Good morning. We are going to get started. With today's
hearing we took this morning. We have Streets & Sanitation
procurement services in Department of Aviation. Are we will
begin today with public comments?
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him? Please for me.
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first, we going to have
First, we going to have a loris. I just use me for the
pronunciation of your niece are side, Bronski Bronski.
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Lisa.
Please step to the.
Please step to the mic, you have 3 minutes to make your
comments.
Run.
I'm worst bransky and I'm with stayed your ass. We have
testified at budget hearings every year since 2021, all
older people, Matt Martin, roast Ina, Road regas and my
Alderman Vasquez wrote, you resolutions in 2021 and 22 are
there more than 40 other people sign. Flooring, the city to
restore funding to treat our City's public as trees. We
also and also to create a request for proposal to hire a
contractor to treat. Raised since that time a group of
Civic Advocate who are all volunteers, including me. Join.
The city's tree Equity, working group under the Department
of Public Health. We are happy to say that the city
completed and published they are and were told that they
are in the final stages of choosing a contractor. Thank you
to The Bureau for street or taking the lead on that and for
inviting us to contribute to writing it.
The reason we are here.
the reason we are here at
The reason we are here again.
The reason we are here again is because even after the city
took a year more than a year to complete the RFP process,
it's largely unfounded. The RFP calls for only four
thousand as to be treated in the first year. The problem is
that our beer for Street estimates. That they're close to
50,000 mature as priests brought the city and they have not
been treated since at least 2018 which is two cycles of
treatment. The best way to achieve the goal of saving, all
treatable ash trees in the city, is to treat all of them,
the first year and then get on his like a three-year cycle
treatment. When we brought her concerns, the city
officials, we were told that in addition to the city we
could look to the state or federal funding. Now if we had
known this year and a half ago, we would have taken that
stuff. But we were under the impression that an RFP would
be funded by the city.
I'm going to be.
Menopause. He
I'm going to pause here for my own personal remark and it's
somewhat for my formal role, as elected delegate to
democratic convention in 2016. I recognize that the city is
in a very different place from even six months ago because
of the influx of migrants and refugees arriving in her
City. Daily Chicagoans are being told that our budget and
spending a stretch Beyond capacity because of the
situation. We've been put in yet, President, Biden
continues to send billions, not million, but billions to
Ukraine, and Israel. He also is not lifted economic
sanctions in Venezuela, which is for starving people to
flee.
Country.
Country yet.
Country yet, to my knowledge, she continues to refuse to
provide federal funds to help Chicago manager, migrant
crisis. We continue to hear the voices from tens of
thousands of Chicago saying that this President does not
represent our interest and I'm one of them
Are.
Our interests.
Our interests are the same as everyone around the world,
how well-being and safety without larger trees in our city,
we have none of these mature trees are what enables to
breathe in Chicago. Does not even have enough especially in
historically, underserved areas. So I'm here, once again to
ask you to find the treatment to all ash trees so that they
can all be treated in 2024.
Are you for your?
are you for you,
Thank you for your comments. Next will have George
Blakemore
Ricci.
reach inside.
reaching Sanitation.
Call me.
I mean, I know you also know what a SSA, but the average
citizen, they don't know the function.
if I,
If the Streets & Sanitation function to keep our streets
clean out sidewalks in the commercial area, but they have
another scheme.
What?
What is a?
What is a SFA mr. Blake Moore is where a group of lawyers
lawyers. Well, a group of all got together in their
commercial air. And say, we need additional cleaning about
commercial area, but is being tapped, double checked by the
people who live in that area.
I asked if,
Ihsa, they know what they say, but you don't melt. What do
they do with that pocket of money? Who do they have? They
have security. People put them on little up a jacket and
it's just another hustle for the Autumn to control the
money. You know, this phone that I can see you made me love
you. I didn't want to do it and all the time. You knew it,
but you made me love you. What the hell? You're making me
hate you. I don't want to hate you but you're making me
hate you.
By bringing in.
by bringing in the
By bringing in illegal immigrant, you're making me hate you.
it just
but this is
SSA double taxation, without representation of pocket of
money for those greedy ultimate and all two women, you are
making the citizen turn on you, maybe you going to have to
help Security in your water security because you making
that people hate you.
Babe.
Bebo.
They don't want to do it but you making them Hate You by
doing what. They don't want you to do. Both this city. Free
of this picture wary do to stop it. Stop it. You make it.
The people pay for something that they don't want you
making hate you. We don't want to do it, do it. You can
make us love you. And all the time you knew it. You can
make us love you if you wanted to do it but you don't want
to do it. So you are putting yourself at risk.
The rapper.
The revolution. What did I say? Thank you? Thank you mr.
Blakemore
Thank.
Thank you, Miss.
Thank you, mr. Blakemore mr. Blakemore, we love you. We
don't hate you. We love you, man. Alright, miss y'all.
Jessica Jackson.
Jeremih.
Jeremiah.
Good.
Good morning, the direction that I was going to go with
this. I'm not going to do it today because enough people
are not here to hear it. So I'm going a different
direction.
You are.
You all.
You all are.
You all at the department of sanitation, right? Okay.
The.
The department.
The department of San.
The department of sanitation needs to deal with the fact
that these illegal immigrants are using the bathroom
anywhere they want to. I should not have to look out my
window, my kitchen window and seeing a legal immigrant
peeing in my game way.
The song.
The South.
The south side and west side of Chicago needs their money.
Is.
It is.
It is not.
Oprah.
Approach.
Appropriate.
But I
But all the way.
But all the men, all the women and the mayor to sit here
and watch the south side and Westside, get ran like this.
Now we all know what it is now will come to these meetings
and we'll see how the black. All the missing. Pretty much
over there, you got your Hispanic once over here. And in
this road right here, it's the white Altima. They don't say
anything because they know that their white corporations in
the white people, in the city of really the ones that's
running this, the black people, the blackmail, the black
aldermen, are the front people, so they sit here and they
watch the Hispanics and the black people fight about this
money. When the reality is, is the white people, in the
city that got this going, how they wanted to go, the two
people up there in the front. I wish you would show some
respect and listen to more people to talkin.
No.
No, you weren't
No, you won't cuz you were talkin
Like what was his?
like what was his school? Didn't your teacher. Tell you do
not talk in class.
Sweetheart.
Fiat disrespect.
Disrespectful. That is but yes, you got to take my tax
dollars and pay her
You see?
You see, how do?
You see how disrespectful that it's just, you won't shut up
cuz she feel she doesn't have to. Cuz first of all she's
white on black, she can keep on pumping her gums.
now, we
Now, what I'm
Now, what I've got to say is this, I'm a property owner.
I'm not home.
I'm not homeless.
I'm not on sexy.
I'm not on Section 8. I'm not here for a portable housing.
And what I don't want is a bunch of texts and jump at the
corner of my house. So if I try to sell my property, my
value was going down because some illegal immigrants are
sitting here at 10 at the corner of my house, and every
black just Community deserves that same respect.
You do.
You don't bring.
You don't bring people into our communities. That's not
paying anything, but that can drive our property value down
because you all have told yourself that black people only
want affordable housing, the homeless funding
Stephen.
That's enough.
There's another group of black people out here that is
self-sufficient and we want our rights respected.
Thank.
Thank you.
Thank you, Miss Jackson for your comments. Next, we're
going to have a Michael Young bae
Can.
Can you be?
Can you record?
It's
Patient with the nonsense that's coming here.
Turn.
To wear keep hair citizens. Complain about the same thing.
We keep hearing the citizens come down here and also being
disrespected.
Miss.
Miss Jackie.
Miss Jackson is right. We should have your undivided
attention. What you got a form of retardation yourself. Cuz
just because you got on a suit or just because you got home
address or you went went to law school, the most biggest
food in the world, is the educated.
so, you
So, you need to look at yourself.
because,
Because the service is not going to be keep going through
this. Eventually they going to rise up.
