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siblings may be mindful to provide resources for those with
few. Especially those who've been denied access and you in
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The chair recognizes ottoman Rodriguez.
Students pursuing.
Pursuant to your Authority on the rule, 3, decide questions
relating to the priority of business. I request leave to
present a report on the comedian Workforce Development. At
this time, I intention is to defer and published a report.
I will exercise discretion to allow this to be presented
report at this time.
find
point of order the chair recognizes ottoman Riley
So what we're doing here is essentially you can't hear you
Riley or doing here near me. Now we can is basically
contorting the rules so that we can address the failure of
the administration to have this properly posted on today's
agenda. You shouldn't be deferring a publishing item is not
on today's agenda.
So I would argue that the chair is out of order.
Is on the agenda was at it late. That's why I'm allowing.
This Russian when was added?
I want
what's
At what time?
we
We find out what time it was at it. Where's the 48 hours?
this
This isn't transparency. Mr. President.
Thank you for that. And that's why it's being delayed.
That is why it is.
That is why it is being delayed in different to be on
Friday's agenda for coming back on Friday rather than
deferring it today. It's not on today's agenda.
Are.
It is on Friday's agenda.
Andrew.
I understand that but you're trying to defer and publish it
today.
It's not on today's agenda.
It.
It is on today's agenda.
Respectful.
Especially for president. No, it's not. It wasn't published
$40 at a time, that's for sure. Thank you very much. All
them in the chair recognizes Alderman Rodriguez.
Wheeler Road.
Wheeler Road nugget are okay. What is your what is your,
what is your motion sir? Mister Riley?
I move to table the motion on Row, 3.
it's
It's not transparent.
Buy office.
very,
Very much thank you old man. Riley rule 3 provides that all
questions relating to the priority of business and she'll
be decided by the chair. And this is without debate subject
to appeal if you are looking to appeal as I stated,
alright? Thank you very much. So the chair has decided to
permit Alderman, Rodriguez, to present the report course,
there's been an appeal. So shall this decision of the chair
be sustained. That is a question. So my time clerk please.
Call the row.
Auto.
Hold on a second. Just raise your hand and I will
acknowledge you try that. Again the chair recognizes
Ottoman, sposato and thank you. Can we get a definition to
make sure we know what the yes or no is here.
So clarification, I mean not not a definition of the
clarification. Absolutely. So there's been an appeal of the
chairs decision to allow for this deferred publicity take
place. And so, this appeal that I am, obviously moving
forward with my question is shell the decision of the chair
be sustained in order to continue to allow Rodriguez's
report? The chair Rodriguez support to move forward. If you
agree with the discretion of the chair, you will vote. Yes.
If you do not agree that the chairs position and decision
should not be sustained, you vote. No.
You.
You're welcome Miss Alderman. Of course Madam clerk. Please
call the roll.
Stop. Okay.
again, just for
Again, just for clarity. Thank you alderman sposato.
the
did
the decision to sustain the chairs decision is a yes vote
to allow the chair to move forward with the presenting of
his report from his committee a no vote is to not sustain
or confirm my decision to allow pursuant to rule 3 that
allows us to to the mood for
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Thank you. Madam. Clerk. There are 30 yays 15 days. This
matter is past the ruling of the chair sustain the chair
recognizes almond Rodriguez.
Thank you mister president.
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gratuities.
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Thank you decide on.
Thank you. This item still be deferred and published chair
recognizes ottoman Mitchell.
Mr. President to your Authority on the road three to decide
questions relating to the priority of business. I request
leave to present an item with miscellaneous business name
in Oregon and setting the date and time of the next meeting
for October 6th 2023 at 10:30 a.m.
I was
I will certainly exercise this decision to allow this
ordinance to be presented at this time here recognizes
automobile as a president. I think it's a huge
inconvenience to bring the entire Council back Friday. When
we are coming back Wednesday already. We can easily post
this on the agenda to have these items for food right
before when they leading. We we were here last week for one
item. Now. We're going to come back again for one item. I
just believe that this is a total waste of taxpayers time
and money to convene for one item on Friday.
thank
Thank you. Does anyone else wish thank you Alderman Bill
anyone else wish to speak to this?
Thank.
Thank you very much, see you none.
Okay, I'm sorry. The chair recognizes ottoman Lopez. Thank
you, mr. President. Good morning to the members of the city
council morning.
I agree with my colleague Alderman, Bill, and stating that
we do not need to meet on Friday, we do not need to defend
publish this item because I actually don't believe that we
are deferring this pup deferring and Publishing this item
in the spirit of the state law, that allows that to happen
as our colleague Alleman Riley. Just alluded to this was
not properly notice, and you can only suffer and publish
items that were being reported out. They were properly
noticed this sets us up for issues with the Illinois.
Attorney General's office of a public Integrity for failing
to abide by the laws. That deal with open meetings act. The
publishing of information in both taken accordingly to
alleviate all of those issues that we just jumped into
willingly. We should wait until the next regularly
scheduled meeting wait for a regular posting and do this in
the proper way that we normally would conduct business,
which is to have it reported in
On 40.
On 48 hours in advance so that we can move forward without
setting us up for more legal precedents against this body.
Thank you, mr. President.
Almond.
Alderman Lopez the chair recognizes almonds Bizarro, the
president. I too agree with my two colleagues here, I don't
see what the big deal is about going to the next meeting. I
may be selfish in my reasons why I don't want to come back
the next day. And life is a challenge for me. I have a
doctor appointment that I've had for 3 months, I can't
easily get
I'm just waiting till they're done over there. Thank you,
mister president me and I know it might be a selfish
reason. I don't see what the big deal is the way to the
next meeting in November. I don't see what the hurry is. We
know where it's going, I'm just asking once again, can we
just wait till the November meeting? I mean, with all due
respect for people that have plans that have scheduled plan
for a while and out. Now, to drop this on us, 48 hours in
advance, I just think it's wrong. So that's just my two
cents worth. I appreciate you. Let me have my say of course
the chair recognizes Oldman trosa
Resume.
President arrives to provide some important context for
everyone in the chamber here today because I know those
assembled in the gallery, may have some questions as to
what is transpiring in the month of September, the
workforce committee met to vote, overwhelmingly to advance.
The one Fair wage ordinance to make sure that some of the
lowest-paid workers in the city of Chicago, seal raise,
these are mostly black women. These are mostly Brown women
who struggle to make ends meet the committee Advanced that
ordinance, after hours of testimony, because we knew it was
the right thing to do, for the people of the city of
Chicago, and we were ready and set to vote on that.
Ordinance today and pass it and make it law.
On.
Unfortunate.
Unfortunately, it has as has been reported by multiple
multiple media sources, there was an error, a human error
and I will read here the clerk of knowledge that there was
an error, delaying a triumphant moment for the Johnsons.
And so it was an administrative and human tissue that did
not allow this item to be posted in a timely manner. So the
Illinois open meetings, act states, that in order for an
item to receive final action, it must be posted on the
agenda, 48 hours in advance, unfortunately, because the
clerk staff did not post this item in the packet that went
on Monday. We cannot take final action today, but that does
not mean that we can't discuss the item that does not meet
that we can.
Take some action.
Take some action on this item and in this case we have
opted as a council to defer and publish this item and to
take it to Friday because workers have waited too long.
It's time to pass one Fair wage and we can come back on
Friday.
We can come back on Friday.
We can come back on Friday and get this done. So I I think
that, you know, I've spoken with many people here, and I
hope that we can just move on with this agenda will come
back on. Friday, will get this done and will give workers a
raise. Thank you so much. Thank you very much.
The chair recognizes ottoman. 60 Lopez. Thank you mr.
President Sunday.
People.
People who have come to city council expecting the city
council, Texas, tents and do the working of working people.
Today I'm hearing that cute. Councilmembers, I
inconvenience
What?
What do people in Chicago or inconvenience everyday?
I'm the acting up.
To protect workers.
No matter.
No matter where they come from. The council members have an
issue, hoping inconvenience
I'll tell.
I'll tell you more, when we have Republicans, that's okay
with you.
But I'm bringing all sorts of Chaos.
What?
What we expect from the city council is to take action on
legislation to correct the wrongs to be done. So many
people across the city of Chicago.
Why do?
Find a working. Great for working people in Fair wages. Is
that if we can do so we already have the patience, the
rising our community because of the, in action.
Open.
Popular cheers.
Angry.
I'm grateful that ministration.
Is that?
Is taking on this issue so that we are okay for working
people. That's what we working for. That's what the
business he's about. I'm be careful too. My dog likes to be
aligning themselves with
because that's, who
Because that's what they are.
When?
When you bring people to humanely your city, I see you're
all going to die between Texas and Chicago.
Are we?
Are we talking about inconvenience?
People.
People expect every single councilmember to come when is
needed.
The.
Does.
The city of Chicago needs this, every watching people needs
and deciding is the one making sure that we have Fair wages
for people, be waiting for too long.
I heard people to realize what's at stake. Here are the
wealthy people that you do. Chicago, when is meeting. They
give us a present. The chair recognizes Alderman. Reilly
is thank you, mr. President, you're welcome.
You don't.
You know, we're not talking about an ordinance or a crisis
right now or timeout. Parliamentary procedure, which is
incredibly important that we ordered. It's incredibly
important to this body. And what we're doing here today is
basically saying, as an excuse poops, we made a mistake, we
really meant for s all4 s please members in the chamber.
Thank you.
What?
What fine Chicago this is called democracy? We can debate it
out. We're going to hear from all of our speakers all
please sir. Thank you.
all
Almond Raleigh, please. Continue. Thank you. Mr. President.
My concern here. Is that while this may have been a human
error by doing what we just did we then set up the excuse
for the future that we reintroduced legislation last minute
be acted upon without proper notice and requirements.
There's a reason we have these requirements in place is for
transparency. It's not only just for the people who serve
in his chamber but also the folks that we represent and so
regardless of the issue my issue is with the way we're
going about this today and certainly am not going to take
any personal jobs at anyone here. We all have our opinions
on the issue at hand. But to me parliamentary procedure is
sacred and I think that Alderman Lopez made some very
articulate points about why we need to stay within the
boundaries of our own procedures and then my concern here
is that using parliamentary gymnastics to contort are rules
to serve the pleasure of the day is dangerous precedent for
us. And so regardless
What the issue is Michael.
What the issue is my concern is how we're going about this
today, and that's why I'll be reintroducing in order to
create the office of legislative counsel, with many of my
colleagues here. So we can try and work these things out in
an amicable and respectful way, we'll also adhering to the
City council's Rules, which we wrote, we all agreed to
abide by, so, it's unfortunate. We had to go through this
today. We're obviously have a vote on that issue, very,
very soon if that's how we went about going through to get
there today. I think was wrong. So thank you, mr. Thank
you. Thank you very much. All them in the chair recognizes
almond Rodriguez, thank you. And I'm going to renew my
motion to defer and published before. So I do want to read
from our rules and we have respected the rules in all of
this. I will quote in the previous appeal
Our rule.
are rules.
Our rule three states, that awkward questions related to
Priority a business shall be decided by the chair without
the bait subject to appeal. My colleagues appealed that
decision that vote went down moving forward. We are a rule
41 24 and publish know the further postponed matter may be
called for a vote. Unless written delivered time stamp for
the city clerk. For copies, delivered of older persons at
least 48 hours in advance of this city, council meeting
coming up, we have accomplished all that. I encourage my
colleagues to reread the same rules that they are motion,
Barrett, referring to now,
My previous motion Mister chair. I don't believe thank you
very much for the clarification of the rules. I believe
that you've already done that I don't yeah that's done.
Now. We are preparing the calendar and if there's no one
else wishes speaks that this speak to this the chair
recognizes Alderman Mitchell what you have handed.
It's right handed up an ordinance to the clerk setting the
date and time of the next meeting. Thank you very much
clerk. Please read the ordinance.
I'm before the clerk reads the ordinance the chair
recognizes Alderman Lopez. Thank you. Mr. President. I
moved to lay this item on the table.
Okay.
this I
This item has there's a motion to lay this item on the
table. So just to make sure before we vote in the spirit of
clarity.
If you vote Yes to lay this item on the table. You will be
voting against the calendar for the scheduled meeting on
Friday.
if
If you vote Yes.
If you vote Yes, you are voting against to pass until the
move for the next city council meeting to take place on
Friday. If you vote. No on this motion, you are voting to
continue to move forward with the
How to read the calendar to schedule the meeting on Friday?
So again, if you vote, Yes, you are. Voting to not have a
meeting on Friday, if your vote, no, you wish to move
forward, so that the clerk can read the ordinance so that
we can then eventually vote. Again to pass this ordinance,
to schedule the meeting for Friday.
Madam kilay.
Madam Clerk.
Please call the roll.
You open.
The Voting is now open.
Hit Refresh on your device to submit your vote. The Voting
is now open.
I've
I will now call for a Voice vote if for those who did not
vote on the E voting platform, Alderman Robinson.
Olive
Almond Robinson Allen Robinson is a yes Alleman David Moore.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry all the main Robinson is a no Alderman
David Moore is not present.
I'll be
Albin Villegas
every
Everyone has now voted the Voting is now closed.
There are 30 days 18 years. This motion has spill Madam
clerk. Please read the ordinance.
be
We are ordained by the city council the city of Chicago
Section 1 the next regular meeting of the city council has
new Chicago shall be held on Friday, October 6th, 2023
beginning at 10:45 a.m. And the council chamber on the
second floor and City Hall 121 North LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Illinois section to the ordinance shall take
effect and being forced from an altered passage Gregory
Mitchell Alderman 7th Ward coffee and donuts on the clerk's
office.
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The chair recognizes.
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Play.
Thank you very much. The ordinance is now set for Friday.
What time is it at 10 for 10:45? All those in favor?
Signify by saying, I
All.
All those opposed signify by saying they in the pain of the
chair, the eyes have it.
I'm
Amazon.
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Public comments.
The.
The council will now begin the public, thank you very much
for the chair. Recognizes Alderman Mitchell.
The most.
The motion to reconsider, alright is a motion to
reconsider. I all those in favor of the reconsidering of
this motion signify by saying I
All.
All those who oppose the reconsideration of this motion
signify by saying nay and the opinion of the chair. The
Nays have it, that motion has failed.
Public comments.
The.
The council will now begin the public comment period, which
is limited to a maximum of 30 minutes. Each speaker is
limited to three minutes speakers cannot yield or transfer
their time to another speaker. And he's written comments
that have been submitted will be posted a man available for
all dramatic review. Our first Speaker today is Peter says
mocha.
Hello, my name is pizzas Mega and I live in the 45th and
Ward who do with that $100,000 legal settlement does not
Merit full consideration by the city council by the
committee on, finance nor even Merit, a Public Presentation
by the Department of Law.
Why?
Why. Of course it's the Department of Law who negotiated the
hundred-thousand-dollar settlement, who knew that a
$100,000 and one settlement would require a Public
Presentation. But a $100,000 settlement is a small claim
that all in-person Gardener and he's since fired Ward
superintendent, Charles machine gun State College could
just on the spur of the moment. Raise up a five-man, c PD,
task, force, from the 16th District, a task force that
would bounce an immediate investigation determined the man
that address pass on the address to the conveners of the
task force within mere hours. So that Gardener and the
contents could Circle the man's home in the city provided
Department of streets and sand truck tracked by GPS,
confront, the remains roommate landlord. I'll see if you
remember, do you rate the roommate landlord? And then have
the police. Put the man who found us cell phone, Android
Send it to.
Send it to the police station in the lockup who knew who
knew that a version of the Ed Burke / 14. Wayward Alders
still exists in the department of Los Lunas.
Sofa.
So far the oig has found probable cause that Gardener acted
unethically in having DSS employees hand out the only weed
tickets for sitting all the person. A federal judge has
Sonic. Garner has acted illegally by violating the First
Amendment rights of citizens. The FBI has presented in the
affidavit that alleges Gardner took at least one bribe to
delay. A 130 million dollar development in his own words
and the Department of Law recommends that taxpayers reach
into their own Pockets, not in The Gardener's, $220,000 War
chest, to pay for the hundred-thousand-dollar legal
settlement, to address Gardner's voluntary aberrant
Behavior to enlist CPD members into a personal task force
that mistreated not only missing Mr. George's roommate,
arrested Mr. George himself so far, as We Know,
The cow.
The couch.
The counter.
The council will hide this public description of alderman
person gardeners aberrant Behavior. Regarding Mr. George
because of a $1 fig-leaf $1.
One.
$100,001 vs, $100,000 1 dollars, let's keep a secret for
$1. Don't tell the public what's going on for $1.
Gardner
gardeners one of us
Thank you. Thank you.
thank
Thank you very much for your comments. Our next speaker is
David Rosenberg?
Hello, thank you very much. Mr. Mayor and aldermen. My name
is David Rosenberg from the second ward. I would like to
speak on the migrant issue that there's a confronting all
of us and I'm not just in the city. But the state in the
country. My point is that I don't believe the compassion
for migrants should be used as an excuse for repressive
governments Behavior. I'd like to begin by 20 a finger at
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas. I read in the newspaper that
the people here are putting on buses and sending here have
signed consent waivers, but I have serious questions about
what it is informed consent whether they know what they are
signing with it. They're being defrauded lied to or
otherwise course to manipulated the designing it to the
extent that this is not informed consent. There's a
possibility that Governor Abbott is engaged enforceable
population transfer which would be considered a crime.
Community. And I would implore the official.
Community. And I would implore the officials at the city in
the state to investigate Governor Abbott, to see if he is
indeed engaged in illegal activity, checking Governor
pritzker. He speaks very eloquently and nicely on the
subject. But in my view, he is been slow to respond with
very little material support. He seems good at writing
literacy in picking up the telephone, but at the end of the
day, he is only Built one shelter. I believe we Bill 21
here. I want to point out 3/4 of the people in the state
and 51 billion dollars of Revenue or outside of the city of
Chicago. It seems to me that by not acting word of a
sanctuary state that he's declared. He is, he is by not
acting pushing all of the burden on the citizens of the
city of Chicago, which is unjust finally met or Johnson.
I really
I realized the mayor is inherited a large part of this
problem and has not been on the job long enough. To really
a formula to a long-term plan that never the last, what?
I'm reading in the newspaper. All right, give me, great
concern. I don't want to be too dramatic, but there are
elements known as guillemins to this program, to the extent
that it is being articulated and secret. A secret plan to
install a Citywide system of internment camps and forth.
military country
Military contractors with no public debate no cost benefit
analysis arbitrary and capricious Geographic demands. I
think a situation like this the men's robust public debate.
The man's a credible plan demands that the focus beyond the
humanitarian needs of the migrants and on the legitimate
democratic needs of the citizens of this city. So we do not
engage in an arbitrary and unnecessary destruction of
revenue streams in the destruction of personal property.
Thank you very much for your comments. However, your time
has expired our next speaker is Elena Gormley.
Allen
Elena please press star 6 to unmute.
A good good morning. Can you hear me? We can hear you?
I got.
I guess good morning. My name is Elena Gormley. I am the
co-chair of Chicago Democratic socialists of America. I
serve on the steering committee for 48 Ford neighbors for
justice. I'm on the board of national lawyers Guild Chicago
and I am a member of Social Service Workers United Auto and
all of these organizations and many more are part of the
collaborative for Community Wellness, which is been Friday
or we building our public mental Healthcare infrastructure
across the city I'm speaking today.
pick up or
Go to support passage of the treatment, not trauma working.
This working group of practitioners and community members,
and people directly impacted by Chicago, shooting for
history of Albert. Mental health care centers will be
tasked with providing recommendations on how we can
effectively build our public structures appear. In many
Fantastic, nonprofits that provide mental health counseling
support across Chicago, simply cannot meet the need of our
city and Nation. Acute Mental Health crisis, we need a
clear plan on how we can reopen public Mental, Health, Care
Centers, and expand a public non-police crisis response.
