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Good morning are the Canadian immigration and Refugee Rights
will now come to order. Today, we will have an initial
hearing discussing the city of Chicago's response to the
new arrivals and a boat on the resolution calling for
regular hearings on the response will begin with a roll,
call to establish a quorum. So I am chairman present,
vice-chair Taylor
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There are ten members present. We have a quorum as far as
non-members are present. We have older men Robinson.
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At this time, we would normally begin public comment but we
do not have a problem, as far as virtual we will, we do I
believed to have public comment in person. So stop. Set for
30 minutes. Tops out of respect for every time he speakers
limited to three minutes. Our first speaker is rubbing dr.
Beth Brown.
Lunch tomorrow.
Good morning.
Good morning, everyone. Now you can hear me. It's great to
be here and because I'm a pastor, I'm going to read my
statement, or it could be a lot longer than what I intend
for it to be.
As.
As you know, my name is Reverend dr. Beth Brown. I'm the
pastor of Lincoln Park Presbyterian church and I'm one of
your interim Commissioners for the community commission for
Public. Safety and accountability on June 2nd. I launched
the faith community initiative. This initiative is calling
on faith communities throughout Chicago, to house support.
Campo.
Company.
Company immigrants, currently living in police districts.
Using a tried-and-true model developed by the sanctuary
working group and Wellington United Church of Christ in
partnership with my congregation their faith community
buildings. Throughout Chicago, that are way underutilized
and can be used for housing. Asylum Seekers the faith
community initiative provides training program management
and case management for all Faith communities, who can
commit to a family or couple or group for one year. During
this one year. In addition to providing housing and
financial support through case management, the initiative
helps Faith communities connect their people to Legal
Services, get work authorization, find jobs enroll in
classes if that's a desire or need receive Medical Care,
find apartments, eventually and continue developing
community support for those seeking Asylum.
Weather. So,
What are some peas communities, who can provide housing and
accompaniment, but not financial support? Their other
Faith, communities, who can't house, but can provide
financial and other support. The faith community
initiative, will connect these Partners. All of this is
done with no Financial cost to the city of Chicago.
I am a.
I am encouraging.
I am encouraging you as a city council to help spread the
word about this initiative and to encourage Faith
communities in your Wards to participate. This is a
long-term low-cost holistic solution, that helps
immigrants. Get resettled here in Chicago. You can learn
more at Faith Community initiative. Org. The next training
for interested Faith. Communities is Thursday, July 6th at
6:30 p.m. at Lincoln Park Presbyterian church. Thank you
for your time and for your efforts in helping us spread the
word.
Thank you for.
Thank you very much for comment for the record. I like to
also show that all the women tell all the women Cruise
Alderman states are Lopez and other women Nugent are here
as well. Alright, next up for public comment. You've got a
baltazar Enriquez.
What?
Morning everybody. Everybody hear me but it's a pleasure
being here today. Mine is about to send request on the
person of the little village community council one of the
largest communities that holds the most immigrants that any
other community does. The first bus has hit. We were the
first one of the organizations in the ground is that asked
me we think of you was my Halo 2.
Old.
Although asylum-seekers there. And then when I saw the
buses, I was like, oh we can't fit this many people, but
we've been there. We've been there and my volunteers are
all volunteers. You don't get no money if anything they put
money. So we've been assisting, the Asylum Seekers and
migrants before they started coming. When the wave of
Guatemala's came in, we help them out the waiver Lawrence
came in, we help them out nicaraguans. We will be having
waves of migrants coming in and I want to thank the city
Hall's, finally, helping them, not marginalizing, them, not
scaring them, not pushing them away.
and,
And this.
And this is good, right? Because in the future, now, people
could come to the city of Chicago and know they're going to
get help and know. They're going to be part of a community
and be part of this great City. And this is what we're
asking reach out to Grassroots organizations like ours.
They don't have no political connections because what I've
learned of the meeting says that 51 million dollars is
going to be given in 47 million dollars, is going to be
used for Staffing.
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Sally must.
Sally Mas. Caro Del remedio, para, la Cara. There's a
saying,
so,
So, is more expensive.
To give out for me in dollars. Is that so much? It's going
to really be left. So we really need to be conscious and
like Reverend said, you know, let's reach out to the grass,
Chute to the churches that are doing this all ready for
free. We helping out the migrants before this happened. So,
you know, to reach out to organizations, like the little
village community, council organizations that have no
political connections because there's organizations that
dress like a non-for-profit but it's very political. So we
seen that in our neighborhood because we have been under
the same regime for years in my neighborhood and I'm happy
that there's a change. Now in city council and hopefully
you could bring in common sense, I miss it, a sales reached
out to
Faith.
Facebook.
Organizations to not-for-profit like ours. And what we
really want to do is also make sure that the money goes to
where it needs to go, to the people that are in need, not
to our pockets, not to pay big salaries for people, but
actually help out the community. So that's really my
comment here. And I hope they use really do something about
those 47 million dollars by 4's just ridiculous. So, thank
you for your time. And again, thank you for changing the
whole face of the immigrants. Now, thank you very much.
Thank you very much for your comment. Place are also
recognized for Quorum ottoman. Ramirez-rosa is here with
us. Next speaker is Carlos by the status.
I agree more.
A good morning everyone, good morning. I want to see us
some reporter with Injustice watch here in Chicago. If you
don't undress as watch where a nonprofit investigative
Outlet here in the city. I work in and just as watch.org,
I'm here because it's much easier to speak and just make
them try to crawl. All of you at one by one later on at
just to put on your, on the table that many members of this
committee signed onto hearings calling on the Chicago.
Police Department leadership to come testify before the
committee about the hundreds of U Visa certification,
denials against undocumented Crime, Victims are reporting
revealed in December that the Chicago Police Department
blocked, many undocumented crime, survivors from accessing,
this type of legal status, for unqualified reasons that you
can read all about it in our work. We interviewed experts
on the stuff.
Immediate.
immediately following our publication of the
Immediately following our publication of an article, a
majority of the council signed on to hearings calling for a
tpd to come testify before the committee that has not
happened yet, my understanding is that those resolutions
basically died on the died when the new Council was put in
place. So I only have a question for you all, as if you
plan to bring this up again, and if you commit to Bringing
City, Chicago, Police leadership to explain the sixes that
they've been cemented. And also ask them about the
Illinois, Attorney General's, office own investigation on
this issue, that was launched after our reporting. If you
want to get a refresher on any of this stuff, you can just
Google and Justice watch U visa and all the Articles will
come up. Thanks again, I'll be available after if you guys
want to talk. So thank you for time.
Thank.
Thank you.
Think of your comment as chair. I will exert a little bit
of privilege to let to let you know. We will plan on having
that in the subsequent hearing. Thank you for that. I thank
you for all the speakers today. I would also like to note
that this committee has received written public, comment.
These were in public comments have been sent out to the
committee members via email. There being no more speakers.
We will now begin the subject matter hearing regarding the
resolution introduced by myself a resolution calling for
Monday hearings on the city's response to the new arrivals
are 2023 Dash 0, 0 0, 1 0 2 2.
Give me.
Given the time in.
Given the time and place. We find ourselves in with the city
of Chicago was first. Took steps in becoming a welcoming
city in 1985 under an executive order by mayor Harold,
Washington is now challenge to live up to its Proclamation
through action. I believe it is a matter of public interest
that we make transparent. And accountable for the actions
of Mayor, Brandon Johnson's Administration, is IT addresses
the current humanitarian crisis as we are aware since
August of last year, north of 10,000 asylum-seekers from
Central and South America have been flown Buster otherwise
transported to Chicago by other cities and states across
the country with more than 500 of them, currently living in
police stations and airports. It is clear that our city has
not had the adequate infrastructure and capacity to
properly address this challenge When taking into account.
The new arrivals coming from all other parts of the world.
This moment illustrates our Solutions are inadequate and we
have much work to do.
More.
Morrow.
Moreover in attempting to address the challenges posed by
the arrival of our newest neighbors, generational wounds.
Associated with this investment in communities. Across our
city have been reopened and it is important. I believe that
we as a government need to be transparent and accountable
to all Chicago in those born here and those who have just
arrived in order to have a succeed as one city together.
And that Spirit the intent of these meeting of the
committee on immigration. And Refugee Rights is to provide
progress reports regarding work being done by the various
City departments and to identify what different
stakeholders from the federal government to the mutual Aid,
volunteers on the ground.
Doing it.
Doing and respond.
Doing in response to the crisis in hopes of identifying
challenges that we can resolve to policy and legislation
furthermore be standing meetings tentatively scheduled for
the last Wednesday of every month will also serve to delve
deeper into the work being done by East apartment, and to
hear the pertinent legislation introduced by the city
council and our mayor. As we work to improve our response
to these challenges and more fully become the welcoming
City. We are proud of, not only in work and spirit, but in
reality an action, we owe it to the tremendous history of
our city. Founded by a black immigrant on indigenous land
to continue our work in progress.
We will now have testimony regarding this resolution.
Please reserve, your questions and comments until after the
conclusion of the presentation joining us today will have
the mayor's, Deputy Chief of Staff. Christina Pastor Jones
and first Deputy of immigrant and Refugee Rights, Ray,
Wednesday, and I hit her as well as Matt Dowdy manager,
Emergency Management Services, at OMC. Also, we are joined
out in the Box by Alyssa Anne Rodriguez, senior attorney in
the Asylum project, National immigrant Justice Center in
Anisha, Gandhi, associate director of protection, face
relief, National immigrant Justice Center, we will begin
with. Deputy Chief of Staff. Christine, Christina facio has
to present an overview of the city of response and then use
the remainder of the time to ask the questions of our
panel. Thank you.
Thank.
Thank you, chair and good morning. Illustrious immigrant
migrant and Refugee Rights committee. I'm going to Dive
Right In and we'll try to integrate some responses to
questions that had been submitted in advance, but
definitely available to answer questions as they're not
responded to. In the presentation. I do have a heads up.
Hopefully we have this done before 1 cuz I'll explain what
what's going to happen at one. That's pertinent to this
situation. So if you see me leave understand it's on
business time. All right. So first and foremost I'm going
to walk us through this Jack that we put together.
In.
And and I want to let you know, also give a little bit of
context. Is that the work that we're presenting? Today is
really what we've set in motion since May 15th roughly 45
days ago. In terms of trying to 1 establish, a single
source of Truth to really mobilize the multiple
stakeholders involved in this process and three enact a
level of transparency and coordination and collaboration
that we hope to be a Hallmark of this Administration. What
you'll see on this first slide here is
You.
you know, we are actually
You know, we are actually. We've crept up to about 11,000
new arrivals that have come to Chicago seeking Refuge since
August 31st 2022. I just to kind of give you some contacts
in terms of like what's happened most recently. You know,
there's been 30 buses that have arrived, since May 9th
2023. This is just literally a few days before Mayor
Johnson was inaugurated. This was also a few days before
title 42 was lifted, which was a federal policy that had
actually restricted access to United States because of the
global pandemic that was underway Justin you know the past
ten days we've had 14 bus has arrived. What you will notice
is that of the buses generally, there's about fifty
passengers and we've seen a fluctuation in terms of how
many have actually stayed in Chicago and how many
Go on.
go on for.
Go on for onward movement. When we first took office, we
were seeing primarily the majority of folks day. We were
also not receiving buses back-to-back-to-back and multiple
buses a day. What we did see for a. Was actually 50% of
people going on for onward, movement and 50%. Staying that
has actually increased. The amount of individuals that are
staying in Chicago independent of that. I also want to know
that we have.
People travel.
People traveling to should.
People traveling to Chicago.
People traveling to Chicago, via Amtrak be a greyhound as
well as plain and roughly. We're getting about 30 to 40
individuals through those ways, although we have seen a
recent update. So right now, as of this morning, there were
4988 individuals and 12 shelters across the city over 650
are in our police station. When we first came into office,
we had almost about 900, we were able to get down to under
400, but because of the recent increase of buses coming.
That's why you see the 650 that are awaiting placement for
our shelters, as of yesterday, really excited to report
that about a month before coming into office, the
Department of Housing had identified about four million
dollars for resettlement services in case management to
carry that out through the asylum-seeker emergency rental
assistance program that would provide six months of rent.
The system.
Assistance, as well as the case management to be able to
understand, you know, what you're signing in terms of Ali's
to identify the apartments, do the walk-through, as well as
the move in the movie support about 3.6 M 3.4 million of
those four million dollars are going to the Illinois.
Housing Development Authority to administer those those
fines and to process the application Catholic Charities is
taken care of the
Case manager.
