in violence intervention programs
to invest in real mental health
to together these measures could bring in a billion dollars
back to our communities from ultra wealthy corporations.
We have an historic opportunity to create a budget
that finally reflects our values in the city
and allows everyone to live safe and thriving lives.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much for your comments.
Our next speaker is Scarlet Johnson.
The mic, Just a second
start. Whenever
Am I good.
Hello, my name is Scarlet Johnson. Uh, she they pronouns.
I am here representing C
of the Chicago Alliance against
Racial and Political Repression.
I live in the fifth ward, the second police district,
and I'm here in support of a progressive budget.
Uh, the federal government is abandoning everyone.
Uh, and terrorizing ha some of us, um, some
of the le less fortunate in our community.
We cannot as a city, abandon our citizens while
as we're losing the most support.
So we need to fund the Department of Public Health.
We need to fund and expand youth jobs.
We need to fund, uh, mental health services
and make those services available all over the city
and available at all times, not just nine
to five in some locations like we have now.
We need to pay for this by taxing corporations
and cutting the chronic police vacancies that have been used
as an overtime slush fund for years.
The police needs to get its budget in order.
They take up the largest chunk of our budget
by such a huge amount.
And, and we also need
to support community control over police and accountability.
And that's why you, the city council needs
to pass the community power over policing referendum.
Right now we have the police defending ice.
They go out there and have their backs to ice while they,
while they while harassing the community.
Um, if they're actually trying to protect the our citizens,
why are they facing us?
Why do they have their backs to ice?
Chatting with ice joking this week I saw on Tuesday ice
kidnapped a 15-year-old citizen, held him for hours,
did not let him, did not read him his rights.
Did not let him call his parents.
Held him in in the dark for hours
before just dropping him off.
That is not right on my street.
They kidnapped a citizen yesterday, uh,
on his way to the bank from work.
This is not right City council.
I am calling on you to choose.
Do you side with Trump and abandon your constituents
to terror or do you wanna side with the people
and invest in their wellbeing and future?
Thank you.
Thank you very much for your comments.
Our next speaker is Jessica Jackson.
We have somebody at the mic. Please, please, please.
So Mayor Brandon Johnson. Look up here.
Look up here. Look up here.
You got a real south shore resident
of 63 years up here.
Not no paid protestor, not somebody, somebody that's paid
with a 5 0 1 C3.
You got a real live
South Shore resident at this mic.
Now what you going to do for the citizens
of South Shore and the black people of Chicago?
You gonna stop with all this fake black facade you doing?
You gonna stop that because first of all, you gonna deal
with the fact that word on the street is you a Haitian.
And if that be the case, that explains a lot.
But if you are not, if you're not, we gonna dethrone this
self acclimation you gave yourself at that what?
That black caucus thing where you said
that you the freest black man in America right now.
I dare you insult black men like that.
You are a far cry from that.
You are sitting here talking against Trump trying
to make him look this way
or that way when we right here this morning.
So you misuse the police department
to violate our rights as citizens.
You told them that they cannot participate in getting these
illegal immigrants while you sat up here
and misrepresented
that raid on South Shore Drive like black people was getting
beat up and all that over there.
You know that's a lie.
I live over there and black people over there.
We kicking in and we chilling
'cause ice ain't looking for us.
And you know they're not, they're coming to get
what we ask our president to do.
And that was to engage in mass deportation
to get these illegals out of our country.
We are coming for them seats. Do you understand that?
And while you got these people up in here acting like they
pro-police, if they really was about the police against the
police where the case may be, they deal with
that Laquan McDonald Act so
that we can get y'all up outta that seat.
Yeah, you wipe your face, you wipe your face
'cause you're probably all breaking out in a sweat.
Let me tell you something.
We come and f**k them seats
and at first I said it to you,
then it spread it to city council.
But now you gonna mess with the black people of America
and American citizens by being a fraud
and showing the Democratic party for
how lawsy they really are black people in America.
American citizens. Y'all say it along with me.
From the east coast to the west coast, from the north
to the south, the Democratic party,
we putting y'all on alert all across of America.
We coming by them saints,
Thank you very much for your comments, speakers.
Once again, I remind you that people
of all ages are listening to public comments
and we ask you to please maintain respect for others
and refrain from personal attacks or using profanity.
Our next speaker this morning is George Blakemore.
My name is George Blakemore and I'm 83 years old
and I I believe in revolution.
I predict the next election, the same
old blue people going to be here.
Maria Antoinette say feed the people cake.
Feed them cake. What did they do to her?
They cut her neck off.
We need a revolution here to throw em out.
It's not gonna be flipping red Uhuh the American Revolution
with the, with the British, they, it didn't flip.
We got to throw these out
by any means necessary.
That's right. You can't vote on Al.
This is a culture of corruption. Here you Mr. Bemo.
How you going to get 'em out?
We going by any means necessary? Are you saying violence?
Are you saying kill 'em? The American revolution?
They both The British out no black sweat
and kill that black people have to stand up.
We are the original people. We are my refugees.
So by any means necessary, get out
talk, killing them.
You heard what the I say a Rabbi Lutheran
by any means necessary,
if you can't vote 'em out, think twice.
How you going to get 'em out? I think twice.
Think they'll start running.
If you start doing what you're supposed to do,
you can kick 'em out, kick 'em out,
and Trump come here and clean up this damn swamp.
Come and clean it up.
But if you can't flip it, you know what to do, don't you?
Uh, American Revolution, Uhhuh, did they,
did they just uh, play with Great Britain?
No. What did they have to do? Blood. They had to bite.
And you do the same thing over
and over, you get the same result.
That's mental illness. Uh, uh.
I know exactly how to get all of you out
by any means necessary.
All Mr. Blakemore, you saying think twice.
America. What did America do to British?
What, what does the French re
Thank you very much for your comments.
Our next speaker is lucky dude.
Everybody speak please.
Hi, my name is Lucky
and I'm a social worker, therapist and educator.
I've been serving the city for more than 15 years
and I am here in support of the efforts
to redirect funds towards public health
and safety for Chicago.
As a lifelong Chicagoan, I am unwilling
to sacrifice the needs of my community to give money
to CPD for vacancies.
We know what our communities need.
Vaccine programs, trauma prevention programs,
non-police crisis response, mental health centers,
and we know how to fund it even better.
The money already exists.
That is why we are asking the city council
to redirect the funds allocated to ghost cops,
police vacancies
and overtime abuse towards solutions
that will help Chicago be safe and prosperous.
Right now, police answer calls, they are not equipped
or trained to answer.
More often than not vulnerable.
People experiencing mental health crises are met
with armed cops instead of what they really need.
Trained mental health professionals.
We need to bring the right people to the right crises.
We need to fund community efforts
to prevent the cycles of trauma.
We need a budget that reflects Chicago's needs.
Last year we had 150 million
for police vacancies in the city budget.
That's two and a half times the city dollars
that go toward funding the Department of Public Health.
We cannot continue to fund empty police officer roles
to be used for overtime
and overtime abuse while we cut vaccine popups.
We cannot continue
to fund empty police officer roles while we turn away more
than 1,200 young people who wanna be youth peacekeepers.
We cannot continue
to fund empty police officer roles while we struggle
to find funding to scale our non-police crisis response.
The public health and safety campaign is pushing
to do the fiscally responsible thing
and redirect the vacancies
and unchecked over time to the following.
One, protect funding for CDPH so we can reverse the slashing
of essential vaccine popups.
Two, scale and invest in non-police crisis response across
the city and reopen the public mental health centers.
Three. Invest directly in youth violence prevention on the
streets by expanding peace book
and other community led efforts.
The answer is right in front of us.
We just need to be willing to do it.
It makes no sense to give, uh, to give an outrageous amount
of funds to vacancies
and unchecked overtime while essential public programs are
slashed and cut, cut Chicagoans deserve the best.
A safe city that is resourced in the ways that count.
Thank you.
Thank you very much for your comments. Your Honor.
There are no further speakers
who have timely signed up for the public comment period.
Very well, thank you. This concludes our public comment
portion of our meeting.
Uh, we do not have any resolutions today.
So next up, communications.
The chair recognizes Madam Clerk,
A communication from his honor, the mayor
to the Honorable the City Council of the City of Chicago.
Dear Clerk Valencia, please be advised
that the city council meeting of October 16th, 2025 during
that portion of the meeting devoted
to communications from the mayor.
See rule three, I'll be delivering the mayor's budget
address to the City of Chicago budget for 2026.
Please include this letter in your agenda for the portion
of the above referenced city council meeting.
Very two years. Brandon Johnson, mayor.
Very well, thank you. We have been joined by the treasurer
of this amazing city, uh, chair recognizes treasurer,
Melissa Cones.
Irvin, thank you for joining us today.
It's great to see both of you with us,
our clerk and our treasurer.
Um, good morning. Thank you all for joining us.
I want to thank our budget
and finance team, my budget director Annette Guzman,
and our Chief Financial Officer, Joe Jurowski,
our city comptroller, Michael Belski
and their teams for their hard work on this year's budget.
I also want to thank our chief of policy, my executive team,
our commissioners and our city workers,
and the mayor's office staff who tirelessly worked on behalf
of this amazing city.
I'd also like to recognize the public officials
that are here today from the state to county, the Board
of Education and other municipalities
who have joined us this morning.
Your leadership and your partnership is so essential
to a thriving Chicago.
I'd also like to thank the coalition
of community organizations and labor unions, culture
and civic and philanthropic institutions.
Our faith leaders who are also with us today.
Chicago would not be who we are
and what we are without you all.
You truly are the soul of Chicago.
I want to especially thank the assembled members
of our city council.
You're going to hear a lot about the great things
that we have accomplished
for the city over the last two and a half years.
But whether it's mental health, affordable housing,
community safety, economic development, or youth jobs
or flood relief, uh, none of
that would be possible without the
champions that are here today.
In fact, I think I would be remiss if I did not offer up a
a really strong thank you
because we don't get here without the council members
and thank you for delivering for the people of Chicago
this year's budget.
It's the protecting Chicago budget.
It acknowledges a harsh reality that I think
that we all can agree on.
We are living in unprecedented times.
As I speak this morning about our budget,
we have national guard troops from the state of Texas
that are waiting on a port order to deploy to our streets.
Our federal government is in a shutdown
with no end in sight, masked men with long guns,
armed vehicles who have shot residents with no transparency
and no oversight.
We have ice agents harassing Chicagoans,
shooting pepper balls at faith leaders
and detaining journalists.
We had Chicagoans
and South Shore were awakened in the middle of the night
to the sound of Black Hawk helicopters
and doors being busted down.
We had a border patrol detain, a member of our city council
for simply asking to see a warrant.
We had another mother screaming pulled from her car while
she was in line to pick up her children from school.
One resident told the media that, uh,
they put black people in one van and immigrants in another.
That gets at the core of the issue when they come
for any of us, they come for all of us.
They are, they are pitting
law enforcement against law enforcement.
These unaccountable federal agents have teargassed.
Our police officers.
On two separate occasions, the president
of the United States of America called
for my imprisonment along with the governor
because we with him now they are trying to militarize
and occupy our city.
But it's not just the boots on the ground.
You all, what is even more devastating is
the economic attacks.
The Trump attack on our city is an economic
attack on our city.
Harsh reality is we're dealing with the Trump cuts.
The Trump cuts to public health, the cuts to public safety,
to Medicaid, to snap to services
that address homelessness and drug addiction.
His cuts to to violence prevention, his cuts
to public education and transportation.
This is not rhetoric, this is a reality.
In fact, all of the cuts that he has declared on the city
of Chicago are the very things that descendants
of slaves fought for posts.
The Civil War, Trump's budget cuts
1 trillion from Medicaid.
The Trump administration is enacting the largest cut
to snap in our nation's history.
And Trump's tariffs are driving up the cost of food.
That's why, that's why we are not including the grocery tax
in our budget proposal.
Billions were cut from
housing from the unhoused putting 170,000 Americans
at risk of homelessness in Chicago.
We still believe that the solution
to homelessness is housing.
That's why you will find an increase in funding
for homelessness services
and our rapid rehousing program,
which has already connected thousands
of Chicagoans from street encampments
to long-term stable housing.
$2.1 billion withheld from the red line extension.
Now look, I don't have to tell you all
how hard the Southsiders fought for this investment.
50 years they fought for this transformative investment
and Trump just cut it without a second thought.
With the expiration of Esser funds
and the funds that were withheld by Trump over
our black Student success plan,
our public school system is losing more than $1.8 billion.
That money, this money, the money that should be going
to our public schools is instead going
to border patrol and billionaires.
And that's why this budget proposal includes
the largest city investment in our public schools in the
history of Chicago through a historic
$1 billion tip surplus.
These funds will ensure
that we are protecting our young people from the Trump
administration's attempt to dismantle
and privatize our public education system,
that we are protecting special education teachers,
restoring funding for our black student success plan
and making sure our lowest paid workers
receive their pensions.
The city will do its part, part while we continue to work
with our partners at the state
to deliver on the $1.6 billion promise
of evidence-based funding for CPS.
These funds will also provide additional revenue
for city colleges, our libraries,
and our parks so that Chicagoans can continue
to pursue their educations
and enjoy our city no matter their zip code.
We are making, we are making these historic investments
because the Trump cuts will have you all real impact on the
poor and working people of Chicago
and they will degrade the quality of life for
all Chicagoans.
And that is what we must understand more
than anything else in this moment.
We are all connected.
We all have a shared destiny as a city.
We will prosper together or we will flounder alone.
As Dr. Martin Luther King warned us 60 years ago,
he made this point very clear.
Whatever affects one directly affects us all indirectly.
As long as there is poverty in this world,
no man can totally be rich even if he has a billion dollars.
And here's the reality you all,
there's never been a better time
to be a billionaire in America.
There's never been a better time
to be a large corporation in our country.
The president's budget,
the old BBA represents the largest upward transfer of wealth
from working class
and middle class to the ultra rich in our nation's history.
We are talking about a trillion dollar windfall in tax cuts
for corporations while low income Chicagoans are
facing higher costs.
Look, Chicago,
you all is the 10th wealthiest city in the entire world.
127,000 millionaires, 290, a hundred millionaires,
and we have 24 billionaires,
but at the same time, at the very same time,
one in four Chicagoans under the age of 18 lives in poverty.
Tens of thousands of our Chicago public schools students
do not have stable housing.
In some of our neighborhoods on the south
and west side of Chicago, we have a poverty rate
that's over 50%.
The intense and growing wealth inequality is not sustainable
you all for our city, we cannot separate the immense wealth
of the few for the poverty and insecurity of the many.
What happens in Old Town,
what happens in Old Town.
It affects me and my neighbors in Austin.
What happens in Auburn Gresham affects the families
that live in Rogers Park.
Whatever, whatever happens you all,
all in downtown affects our neighborhoods
and what happens on the far northwest side can be felt on
the far southwest side of Chicago.
And I'll take a moment here for the southeast siders
who endure that torture and torment and terror terrorism.
We stand with you all over this city.
We stand with you. We see you Altman, Chico.
We stand with you brother.
Make no mistake about it. We are one city.