A song.
and some are
And some are voices are very strong.
That'd be.
that's because of
That's because the person that showed out yet.
and,
and I,
And I ain't going to say with that is, but just because a
person I showed out you don't mean it ain't going to
happen, they ain't going to be no show. You have to be
careful. You are public servants. If y'all can clean the
street more than once a month on the North side, because I
see how y'all keep segregated in here.
REI.
Ariake.
Are y'all keep saying I owe money for we, looking for
money, for the north. We looking for this, for the north
side. We looking for this guy, we're looking for the whole,
cuz if you can clean the north side more than once, a
Streets & Sanitation, then you can do it on the South Side,
you can do it on the on the West Side. They should have to
be waiting for snow plows, that's why people sitting up in
the trailer, where the salt truck cuz I know I don't been
there. I've experienced a lot with this city.
We?
We have.
We have, even though I may or he ain't here today, but
that's a clown ass s***. And excuse, my language, you know,
because I don't want to go there, I want you to do it, cuz
you try to take away our freedom of speech by doing that,
don't show nobody, trying to check my voice. And I mean
that like I tell you, when you try to put a person, trying
to put the police on a, on a sack of weed down there,
speaking facts.
But you won't go in you.
but you won't go in your
But you won't go in your own world where drugs, where is
valid and call the police on them. Most y'all, don't you
walk out your neighborhood because you know what they'll do
to you which call you or follow up on the Snapchat, but you
try to put the police on us here and I'm not going for it.
You.
You're?
You need to check.
You need to check yourself and look at yourself and look at
how you doing people.
because it
Because it's not right.
Are.
and I,
Airline fare.
An event.
And eventually people going to say enough is enough.
Eva.
Even though.
Even where is the bay? Mr. Your time is up, mister Bay,
your time is up.
It's all.
New timer.
Your time is up for public comment, today. Next, we're
going to have a goalie
best.
Mr.
mr. Young
Mr. Young Bae, mr. Young bae.
it's a
It's on.
It's time is up.
Zoe.
Zoli.
No more.
Good morning. I don't know if I'll demand Ramirez is here
but yesterday watching that on the news that was
disappointing to see and disappointing to, you know, why
her to go over there and to get attacked by the residents
of right and part. But as all the people, you guys have to
like figure out how to
Go.
Go to the Met.
Go to the mayor and let the mayor know this is just not.
It's going to kick continue to get worse and it's in his
falling on y'all because the deputy mayor of a refugee
immigrant refuse Beatrice. She should have been out there.
The mayor should have been out there. The mayor in in her
should definitely be going to all of these sites and
dealing with this, with this along, with the all the person
in each War, they're putting this all on you guys and
making you guys look bad. And you got people that do not
understand. This, is there looking from the outside-in, I
go on social media and I break it down to my followers and
stuff like that. The lady know what's really going on, but
how the media project, a lot of stuff. It's not, it's not
cool, I don't know.
I'll take a.
Taking buses to the Border.
taking buses to the border to
Taking buses to the border to see what's going on. We
already know what's going on the border. Elon Musk. Did
that months ago that we already saw? What's going on? Y'all
need to take a bus to Illinois. It's a Springfield
Illinois. And talk to Governor. Prince are about a state of
emergency or or in the no more buses can come here. And
there is if they have that under control, I don't know if
y'all got to take a visit to some other Sanctuary cities to
understand what's going on but this is ridiculous and it's
embarrassing. Chicago, Chicago has the biggest ego and
you're embarrassing us because we've been surviving. Cool,
I live in streeterville they are pissing and defecating on
the size of the street. This is disrespectful, like go
back.
What are in?
Go there and do it. Like I don't.
Go there and do it. Like I don't understand like or I know
that y'all had all this money for porta potties. There is
out there, not even 45 at the 22 District. They're pissing
and pooping on the the bushes. So they have to cut those
cards because of the smell is so horrendous. Like this is,
since it's really like it if I, said and I'm not even a
public servant.
but,
But this.
But this is ridiculous. Like this is just kind of said,
y'all can find money for affordable housing, which is a
scam that I can find money for the homelessness. What is a
scam, but y'all can't find no money to start the porting
them back. I mean, everybody in the ministration, he said
to start supporting them back to Venezuelan. Why hasn't ice
been to these 22 district and start picking them up. They
have to go home, they have to go home. Thank you for your
comment.
This.
This more.
This morn.
This morning.
This morning, we will. First, I need to entertain a motion
to allow for all those Nugent and Mitch to participate in
remotely. Do the medical reasons movie called remotely all
in favor. See my son and I seen your post and it. It says
the eyes have it in both Alders, admits and Nugent will be
allowed to participate in remotely. Today, we have before,
so I begin with Streets & Sanitation or we will begin with
your presentation code for follow.
Opening.
Open in state.
Opening statement from a commissioner Stallard in the
introduction of the members here in the diocese and those
that are in the Box.
Cheer me.
Germany.
Chairman Irving, Vice chairman, Lee city council and guest
good morning. My name is Jana soda, gray, and I'm the
acting director of Copa.
Today.
today, I'm going
Today, I'm going to do a quick overview of departmental
overview on the department of Streets & Sanitation.
Are some quick.
Are some quick facts.
The proposed by.
The proposed budget for?
The proposed budget for Streets & Sanitation was 344
million dollars. That is 3233.2 million more than fiscal
year. Fiscal budget, you're 23, they had 2293 budgeted FTE.
Set.
70.
17 More Than Physical year 23.
6.
60.01% was funded with corporate funds.
Person.
Personal account.
Personnel, accounted for 202.4 million, non Personnel
accounted for 142.3 million.
The purse.
The person else.
The Personnel Service category is set to grow by 23.2.
Million representing a 12.97% increase compared to the
revised fiscal year 2003 budget.
Interpret.
Inter prepare.
In the proposed. Fiscal year 2004 budget. Their allocations
for 2293 ftes, which represents 17 and increase of 17? And
again of the funding, 60% goes to the corporate fund.
Now.
now, we talked about
Now, we talked about the surveys and this is kind of the
voice of the Ottoman where they filled out a survey. And
told us, you know, what was important to them, the top
issues for Streets & Sanitation, tree trimming, alley
maintenance, proactive surveying and Regional labor pool.
They have more issues.
Also.
also, add
Also, Ali made it alley maintenance, Great Bay Street
trimming, railroad maintenance the recycling, refuse
collection grid system, special street cleaning street
sweeping and vacant lot maintenance. And that's not a
comprehensive list. That's just the highlights.
I'm
on the
On the next pay.
On the next page we're going to talk about the
Appropriations by category and this is for fun 100
corporate fund. As you can see the Personnel Services for
2024 is 99 7. 16 495 the total corporate fund for
Appropriations 206000862 hours, 914 and for 2023 was 180,
90341 38th and you see a graphical depiction at the bottom
of the page and you can see it categorically by the
different Appropriations.
Natalie.
Now, to look at the big picture with, not just the
corporate fun but all the funds come by the entire streets
and San and we have the same appropriation categories here
and it's by your 22 through 24 and it just looks it just
looks at it a different way. It's lice in a different way
and you can see the grass, go to picture and at the bottom
of the page. And once again, the total appropriation for
physical
20.
24 is 344 738 with a variance of 33 to 22 year-over-year
from fiscal year. Revised 23.
Look.
Looking at.
Looking at sponging, types, fighting types for $0.03 and we
have corporate fun garbage collection, fun Vehicle, Tax
fund, and motor fuel tax fun, and you can see all the data
to the right of that for all of those funds. And there's
Graphics at the bottom
Once.