Case management. And then New Life Is providing the move
out Services. As you can see here, we are starting to see
some progress with folks that are moving to permanent
housing, 189 households, and 440 signed leases and that are
in the process of moving. So we have seen an uptick in an
increase of folks that are moving out of shelter, just a
point of reference. You know, during covid-19 you had the
emergency rental assistance program, the federal government
had provided those resources for initially three months of
rental assistance, and then you can reapply to more time.
So you had about nine months of rental assistance. So this
is a similar program. That's why the Illinois Housing
Development Authority is administering it there. Well you
know, oiled machine in terms of being able to process these
application and avoid fraud
What's?
What you can see.
What you can see here. In terms of those 4988 individuals,
these are their countries of origin. So we definitely have
a wide range of countries that are represented that are
adding to the Chicago demographics. Now I'm going to walk
you out through this coordinated strategy. So what I had
mentioned before you know we immediately activated all of
the stakeholders that have been involved in the process or
had previously not been involved but had been wanting to
get involved in and every way we look at this is an
all-hands-on-deck this is everybody has to in Spanish as we
stay with a model because this is going
take all of us to
Take all of us to be able to address this very complex and
fluid situation. I'm going to walk you out through each of
the pieces here, and the first is the most obvious. We are
standing up large sites across the city. We are
specifically seeking city property so that we can have some
cost-saving and not have to pay for the price of a lease.
Ideally, we want large locations, 200 plus so that we can
be able to provide wraparound services. And it's a little
bit of a what we call an economy's of scale. So we're not
in all these multiple places and were able to kind of
consolidate in centralized resources as it relates to case
management in activities. It is a shelter for Matt you all
may have heard of respite and there were a few spots that
we did open up that we called grasp it and they were chairs
that were, you know, fashioned in there. But ultimately
people were creating their own bed and they had air
mattresses in yoga mats and so on and so forth. And it
turns out that this
He had some.
he had some cots available and so we got rid of all the
chairs. And now every single site that we open has a cot
structure and a level of coordination, with respect the
case management. The goal is to decompress police stations.
I think all of us are painfully aware that police stations
are not designed for this type of service, nor are our law
enforcement officers are prepared to navigate what they are
experiencing with working with our new arrive.
You know, ever.
You know, everything from when you think about the
toileting structure, to the fact that, you know, residents
within the district are having to climb over people, all of
those things garbage, that's a whole other situation. All
of those things, you know, definitely create a condition
that we don't want people to be staying in police stations.
We need people in temporary shelter so that they can be on
their past to resettlement. Second area that we've been
focusing on is expanding staff capacity as was mentioned
and I'm grateful that one of the speakers and public
comment name this, you know. Right now what the city is
spending on Staffing is not sustainable. Nor is it
justifiable I think when this first happened perhaps the
previous administration thought it was going to be for a
finite period of time. It was also coming off of the height
of covid. Right? And so how this contract work is that it
was a
Difference.
Prince contract because the city and the state had used
individuals from a national Staffing firm to staff up for
hospitals and Healthcare facilities. This was a contract
that they were able to utilize to reduce the amount of time
to be able to actually enter into an agreement. I'm
learning that the procurement process here in the city of
Chicago is, is just so much fun to navigate and just a joy
because it's such a short and streamlined process. Just
kidding is is that, you know, that that was the situation
that is what were inheriting. Yes of the 51 million dollars
that you all approved. 47 million is going towards
Personnel. We know that that is not the best type of
investment especially for this situation and what we're
looking at, in terms of evaluating that contractual
agreement is, how do we wind that down and how do we
actually turn on a project that would have Community
providers?
As we are.
As we are look.
As we are looking for the cultural congruent, we are
looking for folks who are linguistically responsive as well
as trauma-informed, we are fully aware of the robust
network of community-based organizations that we have here
in the city of Chicago. And we know it will not be as
costly. Plus, I would like to see the dollars stay in
Chicago cuz he's our national firms. These are individuals
that are coming from across the country for a. Of time. And
once again, you know, if this is there so many reasons why
this is not justifiable, there were
B &.
Be an RFP that will be put out that community-based
providers can apply to in two different forms and this will
be starting next month. But the point is, is that if you
are a community-based provider that can provide Sheltering
Services, you would apply for this RFP to be able to staff
up. One of our existing shelters. The other alternative is
if you have a volunteer LED shelter and you meet the
criteria that the Department of Family and support services
establishes then you can become a delegate agency so those
are the two routes were in that process that should be
released next month. And once again I will do all my best
to encourage the streamlined process so that we can stop
spending these dollars and exorbitant ways and be able to
actually put those dollars into our Community Partners.
The other.
The other piece that I want to speak to is that we are
expanding case management, specifically around
medical-legal children and youth services wraparound
Services, as well as this whole process with the emergency
rental assistance, thankfully because of the fiscal 24
state budget, the state of Illinois is going to be
allocating 25 million dollars for rental assistance, for up
to 6700 individuals that are in shelter specifically
designated by the city or recognized by a municipality. So
that that will come with an expansion of the Staffing. 4K
Management.
Management, as well as the ability to process more
applications, so that we can get on that path to
resettlement. There's also some support around
out-migration as well as, you know, moving moving into
apartment. We have been tracking folks who have been moving
out of shelter whether through our Assistance or on their
own route so that we can kind of see what the trends are
and we can make some predictions with respect to funding.
The other thing that we learned in these past 45 days is
that there wasn't a volunteer management system for this
work. And frankly, I just want this to be on the record
Mutual Aid, has literally saved Our Lives. The work that
has been done by. Mutual Aid is unmatched by any other
entity that I have observed. And that particular work is
everything from providing food to providing mental and
behavioral, health support to providing supplies to
providing Transportation. All of those things have
literally made a
Mary did.
Very difficult situation, last difficult. And so I really
want to recognize the mutual Aid Network in community for
everything that they've done. But we want to figure out how
do we leverage and support that particular work because as
I mentioned before, it's going to take all of us to do this
work. And what we have done is establish a working group to
be able to identify the ways in which we could quote
credential volunteers, so that they can actually be able to
support some of the work that happen.
With.
Within shelter and run.
Within shelter and recognize their their their ability. And
again oftentimes the cultural congruence the linguistically
responsive so on and so forth. And so we're in the process
right now of working through the logistics of that. So that
HR can, you know, provide background checks and that the
office of Inspector General can authorize us to credential
those volunteers. We are hoping to be able to bring that
online sometime within the next month. The other piece to
is that, that is going to require us to staff up in that
aspect because you will have to not only go through the
process of credentialing. We will have to go through some
training, some basic training, and then some assignments.
And then how we also support the evolving nature of
volunteer needs. So, that's another piece that were working
on and in the, the spectrum of volunteers can be everyone
from, you know, you're Good Samaritan to your Mutual Aid,
volunteers to your Red Cross or Chicago cares Folk.
the point is,
The point is, is that we welcome them all and we want to
work together. The third area is really about aligning our
city county and state efforts. I think, you know, one of
the opportunities that we have That's Unique with the
Johnson Administration. Is the fact that the mayor is
coming from Cook County and I'm coming from the general
assembly. And therefore, you know, we are able to really
leverage the relationships prior to actually becoming an
employee literally 3 weeks ago. I was a supervisor is here
for the city of Chicago while I was still serving out my
time as a state senator and so what I did as soon as it was
announced that was make sure that we have a daily meeting
with the state to get caught up to speed on what their
relationship was with the city and how we might be able to
optimize and work together that was literally for about 3
to 4 weeks. And now
We?
We have.
We have been.
We have broken that down to three times a week, but we have
working groups as a result as a result of that. We have
been able to secure from the state 92 million dollars for
this particular effort. Everything from what I mentioned
before with respect to the 25 million with the
asylum-seeker emergency rental assistance. There's also
some support for standing up an interim congregate housing
site, as well as the case management that is going to
accompany. The rental is
Distance the Staffing.
Distance to Staffing for interim, congregate housing, plus
an additional amount of 15 million dollars for existing on
house population here in Chicago. When the state said that
we have resources for you, they provided us with multiple
scenarios. One of those scenarios was do you want some of
this money to go to our existing on house population and of
course we said emphatically. Yes. Because we can do both.
We can support our existing on how we can support our new
arrivals. We have to be very deliberate about naming that
these are priorities that do not undermine each other. They
actually can complement each other and we can think about
this in a more broader capacity and vision. So as I
mentioned, you know, with the county, we have really been
leaning on them with the coordination for health care
services. So once individuals actually get into shelter,
Cook County Health System then starts to process green and
get them care and coordination
Hey.
I have been incredibly helpful.
They have been incredibly helpful with that, plus they have
been able to access some State resources, to subsidize
their efforts. They also have been able to provide
transportation for these medical appointments. Now, moving
along to the next set of area. Within our coordinated
strategy, is you all are lovely aldermanic working group.
We heard loud and clear that many folks felt that they had
not been briefed there had been brought into the
conversations and in many ways had felt blindsided by some
decisions that had been made. We understand that you all
are very close to the ground. You are going to experience
the backlash, the comments. And even the support not always
the bad stuff. We'll talk about the good stuff too and I
can certainly, I can, I can empathize with that myself.
Having been an elected and having a constituency that I was
accountable to. So what we wanted to do was leaning to the
leadership of individuals who had organically raised.
Their hand.
Their hand to be a part of this work, whether they were
hosting a shelter, whether they had been working with
mutual Aid groups. Whether they had interest in trying to
just figure out the solution. So what we did with this
group would bring them together on a weekly basis to be
able to one construct sort of a weekly report in which we
have a bird's-eye view of what is going on with respect to
the demographics. The shelter's any policy changes. It's a
20-week. Oh constructed
so that it
So, that it can Empower Alders with information. In many
ways, the members of this group can serve as ambassadors to
the city council, to be able to help push this information
out that report is shared with the entire city council.
It's also an opportunity to share some lessons learned, you
know, we have some members that have been hosting shelters
since the beginning and they've had some ideas about how
better to do it. We have some that are looking to host a
shelter and they want to know, okay, what do we have to
look out for? And through this process, we've been able to
improve our ways in which we do engagement with Elders as
well as our community stakeholders. So that again we can
figure out how best to move forward and not impose this on
anyone, but the point is we are welcoming City. We do have
an ordinance, we can't just say it, we have to be about it
and therefore, that's going to lead me to the next month.
So this is where I might have to dip out at 1.
if if
If if we go a little bit further, the philanthropic support
our friends, in the philanthropic Community, want to help
and create a pooled fund to be able to support our efforts
in a way that the city can't write. And what I mean by that
is provide Bridge funding right as I've mentioned before
sometimes it's hard to get money out the door and therefore
they can provide funding quicker for existing. Grantees
that may be providing this type of work and so we've come
up with three buckets of work.
in terms of where we,
In terms of where we see that they can help immediately with
Bridge funding, as well as finding areas that government
can't find. So, first and foremost, as I mentioned, the
shout out, to our mutual Aid, volunteers replenishing,
their resources supporting their efforts because they have
definitely taken on the brunt of this work. The second is
securing funds for wraparound support and legal services
with our community-based organization, legal services are
going to be an imperative for the group that we are
welcoming into our city. Because in in their pursuit of
applying for Asylum, they need to make sure that they fit
certain criteria, they meet their appointments and they
therefore their teed up to be here in the city. Not living
in the shadows, being able to get work authorization, and
that is going to be one of the biggest areas that we have
to put our efforts towards the last piece is
infrastructure. So, as I mentioned before, we have an
ordinance now, we're building the infrastructure for it.
It's
Nothing to say.
Nothing to say that we're welcoming city is a whole nother
thing to make investments in the infrastructure, so we can
actually operationalize it. And so some of those
infrastructure pieces are around, you know, having Supply
space purchasing actual properties that we do have in the
long term for shelter or that. We may transition to be a
community Hub. All of those pieces are incredibly important
but the point is, we really want to build that out as a
Assess.
SSI.
Assessable.
Status of the city as a public good of the city. And not
just expect that we say we're welcoming City, but we are
not organized infrastructure. Wise is a welcoming City. The
second, the last group in this segment that we have really
been working with to support and that also can perhaps even
get some support from our philanthropic. Ask is our face
based in our community-based organizations, and thankfully,
in our public comments. We had one of the leaders speak to
the call to service and how, I mean, churches in our
faith-based community, have been doing this since the
beginning of time taking people in for Sanctuary. This is
something in many ways, they are experts in, and we
definitely want to support them in that process, the same
pieces to with our community-based organizations, a lot of
our seabios here in Chicago are what we call welcoming
Center, the state funds, them to provide and coordinate
resources at the state level.
so, they
so that any
So that any new arrivals whether it was related to the
August 31st start, or prior can be supported in their
integration within our communities and be lifted in their
journey of resettlement. The last piece as I mentioned to
and this is also time back to the philanthropic support.