We can be broken down into sides.
You all, y'all know how much I love the west side.
Hey, don't y'all leave me hanging up here.
We can be broken down into wards and neighborhoods,
but we can never be truly detached
from the responsibility that we have one to another.
That is why this budget, as I've said for months,
will be asking large corporations
to put a little more skin in the game.
This is not outta spite.
That is because our city as a whole will benefit if we can
maintain our investments in the face
of these attacks from the federal government.
The protecting Chicago budget protects Chicagoans from
Trump's cuts and his attacks on our city.
It protects the services
and programs that Chicagoans rely upon
and it protects the low income
and middle class Chicagoans from being even more
of the having to deal with the tax burden
and to protect the programs that Chicagoans use every day.
We established our budget working group in April,
bringing together a cross section of our representatives
from from business to civic
and to our labor unions,
our community leaders all coming together
with ideas and recommendations.
Nothing was off the table
and of the more than 80 different recommendations
that were put forward, many
of them are incorporated into this budget saving taxpayers
more than $200 million in cost reductions.
These savings are not decisions that we take lightly.
Even as our headcount has declined year over year,
we are calling for a targeted hiring freeze so
that we can protect the programs
that we are currently funding.
We also work closely with our city vendors
to achieve significant contract savings in the budget.
We met our goal this year
and we expect to do even better next year.
We went through all of the city's real estate holdings
and found opportunities to consolidate office space to
to sell properties
and to terminate lease to save millions
of dollars in this budget.
And the savings that you will find in this budget are
are not quick fixes.
They're not cheap accounting tricks.
In fact, this budget contains more structural reforms than
one-time fixes.
We take our fiscal responsibility seriously
because it is that discipline that will allow us to continue
to make critical investments in the years to come.
Now this, this budget is also heavily informed
by the grassroots from the bottom up.
Both our community budget round tables
where we heard directly from Chicagoans, from every walk
of life and from our informal budget town halls on the south
and west and north sides
where we heard from community groups
and neighborhood leaders.
This budget is also the product of their work.
I'm talking about decades, you all decades of organizing
that put forth these demands and brought us to this moment.
But here's the harsh reality.
Here's the truth is that many
of the most transformative recommendations
that we got from our budget community roundtables
and our working group requires approval at the state level.
Many of the proposals in our budget wouldn't even be
necessary if the progressive demands for billionaires
and millionaires
and tax on services that are used by the wealthiest, the,
um, elimination of the corporate tax loopholes.
If we actually met those demands at the state level, many
of the things that we're doing now, we wouldn't have
to, but we will continue.
We cont we will continue
and I promise you all, we will work with our coalition
of community and labor and elected allies in Springfield
and with Governor Pritzker, the Speaker of the House,
speaker Welch and President Harmon, Senate President Harmon,
to move our agenda for Chicago at the state level.
We will work side by side with anyone across the state
who wants to champion real progressive revenue.
Just know that you have a partner, the city of Chicago,
with the courage and with the fortitude
to take on that fight with you.
We will continue to fight, to move our agenda
for progressive revenue to fund public transportation,
public education,
and to fight back against these federal attacks.
And we will do that together even with the limit of
of the limited authority that we do have.
We have found new
and creative ways of making sure
that the tax burden doesn't fall on poor and working people.
Our budget proposal asks the large corporations
and the ultra wealthy to chip in a little bit more so
that working families are not burdened
with higher property taxes or grocery taxes or garbage fees.
This year it's likely that
a new assessment will be raising property values
and the taxes that will go along with it.
And that's why as I promised, my budget proposal
will not include a property tax increase.
I,
instead of asking our residents to sacrifice even more,
we are asking large corporations
and big tech companies that have made trillions of dollars
to pitch in a little bit more.
Instead of asking Woodlawn and Inglewood
and uptown to pay more, we are asking Google, Amazon,
and meta to put more skin in the game
instead of asking seniors living on fixed incomes in Austin
or South Shore to sacrifice.
We are asking big business to chip in a little more.
And we are, we are doing that in a few ways.
We're doing that in a few ways.
First, we are proposing raising the PPLT
or the personal property lease tax, transaction tax,
the personal property lease transaction tax.
This is our tax on the cloud computing companies like
Salesforce and Amazon.
With the rise of artificial intelligence,
this industry is growing exponentially
and these big tech corporations mind you got hundreds
of billions of dollars from the Trump tax cuts.
We are proposing that they invest some
of those profits into the people of Chicago.
We are increasing the, the rate by just a few points
to raise hundreds of millions in new revenue
to fund critical services for all Chicagoans.
The second method we are using
to raise revenue from these big tech companies is
a new innovative tax that we will be introducing
as a special revenue fund,
which we are calling the social media amusement
and responsibility tax.
In other words, the smart tax
because for too long we have allowed social media companies
to collect our data and sell it for profit.
They've implemented more
and more aggressive strategies
to get Chicagoans addicted to their apps.
As a result, we have seen significantly higher trends
of depression, anxiety,
and mental illness, especially in our young people.
This has become a serious public health issue.
One that was acknowledged by the surgeon general
and just like we tax other addictive vice that are bad
for our health like nicotine
and tobacco, it is far past time we treat social media
companies the same way.
That's why we are putting forth this new tax, the first
of its kind in the nation
that will tax social media companies to fund our network
of city run free mental health clinics
and our mental health crisis response team.
That revenue, that revenue will go towards the mental health
clinic that we reopen in Roseland on the far
south side of Chicago.
It will go to our clinic in Pilsen
and the mental health professionals that we added
to the leg library on the west side.
I would als I would also,
I would also make sure that we are clear.
I would allow us to continue you all to maintain
and expand our mental health network throughout the city so
that every Chicagoan, no matter where they live,
can truly have access to adequate mental health care.
You see, mental health is an issue where it cost us more
to not to invest.
When prior administrations shuttered mental health clinics a
decade ago, it didn't just impact those
who were being directly served by these clinics.
The impact is felt in the families who lost loved ones
to suicide and drug overdose overdoses.
I know firsthand the pain that
families experience when they lose a loved one to addiction
and untreated trauma to see all Chicagoans
paid for that decision in their everyday quality of life
residents who should be getting the care they need from a
trained mental health professional,
were instead falling into homelessness.
They were now on a trained or on a trained platform
or in Cook County jail.
Every day we see Chicagoans who are clearly in need
of a mental health crisis response,
but past administrations have failed to find the revenue
to properly fund these services.
Well, we are not afraid. We are not afraid.
In fact, we are not afraid taking on big tech
to fund free mental healthcare for all Chicagoans
to protect these services moving forward.
We are moving funding for our crisis response teams off
of the federal ARPA funding stream
and into the corporate fund so
that they can form a permanent part
of our yearly budget process.
This is how we protect these funds from federal clawbacks
and grant terminations.
No more can a single administration determine the healthcare
of the people of Chicago.
The fees in this budget are targeted at those who can afford
to contribute more to our city.
We are establishing also a yacht tax
because we think that it's only fair to ask Chicagoans
with the means to pay for their maintenance required
to dock these boats in our harbors.
The yacht tax will bring the rate closer
to its historic rate
and we will go up depending on the size of the boat
with an additional fee for those
who live outside of Chicago.
And one because one issue that we have heard time
and time again is that the problem of absentee
and out-of-state landowners and vacant buildings
and lots sitting dormant for decades, I've heard this over
and over and over again, are special collections unit which
was established under our department
of law is taking on the banks
and financial entities that are buying up vacant land
for speculation and the slumlords who allow their properties
to fall into despair at the beginning of this year.
Some of you may remember this
that we took on the worst landowner in Chicago.
Susie b Wilson, we took her to court
and we won back millions of dollars for taxpayers
and more than 800 lots on the south
and west sides of the city of Chicago
because Chicago, the days of the vacant buildings
and lots sitting dormant
for decades while taxpayers foot, foot the bill
for in inspect in inspections and maintenance.
Those days are over.
We are going to be even more aggressive in reclaiming
and redeveloping these vacant lots
and that's why we are increasing our vacant
building renewal fee in this budget.
Our message is simple.
The land in our communities is not
for private equity speculation.
It's for the people
you, you either build something or we will take it over
and build something for the community.
And that's why again, this important fee is critical
to the life and blood of our city.
And so we are asking big tech to chip in.
We are asking corporate landlords
and yacht owners to chip in,
but we are also asking the larger corporations to step up.
In this moment, we are asking them to chip in specifically
to fund community safety
because there has never been a more important time
to invest in safety in the history of our city.
Our investments, our investments in safety have
been working you all.
It is these critical investments that have allowed us
to make this past summer the safest summer
that Chicago has experienced in 60 years.
Our investments in our detectives in particular
overhauling the division,
restructuring the teams strategically deploying our
officers, utilizing new technologies that allow us
to actually solve crimes.
But with all of the progress, all of the progress
that we have made, we still have the Trump cuts
to public safety threatening to undermine our work.
Check it out. 468 million in proposed cuts
to A-T-F-C-P-D has worked hard
to get more than 20,000 illegal guns off the streets since
I've taken office and the president is cutting the very
agency that's responsible
for stopping the illegal endless flow
of guns trafficked into our city.
Another $800 million he cut from violence prevention
and community violence intervention,
including more than $30 million from organizations
that are right here in Chicago.
$51 million from ui, the grant
that has been awarded to the city of Chicago.
Those are cuts to police, fire,
and emergency management
that's gonna have a real impact on our city.
This is a moment that asks us to be strategic
and judicious with our resources as part of the effort
to conserve resources across the board.
We are also modernizing important aspects
of our police department.
The superintendent is taking concrete steps
with our full support
to re in overtime costs for our officers.
He has managed to bring down the number of hours
of overtime year over year,
but there is still more work to do.
We will be freezing vacancies unlikely to be filled
to save roughly th $30 million in this year's budget.
Importantly, this will not cut the number
of officers in our neighborhoods.
Though we will also protect our positions, all positions
that are critical to the continued progress
to full compliance of the consent decree
and constitutional policing.
We are civilianizing more positions,
which will save us upwards
of $100 million in the coming years
and it will free up our sworn officers
from administrative duties.
Let's be clear, you all
policing should not be about paperwork, so all
of our reforms are about getting our officers
into the community and away from their deaths.
We will modernize, we will make smart
targeted adjustments where needed.
We will work with our department of OPSA to get
to more officers to get them back to the street,
but we simply cannot afford
to reduce our investments in safety.
Look, with all the progress that we have made this year,
I am the first to say that we still have a long way to go
and we have to move with urgency
when we have an historic decline in shootings
of almost 40% in one year.
When we double the national trend in crime
reduction when we cut homicides by almost a third,
that is not the time to pat ourselves on the back,
but this is the time when we double down on
what's actually working.
We need to support our officers on the streets.
We need to add more community violence,
intervention workers, more mental health professionals,
more funding for youth jobs
and more of everything that works.
We can save lives, we can save hundreds
of lives every year If we get this right, if we decide
to take a step backward though, if we defund the programs
that have helped us make this past summer the safest summer
inter generation, we will not only reverse the progress
that we have made, but we will also play into the hands
of the far right who want to paint our city as a dangerous
and lawless destination and a place to live.
I'm not going to sugarcoat it.
If we fail to invest in community safety in this budget at
historic levels, the federal government will try to use that
as justification for military occupation of our city.
Never have the stakes been so high
and yet never has the opportunity in front
of us been so great.
We believe in real community safety.
We believe that every single resource should be expanded
towards building sustainable, safe communities,
but not with a military occupation,
but with fully resourced communities.
When I say that one shooting, one homicide is one too many,
I mean that every single act of violence is unacceptable
because of the trauma that it causes, the victim
and their loved ones.
It ripples out in our community.
It impacts our young people for the rest of their lives.
For those of us who have lost friends
and loved ones, we know that
that pain never really goes away.
Our goal as a city should be zero shootings, zero homicides.
We owe it to Chicagoans
to have lost loved ones, to gun violence.
To solve this challenge once and for all.
We have had this crisis for six decades.
We cannot use the same strategies
that got us here in the first place
and expect different results.
We must be bold. We must try things
that have not been tried before.
We must continue the progress that we have made
and frankly, you all, we much, we must go much further
and we have to do it with real urgency.
I have complete faith in our police leadership.
Superintendent Snelling has done a tremendous job of
rebuilding the rem, the morale of the forest
and they have done incredible work,
but the solution is never going to come from policing alone.
The safest communities do not have more police,
they have more resources
and that's why I'm proud to announce the establishment
of a brand new fund.
It's the community safety fund.
It's permanent and it's $100 million that will fund
to ensure that we have the resources to continue
to invest in the strategies that work.
The Community Safety Fund will fund a number of programs
that are critical to building a mud safer city.
First, we need to invest in mental health resources
for our police officers
and all of our first responders
every day they meet Chicagoans on their worst day.
They show up after shootings, they spend time
with the victims and families.
They put their lives on the line
and their arms around Chicagoans, wracked by grief.
The psychological toll that it takes. Its real.
Officers who are struggling
with mental health challenges are a danger
to themselves and to our communities.
We have lost too many officers to this trauma
because this problem has not been treated
with the seriousness that it actually deserves.
And that ends today with the community safety fund.
And secondly, if we are serious about solving gun violence,
we must invest in prevention.
We cannot show up after the fact.
We need to be there before violence erupts
and build the relationships
and community ties necessary to keep our people safe.
And that's why we are establishing one
of the largest permanent funds for violence prevention
of any city in the country.
Got me sweating like my Baptist
brother on the west side of Chicago.
We will be able to deploy street outreach workers
and community violence intervention workers
targeted on the blocks that see the most violence
to help us drive down shootings and deescalate
and of course disrupt the disputes.
Research has shown us that violence prevention workers have
driven down shootings by more than 40%
and some of the most difficult blocks in our city,
and we need to build on this progress and go further.
Third, this fund will also direct resources
to our gender-based violence programs.
Federal funding for these programs, they have run out
and our federal government has abandoned
victims and survivors.
So the city of Chicago is stepping up, particularly now
during domestic violence awareness month when we see an
alarming rise and gender-based violence in
our city and in our country.
We must meet this moment with sustained investment
survivors deserve our love and support,
but they also deserve our financial resources
and this fund will do just that.
And finally, funding the Community Safety Fund will go
towards a wide array of youth programs,
our diversion programs, our youth activations,
and most of all our summer youth jobs programs.
These are programs that help our young people
get on the right path.
We cannot raise our children in detention centers
and in jails and in poverty
and expect them to be successful.
Our young people need structure
and accountability of course, but they also need opportunity
and resources to set them up for success.
Look, I know you all remember
that we set an ambitious goal last year
to hire 29,000 young people.
Well, today I'm pleased to tell you
that we blew past our goal
and hired 31,119 young people
for summer jobs of 50% increase since taking office.
I am, I'm proud that this budget dedicates even more funds
to our summer employment programs, which will allow us
to pay our young people at a higher rate than last year.
We know this makes a difference
because we hear it directly from the young people who
are in these programs.
I'm thinking about Alanda Morris, who told us her experience
with our summer employment programs helped her build her
character and her confidence.