Went to.
once again, just to highlight the corporate find does
represent 60.01%
If?
App to use my.
App to use my fun, just like the different way. Looking at
the FTE corporate fun. As imagine what have the most safety
he's or 2024? It has a thousand six and you have the
vehicle tax fun in the garbage collection fun, following
with 377 and 19 respectively. And the graphs are at the
bottom.
That.
That's my.
That's my quick overview, thank you. If you could do
introduce yourself, introduce the other members up here
with us as well as those that are in the Box, you can give
an abbreviated opening statement and then we will begin
with questions, starting with Alderman Riley.
I'll call.
Archos dollar.
Call Coast dollar commissioner Department of Streets &
Sanitation to the right of me is managing Deputy Eric
Cologne. He's over Finance in the box. We have first Deputy
we Cepeda managing Deputy over operations is Tommy Johnson.
Overstock.
Overstreet operations is Debra Lopez. Deputy Debra Lopez?
No.
Malco.
Malcolm why?
Malcolm Whiteside Deputy of Forestry. Crystal Bay. Deputy
of recycling waste diversion and proud to say, composting
pilot
Glory.
Gloria.
Gloria Pittman, who is over admin? Michael Coco is over.
Deputy over traffic Josie cruises. Deputy Commissioner.
Over rodent control, Mike cericola is Deputy over
sanitation and Kelly very is Deputy over Performance
Management.
Let me know.
Let me read.
Let me read my opening statement out of my honorable
chairman and members of city council for the record. I'm
close to our commissioner Department of Streets &
Sanitation. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve
Brandon Muir, Brandon Johnson, and the members of Chicago
city council and delivery of necessary and year-round
services, that keep our great City operating including but
not limited to sanitation recycling, forestry Street, Ops
graffiti removal, rodent control in traffic Services. I
also want to acknowledge the valuable DSS leadership team
who is here with me today to help review, this year's
progress and highlight. A few of our goes into a
24.
24 this past summer. When the city experienced
unprecedented, flooding in homes, on the westside and other
areas Streets of San Crews. Immediately partnered with the
mayor's office, other City departments. The union, local
community groups to initiate a collaborative effort, clean
up the team came together to help residents clean up their
property and remove damaged personal belongings from their
homes or recycling. We continue to a new staff, reinforcing
our dedication to a sustainable future through increase
recycling rates, waste reduction, and environmental
progress with these added resources and in partnership with
the mayor's office of climate and environmental Equity. We
were able to launch a new food. Scrap, drop off at 15
locations throughout the city.
I provide.
By providing Campos.
By providing composting options to all Chicago residents we
can both reduce harmful greenhouse gases emissions that
occur. When organic food material decomposes in a landfill
and return, organic material, Earth, creating a healthier,
soils, and communities to enhance transparency of our
recycling process. We collaborated with a recycling partner
lrs and a is to create a blue cart recycling story map.
Featured on Chicago recycles.org website. The story map
illustrates the Journey of recycling from point of pick up
where the materials are shorted to tonnage of recycles
collected and the destinations were processing recyclables
into new materials for reuse.
If you.
The Bureau of 4th Street.
The Bureau of Forestry continues to work in pain.
The Bureau of Forestry continues to work in partnership
with c. C d, b h, n, o c e on our road Chicago program.
where,
Where we plant.
Where we plant, you.
Where we plant using an equity-based tree ambassador
program. The city is on track to plant over 20,000 trees.
By year-end enhancing, our City's Green Landscape, and
promoting Health inequity.
You're a.
Europe.
Bureau of Forestry also optimized, the new city wide area
trim trimming approach this year. Now, Cruise can schedule
all treat rims in a geographical area, at the same time,
creating a more efficient and accurate process. For Chicago
residents and allowing for the proper maintenance of the
city's overall, Urban canopy, the strategy is already
showing results. The Bureau of Forestry is trimmed 53188
trees to date compared to 19525 for the same exact. Last
year, we improve tree trimmed by 172%.
Are.
Arby roast.
Our Bureau street operations is fully prepared. For this
Winter's operations with four hundred twenty five thousand
tons of salt stored for the upcoming season. Last winter,
we revamp the plow tracker empowering residence to monitor
snow removal activities more effectively and we watch the
inaugural you name, a plow contest, watch ring engagement
with City residents during winter months. We will also keep
you posted on the details for this year's contest.
Which will be.
Which will be announced soon.
Tree.
Three operators.
Three operations also continues to oversee sanitation.
Service in the central business district manager Citywide
graffiti operations work in partnership, with Cook County
on the swap, cleanup efforts, and collaborated. With, if
you have flashes on a quality of life, conditions for
residents, experiencing homelessness police department, and
other agencies, every Friday in the summer months to clean,
targeted areas, as part of the city's Public, Safety
efforts this year. We have participated in 14, operation,
clean events and further assist with Public Safety. DSS
partners with the community, safety coordination Center to
clean vacant. Lots in the same communities DSS continues to
provide the necessary city city services for special
events.
In twenty twenty.
In 2020.
In 2023, we collaborated with decays and other City.
Departments are nearly 1,300 special events, including the
Chicago. Marathon other large-scale. Gatherings are Bureau
of traffic Services were charged you around to provide
barricades Collins. Post things that help to ensure events,
run, smoothly and safely beer of rodent control continues
respond to 311 request and proactively address Road and
paintings from door-to-door abatement. Face-to-face
engagement ring with residents and informational material
in four. Different languages in closing. I would like to
thank all city council members and staff for your support
especially for a spring clean and green events. Which
residents ring together to clean and beautify Chicago
neighborhoods. I also want to acknowledge the tire
Chicago, depart.
Chicago Department of streets.
Chicago Department of streets in Santa.
Chicago Department of Streets & Sanitation for their
tireless efforts.
and,
And commit.
And commitment.
And commitment to the residents of the city of Chicago, my
staff and I are ready to answer any questions at this time.
Thank you. Commissioner will start with on the Raleigh,
followed by Alderman Quinn.
I think you check.
I think you're chairman and good morning, commissioner
morning. I'm a huge fan of the work. You do the streets of
Sanitation has been doing an excellent job downtown.
Despite many of the challenges we're dealing with right now
related to the migrant crisis. Do you know how much
Manpower / money we spent with cleanup crews around the
shelter system that they been established? Yes, I do.
Hunter.
103.
137,000 655.
And that.
And that's since the beginning of the year. Yes. And
Am I?
How many?
How many feet?
How many folks are deployed to go and clean up a site when
they are sent, I wanted. Also, I noticed in the budget and
I can try to figure. It's just been shifted to, maybe a
different department. The rat abatement program. Is that
something that you'll continue to administer is that being
shifted to a different department. Know, that's going to
stay here. We're actually adding three crews, and I test
the group too deep into their own bureaus, and give us two
more additional Crews. So each crew can do about 20 a day
minimum. So, if you will see a big guy, a big improvement
with those five additional Crews that were going to put in
a girl Road in control. And another question, I had we seem
to have inconsistent
Average pay.
Garbage pickup.
Garbage pickup in Park, District properties. And how are
we, how does that work? Is its Park District, but I
supposed to handle their own trash bins yessir, cuz I'll
take it up with the park. If you guys do a fantastic job
with what you control, but we often get fingers being
pointed by the park district, we asked them to clean out
their their bins.
What?
What's?
Remind.
Remind me to.
Remind me to go there.
Are you?
Are you guys?
Are you guys, you know how much you been reimbursed for
cleanups after special events? Things like the, the
marathon lot of the road races. NASCAR Lollapalooza, do you
have a running tab for what? You're being reimbursed for
services, you provide? Yes, cologne works with them. We do
it cost to buy everything for the marathon, will do a break
out of the car score. NASCAR we do it cause we do a Car
Center Order special events. Very good through the chair.