Program, to serve the entire city. We are not blank was
effectively support people who need high quality Counseling
Services through a very fragile Patch worth of private
clinics and we cannot provide
African.
ethical and competent Services when people are having the
worst days of their lives by collaborating directly with
people who have guns and badges, in the broad authority to
beat up until people. I heard you all to support and vote.
Yes, for the treatment, not, working group. Thank you.
Thank.
Thank you. Thank you very much for your comments.
Are.
Our next speaker is a Carla Alta Mere.
Are.
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with.
With them back to her. Okay, we come back to Carla.
Aren't.
Our next speaker is Isabella Mancini.
Good morning. Can you hear me? This is Carla.
Thank you.
Thank you for that apology for the the text if you hear, my
name is Carla. And I am the co-founder and co-director of
collective power of the community's most impacted to and
gender-based violence. And I also served as chair of the
first-ever gender-based violence passport. I am glad that
the city council is having an honorary uplift domestic
violence awareness month since 2021. The city of Chicago
has been a national leader in investing on the issue of
gender-based violence, and uplifting Survivor leadership by
establishing the fourth and launching a strategic plan that
has led to establishing the first ever serve.
level four
Weather for Connecticut launching training for Mountain
City departments and moving prevention education
after-school. And this is why I'm here today as a task
force. We've submitted a bunch of proposal seeking 14.1
million dollars for the initiatives that would work to
prevent gender-based violence resources are needed to
launch an initiative by peer health program and ensuring
parents receive life-saving information to support the
community resources are also needed for this abuse Survivor
working M group whose funding sustains the leadership of
community members were critical. Partners in shaping the
direction of the store and we believe that this
Administration can really make an impact by appointing a
deputy mayor of gender-based violence to double-down on the
solid body of work on gender based violence that was
created in collaboration with Advocates said that this
Administration inherited of resources so that can like the
Survivor working.
Can meaningfully participate and have decision-making power
with the government an honorary resolution is important,
but what would be even better is funding our budget
proposal and ensuring there is a full-time dedicated
person. Thank you.
Thank.
Thank you very much. Much was out near. Our next speaker is
Isabella Mancini.
Many.
My name is Isabella Mancini, I'm here today because I'm a
licensed clinical social worker who was raised in Belmont
Cragin and I have spent the last decade working with people
in Chicago experiencing homelessness, I work with people
every day who need permanent housing being excluded, from
housing or being put into short-term housing with
inadequate resources, particularly Justice impacted people,
people who are diagnosed with serious mental illness or
substance use disorder and people living with HIV. We need
the long-term, dedicated Revenue that bring Chicago home
has been calling on for years or we will see our most
vulnerable Chicago in Center back into homelessness. When
are funds dry up? We have already been seeing this start to
happen in my feel that it is inexcusable. We are entering
yet. Another brutal Chicago winter with nowhere near enough
resources to accommodate the level of need. Our communities
are facing despite our plan being sound data-driven and a
model base.
The other.
The others.
The other see.
The other cities are opposition, is spreading some
misinformation and I would like to set the record straight,
the neighborhood building owners Alliance. One of the
groups spreading this misinformation has over 600 members.
Each member owns, an average of 300 units, for landlord
many of these landlords have been raising rents for years
when they
purchase of property
Purchase of property blaming this campaign as an excuse to
raise rent is just an excuse for wealthy landlords to prop
it up everyday Chicago in the reality is that landlords
will benefit from this ordinance because the tenant base
subsidies we are advocating for will fill units provide
guaranteed rent a participating landlord improve Tennessee
skills and allow landlord to increase rent annually in
accordance with local fmr. It is time for building owners
and landlords to get on board.
We need housing resources that meet the needs of all
sixty-eight thousand homeless Chicago in not just some of
them because no matter who we are we all deserve a place to
call home. Our new Administration can contribute to
changing the landscape of homelessness in Chicago this
cannot be done without passing bring Chicago home. Thank
you at I need a plumber see just for a second. Thank you
for your testimony is your pup the public comments. Can we
just bring the conversations down just a little bit so that
we can hear people and just for the record Isabella is
here. She's speaking from the balcony of please call the
next public speaker.
Are.
Our next speaker today.
Our next speaker today is Peggy. Lee on Carey.
Aren't.
Our next speaker is George Blakemore.
Leave.
Leave it. I cannot believe it. Listen, don't take my
minutes away. Now.
You said I what I'm talkin baby. Please continue mr. Blake
I cannot believe it.
That.
That at this council is completely out of control. When the
public speak the people, listen, they got up and left. The
Blakemore is because of you.
Are State telling you something and I'm telling my people
something illegal immigrants, vote them out, the Democratic
party have betrayed you.
Boom. Boom.
Come by.
Gumball.
Disrespectful.
Miss.
Mr. Blue
Mr. Blakemore, thank you very much for your comments.
However, your time has expired.
Are.
Our next speaker is Peggy. Lee on Carey.
Hello.
Good morning everyone. The name is Peggy, Lee on Carey, and
I've been a resident of Westridge for 25 years and due to
unforeseen medical reasons. I became homeless. And I was
looking for shelter, went to Heartland three times. They
never had anything. Finally, a gentleman was living at our
communities United. I've started not that cat worker
Catholic Workers and
I,
I went there, they got me a place to stay during the
pandemic, which I really needed somewhere to go and
My daughter still lives in our Westridge, but I have just
six months ago, we moved to Plainfield and I came here
today. It took me an hour and a half to get here and to
speak. And I want to let everyone know that bring Chicago
home is the right way to go. And I want to be able to come
back and live in this neighborhood again. So I can be with
my friends and family and
Don't have to.
don't have to go through the couch, surfing the double up
in and
Alma.
Almost being put out on the streets if it wasn't for my
friends and family and I would again bring Chicago home is
the right way to go. Thank you.
They?
Thank.
Thank you miscarry for your comments. My next speaker is
Hendrick. Jacoby Clawson.
Hello. My name is Kendrick and I am 11 years old. I live in
Logan Square and in the beautiful city of Chicago.
Play.
Twice a month item, Sasso Community table, which is a hot
meal program run House people. That is run like a big
dinner party. We drink hot, chocolate and play. And coffee.
We played chess tour, Bruno and sometimes sing karaoke. We
Gather because a lot of people need food, a place to get
out of the cold or to see a doctor, many of these people
have become my friends and that is why I'm here to ask you
to support bring Chicago home.
Read.
REI Chicago, Chicago home would mean, a lot of people I care
about my friend, Calvin lives outside and he had TV last
winter. This tent was stolen, Nikki hasn't seen her
eight-year-old in a year because she doesn't have a stable
place to live. It doesn't have to be this way earlier this
year. I spent many days door-knocking and greetings orders
till three of you get into your seats today.
I'm not I'm not text policy expert yet but I am clear about
what is fair and what is not. It is not fair that we
heading to another year with 68,000 people on house in our
city.
We need to ask the 4% of property buyers with the most
money to pay a little more, to create a safe place to live
for their neighbors. Like, my friends at South Sioux
Community table. Thank you for doing the right thing in
voting. Yes, on bring Chicago home.
Thank.
Thank you very much for your comments.
are
Our next speaker is Jaclyn rassner.
Hello, this is hi. My name is Jacqueline rasner, and I'm
here with the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs. I'm a mom of
three and a resident of the 32nd Ward.
Last week I had the privilege of sharing. Excuse me, sir. I
had the privilege of sharing bring Chicago home to my faith
community at Yom, Kippur services to close to 2,000 people
many of them were homeowners who will be impacted by the
real estate transfer tax increase proposed and they fear
that this ordinance is voting against their best interest
many of them have started receiving Postcards From The Real
Estate industry claiming in bold letters that their taxes
are going up to combat that untruth being delivered to
their mailbox. I was able to share my best interest as a
Linkin Park homeowners who will be impacted by the red tax
increase when I go to purchase a new home.
it is a
It is inaccurate to say that I am voting against my
interest because I'm interested in a whole lot more than
how much I pay in taxes. I'm interested in living in a city
that ensures that all children have the benefits that might
take for granted a safe place to sleep at night a place to
shower and be clean and the consistency and routine.
it comes from having a
It comes from having a home to call.
It comes from having a home to call their own. I'm
interested in allowing seniors to age with dignity in the
comfort of their own space, and not on the street. I'm
interested in living amongst folks who have access to
treatment for their mental health and for drug addiction,
I'm someone who believes housing is a human, right? And it
is in my interest to live in a city where that is true?
Excuse me, sir. I believe that we have the power through
this ordinance to help the homeless that we can see. And we
also to help the homeless, we don't see people who are
double staying somewhere. They are not on the lease or
mortgage. These folks may have a roof over their head for
the night but they don't know how long they will be.
Welcome at any moment, they could be asked to leave
They don't.
They don't get to experience the safety that you can feel
in your own space. The feeling of unwinding and turning off
and being their true authentic self. And you can't do that
without a home to call your own. I am here today, using my
power and my privilege and asking all of you, especially by
Alderman. Scott waguespack to vote. Yes. On bring Chicago,
home and help. Bring
System.
The stomach change the Chicago's housing prices. Thank you.
Thank.
Thank you, Miss Rosner. Our next speaker is it Jermaine
Dixon.
Good.
Good morning everybody. I'm a CNA at Mount Sinai Hospital.
I've been working there for four and a half years. I'm a
union. Can you hear me?
I'm just going to tell my own story. I was homeless once
before myself, I lived in a car. I slept UIC parking lot
for three weeks and then one day, my friend came to me and
she told me, she's my friend, you don't have to live like
that. You can come and stay with me. So I stay with my
friend, for maybe a year and all she let me save my money.
She didn't charge me anything. I end up getting accepted in
low-income housing. I had low income housing off. My
What I was going to do was to stay there for 5 years and
try to move somewhere, you know, somewhere where I can pay
my home, but I have to pay no rent so nobody else. So it
and I end up staying out there for 12 years. I think that
for 12 years, I was working. I was working at my
homelessness and I was also working. While I was in
low-income housing but low income housing, it help me and
help me to save my money to help me. Forget my mom, I
expect my self-esteem back up to go back out into society
and get my own life back into order. So now I'm two years
ago, I bought a house and I'm in the house
But if it wasn't for low income housing, nobody don't it
don't matter know where I'll be for that, you know what I'm
saying? The hell we need to help in our communities. I've
been in the 24th Ward, my whole life, but I moved out to
Chicago Heights, but I feel beaten the 24th Ward. I'll be
there with my friends, we try to do things in the community
to help the people that's in our communities. So we don't
have to be homeless or to help each other but without our
government, helping us mare, hello mayor, but we need this.
We need this help because I'll kiss is coming up behind us,
you know what I'm saying? And then two, we working in these
little jobs like we all get to check some money. I mean to
checks up here very soon, we we get to check, both my
checks have to pay my rent almost so we need some stuff to
help out other people that can't do that stuff. And that's
why we need the program break Chicago home. Thank you.
Thank you, miss texting for your comments. Your honor.
There are no further speakers. Who have time to sign up for
the public. Comment. Thank you very much for all the public
comments resolutions. We have two of them today. The first
commemorates domestic violence awareness month and the
second
it commemorates Breast Cancer, Awareness Month, ottoman
Mitchell,
Move for the temporary suspension of the rules. For the
immediate consideration of these two resolutions directions
to order in the interest of time, we will forgo the reading
of the resolution and we will go straight to the remarks
from City Council.
Our first resolution.
Are.
Our first resolution for is resolution commemorating
domestic violence awareness month. Are there any older men
who wish to speak to this resolution?
Chair rail.
Chair recognizes ottoman laspada.
Play.
Thank.
Thank you so much, mr. President for the first Solution by
endless, thanks to the folks sitting with us today. We're
doing this tireless and exhausting and I have to believe in
my heart. Often discouraging work of trying to prevent an
address violence in our communities. For too long, are far
too long in this city. It was a marginal silent invisible
issue. That we only knew quietly in our doors, in our
building.
What happened?
What's happening? I'm glad that we're not quiet anymore. I
was honored to see our mayor at The Retreat for the genre's
finest task force earlier this year, the listing that you
did but hearing that you did some survivors from those in
the work was so meaningful. The visit we were able to do. I
don't know if anyone's here from the Children's Advocacy
Center. That is tangentially related. Not even tangentially
related. The fact that every year north of 2,000 children
go to the CC who have been either victims or witnesses to
sexual and domestic violence in their homes is
heartbreaking. And we know that that's an undercount of
what we're hearing.
I was with.
I was really proud a couple years ago when we put forward
the largest single investment in domestic and gender-based
violence in the city's history. I was done professionally
discouraged at the pace that those dollars came out. And
now you all have given us a charge. We know what we need to
do. We know what we can do in terms of the Investments That
reduce violence in our homes we know especially that
addressing in investing violence in our homes leads to a
decrease in violence in our streets. I just want to thank
you for the work for the charge for the account ability to
not only hear from you and honor you but do the work
alongside thank you. Thank you. Autumn in the chair
recognizes alderwoman.
Auto.
Old woman mix.
Thank you, mr. President, I would like to ride just say
that.
If ever was a time before when it becomes too domestic
violence, now is the time that we need to pay attention as
I continue to meet with each. One of the commanders
domestic violence is the top of the list and turns up the
incidents, they have to go and check out. Even when you see
today, people see a bowl and if they can just hit and not
women's down, I just saw incident the other night, just not
the young lady down on the concrete, you know. Yes. And it
is sad when when I was young people is are in these
situations and we are not paying attention. I think his
incoming phone. All of Chicagoans about everyone. To pay
attention to domestic violence. Think a lot of it came out
of Cobra is more so now and home then.
Gun violence is a domestic violence every day as a tad, a
domestic violence. So we need to really pay attention to
that is just not arguing anymore. People seem to take it to
a different level and that's where and if you don't believe
it try to Domestic Violence Court and and just noticed the
cases that are there. Check with any of the police
district. And look at the statistics on the number of
domestic violence case you're interested in Chicago and yes
it is something that we need to have a full-blown going
out. Campaign regarding domestic violence here in the city.
Thank you, mr. President. Thank you. Older woman recognizes
old woman Ruth Cruise.
Thank.
Thank you, mr. President I have a message for those going
through domestic violence and survivors her domestic
violence. We want you to know that we are here to listen
without judgment and that you are not alone in your fight.
Remember to be kind to yourself. You are brave and you are
lost. We want you to know that we are here to help. And for
those who know of someone who is experiencing domestic
violence, please lend, a hand reached out to talk to them.
Let them know there is
But I asked you not to give up on them, is not an easy
task. I sometimes, for those individuals to let go of a
relationship, I was able to help a young lady at a very
young age, who was in a relationship. She was physically
abused. And when I took that young lady with me, many will
say she's going to leave. She's going to leave your side,
but I never let her go. I was always by her side to make
sure she never went back to relationship like that. So I
asked you, we all tend to hear of someone and I ask you
again, not to let go and keep fighting. Because again, for
those who going through the fight you're not alone. We're
here to listen and again no judgment. Please reach out for
help help and then also help those to Aaron. A thank you so
much mr. Breast, thank you older woman to chair recognizes
Alder Andre Vasquez.
I'm down. Thank you, mr. President.
It.
Okay. Yes, please. Thank you so much, mr. President, I also
rise to be associated with such resolution. Thank you all
so much for your courage, invoicing, I'm sorry, I need a
lot of us go through and I don't think we all acknowledge.
Not only is a domestic violence on Partners, but I think
many of us and I say us have grown a household where there
is domestic violence, whether we are direct victims. His
children or witnessing it in the household and the effect
that has on many of us as we grow up. And don't have proper
understanding, what it means, like to be loved and cared
for it. Something we also need to think through all my
think about a lot of folks who
Engage.
Engage in the kind of corporal punishment that I think
isn't helpful but are quick to rely on the old, adage of,
you know, not sparing, the rod on their children. I could
bet that most of the folks that we see in our Judicial
System have been victims of it or have witnessed it. I
know, I can't I say to somebody who grew up myself getting
beat down so they just kind of shame to admit but I want to
thank you all cuz I know maybe that's not spoken about
enough. I may want to make sure that I thank you all for
Having the courage to even begin the conversation. So many
of us will also been victims and maybe you don't want to
say it or able to say it cuz there's many. There's too many
of us in communities and we know that sometimes corporal
punishment
Slave.
play remind
Slavery, mindsets, and how? Well, we think correctly
Behavior should be either. We should all know that it's
incorrect Behavior and the anyone putting a hand on anyone
is unnecessary uncalled for, and she called out at any
second. So, thank you all so much, please hold us
accountable. Please, push us to do more. So they were able
to do more because you got a lot of children out here in
the city of Chicago that needed as well. So we can have a
better City for all. Thank you so much.
Thank.
Thank you old man. The chair recognizes alderman
waguespack.
They?
Thank you, mr. President, I stand in support of both of
these resolutions that you've put forward a National Breast
Cancer Awareness Month, as well as domestic violence and
want to continue to make sure that we fight as a council
for gender equity for all women, or the issues of breast
cancer, awareness. And to make sure that we support those
Advocates, those leaders and all of our city organizations
and frankly throughout the world, as you kind of see people
standing up to this inequality and violence. That is
exhibited in workplaces and behind closed doors at home. A
lot of you stood with us, as we fought these issues, in the
Park District, in different agencies, throughout the city
and with Advocates and their individual organizations. Over
many years, I want to stand up and say that I'll stand with
you.
Workout.
work on the
work on those issues of
Work on those issues. As we move forward, we have a lot of
Champions in the city and different organizations. Women
who fought hard over the years, women who we've ordered
through funding of different organizations and a lot of
Champions that will continue to lead. The way one of those
Champions that helped us in the last Administration. I
think we should have knowledge is Darcy Flynn. She is the
she was the director of
The gender-based violence policies and strategies in the
last Administration, she helped us fight on issues of human
trafficking. Human trafficking, which continues to this
day, not only overseas, but here in the United States, we
have to do everything we can to make sure that we eradicate
that I spoke out against the Garda contract the other day.
Mr. President, because I was looking back at what that
company had done in terms of those for records on human
trafficking on committing fraud, and I was upset.
but I
But I want to see that if we move forward with these people
that we are Vigilant, and make sure that none of that
happens on our watch. And having strong champions in the
city council in our different agencies here in the city and
throughout the organizations. In the city means that we
will keep an eye on that. We will watch it. We will
eradicate it where
An.
and, and
And and I hope to stand with you to do that, but I want to
make sure that we acknowledge those Champions. Who let us
on this path. We made sure that we can move forward on
these issues with that mr. President against and strong,
support of both of those resolutions that we brought for
today. Thank you. Thank you, old and chair. Recognizes
Alderman Byron sigcho Lopez.
Thank.
Thank you, mr. President. And I also like to rise in
support of these important resolution. I'm more
importantly, I want to acknowledge
Some.
Some members of our community.
Across the city, who continue to be victims of violence.
And in that sense, I would like to remind us about the case
of Karina Gonzalez in Little Village.
I'm a.
A mother of two.
Who was murdered by her husband, including her own
daughter.
I think.
I think that causes all for Action. I'm glad to hear so many
of our colleagues, raising support of this resolution and a
cool that we get the same enthusiasm when we talked about
the Chicago home ordinance, so that we can ensure that no
victim of domestic. Violence is not able to find a shelter
in the city of Chicago. We also want to make sure they're
the same. Enthusiasm is done what we take into
consideration treatment of trauma. So domestic violence
calls are treated properly and if you look in this case, it
is clear that our system failed. This family continues to
fail. Many people across the city and that's Suffering. The
Men's World only Rising support the resolution, but also
raising his support to legislate and passed ordinances that
help us prevent this tragedy in our community. So I guess I
want to thank
all the people in the Box for the wonderful world that you
do day in and day out. And I think it's the responsibility
of this Council to find solutions, to make sure that we
bring resources to our community. So that we can do pizza
games each other. But rather Creative Solutions as a city
of broad shoulders that we are. Thank you so much, mr.
President, thank you very much. Are there any other Alters
that wish to speak? To this resolution the chair recognizes
Oldman Mike Rodriguez.