It's asking for funds to to support our our unhoused
community here in Chicago. Again, these are not initiatives
that we see to be undermined, we actually see them to be
incredibly coordinated and are in the prioritization of the
Johnson Administration. The last piece is federal advocacy
This.
This is really important the root cause of what we're
experiencing comes from failed, immigration policy at the,
at the federal level, the other piece that we must think
about. And what I want to just be really explicit is that
we are seeing this is the result of the US government.
Destabilizing Latin American and Caribbean countries
government. Economies, we cannot be surprised that people
are fleeing their countries with children, traversing six
countries to get here, to have different outcomes. So I
want to be real clear about the root cause thankfully, we
are a city that's welcoming. That's why we're going to do
all this work to organize to meet the moment and Beyond,
But ultimately, what we
Send.
Time to do is have more consistent engagement with our
elected officials. At the federal level, we just met with
the Illinois delegation on Monday. We briefed them with the
same deck, we made some really hard ask the vamps that have
to do, not only with Finance, but work authorization,
sustainability of all of this is incumbent upon people
having the authorization to work and really one. We're
coming down at our whole framing of this work and this
plant is resettlement. We want people to be self-determined
self-actualize self-sustainable and yes, we can have six
months, the rental assistance. But if people are not able
to go out and work and earn our housing problem that we
have today is going to be far worse, especially when you
couple it with the federal funds that are about to expire
because of covid relief in 2026. So not only do we have to
be thinking about the long-term impacts of bees policy
implications.
The.
The feds need to lead on.
The feds need to lead on this and we should all come
together to particularly support them and Empower them with
meeting the moment and Beyond, there is a Federal Executive
Board that meets here in Chicago. And that's who we met at
the beginning of this month so that we could breathe them
as well. These are the heads of all the federal agencies in
Region 5 that are responsible for administering, the
federal program. So we met with them laid the same
situation out. And we asked them to think creatively about
ways that they can support us. What funds, what materials,
what resource is, can they make available? Because it again
because the federal government has not acknowledged that
this is an emergency. Therefore they're not supposed to
provide any kind of resources towards us and so that's one
of the things that we just wanted to compel them to think
creatively about ways that they can free up resources and
work with us. The other may be aware that we received
notice that we're going to get some fun.
from the
From the feds. If you all may recall the city received
about 5.5 million in the last round, and now is going to be
set up to receive fifth 10.5 million dollars. We still have
to apply for it. The state also has been notified that
they're going to be receiving 19 million dollars, but we
want to coordinate our application. So again it doesn't
look duplicative and we can really be leveraging.
the dollars and then
The dollars. And then, as I mentioned before the last piece
is ensuring that sustainability of resettlement by making
sure that we have our work authorization under way. And
that has also been a discussion at the state level because
there are some ways that states can work together with
their Department of Human Services on a case-by-case basis
to make to make the case that it is a public benefit that
folks be able to work moving forward. I'm going to stop
right there and I'm going to hand it to my colleague Ray to
kind of go a little bit more over the situation at police
districts and shelters. And then again happy to take some
questions and further unpack
Thank.
Thank you. Please identify name and title just for the
record pronounced a. Then there's a reminder for immigrant
migrant and Refugee Rights.
Thank you everyone. Okay, so I can I can we go to the next
item? Thank you. So what I'll go ahead and review in the
next life is a situation of the police district stations
and talk a little bit about what happens there. And then
also will address some questions that we received ahead of
time from the city council member. So thank you situation
of the police district stations. As you know we get a lot
of people as mentioned that are arrived on their own to the
police district stations ones. They do, people are giving a
flyer with information about the resources and services
that they can access at the shelter. And in addition to
information about the SR number, this is our number,
there's a right now has to be renewed every every 72 hours
and from what we have seen on the ground and what's
happening is that sometimes police officers, help people do
bring you the three the number by calling 311, there are
instances where Mutual Aid
Set.
set my
Several actually also taken upon themselves to help people
do that. And I've also heard of some dates, faith-based
organizations, I'm getting access to just learning how the
process works in it and making sure that this number gets
renewed, I'm every 72 hours. In terms of food, we have
gotten questions about what kind of support in terms of
meals, people get at, at least sit at the side. And so,
just wanted to briefly mention that we do get donations
from the greatest cago food depository. There's also
coordination with community-based organizations that use
funding as welcoming,
Set.
Senator.
Senators that has mentioned before. And there's also,
really, really broad coordination with mutual Aid networks,
on my want to mention that since coming into this role. As
the first Deputy, am I going to Refugee Rights? I've been
in constant communication with mutual Aid, networks across
the multiple words and across the police district stations
and I get multiple reports when things or gaps emerged, I
will coordinate with them and ensure that there's our
resources available so that means can be covered.
In addition.
In addition to another question that came out access to
showers, this is also something that is being coordinated
by the city at the city. Coordinates shower runs to park
District's. I want to shout out a couple of the colleagues
here that have really been spearheading and some of the
words of her example. Other womanly, I'm helping us
coordinated out at the park district, where people were
able to go and shower. In addition to shower, up unit,
Caesar coordination, that happens. Wish I would have, which
is a program that has units that will go to the police
station was stationed. There, we'll make sure that people
have access to that service in terms of medical cases. As
mentioned. There is a also coordination led by the Chicago
Department of Health would support of Nutrilite. Net worth,
what I mean by that is that when people arrive to the
police district stations, sometimes they will talk to meet
related groups because there were creating that
relationship and that's how we actually find out when
there's pregnant people. When there's couples have the same
sex or people that I actually need medical attention. And
then they bring that information to
and we,
We are engaged with the Chicago Department of Health and
dffs. To ensure that these families individuals that need,
that medical assistants can get a rep that assistance as
fast as possible. This so that I usually includes the
transfer of a pregnant person to a facility, that will then
be able to access the follow-up care. Physician at the
police district stations to just wanted to name that it's
fluid as mentioned. The number of people at each side
various and end with people arriving by their own means we
have to be constantly moving to adjust a response. It's a
moving Target as mentioned in the another meetings. And so
we really have to be in constant communication with me to
Lakewood switch, actually also led to the creation of a
meeting that we now have weekly on Thursdays where we are
with the purpose of these meetings with mutual Aid.
Networks is really to keep that constant channel of
communication received.
The fee.
The feedback.
The feedback I get more reports on what's happening on the
ground and have that inform our shift and policies and our
approach.
in terms of,
In terms of the situation at shelters, want to go over a
little bit more in detail. You, you see here in the slide
and as mentioned before, there is an intake process that
people can access. As soon as they entered. The shelter
system, this case management support includes seal
migration that is giving by Catholic Charities. So this is
what this specific program.
send a
a person or a family of
A person or a family of rice to Chicago. And they say,
actually, you know, Chicago's not my final destination, I
want to be able to go somewhere else to reunite with my
family or a friend at cetera, Catholic Charities, connects
with them. And then they make sure that they do a quick and
take to ensure that they are either being bought a bus
ticket or an airplane ticket depending on their immigration
status or and then we can go ahead and do the final
destination in terms of resettlement. Again. This was led
by Catholic Charities and then we have an expansion of the
legal aid support by Legal Aid Society and partners on.
This includes doing workshops pro bono taking some cases
pro bono and a lot of it has to do with ensuring that our
new neighbors have access to information about the right
weather. Asylum process is like, Etc. So we just want to
make sure that people are really informal by the way that
the immigration system works here and they also have access
to the resources to follow up on their cases.
It.
In terms of mental health, as mentioned in collaboration
with the Cook County Health, there is a health screening
that happens in partnership with CCH and ensuring that, you
know, people can reach reached for the for the support when
when needed the mental health, screening and does happen
when people enter into the shelter. But at any moment, if
the person needs that assist and they can reach out to
shelter staff, in the shelter staff has been trained to
ensure that they can connect them to those men to hold
serve.
We also.
We also have a CD key events in Chicago Public Schools
Enrollment in that has been activated in terms of the
children and youth services. We have it now, activated
early childhood and CPS, enrollment Support, also
enrollment, and youth enrichment, programs. Some of those
enrichment programs, you'll see here in this life. We
actually now have a partnership with the Chicago public
libraries of going into the shelters and doing storytime.
So these are visits from licensed therapist to from Sky art
who are providing art therapy and free art supplies. So
this is really in response to to the to the fact that we do
have many families and children that are looking for things
to do. And we want to make sure that they have access to
the already existing programs in our city. In addition to
that. Again, just mentioned here Early Head, Start
enrollment. So this is really targeting parents with
children between 0 and 2 years of all that can sign up and
the program provides on-site individualize 90 minute
sessions.
Clarence.
Terrence J.
Clearance child and a parent educator. So we want to ensure
that, you know, I got to mention, we've actually done in
quite a few cases of people with really, with young babies
and we want to make sure that they have access to those
resources as fast as possible.
and,
And then after school matters, as it pertains to youth
enrichment, we also are in partnership with that after
school matters to provide opportunities for young people,
ages six to 21 at the end of Chicago, starting in July and
for some of these were doing stuff lunches. So we'll start
it in a size and then we'll roll that out as soon as other
sites open and then also to do a period of assessment to
learn from what happens when we roll this, this program out
at the shelter and also because he cites differ in terms of
demographic and ages until we want to make sure that we're
not just rolling everything out and having to go back, and
we are just for that. We're being very intentional about
when we're activating these. These types of assistance, I
also want a name that in terms of the situation, I shelters
there is some collaboration between Mutual Aid, groups are
other community-based organizations that maybe your are not
at this.
Able to go.
Able to go inside the shelters because we haven't activated
the volunteer program. However, there because of the
ongoing communication have actually have heard of people
that are organizing soccer tournament Daley College. After
they found out that people moved to the families move to
Daley College. We also have seen people organized just like
art fairs mchattie toes just activities to make sure that
people know that we are welcoming City and that there are
other things.
If I do.
Side of that site Leslie. I just want to mention that the
FSS funded agencies will prioritize migrant Youth and
children 0 to 5, who are interested in programming at their
locations and we'll have more details to come inside. I
also had a face by saying that a lot of the things that are
mentioned in here again or in our fluid are in motion and
you'll be getting more updates during the the briefings and
as things develop.
Just one.
Just wanted to also notes really pleased that within the
next week are our deputy mayor for immigrant migrant and
Refugee Rights will be joining us. You know, I think for
the question in terms of like who who where does the buck
stop, it's going to be with that person. I will continue to
support and thankfully, we've got Ray is our first deputy
and I think the initiative will be in very capable hands
along with the coordinated leadership of the office of
emergency management as well as the Department of Family
and support services. I really want to just shot out. It's
been a very dedicated team and effort every single morning
we're on the phone at 8:30. Going through all the basics
and fundamentals and then again at 9:30 with the state,
everybody has been at the end so that we can make sure that
we are handling this. And then I also want to acknowledge
to. We have a couple of attorneys that have joined us for
specific questions that may be related to like immigration.
Listen.
I'll see. And I'll be able to unpack that further and then
I think there was one question that did come in that I
didn't immediately addressed and that was the 51 million
dollars that you all had voted on that was for expenses
from January through June because of the additional funds
that we're getting from the state and the feds were able to
kind of work through and figure out where in the process
right now, trying to figure out what are going to be the
cost of moving forward. And I think a lot of that is
incumbent upon. If we can get out of you, no rolling down
this contract and bringing up the community-based partners,
as well as a process in which were looking at our food
services, so that we can, again, have some more culturally
congruent meals and particularly where we're pleased with a
particular proposal that were looking at and trying to
figure out how we can make that happen as well because
they're working with by Park Restaurants as well as
caterers in Chicago. So dollars, stay in Chicago, as well
as making meals.
Scratched.
Scratched in.
Scratched in their kitchen with a very diverse
chicago-based staff. Again, I'm all about Chicago. How can
These funds date in Chicago? How can we lift up? Chicago's
inherent talents and resources but I'll leave it to the
chair. Thank you all done since the Administration has
taken office. So I will now call an auto store questions
begin with Alderman Taliaferro who has hand brace
I think.