If you could, I'd love to get a summary of those cost five
major that not every single event we have in the city but
my interest is obviously in the central business district.
I do.
I don't have a.
I don't have a lot of questions for you. Mostly compliments
your pleasure to work with, obviously, Anthony Coppola was
excellent. In my words to Steve's the best in the city. But
thank you all for the great work that you do and look
forward to working with you in the new year. Thank you very
much for the kind words. Thank you, commissioner, thank you
all good morning, questioner morning, commissioner next to
Chicago Police Department II view. Your department has
probably the department that interfaces with the residents
of the city of Chicago, more than any other. I'm so glad
said, I, I want to start my line of questioning with
What are your pressure?
What are your pressure Pro?
What are your pressure points? And what do you need from
this Council?
cuz,
Cuz now,
Cuz Now's the Time to lay it out.
Do.
Do I have more than 10?
Do I have more than 10 minutes? I want to continue on an
honest-to-god. The support that this organization, the
department gets from the mayor's office to this council is
unprecedented. I've been in this department for over 20
years and it seems to always be like that, as you
mentioned, we touch everybody. We see you in the alley, we
see in the front, we see on the side streets, we see in the
stores, just having the continued support that this
department gets from this Council. Everybody in that box
there. Feels that and knows that and welcomes that and I
always say, great things come together. And I'm going to
mention carts with people are tired of hearing me talk
about, but when we came together with carts, for example,
who years ago, there was a 60-month 8628 month, wait for
carts.
We came to.
We came to go.
We came to get.
We came together as a group, we funded that and we're
within three weeks now and being challenged to do better
even with the three weeks. So just to continue to support
that. We get the open dialog is definitely helpful Trish.
I'm going to go through a couple of just Beauty assertive,
his housekeeping items, I'm delighted to hear that you
reference, the four hundred twenty five thousand tons of
salt, the overall
it's
The over.
The overall.
The overall condition of our Fleet of snow removal trucks.
Are you in need of any trucks?
where,
We're.
Where work?
We're working very very closely with warmer and I guess I'm
going to call Fleet. As we mentioned, we do talk. And snow
equipment is a bit of a challenge right now, but we're
going to continue to work with them. But I am proud to say
that within this year or next year we're going to have an
additional twenty sweepers which is a big piece of
equipment that has a lot of Maintenance. And we're going to
have a total of 37 more garbage trucks to add to the fleet
that will help.
Scroll.
scroll, my
Throw myself out there that will help with the Leaky
garbage trucks out because then we can take those leaky
trucks out of service to get maintained and bring in so
that the fleet is working with us and they're also working
with us on some electrical. Commissioner all of the trucks
are are now armed with a turn-by-turn.
Porsche.
Poor snowy.
Personal. Yes, Personnel. Right and you feel like that has
been in some respects, a cost-savings or for sure.
and,
and you're
And you're okay with the number of drivers. How many
drivers do we have ready for snow? We have a pool of about
800 hundred, okay, and when we go, when we go to 100%
program,
What?
What is that?
What is that lives at 22807 287 plus a 26 to 28 4 x 4. I
can't say that we do it alone. We have our friends over at
water and see that. Help to this cause + 182 our drivers
that we bring on. We started bringing am on October 16th,
we brought on 30 and then we're going to fill out that one
the remaining 150 and throughout the month of November
which is very helpful.
I'm done.
I'm delighted to hear about the additional funding for
rodent control. I think that's that's obviously much needed
and I think we're heading in the right path on that. In
terms of Forestry reference, some impressive numbers, I
think it makes maybe good sense to add, even more Cruise or
forestry to cut down on the end of the total wait time or
the total time of take to get through a section, maybe it's
a bit ambitious but it'd be nice to have for each Ward. Its
own Trucking crew, how many trucks and cruise?
We have right now, right?
We have right now, right now.
we have right now, right now we're try
We have right now, right now, we're trying.
We have right now, right now we're trying to average about
30. That's where we're at were at 30 and we try to touch
you every Ward. Once a week, pending on whether we have
worked hard with a is in regards to renting equipment to
where we're going to have the ability to rent 10 pieces of
equipment. Within the next month is, is on board. We're
getting some new equipment. And we're adding Cruise, we're
adding cruise to the forestry because as the lead program
continues to expand with the water department were tasked
with working with them. So, we were adding more cruise to
that Bureau. Also, I was reminded and finance committee.
When we say we did a settlement on a hollow tree blind,
that that Branch. There is there is financial exposure by
not taking care of the tree, canopy the other, the other
point, I wanted a raise with with forestry is just working
through, tightening up with Ceda on menu items with
sideway,
and,
and so, I
and so,
And so I've had a number of menu items that were sort of
stalled because root pruning or having Forestry.
take a
Taking it.
Taking a nap and Analysis of what's going on. So, that leads
to frustrated cause my constituents when their sidewalks
are open, you do for four to six weeks. So, I think that's
something that we could, we could work on and I do
appreciate you jumping in and helping facilitate those
those conversations some clarity on the Leaky trucks, which
I'm appreciative of, I did raise to the budget director on
Monday, about the number of laborers. And I'm always
concerned about making sure we have a good number of
Labor's, especially in the summer months around the 4th of
July, 11 garbage is the heaviest, can you speak to your,
your Manpower, as it relates to laborers for garbage again,
I'm going to
Give.
Give kudo.
give kudos were Kudos needs to be heard. I can't say enough
about DHR. We've hired 345 people in this department this
year.
And what?
And what I was.
And what I learn.
And what I learned through this process, is it takes as
much work on our end.
If?
If not.
If not more to get to a number like that to work with the
HR. So, we went from,
Look.
looking at my,
Looking at my friend here, we went from 169 one man trucks
isn't average in a month last year to, right now, we're
down to about 50 one. So the excuses of a, a bad alley
because we have a one-person truck is getting smaller and
smaller because we're hiring managers. Tommy Johnson over
the operations is tasked them with weekly sheets on their
alleys. So we still have 50 one more laborers that we have
to hire. So that was big, big kudos to DHR with working
with us and, and finding ways to do that. And we're, we're
taking a step further and trying to get a labor pool. Like,
we have four drivers for trying to get a labor day, it's a
great idea and I trust you'll keep us informed if that if
that pressure of not hiring.
Take.
Text.
Text play.
Takes place because you'll feel it on the backend from our
constituents. One from garbage, wasn't picked up, or at
least look good in. Those are those are calls that we get
on a regular basis. Commissioner in your remarks, you
talked about assisting in public safety. How many how much
overtime goes into that one?
We?
We get in a pub.
We get in a public safety, snow plows by blocking off roads,
that sort of thing. The majority of our we're riding line.
Where we were last year were about $200,000 difference to
the good.
We?
We do a
We do everything based on emergency except for Holiday
weeks for garbage. So pretty much all the overtime that
were getting is based on weather.
Bass.
Based.
Based on lacking. As you just mentioned to keep the
residents safe from coming down here. And during the
celebration,
Griffith.
Griffin.
Graffiti that is in a gang conflict area that we work with
the police on to try to get that down immediately. So, all
of the overtime that we pretty much have is based on
emergency Skype situations, or to help keep things. Safe
it, at these large events, just a common. I do appreciate
the working relationship with you and your department. And
I would say that I lightly Alderman, Riley. I think most
advanced the best word superintendent city of Chicago.
I'm sure some.
I'm sure someone else will have another opinion today.
Thank.
Thank you.
Thank you, mr. Chairman
that you are.
That you all too many.
That you Alderman Quinn, Alderman on shaifali ball.
Diamond, sposato.
Do you do?
no, you don't look as
No, you don't look as cool. You don't have to it's okay.
All right. I'll take a good afternoon. Commissioner
afternoon. I'd like to point out. Cole Stallard used to be
my word superintendent.