Think.
Thank you, mister chair.
You know, today we come together to mourn those who have
died because of the mestic violence. Celebrate, those who
have survived and connectors work, too, and violence.
You.
In.
You know, it's this is a very personal issue for many of
us. In the spirit of celebrating. Those who have worked
hard and violence. I want to bring up the spirit of my
mother who 12 years ago left us but left us as a rape
victim Advocate working at Mount Sinai, Hospital Bethany
Advocate and the work that she did was so incredible and so
inspiring and so difficult.
In.
and,
And I just know, personally how texting that work can be,
especially if you're doing that work and also are a victim
of domestic violence. Have to rise and recognize.
all the
all those who are doing this challenging, but most important
of work, I'm glad my my colleague brought up Karina
Gonzalez,
who she and her daughter were shot and killed by their
father and husband in the domestic violence incident this
year, three blocks from my house
Go.
Going to the funeral.
What?
Was particularly devastating.
And that's from someone who knew the family, but wasn't the
family wasn't the surviving child. I can only imagine what
the family was going through.
so,
So I think it is incumbent upon all of us to do more the
same or to be more when it comes to this issue. And I want
to reiterate that we mourn. Those who have died, we
celebrate. Those Will Survive and we want to
where,
work.
Work to end violence. Who throws. Who can see to do the
hard work? Every day to try to end this? Most Savage of
issues. Thank you mr. President. Thank you, aldermen. Are
there any other Alters that wish to speak? To this
resolution very well. Oh, I'm sorry, the chair recognizes
alderwoman. Hello, Martina
The.
Good.
Good, thank you president. I just also went to Verizon
support and my colleague. Cruz just said, women and men.
Cuz also men's, they are not alone in this city.
There.
There's a lot of resources and there's a lot of Helping
Hands and I know that he takes not one time and that's why
sometimes more than three times for people to get the
courage to go out there and get that help.
We?
Women men.
Please.
Go out there and report it.
go out there and seek help and always
Remind ourselves that is for you for your kids and at the
beginning is going to be hard but later on you'll be able
to succeed. You just need to be confident of getting that
step forward.
And continued life is not easy but I could tell that it's
going to be easier later on when you'll I leave that
behind. Unfortunately, at working at CPS couple years a lot
of moms were facing that and I'm happy to say that I was
able to give them that hand and provide those resources
that they need em. Any of those times were family that just
spoke Spanish families and moms are were worried about
their status cuz they thought that they were going to get
deported. If they go out and and report it, Mom's North
Gonzales,
BECU state has money in the port on my mom's phone. It
doesn't matter your status. You're going to get to help you
disturbing. You need go out there be brave. And if you need
something, come to my office for King Ward, there's a woman
that I understand you and my staff will help you through
the system. And unfortunately, sometimes going to the court
system, its lengthy. His just, you have to be there a
couple of times a couple of days, but if I need to go with
you all about it, I'll make time to go and help out as
well. It's really important that we really understand these
issues and specially my word
Alarm.
A lot of women face it.
and I,
And then stand up for others.
So we just need to be conscious of these and Collie that's
me that helping hand that are considering doing, thank you.
All.
Off the chair recognizes old woman lead. Thank you, mr.
President, I to rise in support of this resolution and I
want to use my time to say, thank you. Thank you to all of
you that are represented here in the box that do this work.
Everyday, commissioner kanazi, you and your team. I'm at
the city organizations like in the dark on when an Asian
American community in the Southeast Asian community in, for
our communities. Like, others is very difficult to talk
about these issues. And for a long time before you came
along, there wasn't a place for women in our community
women and men in our communities, who face domestic
violence. And I thank you for all the work that you're
doing and I know that there's a lot more work to do you
count me in as a partner just like my other colleagues, I
would love to see more resources and places available for
victims of domestic violence to go to do. Thank you for all
that you do.
They?
Thank.
Thank you very much. Older woman. Elite are those all that
wish to speak to this resolution very well. I stand with
this body and this Council to speak, to this resolution.
I'm in the city of Chicago, we recognize October as
domestic violence awareness month to shed light, on a very
critical issue that is affecting Too Many Lives throughout
our city. This is our time to unite as a city to raise our
voices and to stand together against domestic violence,
this cannot be a private matter in the way in our homes.
It is.
It is a public issue that affects our entire city and
people of all walks of life, regardless of gender age race
or socioeconomic background is our duty as city leaders to
lead with compassion, to the collaborative, in our
response, to end the cycle of violence throughout all of
our communities.
The last four years to see if Chicago has been focused on
addressing the issue of gender-based violence and domestic
violence, including the development of Chicago's,
first-ever strategic plan to address gender-based,
violence, and human trafficking. That work will continue
and expand in this Administration to realize our vision for
better. Stronger in a much safer is Chicago. I'm committed
to using the full force of government to build the safety
Network that is, informed, by survivors driven by data and
accessible in all of Arts.
Is.
this is,
This month, and every month. Let us reach out, and support
the organizations and initiatives that are dedicated to
eradicating domestic violence. Let us remember those who we
have. Lost a domestic violence and honor those who survive
and together. Let us ensure that Chicago can be a safe
haven built on love respect and empathy for all. Thank you
all very much.
The SEC.
The second resolution for consideration as we reset.
Second resolution Mitchell list for the passage of its
resolution passage in the Bahamas.
Thank.
Thank you very much hearing, no objections. So ordered
our next resolution commemorates and recognizes this month
is Breast Cancer, Awareness Month,
Petit.
The chair recognizes ottoman. Mitchell. I'm sorry. Old
woman Harris. Thank you mr. President president arrives. It
support this resolution and today would like to thank all
our guests in the Box for everything that they do to put
out a message for women. And I, I want to challenge every
female that is out there for to go and get her a regular
mammogram. I'll give you my story. My story is that I
hadn't had a mammogram in 5 years.
While I watch my sister go through her breast cancer
treatment.
And October one rolls around and some said, go get your
mammogram. And I just, I'm, I had, I don't never do. I
listen to myself and I went and had that mammogram, why
stay so long in the doctor's office? At the something
wrong, but blew it all still. But then they called me back
and said I was going to take some more test. I'm still not
challenged by it, but I'm here to say to breast cancer
and that it,
And that it will take you out.
and,
And it doesn't ask have to take you out, like you think you
can make you sick for 7 years and can make you sick for 10
years? It can make you suffer it. Can you ask? You
literally watch your loved ones evaporate. In front of you,
through this disease is real, but there's good news. You
can have that test, you can get tested. If you can catch it
early, you can have your surgery on your chemo and lose
your hair and bball and I couldn't break the ball in this,
but I'm I'm going to pray about that one, but you can do
all those things. Technology is wonderful.
I want.
I wasn't sick. So not to say that it was a fun Journey, but
I'm just telling you you too, can survive it. So now that
wasn't when I had a 2019. So now fast forward, I'm almost
close to four years of not having cancer. So,
I won't beg any woman to put yourself first sometimes and
this is one of those times you cancer or take you out. Put
yourself first breast cancer again. Is it runs in our
family for people that don't know. My, I got diagnosed in
1994, she never stopped taking chemo till she died.
Biden 2001.
Died in 2001. So I can tell you by the time she called her
breast cancer it wasn't a Volkswagen with a Mack truck.
It is.
It has spread to all parts of her body and I always
respected her because she was sick as a dog but she never
miss days here. She came down here, she did her job every
day but I'm telling you Jesus. Thank you for not letting me
be her because I don't know that I could have been a
champion like she was do women, take care of yourself. Go
get that mammogram. I promise you, you will it will save
your life. I promise you that, if you go on that journey
and you have cancer,
The.
but,
the treatment are so amazing.
Hey.
Have the treatment, get back in time, being and Curry. Some
other women who are afraid on the journey. I'll hold
anybody's hand. I'll go to chemo with you, and I'll sit for
your to our 3 hour or for our journey with you and hold
your hand just so that, you know, that there's somebody
that's with you. As I went on my journey, I was grateful, I
have family, but there were so many women sitting in that
room and I will tell my kids that go over there and hold
her hand. You are right, I'm good. I'm going to sleep,
golden hold, somebody's hand who doesn't have somebody. And
so, I pray that we find a cure for cancer.
But I want to see.
But I want to thank the women who deal with this sickness
and deal with women who are sick every day. It is a
difficult at best to see women walk in front of you
everyday and to continue to keep encouraging them on their
Journey. So again, thank you from the bottom of my heart,
for everything that you do for women who go through this
process and at the end of the day, I'm going to say thank
you God.
Thank.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
All.
Alderwoman Harris.
Check.
chair recognizes old woman, Nicole Lee
make.
make a
Thank you, mr. President, I to rise in support of this
resolution and I am in the Survivor Club on Alderman
Harris.
and,
And I took this journey. I had my surgery last year, while
I was in office, I'm going on, still a lot of people when I
got that, when I got the call about the abnormal mammogram,
my mom being a two x Survivor something in the back of my
mind just like yours, Michelle said, something's wrong. But
thankfully, we do have all this technology breast cancer is
one of the most treatable cancers. If you can catch it
early, I thank you for all the work that all of you do. I
don't know what every single one of you does with the
different organizations, but I know the breast of the
support.
There.
Is there a mammogram mammography and diagnostic tests for
those that are uninsured and underinsured? I mean how
important is that? Because if you have a history of you
don't know, you can just be sitting there with a ticking
time bomb and there's nothing like being a single mom and
hearing that hearing from the doctor that you have cancer.
You're?
You're not sure what's it, what's going to happen to you,
or your family. And to have somebody there to tell you,
it's going to be okay, give me a hard. Maybe, we don't
know. But that to have the support for these organizations
through women like Michelle Harris and others. Actually,
she was one of the first people I told a lie enough, and
she was there literally to hold my hand so I can tell you,
she was good for that.
But this in every not just October, we should be talking
about this all the time.
Earl.
Early detection is the biggest key to survival for this. So
if you if your woman sitting in the chair, when you have it
in your of the right age and you haven't scheduled your
mammogram yet. Please go do that. Just know. So that you
know how to take care of yourself if you need to and
continue with all of this Hardware. Thank you. Thank you,
mr. Mayor for this resolution, and for calling out this
important issue. Thank you. Thank you, older woman, the
chair recognizes Alderman. Derrick Curtis. Thank you. I was
present and I to ride to support this resolution. I was a
young lad is 11 years old when my mom passed away with
cancer.
Breast cancer.
Breast cancer at the young age of 31 years old.
No, it was it was, I'm sorry that she wasn't and couldn't
celebrate her being a cancer survivor, but God ways is not
our ways. And then I accept always remember that. You have
a friend in me, a thank you for all the work that you do
and I'm here to always fight and fight finish. The course
and help. Keep the faith. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
All the men. Thank you, the chair, recognizes Alder. Maria
Haddon.
Nope, I'm sorry. Apologies.
Are.
Are there any other Alters that wish to speak to this the
chair recognizes all de Fuentes?
Thank.
Thank you, mr. President, I to stand in support of this
resolution.
Cancerous Denniston.
It robs people, we love.
To Earl.
Too early and too often.
Today, I want to recognize two friends in the box today.
April Curtis and Karina, Ayala two, women that I have had
the luxury of being around of learning from
I want to.
I want to thank you. I want to thank you for your bravery.
I want to thank you for your resilience.
I want.
I want to thank you for your fight.
Cuz it's easy to give in, and give up.
Spy.
Fighting cancer is not easy.
So, while we are,
He?
Here to make sure that we are raising awareness around
breast cancer.
It's great to have the month and raising awareness. We have
to make sure that we're investing in the proper tools.
and interventions and prevention programs that allow women
across the city of Chicago in the country to understand
just how important screenings are
Just how important it is to.
Take care.
Take care of.
Take care of your health and be conscious.
That one in eight women.
I'll
I likely to get diagnosed with breast cancer.
let,
That we can live long lives.
If?
If we do the things that we have to be so proud of the
women that are in the room and the men who are parents,
two, beautiful. Women are Partners to beautiful part. So I
will have sisters and nieces and mothers, please remind
them how important it is to get that screening.
Is it?
It's been probably one of the most difficult years and me
watching people. I love fight breast, cancer people in the
Box, people who are not here today.
If?
Difficult to wash your body transform.
Text.
That's made very difficult decisions and those decisions
are the difference between life and death.
Many were.
Many women.
I'm so today I stand in support of this resolution, but I'm
also committed to what it requires to building that
awareness in that Consciousness Beyond this month. So that
we can continue to stabilize and make sure that women live
long lives and so, April, and Karina, thank you. Thank you
for your friendship. Thank you for your fight, and thank
you for that resilience. And you're willing this rights,
not just fight cancer, but to also be advocates
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for being here today. Thank you, mr. President.
Thank you. Thank you very much. The chair recognizes Alder
Vasquez.
Thank.
Thank you very much Miss president. I Rise to be probably
associated with this resolution and recognition of Breast
Cancer Awareness Month.
You know.
You know, we have these every year, range of Alders come up
and say, how important it is to them. And I, I want to
apologize cuz I know in years prior, I've done that is a
little different for me this year, couple months ago, I was
diagnosed with cancer and the feeling when you first hear
it from, so I can before you get diagnosed when you even
have the concern, and you think it might be something in
your waiting to have to get a diagnosis. What your mind
does to you is is something that I don't know, a lot of
people truly understand. And so I have a better
understanding of that when you hear the diagnosis and in
your mind, you're going through the fact that you might
have a limit to your life that that you're seeing, right?
Other people don't know, but as soon as you're being
diagnosed,
You think of?
You think about all the things that you're going to lose
your children, your family in some regard, your sanity,
right? You feel like, you know, there's something in your
body that makes you completely feel different and it's tied
to who you are as a person in and having a better
understanding about that. I am terribly. Sorry for not
raising the awareness even more. But now, I, I commit to
that fully and I want to thank you for the Curtis, sing it
out loud. Me being diagnosed and thankfully didn't need
chemo or radiation. Led to meet us, being absolutely
public. And getting people to understand because every
anybody feels like an ache or pain, you kind of try to
shrug it off when you should be checking it out and when
you don't check it out, it could be too late. And so we
have to make sure that everyone makes a commitment to
regular checkup that our sister is, our mothers are kids
are checking up when they're able to, but I think further
than that because we are a level of government that I
believed him do more. I don't think we haven't.
Conversate.
Mercedes.
Conversations about what chemicals come into our body,
whether it's food that we eat, when there's things that
were around, that leave two things that cause mutations
that cause cancer. And so, as the municipality we do have
the power to say, hey, if this chemicals that's located in
your food coloring or whatever, preservative could
potentially lead to cancer. Maybe we should think about
what we do at the city to let people know that that's in
the food we eat or the Bandit out, right? And so I would
ask that in in addition to making sure you hold us
accountable to rain,
That you also hold us accountable to write in the
legislation that not only make people aware and have them
checking prevent it from happening in the first place and
making sure that doesn't profit off of whatever. They're
putting out there and don't care about the house of other
people as they're making their profit are held accountable.
So we don't have this kind of chemicals out here for both.
So thank you all so much know that we are committed to
doing that. Know that you should definitely reach out to us
and me and hold us accountable so that we make those
changes from a city level so that we stayed more Life by
doing son. Also, thank you so much. Thank you, mr.
President, that you very much. Thank you very much, the
chair recognizes old woman. Julio Martinez Ramirez, I'm
sorry, you didn't, I'm sorry.
The chair recognizes Ruth Cruise.
My apologies.
Thank.
Thank you. Mister press that. I'm an old look-alike like my
sister Ramirez, but also rice and support with this
resolution and I also want to dress a lot in the box and it
is my friend also April Curtis.
A.
April.
April, when I look at you, I look in your eyes at times,
your tire, your sad by your spirit says something
different. You still showing up to what matters, the most,
what does your community our community? You are still
showing up to events, you're there to support those who are
in the fight with you. You are not. I'll stop at times. I
ask you, are you okay? You need to take a break but you're
like, no, I'm okay. And I have seen you day after day,
showing up to those events and because of that, you're so
brave. You love your community as we love ours too. And I
want to say that I love you for everything that you're
doing for the community. And for what you're doing for
yourself. Just want to say thank you for being here with us
today. But I also accept the challenge of other woman
Harris.
It's
At times we hear that, it's certain age. You have to start
doing mammograms. And for many years, we have believed
after it'll 40-50, you start getting mammograms at the age
of 35, I found a lump in my breast.
It was.
It was the scariest moment of my life just possibly
thinking. What could that be? That is not normal. Couldn't
wait for the doctor's office for me to call and get an
appointment. I got in the same day the same week I got my
first mammogram since then I have been going every six
months because I have to keep an eye on what is happening.
But what I'm saying and why I'm sharing this story is that
we cannot believe or follow certain a certain age. This can
happen at any age. So we have to look into always checking
our bodies. And we all know where every single one of us is
here with Ed, we work Non-Stop and I am past due my
mammogram, so I will try. I'll take the challenge, has been
over that time but we want to make sure it again.
They were all.
They were all we.
They were always check-in ourselves and taking care. So
then we can take of others, our families and our community
as well. And again, everybody in the Box, I just not want
it. Only highlight April, but I want to highlight every
single one of you and then know that you know where we're
all in this fight together and thank you for all the work
that you do. But also today we all have the responsibility
to call or text someone then
To hear from.
To hear from us to say, you have to schedule a doctor's
appointment and also it will be nice. So they somebody that
we haven't talked to in a long time. It will mean a lot to
the person cuz we never know what we're going through. The
place, take the time today. After console call someone call
your sister call Frank. Your college, whoever may be for
reach out to them again. We need a whole village to protect
ourselves from cancer. I lost my mother to cancer, not to
breast cancer.
but,
But I know it's a terrible disease. That takes our loved
ones. Thank you, mr. President, thank you older woman.
And to further avoid forcing anyone to be related into in
this chamber, I have two final speakers unless you wish to
be called upon, I have all the woman Pat Dowell and
Alderman, Jason Ervin, if any of you wish to speak Beyond
almond Irvin, thank you. I'll demand DNC chair recognizes
only one and pat down bring forward this resolution. I was
telling all them in Harris, this morning, I didn't want to
speak because I have, I'm a breast cancer survivor since
2007, and I
I found myself in the same place I was in 2007 today which
was to not speak about it because I thought that it would
mean to people that I had a problem. I was weak, I wasn't
taking care of my family. It wasn't taking care of my own
hell, but I decided this morning that I would stand and
speak because I think that we all have to be storytellers
the people who have gone through this because we have to
get that message out to other women, who may not hear the
message that you give her. I give her all the man Harris
gives or all the men Cruz gives, but I think it's very
important that we do keep uplifting this Scourge on women's
health. So I just wanted to end with one thing we all talk
about mammograms mammograms are
Ford.
But we have to do that manual. Check up.
After we shower monthly. So that between the time, we go to
that. Last mammogram to the next one, that we are very much
aware of what's going on in our body. So I want to thank
you all in the Box for continuing to be the Storyteller to
continue to uplift women and to encourage them to go get
A man.
a mammogram, which
A mammogram which these days you can almost get for free.
Thank you, mr. President. Thank you, old woman down. Thank
you for standing up and telling her story. The chair
recognizes Oldman Irving. Thank you mister mister,
president, and to the alderman, from the Third Ward. There
are no weak women. In this body are no weak women in this
body. I do stand to be associated with this, as a, as a
child. That's a woman that I never knew died of breast
cancer, which was my, grandmother of my paternal
grandmother. But also the fact that the west side of
Chicago has some of the highest
In.
insta.
Instances of breast cancer in the city and it didn't ring
home to be. Until I saw young lady, her name is Renee date,
crossword for city colleges was Aaliyah's on that will come
by our office occasionally every month or so, or she would
come by. She lived in East Garfield Park, actually, a block
away from where I live in, which is one of the communities
that are severely impacted severely impacted by this in to
see her one mom and to find out that she died a month later
from breast cancer. Just blew my mind, they say that as a
ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure and
we have an opportunity as a body to help people with their
Darius.