I'm thinking it's the chairman and thank you. Deputy Chief
of Staff for your presentation. Your first slide head,
approximately 10500 since I believe it was August that have
come into the city. I'm however, there's the numbers didn't
really add up. It looks like your slide accounted for
approximately $5,000 either house or on house or I'm sorry
that I'm waiting houses. What about the the rest of them
the other 5500 which were not mentioned on the slide?
How many?
Take me to.
Take me to do we have on house at the present time so I'm
outside the 4988 are currently in City shelter. The
remaining are the individuals that have actually moved out
and resettled via the state. So in the beginning in August
when this first happened the state had opened up shelters,
the state had opened up hotels and then they work to
decompress their entire population. They stopped
coordinating those efforts and that's when we took on the
rest and that's where our population is coming from. That
is folks who have either stayed in the city and and had six
months of rental assistance or they had moved on outside of
the city and the surrounding suburbs are municipalities or
they had moved out of state but they
add a
Add a case of about 4000 to 5,000 individuals that they had
worked on to resettle.
The the remaining from the. Did you go back to the first
line?
Thank.
Thank you.
So this is the balance. You have 4988 that a shelter here
in the city whether it's temporary or permanent housing
right now but there is a little over six hundred and fifty.
That's a waiting shelter correct there at the police
station and that's all we could receive more this weekend.
Okay. Thanks a lot. Any have some buses coming today but
clears it up. A lot of the I've heard a lot of rumor about
how they 51 million was spent, how many something you just
mention as well. Even one of our public speakers raise, how
it was spent on remand and save. 47, a million was spent
towards staff. Could you give me a breakdown of how that
money was spent?
Yeah. Sorry.
Yeah. So I can actually give you a breakdown of how much was
spent on each subject from January through June 2023. The
expenditure estimates are actually 101.3 million dollars.
Basically what we have appropriated, what we are awaiting
invoices for. But there's an estimate because of the
contractual agreement and what you estimate over a. Of time
in terms of hours in terms of sort of resources in terms of
meals, the breakdown of 101.3 is 72.6 million on Staffing
of shelters, 10.6 million on cost for non congregate.
Sheltering so the lease is for that and we can share this
with you afterwards so that you
1 million.
1 million on facility maintenance and operations for
million on rental assistance, 600,000 on legal services and
out migration and 250,000 on Transportation of new
arrivals.
Appointment for Mason by Alderman. How is it possible in
addition to getting the budget breakdown? If we could get
who receives the? Who got the contract? And yes, we can.
No.
Okay, now you you mentioned the city key a little earlier,
but didn't address it much on what's being done and what
will be coordinating with to ensure that are migrants are
receiving, City identification. Yes, we are actively
coordinating with the city clerk. We have been having
working group meetings with them to just ensure that we get
how to get access to the schedule and we know that they are
going into the site's. I also, when there are Civic events
that happened near some of the sites, not necessarily at
the side that gets communicated to shelter staff. And also
we make sure that the people are inside the shelter scared
to access to that information cuz some of them may want to
not, wait on till CD key events happen at the shelter and
may decide to go and find a Citibank and around a week or
dating with your mom or her with the police department, are
we using the police department as an address that they can
use on their City?
I know some people I have heard have done that. However it
is highly encouraged that another addresses, you
specifically the address for the shelter 650 + 70, cuz I
had a city key events scheduled for Monday. This past
Monday, we had to cancel it because of that reason, I
didn't have an address to views and also, the police
department would not allow them to use your address of the
police department. So, the city key event was cancelled, so
I want to know who you're coordinating with. So that when
we reschedule this and those residents that are here would
like an ID, but don't necessarily have a shelter that
they're living in or permanent replacing wood kit, what
address can they use? An answer that we actually used my
district office address. There is a form that
An Alexa.
an elected, a
An elected official that you can sign off on, although we
do have to be careful cuz there were situations where some
folks got a hold of those forms and we're using them and
selling them to folks. But the point is is that there are
ways to work around that and so we had used our district
office as a care of location and I believe, I think there's
been a few other folks at that have operated in that way.
But I know some of my colleagues in the general assembly
have done that as well.
What information Alderman Rodriguez. We do this, a Chelsea
Park, my understanding is DSS is giving out letters that
allow individual migrants to be able to get the City cheat.
We have the infrastructure to speak to that, they're not
here, but we can, we can certainly inquire. I mean, I, I
know that I did it as a state senator, so,
We can file.
We can follow to a chair. And lastly, I think I would
encourage you. If we could have more frequent briefings on
what's going on. In more frequent updates, I would
appreciate it. A lot of calls as far as the 251 million
that was just expended toward the migrants. But also our
unhoused, a residence that are currently here and what
we're doing for those. So I think it would be good to have
briefings on a regular basis. I'm wrapping committee
meetings are great also, but I think briefings on a more
informal basis with with suffice as well. So if you like to
be a part of that you can reach out. And we also have a
question with a question for him for those are questions in
between hearings to make sure, but will act but work to
make sure there's more infrastructure as well when it comes
to the council.
Getting more information on.
Getting more information. Okay. Thanks, I love to know
whether or not if you can coordinate with the police
districts to utilize their address as a place where we can
do those residents that are still awaiting outplacement
that they can use it that particular address for their ID
cards. Thank you. Thank you.
I am.
Eye appointment formation, all you want to lie, I know that
the 9th district and in the 11th ward and we had, when we
had City key events that I have had several migrants, use
the police station address. So I don't know what they had
to provide but I actually saw a couple of City keys with
the Ninth District address on it. So whatever that is I
think we should just have, you know, a standard so that we
don't waste the opportunities. Cuz I know this mobile Key.
Mobile City Halls in the city, key events are really
important. We did over 300 at ping, Tom Park, just a few
weeks ago.
Yeah.
yes, it's
Yes, he still.
Yes.
Is that okay? So that share mention the working groups that
were in. I'll say that I believe Eric Martinez who's here.
It's also been sending out weekly reports to all the city
council. So check your check, your communication. They've
actually been really helpful cuz I agree with you but we
hadn't been getting a lot of information and regular stuff.
So I know it's it's fairly new.
We are getting.
We are getting these.
We are getting these weekly written reports with a ton of
info. I believe it's on a Friday. So weird.
Some.
Somehow some of the police district, the district
commanders have a loud. As I've been told have allowed them
to use the address but I think it would be better to talk
to the guy. Make sure we can either do it or not do it
because that you know, having to cancel that he then took
an opportune in a resource away from those that they really
needed those IDs. Take a Shepherd. Thank you next. We have
a vice chair, Taylor
Thank.
Thank you, chairman. So first, let me say thank you. These
are meetings that we've been asking for since last year in
October and so I am grateful that you all are having. This
conversation is. So a lot of things that I'm going to ask
for. You can get through the chair because I'm sure you
didn't bring them. And so, what I would like to see is for
what they spent on each shelter in each Community, because
we were not, we were kept out of the circle and it's why I
appreciate you to being here. Dfssf should be here as well,
because they made a lot of decisions without having any
input from us or with us. And so they should be here to
answer a lot of those questions. I did. See the information
about what you all do in the shelters that are with
families. I would be interested in the information and what
you do with those shelters that are just men and women cuz
I kind of have
I also want to see a list of seabios to the gentleman's
point there. It's funny that we did not go to the
organization's who are letting it in our communities to say
be those community-based organizations. And we use folks
like in my ward. I'm not sure who that organization is but
a lot of their team come from Texas. They know. Absolutely
nothing about the city of Chicago is. So how are they
helping the migrants get activated with my community when
they know nothing about it? And so, I want us to revisit on
those community-based organizations. I also want I like the
thing that she talked about the faith community supporting
you. How else can we support? And there needs to be a real
conversation on how we take care and volunteers donations
and support for those because now it's all over the place
they make you call. One person that person says call
somebody else and it just does not make sense.
We?
Weed.
We do get.
We do get the weekly reports or I was, and it was something
that I requested from vfss. We should make sure that every
Alderman, no matter if they have a shelter, or not receive
that. So we all are getting the same information.
The less.
The last thing I'll say is what wraparound supports are we
putting in the adult shelters? I know they do housing
classes. I know. But can we get a list of what, what
workshops they are getting and who is providing those those
services to folks? What role is the state in the federal
plane and house? And I know you talked about a d h, i want
to know what are we doing? Just not to house them, but to
also house our house with people that are already in the
city because that seems to be one of the biggest Thorns,
the folks that we are housing other folks of an outhouse in
the people that we actually have here. And I also want to
see data around young people being in school that
information and why I don't have a shelter that has young
people in it. I'm concerned about the young people
What's?
What does?
What's the score?
What's the schools? And they don't have that language
access. We already know that they're bad at it already and
so imagine sitting in the classroom when you don't
understand anything that's going on.
That.
That's a.
That's that's kind of all. I got it. Thank you, thank you.
I'm promise you, that's it. And some of that part of the
way these months of hearings will be made up. And so we
have a different apartment every month. That way, it's not
for five different apartments in Ely. Get a number of
questions. Do you think she's digging deeper to East
Apartment? We also will have some of the mutual Aid
representation as far as the volunteers. So it's not just
the government down conversation but also Grassroots up
knowing how much work I've been doing and we do have oemc
here with us if there's any question, specifically for OMC
is so that's great that she is here but the FSS made a lot
of those decisions. And so she should have been made to
come to this meeting to answer those because this
information that we get it. Now was never share with any of
us. And so you can't expect me to be okay with the
situation when I'm not informed. And I'm speaking for all
fifty of us, we can't pick and choose who we informed that
needs to go to everybody. And so, to Alderman Taliaferro,
this point that I want that information to be shared with
all of us, have some thank you mister,
Thank you.
Thank U. Next, we have all the women had
So want to thank Ray and Deputy Chief of Staff for the
presentation in the information, it's really refreshing to
get a lot of details to my colleague old woman. Taylors
point. I know a lot of us have felt really in the dark on
it and so a lot of our communities have so I'm thinking
chair for the hearings, just a couple of questions in this
is kind up to maybe add on as you may not have the answers
right now. So one you have answers to this or the public
record and for our colleagues here could you share the
older people that are in our weekly working group? Cuz I
know part of the goal here to is for our colleagues.
We do.
We don't need.
We don't need to necessarily expand to working group cuz
then it's not an effective working group. But I know that
there was some thought given to geographic representation
so that our colleagues could know who's in the working
group and ncss resources. So if you could share that to
start sure we have a dozen because obviously there's one
open meetings act. And sometimes we do cycle in people
because they may not the other themselves may not present,
they made present staff and therefore we can have a
different order come in. So,
You ought.
you order a
You Alderaan as well as the illustrious vice-chair Taylor.
Rodriguez, Rodriguez Sanchez. See Joe Lopez Chico Hall. The
chair Vasquez Nugent's pasado and Fuentes.
and,
And then oh my God I'm sorry this was a text message to
you, my bad and then also has joined us on occasion when we
are not at Coram in and were able to cycle in and out,
fantastic. I just wanted everybody to know that way,
especially if there's a neighboring alderperson, somebody,
you can go to or knowing that you can reach out to Ray if
there are specific issues, right? About when the working
group meeting. I'm so thank you for that. I want to be in
the spirit of kind of continuing and moving in the
fluidity. I know. That from the 24th district, we certainly
gotten some some feedback of wanting to make sure we have
some better lines of communication from kind of the e o c,
c p d from the top to the district. So knowing, you know,
I,
For all their percent Taliaferro. I think some of the
concerns you have. I hear similar things right from our
district and communication is always a challenge when
things are moving pretty fluidly. So one of the suggestions
and I know Tina, I mentioned this to you is, hey. I know at
least on the 24th district, our caps team is heavily
involved are caps organizer, but the chops kind of
leadership hasn't been part of a conversation yet. And so
looping in Glen Brooks right. I think you really helpful
and, you know, they don't always get the same information
consistently across chefs and so finding out who those Best
Contacts are to make sure that there's District commanders,
get the info. I know like yesterday, we had an issue right
at the district where we have a climate emergency happening
with our air quality. We've got a grape kind of great as a
relative term.
We've.
We have a really good working system and the 24th district
with our mutual Aid groups with a couple of Faith
communities on finding spaces for people and food, and
showers and communication. But that was a mistake piece
yesterday, right? Where we knew Folks at the community
center in the morning, had told people about the air
quality peace, but there had not been a communication to
the district, really about what to do. I happen to have a
meeting with our commander
and once I
And wants information got to us from community members, who
didn't between the station. We were able to correct that
very quickly in the commander was able to kind of give a
directive and make sure that communication went out to my
gratitude been outside the station. I'm so we're always
going to have to do some of those things on the fly. But I
do think having more than that, the transport kind of piece
of it, a bit more of the human resources of, it involves
would be really helpful and improve both the migrant and
police experience. And then the last thing I'll say in this
was probably something to take to the working group, but I
know, I was really happy to hear about the, the CPS
involvement at the enrollment. And I know that we had a lot
of mutual Aid folks. Doing these enrollments kind of in in
our area or Rogers Park in West Ridge. I think about a
couple of our key schools and I know we saw this with the
influx of Ukrainian refugees where CPS certain CPS schools,
who didn't
have a lot of
Have a lot of rain.