The skills that she developed led her directly
to a full-time job as an aviation mechanic today.
Or you can ask Darion Wiley,
who participated in our pilot program with Streets
and Sanitation and Labor.
And that pilot program led to a full-time job with Streets
and Sands and he said it allowed him to contribute
to his family and his community.
And his dream one day is to become a commissioner.
So look out to all of the commissioners.
Darien Wiley is coming.
Mental health services, community violence intervention,
victim services, gender-based violence youth programs.
We are paying for all of this with
a fee on the largest corporations in Chicago.
97% of businesses will not be impacted by this new fee,
which we are calling the community safety surcharge.
Our mom and pop stores, our local restaurants are small
and medium sized businesses,
will not pay a penny more in taxes,
but we are asking the top 3%
of the absolute largest corporations in our city, those
who have seen tremendous success in exceedingly high profits
to chip in so that we can build a safer city
for all of Chicago.
And some parts of our business community have already
voluntarily put tens of millions
of dollars into our violence prevention programs.
The county, the state,
have made significant investments in this work.
This fee will make sure that large corporations contribute
to their part to building a safer city.
We have heard time and time again from the business
community that safety is their number one priority.
Well, it's mine as well
and that's why to those who say this is a fee
that is anti-business, I say
that investing in building a much safer city is the most pro
investment that we could possibly make at this time.
A safer city will attract more talented young people.
It will attract additional investment and jobs.
It will improve the quality of life
for all Chicagoans in every neighborhood.
In closing, you all, let me just say
that this budget is based on the premise that the programs
that Chicagoans rely upon are worth protecting.
We can't respond to Trump's cuts
and the attacks on our city
with speeches and press conferences.
We must take concrete action.
We must respond to his tax cuts for the ultra rich
with new taxes on billionaires and large corporations.
We must respond to the illegal attempts
to strip funding from our city with a strong
and persistent legal effort
and that's why you will find additional funding
for a department of law in this budget.
They stole billions from our public transportation system
and our public education system
because they're saying that it benefits black Chicago.
We have never violated the law
or discriminated against anyone.
But let me also be very clear.
There is nothing wrong with making sure that the communities
that have been historically excluded from city contracts
have a fair shot at participating in the wealth
of this city today.
This is not discrimination, this is just basic
fairness and justice.
So we will use our investments in our department of law
to fight until every federal dollar
that has been illegally stolen from Chicago
by the Trump administration is returned in full.
We will be relentless until every single penny is restored.
Our investments in affordable housing
and our neighborhoods are also worth protecting.
We have cut ribbons across the city.
We have put shovels in the ground
and more than anything else, we've cut the tape
of the bureaucracy that has slowed
down business in the past.
Out of 107 recommendations that were put forward
to make it easier to build in Chicago, ranging across
14 city departments
and agencies, I am proud to say that 90%
of those recommendations have either been completed
or are in the process of being completed today.
It is critical you all that We make Chicago as easy
as possible to build
because it is that dynamism, that endless pursuit
of innovation that keeps our city vibrant
and economically strong.
We are doing our part as a local government.
We have built, rehabbed
and preserved more than 4,000 affordable units already
with another 1600 under construction,
almost 5,000 more units in our pipeline.
We are converting our vacant office spaces
downtown into affordable units
and our vacant lots into owner occupied housing while
welcoming billions in new investments from across our city.
But as we develop our city, it's critical.
It's critical that we take steps towards the protection
of our environment and continue the fight
for environmental justice that started
right here in Chicago.
This budget delivers on the promise
to rebuild the Department of Environment
by expanding its staff significantly while continuing
to invest in programs that reduce emissions in this moment.
In this moment, we must be intentional about responding
to the targeted attacks
by the Trump administration against those
that are most vulnerable with additional protections
for our people and for Chicagoans who are at risk
of falling into homelessness.
We have our first dedicated position to advocate
for renters rights
and additional investments in our shelters
and for Chicagoans with disabilities.
We will continue investing in our home modification program
and for our seniors,
we are protecting our investments in our satellite senior
centers so that our elders have access to resources
and a real sense of community.
And for the LGTQ Chicagoans,
we are hiring the first ever dedicated city staff
to advocate for the queer community
and for our returning residents from incarceration.
We are earmarking our cannabis funding to support our office
of reentry and job training programs.
And and, and we will continue to build
and expand on our know your rights campaigns
and strengthen our protections in our
immigrant communities in Chicago.
I wanna take a moment to thank Beatrice Ponce de Leon,
our deputy mayor for immigrant, migrant, and refugee rights.
We will protect every community, every community
that is under attack in Chicago because we are one city
and what happens to one of us, it affects all of us.
Chicago is worth protecting. This is our city.
We bend to no one and we cannot be broken.
I know the storms have rattled us
and people are drowning in the despair of hopelessness.
But Chicago was alive. A revival is here.
They chose the wrong city to pick a fight with.
We are Chicago. We've been through
a lot worse than this.
We will come out of this you all, we will come out stronger
and more united as a city.
We will be stronger than we've ever been before.
I can literally see the dawn of a new day.
I can see the hopes and aspirations of our ancestors
that dream that black, brown and white
and Asian folks from all over the city can come together,
united to be back against tyranny,
but also to ensure that we build a city
that works for everyone.
No matter what corner of the city you live in, no matter
where you come from, whether you are a descendant of slaves
or you are an immigrant, you belong in the
greatest freaking city in the world.
The city of Chicago. This is our time Chicago.
We will stand up for justice.
We will put forth a budget that protects us from tyranny.
I'm committed to working with you city council to ensure
that every single Chicagoan can live
justly and can live prosper.
Thank you all. God bless you.
Thank you.
Chair recognizes Alderman Mitchell,
Move that we stand a recess for
20 minutes. Hearing no objections
to
Thank you.
City Council members, please find your seats
and log into your Eev device at this time.
We will beginning in a few minutes. Thank you.
City Council members, please
come back to the chambers.
We'll be beginning in about two to five minutes. Thank you.
Two minutes. Two minutes.
Hello? Hello City Council City.
Thank you. City Council will come back to order.
Madam Clerk, could you please continue with communications?
Communications from his honor the mayor
to the Honorable the City Council of City of Chicago.
Ladies and gentlemen, at the request of Commissioner
of planning and Development, I transmit here
with an ordinance authorizing a minor amendment
to the division slash home
and Tiff redevelopment plan and project.
Your favorable consideration of this ordinance will be
appreciated very truly the years Brandon Johnson Mayor
heard the Committee on Finance.
Ladies and gentlemen, at the request of the Commissioner
of planning and Development, I transmit here
with an ordinance authorizing the execution
of a TIFF redevelopment agreement
with the Pullman Hotel Group LLC.
Your favorable consideration
of this ordinance will be appreciated.
Very true. Yours, Brandon Johnson,
mayor referred to the Committee on Finance.
Ladies and gentlemen, request of Commissioner
of Housing a transmit here with an ordinance, uh,
authorizing the execution of an amended TIFF redevelopment
agreement with the Renaissance Apartment's lp.
Your favorable consideration
of this ordinance will be appreciated.
Very true. Yours, Brandon Johnson, mayor referred
to the committee on FA Finance.
Ladies and gentlemen, request the
Commissioner of Planning and Development.
I transmit the here with ordinances authorizing the
provision of funds for improvements at
various parks within the city.
Favorable consideration of this ordinance will be
appreciated very through the years
as Brandon Johnson Mayor referred the committee on finance.
Ladies and gentlemen, the requester Commissioner of Housing.
I transmit here with an ordinance authorizing the execution
of a new grant agreement
with the Chicago low income housing trust fund.
Your favor, constraints of
this ordinance would be appreciated.
Very truly yours, Brandon Johnson Mayor.
Further the committee on finance.
Ladies and gentlemen, request of the Commissioner
of Housing I transmit here
with an ordinance authorizing the issuance
of financial assistance to the Martha H-H-D-C-L-L-C
for the acquisition and renovation
of Martha Washington Apartments.
Your favor, consideration of this ordinance be appreciated.
Very truly yours, Brandon Johnson May referred the committee
on finance ladies
and gentlemen at the request of the budget director at
transplant here with the fiscal year 2026 budget
recommendations Your favor consideration
this item will be appreciated.
Very truly yours, Brandon Johnson, mayor
for the committee on budget and Government Operations ladies
and gentlemen, request a commissioner planning a
redevelopment or development.
I transmit here with ordinance authorizing the execution
of redevelopment agreement with 50 50 Prairie LLC
to provide neighborhood opportunity funds
for mixed use development.
Your favorable consideration ordinance will be appreciated.
Very truly yours, Brandon Johnson, mayor
for the committee on budget and Government Operations Ladies
and gentlemen, request a
commission of planning and Development.
I transmit here with ordinances authorizing public hearings
for the establishment expansion and extension of 2026 budget
and execution of service provider agreements
for various special service areas.
Your favor consideration this
ordinances will be appreciated.
Very truly yours, Brandon Johnson, mayor
for the Committee on Economic economic Capital
and Technology Development.
Ladies and gentlemen, request the commissioner planning
and development I transmit here
with ordinances authorizing favorable tax classification
status for specified properties within the city.
Favor consideration these ordinances will be appreciated.
Very truly yours, Brandon Johnson Mayor referred the
committee on economic capital
and technology development ladies
and gentlemen, requested Commissioner Fleet
and Facility Management a transmit here
with an ordinance authorizing the execution of the right
of entry agreement with Columbia Yacht Club for the use
of a city owned parking lot.
Favorable consideration
of this ordinance will be appreciated.
Very truly years. Brandon Johnson Mayor referred the
Committee on Housing and Real Estate.
Ladies and gentlemen, the request the commissioner fee fleet
and facility management and transmit here at an ordinance
authorizing execution of a city uh,
as a tenant renewed lease agreement with 46 15 Homer LLC
for property located at 46 15 West Homer Street.
Your consideration of this ordinance will be
appreciated very truly years.
Brandon Johnson, mayor
for the Committee on Housing and Real Estate.
Ladies and gentlemen, the request of commissioner
of commissioner of Fleet and Facility Management transmit
here with or ordinance authorizing the execution a city
as a tenant renewed lease agreement
with LFL Properties Incorporated
for property located at 43 10 West North Avenue.
Your favorable consider consideration
of this ordinance will be appreciated.
Very truly yours, Brandon Johnson Mayor
refer the committee on Housing and Real Estate.
Ladies and gentlemen, request of the Commissioner
of planning Andre and Development are transmit here
with ordinances authorizing sale of city owned properties.
Favorable consideration
of this ordinances will be appreciated.
Very truly yours, Brandon Johnson Mayor,
refer the Committee on Housing and Real Estate.
Ladies and gentlemen, request the Commissioner of Planning
and Development a transmit here
with ordinance authorizing the transfer
of city owned property located 83rd
19 South Vincents Avenue at the Chicago Park District.
If favor a consideration, the ordinance will be appreciated.
Very truly yours, Brandon Johnson, mayor
for the Community on Housing and Real Estate.
Ladies and gentlemen, request the Superintendent
of police a transmit here
with an ordinance authorized the execution of Grant
of goods agreement with the Commercial Club Foundation.
Your favor of this ordinance will be appreciated.
Very truly yours, Brandon Johnson, mayor,
the Committee on Police and Fire to,
to the Honorable City Council of City of Chicago
and City Clerk Valencia Inspector General Deborah Wisberg
has announced that she will not seek reappointment
to the second term as Inspector
General for the city of Chicago.
Therefore pursuant at section two dash 56 dash zero 20
municipal Code of Chicago, I here by notify the City Council
of City of Chicago, that it will not reappoint the incumbent
Inspector General of the City of Chicago.
This notice will commence the process for the appointment
for the next Inspector General for the City of Chicago as
provided the Municipal Code of Chicago Madam Clerk,
please read this letter to the October 16th, 2025 City
Council meeting under the headings of reports
and communications from the mayor and other city officers.
Sincerely, Brandon Johnson, mayor
I city clerk Anna Valencia hereby informed the city council
that the following documents were filed in my office
relating to the respective subjects.
Ased as follows, executive order number 2025 dash eight
probing the use of city parking lots, vacant lots
and garages for civil immigration enforcement staging areas,
processing locations of operation basis
communication from Annette Guzman, budget director
regarding the estimated 2026 aggregate property tax levy
determination certificate of City of Chicago re
regarding revolving line of credit agreement by
and among City of Chicago and Bank of America in a as note
of September 24th, 2025, aggregate outstanding amount on
to exceed a hundred billion dollars and termination
certificate of City of Chicago regarding revolving line
of credit agreement by and among city Chicago
and RBC capital Markets.
LLC Royal Bank of Canada's.
Note as to note of September 29th, 2025,
aggregate outstanding amount not
to exceed $325 million funding loan notification of City
of Chicago multi house housing revenue note series 2025
Lucha Humbolt Park Park Project, office
of Inspector General's Advisory on Chicago Moves program,
reducing fraud risk mismanagement
or misuse of government offend, uh, funds.
I city Clerk Valencia from the city council
that all those matters matters which were considered
by the city council at the regular meeting held on
September 25th, 2025, in which were required
by statute statute to be published in book or pamphlet form
or in one oh more newspapers were published in pamphlet form
or ACT on October 16th, 2025 by being printed in full text
and printed upon pamphlet copies of the general proceedings
as the city council, city of Chicago I city Clerk Valencia
also transmitted here with the following miscellaneous
communications and reports requiring city council action
zoning re classifications of particular areas which referred
to the committee on zoning landmarks
and building standards claims against the city of Chicago,
which referred to the Committee on Finance recommendation
by commission on Chicago landmarks re designation
of the Bankers Building at 1 0 5 West Adams Street
and Chicago Landmark, which referred
to the committee on zoning landmarks
and building standards, your Honor,
that concludes the reports and communications from the
mayor and other city officers. Thank
You Madam Clerk. Now for
our committee reports, um, and
before we, uh, bring our first committee,
our chairwoman Dow, um, I see that former Alder
of the 17th Ward, Latasha Thomas is here.
Thank you Alderwoman Latasha Thomas for hanging out.
Give you a nice warm round of applause.
The chair recognizes Chairwoman doe.
Uh, good afternoon, Mr.
President and members of the city council reporting
for the City Council's Committee on Finance,
which held committee meetings on October 9th
and October 15th, 2025.
The following items received a due pass
recommendation from the committee.
Item number one is an ordinance authorizing the
authority to enter into an execute an intergovernmental
agreement with the Chicago Park District, the allocation
of TIF funds for the Holman Aton TIF district
for improvements at Holman Square Park at 35 17 West
Aton Street in the 24th Ward.
Mr. President, unless someone wishes to speak on this item,
I move passage of this item by a roll call vote.
Very well, seeing no hands and hearing, no objections.
Uh, this item will be, um, brought forward, uh,
by the clerk, so, uh,
please use your EVO application city council members
to record your vote at this time.
The vote is now open. The vote is now open.
Please use your aid advice.
If you need help, please raise your hand.
The vote is now open.
Uh, clerk? Yes,
This is Dr.
Yep, Wrong one. Uh,
Madam Clerk. I read
the one for, uh,
35 17 West Aton in the 24th Ward
Holman Square Park.