Serious health challenges. And when we talked about life
expectancy and when you look at someone that lives at at
10:00 North Clark Street, versus someone that lives at 200,
North Monticello in to see a 20-plus year. Life expectancy
got for two people that live Less Than 3 Mi apart. There's
something in that that we have to look at and have to
understand. You have to work to fix and so I don't wear
these clothes just to be last year. Look, you know, like,
you know, somebody called me something that I'm not going
to going to. But nonetheless, it started the spirit of
those that have come before us that have to come to this
tragic disease. Must also be more aware about what we can
do to help encourage others. I'm glad to hear what you
said, Alderman, Harris about encouraging and holding
someone's hand because it is a trying time to go through
something that people believe in. It means instant death.
And they helped
Do that.
Do that chance.
Do that challenge to get them to the other side. Where that
where that is, not the chase. It is different today than it
was 30 40. 50 years ago, where that was a death sentence
where now, the prevention and be able to access and find an
early could mean that you could be cured. So, is it coming
for all of us to help all of our members in this particular
challenge? Because again, ounce of prevention is worth more
than a pound of cure, cuz health is wealth and without our
help.
We?
We really have no.
We really have nothing.
We really have nothing because you can ask somebody.
They?
They do.
They don't talk about on their deathbeds about this that
and the other people wanted to have a long healthy and
vibrant life. This is something that we can do and help
others find out doing the prevention work of this. So
again, for all of our survivors in this, in this Council,
and fall of the survivors here in this building, again, to
the ladies that have been advocating and have been part of
making this important step this month, We Salute, You are,
we're there for you and we want to tell your stories
because your story can help somebody else not meet a fate
that the others have met in this thankless president. Thank
you all the men and thank you for representing the
Westside. The only way west side knows how
35.
Very fine attire today, sir the chair recognizes ottoman
Desmond, Yancey.
Could a?
Good afternoon with the president I to stand in support of
this resolution. I want to speak the name to the record of
three people who are really important to me who are breast
cancer survivors, and that is my mother Barbara Fisher.
My.
My stepmother, Patricia Yancey, and my cousin, Melissa, the
ants events and who are survivors today, because of early
intervention and treatment. And it's not lost on me that
Breast Cancer month and domestic violence matzo happening
in the same time. That's special. We think about the impact
on black and brown women.
so, I'm honored to be a
So I'm honored to be a part of his body was charged with
supporting and caring for the people that are the least of
us recently. Attended, my first groundbreaking is a new
Alderman and that happened to be at the Cancer Institute
for the University of Chicago, which is a very Hospital in
my mother was diagnosed with cancer with cancer and you
know it some
It's a very powerful thing to be in this room with his
survivors and in drivers, powerful women, who have gone
through such traumatic experiences, but it able to be here
and share their story so that others can not only
understand how important it is that we address this issue
and a full-throated way so that we can also care for you
and send love to you. Also, I also want to acknowledge
equal Health Organization. A time is breast, cancer is a
central focus of the work that they do there and just
encourage all of the women here. Please, please, please,
care for yourself. There are men here who love you and want
to see you brother. Thank you, thank you very much. Did I
miss anyone?
Are.
All right, very well. Thank you to this body for your
recognition and support for this resolution. Someone
mentioned this earlier that one in eight women in the
United States. I'm unfortunately would develop breast
cancer over their lifetime. And every year there are nearly
2.3 million new cases and unfortunately, 685,000 deaths
from breast cancer worldwide. This means that is a comment
upon all of us here today.
The.
To do our part.
because we know someone,
What's?
Was fought this disease or we know of someone who's gone
through it and since 1995, our country is coming together
to turn the tie.
I'm happy that we are moving in the right direction.
Bring.
Bringing awareness is just one part of it. We have to
continue to do our part as a body of government as well as
articulated earlier.
Did.
Did you?
To do everything in our power to prevent breast cancer. And
while we have seen 40%, do decreases or decrease in deaths
from breast cancer. The numbers are still especially high
for black women in this month as we wear, pink ribbons or
pink suits,
let,
Let's celebrate.
Let's celebrate what we've accomplished and let us all.
Remember we still have work to be done but together we can
beat this. Thank you all very much.
Urban Mitchell for the passage of this resolution of passage
in the omnibus hearing no objections.
So ordered.
it's
The chair recognizes alderwoman. Pat Dow.
Thank.
Thank you, mr. President, I make a motion to suspend the
rules for the consideration of a resolution honoring, Frank
Harris, Taylor extraordinaire, who is retiring, after
almost five Decades of remarkable work and service in our
city. No objection. So ordered
Mister mayor. Frank Harris is what we call the ghost of the
tailoring industry. Having a client list that includes vice
president, Al Gore mayor Harold Washington mayor. Richard
Daley Center Adlai, Stevenson davel David, Axelrod Muhammad
Ali, and Reverend Clay Evans. Oh, and I forgot. He's also
done some work for you, mr. Mayor right.
Carter in 1974. He opened up his first store in the west
side at Madison, and Karlov and opens a second permanent
store on the Northside of Roosevelt Road. Where he is
today, Frank grew up in Greenwood Mississippi. Where he
learned, how to sew & Stitch in high school. Moving to
Chicago, determined to make his Mark in the big city. I
want to thank Robert Charles and Lester, Carol. The Carol
Junior, for uplifting this great man's achievement for our
city to give him our congratulations for a career. Well
done, I want to acknowledge that he has with him. Mildred
Neil Sarah Townsend, lowest Watkins. Terry Johnson. Tracy
Charles Harrelson. Stephen Sally Townsend, and Lester
McCarroll the third, Mister mayor. I think we owe him a
debt of gratitude for his achievements here in the city.
I'm so,
Absolute.
Absolutely. Thank you. We have a, we have a couple of
minutes here in the chair. Recognizes Alderman. Ervin.
Play.
Thank you, mr. President, as I see you, have you started in
the 28th Ward and is under this last. Remap you ended in
the 28th Ward. I wanted to just say this, I did not get a
chance to get my picture on the wall with you, but your
work procedure. I mean, you know, everybody on the westside
knows about friends out first went to you with next door to
mad when you work over on Jefferson and then subsequently
moved around the rosie. But we just want to thank you for
your work. Your institution, not just for the westside of
Chicago, but all the Chicago, God bless you. And may God
continue to keep you rolling in your retirement.
Thank.
Thank you. Very
Thank you very much, the chair recognizes Alderman Burnett.
Thank you very much.
The spread.
Espresso.
This President, I'll be remiss if I didn't say anything but
also I want to say I apologize. I didn't recognize you man.
I'm used to send you. I'm used to seeing you at the tailor,
shop with your jacket off, and with the measuring stick,
but I want to come in you, you have helped so many of us to
look, well, and and be sharp, you a legend in the
neighborhood. I mean, people talk about you all over the
country who have been in Chicago band close over the years,
we just want to commend you for all your service commend.
You for all of the jobs that you have given so many people
throughout the years. Thank you very much and
congratulations to you and enjoy your retirement. I know
even though you going to be retired, you still going to be
shot man. I know
Okay, thank you very much. The chair recognizes automobile.
You mr. President. I have to rise to support this
resolution actually just a couple of months ago. I was on
my way to meet with you in your office and I needed
something done immediately and I stopped at Frank's and I
said Frank I'm on my way to meet with the mayor. Can you
get this done for me in an hour? So I shot down met with
the mayor and by the time I got done with that meeting came
back, he delivered and he had my item ready for me. As I
came back to the far south side and so your reputation
precedes, you, I just want to let you know, he told me the
same thing when I looked around. He said your pictures not
on the wall either because you haven't brought me the
picture. Thank you so much for everything you've done and
all your hard work and dedication and congratulations on
your retirement. Thank you. Thank you.
Thankfully, Frank that meeting between Alderman bill and I
did not last more than 48 minutes. So the chair recognizes
Alderman Hall.
I want.
I want to see.
Are you?
There you are. Thank you, mr. President, I want to say to
you mister Frank, thank you for allowing us to see what
excellent looks like. It was a Rites of Passage for myself
as a preacher to get tailored by you and even my prom suit
came from you and heading on the day before inauguration
what a joy it was for you to get me. Right? And so thank
you for getting Chicago and raising the bar. Black
Excellence. Thank you mr. Print thank you very much. The
chair recognizes
All.
Almond.
Alderman.
Alderman Moore.
Thank.
Thank you mister president. Please stand in support of this
acknowledgment is resolution Frank, although he's doing on
rubbing Evans taught us a lot. He taught us how to dress
just by watching him but he always always sent us to you as
as deacons. So many deacons from fellowship, came down to
your shop to, you know, get our suits ready. Because we
learned from Robin Avenue, he respected you, he admired
you. And he supported you fully and and I just thank you
for all that you've done ever since I was a little boy
coming down, Maxwell Street. You know we had to bring our
suits to Frank's to get them, you know, Taylor and so thank
you. People say, Hey, you know, David's you dress nice and
all of that but I should be back.
watching people like,
Watching people like Reverend Clay Evans and it was because
of him. You able to keep him looking good in the way you
did his suits and everything. So I thank you so much and I
hope and I'm sure you have cuz I've seen other people work
and that our facility you fire so many people owe, you put
so many people at work and that's a blessing that
contributed to our community. But I'm hoping that, you
know, someone is going to continue your legacy on and I'm
keep that store open. So that Frank's would always going
down in history and we'll have our grandchildren to bring
their. Thank you so much. Thank you Alderman. The chair
recognizes older woman Scott.
Thank you, mr. President, I to rise in support of this
resolution. My dad bought me to your shop. When I was a
young girl, the late, Michael Scott, senior because he
prided himself on looking good every day, every day. And
so, as a young girl, he always made sure that my brother
and I took our clothes to the tailor and you were where we
went. I lost touch for a little while, but I am glad to see
that you are still standing strong about. I always see you
on, always see the the shop on Roosevelt Road. So thank
you. And you know thank you for being a part of our family
of all those years. Thank you. Thank you very much. Are
there any other Alters that wish to speak? To this
resolution? Honoring the great Frank. Alright, well, I'll
close out.
Do older woman pat down for raising, the consciousness of
this Council today. And you know what, I had a chance to
meet Frank a little while ago, my wardrobe consisted of
hoodies and t-shirts and I
went through a transformation to make sure that I was
healthy enough to live out my best life and had a few suits
that were too large and it, when I had the chance to be
frank, I told him I was running for mayor and he said,
well, we need to make sure that you look good.
Bring.
Frankie.
Frank, you made the city of Chicago. Look, good. Your
institution in people who are tailoring today, people who
are starting businesses today. Have you as an example also
want to recognize and thank your family, for your support,
for their support, and I'm sharing with you, sharing you
with the rest of us, all of these years. I'm the pressure
and the time that people expect you to get stuff done.
I think.
I think I'm learning the feeling of that.
Thank.
Thank you for being courageous, and thank you for loving
people enough to make us look our best. Here's our Frank
city of Chicago,
Deer recognizes.
Auto.
Alderman Hopkins.
Thank.
Thank you, mr. President, I rise in a motion to continue
suspension of the rules to take item one on the agree
counter out of order.
Do you know directions to order? Thank you, mr. President,
25 years ago
Are.
Are you?
A young woman in Chicago. Had a bold idea.
With little more than a bishop and a newly-minted degree in
engineering, this daughter of immigrants, first generation,
Chicago in had an idea, the form, and engineering and
construction management company. One of the most
male-dominated fields at the time
You at the time, gave her much chance of success but those
who knew her best new otherwise and knew that her Talent
her tenacity, provision her determination and skill, would
bring her to where we are today. 25 years later and spent a
corporation, is one of the biggest and most successful
engineering and construction management firms in the
country. There isn't an element of Chicago's public
infrastructure that hasn't been touched in some way by her
firm. And there isn't an element of Civic wife, that hasn't
benefited from her volunteerism, her participation, her
involvement, her skills. In fact, they are Johnson. You are
the fourth consecutive Maher to recognize that into a
pointer to a key position.
There's an old saying, if you really want to get something
done, give it to a person who looks too busy to do it and
that describes Smita shot to a tea. She came today with her
husband and her children, and I would like this body to
recognize her for outstanding to the contributions and our
leadership in The Firm that she founded. 25 years ago in
Chicago,
Swedish a
Scooter shop.
MSR.
I miss your present and I will yield if there's any of my
colleagues who wish to comment on this and not ask you to
close a. Thank you older men Hopkins. There are a couple of
older if you wish to speak older woman to chair recognizes
older woman to Coley.
Thank you, mr. President night to rise and support as a
co-sponsor of this resolution. I'm not going to be
repetitive to what my colleague Alderman. Hopkins has said,
but I would be remiss, not to as an Asian-American woman as
an Asian-American leader in this, in this city really sing.
All of us meets Ash's Praises for all that she's done. Not
just for women, but to put station, American community on
the map, I think there's no better representative for our
community in business and Civic life. Because you've shown
leadership on every front whenever you've been asked, you
have answered the call. And I thank you for that. I thank
you for that and a half of all of our Asian American
citizens of the city of Chicago. And for all the little
girls who are out there in school, thinking about what
they're going to be doing next, when they see people like
you and I see people like me are going to hop in worth
Stacy Role Models. Now they see what's possible and they're
not going to have to go out.
Big Al in because they've got our branches to stand on. So
thank you.
Older woman president for knowledge of leadership and
expertise within trusting her with yet. Another very
important appointment. Thank you. Thank you. The chair
recognizes Alderman Conway.
You.
You are chairman. Well, first off, it's me. I can't tell
you how proud I am to have. Spend check actually in the
34th Ward after you do and also, obviously been friends for
for a long time. So I'm not as eloquent as is Alderman.
Hopkins are all the woman leak but I certainly want to add
to thank you on behalf of for your community leadership
that you've shown across the city and thank you for your
friendship and mentorship of myself as well. So many people
across the city. So thank you. And thank you mr. Chairman
for, for analogy to meet his leadership or business and
what a wonderful person that she is. Thank you, thank you
Alderman, chair recognizes alderwoman. Sam Nugent.
You must.
Give mr. President I to rise in support of this resolution
and would like to have my name associated with it, to knows
me to still loves me to. I've known Sweden now for over 20
years, which is going to date us significantly but she's a
real forced to work with us. She's incredibly committed
everything from her work with fantastic and infrastructure
days in the Clinton, White House.
so, as a mother,
So as a mother and her commitment to our work with sister
cities here in the city of Chicago. So such a great day
Donner, you and your work. Thank you speak. Thank you. The
chair recognizes Alderman, Burnett.
Thank.
Thank you, Miss president Also Rises supported his
resolution. I've had the pleasure of serving on the
Planning Commission with miss y'all and I've known her for
over 20 years and I also know her. Father, she comes from a
great lineage of dedicated people in our city, but when we,
you get the really feel people, when they are on these
commissions on the plan commission, you really get the pill
who they really care for shemitah. Don't just care for
Asian American women. She care for all minorities in all
people in the city of Chicago. We like to commend her on a
civic duty, not only here with the city, but also in
organizations around the city that fight for equity and
fairness for minority people throughout the city of
Chicago, she's always at the Forefront, making sure that
things out there for
Everyone saw.
Everyone. So, I just like to commend her and thank her for
all of her leadership. All of her commitment, like to say,
to her family, you should be very proud of your mother and
your wife, because she's really making a difference in the
city Chicago. Congratulations to you.
Thank you very much, Alderman at feed. There's one more
person to wish to speak to this chair recognizes Alderman.
O'Shea. Thank you, mr. President, I to Rising Sun for this
resolution.
I know.
Announce me to Shire sauce and say, I join the city council
in the last 25 years. Fantech has been a global leader. She
had a pretty good teacher her dad.
I,
I've enjoyed the last couple years I work, with M on
supporting Special Olympics, programs in our city and there
are so many important causes that she lends a hand to not
only to be a leader both Citywide but also in philanthropic
Pro.
Rogue.
Programs and I consider her dear friend. And I'm just
honored today to be able to stand in support of this
resolution. Made it to you and your family. Thank you for
all you do. God bless you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much, if there's no one else, thank you
again, Swedish off of your leadership. Thank you for your
Brilliance. Your story is absolutely remarkable. Having the
opportunity to meet your family today. I actually
appreciate you that much more, a 7th grader, and a 9th
grader in the house at the same time and somehow you
managed to to be available all over the city of Chicago. So
it's an incredible recognition of your love and conviction
in the balance that you bring to the humanity. So one more
time City of Chicago, tomato, Shaw,
Thank.
Thank you all for being patient with us today. I believe
that there is one more resolution that one of the members
of this body wishes to bring to our attention. The chair
recognizes Alderman, Lamont Robinson.
Miss.
Mr. President, I would like to make a motion to suspend the
rules for consideration.
Continue the thank you to continue to suspend the rules for
consideration. There are no objections to order for a
resolution acknowledging. The outstanding work of one. Hope
United.
I'm
I want to say again, I think now good afternoon to this
body.
Today we are in the presence of extra ordinary individuals,
Damon case. Chris nordloh Nicole Dunham dentist Delgado,
Melissa Webster, Sarah tuning Kenny Shackelford and Juliana
harms representing an incredible nonprofit organization
called one. Hope United found it on October 8th, 1895
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for 128 years. This organization has been a Beacon of Hope,
for thousands of children, families, working tirelessly,
and the foster care and adoption.
and,
Industry, your dedication knows no bounds as they continue
to serve 10,000 Children and Families each year. Today we
honor their unwavering commitment to making the world a
better place particularly for our young people.
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Thank you.
Thank you to all of those who have contributed to their
Noble calls. And I asked this body that we recognize
October 8th 2023 as one. Hope United day. Thank you very,
very much. You very much all the men. They are in the
balcony. Chicago, can we just get some love? I don't know
if y'all can hear is clapping but we are clapping.
They?
Thank you, congratulations.
Thank you so much. And finally of the chair recognizes
Alderman. Hopkins, mr. President, I Rise to a motion to
obtain passage of item one and item from the great counter
in the Omnibus followed by return to regular session.
There.
There are no objections. So ordered we are now return to
the regular over to a business. The chair recognizes Oldman
Irving. Thank you. Think this President, I just wanted to
say, leave in recognize our Mister Matthew alamendras. He
is the president of the undergraduate student government
student body at you. I see someone to recognize him today.
He's with us, along with other members of his cabinet, WIC
undergraduate student government. So Matthew to stand up
for Israel,
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communications from his honor, the mayor to the honourable,
the city council, the city of Chicago,
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Ladies and gentlemen, the request of the commissioner and
housing are transmitted here with an ordinance,
authorizing, the execution of ownership, transfer agreement
regarding the darul Aman, senior apartments, Fayetteville
confessions ordinance, we appreciate it. Very truly yours.
Mayor.
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laid down with their classic measure. Housing, I
transmitted here with the ordinance authorize the issuance
of financial assistance for the Austin United Alliance
project. They look a sword as we appreciate it, very truly
yours, may or Brandon Johnson, your brother can be on
finance,
As two committees call this item. Go to rules, legitimate
delays jumper class a commercial painting and fill my
transmission with ordinance. Authorizing the execution in
an intergovernmental agreement for the Chicago Board of
Education provided funds for provement at specified
schools. They will consider this ordinance will be
appreciated, very truly yours. Brandon Johnson mayor before
the committee on finance as two committees have been called
this item. Go to rule a gentleman at the request of
Commissioner of planning and development of transferring
here with an ordinance authorizing, the execution of the
amended, Tif Redevelopment agreement, with sells Celadon,
Construction Corporation, NFP, and other entities,
appreciate
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on finance as two rolls of two committees been called this
item, go to rules, ladies and gentlemen, at the request of
Michelle Planning and Development. I transfer here with an
ordinance authorizing. The moments of five TIF district to
provide for extensions and budget increases your Baylor
this morning to be appreciated, very truly yours, Brandon
Johnson mayor for the committee on finance
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Ladies am class a commercial Aviation. I transferred here
with an ordinance, authorizing. The execution of an amended
lice the cream of the Chicago Concourse Development Group
LLC. They look at the edge of the sword has to be
appreciated. Very truly yours. Brandon Johnson mayor for
the committee on Aviation as to commit. He's been called
this item. Go to rules laid hands on them and request the
budget director transmitted here with to find a
transmission, what they find 9/25 of them at your favorite
consideration is or going to be appreciated. Very truly
yours. Brandon Johnson, mayor for the 21 budget government
operations,
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gentlemen, of the requests, the pleasure of planning, and
development of transmitted here with ordinance. Authorizing
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North Tripp Avenue, Fayetteville confessions Orleans, be
appreciated, very truly yours. Brandon Johnson Mary for the
queen and economic capital technology development. That's
who I didn't have been called that item and go to rules are
advised to call the animal. Go to roll, ladies and
gentlemen and request the commissioner of Planning and
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budget execution of service agreements and extension. And
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truly yours Brandon Johnson May or for the economic capital
technology development has been called the Adam go to rule.