Have a lot of resources or didn't have a lot of experience
in PSL services or working with immigrants and refugees.
All of a sudden found themselves, right, in in the space of
having to come up with programs over in the Rogers Park
area, we have several schools that are actually a very
well-versed in it and have been resources even in this
time. And I thought is something to take back of maybe as
you're thinking.
Apache.
The geographic like the location of welcoming centers in
shelters if we can come up with even designating, write a
couple of schools as we're working in communities. And if
we think about resettlement, that's become a piece of we
had people enroll in schools or get jobs and then they have
to be relocated. But if we could even designate a few areas
and identify a couple of schools where we think or where we
want to direct people for enrollment schools that might
have low enrollment or schools that we can then coordinate
and get more resources to them before the fall. I feel like
there's an opportunity there for both supporting some of
our schools but also making sure that we don't have another
that we don't just leave them on their own to come up with
their language support program pick. I've got four only
russian-speaking students at Gale Elementary and the
teachers work with them and used tablets for translation.
But Spanish is a bit easier to accommodate.
Spell.
Still alive.
Still a large influx of not just language, but also, what's
the kind of the trauma-informed care? What are the other
services? Even though they speak Spanish, they're going to
have a very specific set of needs and their families will
that will need to be addressed through the school.
Sorry.
sorry for the
Sorry for the long when did I know? That's that's super
helpful and is it is piggybacking on Alder Taylor's point
with Chicago public school. So couple things and and I'm
actually glad I can kind of correct. Some stuff that was
reported in the papers. So Chicago Public Schools is
working on a pilot to be able to in a coordinated way and
in a very direct way enroll students over the summer for
the fall because I think again to your point last school
year you just had you know folks kind of coming in all
different doors and directions and that obviously schools
were not prepared to be able to support. And so this pilot
will be likely announce the next week or two in which it'll
be a One-Stop.
Stop for families to bring their children to enroll to get
screened for language services for special education
services for to meet with a social worker to see if there's
any additional resources and community support and pending
how that pilot goes. It might expand to some, like you
said, kind of geographically, targeted areas with the
intention of thinking of where people are currently
sheltered and what?
Schools have space. What schools have the appropriate
resources that are congruent to the needs of these
particular families? And then also you know, Chicago Public
Schools is receiving some additional funds from the state.
This is a part of a teacher pipeline initiative that the
governor had proposed the state of propriate about 40
million dollars. This is specifically to close vacancies.
As it relates to teachers in the school districts, that
have the majority of the vacancies, Chicago being one of
them. And we have vacancies in special education. We have
vacancies in bilingual that we have specific content area,
vacancies, but the point is, what's great about that pot of
money. It's roughly about 10 million, that's coming to
Chicago. Public Schools is very flexible, so there can be
ways that you can either utilize it to upscale your
paraprofessionals who may have that those linguistic
competencies. And you know, needs to go get that
professional educator license and maybe
Habit.
I have a type 29 in between so that they can be a teacher
of record but the point is is that there's going to be some
additional resources made available to account for that
because you're totally right. And that, you know, we ended
the school year with more students in Chicago Public
Schools than what we started with. And the majority I would
have to say is because these are children that have come,
you know, as a result of the migration. So just wanted to
point that out as a resource and will be looking to work
with CPS. I'm making sure that
Iris.
Our resources are adequately utilized. Thank you so much
and thank you for that for me. Oh yeah and you know what
the maybe Matt if you can speak to the coordination with
CPD and communication on that tip, I don't know if there
was anything that you wanted to add with respect to all
their hands comments.
and if
And if you could I identify name and title for the record.
Thank you.
Good afternoon. My name is Matt Dowling office of emergency
management and Communications manager of Emergency
Management Services Tina, I'm sorry coordination with CPD
in relation to up. Sure. They are located in our Emergency
Operations Center. As previously mentioned. We're doing
daily decompressions for the district's. A lot of it is
based off of which districts are experiencing, the heaviest
volume on any given day. We're looking for special
circumstances in which we know people need to get to a
shelter sooner rather than later were trying to balance as
best. We can Families versus adults in the available
spaces, that may be available on any given day, but it
really it's we're doing that every day as best we can.
Play.
Clarification on a question. If I'm a chair. Thank you,
Matt. Yes. All of that. And that I think it's going really
well. And I'll just say, for the record I know that at all
hours of the day you can ask, Matt a question and you
typically are able to get information about number. So I
appreciate all that, this was more of the, I hear that they
want. They want the, they want to like the officers in the
district, want to know what this kind of plan for the day
is, and I don't mean the transfer. I know that that
information is more of the communications of like, oh, what
should they be doing? What's happening? I'm even, I think
they, they want to know the kind of things that we want to
know, right? Like, what's the city's kind of plan West?
Like more of the softer detail stuff that's not necessarily
just specific to how many people will be at their station.
So that that's what I meant by.
Type.
type of,
Type of information being communicated. So it's an evolving
process that were learning to get a little better at each
week. We're not a hundred percent there yet, but I do feel
like our communication structures with both CPD in the US
as well as all the districts are are getting better on
those fronts every week. Thank you.
Thank you for.
Thank you very much. Also, I'm we do have just said to let
both know in case of any questions related to sign a
federal policy or some of that. We also have the two
attorneys Luciana Rodriguez in Michigan. Each of his
questions related to like that process, please make sure as
well. Next, we have other women down
Thank.
Thank you, mr. Chairman, I guess the first thing I want to
say is thank you for being here this morning. This is
actually a great start. The, the amount of detail and the
transparency that you all have exhibited on, this issue is
refreshing and something that we have not had. And so I
think is good because this is going out in the public
domain. I'm putting this on my website and probably on
Facebook today because I get a lot of calls about what's
going on with the migrants. Why do we have? How many people
we have at the first district? Is second district, right?
So this is good. So I wanted to just say that also want to
say that I feel very good about being able to have a
conversation with your team to figure out how to move and
how
I'm moving in.
Removing. And that, that's very important that I feel that
there's a good faith effort in a good exchange. And so, I
just wanted you all to know that. Thank you.
I want.
I want to lift up the faith communities initiative. We've
had a couple of churches in my community, Apostolic Faith
Church and Greater Harvest that have participated in
helping the migrants within our area. And I don't know
who's leading that from the city side. But I think that
that's something that we should lift up and get more
faith-based communities involved, on a proactive basis. So,
I just wanted to add that. I wanted to ask a question on
the RAV4 Staffing you mentioned. It was going out. You have
a date on when that might hit the street and I wanted to
understand the difference between using the dollars for
seabios or the mutual Aid groups to stack up an existing
shelter and the delegate agency Park cuz to me it seems the
same
Show.
sure, Target for
Sure. Target for the RFP to go out is middle of next month.
I don't have an exact date at this time. The the difference
is so we have 12 City shelters right now. They are
currently staffed by a company that we have mentioned
before what the community-based organizations would be
competing for is to replace that staff with their own staff
or there is. There are several volunteer-led shelters that
have popped up on their own independent of the city. And
those shelters would apply to be a delegate of the city. So
they would still have their own staff, they would have
their own space, they would coordinate their own meals at,
but they would be applied, they would be applying to be
recognized as a city delegate in this effort and
Would be a sign.
Would be assigned to a shelter know they would if if they
have their own space. So say ABC space exists right now and
there's currently a 150 people there and they are Staffing.
It via volunteers and people dropping off food. They would
put in their application there and set up their Staffing
structure, how they plan to coordinate meals, how they're
going to meet all of the quality, criteria, the safe.
Smash.
Measure so on and so forth. And should they be awarded? They
would be recognized as a delegate agency of the city of
Chicago. Thank you. Three million that does not include the
92 million that corrects. Okay, so you're going to give us
a break down of the 101 million in terms of categories and
who the contracts are with on that and the 92 million. You
gave us some portion of the breakdown on the 25 million for
rental assistance to 15 million for the existing on house
population. Can you do the rest of the break down to the
chair? Yes, if you can give me a moment, I'm going to pull
it up.
If you can eat that, I can do it to the chair, but I need
to ask is because it's state funds. How much of that goes
to Chicago, compared to elsewhere in the state as a further
breakdown? And we don't have to go to that. Now, I know
you're on a Time facing. I wanted to ask Matt yesterday,
Matt, when I called you or had a conversation with you, I
found out that one of my police stations had fourteen
individuals and another one had 70. And so I want to know
how you make your decisions on how the migrants and moved
in and out of these police station.
Does.
just,
Yes. Ma'am, as I mentioned the daily process in which were
looking at the top five districts, that have the most
numbers were also looking at the bottom five districts of a
police numbers. We're making every attempt to put people
who have been in the system, the longest inappropriate
shelters as they become available. We also have special
circumstances as we know it this weekend with the large
special event occurring downtown. We're giving special
attention to the first district and actually, I have to
correct what I said earlier. It does appear, we did a large
decompression of the first district over the past 24 hours,
as of 7 a.m. this morning, we only got two people at the
1st District. So we are moving trucks around. We try to
move them in the shelter's when available other than
otherwise we have to move them to other districts to the
best of our
we tried.
We try to be.
We try to balance them out across across the system. This
past weekend with pride parade. We wanted to make sure the
19th District was relatively clear. We were successful in
that. So every day we're going to be analyzing the numbers
and making the best decisions possible and is their
resistance to
Peep.
people wanting
People wanting to go to certain districts. Do you find that?
The.
There is why there's a strong communication Network out
there. Some people know that other some districts have
better might be more attractive than others. We we do our
best to number one, try these movements early in the day
before, people may leave and try to find work and we try to
encourage them as much as possible to, to get transferred
to another District were largely successful, but we're not
100% successful. Thank you. And I guess my last concerning
Christina. And I know you're new and I would like to see if
I can get a commitment from you, on this, you know, we
talked a lot about the migrants from Venezuela Guatemala.
Make.
make the
Mexico.
Mexico or wherever they're coming from. But there is a
population of and I saw Ethiopia out there but the Congo
Haiti and I don't feel like they're being addressed. Those
needs to being addressed. And so I would like to see if you
would commit to having a meeting with organizations, like
the United African organization, I want to be in that
meeting or in some Haitian organizations just to hear from
them very
.
Experian.
Experience. As we're going through, this current situation
is current crises cuz I want to make sure that those needs
also being addressed because there are individuals seeking
Asylum and a better life in Chicago that are not coming
from the border in the way that the buses are arriving
there, not included on those buses. So would like to have a
commitment from you to have a meeting like that sometime
after the holiday? Yes, ma'am. That's cake. We entered. I'm
just set the day and where, where they're cool. Thank you
mr. Chair. And I'm also I'm at to that point where I just
want to make sure to the hearings were talking that only
like a tamale and Ethiopian South Asian Ukrainian Eastern
European, right? And then it is our hope that with the work
being done here that the infrastructure being built is one
that benefits everyone coming in from everywhere else. So I
think you for a reason I point at next up we got ottoman
Rodriguez.
Thank.
Thank you, mister chair and congratulations on having
committee meeting within the first couple days of your
chairmanship. I think this committee needs to meet
frequently particular given this.
You got a great?
You got a great idea. Even go, buddy.
I know it's a very important topic and the fact is that
we've been immensely and I'm glad we have this dialogue,
right? Especially right now, I've got to give it up first
and foremost to the folks doing this work in our
communities. You to a group of volunteers, we've got a
double down on support of them. The fact is, we have groups
in our community that are delivering 1400 meals a day to
seven, police stations and Shout exersaucers Gonzalez,
early on Broad, shower up to the stage and now they're
doing incredible work. Across the city. You got groups,
moving, 5225, families, a week into household. Play
placements, we've got groups, run soccer, yoga baseball.
We've got folks who are taken upon themselves who are
employees at CPS and early childhood centers who are stuck.
In.
And I am heartened by the amount of coordination, and
stepping up folks are doing a good example, just a Chelsea
Park. I think we have 90 kids, they're all 90s kids are
either in early childhood place or up. I have to ask you a
couple weeks ago work either in early childhood placement,
61 grammar schools, 91 our local high school.