I'm a.
I made.
I made some dumb moves over the years, but that's that
one's at the top of the list of Smart Ones.
I'm
I want to talk a little bit about starting out tree grid
system, we've put in place and I know that
One of the.
one of the issue.
one of the issues I will get is
The.
there,
They're coming down the west side of the street and mrs.
Harris on the east side of the street calls me up.
Yellow.
Yelling. And
Yelling and screaming that.
She want.
She wants.
She wants her tree.
but,
But I
But on the flipside, we've seen significant increase in the
volume of of what you guys are able to accomplish you. Tell
us a little bit about that in the savings involved in that,
please.
The guy.
The game.
Again, it's not perfect. We acknowledge it's not perfect. We
need to do better communication with your offices. That's
everybody's office. We we acknowledge that we acknowledge
that are maps. That we hand automatic staff may not be
something. That's an easy read for somebody that doesn't
understand our coordinates or making efforts towards that.
We're on track to trim over 90,000 trees in a 12 month.
Calendar year, we're running across trees that haven't been
trimmed in 25 to 30 years. And so I started to ask people
because I hear what everybody saying, when you tell
somebody they can't do something, everybody watch that.
Sliced.
so, I started ask
So I started asking people, what was the last time you Swap
Force recruit even on your block? I started saying in front
of your house. When was the last time a force, you prove
trimmed in front of your house? People were saying I've
never seen it or recruit Trim in front of my house. So it
led me there really buy into this process to know that we
did the tough work in the beginning, we're almost there.
We're seeing great results. With the addition of these few
extra Crews, were hoping to get within five years.
Every.
Every trees bent rim.
every trees bent rim and
Every tree has been trimmed and then that those phone calls
are going to go away. And again, I know your offices. I'm
very mindful that everybody's office here. And their staff
are taking these phone calls and I thank you for those
but we're see.
But we're still.
but we're seeing we went we went up 172% it within the last
six months and we're going to continue to grow. That's
great. Thank you. I think any would that needs to be told
that story tree-planting. You know, we've seen here in our
city
A signal.
A significant hit to Archway Academy based on disease over
the last 30 years.
but I
But I were
But I work closely with mr. Whiteside, and others from your
department, on aggressively.
Mute.
Marriott.
Community outreach trying to get folks. Would you like a
tranny Parkway? Can we talk about that little bit? Sure.
Thank you.
We've.
We plan it.
We plan it over and when I say, we talked about us, see.
Park District with us planning, Lion's Share of those. We
were tasked with planning 75000 trees over 25 years are
Brandon Johnson committed to planting these trees
The plan.
The planet.
The planet 40,000 this Bureau is worth with the vendor and
planted over 40,000 trees in the last year.
so, I
it's like,
It's like I just wanted to do a quick comparison from the
two years prior to that we planted 8500.
We?
We've planted forty thousand trees.
And where?
And work.
And worked at the problem. I think we may run into
it's fine.
Is finding.
Is fining, people that actually want trees, once we get a
little bit closer to the end and that's on us, we need to
do more of that in our own communities community. Outreach
letting people know they can get trees, planted on the
Parkway and further property. Again, I'm not going to put
my work on anybody. We needed to do a better job with
Outreach, which this team has.
Length.
Language.
Language barriers, we work through, we call it a Parkway
tree, it doesn't translate in every language. So we had to
call to Street treat. So there's just things that we
learned to get to that number of forty thousand trees
Planet. It's, it's a big deal.
Thank.
Thank you.
False.
Also on.
Also, on the tree issue. We've all been hit with
significant storms in recent years and I just, I just got
to recognize somebody on your team. I have met this
individual out during tree emergencies and IHOP in time,
he's telling me to get away from the treat Jim Sheehan.
We?
Will.
Really.
really been a
Really been out there during the worst of times when my
community has been headed. I want to recognize that my
colleague Alderman. Quinn brought up equipment, and I know
you talked about this and I know on some levels. It's it's
it's being communicated.
We?
We have.
we have a very aging Fleet across the board and
so, is
so is a story.
So is a story I'd like to tell her to be 45 years ago. This
February, that a mayor of this city, Michael bilandic lost
an election.
Big.
because the
because of the Aging Fleet and that everybody likes to talk
historically about
what?
what happen?
What happened there? But correct me if I'm wrong, the fact
of the matter is we had issues getting salt spreaders and
plows out because they wouldn't start.
and I know we,
And I know we're not there.
And I know we're not there but I think the alarm needs to be
sounded a little bit louder that we need to get more
aggressive on replacing aging. Aging equipment, that story
is out there it has been discussed and as I mentioned to
others, as I sit in this chair it's not an easy chair to
sit in. But when you have the control and the support that
this department has from the mayor to the council,
You can.
You can control.
You can control a lot of things, but how I do is going to
be based when somebody else sits in this chair, so I keep
bringing up equipment. I talk about the equipment, we're
trying to find other ideas. They've just given us electric
vehicles, to try to see how it works in, in our need. So,
they're trying. We're looking at renting to get to that
point. But everybody understands, including the
commissioner Blakemore, we're in constant conversation in
regards to the fleet. I understand the, the, the, you know,
you can see the equipment, you can hear the downs. We,
we've heard that, but know that it's something. We work
very closely with our friends over at ass. With
Thank you.
Switch.
Switching gear.
Switching gears here. I want to talk a little bit about
recycling.
but,
Both.
Both receive.
Both recycling as standard blue card. And then also the new
initiative we just announced and, and I don't know.
Can we talk a lot?
Can we talk a little bit of?
We talked a little bit about that, we understand everybody
in the city is pretty excited about composting.
So, what we did was we started was 15 locations.
It.
It was.
It wasn't, we're trying to pick 15 locations throughout the
whole city.
that were
that we're at our
That we're at our facilities because we didn't know what
was going to come. So if stuff just kept coming and coming,
we have Crews there that are going to be there Monday
through Friday that can alert us. We understand that it may
create some rodent issue, so Josie has bruise on top of it.
So we're really again, we we announce this on Monday and it
was a sign-up program.
We're.
World.
We're over 1,600 people that have signed up. So there's
definitely an interest that we're seeing in composting,
we're doing anything. We're up to any advice, or any
thoughts on how we can clean up that way street? That's
great. We should all be reaching out to Chris elevated on
that Outreach.
Roll.
Road.
Rodan can.
Rodent control.
Marla schnall.
Marlo knowledge Josie and her staff. I think everybody in
this room is probably seen a significant increase in an
issues with rodents chicali rats. I know I've seen it in my
neighborhood but
Hurst.
her staff has been incredibly responsive and both coming
out and addressing the issue.
but,
but they,
but then, I'll
but then also educating the residents of our community, you
know,
People eat.
People. Leave the check.
People need to change their behaviors and it's it is an
example. I always give when people call up about rats.
If?
If you had a plate, a steak on the ground in your backyard
and you had a pile of dog feces next to it.
If you go.
if you got rap,
If you got wraps anywhere near your home, that steak will
be untouched.
but,
but they,
But that.
But that dog feces will be completely gone.
Keep.
People need.
People need to clean up after their pets, that that
scenario is something that's lived in this apartment for
over 20 years. I'm not through creator of that scenario,
but that scenario stands true.
Not going to tell you a joke.
Not going to tell you Josie.
Not going to tell you Josie tested it out, but it does, it
does the intro.
Income.
Enclose.
In closing, I just want to thank everybody in the Box. Many
of you have been around a long time, long before I became
all the men, I work with many of you in the past. Just
appreciate, all your efforts, and looking out for our
community in your responsiveness. Duly noted. I'd also like
to give a shout out, I got a pretty good word soup to
Patrick a person work really hard. Thank you.