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monitoring Faith. Confessions Orleans to be appreciated,
very truly yours Brandon, John Mayer for the Canadian
Environmental Protection energy as two committees have been
called, that item will go to rules. Ladies and gentleman to
request a commission of assets, Information Services at
transmission with an ordinance authorizing, the acquisition
of the property located at 11414, South Halsted Street
available considerations Orleans, be appreciated. Two
years. Brandon Johnson mayor for the committee on housing
in real estate.
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and gentleman to request commercial painting in Belmond, I
transferred here with an ordinance, authorizing acquisition
of Robert Jackson, Park located at 43rd 4319, South
Indiana, Avenue in, Fable 2 station, soreness, be
appreciated. So yours Brandon Johnson, mayor for the
comedian housing in real estate as to how many is a call
that item go to rules. Latest another classic mushroom
hunting development. I transfer here with organs is
authorizing, the sale of city-owned properties, they liked,
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appreciated. Chill, your is Brandon Johnson Merit for the
committee on housing in real estate has been called that, I
don't know. Go to rules lazies. Other classic mature
assets, Information Services in transit here at the
ordinance, authorizing, the execution of renewed, my lease
agreements, the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.
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yours is Brandon Johnson mayor for the committee on housing
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disposition of intergovernmental G with the Chicago Transit
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a person is born in to be appreciated. Very truly yours,
Brandon Johnson, Mary for the committee on housing in real
estate.
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and gentleman to request a commissioner of Transportation,
I translate here at the ordinance, authorizing, the
execution of infrastructure group until Claire for its
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appreciated. Very truly yours. Brandon Johnson mayor for
the committee on transportation and public weigh. After two
days have been called that, I don't know. Go to Royals
ladies out of my transmission with appointments to various
special service area to pay with a dentist appointment to
be, appreciate it, very truly yours. Brandon Johnson, mayor
for the Canadian, economic capital and Technology
development. After she has been called the animal, go to
rules, lady Andromeda transferred here, to pointment, the
visor caps on equity in search of these appointments. To be
appreciated, very chilly, Eric Braeden Johnson Mayer,
predicament, and health, and health, and human relations.
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appointments and advisory Council in lgbtq plus issues with
payroll consideration. His appointments will be
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and human relations.
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truly yours, Brandon Johnson Mayer, where the Camino health
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rules, ladies and gentlemen, I transferred here with
appointments, The Advisory Council on Veterans. Your Fable
consideration these appointments, we appreciate it. Very
truly yours. Brandon Johnson Maher, for the Klingon health
and human relations,
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rules. Ladies and gentleman is transmitted here with
appointments and advisory Council on women. They will
consider each of these appointments, we appreciate every
two years. Brandon Johnson mayor for the clean and healthy
human relations.
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I city clerk Anna, Valencia Caribbean, formed the city
council. The following documents were filed in my office
relating to the respective subject does anita. Stoll's
office of Inspector General. Follow up to October 2021 s
audit report regarding compliance of Chicago Fire
Department's fire and Medical Response Times. National Fire
Protection Association, standards notification of committee
report error regarding appointment of Eric Valdez, a member
of Brighton Park, Archer Heights commission, special
service area. Number to 39, Assateague Court, Wednesday
also, informed us. He counts the actions taken by the sea.
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What's the regular reset meeting held on September 13th.
2023 statue to be published in a book or pamphlet form, or
one or more newspapers are published a pamphlet Forum on
October 4th, 2023 in Fortuna, full text and print up a copy
of the journal proceedings of city, council City, Chicago
city clerk, Palencia also informed us. They canceled all
these ordinances Etc, which passed by the city council. At
the regular, we can be meeting held on September 14th 2023
in which, required by Statute, to be publishing a book or
pamphlet for him. And one or more newspapers are published
in Tampa, Florida on October 4th 2023 at being printed in
full text, Bridget pamphlet copies of the journal
proceedings, the Snake House City of Chicago city clerk at
the call for the special meeting and documents, but it
there to reconsider, by the city council, special meeting
held on September 27th, 2023 me to required by Statute, to
be published in book, or pamphlet for more than one or more
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the journal, proceedings of city council City, Chicago.
City.
City clerk. Valencia also transmits here with the following
miscellaneous communication report. The crime city council
action. Genre classification of particular the group Birds
Expedia and Zoning landmarks in building standard claims
against the city of Chicago weather for the Canadian
Finance amendment of title 7 of Municipal Code by really
fast mission of area shown on map number to app at 10,
South Dearborn Street, which is productivity and Zoning
landmarks and nothing standard. You're out of that,
concludes the report a communication from the mayor and
other City officers. Thank you very much committed reports
chair recognizes
It's Jerry.
It's chairperson.
It's chairperson dial. Thank you, mr. President and members
of the city council reporting to the city council committee
on finance, which held the committee meeting on October
2nd. The following items received a do pass recommendation
from the committee item. Number one is an ordinance.
Amending this will code sections, 9-10 1-0 20, and 9-10
2-0. 2-0 to align the code with the newly enacted, state
law regarding automated speed and traffic, law enforcement,
citation, mr. President, unless someone wishes to speak on
the side of my move passage of this item by a roll call
vote.
I'm Adam Clark.
The Voting is now open. Refresh your page. The Voting is
now open.
There's might be a slight delay. Give me one second.
Okay, now that's open.
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Ready. Set, Go.
I've
I will now call anyone that has not use the E boating
system for a roll call. Boise boat Alderman, Robinson, not
present.
All.
Alderman.
Alderman Lawson, not present ultimate ultimate ramirez-rosa
not present.
The.
The Voting is now closed.
Thank you.
Thank you very much. The Voting is now closed or 46, yeas
and zero. Nays, this matter is passed on the motion to
reconsider the chair, recognizes alderwoman Harris on the
motion to reconsider move to reconsider all those in favor.
Signify by saying pie, all those that oppose, they know
this motion, fails chair, recognizes older woman chair
down, November 7th 2022, ordinance with respect to
authority to execute documents, for Upper Falls, supposed
to be alone to the city from the United States
Environmental Protection Agency. I move passage of this
item by the first most. Favorable roll call vote of the
committee on finance report and the associated. I'm
successful motion to reconsider. Thank you very much. The
chair recognizes Alderman Moore.
Thank.
Thank you. It's president, unfortunately, due to it one of
my constituents being murdered in the car, jacking her head
at a funeral and I sent the email to try to get the
committee and was denied getting on committee. I didn't
have a chance to speak on this item and committee, so I
hope that really does not ever happen. Again, especially
when I've seen people get on without emails and everything
like that. So I just said please, let's not let that happen
again this item. I'm I'm I'm concerned about, you know, if
we don't talk like that, have some common sense, okay? And
use common sense, when you get ahold of the end of the day,
527 million dollars with we're talking about for this
project and which we understand that only nine million are
going to happen. Americans? I know mr. President, this was
not formed under your
Before.
Before you when you by the time you had gotten and it was
done already and I know you're doing everything you can to
make sure that some accountability as head. But with this,
I don't have any faith in the leadership in the procurement
Department because at the end of the day, we had to create
opportunities where people are knowing how to bid. Making
sure they have a proper technical assistance and
everything.
like the
Like that. So that we can have more especially
African-Americans on these contracts and so I, I trust that
you're going to do the best that you can. But given this
situation, like it is now, I cannot support it. I know it's
government money. That needs to come through, but I just do
it, just the way it stands. Now, I want to be recorded as a
no vote on this item and I appreciate you based on
conversations that I've had that you're doing your best on
it. Mister mayor to try to unravel the mess that has been
done with this contract. Thank you. Thank you very much
older than the chair recognizes Alderman. Ervin the famous
president at to Alderman, Maurice, a statement that is that
was the case when we first had the conversation. I think
probably back in July. I'm not mistaken when it's first
came to the committee off in the ass as related to the with
your loan. The two things, I think we need to understand
the with your loss.
Is one thing.
Is one thing, but the contracts as something separate. And
so the with your loan is 350 million dollar along from the
EPA and the federal government through the state of
Illinois that will help us deal with the last service
online program. However, in that, the points that you make
are correct on the front end, I'm about to be in 5 or 27
million dollars with the contracts only 9 million dollars
of those contracts were going to after American forest with
you, to work between Tramadol or chairman of
Call Jeremy, Schmitz.
Call Jeremy, Mitch with our contract committee and others
working together. We, we standing mitigated those things
and some of the very items that you speak of as relation to
building tactical assistance jock and other things have
been work through or on that. So that what was presented as
a relates to the contract side of the conversation is not
the same as it is today. So why you weren't able to
participate in committee those items? We we did have some
discussion on that and so are in a full transparency. What
we had then is not the same as what it is today. So, with
that, I would hope that you would we change your, your,
your mind in your vote, on that because the very point you
raised. I've been, what is been definitely? Consider, do
the work of our chairman Bowl champion, a doll and a
chamber mixer with the contract and finding a more
Equitable solution for after making contact with you
correct.
Yeah.
We have no.
Be having this conversation today, probably still being
committed. We still talk about 9 million dollars over $527
worth of work, but that is that is not the case in which
end up going further details on that. But again, we've
definitely work past. I want to thank them for their help
in making that more benefits on my behalf while Community.
Thank you for, thank you. All them in the chair. Recognizes
Alderman, Lopez.
Thank.
Thank you again, mr. President and good afternoon members of
the city council while I appreciate the efforts to try and
address some of the issues that we've seen with regards to
access in the work force recruitment. I need to join my
colleague on the Southside in echoing that, we need to be
more intentional, not just in ensuring that we are
increasing our African-American owner businesses
participation in these contract with all w. M a w m, a w
women and minority-owned business, Enterprise businesses
Latino Asian, women veteran, you name it. All of them are
being excluded from what we see if they can tenuous pattern
from the Department of water, which refuses to do the work
to break up these contracts into the zone that we are doing
the work so that we can provide jobs regionally across the
city.
That.
Daddy.
That is.
That is the issue. I think that we need to address, and I
know that the chairman of the budget committee chairman of
the finance or working towards that. I appreciate that, but
I think, mr. President, we need to stay the quiet part out
loud, which is that, this is a 1.2 billion dollar Endeavor,
which is excluding two-thirds of the city of Chicago. We
can lift people up. We talk about lifting people up out of
poverty. Talk about giving them a path into the middle
class. This is the New Deal jobs creation create
in a
in our,
In our midst, that seems to only go to three companies.
That has.
That has got to end the excuse that we get from the water
department for the past five years is that it's too much
paperwork. It's too cumbersome to break this up into the
district is too. Cumbersome to try and recruit minority
businesses women-owned business. It's too much work.
That.
That's what they're paid to do. That's what we need to do.
And we're looking at the South side and west side, and
wondering why you still have 80% unemployment. I have a
pretty good idea. Why?
Because we are not focusing this money to hiring.
The peep.
The people that we represent.
I will be supporting this boat but I think that my
colleague points are correct and we all know it and we all
have to stand and put pressure on whoever the
administration picks moving forward. In the water
department, to ensure that we are getting the job done
using the people in those neighborhoods, putting people to
work from the city of Chicago from the impact of districts.
So that we can finally start making a dent in the
unemployment rates and the lack of access to the union and
apprenticeships that we all constantly talk about
constantly. Hear about, we can finally say we're constantly
doing something about it. Thank you, mr. President, thank
you very much. The chair recognizes Alderman Burnett.
Text.
Thank you very much, mr. President. Also rise to comment on
this. First of all, want to commend chairman dial for the
furnace for several maybe a month, or two to three months,
two months, because of the concern in the lack of minority
participation in the program. But also I want to come in
the mayor's office, your office, and also the procurement
office. And also the water department for sitting down with
us, they coming up with ways to incorporate more minority
participation in this process. You know, this is this
situation has two things going. All right, I won this about
the contracts in the jobs and all that, but the other
bigger picture is, is we got her. We have to help people
get rid of these led pipes, right? It's a public health
issue. A hearing this.
Is your?
Is your car?
Chicago and we have this Federal money and we need to make
it work, but at the same time we need to make sure that
I'll post have an opportunity to work the other issue that
came out of this. And I was in some of these meetings
trying to make this thing work out is that
There's going to be.
there's going to be work or removing lead pipes for several
a couple of decades maybe or more because we have so many
LED pipes in the city of Chicago to remove and there's
going to be so much work going on in the unfortunate part
right now, is that we don't have
In.
enough minority contractors ready in the hopper to be able
to work on those things. And so those are the things that
all of us have to start working on on trying to get more
minority contractors to work on it. But the commissioner
was here at a meeting and she stated to us that we don't
even have enough non minority contractors to work on all of
the work that we have coming up in the future. So it gives
us a great opportunity to prepare our community to get
involved with this. And guys, to be able to women and guys,
to be able to become contractors. So they can be able to
have an opportunity to work on these contract. So, one of
the main things that we worked on as a group myself, all
them in Irving, all them and Miss, Audrey Mitchell and a
couple of other folks is one of the main things that we
work on is making sure that's a job program to make it
smaller. We also are working on trying to have a
mentor-mentee program so that larger contractors to help
small account
to be able to get it to
To be able to get into this is so that they can be able to
grow. So this is an opportunity for the city of Chicago to
not only you know, take care of that pipe situation and
make sure everybody in the city of Chicago have clear water
and a healthy, but also it's an opportunity for many people
to be able to have contracts and get jobs and form
businesses as time goes on so we're all looking at that.
We're looking at the bigger picture. We know how important
it is to take this Federal money right now start working on
our laying pipe supposed to go to work and deal with this
car drives. But at the same time we all are very cognizant
of the fact that we need to make sure that more people have
an opportunity to get these contracts and we are doing that
and have been doing that and will continue to do that in
his opportunity for all of us to bring people to the table
to get involved. Thank you very much the chair recognizes
ottoman Lawson.
Thank you mister president. My apologies. I stepped out.
I'd like to ask you recorded as a yes vote on the first
item in the finance committee agenda and unsuccessful
motion to reconsider their impressive are well, we can do
that.
The chair recognizes.
The chair recognizes Alderman Robinson.
Resume.
President, thank you. I would also like to be acknowledged
as a yes, vote. For the first piece of business for today.
Thank you. Thank you very much before. We both on this, the
chair recognizes chairwoman down. Yes. Thank you, mr.
President, and first of all, I want to say that I want to
just acknowledge also album in Paris who was also who was
also in these needing. But I want to thank you mr.
President for working with us to make sure we can address
some of the concerns raised by my colleagues on the other
side of the room. And we done, we done that. And we need to
continue to work, roll up our sleeves. You know, it's not
about talking about the issue. It's about getting in a room
and doing the work and so I want to thank you for that. And
with that, I renew my motion to pass this item by the first
most. Favorable roll call vote of the committee on finance
and me as though she
I'm sick.
I'm 60.
I'm successful motion to reconsider with the exception of
aldermen. More being of aldermen Robinson and aldermen
loss. Very good seeing. No other hands hearing no
objections despite the division. So ordered an ordinance
concerning an amendment to the Redevelopment agreement with
the money senior village phase one LLC.
For the development of Amani, Village at 9621 South Cottage
Grove, and the 8th ward. I move passage of this item by the
same motion.
First vote.
By the Same, by the first unanimous vote. Thank you. Very
good boy. Is he getting his money's worth from his salary?
Today is eight and so ordered. Item number for is an
ordinance, concerning the authority to enter into and
execute and IGA intergovernmental agreement with the
Chicago Board of Education for the provision of tax
increment, financing funds at 4865, North Sheridan Road and
4850 North Kenmore Avenue in the 46th Ward. I move passage
of this item by the same motion to ordered item. Number
five, is an ordinance concerning a Redevelopment agreement,
with a provision of tax increment. Financing funds to EG
would l3c at 1022 West 63rd Street and the 16th ward.
Imma pass.
I moved passage of this item by the same motion.
Chair recognizes Oldman David Moore.
Thank.
Thank you, mr. President again, just on this note, this
comes to really touching on the focus of development in our
communities. One of the things that I think, I know Autumn
is Stephanie called me just doing a good job over there in
the Inglewood area and I touch part of Englewood as well.
But sometimes, there are people that forget West Englewood
is one of the 77 neighborhoods. And someone people say
Englewood, they just think you've gotten one thing done and
Inglewood that takes care of all the Englewood, but West
Englewood is critical as well, and West Englewood house, I
can park as you know, this stuff is on 69th Street in
Englewood today, Englewood neighborhood. Tell that touches
the 16th ward to 74. And I believe also, the 15th Ward, we
have to, at some point yet and understand ourselves and we
just cannot be doing one. Awesome development should be
focused.
developing a
Developing a community as a whole and working with every
all the men and within those communities to make sure
they're doing the right thing as if this Administration
know. And it's everybody know, one of the things that I've
been pushing is the Ogden Park field house and when people
saying, we don't have money and we need that Tiff money to
help our children, help our children and if that just goes
drive, we cannot help our children. I would like for
development, not to is not saying that I do not want this
particular development, I don't want to support my
colleague on it, but I think dpd need to come together and
say, okay, what are the impacts of us doing development in
Inglewood and how does these chips help, or how can we work
together to get everything done, as well as bringing
resources from other places? So, until that happens, I
don't want to vote, no, but I do make a motion that we hold
these item until we get some information.
Animation from Department of playing.
Animation from Department of planning and development.
Thank you very much. So, there is a motion on the floor by
Alderman, more to hold this item.
Can.
Caso sure, the chair recognizes Alderman Burnett on
information, you know?
Add.
I think it's only right to know what the ottoman feel. How
does the alderman feel whose Ward this is going to affect.
Thank you for.
Thank you very much.
Almond more, would you like, as a motion on the floor? All
right. So there's a motion on the floor to hold this item.
We can do this by Voice vote before. We take a vote on
whether or not to hold this item chair recognizes Alderman.
Irvin
I'm
I move the table his motion.
Okay, there's a motion on the floor to table the motion to
hold this item.
All right, so just for clarity.
Thumbs.
The motion on the floor to table this item if you voted,
yes, you wish to proceed with the initial original motion.
Te bote on the item.
If your vote no.
You wish to go back to the original motion, to hold the
item.
So, why?
so, one more time,
Is.
Is it?
There's a motion on the floor to lay the emotion on the
floor to hold the item to table. That if your vote Yes, on
tabling this item you wish to proceed to continue with the
initial motion, to vote to pass this item. If you vote, no,
you wish them to proceed to vote on the motion to hold this
item.
So, you're voting, the first motion to table your voting on
to determine whether or not to hold the item essentially.
Okay, so
tell him.
So, let me just try this. Another way. A yes vote is to
proceed with the motion to pass this item a. Yes, vote is,
it is a vote to proceed to pass this item. Okay, so Madam
clerk, could you please make available o?
Used.
Scuse me, the chair, recognizes Alderman, Lopez time is our
president just went to as a point of order. A, yes vote
would be an approval of laying it on the motion to lay it
on the table which would end his motion. Not not saying yes
to the motion, it would actually a yes vote will enable
consideration of the initial motion to pass this item.
Thank you. All right.