I just think.
I just think there's some amazing work going out there and
we need to make sure to keep. Can you raise it last as
putting all these, the police station response teams for
virtually providing support 24 hours a day at different
police stations? I know for sure, it's happening at the
10th District, who, by the way doubled Matt on the last
couple days 240, we got to work on that for sure. So I
wanted to raise up all those efforts articulate some of the
numbers because they're very impressive, those groups that
are stepping up and they need to be recognized
I'm
On the Staffing. Favorite certainly cost a lot of money. I
certainly understand the interest in putting on an RFP. I'm
sure they can apply as well but I am a bit concerned at the
level of Staffing shortages throughout both the private and
public sector throughout every kind of career. Can I am
concerned that if we do move away from favorite that we
would have the Staffing.
Post.
Oh, that's culturally appropriate linguistically there in
the way, the favorite Staffing is particularly as well.
They have a number of like MSW staff that have done case
manager work and it's about the things of that nature. So I
just want to be very clear. I certainly understand the need
to scale back as far as our costs. That's understandable. I
don't want to give on Service delivery. Not that I'm saying
favorite perfect either, but I am very sensitive towards
what that movie looks like, how that transition goes.
Because I think there may be some very problematic
unexplained consequences if we don't think more
holistically about that.
Yeah.
yeah, they
yeah, that's
Yeah, that's fair. I I totally would agree. I think two, I
mean, just to name it. It's you know, 24-hour Staffing,
right. And you know I'm thinking about our friend is in the
cbl's. Like they don't have folks that work 20 ft more,
maybe and violence prevention. Right. But the point is,
yeah I mean we may have to look at this as a mixed model
but we are trying to figure out ways that we could leverage
costumes. Like, for example, just had a meeting to with
Americorps. They have certain initiatives that we could
leverage and potentially support, that may not be as close
as we can. Do. A whole call the service. I mean, Chicago's,
where it's at, we're leading the nation in this work. I
mean granny.
We don't.
We don't have the numbers like New York.
We don't have the numbers like New York but we're not
shutting our doors. We're we're doubling down and so I
think we have an opportunity to demonstrate that if Chicago
gets it, right? It can happen anywhere in the world. That's
our objective. As far as the first Trends, a couple of
weeks ago, we were looking at police stations being
decompressed. Getting to the 400 number right around there.
And now we're back up my understanding. It's largely due to
the fact that we are receiving more people. My
understanding is at a certain point, there more folks that
were coming on. Buses were actually
Triple A
But the lack of a better term being diverted from our
Sheltering system and just being absorbed into the
community and I'm curious if that trend has also subsided
on the fact is that I expect as we move forward that as
more folks become acculturated into a great City, they get
Apartments to get jobs, they move into different
communities that they will accept their family and friends
is well and avert some of the shelter pressure that we have
right now. I'm just curious. If you could give us a little
bit more contacts to what's going on with that diversion or
the lack of Engagement with our system,
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right in terms of those Trends, they do
fluctuate. I do know that the EOC recently started to
capture and actually I might call on mad. I don't know if
you have those numbers that have to look. When we started
our new, smartsheets tracking tool back in March that one
member. I can tell you right now is over the previous two
weeks. We've had 551 exits from the shelter system and
total so that could be folks with natural resettlement
process at work to Catholic Charities on El migration. I
found friends or family it really covers of the full gamut.
I think it might be a little too early to look for Trends
across time. But I can tell you for the last 2 weeks, it's
551.
and the
And the pre.
In the previous two weeks, you have any Apples to Apples
there.
See.
See if I can look real quick. I'm not sure. I have that
with me, but as time goes on, we're going to get better at
looking at those trends. When it is, when it does become
available through the chair, I think would be great or
maybe we'll come back next month but I am very interested
in, in the exiting I will go on to our friends from the
from the from the legal space, if that's okay. I think the
mayor's office, engaging our photo gallery. Bation is very
important. We had Senator Durbin and Congress Mafia are
sites.
Have.
Have significant conversation. Has released its EPS
temporary protected, status second day in office. Mayor
visited Petrosky Park in Little Village, was with myself
and many of you. And when we walked and talked the
migrants, all of them. Number one concern. I want to work
and I want to work pension the legal way. My understanding
is temporary protected. Status is one way to go about that.
My off also my understanding is that USCIS themselves via
the president could potentially make this a reality without
Federal legislation or congress being involved? I wanted to
know if that's the case and if that's been our asked or
there's another process to extend CPS
If?
If you could, please identify yourself and title. How many
eyes can hear me? How many Ms in Isha Gandhi? And I work at
the national immigrant Justice Center as their associate
director protection based release when it comes to TPS or
just temporary protected status. It really depends. It is
something that the federal government and is specifically,
the president can designate a country for 2 PS2.
Designation is what it's called. Many of the countries on
this list, do you have some sort of TPS? But it depends on
when you enter the country. And so, a lot of, for example,
a lot of, I think it was Ukrainian to it.
Let's bet Ukrainian.
Let's bet Ukrainian a lot of them came in after the
designation date, so they don't, they're not eligible for
it for that specific. They have a different type of parole,
kind of status that they can use. But a lot of the other
countries like El Salvador and Nicaragua Guatemala, some of
the other ones have had temporary protected status in the
past and a lot of them who had come at that time, continue
to renew. So there is an ability to designate a country and
then change the designation date backdated or start a new
date rates for the federal government could do that. I have
not heard of any there have been pushes from organizations
to implement that to use TPS, as it is in a resource for
the federal government and many and I think of other things
to keep in mind as many people don't technically want to
apply for Asylum. That's may be their only option and the
reason being that they want to go back to their home
country.
Just want.
Just want to.
Just want to go back when it's safer. I'm in a lot of
people do do that, right. But UPS is an option. It's just
not one right now for the current population did. I'm I'm
at 2nd slide and that's what my father said seven years ago
when he left the USCIS website States. The following the
Immigrant CPS, I was going to ask you as a certain
Countries.
Countries that they meet certain designations including
other extraordinary and temporary conditions. So I think
the language is there, I think the political will need to
get there and I know that the mayor's office has made that
push. I've heard from Senator Durbin in Congress and that
she and others that have also are making that push and to
the extent that we as a city. Maybe also great that
statement. I think that would be very valuable I'm not sure
if anyone's submitted resolution to the fact that I'd be
willing to part with anybody to raise that as an issue,
they do it. All right? The one other item and thank you
very much for that. PC all in the legal world in the, in
the in the in the Justice world are doing amazing things on
this. You are doing God's work.
I just want to.
I just want to encourage the communication pieces while I
think other women, Taylor and others have articulated it.
Well, you know, between the station response volunteers and
our office and the city, you know, sometimes we're
informing each other on things that are happening, right?
For instance, I passed by the fence, be some way from
dropping my kids off at school. And, you know, I saw about
40 people there, which was about double or triple. We had
most recently, an alarm bells and you can get when I made
calls. Want to know how that happened, why it happened? You
know, I found out, you know, earlier today about the
something that was talking about. But that for lack of
communication, I think the weekly communicate
Y'all too.
Y'all two working group on congratulate you all on that
level of communication and considered more, right? We can't
communicate enough and the faxes are city is better when
the legislative branch and executive branch are working
together. I think we've shown that in the last couple of
weeks and I think we got more showing up space so thank you
for the partnership. I'm excited to work with you on this
and
to offer some level of humanity in a humanitarian crisis.
Thank you. Thank you very much next. We have all ottoman,
60 Lopez
Thank.
Thank you, chairman and let me read a speedy recovery.
Thank you. It's good to see you. Also want to thank the
mayor's theme for your leadership and your commitment to
not only state that will Central City by, to show how we
can be a Century City in a very difficult time, and we can
see him, I'll let it go. Genders play with people's lives
are so why not think that knowledge man, that a lot of
these crises is by Oran doing with the distillation of
countries in the global South that have created a
tremendous humanitarian crisis that we deal with and
wishing that it is important that we coordinate efforts
with the different levels of government. So and I know Mary
Johnson is missing President Biden today.
Greenport.
Very important to acknowledge that. And we have asked Mary
Johnson to talk to the president about the importance of
having immigration reform in sanctuary cities as we are,
the salt of the country is Mary Johnson says and that's why
we must keep it alive. I also and I recognize therefore as
I've been done I want to discuss a little bit. Some of the
challenges on the ground and I will, again want to thank
for all the leadership and the development of a plan with
that. We did not have for several years. Even though the
city was aware since last year that title 42 was going to
be lifted many and the lack of planning is directly again.
In the context of all the shameful policies in States like
Texas but also that we must prepare for situations like
this one, preciate. Also, the long-term vision is residual
major in crises. So let me start perhaps with some of the
challenges on the ground and I want to thank all
tears.
2 years, old, organization, Faith leaders, sylectus, and
organizations are the Grassroots to help in this room that
you're in crisis. Let me start with some of the challenges
and I get to mention some of the federal policies. And,
again, business does not have to be so, but these room but
certainly, the access and the advocacy does the pan on the
leadership of Representatives of communities, like ours
that are immigrant points of Entry.
Listen.
the situation with some of the Asylum seekers in terms of
work permits and just the status that has been a huge
problem in in
In many, many cases. And again, I also want to uplift where
the Truman Doctrine and I will mention about this is not
unique to certain countries. We have a wide range of
situations here. What is the approach in terms of
advocating? In terms of the state-level legislation?
Perhaps I know that we have driver's license in a temporary
visitors and so far but in terms of how do we see this
situation in general? That is being a problem as families,
want to become more independent. That is a big challenge.
So couple things I would have to say you know we're going
to be working closely with the various caucuses in the
general assembly as a former member of the Latino caucus.
We did a lot of coordinated advocacy around Investments as
well as substance of legislation. So we actually are in the
process of getting something on the books with our general
assembly friends so that we can begin to talk about a
broader strategy together. Moving forward in the context of
resettlement there to budget lines that will always be
helpful for us and that's the
Grandpa.
Grant Family Services line as well as the welcoming centers
and the caucus has been very successful in being able to
not just a stabilizes lies, that increase them overtime.
But we're going to have to do some I think very deliberate
work because some of that has been buffered by covid
dollars and we were going to have to look into what are
some alternative revenues. I think the other thing in terms
of like legislative strategy and the discussion, we do need
to talk about like sequencing out a legislative agenda and
then also how we as a body at the state at the County as
well as the city approached the feds around what could be
possible when I was a member of the caucus we did? Have you
no touch points with the White House. And lifted up these
issues and Captain close communication with our respective
Congressional members. But you know, this is the time
To ask.
To ask about.
To ask Spotlight is on Chicago and so many different ways.
And, you know, I would be remiss if I didn't mention, we
are hosting the Democratic National Convention. So, if
folks do not have the moral compass or the moral
imperative, there's some other interest convergence that
they're going to be looking at to make sure that Chicago
does have its act together. I'm going to just named that
because sometimes that is the motivation for folks. The
point is, is that I look forward to
Working.
Working with you.
Working with you all colleagues at the county and state and
federal level, as well as our new Deputy Mayor because that
particular position is going to be developing a broader
strategy, both vertically, as well as horizontally here in
city government to really build out the infrastructure. But
as well as the policy agenda in, in a way that I, I don't
know if we've seen that before, but it's going to also take
all of us weighing in and carrying the water on that,
because we just haven't seen comprehensive immigration
reform. And so I guess it's up to us to do it. So I'm ready
to jump in with y'all and get that done. Thank you. I
appreciate that. I mentioned that because it's important to
12 lift and the public is informed about the situation of
asylum-seekers. Still many challenges. Only 3 out of 10 I
receiving an appointment or even having a package with a
lot of these difficulties are structural and it's a
Turn to.
For the public to understand. The next one is around a
housing at talk about the resettlement. And this is just a
question that comes from one of them. Cheers run centers
with this, cuz he manages to clip a no idea. Chase has a
coelom, secret rental assistance but is north of, you know,
it feels not available for their Mutual Aid groups, or
volunteer-run Center is only for public facilities. Is it
something? And again, as we work with them, more hearings,
regular hearings, with state and federal.