Okay, we will pause and give us a second.
We'll open the correct vote. Sorry about that.
You said you said Aton Street, right?
2 2 0 2 5 0 0 1 9 9 2 1.
Can you,
she said item three,
Uh, Madam Clerk,
maybe I can amend the report and
Chair recognizes Chairwoman Dow.
Yes. Thank you, Mr. President.
Uh, maybe I can amend the report
and start with the first item on the agenda, which is, so
Do you withdraw this item first?
All right. Can you withdraw this
item and then we'll start.
I will withdraw. This item right
Here are no objections. That
item, which was reported out as number one,
but it was actually the third item.
That item has been withdrawn.
Now the chair recognizes chairwoman do
or the, uh, item one, uh, in our, in her in our agenda.
Uh, thank you Mr. President. Welcome.
Item number one is the ordinance concerning the authority
to enter into and execute the first amendment
to the inter governmental agreement
with the Chicago Park District for the allocation
of tax increment financing funds
for Lawrence Kedzie from the Lawrence Kedzie TIFF District
for improvements at River Park
at
5100 5100
North Francisco Avenue in the 33rd Ward.
I move passage of this item by a roll call vote
Very well. There's, uh,
item number one that has been brought
before, uh, this body.
Uh, for consideration, there's a roll call vote
that's being requested at this time.
The clerk is preparing this item, uh,
to be available once that is available.
Members of city council, please use your EVO application
to record your vote for item one.
All right, the voting is now open. The voting is now open.
Please use your Eev device. The voting is now open.
I will now call on those who have not taken
your using your Eev device.
Alderwoman Gutierrez?
Yes, Gutierrez is a yes. Alderman.
Curtis, are you there?
Okay, alderman, ADA,
I and Alderwoman
mi I.
Okay. Alderwoman is a yes
and all right, the voting is now closed.
MI is a yes.
Very well. There are 46 Yays, zero nays.
This motion passes, uh, alderman Mitchell on the motion
to reconsider Mr.
President, I'm moved to reconsider the vote.
All those in favor of the reconsideration
of this vote signify by saying aye.
Any opposed, say nay. This motion fails.
Uh, Madam Clerk,
have you added Alder Ramirez to the roll call?
There we go. Thank you. Chair recognizes Chairwoman Dow.
Uh, thank you Mr. President.
Item number two is an ordinance concerning the authority
to enter into and execute the first Amendment
to the intergovernmental agreement
with the Chicago Park District for the allocation
of TIFF funds for the Lawrence Ke from the Lawrence Kedzie
Tiff for improvements at Ronan Park at
33,000 West Argyle
or 29 54 West Lawrence Avenue in the 33rd Ward.
I move passage of this item
by the first most favorable roll call vote on the Committee
on Finance report
and the associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider
Hearing. No objection.
So ordered
Item number three is an ordinance concerning the authority
to enter into an execute
and intergovernmental agreement
with the Chicago Park District for the allocation
of TIF funds from the Holman Arlington TIF district
for improvements in Holman Square Park at 35 17 West
Aton Street in the 24th Ward.
I move passage of this item by the same motion hearing.
No objection. So ordered
Item number four is an ordinance approving the first
amendment to the redevelopment agreement
with JTA Development Inc.
To modify the payment structure
and extend the project completion date
for the Renaissance Estates project at 1555
West hundred and 22nd Street in the 21st Ward.
I move passage of this item by the same motion hearing.
No objection. So ordered
Item number five is an ordinance amending ordinance.
So 2025 dash 0 0 1 8 1 4 9,
which passed City counsel on July 16th, 2025
to restore section two dash 44 dash one 40
of the municipal code
regarding lien assessments assignments.
I move passage of this item by the same motion hearing.
No objection. So ordered
Item number six is an ordinance approving the
establishment of the 2026 qualified mortgage certificate
program and continuation of the single family
mortgage credit certificate program series 2026
in an amount not to exceed 75 million bond volume cap.
I move passage of this item by the same motion
Hearing. No objection.
So ordered
Item number seven is a substitute ordinance
authorizing the issuance of financial assistance
to Holman Square Apartments, phase four holder LP
and restructuring of existing city financial assistance
for the Holman Square phase four project at
36 0 7, 36 21,
and 36 45 West Polk Street, 9 0 6
and 9 0 8 South Central Park Avenue
and 9 21 South Lawndale Avenue in the 24th ward.
I move passage of this item by the same motion
There. No objection.
So ordered
Item number eight is an ordinance
authorizing the bond inducement
for tax exempt housing revenue bonds
to 58 53 North Broadway four LP
for an affordable housing development at 58 53
North Broadway in the 48th ward in an amount not
to exceed 26 million of multifamily housing revenue bonds.
I move passage of this item by the same motion hearing.
No objection. So ordered item
Number nine is the substitute ordinance
authorizing the issuance
of multifamily housing revenue bonds
to TTG Indian Trails Limited partnership
for the rehabilitation of Indian Trails apartment
at 2 2 21 through 2 23 East hundred
and 21st place
and 1 21 41 South Indiana Avenue in the Ninth Ward
in an amount not to exceed 35 million in multifamily
housing revenue bonds.
I move passage of this item by the same motion.
No objection. So ordered item
Number 10 is an ordinance authorizing the transfer
of physical assets and assumption of the home loan
and the regulatory agreement
from Pioneer Gardens Development LLC
to 3,800 King properties LLC
for the Eden Bronzeville project at
3838 0 4, 38 0 8 38 10
and 38 14 South King Drive
and parking lots at 37 44 through
and 37 46 South Calumet Avenue in the third ward.
I move passage of this item by the same motion
Hearing. No objection.
So ordered
Item number 11 is an ordinance authorizing the execution
of a redevelopment agreement, an issuance
of tax increment financing funds
and other financial assistance to
Hispanic Housing Development Corporation
and related entities for the redevelopment
of 1539 North Pulaski Road in the 26th Ward.
I move passage of this item by the same motion
Hearing. No objection.
So ordered
Item number 12 is an ordinance authorizing the execution
of capital funding agreement
with the National Railroad Passenger Corporation
that are known as Amtrak
to provide track tax increment financing funds
for various improvements at Chicago's Union Station
at 2 25 South Canal Street in the 28th, 34th
and 42nd Ward.
I move passage of the item by the same motion hearing
No objection. So ordered
Item number 13 A is an order
authorizing the corporation counsel to enter into
and execute a settlement order in the case
of William Bell versus Officer Matthew Pet Trueno
and the city of Chicago in the amount of 185,000.
I move passage of this item by the same motion
with the exception of Alderman Quinn
and Alderman Lopez who wish to be recorded
as voting no on this item hearing
No order objection. So ordered
Item number 13 B is an order
authorizing the corporation counsel to enter into
and execute a settlement order in the case of George Garcia,
Kimberly Blevins for herself
and on behalf of her minor children g Garcia and Kay Garcia
and Michael Zaro versus City of Chicago,
Chicago police officer Sergio Martinez, star Number
19 512
and Chicago Police Officer Guy Haak star number
14,939 in the amount of $240,000.
I move passage of this item by the first most favorable
roll call vote of the Committee on Finance report
and the associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider hearing
No objection. So ordered
Item number 13 C is an order
authorizing the corporation council to enter into
and execute a settlement order in the case
of Sharon Lyons versus the city of Chicago case number 20,
CV 34 12 in the amount of $400,000.
I move passage of this item by the same motion
with the exception of Alderman Quinn
and Alderman Lopez who wish to be recorded
as voting no on this item hearing
No objection. So ordered
Item number 13 D is an order
authorizing the corporation council to enter into
and execute a settlement order in the case
of Blackman versus City of Chicago et etal case number 19,
CV 0 0 7 6 7 in the amount
of $8 million I move.
Passage of this item by the same motion is suppli to 13 B
with the exception of Alderman O'Shay who wishes
to be recorded as voting no on this item
Hearing no objection. So ordered
Item number 13 E is an order
authorizing the corporation counsel to enter into
and execute a settlement order in the case
of Francisco Benitez versus Jerome Baki et al
case number 23 CV 16 8 96
in the amount of $18.5 million.
I move passage of this item by the same motion as applied
to 13 b
Hearing No objections. So order
Item number 13 F is an order
authorizing the corporation counsel to enter into
and execute a settlement order in the case
of Victoria Candace Powell as special administrator
of the estate of Mario Winters versus City of Chicago,
case number 20 L 76 22 in the amount
of $615,000.
I move passage of this item by the same motion
with the exception of Alderman Cardona Lopez, SDO Quinn,
Curtis Moore
and Riley who wish who all wish to be recorded
as voting no on this item hearing
No objections. So ordered.
Item number 13 G is an order authorizing the corporation
counsel to enter into
and execute settlement order in the case
of Franklin Poz versus City of Chicago,
case number 2021 L 0 0 0 514
in the amount of $950,000.
Alderman Conway
and Alderman Lopez recuse themself from voting
and I allowed them to state their reasons why
Chair recognizes Alderman sdo.
Thank you Mr. President.
I also would like to recuse myself from voting on this.
I also had a, a friendship
but, uh, commander Mike Barr
as the time when he retired. So
Very well Chair recognizes Alderman Lopez.
Good afternoon, Mr. President, members
Of Good Afternoon City Council in accordance
with Rule 14 in the municipal code.
I also need to recuse myself out of an abundance of caution
with the relationship with the plaintiff.
You
Chair recognizes Alderman Gardner.
Thank you Mr. President. I'd like
to recuse myself as well.
Very well. All those have been recorded by the clerk.
Thank you. There no other objections.
Excuse me. Uh, he has to state why.
Oh, uh, the chair Rec Conway also wants
to be recused. Right.
Did I hear guard? Just a second.
The chair recognizes Alderman Conway.
Yeah, I I did state my reasons in, uh, in, in committee,
but it was, I have a long standing relationship with, uh,
deputy Chief Barr back
to when I was an assistant state's
attorney out of abundance of caution.
Understood. 14
Very well. I believe your name was
recorded
in the initial conversation.
Is there something else? Uh, he wants to state his reason.
Okay. You may state your reason. Mr. Gardner. I
Was supposed to, yes. Just out of
an abundance of caution.
Out of abundance of caution.
So all of the reasons have been stated hearing
no other obje objections.
So ordered
I move. Passage of this
item by the same motion is applied.
Yes. Hearing no other objections. So ordered.
Item number 13 H is an order authorizing the corporation
counsel to enter into
and execute a settlement order in the case of Hant Lee
as special representative of the Estates of Adelberg Wilson
and Yvonne Lee Wilson versus City of Chicago.
Officer Wayne Oz Mina, officer
Jonathan Cooky, Ilka
and Hertz Corporation, ed Al,
case number 22 L 30 91 in the amount
of $7.5 million.
Alderman, uh, bill
and Alderman Harris, uh,
reuses themself from voting on this matter under Rule 14.
Very well out of an abundance of caution,
very well hearing no other objections so ordered.
Got it? No, it's been stated. All
Right. I move passage
of this item by the same motion
as applied to 13 B.
There are no objection. So order
Item number 13 I is an order authorizing the
corporation counsel to enter into
and execute a settlement order in the case of Sylvia Tanguma
as independent administrator of the estate
of Leonardo Guerrero, deceased versus City of Chicago,
Dakota, I, Abraham
and Joseph Schultz,
case number 2023 L 0 0 6 4 6 6 in
the amount of $8 million.
I move passage of this item by the same motion
with the exception of Alderman Conway, alderman Lopez
and Alderman Quinn who all wish
to be recorded voting no on this item.
Very well here. No, no objections. So order
Item number 14 is a resolution introduced by Alderman
Viegas of the 36 Ward
and Alderman Napolitano of the 41st Ward,
calling on the Illinois General Assembly
to enact legislation to authorize the city of Chicago
ream Amateurization of the public pension debt as part
of a comprehensive pension refinancing strategy.
This item is re-referred
to a joint committee on workforce development
and the Committee on finance.
Item number 15 is a resolution introduced
by Alderman Andre Vazquez of the 40th ward calling
for hearings to examine city the city's method
for determining settlement budgets
and how Chicago Police Department is addressing trends
to prevent future misconduct.
This item is re-referred to a joint committee on police
and fire and the Committee on Finance
Motion on these two, excuse me, you did not make a motion.
Item number 14 is a motion. It was a resolution.
And item number 15 is also a motion as a resolution
Still for re-referral though.
Yes, very well, thank you.
Item number 16 is a communication transmitting reports
of cases in which verdicts, judgements
or settlements were entered into for the month
of September, 2025
and revised reports for the months of June
through August, 2025.
This will be placed on file with the clerk.
Items number 17
and 18 consist of orders of authorization for the payment
of various small claims against the city of Chicago
and the denial of payments
of various small claims against the city of Chicago.
If there are no objections, I move
that these items be placed in the passage for the omnibus
Hearing. None so
ordered. That
Concludes my report, Mr. President.
Thank you Madam Chair
for the committee on budget and government operations.
The chair recognizes Chairman Irvin.
Thank you Mr. President.
Members of council reporting
for your committee on the budget
and government operations will held the committee meeting on
October 15th, 2025.
The committee has a series
of report recommending passage of the following items.
Item number one is a communication recommending a proposed
ordinance concerning an appropriation,
annual appropriation ordinance year 2025,
amendment within fund nine to five as a direct introduction
and move passage of this item
by the first favorable roll call vote
of the committee on financing.
The associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider
Chair recognizes Alderman Moore.
I was looking for the schedule.
I'm sorry, I was looking for the agenda.
Is this what we went over yesterday?
This what you're going now,
Chairman, is this what we went over yesterday?
This, these were items from
yesterday's meeting That that is correct.
Chairman recognizes Ottoman Moore.
Thank you. Which includes the, um,
$200,000 from the NFL Association. Correct. Does
This include the $200 200,000 from the N
Association? I think it was that amount.
Yes, it does. It does. Alderman.
Okay, so we asked for some information and,
and it wasn't, it hasn't been given to me
or I haven't seen it in, in response to that.
So if we can pull this out
and pass the others, um, that's my motion here. Your
Motion is to pull this item out?
Yes. Well, let, uh, let me do this then. Uh,
Recognize as Chairman Irvin. Yeah,
let me do this then I'll pass this item
and until you get that
and may come back to me at a later point in the meeting to,
uh, handle that particular item. Hold,
Can we hold this item and not vote on it
and get you that information?
Yeah, we can hold this so you withdraw your motion
to pull it out, but to have a motion to hold this item
until those requests have been granted.
Absolutely. Very well, chairman. Does that satisfy?
That's fine. All right. The chair recognizes Chairman
Irvin for item number two. Item
Number two is a communication recommending a proposed
ordinance concerning a redevelopment agreement
with Carol Robertson Center for learning
to provide neighborhood opportunity funds
for improvements at 29 29 West 19th Street in the 24th Ward.
Uh, I move passage of this item
by the first favorable roll call vote
of the Committee on Finance in this,
in the unsuccessful motion to reconsider hearing.