Hello.
How about we just would anybody be opposed to just doing a
Voice vote?
Okay. Well let's just do it electronically. That's fine. The
Voting is now battle clerk. Could you please make tea vote
available for goes to Castroville
Alright, the Voting is open voting. It's open. Please cast
your vote.
Los.
Lucien.
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Voting is now open
Is.
Please cast your vote, raise your hand if you need any
help.
Wake me up.
What's your favorite martian? The home.
I will now take a Voice vote for those who have not use the
e-voting function, Alderman, Hopkins, and Hopkins is a yes,
Albin, Robinson, Allen, Robinson is a yes. All them in the
MC of a Nancy is a yeah.
All right, that is everyone. The Voting is now closed.
There are.
There are 47 years. There are two naze demotion to lay the
motion to hold the last vote passes.
So,
So the chair recognizes Alderman Lopez.
They?
Take.
Thank you. Thank you, mr. President. So with the motion to
table, we are back to the original motion. Correct? That is
correct. Thank you. Then you wish to send to the yes? Okay,
very well, then Alderman, more joins, me and moving to
different publisher site.
The item will be deferred.
The chair recognizes chairwoman down an ordinance
concerning an amendment to the Redevelopment agreement.
With Englewood connect LLC, for the development of the
Inglewood Square Face 1, a project located at 6205 South
Peoria, and the 16th ward.
I'm
Imma passage of this item by the same motion. Encino
Hansel, ordered the creation of the subcommittee on revenue
on the committee on finance and appointment of his chair,
Vice chair and members. I move passage of this item by the
same motion.
Erie.
Aaron Nola.
Are.
I'm sorry. The chair recognizes Alderman Lopez. Thank you,
mr. President, I just wish to be recorded as or no, on the
side.
8 is an ordinance introduced by Alderman. Scott waguespack
of the 32nd. Ward designating 1868 through 1878 North
Milwaukee Avenue, as a low affordability committee, the
committee recommends that this item be referred to the
committee on housing in real estate item ordered on this
item as well as the previous, I'd items number 9, and 10
consists of orders of authorization, for the payment of
various small claims against the city of Chicago and
denials of payment of various small claims against the city
of Chicago. If there are no objections, I moved it. Be
silenced, be placed at the passage in, on the Omnibus
ordered.
Item num.
Item number.
Item. Number 11, a is an order. Authorizing Corporation
counsel to enter into an executed settlement order. In the
case of shiny is Phillips versus City of Chicago at all in
the amount of $300,000. I move passage of this item by the
first most. Favorable roll call vote of the committee on
finance report and the associated unsuccessful motion to
reconsider are no objections to you. No hands to order an
item 11b is an order. Authorizing Corporation counsel to
enter into and execute a settlement order. In the case of
David holian versus City of Chicago, Municipal Corporation,
and officer, John Craig, in the amount of $750,000, I moved
passage of this item by the first most. Favorable roll call
vote of the committee on finance report and the associated
unsuccessful motion to consider reconsider.
Portable.
Part of the committee on finance. Thank you, thank you very
much. Chairwoman the chair recognizes committee on budget.
Government operations, chairman Irvin.
Thank.
Thank you, mr. President, and members of city council
before 44, your committee on the budget and government
operations, which the meeting was held on yesterday,
October 3rd 2023. The committee has recommended passage of
the following items. Item number one is the communication
recommended. A proposed ordinance. Concerning an annual
appropriation to win this year. 2023 Amendment.
What?
Within fun. 925 I move passage of this item by the first
favorite roll call vote of the committee on Finance in the
associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider. You know
Hansel ordered I don't know but you was in the middle of a
2019 neighborhood opportunity fund Grant awarded to Ogden
Washtenaw jvllc and Redevelopment agreement for commercial
project known as I can, and I also moved past of this item
by the first most. Favorable roll call vote of the
committee on Finance in the associated unsuccessful motion
to reconsider. Jackson so ordered Mr. Present. Thank you
very much, German beer recognizes committee on economic
capital Technologies in development chair. Recognizes
German Villegas.
Thank you, mr. President members of the city council
reporter for the committee on economic capital technology
development that on Monday, October 2nd committee, held a
meeting and recommends passes of the following items items.
One through three hundred important. Our series of
appointment, Surrey appointments, the very special service
areas collectively voted on by the committee members
introduced by Mayor Johnson, during the June Twenty-One,
and September. 14th City Council meetings, appointment of
Timothy Clump, SSA number 18, North Halsted commission,
located near 44th and 46. Wards reappointment Ella
Elizabeth, bi-fold SSA number 18, North Halsted commission.
Located in 44th 46 Wards appointment of Alejandro.
What is the SSI? Number 3, Southwest business growth area.
Commission located in 13th, 14th 15th, 16th 17th and 23rd,
Ward's, I move or pass of these appointments every
appointments by the first day of a roll call Laquita and
finance to be Associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider
directions to order items for and five on the report are
proves for issuances of six of class 6B tax incentives. For
3340. North Kedzie Avenue located in the 35th, Ward 4003 to
4057 South normal street.
Or third.
Or 32 to 458 West 41st Street located at 11th ward I moved
for Passive, His Eyes by the first day of a roll call vote
of the committee on finance and the associated unsuccessful
motion to reconsider are no objections. So ordered out of
six on the report pertains to substitute ordinance. 020,
23-0, 01202 that received expression of support for the
issuance of a Class 6 be tax. Incentive for 2717 at 2757
West, Chicago Avenue, and was noted
Pass.
Past however, I become extra. Excuse me, I've become aware
of transmittal error, and with the substitute there for
holding this item committee to address and correct this at
the earliest possible opportunity. Thank you mr. Chair.
I'm
I am so.
I am 7 through 10 on the report were approvals for public
hearings and enlargement of boundaries in position of tax
levy, Frugal budget, extension of text, Levi. And execution
of service provider agreements for special special service.
Error number 18, North, Halsted Street, special service
area. Number 4400 3rd, Street Beverly, special service area
number 61 Hyde Park special service area number 69, 95th
and Ashland. I mean, for pass of these items, by the first
day of a roll call vote of the committee on Finance in the
associated on sextus ssso motion to reconsider your note
Jackson. So ordered items 11 through 16 and report will
prove rolls of tax levy scope of services. Budget and
service, provider agreement for special service area of
numbers, 1-20 15 State Street, special service area number
20, South Western Avenue special service area on a 21-2
2016. Lincoln Square, special service area. Number 55,
Hungry.
100 11th and Kedzie special service Ariel number 75, Oak
Street, special service area number 79, Lawrence, Pulaski
Elston and move her pass of these item by the first Super
Bowl called the comedian Finance in the associated
unsuccessful motion to reconsider hearing. No objections to
you, no hands order. Lastly in response to a resolution
introduced by Alderman, Martin committee, held the subject
matter hearing on the potential applications of the
Internal Revenue Services, direct pay program
and,
And the tax incentives available for the city of Chicago.
Thank you, mr. President that concludes my report. Thank
you very much mr. Chair chair recognizes the chairperson or
committee on Health and Human Services. Chair Rodriguez
Sanchez.
I'm getting some residents reporting for a comedian health
and human relations, which met on September 26th. 2023 at
9:30, a.m. the following items received at do pass.
Recommendation from the comedian. Item. Number one was old
2020. 3000 1249 regarding expanding the gender-based
violence, task force from 17 to 21 members. It's a time of
passage of this item by the first most. Favorable roll call
vote of the committee on finance and Associated
unsuccessful motion to reconsider directions to order item.
Number two is our 2020 3000 2892 expression of support for
a location of federal nutrition assistance, program funds
for locally grown produce in Puerto Rico, same motion if
knowledge of ejection
There are.
There are no.
There are no objections hearing on. So order number three
was our 2020. 3000 2944. Chicago institutions of Higher
Learning to establish Department of office to aggressively
work to increase black student Recruitment, and Roman and
scholarship opportunities.
Famous.
A motion. If there is no objection to order item number for
the final item was organized, 2020. 3000, 4179
establishment of a working group for development of
recommendations regarding provision of Mental Health
Services. This item received a dope ass same motion if no
objection to that comes with my report.
Thank.
Thank you very much.
Archer.
Our chairperson Rodriguez. Sanchez, committee on license
and consumer protection. The chair recognizes I understand.
My apologies. I thought you were standing just because you
were tired of sitting in the chair recognizes. Alder, Rosa.
Thank you, mr. President, I would like to be recognized as
voting. Yes. On the first roll call vote in finance
committee. Thank you madam clerk. Please record on voting.
Yes, no to our committee on license and consumer protection
of the chairperson. Who is understanding celebrating a
birthday today? Happy birthday alderwoman. Silver State.
I'm Jennifer some Silverstein M25 today, if anybody was
wondering.
Are they?
Are there?
I think you is your president and members of city council.
I am reporting for the committee unlicensed and consumer
protection. We held a meeting on September 26th. 2023 to
consider six ordinances regarding liquor moratorium in the
second 26 35th and 42nd Ward. The committee has recommended
passage of each of these items 0-20-20 30003 482 and the
ordinances and Jing War zero or +742-173-086-4083. And
4227. Mr. President I moved at the city council Concur and
the recommendations of the Lycans committee by the same
role call at item. Number one of the committee on finance
report and the associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider
directions to order.
Old.
Old 2020, 3000 3484 and ordinance to amend section, 4-6
0-0, 25 of the municipal code to disallow additional late
hour, liquor licenses in the second. Ward, I moved passage
of this item by the same motion if there's no objection.
How to say?
02 02, 3-0 0, 0, 4, 0 0, 6, 7 and Ordnance. Amended amended
in committee regarding restrictions on operation of
pedicabs in the Third Ward. A new passage of this item by
the same motion. If there is no objection 000-3848 and the
ordinances, ending 3 8 4 9, 3 8 5 1 3 5 2 3, 5 3, 3 5 4 3,
5 6, designating precincts of the 23rd Ward, as restricted
residential Zone, prohibiting additional shared housing and
vacation rentals. One item was held in committee and that's
3093 a new passage of these items for the same motion if
there's no objection.
Old.
0-20-20 2-0, 03483, and ordinance to prohibit booting of
Motor Vehicles by private property within the 33rd Ward and
the 49th Ward will be held.
Mr. President, this concludes my report committee on
transportation and public way. The chair recognizes
chairman Mitchell is a present and members of city council
reporting for your committee on transportation and public
way, which held a meeting on October 4th
Thank you for.
Thank you very much.
Just if you can just tap your device so that we can put it
into the siren.
And that.
And that the committee on Aliens will know we reconvene.
Alright, chair, recognizes again, share Mitchell. I start
up its present members of city council reporting for your
committee on transportation and public wage was held in
meeting on October 3rd 2023. The following items passed by
the majority of the members present Haze 2, and 3 includes
19 ordinances for miscellaneous items. Introduced by the
local Alderman from wards.
Allow.
11 13, 15 18, 23, 27, 28, 30 to 35, 36, and 40.
Express.
This present Alderman Vasquez would like to speak to item
number F, 002-023-4078 regarding CTA related. Hearings
thank you very much. The chair recognizes Armand Vasquez.
Thank.
Thank you very much, mr. President, thank you, Sharon
Mitchell.
I just want to.
I was.
I want to convey how elated I am in the past term. We had
been working really, really hard to do something very, very
simple to have accountability as it relates to CPA. We
know, not even just from our members were from constituents
across the city. That the biggest concerns I've had since
covid have been Public Safety and reliability, and we had
to work ridiculously hard, just to get the CPA board
president to come and speak to the council so much that I
had to wear a Halloween costume last year. Somebody members
may remember to dress up as a ghost bus in recognition of
all the buses show up on time. It took all of that to get
CTA board. President David, Carter actually, come to
council and speak on. The work has been done because of
that. We move forward legislation calling for quarterly,
hearing of a CPA board and of the president. When required
by the chairman
Some.
Something. Very
Something very simple establishing a baseline having
conversations about the work that's being done by an
agency, being able to check in quarterly to find out what
things have been going. Well, what things have not how can
you make an improvement? How do we track the progress?
Something that is a baseline that one would expect out of
any organization was being stifled and stopped by the fire
ministration at every step that we could. I wanted to mend
organizers. Community Action work really hard to make sure
that people focused on this issue who do so tirelessly
right now. And thank you for showing what it's like to
actually have a council work towards transparency and
accountability in a way that wasn't occurring in the past
term. So I want to thank you so much for this. I want to
thank the members of the committee for passing it Forward.
I want to take Sharon Mitchell who also understand how
about accountability looks like. So that now we find
ourselves in a position where we can hold accountable, the
CCA in a better fashion and we have been. So even though
the buses may be,
Running late.
Running late, even though this was running late and took so
much to get here, it is. Now time to hold them accountable.
I'm glad to report that it is on time and I am appreciative
that were able to pass it to cancel, aspirin, the support
here, thank you so much. Thank you very much. The chair
recognizes ottoman waguespack. Thank you, mr. President,
under miscellaneous items. I'd like to be recorded know or
Be.
The item that.
The item that is 000-2990. Thank you, thank you very much.
It will be noted. Chair. Recognizes alderman laspada.
Play.
Thank you, mr. President, I actually wise with old woman,
having to defer and published miscellaneous item,
substitute ordinance 2020, 3000 299,
That.
That item will be different.
Thank.
Thank you.
Okay.
Day the chair recognizes back to Chairman Mitchell.
Face.
Phase four includes we make a motion for the passage of
those items.
Or.
Are you abundantly more but okay, thank you. Please get me
paid for includes items. Old, 202-300-4164 a vacation
ordinance way property located in the 37th. Ward. If there
is no objection, I move passes of these items by the first
most favorite roll, call vote of the committee on Finance
in the associated unsuccessful motion to consider route to
reconsider with the exception that ottoman Vasquez
Alderman, Martin and ottoman watches. Fat ass to be
recorded as voting no on item numbers 0 to 0 to 3-2. 990
regarding regulation of public bookcases.
Caught it.
Scripture to share, just hold on. Just for one second.
Ricky.
Recognizes Alderman Vasquez, thank you. It's president as a
point of order, the ones that we were just I'll record as a
note 4 is actually what all them in the spot and other when
we hadn't had the first published, so I guess we'll talk
about this next month.
On.
Understood, was that what you think? You? Okay.
That's okay.
Special K work work again. If there are no objections I
move passes of these items by the mall. First most paper
roll call vote by the committee on Finance in the
associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider hearing no
other objection. So ordered Mr. Present, that concludes my
report. Thank you, mr. Chairman
and,
And finally, there's a a joint committee.
Join.
Joint Committee of the environment protection and energy
and health in human relations. Chair recognizes chairperson
had any taking the lead on this one chairperson addend?
Thank.
Thank you, mr. President, members of city council reporting
for your joint committee on Environmental Protection and
energy, and health, and human relations, which held a
committee meeting on October 3rd 2023. Our committee told a
subject matter Sherry, where no votes were taken on the
findings and recommendations in the middle of impact
assessment report, mr. President this concludes my report.
I'm sorry. Can you repeat the last part? It again, I'm
sorry to hear that, mr. President this concludes my report.
Thank you.
Thank.
Thank you.
Okay, those are all the train reports Man, by thank you
very much.
Matt.
Matters on the agreed-upon, calendar. Chair, recognizes
ottoman Harris from the city clerk Andreia in Valencia told
of 242 items proposed for the region calendar. Consisting
of congratulatory commemorative tributary resolutions for
the following alderperson, daughter person, Hopkins, all
the person Robinson, all the person who bought a person
Harris Auto. Personally, all the person Lopez, all the
person Coleman, or the person who wins has all the person
Burnett. All of her person taliferro Auto person meds or
the person Vasquez, or personal politano, and all the
person Garner, I move these items from the Greek counter in
an Omnibus order.
New.
New business, the clerk will call the wards beginning with
the 50th Ward.
so,
Zone.
Sony.
Sonia Mendez referred to the committee and Zoning landmarks
and building standards and regulations traffic control
signals in traffic signs which I prefer that you would a
stream in traffic safety grants a privilege on over the
public way, which are referred to the committee on
transportation and public way and exemption from physical.
Barry Corbin reversal Drive Alexs for parking facilities
which are referred to the committee on transportation and
public way.
Tom Silverstein has post orders for the issuance of permits
for sign sign boards, which are referred security and
Zoning landmarks and building standards.
I'm
Alma Martinez proposed resolution.
Call under Department of Streets & Sanitation. For pilot
curbside, food scrap and yard waste collection program,
which is referred to committee on Environmental Protection
and energy.
Almond clay has proposed ordinance for Mehmet of Miss, for
exemption of physical requirement for commercial job. Real
EXs 4949 design was referred to committee on transportation
and public way home. And Gardener has proposed ordinance
resumption physical barrier. Appointment for commercial
driver daily access for Kenneth c. U t,
Was referred to committee on transportation to public way.
Only Knutson has proposed ordinance for reception. Physical
requirement for commercial real EXs, for lpac Holdings,
LLC, which is referred to the committee on transportation
and public way. Call me Knutson, also has proposed
ordinance for an establishment of reporting system for CTA
complaints or violations through Chicago 311 system, which
is referred to committee on transportation and public. Wait
on the Riley, has proposed resolution for Amendment city
council Rules of Order procedure rule. 45, requiring office
of city clerk to post committee records on public-facing
websites, including any presentation or slide deck
presented. The committee was referred to give me on
committees and rules, and Riley and automobile. Have posed
resolution for amendment of rules. 1810 3740 46th and 51 of
the city council Rules of Order procedure to include the
office of legislative Council and to allow members to see
Council on Rules of Order when another member is speaking.
This is Reaper.
This is referring.
This is referred to the committee on committee and rules on
the Riley. In aldenville also proposed ordinance for
amendment of Municipal Code, chapter 2-8 by deleting and
replacing section 2 Dash 8-100 regarding committee,
oversight power. And by modifying article for regarding
office of legislative Council, which is referred to the
committee on the budget and government operations.
I'll
Almond Villegas has proposed ordinance. Remember the
principal code section? 290 to 360 and two dash 92-70
establishing. Rotational system for pre-qualified
contractor, which is your first Security on Contracting
oversight.
Only Conway has proposed resolution to call for hearings on
proposed rate hikes by Peoples. Gas Company was referred to
committee on Environmental Protection and energy
Did.
Two committees called, it matters referred to the committee
on rules.
on the
Carmen Rodriguez, Sanchez has boosted its reception for
this could be a requirement for crushed drywall, Alexs for
Full Circle communities Incorporated, which is referred to
the committee on transportation and public way. I'm going
to Rodriguez. Sanchez also has proposed ordinance, remind
me to finish the code section for section 9-50 4-1 70 by
Eddie, new sub-section, 33.1 allowing parking of commercial
pickup, trucks or Vans less than eight thousand pounds on
Porsche of North Albany Avenue which is referred to
committee on transportation and public way almond
waguespack, has proposed ordinance. Remember the municipal
code section for Dish? At 62022 to allow additional
alcoholic liquor, license is on portion of West Logan
Boulevard, recent reports can be a licensed and consumer
protection on the wagons. Back also has proposed orders for
the issuance of permits for sign sign boards, which I
referred to committee and Zoning landmarks in building
standard. How to tell if your toe has
Florida.
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commercial drive, we access for RM, power wash, which is
referred to give me a transportation and public way to
tell. If you are also supposed orders for donation of City
vehicles, to voices of Youth Ensemble was referred to the
Committee of Public Safety in Irving has imposed ordinance
for vacation of portion of South Laflin street from a lie,
south of West Roosevelt Road to Ellie. Northwest 13th
Street which is referred to committee on transportation and
public way of portion of South Hastings street from South
Ashland Avenue to South Laflin Street, which is referred to
committee on transportation and public way on the brunette
has proposed ordinance. 49, Airy Street? Destination is Dr.