Rep.
representatives in a
Representatives in a movie with Courtney but I just want
that logistically speaking. As we have a dozen or volunteer
run Santa Rosa California with 202 people. 76 miners. And
we already have at least twelve families who want to try to
try to seek the assistance but is not there. So many
conversations around town and how we can tell Courtney that
help when when that is, when that is a possibility. Yeah,
that's definitely under discussion in consideration to try
to figure out that absent of being a delegate agency. How
do we make sure that they responded funds are extended? So
that is something we're currently working out with the
state. The other thing too. I just remember, let's talk
about housing because this is, you know, this is the
housing that just burn arrivals but housing for existing on
house here in Chicago Housing for working families. That
just literally struggle to keep a roof over their head
couple weeks ago, the mayor attended housing
I meant that we
That was hosted by the governor and the homelessness Chief
at the state Christine Haley and that brought together all
the stakeholders that had been working, you know, for it
for decades to have a more comprehensive housing strategy.
The state has now invested in this new budget, 350 million
dollars for about eight different strategies to address
homelessness and gets a functional Zero. The Inn in that
process like I said Chicago is going to be getting a
Porsche
That cut in.
That cutting back. We just got a little bit of a briefing
about categorically how that could be applied weather at
rapid rehousing while its Workforce Development, whether it
is you know, shelter diversion that still kind of TBD but
the other piece is a federal government is actually sending
somebody our way to be situated in the mayor's office for
two years on a technical assistance tip to be able to one
have a more coordinated and aligned documentation assistant
system and also be able to leverage all the various
stakeholders to get the functional zero. The second
position that is going to come online as well was through
philanthropic support. For three years, we're going to have
kind of the equivalent of a homelessness Chief at the city
level to be working across departments to really address
the strategically and a line all the efforts because I
think you know there's a lot of good work that's happening
and the Departments and sister agencies but
Having.
I haven't necessarily been done in a coordinated way and
sometimes can be duplicated we're just be siloed out so
that position will be in the mayor's office as well. And I
think that is also going to contribute to the larger
housing piece plus will be working with our friends in the
general assembly around. Some other creative ways to
stabilize our communities because we know that
gentrification is no definitely taking root in too. Many of
our communities and has been for quite some time and so we
need to be very aggressive in our way.
and,
and our ways and to,
And our ways and tactics to be able to stabilize our
communities, and assure that folks can stay within their
communities, raise their families and password, the Legacy,
thank you. I appreciate the leadership. I never said any of
them by the public record and recognize in the people do
feel welcome and the changes, you know, I'm having a more
coordinated effort looking forward to more hearings and
doesn't just for the record. I think that was her from the
public important to have this hearing about the destruction
of the due process for victims of domestic violence. That
is on the rise of Duty in the dark has something that has
been committed. And I'm glad that we have not regular human
soap for the record. My next one that has to do with the
situation without Corps and mental health. I know that we
recently hear from the from the state about
a fortune.
Unfortunate.
Unfortunate situation of not allowing for new registration
on the Registries for undocumented taxes, what would be the
fact? And then again how we can maybe coordinator at first,
it would cdph because that that access to health care and
mental health is is is is critical at this moment. So when
I met here while we could be the facts and what we can do
as accounts,
You think I could?
I think I can speak to this a little bit temperature to 74.
Step out, but we are aware of the situation. In terms of
this, we can do more coordination and continue to be in
communication with all of you. In addition, I think I will.
We'll leave it at that and probably just like me to take to
have a conversation around what that ask is for, cdph
extensively and then follow up on it.
Thank you, Jim, thank you very much. Next up, we have other
women, Gutierrez followed by Monopoly.
Where's the?
Where's the Paula just wanted to come in for all the hard
work that all of you have done in this initiatives. I also
want to congratulate and pants hats off to all the
Community Partners space-based organizations and
volunteers. You know what our districts and wards that have
done an amazing job, helping our our new constituents from
Chicago, and it's something that we all need to. Remember,
they're all Chicago in, and they deserve.
They?
Dignity and respect and resources and that's what where's
your advocating for them. And I want to also to come and
all the work that hard work that we empty out have done.
Thank you so much for getting us all the information
whipping. Requesting, I will be happy to continue, be part
of the weekly working group. I understand we cannot be a
lot of us being there, but anytime there's a chance for me
to be part of, please continue to consider me, just wanted
to race a quick question, cuz I was advised that every
police station was somehow. I play it by ear. Or each
Commander was putting their their own product cold sore.
How things were working in the NHL, this District, I just
wanted to ask if we have a plan now that we're having the
new wave coming of buses, I also was aware that the
community rooms were not being able to have been utilized
and it's something that I was want to ask. If there's a
possibility for us to push for this community rooms to also
be used for you to love me. Cuz you know when there's 40 50
people, they don't fit in the lobby. So we need to utilize
that other space that we have him in the police stations as
well. Do just that to ask if we have already that plan. So
that way all police stations could continue to have the
same. Cuz also with them are mental emergency that we have
right now, I'm just concerned.
It was.
It would let.
They were letting people out by 7 in the morning and they
were not allowed to come back until 8:11 p.m. sometimes. So
I just want you to know, if there's already a protocol in
place to be followed by every single station the same way
in the whole city of Chicago. And they're only by, I want
to say, we have a great commander and District 8, hip done,
and sergeants and officers. They've been doing great job,
but I also want to see that's replicate between all of the
other different station.
I am aware that certain districts of crap set their own
protocols, I can't speak on behalf of CPD, but I know we
are trying to, just wait it out as much as possible. Nobody
should be forced to step outside of the district stations
of with the one exception being a regularly scheduled
cleaning, which takes place, I believe on a daily basis of
each district. We may have to temporarily relocate folks,
do some cleaning can get it done, but by no means, should
that ever happen for long periods of time regarding the
community rooms. I know, we've looked into that a little
bit. Of course, you know, there's regularly scheduled
programming at those Community rooms caption meetings,
what's not, what not. So it does have to get approved. I
think through that caps Council and try not getting that
name correctly.
it's
It's something work.
It's something work continuing to look at on a
district-by-district basis of the district advisory council
at the deck. Thank you. I'm something we'd like to get
through. The chair is a standard standard, operating
procedure documents as it relates to see PD and also the
shelter's, you know, we're hearing that sometimes there is
less than standard Roberts food, or something out, there
were hearing about. So I'd like to know what the standard
operating procedures are and if there's anything in place
for grievances, if anyone has any issues, I'm sorry. I
think know, and I really appreciate those cuz those are
questions. Work concerns also from her constituents in my
word so that way I can let them know. I erase this question
in the floor and then I have those answers for them. But
also I was at by the city colleges of Chicago, will start
ESL classes in a different colleges, which I'm so happy and
proud to hear it for so that could be in the wreck.
Every.
Average everybody here in Chicago and know that that's
happening soon. And I'm so excited and also just continue.
I also want to invite, I know maybe most of us here, and
the comedy have already visited the, the temporary
shelters. I invite all of my other colleagues in the city
council to experience it to see what's going on in the
ground. What the hard work that has to be done cuz all. So
it's easy to be a guy.
Are not wanted to put.
Are not wanted to participate but they don't know how hard
people are working towards this and I will really want to
invite every single one of my colleagues to experience it
themselves and see how things are working. Thank you. Thank
you.
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Just do also respond to that point.
Yes, we actually have been working in coordination with
some of you and also other representatives from the general
assembly that have wanted to visit size. We ask that you
reach out to us so that we can coordinate with the FSS and
oamc. And I'm sometimes either myself can attend or the
first step to get my W2.
Thank.
Thank you. I also remember not happened. Where's
Congratulation.
Congratulations to the chair and vice-chair of this
committee. Thank you, everyone, for all of your hard work.
Any of my questions were answered throughout this hearing,
so I appreciate that leadership. I also thank you for the
reflection of the difference between this Administration in
the past. I hope that we can continue on this path of
Japan, transparency and over communication versus less has,
as where things are changing. I really need it right now,
is a new city council member and in the 48th Ward, as the
Broadway Armory, is being considered as one of the new
shelters that will open up, and possibly has over 500.
All there.
All there, I'm looking to others who have open shelters in
your own communities, to see what has worked and what does
not work. And I appreciate this time that you're spending
with us and the accessibility to the different departments,
including everyone who is here and he's so much do AMC. And
also the legal departments in federal needs work at every
level and absolutely echoing what Alderman Rodriguez said
we have to have it ask you know, what is are asked of our
federal government. I appreciate that representation that
we have with Tina but also we need to go as as far-reaching
as we can as we're trying to do things on the ground, I
want to lift up that passed. Your background has been the
40th Ward who is also an inch from concerned with Public
Safety and her faith-based initiative.
I would like us to consider sharing that with our own
communities. As as we have said, faith-based groups are set
up for this work since the beginning. I also, I had a
couple things I wanted to stay at the world Refugee day
this weekend where Mayor Johnson was there to open up the
world Refugee soccer, the Wadsworth Refugee soccer players
are there and that was that was Joy has to be a witness to
that, we have to find ways to bring people into our
community and that was one fantastic weekend. So I wanted
to also lift up that, you know, a couple things including
One person.
One person who I met at the world Refugee day, who is a
case manager medical case manager with Heartland and Myakka
who can be here for public comment, but I would like to
read a little bit of what he, said he gave me. So firstly
he works directly with the refugees and immigrants through
his organization and through Community engagement. He
identified some of the things that we've already been
talking about today housing with landlords have not been
giving Apartments the new arrivals due to Credit in the
income. Migrants with disability are not accessing adequate
buildings, which affects their Mobility that creates
hardship.
Adam.
As a medical case manager, providing the Intensive case
management to refugees and new arrivals. He has seen
firsthand how it affects them mentally and causing a lot of
stress depression, anxiety, living their participation
engagement with services that are available. We're moving
forward, we truly need to find ways to impart to all of
our. You know, you need a base organization related and
everybody and every Department. How are we censuring
trauma-informed, care.
Unlimited legal access most undocumented immigrants are
facing you Turtles as we said before because of the lack of
identification cards and Dad created limited Financial
Resources to pay for services. So we have to find ways to
get them those cards and coordinate as we are going to
have, also a city key events. Will that work for
and,
A b.
A Barbie touched without Alderman Taliaferro with that jobs.
Of course everybody is talking about that and would like I
would like to coordinate with others who are interested in
pushing our federal government to find ways to expedite
that process education and experiences in language barriers
are the reasons why you know it is taking too long for
people to find work unreliable language access by
organizations. Providing the service has caused long. Wait.
In hospitals and also information collected may lead to
disqualification from services. Do you understand what that
means? I will connect you with this person because of a
lack of understanding.
Okay, many organizations, providing services are hesitant
to accommodate immigrants and refugees due to language
capabilities. So I guess also, as we are, kind of helping
community-based organizations and organizations, such as
Heartland immigrants, how are we supporting? Them is my
question Also regarding refugees and the Civic participate.
Participate participation in policy, change to Alderman,
Dallas point, is that, how are we Trading Spaces? We're
refugees and immigrants are included in discussion.
Relate.
related to
Related to their needs so that it doesn't result in
decisions that impact them adversely. So, I would like to
have follow-up on how we're doing that. This person also
talked about discrimination from organizations that serve
populations from specific backgrounds. First Ethiopian for
instance is that community-based organization only serving
Ethiopian immigrants, right? How are we making sure that
everyone is helping everyone? No matter what the name of
their organization is? I guess. It's really and then
support for different nationalities shows in equality
because more resources are available or Ukrainian and
others from Afghanistan and little to no resources for
black people.
Dial.
Do you like to?
Do you like the?
Now, I would like to have follow-up on how we are doing
that better and then in terms of oversight, I would like to
know. And this person would also like to know how we are
managing resources, so that it doesn't result in poor
Services because of duplication of services. So that it's
just going to be more coordination that's needed.
Those are, those are some things that I would like to lift
up from there. I may not be able to speak to all of those,
but I would like to follow up with you directly and to
connect with that individual so that we can get them. The
proper information to the things that they raced. Thank,
thank you. I would like, to take think that chair and also
has been really helpful with sharing information and the
briefings, I know that we talked about other agencies today
versus what's on the coordinated.
Try.
Strategy.
An.
And also I know that there is a resolution that's being
proposed, and I know that there's that Department of Health
in the YMCAs in here, front of Family Services housing. But
I wanted to know, how are we working with APD?
If you.
APD, how we working with Transit?
How we working with CPS and parks and the library system to
coordinate strategies that there is again a holistic
approach to what we're doing, but I don't see them on the
resolution. I just want to make sure that they are included
in a strategy.
Be regular meetings. So the resolution was to kind of get
that as a precedent. So we will be voting on this
resolution so we can have a series and then as far as what
those will pertain to that obviously changed. I so based on
let's say for this meeting is clear to us that we want to
have gfss here. At the next meeting, we went to see PD as
well as Mutual Aid groups and then looking forward,
scheduling more meetings till I dress like what are we
doing CPR? What do you want with the libraries and such?