Thank.
Thanks, thank you. I was going to say, autumn, in Villegas
for the bottom in Nepal.
Thank you.
Make a list.
Make a list Ramen missioner. I'll join the chorus of a
glaze for your department. Your department always does a
great job.
Public.
Couple of questions.
Couple of questions that you mentioned new vehicles. So are
those electrified or diesel with a house at Fleet? Let me
flee coming online. I'll give you a couple examples. They
asked us to try out eight Ford F250 and a Ford 150s, those
are electric, which was really impressive. They have about
an average of a 400-mile life and that, you know, before
they have to be charged. So, those were for pickup trucks.
Yesterday, we looked at some Vans, large bands, medium
Vans, and small vans. So we're going to introduce those
into cart.
And into r o d.
and into rohtak, and
And into rodent control and Anna, put a couple downstairs in
the loop. They're there looking at a sweeper with you.
Hopefully, we all get to see next in the upcoming year, so
we're we're getting positive. Really getting positive
reviews on that. So we're going to continue to be that
trial and error to see what works for for us. And I'll try
to move forward. That's great. Yeah. I know that the city
council passed an ordinance, a few years, back around
electrification by 24, glad to see that you're taking their
ears. Keep going to technology will get better and better,
so that helps us out rodent control. Glad to hear you
getting those resources, whatever happened with that
initiative of the dry ice. Is that something that
I heard positive.
I heard positive reviews or elaborate a bit more on that.
It works in certain applications but it just
just,
Jessica White.
just quite didn't work for us. I just it just it would melt
it was had to be in a certain via. It was it was just an
issue. Do Tennessee prep Department also deals with Towing
as well, right? So
Rope.
Rogue Towing.
Rope Towing is a big issue in the city. We were the second
city in the country to pass licensing around tow truck
drivers. It continues to be a problem and the state
introduced legislation last year.
Remove a
Removing silk.
Removing Chicago from the exemption on rotation of tow
truck, tow truck. Drivers companies, I'm going to have a
meeting with CPD and our vendor figure out a solution but
just wanted to hear from you as to what do you think are
some of the solutions that we should be looking at to deal
with rotors as consumers that are that are negatively
impacted to the tune of thousands of dollars in some cases
and people are taking advantage of just wanted to Kenny
here with your department? What is it that we should be
doing the try to address this issue?
Mike.
Michael Kor.
Michael Cohen. I'll be happy to sit down with you and
discuss that we're under contract with our current vendor
that can do that. We'd love to have further conversation
with you so I'll follow up with you and see. Again, this is
an issue that is impacting residents. People are being
gouged and we got to put an end to that. So that we're
well, well, well well aware of that again. We can work
closely with everybody here in that regard. And we can we
can work on that.
You just followed me?
you just followed me at the next
You just followed me at next week or a couple of weeks and
we'll get the meeting with CPD as well. Consider it done.
Thank you. I appreciate it. I can't keep up the great work
and and just continue to let us know what you need in order
to make your job. So a lot more easier for us. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'll move them into
politano. Followed by Alderman, the spa.
Make a
Making sure.
The German, I appreciate it. So the opportunity to speak
morning, commissioner in the morning to you and your crew.
Incredible Crew take over the last nine years, that
communication just get better and better. So I really truly
appreciate it in 41. My quick question is something I
brought up numerous times. It's by far sounds like one of
the stupidest questions, but it's kind of in the concept of
looking for remedies. And I think everyone's talking about
his Road in issue, and I know Josie doesn't incredible job
trying to get ahead of it. She truly. Truly does the rest
of the communication is the feral cat program just such an
impossible thing to do it. If so, if not, is there a pilot
system for it? I know that the effect of the above
I'll just
Of the field.
all the feral cat program, a
Are.
are residents of.
Our residents will end up feeding them and they won't end
up feeding on the wraps. You got to eat a Hungry Cat to eat
rats, but I just think we've all Citywide has seen such an
uptick in rodents in their reproduction rate is
Can.
10 time.
10 times faster. I think than any other animal, there is
they reproduce or five times a year. I just think that
collectively we need more of an Innovative way to get ahead
of this problem. And if you come up with one, if if their
suggestions, I would love to be a pilot program for it that
we're willing it open cuz it's and I thought I knew it. So
I know this is hard to get ahead of but is is there any
concept or is there anything new and new initiatives were
innovative ways? Again, we put $150,000 in his budget for
outreach
It's a construct.
Its construction which causes this and it's a, it's a
positive. If you got construction going on, we all know
that.
Real.
The railroads doing.
the railroads doing construction, we see an uptick
Dogma.
Dollar General. She mention feces, dog, feces in the
backyard is a huge, huge problem, and then just quietly.
oh,
Feces.
And go.
And garbage. So those are the those are the things that we
have to attack and we're hoping in the budget. It says,
three crews, I've committed and attached everybody with
finding. I want to more proof. I'm sure we can put up five
additional Crews. We have the equipment, we have the
equipment, we have the band's, a is just gave us bands
yesterday, so we have the bands for that. So there's no
excuse there and that'll bring 100 100 more a day of
inspections that we can get out and do so. You just start
adding that up. 500 a week, you know 2,000 a month. It's
$24,000 phones that we can touch in that year. And that's
our goal. And again we have in our info that goes out or in
four languages you have
Spanish.
Spanish English.
All.
Always.
Always bless you and traditional Chinese. So we're just
trying to get that Outreach out there though he does a lot
of door knocking
but,
Biking.
Buck and residents to try to handle that yet. I think you
guys give it your all. I actually do. I see that you guys
are giving it all every time we go to call in, there is not
an immediate response.
I just
I would just love to be.
I would just love to be the pilot program for anything else
that comes up. So if you get it then I really appreciate.
Appreciate all you do. Your communication is outstanding.
Said your boxes, incredible as well. That's all I got. I
appreciate the opportunity to talk to him in and finish
with everyone knows that and some I can pair of shoes is by
far by far the best word, superintendent, say Chicago. So
everyone can stay there because our guy or their gal, but
everyone knows that my keys are on top. So thank you. Thank
you, thank you, thank your chairman morning, commissioner.
Good morning, everybody in the Box over there. When there's
not much, I can ask any time. So, I just feeding off of a
few things here are really only had one question. I could
have asked you this question anytime but I just asked you
here in public the laborers. I know we don't pay him that
much anymore to start as like 24 bucks an hour to stay.
Your men.
The Menace.
Administration.
Is.
This may.
Is mayor.
Is.
Is body.
Is body this department to Union work. Very, very, very
hard. Very hard to get it to where it's going to be where
these folks were coming in at $21 an hour.
and I,
And they were going.
And they were going to go.
And they were going to get the cost of living, and I
explained that that's $21 an hour, basically, with the cost
of living the rest of their lives. And we had people on
there making that other that other money will say. Now,
these folks, through the work of everybody, the union
Administration, everybody, these folks have now and
opportunity to get to that top scale for prior to that.
They did not know. We've been struggling since and to get
people to get him but to retain them because they do that
job for a short time. I'm I'm sure you've had a quick more
of a turnover than ever with the low. Pay the what? OK,
Google add to hear that results. The leakage shot complain.
So if I get any complaints of her about streets and saying
it's always about the Leaky garbage truck, that's a regular
thing. So I'm glad we're addressing that cuz that was a
concern of mine. I know people dump all kind of liquids in
there and certainly in the summertime. It's out of control.
It seems to be more than the winter time cuz you
smelly.
Malamar.
Melamar course, we all claim they have the best words to.
So I was a reason for that and that's because of your
executive staff over there. Anytime I call him or my words
who caused them know, they're all right there for us. So I
know it was supposed to mention something but I'm not going
to mention any names cuz I don't want to forget anybody,
but we appreciate all you. I don't call that often myself.