George W. Daniel's way, with some reports coming in
transportation and public way. All internet also has
proposed ordinance for a Boundary Street. Designation is
Jomon Deli way which is referred to the committee on
transportation and public way. Home from the physical
requirements for driving a l e x. S pretty knighted Center
joint.
and public way, any proposed order for the issuance of
permits for sign sign boards at 1357 North Elston Avenue
which is referred three and zoning and building standards
Lopez had supposed to order for the issue orders for the
issuance of permits or sign sign board at 3045, West 26th
Street was referred
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building standards.
Scott has proposed order for exemption from the physical be
requirement commercial driver daily access for A&S,
Roosevelt LLC, which is referred to give me a
transportation and public way. Alma Tavares has the
equipment for commercial driver daily access for Little
Bear nursery schools, which is before it's convenient,
transportation, and public way. Almond, O'Shea and others
have just remembered of Municipal Code, title for intitle
17. Buy a new article 34. And by adding new Section 17-9-4
133, both intitle, small box retailers, and by modifying,
various sections of 2017. Regarding use group zoning
districts, which is referred to give me a license and
consumer protection,
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what's the difference between a transportation and public
way? Almond Quinn, has proposed ordinance, for designation
of various pieces of the thirteenth word as restricted,
residential zones, prohibiting additional shared housing,
units and vacation rentals is referred to give me a license
and consumer protection. Almond Ramirez, has to order for
the distance of premise for sign, sign boards at 3228,
South Wood Street, which is referred to give me and Zoning
landmarks and building standards only be another solution
for submission.
Papa.
Probably questioned by reference.
Public question by referendum, the Chicago borders at March
19th, 2024 election proposing to allow voters to determine
if Chicago should continue to keep its destination as a
sanctuary city which is referred to the committee on
committee rules.
Two committees have been called that the activities are
rules in the commedia, Immigrant Refugee Rights to measure
3/4 between activities and rules.
I'm going to.
Almond bill. And I was also have a full soreness for
implementation of a 30 day. Advance notice to all the
persons with any public or private property in reward will
be designated as temporary residential shelter for more
than Twelve individuals which is referred to committee on
housing and real estate.
To give me 7 then call them can be on Housing and Community
getting Refugee Rights. The matters referred to the
committee on committee rules.
All.
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physical requirements. Crucial gabrielli access for Eminem
Realty Properties LLC. Which is before the committee on
transportation and public way, I'm here is also his
supposed to or just remember if mr. Code section for Dad to
62023, did this allow additional package with licenses and
portion of East 87th Street is referred to give me a
license and consumer. Protection. Only Mitchell has
proposed order for the establishment of a system to
coordinate all work in public way. Involving substantial
Street construction, resurfacing and median work with the
reports coming out transportation, and public way.
Open Holly supposed to inspire and Honore Street designation
as principal Johnny, Everett way, which is preferred,
convenient transportation, and public way home. And yes, he
has the Bulls or the first episode of South Shore, Housing
Opportunity or an amendment of Municipal Code Title 5. By
Eddie a new chapter, 5 17 and title office of the tenant
Advocate pilot program, which is your first communion
housing in. Real estate, only orders ordinances for the
exception of physical requirements for commercial diving
Alexs, which are referred to committee on transportation
and public way. Almond Hopkins has proposed, resolution by
referendum is Chicago Motors at March 19th, 2024 election
proposing to allow voters to determine the Chicago shell
and pulls real estate transfer tax decreased from under
$500,000 and increased for over $500,000, which is referred
to committee on committees and rules.
Only Hopkins also has proposed resolution for submission of
a public question. By referendum, Chicago Motors at March
19th, 2024 election proposing to allow voters to determine
if Chicago Dylan post real estate transfer tax, increase of
75% refers to any activities and rules. Hawkins also has
proposed resolution for submission, will probably question
by referendum. The Chicago voters at March 19th, 2024
election proposing to allow voters to determine alternative
to real estate transfer tax that we that request additional
funding from state of Illinois, which is referred to give
me activities and rules.
Open.
I'll be happy with his proposed, resolution for submission
of a public question. By referendum Chicago voters that
March 19th 2024 election opposing to allow voters to
determine alternative to real estate transfer tax. That
establishes a special Revenue fund from small increases
across a broad, mix of funding sources, which is referred
to give me the activities and rules on Hopkins and others.
Also proposed ordinance for municipal code, title 17 by
modifying various chapters, to add smoke shop as a
special-use category, which is referred to me as landmarks
and building standards, almond Hopkins, and all the Riley
at the store, just for a moment of Municipal Code title 17
by modifying various chapters requiring that cannabis
business establishments be permitted by right as a planned
development pipe. One was referred to me as though any
landmarks in building standards.
Do committees have been call the committee and zoning and
the committee on the budget, government operations, the
matters, referred to the committee on committee sent rules.
You.
Your honor that concludes the presentation of all the medic
introductions. Thank you very much. All Terminator for the
approval of the journals.
Resume.
Because I'm not aware of any corrections to the journal
from the September 14th. 2023 regular meeting for the
September 27th. 2023 special meeting and moved that if
you're approved section. So ordered unfinished business,
ottoman Mitchell. I am not aware of any unfinished
business. Thank you very much and miscellaneous business,
ottoman Mitchell. I am aware of one item of miscellaneous
business.
I notice of it.
I notice of intent for a hearing filed by all the woman
hadn't and others and I defer to her the chair recognizes
alderwoman Hadden.
They?
Thank.
Thank you, mister president Ramirez, Rosa, Martin. And I
have filed this notice, this is a necessary for Seadrill
step and moving to bring Chicago home referendum, question
and Associated ordinance forward, the notice only calls for
a public hearing.
Say.
State law requires his public hearing and it's just an
opportunity for members of the public to be heard on this
matter. There will be no vote on. Either the resolution or
ordinance today, following the hearing, the rules committee
will at a later date, hold a Committee hearing on the
resolution. The reason we are proposing changes to the real
estate transfer tax is to raise additional Revenue to
address the city. Significant problem with foam. Especially
at this time, I moved out the body accept public comment on
the resolution, and the draft ordinance that have been made
publicly available. We will accept public, comment on bring
Chicago home, ottoman Mitchell.
Alderman Mitchell.
What?
When we go to public, okay. Okay. So then, thank you. Let's
up. Please open the public comments for bring Chicago home.
My understanding that, the public comments will be
conducted as we always do. So, 30 minutes that correct?
Thank you.
The city council will now begin the public comment period,
which is limited to a maximum of 30 minutes. Each speakers
limited to three minutes speakers cannot yield or transfer
their time to another speaker. And you written comments
that have been submitted will be posted and made available
for all the medic review. There will be further opportunity
for public testimony at a Committee hearing to be scheduled
our first Speaker. Today is Peter cannone
Can you give me? Okay. Can someone do you like the great.
Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to be
here today and share with you. Some analysis professor at
the University.
Proposed.
Proposal specifically focused on the revenue side together
with Professor game on Jones Juwanna. A question of what
will be the likely distributional? Effects of the proposed
transfer taxes components and not the spending by just
attack side from bring Chicago home. And what we have
learned from that analysis is that we believe that the
overall, the change in terms of housing costs will be
approximately neutral, not a substantial tax increase or
substantial tax. Decrease for people who are living in
units that would cost less than 1 million dollars. There
will be attacks increase when people are living in units
that cost greater than 1 million dollars.
Details about our methodology and very glad to answer
questions at a future time. Not letting me 3 minutes. So
altogether. We find that bring Chicago, home is unlikely to
be unlikely to use any additional revenue or try need a
small retinue from owner occupied units. There will be an
increase in revenue from renter-occupied units about 50
million dollars. It will be an increase in revenue from
non-residential industrial commercial uses about 130
million
When?
One particular area of uncertainty regarding to bring
Chicago home proposal is it? The proposal is a tax on
building and it's quite easy to imagine because many of us
know which would cost $2, but also have and housing units.
So that's 10 house of cards from the finance department in
records. And we trying to evaluate, not just, what would be
the effect of the building building? What we found is that
our net? There will be no change in the estimated rent,
approximately 4 units that cost less than 1 million
dollars. The reason for that, is that there's two
offsetting forces, there's a tackle decrease for buildings
that cost 1 million.
Increase where there are some buildings where the building
cost more than a million but the units cost. Less than a
million dollars. We find that there will be a tax increase
and that'll be the primary source of Revenue within the
residential sector for this policy.
Are.
Our next speaker is Jaclyn Atkins.
Good afternoon are down to the members of city council. I
am Reverend dr. Jacqueline, Trace Adkins. The rest of the
Fifth Ward assassin, minister of Christ, Universal Temple,
and an organizer of the interface Roundtable of Chicago.
Question for the homeless, I'm speaking in support branch
of Chicago home around. Table is composed of over 80 face
and clergy from Faith leaders and clergy from a wide,
variety Place Traditions, Islam, Judaism Christianity,
behind you thought, Christianity, Judaism, and Catholicism.
And we are some neighborhoods across the city for more than
a year. We've been praying and adding hands and feet to our
face. As we work for the implementation of green, Chicago
home. We are Avid supporter to bring Chicago home, because
it will provide a steady Revenue stream for permanent
housing and important services for on house neighbor. And
it's important.
Allow the reduction of a while.
Allow the reduction of a one-time real estate transfer tax
on 95% of your estate transfers, we are hard-working
supporters of bring Chicago home for. We know that this is
a failure of a system, not a failure of individuals,
homelessness is a product of decades, and in fact, and
Chicago has a moral obligation to do something about it.
That's something is bring Chicago home. I'm here today to
apply all the Manhattan. All of you who've been leading,
advocate for Chicago home, and to think my own Alderman and
all who stepped up to support bring Chicago home, and I'm
here to call on everyone inside the chamber, and I'm
telling everybody outside of the chamber to, please support
bring Chicago home, so that we can create permanent housing
with needed support Supportive, Services, Chicago is
recognized as one of the Great
Cities in.
cities in the
Cities in the world. How are there over 60 7000 people?
Including 17 thousand or more school? Children,
experiencing homelessness. Time to act is now, as safely as
we have the face, we are united in our call for the action
and we are united in the support of making these changes
that will professionally impact people, experiencing
homelessness, and positively impact, the city of Chicago in
the various holy book,
Little piece.
Little pizza hungry and I'm certain that the responsibility
to house the homeless. Thank you so much.
Thank.
Thank you, Miss Adkins for your comments. Our next speaker
is Diana. Lemus.
Yes, my name is Diane Lemos, and I'm a longtime volunteer
with communities United. And we are members of the bring
Chicago home Coalition, my sister off and says, to me as
your whole life can change many years ago. Driving home
from the doctor's appointment. I noticed that the sky
changing from a beautiful blue to dark. Black smoke fills,
a feeling of dread came over me. As I got closer, I
realized this was my house that was burning in a second.
Your whole life can change. I was paying the mortgage on
the two flat with an English basement, my family and live
and I lived in the basement, my sister and her family lived
on the first floor and my brother Stanley, who just came
back from Vietnam with was with his wife and live on the
second floor.
My.
My, my daughter took it took this the hardest, she lost her
dog and cats who died in the fire for weeks. After the
fire. She would walk around the block calling her dog's
name. Hoping that her dog was still alive. Sitting on our
neighbors are covered with soot from the fire. We realized
all three of our families were homeless. We really made it.
What really made it hard is that we lived in a Redline Zone
and no one would give us Insurance on our house. We had to
buy insurance from the government and it was expensive only
to find out that we only were able to get a portion of what
the insurance was worth.
We are.
When?
We ended.
We ended up doubled up homeless with my parents being
double up is the experience of 24500 double up people in
Chicago and it is hard to live. In somebody else's house.
Eventually I was able to save money for a down payment on
another two flat. And my sister and my brother came back
and live with me. We need to pass bring Chicago home and
stop listening to the lies that are being spread by the
opposition, Ray Chicago home looked at the self-interest of
people who are telling us that the everyday Chicago one is
going to supper. If this is past, this is nonsense talk
from the neighborhood building owners. Appliance they
represent 600.
Who owned?
Who owned more than 180,000 rental units and an average of
300 rental units for landlord. These are not your mom and
pop my alarm.
These are powerful political interest will have four
generations. Have raised Ranch donated money to landlord
friendly politicians and ferociously Lobby to get any
effort to text any portion of their profits. Bring Chicago
home, is a sound proposal that address is an urgent problem
in our city and those who oppose it are doing. So, because
that is their bottom line.
Play.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Thank.
Thank you very much for your comments.
Are.
Our next speaker is James Cavallo.
Are.
Our next speaker is bread, kindness.
Could a?
Good.
Good afternoon. My name is Brad teets and I am the BP gang
relations and strategy with the Chicagoland Chamber of
Commerce. The chamber represents nearly 1000 / 1000 to the
battery size and from every sector across Chicago. Cook in
the collar counties, and thank you for the opportunity to
speak with you. On such an important matters. Today,
country is what the woman just said we are before me.
Simply put bring Chicago, home is a blank, check to
increase taxes on businesses and residents, and every
neighborhood without a transparent plan to address the
issues of homelessness in Chicago.
Dude.
Today. Today we have yet to receive a detailed accounting
of how hundreds of millions of city state or federal
homelessness funds have been spent or have newly generated
revenues will. In fact, we do Chicago homeless population,
a few decent audit findings in a PowerPoint deck, is not a
plan. In fact, we're increasing taxes like this has been
tried in other cities Beyond house. Populations have only
brought gone up. We truly understand the urgent need to
address Chicago's homeless popular population and hope to
be a partner in that effort. Not only is it the moral and
right thing to do but our members sincerely want to find
solutions to the problem. It is impacting their customers,
their employees and their operations.
Is this is this is great. But
Without.
Without a concrete plan. There is no Larry's. Allow our
tablet, he gets three minutes and then he'll move on with
his dad. Did you please a lot of history minutes. You have
a minute and 35 seconds. There we are, already experiencing
record available, space downtown and the last thing, the
city needs is another setback to our recovery. Not only at
the proposed increase in unreliable source of Revenue. But
if the proposal passes Chicago, have the second highest
transfer tax compared to competitive cities. And many of
the states that we are losing residents, who do not impose
a transfer tax at all as a competition to win, Economic
Development and job creation after opportunities,
intensifies, in underserved communities, in important
selling point for Chicago, is the city is relatively modest
cost of living. The landlord's both commercial and
residential would raise rent to account for an increase and
trans transfer text, giving investors another reason to
look to other cities, which would further in PA
Chevelle.
Development union, job creation and our tax base.
Additionally, an increase of the transfer tax will hurt
small business across the city at a time, they are facing
increased cost for security, labor and supplies. Rather
than increasing the real estate transfer tax and asking
residents and businesses to hand over a blank, check the
city should instead take a comprehensive and holistic, look
at our financial issues and consider alternative reliable,
and long-term Solutions. We're not going to have this new
When your subcommittee, this seems like a great place to
have that conversation. We're not a knee-jerk know if a
plan was putting it was put in place. I truly helped her
own house population, ready to talk, but given the fact
that there is no concrete plans and are uncertain economic
environment. We should not be adding to a growing CAT tax
burden on businesses. That employ residence, increase
revenues to invest in critical city services, including
homelessness. The chamber stand ready to partner in the
effort to address this issue. Its enforcement were having
to have a. I have a discussion this way today but
proponents have you and just no other option.
Thank you.
Thank you for your time. Thank you very much for your
comments.
I know.
Our next speaker is Jonah car wash.
Good.
Good afternoon. Thank you. My name is Jonah cars. I'm here
with the bring Chicago home Coalition, and as a member of
the Jewish Council and urban Affairs, before I begin my
remarks, I just want to address. What was just said the
spending plan for bring Chicago home, it's outlined in
detail in the ordinance. That's in front of you. It will be
used for the acquisition and development of permanent
affordable housing with wraparound Services, which is a
solution that the research shows Works to prevent
homelessness. So I just want to clear that up to stay. We
don't have a plan, is just not the fact, I'm here with JC
way, which organizes Jews in Chicago for City, free of
racism, poverty and anti-semitism.
Current.
Currently.
Currently do.
Currently Jews around the world are observing the holiday of
Sukkot traditionally on this holiday to commemorate God.
Protection of the Israelites as they lived in temporary
structures. While wandering in the desert on the way to the
promised land we eat and sleep in a sukkah, an outdoor
open-air temporary structure. Let me tell you it's a good
thing that that holiday is in the fall because it would be
dangerous to sleep outside in the Chicago, winter. Oh wait.
Except that's exactly what thousands of our own house
Neighbors in Chicago are about to do
the bring Chicago home proposal looks to change that
reality. We know that although some homeless individuals
struggle with mental health unemployment or substance,
abuse homelessness is fundamentally a question of access to
safe and affordable housing. So we propose to use the
revenue that proposed tax would generate to go permanent
affordable, housing with wraparound Services because when
you have four walls and a roof over your head, and a door
that locks also known as basic human dignity, it is so much
easier to that address your other needs. Unfortunately, our
proposal to modify this tax has faced misguided arguments
in opposition in with the time that I have left, I hope to
use that time to clear some of those points up. One of the
things that we're hearing is that this proposal will result
in rent increases being passed on to Consumers a few things
to note on that number one because the tax structure is
marginal. The tax increases only apply above the one
millionth dollar. The higher rate is only above the one
millionth and the highest rate is on
About 1.5 mil.
About 1.5 million. So someone who is buying a home for 1.2
million, dollars is only paying $1,000 more than they would
have been under the current tax. If you can afford to buy
1.2 million dollar home, you can afford to pay an extra
$1,000,
and,
And as the first virtual speaker noted, we have permission
to studies between the city of Chicago and the bring
Chicago home Coalition one from the University of Chicago.
One from Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern
University, both of which found that even if the entire tax
increase was passed on to renters that increase would be
negligible some fighting as little as two to $5 per unit
per month and those studies are going to be available to
you, did I do that? This will drive development out of our
city. I'll just note in my remaining time that there are
other cities and states in this country in New York City
has a 3.9% real estate transfer tax that's more than even
the highest rate in this. There's no excuse, let's go home.
Make.
Thank you very much for your comments.
Are.
Our next spring speaker is positive praying.
Yeah.
Afternoon afternoon Mayer and Mayer and members of the city
council. I'm far from preying on the executive director of
Boma Chicago. We are the cities trade Association for work
at our high-rise office, a commercial office industry, it
supports about 60,000 jobs, so you don't need me to tell
you that we have a housing crisis and had one even before
we are migrant crisis on top of that. Unfortunately, while
I'm here to tell you is that we don't have the luxury of
only having one crisis to deal with. In our industry, we
have vacancy rates that are higher than they've been in 75
years. If you look at the amount of Unleashed office space,
we have in downtown Chicago, it would fill 16, Willis
Tower's. So our reports are that half of the city's
downtown Office Buildings or in some stage of financial
distress. And they've lost anything from 40 to 80% of their
value which is still an unfolding crisis. So,
I know this is billed as a mansion tax but this dramatic
increase. The proposed dramatic, increase in the transfer
tax, does have an impact on everybody in the city. Real
estate taxes. Are one of the two biggest obstacles that we
stumble on when we are attempting to recruit investment to
Chicago. We now have the just this year, he distinction of
having the highest
Commercial property tax.
Commercial property tax in the entire country. We finally
beat out to Troy B, us, Detroit, and Providence Rhode
Island. So, when you compare us another cities and their
tax basis, you have to consider all of that together. So,
the reality is that if we're piling on its additional tax,
it is going to affect our ability to compete for
investment. And I just want to make that very clear that we
are competing. We have to compete for that investment. When
we win that competition, that investment benefits everyone
in the city. If you look at our Workforce that investment
supports primarily union jobs, that's Construction And
Trades that are building and maintaining buildings. It's
also custodial workers at security workers at the
engineer's that are running them. Many the folks, and blue
and yellow shirts, their colleagues in local one or our
workers. The out. On top of that, that investment allows
our office industry to subsidize heavily subsidize the
property taxes that we all pay on the residential side. So,
when you look at, that loss of 40 to 80% in value that
still unfolding we are already estimating. The residential
property taxes are
can get an increase in their
can get an increase in there, be
Can get an increase in their bills at 10 to 20% Which for a
$250,000 home is something in the range of 450 to $900 a
year. This, this we're all connected. This matters on the
other side, we have not seen a clear comprehensive plan for
how this will improve our housing solution or our housing
situation. Maybe you have. I'd love to see it. The
ordinance just creates a committee, it just creates the
committee. So we love to have that dialogue. We have been
asking since last December to have real engagement with
your Coalition with the city and with all the other
affected business groups to figure out a model or supplant
that we align on a model and figure out a funding stream,
that make sense that's doable. And we continue to ask for
that engagement mayor that you asked the city's business
Community to lean in and we are here. Thank you for your
consideration.