No objection. Sole ordered
Items, uh,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
and 10 are transfers of fund within
the Ward allowance
and automatic expense accounts for the first, third, 11th,
15th, 21st, 33rd, 48th,
and 49th wards.
I make the same motion if there is no objection, hearing
None so ordered.
Mr. President. Uh, that concludes my report
Very well, thank you Chairman Irvin. I
Do one other.
I do have one other item of business, uh, um, that I have
proposed provided the clerk with the proposed resolution Pro
provided for publication and setting the date
and time of a necessary hearing of the budget,
and I ask the clerk to read the resolution very
Well. Madam Clerk, please read
the resolution.
We as mayor Brandon Johnson on October 16th, 2025,
submitted to the city council executive budget at City
of Chicago for the fiscal year, beginning January 1st, 2026
and ending December 31st, 2026.
And whereas it is provided by law,
at least one public hearing shall
be held by the corporate authorities.
The budget document not less than one week
after publication thereof in such a manner
as the corporate authorities may determine
and prior to final action thereon, whereas it further
provided by law that notice of such hearing shall be given
by publication and newspaper having a general circulation in
the city of Chicago, not less than one week prior
to the time of such hearing.
Now therefore be it resolved that the budget document
for the fiscal year beginning January 1st, 2026,
and ending December 31st, 2026, as submitted by the Mayor
to city Council, be published in pamphlet form
and made available for public inspection of the office
of the city clerk no later than October 20th, 2025
and be it further resolved
that the public hearing is is on set.
Budget document will be held on at held
by the city council at 11:30 AM on November 14th, 2025,
and the City Council Chamber in City Hall and the city clerk
and hereby directed to cause a notice of such hearing
to be published in a newspaper,
having general circulation in the city
of Chicago at least one week prior
to the time of such public hearing.
Jason c Irvin Alderman 28th Board.
Thank you Madam Clerk Chairman Irvin,
President, now move for the temporary suspension
of the rules for the immediate
media consideration of Vote Hearing. No
Objection. So ordered Chairman
Irvin, I now
Move to adopt this resolution by voice vote.
All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye.
Any opposed? Say No. The ayes have it.
Aman Mitchell for the motion to reconsider move to re vote.
All those in favor the reconsideration
and just vote signify by saying aye.
Any opposed? Say no. This motion fail.
Chairman, I Irvin Chairman Irvin
Again, uh, budget, uh, hearing schedule, uh,
is available now in the office
of the committee on the budget
and government operations Room 200.
I do want to thank, uh, the, uh, our budget director for,
uh, for having the books available.
All of your books, all
of your materials are available at this point in time.
We will begin, uh,
promptly Tuesday morning at
10:00 AM That's all I have, sir. You
Very well. Thank you, chairman Irvin.
Our next committee is on Aviation
The Chair recognized.
Oh, does he get those materials?
Oh, we, oh, yes. Chairman.
A motion to return back to the regular order business.
Uh, thought we was gonna adjourn and go home. A move.
Return back to the regular order
Of business hearing. No objection.
So ordered Now we are back
to the regular order of business now for the committee on,
oh, yes, the chair recognizes Alder mentality. Farro.
Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, Mr.
President, may it be recorded as a, uh, uh,
for being present for purposes of today's quorum
Very well and Also be, and also be recorded
as a yes vote on the first item,
um, in the Committee of Finance.
Very well, uh, Mr.
Clerk, if you can add, uh, alderman Talia Farro as a part
of the quorum roll call,
and then add him as an I vote
for the first favorable roll call vote in the Committee on
Finance, and of course, the associated failure
for the motion to reconsider.
Now you're welcome, chairman Oshe,
Mr. President members
of the Chicago City Council reporting on
your committee aviation,
which held a meeting on Tuesday October.
The 14th 2025 Committee has a series
of reports recommending passage
of the following three items.
Item number one, ordinance
2 0 2 5 0 0 1 9 9 7 1.
An ordinance transferring the interest in concession
redevelopment management lease agreement from URW airports,
LLC to a sir US commercial airport's,
LLCI move passage of this ordinance
by the first favorable roll call vote
of the Committee on Finance
and associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider
Hearing. No objection.
So ordered
Item number two.
This ordinance is an intergovernment agreement
with Midway Noise compatibility Commission
for Noise compatibility programs at Midway
International Airport.
Say that three times. I move passage of this ordinance
by the first favorable roll call vote
of the Committee on Finance and associated unsuccessful
motion to reconsider.
Here are no objections, so ordered.
Item number three, this ordinance
and intergovernmental agreement
with O'Hare Noise compatibility Commission
for Noise compatibility projects at O'Hare International
Airport and Chicago TRACON Boundary.
I move passage of this ordinance
by the first favorable roll call vote
of the Committee on Finance
and associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider hearing.
No objections. So ordered.
Mr. President, this concludes my report. Thank you,
Mr. Chair. Now
for the Committee on Economic Capital
and Technology Development,
the chair recognizes Vice Chair Mosley.
Thank you Mr. President
and members of the city council reporting
for the Committee on Economic Capital
and Technology Development.
On Thursday, October 9th, 2025, the committee held a meeting
and recommended passage of the following items, items one
through two and five
through 20 when the agenda were a series
of SSA appointments and reappointments.
Items three and four in the report were deferred.
The appointments were for tga, Poppas for SSA eight,
Andrew Pelman SS A 34.
Mallory Cle SS A 44.
John Claude Arru Junior, SSA 45,
Marquita Gatlin, SSA 45.
Veronica Clark, SSA 51 Franzi Burrow,
Griffin, SSA 81.
Nicholas Mallory, S-S-S-S-S-A 81.
The Reappointments were for Lorraine Reef, SSA 16.
Nicholas Yassen, SSA 31 Noreen Kearney,
SSA 34 Matthew L
Ruffey, SS A 34.
Carl D. Sullivan, SSA 34.
Terry N to Honey, SSA 34
Robert H Block, SSA 48.
Jennifer l Tremblay, SSA 48
Vita l Caldwell.
Charles SSA 51.
Patricia McCoy, SSA 51.
I move for passages of these items by the first favor,
roll call vote of the Committee on Finance
and associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider hearing.
No objections. So ordered
Items 21 through 28 on the agenda are ordinances dealing
with the scope of services, budget
and management agreement
for different special service areas in the
following locations.
S-S-S-S-A 81 SSA
18 North Halsted Street
SSA 23 Clark Street, Lincoln Park,
SSA 26 Edgewater,
SSA 34 uptown SSA 35
dash 2015 Lincoln Avenue, SSA 62
Sauganash, SSA 27, I'm sorry,
SSA 73 Chinatown, SSA
79, Lawrence Pulaski and Elston.
I moved for passage of these items
by the first favorable roll call vote
of the Committee on Finance
and associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider
Hearing. No objection.
So ordered
Items 29 through 31 on the report are a series
of tax incentive ordinances
that were approved by the committee.
Item 29 is a Class six B tax incentives ordinance
for property at 44 35 Southwestern Boulevard
in the 12th ward.
Item 30 is a Class seven C tax ascend ordinance
for property at 1840 East 71st Street in the fifth ward.
Item 31 is a Class seven D tax ascend ordinance
for property at 57 13 West Chicago Avenue in
the 29th Ward.
I move for passage of these items by the first favor.
Roll call of the Committee on Finance
and, uh, associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider
You read no objection. So
ordered on
Tuesday, October 14th,
the Committee on Cap Economic Capital
and Technology Development held three SSA public
hearings for the following items.
Item one, a public hearing terminating original SSA 17,
creating new special service area 17 dash 2025
Central Lakeview slash wrigleyville.
Item two, a public hearing for enlargement
of special service area number 27 West Lakeview.
And item three, a public hearing on special service area
number 72, the Village Chicago Avenue Cultural Corridor.
Thank you Mr. President.
That concludes my reports. Thank you
Mr. Vice Chair.
And now for our committee on Health
and Human Relations.
The chair recognizes chairperson Rodriguez
Sanchez. Good afternoon,
Mr. President reported
for the Committee on Health
and Human Relations, which met on October 9th, 2025 at
10:00 AM The committee reports the
following recommendations.
Item number one is the appointment of Angela J. Green,
commissioner of Chicago, department
of Family and Support Services.
Um, this item receive a due pass recommendation. Mr.
President, I move passage of this item
by the first most favorable roll call vote
of the Committee on Finance and the associated on successful
motion to reconsider
Very well, the chair recognizes Alder Hadden.
I'm, I'm sorry, Mr. President, I'm not done yet.
I I was hoping that, uh, the commissioner could speak
To the body. We,
and, uh, the motion has been made for her appointment
and I believe that there are colleagues
that want to speak to the appointment.
Oh, I'm so sorry. That's all. I have not moved on.
I promise. It's okay.
So with that, I've seen a few hands thus far, so we,
we'll start with Alder Hadden.
We could just skip to the end, uh, chairwoman.
Um, and, and we'd all probably be happier. Um, thank you Mr.
President. Um, just rising in support.
Uh, I was happy to vote for, uh, for this appointment, um,
uh, in committee.
Uh, this is a great selection.
Um, welcome to the team, uh, as I said,
and, um, as I mentioned in committee,
it's just very exciting to have just super well qualified,
thoughtful, dynamic individuals coming into the city in
very difficult time.
So thank you for, for joining. And, um, uh, thank you Mr.
President for the appointment.
Thank you. The chair recognizes Alderman Moore.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Um, I stand and rise of this, um, appointment.
This is a great selection. Um, Mr.
President, um, again, just echoing what my colleague, um,
alderman has said.
Um, just in terms of having someone that's qualified,
but also someone that care about the community
and understands the importance of connecting with, um,
the elected official in these wards
that know their communities
and she's that type of person so that we can work together
to make sure, um, that our residents have the service
that they need from Department
of Failure and Supportive Services.
So, um, I definitely stand in support of this appointment.
Thank you. Thank you. The chair
recognizes Alderwoman Nugent.
Thank you, Mr. President.
I too rise in support of this appointment
and I'm really looking forward to working with Angela
and welcome your expertise, your experience,
and your fresh perspective.
So congratulations. Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you. The chair recognizes Alderman pdo.
Thank you. Mr. President, Can you
Thank you Mr. President,
uh, right in the line. I'm trying to look at her.
Okay. Oh, I'm, 'cause I'm trying to put
Envelope. He wants to, he wants to be
able to
look directly you eyes there. Go. Thank you. Thank you
Once again. Thank you, Mr.
President. I just wanna wish Angela the best.
I, and I'm, I know,
and you know, everybody knows you got a really tough job,
but I'm sure you're, you're up for the task.
So best wishes for you.
Uh, I'm not a guy that'll be bothering you that much,
but, uh, you know, just wanna say best wishes to you.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you. Are there any other elders that wish
to speak to this particular item?
The chair recognizes Alderman Robinson.
Mr. Mayor, I also arise, uh, to support,
um, this appointment.
Uh, we know the challenges that, uh, face our city.
And, uh, Mr. Mayor, I wanna thank you, uh,
for bringing this young lady to the city of Chicago.
Um, we are going to be leaning on you, uh,
to move our city forward with all of our challenges.
And you are the person for the job.
And you could see that from the support
that you have in this body.
Uh, we're here support to support you,
and we need to know how we can help you
to be able to move our city forward. Thank you very much.
Thank you. As the chair recognizes Alderman Mosley,
Thank you Mr. President
just rising in support of this appointment
and letting her know that she has a partner
in the 21st Ward.
So thank you so much, commissioner.
Thank you Alderman. The chair recognizes Alderwoman mitts.
Thank you, Mr. President.
I too rise and support this appointment
and I'm looking forward to working along with you.
Angela. Uh, you
and I had the conversation about your department
and it is a valuable part of the city of Chicago.
And for all the issues
that I face every day in my community, from the youth
to seniors to homeless mental health, all of those service
that the mayor talked about, you operate, uh,
have the ability to help us make it better here.
So I'm looking forward to working along with you. Thank you.
Thank you. Chair recognizes Alder Fuentes.
Thank you Mr. President.
I too rise in support of this appoint look,
we're in a moment right now where I think
that we could do such great work as it relates
to providing services to our unhoused,
mentoring our young people, getting young people into jobs,
so we make our city safer.
I would argue that you're about to lead one
of the most critical departments in the city of Chicago,
and I'm excited to see what your leadership looks like.
Uh, you have my full support
and I'm a partner in the 26th Ward.
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank
You. Are there any other
elders that
wish to speak to this appointment?
This item very well.
The chair recognizes Chairwoman Rodriguez Sanchez.
Yeah. I would like to take a second to also, uh, tell you,
commissioner, how grateful I am
that you said yes to this position.
We need you here.
We need people who are smart and committed
and compassionate like you.
And I'm looking forward to having you
as a partner in this work and in thought and,
and in figuring out how we're going
to address the needs of our city.
Um, I would like to move for making before
You move for this passage.
I'm there is one more alder that wishes to speak.
Alright, mayor recognizes Alderman Hall
Much. Thank you so much, Mr.
President.
I wanna say, first of all, thank you for saying yes
to the assignment in, in this budget.
The investment is there for our children and for the future.
And so thank you for being a champion
and advocate for the least
and the left out and to the future. We go thank you.
Thank you Chairwoman, on your motion. We'd
Like to move to allow Commissioner Green
to address this body
Very well. So, real
quick, before the body offers up leave
to give the Commissioner opportunity to address this body,
uh, I want to thank, uh, Marial, Lindsay, Andrea, Kathy,
Harley, and Julie for being in the box
with the commissioner today.
Why don't you renew your motion again for the approval
and the passage of this item.
And then the body is granting leave
to the commissioner to be able to address it. I would like
To renew my motion to move passage of this item
by the first most favor roll call vote on the committee on
finance and the associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider
Very well. So let's just make
sure she's the commissioner.
Alright, let's do that first hearing. No objections.
So ordered. Congratulations.
I feel, I feel like a pastor saying Sit down.
Commissioner, I'm humbled. Thank you.
Yes. The chair recognizes Ottoman Bill.
There needs to be a motion to suspend the rules
for to allow leave.
So a leave. We have to suspend the rules.
It cannot just do a leave. That's fine.
A motion to suspend the rules.
All those in favor sitting by of saying aye. Alright.
Motion has been approved now. Commissioner,
Thank you. Thank you so
much. Um, I counted a distinct honor, um,
to be confirmed today.
And I am humbled, um, to be able
to lead such an important department that has the authority
to positively impact our most vulnerable Chicagoans.
You know, it is my desire to ensure
that our department is a beacon of light
and a beacon of hope for those who are struggling
and those who are needing supportive services
for birth to seniors.
I recognize that our department has a critical need
to partner with our council so that we can ensure
that our city has the ability to navigate
during these challenging times.
And I am optimistic about what we can achieve together.
Given the great conversations that I've had with many
of you, I am optimistic about what we'll be able
to do during this time.
I can also tell you that I am so fortunate
to work alongside a phenomenal team
of 349 colleagues
who are constantly striving
to improve our service delivery system
for our most vulnerable population.
I am grateful for your trust, your trust in me,
and I appreciate your support today.