But I whenever I do it once in awhile, you know. Always
comes through. Just one thing that I've really seen a
change in, so I've been buying
A guy.
The garbage car.
The garbage card score.
The garbage carts for, I don't know. Seven, eight, nine
years, something like that because of the problems we had
in the past waiting, you know, 3 months or 4 months, to get
him. That I know. I know, it's gotten much better. We still
buy them, but we don't go through them as much as we used
to. So, which is a great thing. I would recommend to my
colleague say fagott, take some extra money in your budget.
Nice to have a few of them in your garage. If you need them
for emergencies you got to get the people right away for
some reason, not everybody calls when they're getting bad,
they call wender, totally destroyed. They don't have any
garbage can. So what that great to see, you know,
everything's going well, preciate all everybody does. And
Have a good run.
Have a good rest of the are no.
Have a good rest of the are not look forward to a 10 inches
of snow. This winter, be great. Thank you. Thank chairman
Alderman, Lopez. Ready. Thank you think of Sherman. Just a
few questions in terms of the tree, trimming operations in
particular, and I lost some of my notes, but in terms of
the tree trimming and just in terms of budget, and I know
there's, there's been some changes, how do you say maybe
with a new budget having enough energy resources? I know
this being some Big Lots in some areas of the city of like,
having enough resources. So that, you know, the department
has all the all the elements to make sure that that happens
because I know they're being, there's a Publix.
if you have some concerns about, you know, the time,
He also has some concerns about, you know, the timeline.
We?
We're.
We're in.
We're in a pretty good place. Right now, we went from 2
years ago. We went from 14 Cruise Citywide to wear 30-plus
and we're adding Cruise. Again, I'm going to say that we
need to do better on Iran communicating with the Alders are
map. Sometimes is not user-friendly.
Are.
Our communication. We're definitely going to work on to get
better because we're on Pace to trim. Over 90,000 trees.
This year, we're in the if we compared it to 12 months
before,
we're like,
We're lucky.
We're lucky to hit 30,000. So as I mentioned before,
there's people that haven't had their tree trimmed in 30
years and so we're running across those trees that haven't
been trimmed in 30 years.
We?
We, we realized through Equity classes in with that, we
taken and with Candice more that people don't call 311.
Take.
To get a tree trim. So now we're going in there and we're
having the opportunity to hit every tree on that block. And
so,
A guy.
Again.
again, I ask people who seen a tree trimmer on their tree
in the last 20 years,
Yeah.
The answer.
the answers prayer.
The answer is pretty, pretty minimal, pretty minimal. So we
ask people to be patient with us.
because,
because once we,
Because once we get through this tree canopy and the goal
is to do it in 5 years.
To tell.
Did you have ever?
Did you have every tree trim? So now there's people that
haven't had a treat from you in over 30. And so now, we're
going to try to get on that cycle, to get every 55 years.
And again, I'm not saying that our systems perfect. I'm
asking for patients, and I'll listen to anybody that how we
can make your life easier in your office cuz we know you're
getting phone calls. We know, they don't know that what
we're here for you. And if we can make it any easier for
you, we will try. Thank you, that's why we want to. Make
sure that starts with having a, in a proper funding, to
make sure they work and get done. I think some of the
barriers in terms of like in our community language
barriers of access to technology, all those things
contribute so would like to work with you in terms of where
and how we can communicate and other areas of the city,
where do you know they have perhaps a little bit more
Ask.
Access.
Access of Hopkins or more information that they can get
done. I need some of our community for different various
would love to work with you. I'm glad to see that we have
the, the proper location to make it happen. I will have to
collaborate with you. Commissioner, if I could at least we
know that the water department projects are going to cause
more more need from our service. So we worked with the
water department in the mayor's office and the budget team
returned to acknowledge that. So we're trying to stay ahead
of that 24. See what we're going to have to do, so they pay
a lot of those for extra Crews brush. Thank you,
commissioner. And I really commend you for that. Also like
to 2nd Alderman, Riley's point in terms of the
coordination. With other thing is definitely more in the
Park District cuz if they, you know, Park District, I think
there's something, maybe we can we can maybe discuss with
them. I think, like I said, I think, mainly mainly what we
can do, so, you know, conversation with them, in terms of
garbage, you know,
Some of the rest.
Some of the rest of.
some of the residents being a
Some of the residents being added to the Streets &
Sanitation matter, unless he doesn't know us, either we can
work together to address if there's garbage in the city of
Chicago Streets & Sanitation problems. Weather be in a
park, but being a Boulevard and we understand that, we
understand that we're going to work, we have friends over
in the Park District, they do a fabulous job. They're
tasked with some things, we're going to work with them.
We're going to we're going to work with them and we're
going to help them out and we're going to get better. Thank
you. Take a commissioner in terms of like that.
Am I glad?
Am I glad that we will?
Am I glad that we? We are pushing my
Am I glad that we? We are pushing more.
Am I glad that we, we are pushing more processor. Even
matters in Turtle Bay, alley maintenance, you know, I'm
garbage collection of thing and at least in some parts, you
know, the city like a, do you think like, some of their
constituents rain? Since the day off, when they have
garbage, collection persons hours in front on Fridays,
right? What do you think about me? I don't know if there's
a better way, you know, for us to to address again. Maybe I
M way to communicate, but also, what is he in terms of a
schedule? Anything can be done in terms of improving? Some
of that alley maintenance? Or maybe we can do on our end or
maybe that's just more information on him for prizes how we
can address that.
We?
we just
We just had this conversation, he's in charge of operation,
Sammy Johnson managing Deputy over operations with 30 plus
years experience.
We should.
We sat.
we sat whether your garbage is on Monday Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday,
It should.
It shouldn't make.
It shouldn't make a difference. Should it make a
difference?
I could.
I consider a.
I consider in front of you last year and say running with
169 one person trucks or dying.
We do.
We don't have.
We don't have peed.
We don't have people, he hired 168 laborers, this year, 34
of them went to see that what we hired 134 labors.
We?
We fire.
We've hired.
We've hired supervisors people have an opportunity to rise
in this department that have come from the ranks.
So,
so if your hair, no reason why, your alleys don't look good
from your ward superintendent,
it's a
it's on.
it's on us because we have
Between.
the tools.
the tools now to do the job.
We?
Word.
Word, literally in a better position cuz we still have 51
labors that we can hire to start a second body of Life
crew.
I see.
I said, he
I said here in front of your last year and said we we need
swap, we need swap. We haven't had swapping 3 years. Swap
is at our door. It's not to the level that we like it to
be, but they're here. So any continued support we can get
from that because we're entitled to 20 people a day 7 days,
a week 365 - County holidays. They're trying, but my point
is, we're starting to see resources.
for the first time this year in 3,
for the first time this year and three year,
For the first time this year in three years, we were able
to start one summer again.
You're?
You have a?
You haven't had?
You haven't had one summer.
We're.
We're up.
We're up to 1,000 Young Folks at one point for one summer.
It's a thousand hands, two thousand hands.
That.
That door is.
That door is open again. So we're going in the right
direction and know that if, if your lordship is coming in
Sam and I'm I'm not not getting the support from this
department. I would love to know so we can address that
immediately. I think is good for kids on that. We have more
resources. I love to hear that, that we can have more
laborers, especially from our community to know that the
local hiring especially for young people is something we
love to collaborate more. And then again, if we have the
resources that the first step, I'm glad to hear that we're
going in the right direction. And if there's anything that
we can do especially about connecting more, young people to
these opportunities. Does that mean you have the department
helps the community? And also in terms of communication to
identify maybe areas where we can identify, you know, again
from our superintendent ask for the Department was he a lot
of color in a collaborative approach and we love to be part
of that. So I come in for your efforts and looking forward
to working together and got to hear
Resources.