And then also doing one where he focused on state and
federal legislation? So I think we're going to do a series
of them and part of it is the way last time we had to covid
meetings under the health and human relations. We would
establish progress reports that kind of start the meetings.
That'll be the same case here, and then having subject
matter, or like more in-depth subject ones, for each one
going forward.
yeah, I just like
I'm I'm new and I'm trying to drink it all in. And really,
I'm very heartening to see there's so much communication
and a very grateful for you to make space for this. But I
also feel like it's not for instance, that how are we
connecting the dots between the time that they're in the
shelter and the time that the students going to school and
what are the mothers doing? Well you know while they're
waiting what are the single men doing well? They're waiting
you know what are the wraparound Services? What are the
actual wraparound Services? What did that?
Recreational Center.
Recreational services.
Recreational Services was the drummer for services. I don't
know what that looks like. I would like to be able to stay
in plain terms to people who deserve what we're doing and
how we're doing and a timeline. And I know that we can't
stay like when is the end, you know, what does that look
like? I'm so I appreciate the process here and then the
other thing is, I was just want you say that I appreciate
the three things that I think that they're terrific. I
think that also
She?
She's a boy.
to the point of what many people were talking about today,
which is, we can't do this alone. This has to be coordinate
at the federal and state level. I don't see that in the
briefing, and I would like that to be added if that's
possible. Absolutely. So, yes, I know some of it was kind
of in a size as far as what's happening with advocacy for
both. The other thing I would say is, as we submitted
multiple times to other members of the council, you can
submit those questions via the form. So that for
specifically, like you're asking what's happening as far as
to your point. What happens to mothers if their kids are
going to school where they doing? That would be a question
to submit to the form. So that we can advance of every
subsequent hearings, we have more in-depth answers to that,
but I'll let France or something as well.
I mean, yeah, and I think in terms of like details, there
are wraparound services that are some activities happening
at. The schedule is very precise, so if you want that level
of detail, I I do think it will take us. We have weakened
gather that information and it can become available, but I
just wanted to name that each side has different schedule.
The pain of different needs excetera. So I'm, we can work
on that. They were some questions that were submitted to us
prior to this specific meeting today that we are some of it
covered through the presentation. And why we we mentioned
here, and we also have a 105-page, you're really never
going to be delivering some of those questions come up at
the next meeting. Will make sure to work with our
colleagues weather at the f, a r c b d o m. C to make sure
that they get answered ahead of time. And then will also
Touch of those at the next to that point will be
submitting. Kind of the questions are already asked kind of
back to the Otters as an FAQ with all the answers to the
questions that have been asking will continue. That is kind
of a cycle month-over-month.
Yeah.
Yeah, I appreciate that because people want the details and
they also want to know how we are coordinating. And also, I
would like to hear how departments are coordinate, it's not
up to the parks to just give up their building and then
that's it. You know how it is that we're integrating, you
know, some of the great programs that are at the parks with
people that are coming in and
Yeah.
yeah, to the
Yeah, to the briefing point to I would just really like to
see to know if that is something obviously cuz it was
already reported. It had been shared with the news.
Everything is that the way it's going to be running to the
article, the kind of played out some of the detail, that is
something every single city council member gets on Friday.
So if you look, Eric Martinez has one that believes
something up from him that goes through all those details.
How many folks we had with the increases look like as far
as refugees are coming to the city? So every Friday, if you
check your emails it'll be there with the update. My
question is is that something is that the same thing that
is being shared with media?
Or is that? No? So what occurred there is a let's keep it
100, a city council. Member it forwarded over to the media
which obviously it's all public documents. So once the
media gets it taken the right whatever report they want.
But it's still the same documents. The Alders would have
received it first. Okay. Yeah. Cuz that would be ideal,
right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. This is a, this is a kind of
briefing is fantastic. And I think everything that we
talked about today to be put in the freezing including what
we're doing, is the federal and state level. I don't think
that is in here.
Like what are we?
Like what are we asking for it as a city council of the
federal government's your point you know there was very
particular questions that are that we how are we
coordinated as a committee is what I'm saying now? Because
we this committee I feel that we miss our first meeting and
I I I love all of this information but also moving forward,
I would like to know, how are we coordinating is a
committee while every single Ward is also trying to hold it
together in and contributing their own way. How is this
committee different from? All of what we're doing it. I
just wanted a lot of it as kind of disgust by the W2 staff
is, is kind of the working group is kind of doing more of
what year did Sherman. Great lake is far as regular updates
with tapping their the committee's because their only
meeting monthly as compared to the working group meeting.
Weekly is kind of like a report out not only for the
committee itself,
For the pub.
For the public as a whole time to stand what's happening
but to get more in-depth and kind of like because of the
situation and how you know a child government has to be.
The working group is actually a really good place to go and
start there. So that's on Mondays. So we can file a well
yes, just a point of order. I think under important policy
updates and then it makes absolute sense that that in. Yes,
I used to have your time so
that's,
That's that's really it. I just dumb. I want to say thank
you. You know I I have been you know very grateful for all
of the resources that I've been given in the 48th Ward
including all of the elders that are around me but also I
feel that we are lacking time
Or lack.
We're lacking time, you know? And it is unacceptable for us
to have people living in the station's, it's wrong. And
also at the same time, we have had a housing crisis team is
booked already very eloquently about how we are trying to
do both things at the same time. And so in I would like if
possible to The Brute for the briefing to reflect that we
are doing both things at the same time. Yeah I agree with
you fully I think is right and conversations about housing
in general. I don't like a binary conversation and what
we're doing for just a migraine. So when we clearly know,
the whole city has an issue and that is our goal in this
committee as well. Like I have not lost on me and we've
seen it to some City Council meetings, that it's easy to
have a city divided over situation like this. And so, I
think they could this committee needs to be when it brings
people together as best as possible. And you have my
commitment is a chair that will continue to do that.
In.
Thank you, Nan. I'm just one more values point. I would
just like to continue to say that we are working through a
lens of trauma-informed, care and also Center in the needs
of those who are disabled and are lgbtq plus population
because they if they are okay then we are all. Okay. Thank
you for the other women Gutierrez. You got a question
question suggests, as we all know we are all most of us are
advocating for not to happen to post about the insurance
for our 42 + residence. Is there being
Efforts in our temporary shelters to have them sign up for
those for that program for the rental assistance program,
in Jeopardy, of maybe losing it, right, and starting next
month. So, I guess all of us have been advocating toys
that, not to happen. And there's more and it should have
happening tomorrow, actually, but just wanted to ask if
there's something that we already are doing. Cuz we, we may
have a couple days though. With all these new arrivals from
yesterday, if there were already registered, if we've been
helping them through these days, just in case,
He happened to.
He happens to pasta after July 1st just took for us to know
if to take advantage and just remember about that that that
line that we have right now so that way we can do something
today. Tomorrow, again reach out to the office and get that
information in those numbers. I'm just worried that they
won't be able to go to apply but they were in Chicago
already before the pie a million percent. Thank you so much
for reason that I was assaulted last time cuz the other
person will get us. Ask the question that I did want to
ask. I do want to say a couple of things, right? I know
that there are things that are being asked here today to be
put into the report but I also want to claim and state that
things are changing everyday, right? And we are building
and infrastructure that did not exist. And we were failed
by our prior Administration. We knew this was happening for
over a year now.
We are going.
We are currently building an infrastructure that can be
sustainable and so I also want us to be cautious and
putting things into a report that can be misconstrued
because of how fluid this work is right now. But we are
quite literally putting things to test and figuring out
what works and what doesn't and what are the areas in which
we need to improve. And you know, I would love for a more
critical journalism but we don't live in a world in which
that happens and you know, everyone's look
At the city of Chicago MP.
At the city of Chicago and people are expecting us to fail.
And so I also want us to be cautious and that whatever
we're putting and reported something that we can hold onto
me for a little while because if we're putting things into
a report and its changing every so often we will appear
inconsistent. Although we know that we are seeking to
create an infrastructure that is permanent and sustainable.
And so I hear us, when we say we should have all these
things on a piece of paper, but I also want us to be
cautious of that. I do think that there are things that we
should be documenting like from the mayor's office and from
city council, what are we asking our state and federal
legislators to do, how do we need them to contribute? What
are the demands that we are making? And then what, you
know, making sure that we are fluid and consistent and
updating the numbers and all of the efforts that we are
putting forward. But again, we are building and
infrastructure. We are in the midst of that. And so I want
to make sure that we are being cautious respectful of the
information as we are. We are building together
Thank you. Very
Thank you very much and also to correct, the record holder
for San Francisco. My apologies as well. I'm going to hop
in with thank you. Thank you for that. I appreciate that,
and absolutely. And that's the reason why I want to have it
on paper when it lands on paper, I think it it shows a lot
and a lot of the things that were shared here today that
would have been great for us to know about. I mean we're
talking about millions of dollars that have been coming
from the federal government.
That is a fact that could be in here, you know, because then
the follow-up question is, where is that money going? And
that kind of bottom line stuff, we need to keep track of.
And also ask a question. Where are we putting our resources
and who is getting it at the Indian Alderman Cardona?
Morning formation regarding to what we're talking about. I
always look at this as a living document, it changes
everyday every hour or so their formation that we got last
week. This is all no good to us right now until he gets a
Friday and we get an updated report. So, like my colleague
alderwoman wenches are person went to said that, we got to
be very conscientious of what we put in in writing because
you could look at it or if you commit communicate and then,
you know, they could mr. Know what we're trying to do here
out in the public or trying to do something good. This is
something new.
My Hope and my my greatest hope is a FATZ, we get help from
the fence because the feds are not are not doing their job
by improving immigration reform, work status and all that
comes to the Fest, hopefully, our Illinois legislation
would go and fight for us over there. Watching the seat, my
fear because this is an election year, nothing's going to
happen
And that is my biggest fear. And I think that's in the back
of the minds of everybody else. This is an election year
for fat for the federal government and they're not going to
do anything for immigration reform because there's no cost.
I'll come and dereliction in other states and other
congressional districts. So, we just got to still, keep
fighting and fighting and fighting, and hopefully,
hopefully President Biden would change his mind. And, you
know, we will get Congressional support before the election
because you weren't, they understand, we're playing with
people's lives. I don't, I hate politics. I mean, I don't
like weather using Politics on people's lives and we have
to do with what's best for the residents of the Chicago,
but also think out-of-the-box of United States as well. But
like, one of my colleagues are someone said mayor Kushina.
He said that if we make it right,
Everybody's going.
Everybody's going to follow us cuz everybody in other
cities are like us. Trying to figure it out. So on that
note I just leave it. Thank you, Jim.
it's so,
Take picture. You know, just you that point is that if all
eyes are in Chicago than Chicago, should be out and loud
and proud about what we have done is so this, you know,
living document as it is should be showing all of the good
that we are doing. And so to the point of, you know, who is
being recital and how are integrated into our eventually,
you know, being stable in in, in the city of Chicago, we
should be able to show that on paper. Not just it it, it
should not be weaponized. Our work should not be
weaponized, it should be celebrated and this is the way to
do that, even if it is a living document,
Thank.
Thank you very much, bro. Are there any other questions by
any members of the committee?
Top.
Copies of the president. When I think you very much for
everyone here at that presented copies of the presentation
in Britain. Public comment will be provided in the summary
document so i e l m. S after this meeting Elms is also
where all the dates are now currently and not the alleged
star. I know a lot of folks have been checking the clerks
website, it's on e, l m. S now for updates offer people. I
know when we're having the meetings. Any do the chair
follow-ups will be sent to the Alders as well. I'm only
thank everyone here. I know it's been feels like forever
since we've had a meeting of this committee that will
change with this next vote. So,
I can.
I think it's
I think you could handle again for answering questions. As
testimonies concluded can I have a motion to vote on the
resolution calling for monthly hearings of this committee?
Somewhere by other person friend says all those in favor of
passing the resolution respond. By saying, I all those
opposed by saying nay in the opinion of the chair, the eyes
have it, I will report this vote as a recommendation to
pass at the next city council meeting on July, 19th 2023,
with there being no further business before the committee.
May we have a motion to adjourn.
Aldi.
All the other person into Rodriguez. So I moved here and no
Jackson's to order the meeting of the committee on
immigrant and Refugee Rights is now adjourned.
We're going.
We're going to have it where to send it out, but it'll be
less we're looking at. Last Wednesday at 1, we're going to
truck. We're looking at having just regular every time