And do know I expect to every day earn your trust.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Can we get a motion to return back
to the regular order of business?
There's a motion by Alderman Mosley to return back
to the regular order of business.
Um, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye.
Very well. You return back to the regular order of business.
Congratulations.
A I dunno.
Chair recognizes Chairwoman Rodriguez Sanchez.
Item number two was a resolution of expression of support
for the federal government to pass American Center
for Cures legislation.
This item received a do not pass recommendation
item Number three is a call
for hearings on strengthening animal welfare services
and community engagement in Chicago.
This item received a due pass recommendation by committee.
Mr. President, I move passage of this item
by the first most federal roll call vote
of the Committee on finance and the associated
unsuccessful motion to reconsider
Hearing no objections. So ordered.
The committee also held the subject matter hearing
with the Chicago Animal Care and Control.
No votes were taken on this hearing. Thank you, Mr.
President. That concludes my
Report. Thank you, Madam Chair
for the Committee on Housing
and Real Estate Chair recognizes Chair Sig Cho Lopez.
Thank you Mr. President
and members of city council reporting
for your committee on housing on real estate,
which held an in personal meeting on October 7th, 2025.
The committee has a series of reports recommending passage
of 20 ordinances.
These include al manic introductions, lease agreements,
and various sales of city owned land.
The first two items are manic introductions.
Item number one is Ordinance 20 25 0 0 19 79 8, designation
of property at 1840
through 1866 North Marcy Street
as low affordability community in the 32nd Ward,
A move passage of this item
by the first most favorable roll code vote on the Committee
on Finance and associated
and successful motion to reconsider
Hearing. No objections.
So ordered.
Item number two is, uh,
substitute ordinance 20 25 0 0 18 769.
Execution of Affordable Housing Covenant
and lien for 1810 West Jackson Boulevard in the 27th Ward,
which passes a substitute, a move passage
of this item by the same motion hearing,
No objection, so ordered.
The next three items are from the Department of Fleet
and Facility Management.
Item three, ordinance 20 25 0 0 19 9 4 0.
Lease agreement with millennium parking garages, LLC
to rent space for cities Electric vehicle fleet parking
and charging in the 42nd Ward have moved passage
of this item by the same motion. Hearing
No objections, so ordered.
Item four is an Ordinance 20 25 0 0 19 9 7 8 Lease
agreement with Chicago Board of Education
for use of parking lot.
Located at 3,500
through 35 0 8 South is street in the 11th ward.
I move passage of this item by the same motion.
Hearing no objections, so ordered.
Item five is Ordinance 20 25 0 0 19 9 81.
Renewal of Amendment of Lease agreement
with 41 50 partnership
for property at 41 50 West 55th Street in the 23rd Ward.
I move passages of this item by the same motion, hearing
No objections, so ordered. The
Rest of the items are from
Department of Planning and Development.
Item six is Ordinance 20 25 0 0 2, 0 0 0 0 for the sale
of city owned property under type Block Builder in the third
ward for a mixed use development.
Amo AMO passage of this item by the same motion hearing,
No objection, so ordered
Item seven, ordinance 20 25 0 0.
20 0 0 5 is for the sale
of City Home property under Check Block Builder,
the side yard program in the third, fourth, ninth,
15th, and 18th.
Wards pastors of this item by the same motion. There.
No objection, so ordered Item
Eight, ordinance 20 25 0 0.
20 0 0 7 is for the sale
of city home property under the check Block Builder open
space program in the 17th Ward.
Move passes with this item by the same motion
Hearing. No objection,
so ordered.
The following items from DPD are
grouped together for convenience.
Item nine 11 through 16
and 19 through 20 on the summary of reports are
for the market rate sale
of city owned properties in the third, fourth, 16, 28
and 30, uh, 36 wards.
Noting that item 12 is a substitute 20 25 0 0 20 0 0 2.
Uh, a move passes of these, uh,
nine items by the same motion.
Hearing, no objections. So ordered.
Now going back to item 10,
ordinance 2025 dash 0 0 19 9 83.
Redevelopment agreement with J-R-D-L-L-C
for city owned lands at 43 27 South Ellis Avenue,
43 20 South Greenwood Avenue
and 43 47 South Berkeley Avenue in the fourth ward.
I move passes of this item by the same motion hearing
No objections. So ordered.
Finally, item 17
and on the summary of reports for the sale
of city owned properties under DPDs Missing Middle
initiative through the Check Block Builder platform,
both in the 24th Ward ordinance, uh,
20 25 0 0 19 9 9 4.
And ordinance 20 25 0 0 19 9 9 8.
Move passes of these two items by the same motion
Hearing. No objection.
So ordered.
Mr. President, this concludes my
Report. Thank you.
It's the chairman of Immigrant, migrant
and refugee rights here.
Okay, well, we'll move on.
Uh, let's move to the Committee on Licensed
and Consumer Protection.
The chair recognizes Chairwoman Silverstein.
Thank you Mr. President and members of the city council.
I'm reporting for the Committee on License
and Consumer Protection.
We held a meeting on October 9th, 2025
and the following items were passed by the committee.
A 2 0 2 5 0 0 1 9 8 9 1
A communication reappointed Laura Perry as member
of the License Appeals Commission.
Mr. President, I move
that the city council concur in the recommendations
of the license committee by the same roll call
as item number one of the Committee on Finance report
and the associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider
Hearing. No objection.
So ordered
R 2 0 2 5 dash 0 0 1 7 0 9 1 resolution,
calling on the National Restaurant Association
to expand Angel Shot training for alcohol sellers.
I move passage of this item by the same motion.
If there is no objection,
Hearing none. So ordered
16 ordinances
regarding liquor moratoriums in the fourth eighth, 25th,
26th, 27th, 29th, 31st, 35th,
41st, 42nd, 44th and 49th.
Ward Committee has a recommended passage
of each of these items.
Oh, 2 0 2 5 0 1 9 3 7 5
and others
0, 0 1 9 6 6 6 0 0 1 9 9 3 6 0 0 1 9 6 6 2 0 0 1 9 9 3 4 0 0 1 8, 8, 6, 1 0 0 1 9 5 8, 9, 0 0 1 9, 9 3 9 0 0 1 9.
9 4 2 0 0 1 9. 9 4 3 0 0 1 9.
9 4 5 0 0 1 9.
9 7 3 0 0 1 9 3 7 1 0 0 1 9 8 8 9 0 0 1 9 8 9 2
and 0 0 1 9 9 2.
So
20 25 0 180 8 2 2 2 5 0 9 3.
8 0 2 0 2 5 2 0 3
and oh 2 0 2 2 5 0 2 0 1.
We're held in committee. Mr.
President, this concludes my report.
Yeah. Uh, chairwoman for those items that you listed prior
to the ones that were held in the committee.
Yes. Can you officially make the motion
for the passage of those items? I
Move passage of these items
by the same motion. If there's no objection
Hearing, no objection. So
ordered. Thank you. Thank you.
Mad chair, chair recognizes the Chairman Vasquez,
Mr. President and members of
the City council reporting
for your committee on Immigrant
and Refugee rights, which held a committee meeting on
October 15th, 2025.
Three items were recommended for passage by the committee.
The first being R 2 0 2 5 dash
zero zero one nine nine six one, uh,
call on Illinois Congressional delegation
to investigate every instance of potential misconduct
by the United States Department of Homeland Security
and other depu deputized agents operating in Chicago.
The second was SR 2 0 2 5 dash
0 0 1 9 9 5 2.
Uh, condemnation of practices
by the Federal Immigration Enforcement Agents
that endanger children urging resident reporting
of immigration enforcement misconduct and calls for federal
and state action regarding ice misconduct.
I move passage of R 2 0 2 5 dash 0 0 1 9 9 61
and SR 2 25 dash 0 0 1 9 9 5 2
by the first favorable roll call vote
of the Committee on Finance and the associated
unsuccessful motion to reconsider
Hearing. No objection. So
ordered.
Thank you. The third
and final item recommended for passage was SR 2 0 2 5 dash
zero zero one nine one eighty one.
A call for support of immigrant communities racial justice
and constitutional freedoms
and opposition to military presence in Chicago.
For this third item, after advice from the Department
of Law, chief sponsors have a substitute resolution
as amended that has been distributed
to all City council members.
I move for acceptance of the substitute resolution
as amended by the first favorable roll call vote
of the Committee on Finance hearing.
No objection. So ordered.
We now have the first amendment
to the substitute before us.
And at the request of the sponsor, I move
for a roll call vote on this resolution.
Chair recognizes Ottoman Irvin,
Mr. President, um,
i it that's highly unusual
that we bring a resolution like that to the floor.
Um, might the matter, is it at any pressing
or media nature of this that he can't be referred back
to committee for consideration
or are these mostly scribner issues or any of that nature?
I'll, uh, This is for a alman r
Grounds to the Recognizes Alderman Rodriguez.
Yeah. Given, um, um, legislative action
by our Attorney General, he asked us to change some
of the language of which we, uh, obliged given, uh,
some of the lawsuits that are in the
federal government. So,
So are you saying, alderman, that the passage of it in,
in its initial draft
or form did not, um, meet the standards established
by the Attorney General and
therefore this substitute, uh, reflects
what the Attorney General
provided as feedback In order for this to pass the, uh,
legal parameters that is accurate.
The, the chair recognizes Alderman
Vasquez, chairman Vazquez.
I think this basically amounts to a language cleanup,
so it's not a substantial change.
Uh, and why it's just moving forward
to make sure we're being preemptively cautious,
but it doesn't change the substance of it.
And there's a motion on the floor for the passage
of this item by a roll call.
Vote Chair recognizes Alderman Irvin.
Mr. President, could we pass this matter?
I don't even see it here in the, in the resolution here
or anything, so we're just, just past the matter.
We can come back to it. Just let us digest that
for a minute, if you don't mind.
Yeah. The chair recognizes Alderman sdo.
Okay, Mr. President, I have nothing here, so, okay.
I'm not looking to pick a fight with you guys. Okay.
I can't support something I know nothing about.
So you wanna take a vote? I'm a no.
Right. The chair recognizes Chairman Vazquez.
Uh, I, I am deferring to the sponsor.
I think we move forward with the vote if they
Chair recogniz. Yep.
So I would, I would say this.
Stick with the motion. You're
Still holding to your motion.
The chair recognizes ottoman Bill.
This body, I don't think has an appetite
to have something shoved down their throat
that they don't know anything about.
I motion to refer this back to committee.
There's a motion on the floor to refer this item back
to committee, right?
That's the motion. All those in favor of sending this,
there's a roll call that's being requested
to refer this item back to committee.
Very well. Um, Mr.
Clerk, if you can provide the
EVO application availability.
So the motion on the floor is to refer this item
back to its original committee
and there's a roll call, vote being requested for that.
Yeah. Members,
the city council use your EVO application
to record your vote at this time.
Chair recognizes Chairman Vazquez. Thank,
Thank you very much, Mr. President.
After conversation with the sponsor
and other matters, we'd like to, if members vote
to not refer, want to pause
and get copies of this to everyone
so we can then take this matter
up later in the council meeting.
It appears to us that because the copies have not been
passed, there's a little bit of confusion there.
So I'd ask our members to vote not to refer.
We will come back to it
If possible. Are you making a
motion? Because there's a motion
that's already on the floor.
I was more point of clarification
About that. Alright. The motion is
already on the floor.
To re-refer this item back
to committee chair recognizes Alderman Irvin,
Uh, we'd ask, uh, the maker of the motion to withdraw,
just to allow members to have the ability
to take a look at it.
If that is his pleasure. It's his motion.
Alright, so there is no vote
that has been taken on this, so there's a motion.
No, I'm, I'm asking the maker of the motion
Of the motion to withdraw the motion.
Motion to, so that the members of the body can have a chance
to see the material.
Yes. The maker of the motion. Alderman Bill,
There's a vote on the floor.
All right. So we're gonna interpret what he said is
that he's not willing to withdraw his motion.
All right. Very well. Just, I got you.
The chair recognizes Alder woman hadn't
I, uh, move to table the motion to re refer to committee.
All right. There's a motion on the floor
to table the motion to re-refer the
item back to committee.
Okay. So, uh, members of city council,
please use your EVO application at this
time to record your vote.
The motion on the floor is to table the motion
to re-refer the item back to committee.
So, a, a yes vote is,
is that the tab, the motion on the floor to re-refer it back
to committee would fail a yes vote.
A no vote means you are committed to moving forward
with the initial motion.
To re-refer the item to committee
chair recognizes Alderman sdo.
Excuse me. Mr. President, you, you, your reinterpretation
of a yes and a no are both the same thing.
I that I missed something. I can you
Repeat it? The motion
on the floor is to table the motion
that was initially on the floor,
which is if you vote no, I'm sorry.
If you vote yes, then you wish to table the initial motion.
I'm sorry. Thank you. You wish to table the initial motion
of re referring this item on the table.
If you do vote no,
however, then you do wish then to
continue the conversation on whether
or not this item should be re-referred.
So I understand how close those definitions are,
but just to be absolute clear, a yes means you do not wish
to move forward with the re-referral of this item.
Voting is open.
Thank.
Okay. We now call on those who have not
yet used their e devices.
Alder person Robinson Alder person Robinson is a no.
Alderman. Curtis. Alderman Mosley.
Alderwoman. Avaris. Alderman Talia
Farro Alderman.
Talia Farro is an I. Alderman Conway.
Alderman Conway is a yes. Um, alderman Curtis.
Alderman. Mosley. Alderwoman. Sbar.
Okay. You have Conway. You have Talia Theo?
Yep. Wait, voting is now closed.
All right. There are 25 yays. 20 nays.
The motion to lay the item on the table has passed. Right?
The chair recognizes Chair Chairman Vasquez.
Yep. Uh, is there still a motion that you wanted to make,
which was to hold this item?
Yes. For items we would like
To Motion to be provided. So
there's a motion on the floor to hold this item
until the information
that the body is requesting could be made available.
Absolutely. Mr. President, The chair
recognizes Alderman Rodriguez. Yeah,
I just wanted to state to my colleagues,
you did get an email on this earlier today.
Uh, at the beginning of this meeting, at the request of
the Illinois Attorney General, he asked us
to change a couple of small words here, very small words,
but we'll get that in printing
and we'll vote on it in a little bit.
We'll get that to you in a couple minutes here. Okay.
The chair recognizes Alderman Sdo,
President, I think my question was answered,
but he's not the president of the council.
So this, so we're holding it for now,
or holding it till another meeting is my question. Well,
The, the motion on the floor is to hold it until the items
that were emailed earlier could be placed into the
hands of this body.
That's what the motion on the floor is.
Let me understand this, Which then, which then means
that once that information has been made available,
then it is the ruling of the chair that would allow
for the chairman to re-introduce his motion for the passage
of this item with the substitute
information being made available. So,
So just to help me understand,
so if we get this information an hour from now,
that's where we're gonna vote on it, correct? Correct.
Well, let's, let's, let's hope
that it doesn't take that long. Alright,
So, so we're waiting for matter. What?
I understand your question. Okay.
Please Just please direct your
Oh, I didn't get it to begin.