Wake.
Thanks.
Thank you very much for your comments. Our next speaker is
April Harris.
Good afternoon and God bless you guys. My name is April
Harris. I'm with the Chicago Coalition for the homeless and
I'm in here to support bring Chicago home.
I'm here to tell you a little bit about my testimony. Me
and my family have experienced homelessness over three
occasions. Four months ago, we just finally got stable
housing and I can stand here and tell you that. The first
time we experience homelessness was back in. September
2014, we moved here from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania because
dirty City officials held a gun to my head in front of my
My kid.
one of my kids starting to
One of my kids starting to kill me. If I continue to talk
to try to shut down the drug-dealing, that was going on in
my community. So, we moved here to Chicago, for safety
reasons. The second time, you've experienced homelessness
was back in 2016 when our landlord rented us into legal
basement apartment and we ended up homeless again. The
third time we had Section 8 and Section 8, couldn't find
anybody to approve a four bedroom because my husband got
approved for a reasonable accommodations cuz he has
multiple sclerosis. And epilepsy we need to listen to what
we are saying because they're over sixty-eight thousand
plus people, experiencing homelessness, in the city of
Chicago, added that 68000 + 20,000 + you + 16000 + Kids. R
Kids in CPS schools, that is ridiculous. That is, that's
not right after the opposition to stand here and say, the
bring Chicago home is going to cause a rent, increase. His
lies lies, nothing, but life seems hits of hell. I'm sorry.
I,
I am here to say that these landlords have been raised you
right away before bring Chicago home.
People deserve to be housed and people deserve to have
stable housing over their head and The Time Is Now to bring
Chicago home.
Thank you very much for your comments. Our next speaker. Is
Jermaine Dixon?
Good after.
Good afternoon, everybody on here again. I'm Jermaine this
time. I'm not going to say about the homelessness. But I'm
going to ask is how many of you that sitting up here has
been in the store at Walmart or Target or whatever and you
have to get to the counter and put your stuff back cuz you
can't afford it.
Yeah, so the thing is about this that everybody is sitting
over there on that side that has the money and the
affordable housing because you guys all probably like I
said before I own a house. I don't own it. I'm buying a
house and a two years that I've been there. They don't want
up on my taxes again already. You know what I'm saying? So
my jobs nobody gave me a raise. Nobody came and said here's
a bonus or nothing. So it's a possibility that I can be
homeless again and the same way as you who's to say
tomorrow when you wake up.
Mitchell job will be there. So the housing thing is a very,
very important to everybody else. You may have a child or
grandchild somebody that's coming up after you or even a
friend, a French out, whoever, you know what I'm saying,
and you see them and they in the streets, somebody that you
grew up with and you saw every day that lived in the house.
It's it's it's not fair. We all supposed to have somewhere
to live somewhere to wake up in the morning and say to your
family. Good morning and go down and have breakfast.
We?
We got to stand up here and argue and beg and plead with
people that already got money and houses.
So it didn't, this is just it's crazy to me. Like I don't
understand how people can wake up every morning knowing
that somebody is outside in the cold and don't have nothing
to eat. A lot of people that let that's in the streets,
that's homeless day is not that your home is because they,
they want to be, you know what I'm saying? Nobody wants to
be home, as nobody wants to be out in the streets. Nobody
wants to sell a three-year-old money cannot buy the
sandwich today. So it's either get us a room or get us a
sandwich or is either go in the grocery store, buy some
soap to take a bath or you don't have no money to buy the
solo or no place to take the bath that either.
so, it's like his
So it's like as it is we got to come together like as a
people it don't matter what color raised her all, or none
of that, we need to come together and take care of each
other. And each other means, everybody, we all human and
I'm not a black, white, yellow green and brown. We all are
human and everybody deserves to have some with the lip and
to be able to afford it. Thank you.
Thank.
Thank you very much for your comments. Our next speaker is
Deborah Murphy.
Good afternoon, Mary and everybody in this room, I had to
speech wrote out. My name is Deborah Murphy. I live in a
20-7 world Ward, where regentrification is going on 24/7,
and his people stay here and talk about the rent is going
to go up. I don't see. None of us are living in there. We
got the homeless Racine and Van, Buren on Ashlan and Van
Buren, bad father going downtown, they not there, but they
coming back with on every corner and I know we all drive
past them and we see him and we keep going
Are.
Every day they under the bridge, if they under the viaduct
living in tips, I call them dog houses cuz that's what they
look like to me. And that's the way people are treated to
me. I have been in homes with my two kids. Well, I had I
come home from work and everything, I own is floating, and
all my landlord say to me is where's my rent? I take my
kids to a father so I can get on my feet. I work doubles
working a second job. Working another job work my ass off
to get my kids back with me to get a home for us to pay 1
month to month security.
It is now.
It is not easy out here. It's a human, right? It's a human
right to have a home. It's god-given right? To have a home,
but do everybody should know that we are brother. Got home.
Each one of us accountable for helping somebody. When God
bless you, he always give you enough to bless somebody
else. They don't all for you.
No people.
Jacob.
It could be your mother. I could be your mother your young
man. I could be your mother believe it or not. I could not
know you spring chicken. You know. I've been out here a
while.
and,
I'll
I look at everybody would love.
We?
Wish.
We should stop judging people. I would be on medication
about this cat was my roof.
What is?
What is in the world?
Walking around here with their head on how to get this and
go to the store, but they won't let somebody. Can you buy
food?
Stop.
Show me a picture of a brick.
Painting, a chance of school kids. Go to school in barest
of the other kids.
Indian. We got real estate workers coming up the hill.
Talking about, they going to go up on it. They scared
y'all.
They scared out cuz they know we fight. We going to win
against Chile. And so we going to keep on fighting, I got
13 minutes, I will find something else to say.
Everybody that's down here even jail and he'll know what
it's like to want something and can't get it.
Imaginal home.
Play.
Thank you very much for your comments if there's anyone
else who wishes to speak speak please form a line at the
microphone and will the sergeant-at-arms please. Assist
anyone else who wishes to testify?
Welcome, welcome! Hey, my name is Melvin daily. Thank you
for giving me this opportunity to speak. First of all, I'd
like to take to all of us who came out, supporting us, and
it's affordable housing and market rate homes.
Unfortunately, that's the nature of the beast. When we
build an affordable, the city program you have to try to
build market-rate home. I like things to all them is that
came out in the 27th. Ward, in the 28th Ward, see how we
change allies. I like to thank the city of Chicago for
giving us the opportunity to start repairing these back
porches for our seniors. So, we're in the back porch
program, you wouldn't believe, I went to two seniors houses
on the Humboldt Park every day, was so happy that we came
to talk about them repairing, a back porch, and it does my
heart good. Cuz we can get these guns out of these kids
hand and get him a job to create opportunity. So that's
what we're here for and it's come home, Chicago will be
real great. If we can speed up that process to get these
vacant lot and I hand quicker so we can pray some more
jobs.
Yeah.
Y'all see all the men we brought here earlier, if y'all
wasn't here, we had this whole world filled with a bunch of
men from the south and west side looking for opportunity to
change her life around, and we are here as the voice as a
vehicle to let them know. It can be done. If we all work
together, if we all work together, I wish I was in this
Stephanie called me, and then chairman of the Blackhawk.
I've talked to him this morning Sky, I miss him so much. I
would love to see you guys come out. Do a tour to see how
the young man in that Community. Work. The young man in
that Community around in the 27th. Ward and a 28 before we
hire young man, right there on that block on that corner,
got them guns. They hand now, I don't have to have Security
on them houses because guess what? They on the Block
anyway. They was like, I guarantee you ain't nobody going
to go in there.
I'm just saying we can take this model across the city. We
can go in each Ward and let them young man. Do we get him
an opportunity in the vehicle to let them know. They do
have a chance of somebody going to have a voice for men we
are here so I had to you know I didn't want to keep the
young man longer than fifty men. I had down here in women.
I don't want to bore them because this is a straight fight
and I'm glad you ladies out here fighting cuz this is the
50 and for the last second schanze over there and she
wanted to see AJ is holding up the process. She had the
nerve to I emailed her for public comment. She had the
nerve to
Call.
Call Mia.
Call me a daily for public comment. Then when she set up a
meeting with me, she said to me just to cancel the meeting
and I emailed her back issue Mo. Anyway, you wrong for our
community, you got two billion dollars over there at chla
and none of the money has been spent in our community. We
can be creating some affordable housing, we can put these
the folks and to the home. Dulce h, a tell him stop playing
them games over there. City council, let's get rid of her.
She got to go because anytime you not working for the
community, you and I working for the people, you got to go.
Thank you very much for your comments.
Welcome.
Okay, so my name is Adelina, and I'm a resident of South
Shore in the Fifth Ward, and I'm a youth Advocate with a
Night Ministry. A core member with one Northside in a
streetlight Committee Member with Chicago Coalition of the
homeless.
I can.
I can't.
I came to Chicago because I wanted to get away from a
conservative environment. I faced intense racism and
homophobia in Arkansas. I came here and it's usually for
school and even though I couldn't afford it anymore, I
stayed in Chicago because I would rather be here. And how
much sand was it? Abusive family member? My, my town has
70,000 people and hear the homeless population is nearly
the same or more, who knows to think, I can go home and
look at everyone in town, and that would be the same amount
of people on house. When people look at me, they don't
think I've been homeless. I first live doubled up with
friends moved into drop-in centers and then transitional
housing.
Living.
Living in the show.
Living in the shelter.
Living in the shelters with hard. Sometimes you have to
wait outside all day to get in and I tend to get
overstimulated. So being around a lot of people and sound
often was cruel. Despite this the amount of help a person
can receive through therapy in case work, there is great. I
got housing through an accelerated moving event, begin my
own place, I find it easier to be more productive when I
lived in the shelter being an environment. That's so
depressing. It just for, there's a sadness in you.
They got.
The gap between the rich, and the poor has only increased.
That should be reason enough to support bring Chicago home
with rent Rising so much. The amount of homelessness will
increase, so we need to find more housing now.
And oftentimes in America, we put blame on the individual
like we control our own issues in life with this bootstrap
mentality. There's weight on people to put in the effort
without looking at the many factors that go into their
struggles.
meant to,
Mental health is a huge thing. There are so many people
struggling, intensely with mental illness. Their veterans,
with PTSD experiencing housing, instability nearly half of
those who are incarcerated, have mental illness and many
become homeless, many people. I I met experience, sexual
assault and being of color or queer for. There's the pain
of being Outcast. We need to find therapy and supportive
services in harm reduction that would have helped prevent
perpetuating these issues in a cycle. The reason why people
like me come from out-of-state to Chicago, is because of
the many resources here. If I stayed in Arkansas, I
wouldn't know where to go, there are a lot of organizations
here. I think that if people are going to continue doing
that then I think it would be a great help to Chicago
natives also to support all the programs we have here with
more assistance. I don't think it should be a question to
help all these people. Like I've been
We need.
We need to bring Chicago home now.
Thank.
Thank you very much for your comments. Y'all come and can
you please state your name, clearly?
Hey.
Hey, my name is Osman. Dumas. Organizer with SEIU
Healthcare.
I was.
I wasn't even going to speak today but I just can't stand
to sit down knowing that there's push back about getting
people off the street. You're going to miss out on your
record profits, and all of that and you know, but at the
same time prices are going up and a lot of people our
paycheck away from being homeless. So, why we haven't
pushed back without a plan? If you're going to get pushed
back, please come with a plan on what we can do to get
these homeless people off the street, if you really do
care. So, I don't have to take up all the time, but I just
would love or bring Chicago home to be passed as soon as
possible. So we can get these people off of the street
68000 is enough people to vote. So that's that is a lot of
people and
We were.
we really need to do something about this and
I guess that's the
I guess that's it. Thank you.
Thank you very much mr. Dumas
Well.
Welcome and please state your name clearly, you're a good
afternoon. My name is Billy gar. I'm with the affordable
housing developer known as Poe or preservation of
affordable housing. I wanted to offer my strong support for
bring Chicago home. I think it's supposed
I didn't get.
I think it's both gold and smart, you know, it's important
to generate the resources, we need to build and acquire
more affordable. Housing, we're all very familiar with the
shortage, so that's that's really, really important. What
makes us I think particularly smart is that they're also
resources in there for the wraparound services and the
rental subsidies that make it work. Because permanent
Supportive Housing does not work well without those pieces.
And so, I want to commend the drafters for including that.
And and I really want to let you know, urge the council to
get behind this. Thank you.
Make a
Thank you for your comments.
Linda.
The next speaker, please step to the microphone and please
state your name. Clear Lake, Mary Gardner from the awesome
29th. Ward, just wanted to share a couple of properties
that are so 2019, A3 bedroom condo sold for 2.32 million
dollars. Downtown, 2020 to 2.65 million dollar property
sold
Also a 2020 4.8 million dollar vintage Mansion sold. Thank
up, same couple and I'm not hating on the couple who all
I'm saying is this is why we can afford bch, thank you.
Thank.
Thank you very much and welcome. Would you please state
your name for the into the record? It even if you want. My
name is Kevin Capshaw, but I'm known as King Tut and I'm
the founder of the United Asiatic movement and also with
the bread, milk and Bailey all with the construction giving
black young, black Brothers opportunities in construction
on the westside of Chicago. And this brother, I could bear
witness that he offered a lot of jobs, but we need more
funding. And also I'm holding a rally October 15th at home
and in full to well I'm getting the game to put their guns
down. Stop the violence. So if I get anybody to get
company's got jobs or we can get funding towards the west
side of gas a whippet. They will put our guns down and we
can get some jobs and we can save resources, you know? I
mean, I'm a victim of being a gunshot victim. I was shot 16
times and my baby mother and son, lost a life and I was
sending the prayers. I get 18 years of my life in prison so
I can I create a station called not an ejaculation.
And his name.
And this nation is to bring unity and bring peace to the to
the trunk from the 24th Ward and 28. What is getting ready
tonight? On the 15th of October on Homan and 4th? And I
called everybody out with no black Unity black, little
black piece, and help his brother Melvin, Bailey continue
with this construction. We need those contracts and get
these back porch is dead and our man, we need every
opportunity, we can and 24th, Ward, and the 28th Ward. So,
any are any resources that we can get, may? I truly
appreciate. I don't have a foundation right now, but this
is my movement and that's what I'm doing on my back off, my
all my strength. And I mean, I just had that we put the
girls down, we get more people. House will get more people
job opportunity, you know, man, and keep the peace in
Chicago with that piece of Chicago.
Wake.
Thank you very much. Welcome, and please state your name
for the record.
It after
Good afternoon, my name is Antonia Westlink, and I am a
resident of the 46th Ward, and I'm standing up in
opposition of this ordinance or the new resolution. I don't
disagree with anything that anyone has said, I come from a
home with a single mother who was also
Close to being homeless and so I resonate and ensure you and
agree that homelessness is a huge problem here in Chicago
and want to be part of the conversation is how that gets
resolved. But they're also needs to be a conversation of.
What does that look like? With this particular resolution
that's being proposed and my concern, about this particular
resolution is that this only if it's only affects 5% of the
real estate transactions but there's 95% of our
transactions that are going to reduce the revenue for the
for the city of Chicago because it's reducing the transfer
tax in the majority of the transactions that are taking
place. How does that Gap get filled? Because the
transactions that are over million dollars that have to go
to support the homeless effort. But what about those other
transactions? We already know that the city of Chicago has
a budget deficit. How is that going to be filled? Long-term
that's part of the conversation that
It goes.
It goes in.
It goes into this. When we look at this particular
ordinance. Someone also asked well, what are the proposed
solutions to be able to help create more affordable
housing? For that means that we need to reduce the cost of
what it? What it means to bill. Here, in the city of
Chicago streamline, the process of being able to develop
here in Chicago. The permit process is for Monday. As the
zoning process is for Monday. It's really difficult to work
with the city to be able to build and create more for
Housing. Steve
Housing affordable. Dwelling units, ordinance. It's very
difficult, riddles. For three people to be able to be able
to take those grandfather in unit, or those attic units to
be able to convert them into affordable, housing, and
increase the house. The one of the ways in which we can
help be a part of the solution and creating affordable,
housing is to make housing options that are currently in
place easily more easily available and it is filled with
people. And so I so as someone who is part of the real
estate industry and someone who also hears you and
understands you wanting to be a part of the process and
being able to resolve the issue of homelessness. But
personally, I don't believe that this is the way to do so
Play.
Thank you very much. Welcome, and please state your name
and my name is Kristen tomorrow. And thanks for the
opportunity just be today in support of bring Chicago home,
I'm with an organization, a community-based organization
called the resurrection project or a thirty-three-year-old
community-based affordable housing organization. Based in
Pilsen, we serve more than 10,000 people every year with
housing, housing, affordable, housing and Housing Services
myself on the resident of the 47th Ward and I have more
than 20 years working to bring more affordable housing to
Residence. Inn Chicago, I'm here today on behalf of the
Resurrection project 2.
to say that we need to pass by,
To say that we need to pass bring Chicago home now.
Add.
As we've heard today, we live in a city with more than
68,000 homeless individuals and this doesn't include Asylum
Seekers and the new arrivals that are coming daily, we need
solution to help them in for far too long. The city of
Chicago has not addressed homelessness and we don't have
the resources today to do so and the solutions that have
been put forward if any have not been adequate bring
Chicago home will generate the necessary resources that we
need to address homelessness and housing and Security in
our city, through the creation of new permanent affordable,
housing. This is the right thing to do, and we need to do
it now. Bring Chicago home, is the solution that we need
now to address this. I'm going to Nana's, herion crisis and
the housing crisis that we have in our city. So I urge you
to, please pass bring Chicago home
Thank you very much for your comments, everyone who wish to
be heard has spoken the public hearing is now ended.
He recognizes all chairwoman Haddon.
Thank.
Thank you. Madam president. Thank you for my colleague.
Thank you to all of our speakers who spoke and support and
opposition and came out for the public hearing, we
appreciate your participation. I do you want to just
reiterate. So folks that this was a public hearing, there
will be more briefing. And of course we are still going to
rules committee where we will have opportunities to talk to
City staff. For older people to ask questions and to get
more information. And please, of course you do reach out to
the administration reach out to myself Alderman, Martin or
ramirez-rosa with more questions. All of you were given
nice to pager detailing information as well about the real
estate transfer tax. I'll bring Chicago home proposal so
please let us know if you got questions were happy to do
with them once and briefings and thank you for the time for
the public hearing them president.
Thank.
Thank you.
The chair recognizes Alderman, Moore.
Thank.
Thank you. My
thank you, my brother, I think
but I
I think my colleague Maria had as just answer my question
and so I may just reserved and wait until we get to I guess
in rules committee where we're going to be asking questions
on also in the sake of time and see if my chairman nod her
head, let me get out of here so we'll wait till Rules
Committee.
Alright, thank you very much. All them or chair recognizes
ottoman. Mitchell. Are there any more miscellaneous
business? Very good. Thank you very much for the Omnibus.
Ottoman Mitchell.
I move that matters in the Omnibus be passed by the first
most. Favorable roll call vote by the committee on Finance
in the associated unsuccessful motion to reconsider. All
right here in Jackson so ordered all the chew on a motion
to adjourn. There being no further business before the
body. I move that we adjourn to order. This meeting is
adjourned.