Questions. I, I, I hear, I hear you.
Chair rec does Waga spec, do you still want to speak?
The chair recognizes Alderman Waga spec.
Um, since we've already opened the
discussion on the floor, Mr.
President, what specifically are we talking about in terms
of two words and what time was this email to the alderman?
Was a met email during this meeting? Was it emailed before?
That's very well, I mean, it's very relevant
to this discussion to see,
I think that the reasonable question, what
Specifically we're talking about from the Attorney
General, because they don't typically weigh in on
resolutions unless it's something very serious.
Very well. So the question president,
we can direct that to the sponsor.
The question from your colleague is,
since we're already discussing it, what was it specifically,
even though it passed that the Attorney General is asking
this body, uh, to
amend the chair recognizes Alderman Rodriguez? Yeah,
Forgive me. Um,
the Attorney General had some issues with, uh, some
of the language that would potentially impact, uh,
legislation that we have at the federal governments.
I believe, if I remember correctly, um,
there was some issues with compelling versus partnering
and we will have that outlined in the draft
that you'll get in your hand shortly here.
And this was sent at 10:15 AM
Thank you very much, Mr.
President Chair Recognizers.
You also include the, um, attorney general's comments
or specific comments that they made on that
Alderman. Just a second.
Alderman w back. Could you repeat, uh,
Mr. President, I just ask
if we could include the Attorney
General's comments, uh, specifically
so we can read into exactly
What he's said. Very well. The
chair recognizes Alderman Rodriguez. Yeah,
We'll bring the red line. Thank you. Thank you
Very well.
Okay, chairman, please continue with your other items.
Uh, I have no other items. You
Have no other item so we can All right. Refer
To, go to the next and come back
Chair recognizes Alderwoman Dow.
Yes. I'd like to ask Alderman Rodriguez,
was the request from the Attorney General in writing,
or was this request given by a phone call
to a member of this body?
The chair recognizes Alderman Rodriguez second.
Yeah, that was communicated through the Department of Law
and, uh, that and specifically Department of Law, uh,
stated the Yes, our Department of Law. Yes. Thank you
Very well. The chair
recognizes Alderman Lopez.
Thank you, Mr. President with the, with the report
of the committee from Immigration
and Refugee Rights over with,
what are we discussing right now?
Chair recognizes Alderman Vazquez,
unless you want to defer to your colleague
who is the sponsor of this item.
Sure. Yeah. It's currently not over.
I'm not, I'm not, I'm asking you.
I'm not talking to him because
that's what we're directed to do.
Right. And so I'm gonna direct it to the chair.
You asked him if he had anything more to report.
He said nothing. The report is over.
So are we moving on to the next committee
or are we now taking up the section
Two? Well, we could, but you have now
asked a clarifying question
as a point of order that you want to know
what we're discussing right now.
Are you referring to the, the resolution
or just what we're discussing in June?
I am just, where are we at
with the agenda if he said his report is over,
but yet we're still talking about things within his report?
Well, we were actually prepared to move on
until you asked for the point of order. Okay,
Then by all means, sir, please move on.
By all means. What exactly.
Please move on to the next committee.
Uh, does the chairman wish to be recognized? All right.
Very well. If there are no more item, if there are,
if there's nothing further, there is a hold on.
Item one. The information is being provided for individuals.
Now, the sponsor of this resolution has indicated
that the highlights specifically from the Attorney General,
that that will be illuminated, um,
in the information that is before you.
At which point then, once we move
through the next committee, if this body is satisfied
with the information is in front of them
and they believe that they have adequate information
to be able to cast a vote, then we will move forward.
Back to this item.
Now we are moving, uh, the, the, the chair rec.
Okay, just a second. Just a second.
The chair recognizes Alderman sdo.
Mr. President, I can answer that right now.
I'm not gonna have adequate information.
I got this at 2 0 8.
We're gonna vote on this at two 10 or two 20 or something.
Come on guys. Let's be re let's be fair.
Thank I didn't wanna start a fight.
You guys are starting a fight over.
Thank you, alderman. This was a simple thing.
Thank you. Your Point is it's 10
15 and now we gotta vote on it.
Your point is, and we didn't get
Thank you all, mayor. Thank you
Mr. President. I'm sorry for the outburst.
You don't have to apologize,
but your point has been made
for committee on Pedestrian and Traffic safety.
The chair recognizes Chair LaSpada.
Thank you Mr. President.
Reporting for your committee on Pedestrian
and traffic safety for which a meeting was held on
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025.
The committee held the yearly hearing on Chicago Department
of Transportation's 2024 crash report pursuant
to Municipal Code of Chicago section nine dash 16.
There were also 316 routine
traffic items before the committee.
One item was held in committee
and the other 315 items passed.
If there are no objections, I move passage
of these 315 routine traffic items
by the first most favorable roll call vote from the
Committee on Finance and the associated unsuccessful
motion to reconsider the vote.
Here are no objections, so ordered.
That concludes my report. You Thank
You Mr. Chair for
the Committee on Transportation in public Way,
the chair recognizes Chairman Mitchell,
Mr. President members
of city Council reporting
to you on your Committee on Transportation in Public Way,
which held a meeting on October 8th, 2025.
The following items passed
by the majority of the members present.
Page two includes item
A 2 0 2 5 0 0 1 9 8 9 3
appointment of Oswaldo Alvarez as a member
of the Regional Transportation Authority.
Pages three through seven include 34 ordinances
for miscellaneous items introduced
by the local alderman from Wards
1, 3 8, 11, 13, 17, 19, 20, 21, 25, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 40, 42, 47,
and 50.
Page eight includes item ordinance
2 0 2 5 0 0 1 9 9 0 4,
a subdivision for a property located in the 21st ward.
Items Ordinance
2 0 2 5 0 0 1 9 5 4 5,
A subdivision for a property located in the 29th ward.
And item ordinance 2 0 2 5 0 0 1 9 0 5 1
a subdivision for a property located in the 32nd ward.
Page nine includes item ordinance
2 0 2 5 0 0 1 9 8 7 0, a subdivision
for a property located in the 21st ward.
And item ordinance 2 0 2 5 0 0 1 9 9 3 7
a street opening for a property located in the 35th Ward.
If there is no objection, I move passage of these items
by the first most favorable roll call vote
of the Committee on Finance
and the un associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider
Hearing. No objection.
So ordered.
Mr. President. That concludes my report.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Now for the Committee
on Workforce Development as a chair here, not, uh,
we'll move for then we'll move
to our committee on zoning landmarks and building standards.
The chair recognizes Vice Chair Lawson.
Uh, thank you Mr.
President and members of the city council
presenting a series of reports
for your committee on zoning landmarks
and building standards, which held a meeting on
October 14th, 2025.
The following items were passed by a majority
of the members present in our group for convenience.
Page one contains the following, three mayoral appointments,
the appointment of Alicia Blakely as a member
of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, as well
as the appointments of Nikisha Hobbs and Pasquale Gianni.
As members of the zoning board of appeals.
I move passage of these items
by the last most favorable roll call vote
of the finance committee report
and the unsuccess associated
unsuccessful motion to reconsider
Hearing. No objection.
So ordered
Page one also contains document number oh 2025 dash
0 1 9 9 1 8 a correction of the City Council Journal
of proceedings for file number 2 2 7 3 dash T one
to correct the zoning boundary lines and map number.
I move passage of this item by the same motion.
If there is no
objection, I move
passage. If there is no objection,
Hearing none so ordered
Page one also contains document number oh 2025 dash
0 0 1 9 6 7 2.
The amendment of admissible code section 17
dash three dash oh 4 0 8 allowing
for building height increases in certain areas of B three
and C3 zoning districts.
If a project is subject
to the Affordable Requirements Ordinance, I will passage
of this item by the same motion. If there is no objection,
Hearing none so ordered, Excuse me.
Page one also contains the historical landmark designations
of New Genesis, assembly
of God Baptist Church located in the 37th Ward
and Erie Street Row located in the 42nd Ward.
I move passage of these items
by the same motion. If no objection,
Hearing none so ordered.
Moving on. Pages one
through 27 contain various map amendments in wards.
1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47, 40
eighth, 49th, and 50.
I move passage of these items
by the same motion is there is no objection noting
that Alder Woman, Dow
and Alderman Beal would like to be recorded
as voting no on all ordinances associated
with the Broadway land use framework found on pages four
through eight, known as a 8 9 7 3 a 8 9, 8, 4
a 8 9, 8 6,
and a 8 9 9 4 2 a
9 0 0 2.
Very well hearing no objections
and despite the division so ordered.
Lastly, pages 27
and 28 contain various large signs over 100 square feet
of area, 24 feet
above grade in wards
3 27, 28, 29, 32, 34, 36,
and 42.
I move passage of these items by the same motion.
If there is no objection, hearing
None so ordered. Thank
You Mr. President. That includes
my report.
Thank you Mr. Vice Chair for the, for the,
for the Committee on Workforce Development.
The chair recognizes Chairman Rodriguez.
Thank you Mr. President members
of the city council reporting
for the Committee on Workforce Development,
which held a meeting on October 7th.
There were two agenda agenda items.
First we had R 2 0 2 5 0 0 1 9 7 71.
A resolution that was not voted on.
It was held in committee second oh
2 0 2 5 0 1 9 9 3 9 9 9 3,
excuse me, a collective bargaining agreement
between the Chicago Firefighters Union, local two
and the city of Chicago.
It has come to my attention that
after the committee meeting where the contract was voted on,
a scrivener's error was found in the document.
I move on the rule 30 to amend the term sheet,
attach the ordinance authorizing the approval of the c
of the collective bargaining agreement between the city
of Chicago and the Chicago Firefighters Union Local two,
by striking the first bullet on the last page
of the term sheet, which reads, quote, retirement age.
Modify the agreement to reflect that 65, not 63,
is the mandatory retirement age as necessary
and inserting in its place, quote, retirement age,
not modified you.
That's my motion. Thank you for the correction.
There's a motion. All right.
And if there are no objections, then
that correction is so ordered.
I now move to pass the ordinance au
to authorize the approval
of the collective bargaining agreement between the city
of Chicago and the Chicago Firefighters Union Local two
with the amended term sheet.
By the first most favor, roll call vote
by the Committee on Finance
Chair recognizes Alman Moore.
Thank you so much. Um, Mr.
President, um, there has been much conversation
around hereby, uh, many of our colleagues in, in,
in regards to this.
And though we definitely as know everybody know
I appreciate our first responders,
but there are times where we are pushed against a wall when
we have constituents that come to us,
which is sometimes a good wall, um,
to make sure we're advocating on their behalf.
Um, when I came into this council, um, I said
that would not just vote for things just to vote
for things if we're not seeing, um, what we need
to see for our constituents.
And our constituents are in my community,
are concerned about, um, the, the, um,
representation of
what our community is seeing within the fire department.
And I'm hoping that we can work, um, towards that,
um, with everyone.
But right now, um, until I see that
and I'm in my 10th year, I'm going to have to, um,
vote no today and hopefully to, um, in the future
that we can begin to resolve these issues.
Thank you so much, Mr.
President. You're welcome. There's a motion on the floor
for the passage of this item, but Mr.
Uh, alderman David Moore would like to be recorded
as a no Chair recognizes Alderman Yancy.
Yeah. For the same reasons
I'd like to join Altman Moore in voting
No. Okay. Madam,
uh, Mr.
Clerk, could you add, um, alderman Yancy as a know as well?
All right. Despite the division, um,
and hearing no objections, so ordered this motion passes.
Chair recognizes Chairman Rodriguez.
Uh, this concludes
the report of the Workforce Development Committee.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. There's one more
committee for report.
It's the Joint Committee on Transportation and Public Way
and Pedestrian and Traffic Traffic safety.
The chair recognizes, uh, chair LaSpada.
Thank you Mr. President.
Reporting for your joint committee on transportation
and public way and pedestrian
and traffic safety for which a meeting was held on Friday,
October 3rd, 2025.
Before the committee, there was one item O 2025 dash
0 0 1 5 5 7 4 amendment of municipal code titles two
and 10 to direct the commissioner of transportation
to implement the plow the Sidewalks pilot program
to extend the end date of the program working group
to December 31st, 2026.
This item received a do not pass recommendation.
That concludes my report. Thank you. Thank
You Mr. Chair.
That concludes our committee reports.
Now for the agreed upon calendar,
chair recognizes Alderwoman Harris,
The
I received from the city clerk, Andrea and Valencia.
A total of 77 items proposed for the agreed uh, calendar
consisting of commemoratory, um,
congratulatory commemoratory
and tributary resolutions for the following.
Alder persons alder person do all the person Yancy,
all the person Harris with one additional item.
All the person Lee, all the person Quinn,
all the person Gutierrez, all the person Lopez,
all the person Coleman, all the person Oshaa,
all the person Ccho Lopez, all the person Conway,
all the person Nugent, all the person Vasquez,
all the person Gardner
and Alder person Clay, I move these into omnibus very
Well hearing no objections.
So ordered now for new business.
The clerk will call the awards beginning
with the 50th Mr Clerk
Zoning amendments which are referred
to the committee on zoning landmarks
and building standards, traffic regulations,
traffic control, singles and traffic signs which are
referred to the Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety
exemption from physical barrier requirements
for commercial driveway alley access
for parking facilities which are referred
to the Committee on Transportation and Public Way.
All the person had and has a proposed ordinance
for amendment of of the annual appropriation ordinance
transfer funds with the Committee on Environmental
Protection and Energy for the year 2025, which is referred
to the committee on the budget and Government Operations.
All the person man Haworth has proposed orders
for the issuance of permits
for signed sign boards at 53 18 North Broadway,
which are referred to the committee on zoning
landmarks and building standards.
All the person Lawson has proposed ordinance
for a one time exception
to the Wrigley Field night game ordinance
to allow the Chicago Cubs
to hold Major League baseball game on July 17th, 2026,
which is referred to the committee
as licensed consumer protection.
All the person Lawson also has proposed ordinance
for amendment of the annual appropriation ordinance
that transfer funds from the 44th Ward automatic expense
account to the wage allowance for the year 2025,
which is referred to the committee on the
budget and government operations.
All the person, Lawson and others
have proposed ordinance for amendment.
Miss the code Title VII
by modifying section 17 dash seven dash
5 0 5 7 4
to allow additional dwelling units in specified areas
and by modifying chapter 17 dash nine to prohibit permits
for new conversion units
and coach houses within RFS districts, which is referred
to the committee as zoning landmarks and building standards.
All their person Lawson has also has proposed ordinance
for amendment of the annual appropriation ordinance,
the transfer funds within the committee on
zoning landmarks and building standards.
But the year 2025, which is referred
to the committee on the budget and Government operations,
while the person NUS
and has proposed ordinance for amendment
of the annual appropriation ordinance,
the transfer funds within the 43rd within the 43rd Ward
automatic expense allowance account
to the wage allowance account for the year 2025,
which is referred to the committee on the budget
and Government Operations.
All the person Nuon
and others have a proposed ordinance for amendment
of municipal code Title four by modifying various sections
and adding new section four dash 3 84 dash zero 80
establishing licensing requirements.
All the person Canin and others have opposed Ordinance
for amendment of municipal code Title four
by modifying various sections
and adding a new section four dash 3 84 dash zero 80
establishing licensing requirements
around backyard breeding,
which is referred to the Committee on Health.
All the person Riley has proposed orders for the issuance
of permits for signed sign boards, which are referred
to the committee on zoning landmarks and building standards.
All the person Riley also has proposed orders for amendment
of municipal code section four dash 60 dash 0 23
to allow additional package goods licenses on portions
of North LaSalle Street and West Haddock Place,
which is referred to committee as
license consumer protection.
All the person Viegas has proposed resolution
for condemnation of the United of United States Secretary
of Transportation's, new rules
for federal disadvantaged business enterprise
and airport concessions
and calls for the city council committee hearings
regarding impact on city and sister agency projects
and grants, which is referred
to the Committee on Contracting Oversight.
All the person Viegas also has proposed ordinance
for honorary street designation
as honorary AYA Jamal Al Way, which is referred
to the Committee on Transportation and Public Way.
All the person con All person Conway has a proposed order
for the issuance S permits for signed sign boards at one 30
South Jefferson Street, which is referred
to the committee on zoning landmarks and building standards.
All the person Irvin has a proposed ordinance
for the honorary street designation
as new Morningstar MB Church way, which is referred
to the Committee on Transportation and Public Way.
All the person Cardona has a proposed ordinance
for amendment of municipal code section four dash 60 dash
0 22 to allow additional alcoholic liquor licenses on
portion of West Fullerton Avenue, which is referred
to the Committee on License and Consumer Protection.
All the person tele Fiero has a proposed order for the uses,
the permits for signed sign boards at 66 0 9 West Fullerton
Avenue, which is referred
to the committee on zoning landmarks and building standards.
All the person Burnett has proposed order for the issuance
of permits for signed sign boards at 1 34 South California
Avenue, which is referred
to the committee on zoning landmarks and building standards.
All the person Burnett also has proposed ordinance
for amendment of municipal code section 17 dash six dash
4 0 3 dash F to require by right permits
for residential storage warehouses in plan manufacturing
district four B, which is referred
to committee on zoning landmarks and building standards.
All the person Rodriguez has a proposed order
for the issuance of permits
for signed sign boards at 4,000 West 26th Street,
which is referred to committee on
zoning landmarks and building standards.
All the person O'Shea has a proposed ordinance
for honorary street designation
as honorary Paul Reynolds Way, which is referred
to the Committee on Transportation and Public Way.
All the person O'Shea also has a proposed ordinance
for an honorary street designation
as honorary George went way, which is referred
to the Committee on Transportation and Public Way.
All the person Coleman has proposed ordinance
for an honorary street designation as Mother
Mother Mabel Yancy Irving Way, which is referred
to the Committee on Transportation and Public Way,
while the person Lopez has a proposed ordinance
for amendment of municipal code section four dash 60 dash 22
to allow additional alcoholic liquor licenses on portion
of South McDowell Avenue, which is referred
to the Committee on License and Consumer Protection while
the person Lopez also has a proposed resolution
to call on United States President Donald Trump
to grant pardons to any non-dangerous non-criminal,
non-citizens and grant amnesty
and pathways to citizens of all qualification of citizens
to all qualified for pardons, which is referred
to the Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
All, all the person Quinn has a proposed ordinance
for amendment of municipal code section four dash 60 dash 22
to disallow additional alcoholic liquor licenses on portion
of South Central Avenue, which is referred
to Committee on License and Consumer Protection while the
person Quinn also has a proposed ordinance for amendment
of the annual appropriation ordinance
to transfer funds from the 13th ward Wage allowance account
to the Alderman expense accounts, which is referred
to the committee on the budget and government operations.
All the person Ramirez has a proposed ordinance
for amendment of the annual appropriation ordinance
to transfer funds from the 12th ward automatic expense
account to the wage allowance account for the year 2025,
which is referred to the committee on the
budget and government operations.
All the person Chico has a proposed ordinance for amendment
of the annual appropriation ordinance
to transfer funds from the 10th Ward automatic expense
account to the wage allowance account for the year 2025,
which is referred to the committee on the
budget and Government operations.
Alman Chico also has a proposed ordinance
for an honorary street designation
as assumption Greek Orthodox Church Way, which is referred
to the Committee on Transportation and Public Way.
All the person Yancy has a proposed ordinance for,
for a permit fee waiver for the Griffin Museum of Science
and Industry, which is referred
to the committee on zoning landmarks and billing standards.
Excuse me, alderman Dahal has proposed an ordinance
for an amendment of municipal code sections four dash 60
dash oh 22 and four dash 60 dash oh 23
to disallow additional alcoholic liquor
and patch package, good licenses on portions
of East 47th Street, which is referred
to the committee on licensed civil protection.
All the person dial also has proposed orders for amendment
of municipal code chapter two dash 32 dash
by adding a new section two dash 32 dash 76
to authorize the city controller to enter into agreements
to install ATMs on city property,
which is referred to the Committee on Finance.
All the person Hopkins has proposed order
for historical landmark permit fee waiver
for three 10 West Concord Place, which is referred
to committee on zoning landmarks and building standards.
Other person Martin has proposed ordinance
directing the city controller to transfer funds
for the year 2025 from the automatic expense account
to the automatic automatic office account,
which is referred to the committee on the
budget and government operations.
Your Honor, that concludes the
presentation of automatic Thank
You Mr. Clerk for the approval
of the adjourn.
The chair recognizes Alderman Mitchell.
I was, uh, reading. It's alright.
Um, Ms.
President, I'm not aware of any corrections
to the journal from the September 25th, 2025 meeting
and move that to be approved.
All right, well hearing no objection.
So ordered and now
for unfinished business, alderman Mitchell.
I'm aware of one piece of unfinished business.
It was filed by Alderman Hatten and I defer to her
Very well. The chair
recognizes Alder Hatten.
Thank you Mr. President.
Um, um,
I file a Rule 41 notice on October 9th, 2025, but
after further discussion, um, with colleagues
and a couple, uh, organizations that reached out
who had not previously been in conversation with us,
with questions around it,
we wanna make sure we allow adequate time.
Um, and so we're gonna withdraw the notice
for the Rule 41 at this time.
Alright, thank you very much. Um, uh, alderman Mitchell,
I'm, uh, as this item has been withdrawn, I'm not aware
of any further pieces of unfinished business.
Very well. Thank you very much.
Uh, now for miscellaneous business Alderman Mitchell,
Except for the ordinance se setting, the date
and time of the next meeting, I am not aware
of any miscellaneous business
Very well.
Well then for the date and time of the next meeting,
for the date and time for the next meeting,
the chair recognizes Alderman Vasquez.
Thank you Mr. President, uh,
in revisiting the items on the agenda
for the Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
So you're standing in your chair position?
Yes. Thank you. Very chair recognizes
Chairman Vasquez. Thank
You very much. Mr. President,
uh, in the position as chairman
of the committee and immigrant and refugee rights
for the item that is currently still floating
and on old myself
and Alder person Rodriguez moved to DNP at that
Published Alderman Rodriguez, the sponsor.
Can you confirm that is confirmed very well.
This item will then be D and ped you, Mr.
President Chairman Irvin, are you ready?
Chairman, uh, the chair recognizes
Chairman Irvin on his first item, um,
from the budget committee
of which an Alder Moore was requesting information
and was asking for that information to be provided
before he wanted to move forward.
The chair recognizes Chair Irvin. Thank
You Mr. President.
Uh, at this point we have not
come to that conclusion.
I would if, if, if possible like
to move on the other two items
that are in the 9 2 5 Amendment.
Pass those items and then we'll come back
to this item specifically,
Could you repeat that you wish to move forward
with which two items?
Um, items two and three in the 9 2 5 amendment.
This was item number one in the 9 2 5 amendment.
Would like to move forward on the two items
that weren't pertaining to the matter that Alderman Moore,
uh, requested and then move, uh, we'll deal
with those items at a later date in time.
I say can we,
so in other, hold on.
Very well. So there's a motion on the floor
to divide this item to move forward, which, which two
Item two and three in the 9 2 5 amendment
In the 9 2 5 amendment. That is
Correct. We're gonna divide,
I guess we would divide the question
to pass items two and three and not pass item one.
And we'll hold item one in committee the,
So that vote, which we have
to devote on the division first.
So the first item, the first motion is to divide the items.
All those in favor of the dividing of these items signify
by saying the chair recognizes older woman Manhattan.
Thank you Mr. President.
Sorry, I know people are trying to move forward.
Um, uh, I object to this motion.
I know that we have a member that
has questions that was in committee.
I heard those questions.
I feel like they should stay together
and we should just vote on it
and if that member doesn't agree
with it, then he should just vote.
No. This is just a standard grant from the NFL association.
I understand there was some confusion, um, about
where it comes from, but it is my understanding
as people testified from the department
that this is the second two year grant
that they've already received.
Um, it is not the city's determination on
what the qualifications of the grant are.
It's the granting body. This is money going
to programs here.
It has nothing to do with football
and it was something that is not eligible to go
to neighborhood organizations.
So I know that they did promise
to give my colleague these documents,
I wish they'd been given sooner,
but I do not feel we should hold up an entire vote
because one person still has questions.
That person does have the ability
to make their designation for a vote.
So I object to the motion of dividing the question.
All right. So your objection is then
that you're just simply, are you saying
that you're gonna vote no on the dividing of these items?
There are any objections? I object.
Okay, Thank you.
Alright, so there is an objection,
but that's not necessarily a motion.
So the motion on the floor is
to divide these items in part.
So that's the first the thing that we have to vote on.
All those in favor? All right.
So there's a roll call vote on the floor
for the dividing of these items.
Oh, bad it was we getting up
motion.
Divide the motion.
You could just put motion to divide
and we can figure it out later.
Just do motion to divide. Yeah,
I'd rather be on the state side.
Motion to divide.
Please provide the question by, it's a motion to divide.
No, it's fine. Just leave.
The voting is now open.
Um, oh. Made it.
I will now on call. I will now, now call on those
who have not yet cast their vote.
Alderman Yancy. Alderman Yancy is a no.
Alderwoman Harris. Alderwoman Harris is a no.
Alderwoman Ramirez.
Alderwoman Ramirez is a no. Alderwoman Coleman.
Alderman Curtis Alderman Mosley.
Alderman Talia Pharaoh Alder, uh,
alderman Mosley is a yes.
Alderwoman Rodriguez Sanchez. Alderwoman Rodriguez Sanchez.
Right. Um, alderman Sdo.
Alderman Sdo is a no. Alderman Gardner.
Alderman Martin.
Alderman Martin is a no.
If we hit everybody who is in chambers? Okay.
Everyone in chambers has Martin is a no.
Everyone in chambers has voted. Voting is now closed.
All right. There are seven yays
and 38 nays to motion to divide These items has failed.
The chair recognizes Chairman Irvin.
Thank you Mr. President.
Um, since we were not able to, uh, divide on
that in the time sensitive nature of the other items of the,
uh, 9 2 5 amendment, I move passage of the, uh,
9 2 5 amendment by the first favorable roll call vote
of the Committee on finance and the
unsuccessful motion to reconsider
Very well. So there's a motion on
the floor
to mash the pass these items as a whole
with my most favorable roll call in the finance committee
chair recognizes Alderman Moore.
Thank you Mr. President.
Thank you, um, chairman Irving, um,
for your patience on this.
And um, one again, as a, as a alderman,
when we ask for stuff, it's not just,
we're just asking to be asking.
If this was given to me yesterday as fast as it was,
got it gotten together today, we wouldn't be here today.
So when we ask for something, I'm just not asking something.
Just be asking for something.
Get it to us so we won't be going through this stuff.
That's number one. 'cause it's gonna happen
to our other colleagues.
Number two, my concern is this and,
and I appreciate, um, the, uh, department of Health
going at the grants, what they want to go for.
And that's fine 'cause I'm never
gonna turn down no way money.
You better believe that. But the other thing is,
but when somebody clarifies something as social, um,
justice, um, um, supplies to OMC wellness,
resource room and care stuff is not social justice to me.
And I'm not gonna let the NFL
or anybody else get off the hook when they're saying they're
donating to social justice.
Um, from when they said they was gonna donate
after the George Floyd situation.
And they, and, and they'll report
and say, yeah, we gave $200,000 to the city,
but that never hit our children.
And, but they'll say they donated.
So it's, I have to go on record to say if,
if we can grant money, call it what it is,
but it's not social justice.
And, and at the end of the day, if it is supposed to be
for social justice to hit our children to help our children,
I want that to happen
because our children are out there,
especially children in Inglewood at Ogden Park playing on
football teams, all this stuff that they're doing, um,
trying to bring championships home, but,
but playing with damaged helmets that can hurt them
shoulder pass that they can, they can get hurt in.
And if we have money for our kids, I wanna make sure we get
to those kids if it's social justice and nothing else.
Thank you Mr. Mayor.
Thank you. Um, are there any other elders that wish
to speak to this item very well.
So the motion on the floor is the pass
by the most favorable roll call in the finance committee,
favorable roll call
and of course the unsuccessful motion to reconsider hearing.
No objections. So ordered. Thank you Mr. Chair.
Does that complete your Yes, please. My report.
Thank you Mr. Now for the date and time of the next meeting,
chair recognizes Alderman Mitchell.
Mr. President, I handed up an ordinance
to the clerk setting the date
and time of the next meeting. Mr. Clerk,
Please read the ordinance.
You not dame by the city Council of the City
of Chicago, section one.
The next regular meeting of the city council of the City
of Chicago shall be held on Friday, November 14th, 2025,
beginning at 10:00 AM in the council chambers on the second
floor in City Hall 1 21 North LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Illinois, section two.
This order shall take effect and be enforced
from and after its passage.
Very well, the chair recognizes Alderman SDO
President. Uh, now that
we're done, I'll try to talk over everybody.
This is just a point of per uh, personal privilege.
I just wanna let you all know those TAF apples on your desk.
Were not from either or from David Moore.
We were on the same page. We both brought in two dozen TAF
apples today and today is, today is Dan from CFA's last day.
And we have a cake from in my office.
We wanna stop by and have a piece of cake.
Thank you Mr. President. Thank
You very much. Um,
alderman Mitchell, you move for the passage
of this in the omnibus.
I move that matters in the omnibus be passed
by the first most favorable roll call vote
by the Committee on Finance in the associated unsuccessful
motion to reconsider.
But we ha
Well this is for the next meeting, um,
that's been read by the clerk.
So that's a move for the passage in the omnibus. You got it?
Yep. Honor so's a motion by Alderman Mitchell.
I'm move passes in the honors.
You just settle down for a little bit hearing.
No objection. So ordered now for
the omnibus Auman Mitchell. We're back
On track. I move that matters
in the omnibus be passed
by the first most favorable roll call vote
by the Committee on Finance
and the unsu associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider
Hearing. No objection. So
ordered Auman Mitchell on a mic on the
motion to adjourn. There
Being no further business before this
body. I move that we adjourn,
Hearing no objections. So order
the media is adjourned.