Resources, are there?
Resources are there? Thank you.
I think.
I think your Altima.
I think you ought to see Joe Lopez Alderman. Cardona
followed by Alderman Vasquez.
They?
Thank.
Thank you, Jerry.
Thank you German. I doing commissioner right over here. You
got, you got you want to thank you for for being here.
Today, I'm going to pay you back off all the movie, a ghost
on the green, on the electrical Vehicles. Do you see us
getting an electric?
Carbs.
Garbage.
Garbage truck.
Garbage truck just to see as a pilot how well it worked in
the suit. Chicago, we're having a conversation with a is a
sweeper moving to a sweeper is
Game.
Game chair.
Game Changer. That is probably
thumbs.
The more.
the most difficult piece in our Fleet to keep up and to
maintain because there's so many moving Parts in that then
that vehicle. So when they threw the sweeper, at me for an
opportunity, next year we took it garbage. Trucks were in
conversation on that, but I just it just the idea of seeing
our Fleet coming in with pickup trucks at, you know, what
they're coming in with to 5150, either some big trucks,
take that did for them to offer us cargo vans. We got to
Cargo vans.
Cargo vans medium.
Cargo vans, medium cargo.
Cargo vans medium cargo van, small cargo vans a small cargo
vans are going to go to Josie. The large large cargo vans
are going to go to the car delivery. It's really a game
changer enter to see that is pretty impressive. I hope I'm
around here long enough to see those electric garbage can
garbage trucks, because it's, it's pretty impressive. I
understand hold a mix of the sweeper we had conversations
and I know because I had a broken sweeper, you help me out
with that. But, you know, I'm looking forward to the green
footprint that we're starting to have here in the city of
Chicago because it's much-needed even for our environmental
status here in the city of Chicago, I have just a question.
So I know we're doing all these bike Lanes in the city of
Chicago, and so forth. Are you collaborating with
Transportation? Because my I suggested transportation,
SM.
SML.
As somebody's by Clay.
As somebody's bike Lanes since there are you know they're
Protected Their dirty. So did you guys get straight to
Sands or Transportation? Best in sweepers in those are
protected bike Lanes. Yeah I see that has and as far as
collaboration
We?
We've.
We've all.
We've always been really close icewater. See. May I ask
where we're really tight and collaboration and Jamie up at
Water of what we're up at the airport. We always grab so
much equipment and it'll from AIS, and we're all looking
for that equipment to be working at the same time for the
same reasons. So, we're in constant communication, I
believe. I know she wraps up next week but they do have
equipment. They literally have additional equipment for the
snow removal also. Okay? Because you see those concrete
that, you know, those Bear show the constant communication.
So, who, who runs the equipment you guys order? RC. I'm
sorry, who who runs the equipment? You are Street and
states rights claims to clean the bike Lanes to Queen Anne
to clean a bike. That's basically it. Thank you for your
support for your help. Even when I, when I called just now,
Questions have come.
question, say,
Questions and conversate.
Questions have conversation. I I appreciate your honesty
and your support. So she the people in the Box, you guys
are rock stars, all of you guys. Cuz when there's an issue
and an all our war, especially mine, you know, that phone
call that give it's very well receptive. Thank you so much
for what you do and your team over there in the Box for the
city of Chicago. Are you my time? Thank you. Thank you.
I'll make Cardona ottoman, Vasquez Fall In Love by Alden
Manhattan.
I want to thank you all.
I want to thank you all is well for all the work you do.
You.
You know, this.
You know, this Council covers a lot of subject matter about
a week ago. We were talking Global foreign policy when you
talk to your neighbors, to pay these taxes. They want the
stuff cleaned up at their front door step and that's the
work that you all do that. Let them know the government is
working and so I want to commend you for that. It's also
very much of Public Safety and Adam benefit right when
y'all are taking the graffiti off like immediately. But you
all do when you are trimming the trees so that the lights
practitioner anymore in the evenings, like the stuff that
you all do. I don't think you get, you get plenty of
credit, but you deserve more. And so I wanted to thank you
for thank books. Like I'm knocking Whiteside, Greg, Wagner
Debbie to Lopez for the work. She does and the best war
superintend in the city of Chicago bill. And I do believe
it's, that's what we agreed on, right by the hook. But,
but, but sucanat sucanat uplift or something cuz I know
people keep asking it and I want to commend you on the work
that we've done last term to actually move to area trim
model as far as the tree tree.
I know you can.
I know, you keep saying it and
I know. You keep saying it and I want to make
I know, you keep saying it and I want to make sure that they
drive it home. You're doing about triple, the amount of
trees and what was done before, people might not remember
this, you just have to wait three years for a tree trim.
When you put a request in it was that bad. And that's if
you put a request in now you're getting to the point where
every single tree in the city of Chicago will be trimmed in
5 years. So I can, I do agree and want to make sure that I
can partner with you. As far as like, who a liaison would
be for the communication piece because I remember how bad
it was getting those complaints. I often mention a piece of
advice I received from Harry. Osterman that like I carry
with me almost everyday? Now it's that everybody wants
progress but nobody wants change. You got a ton of progress
when it comes to these trees but the fact that it's just a
change in the system is what's causing some of that
friction. And I think if our altars had more, the
information would be able to help there. So less of a
question, cuz I know you've been answering it. I just want
to make sure that I drive that point home because it took a
at the,
How to get?
how to get to the
how to get to this point.
How to get to this point. Any improvements are great. We'll
go down trees. So ask trees. Only question I have for you
on this one, I know we talked through some of the funding
for the inoculation does RFP, which I believe about a
little over a million. Is that million line item? Is that
under y'all or procurement?
It's in a.
It's in our budget. That was that was that? Cuz I know a
lot of the other questions I have are more for procurement.
So can't wait for them. Step up. So thank you. Father. Rat
answers the whole bucket of questions are but the way we
tackled tree, trim last term. Now I want to look at street
sweeping because what we have here now because of climate
change is y'all and street sweeping around November the
latest, but we're seeing the leaves are still falling
after. And so I know that that's a big Endeavor to try to
shift that kind of system and just want to get a sense of
like, what would be helpful for us to get to a point where
if you needed to move it a little further, right? Because
there's a conflict between us, no Pleasant street sweepers.
Is that what it is? We need the average temperature in
Chicago to turn to about 50 degrees year-round
It.
it's
what we know.
What we need when we we've swapped where I'm place to sweep
over about ten Thousand Miles. Hold on one second. I want a
fact. Check myself Kelly, it's 10,000 miles this year.
Correct. Kelly Berry, okay, Ten Thousand Miles more this
year. We know everybody wants us to go longer really not
have called for starting early, cuz there's snow on the
ground thing. Still look nice. When there's snow on the
ground sub Pleasant, best it up yet.
but,
It.
it's, it's
It's it's water were using water and those things have to
be overhauled. And one thing that this group is going to do
is work with the word superintendent. To not just hand in
the same map that they hand in every year because it's
already done. We're all going to work with them because you
have a lot of former word superintendent in that box.
That.
Baton.
That no.
That know that you want to end up in the heavy Leaf season
in your heavy areas. And if you're not ending up in the
heavy,
We?
Leeds.
Lychees in season. In that heavy area you're doing all of
us a disservice show. There's little tricks of the trade
that we were going to bring about to these words
superintendents to take a better look versus just going
eight hairs, my map. It's in post a map for April 1st so
everybody can see it online. Another thing we're doing with
street sweeping is we're changing the signs because fading
is a problem with the signs, the materials a problem. So
forget them or sign that said she going to be made out of
something different that won't lose its color that. So
hopefully we'll see a positive and then as far as us
getting messages out to the public, we're working on
something to the two better that up to, but if you could go
to signs as well, so if you can bring it tonight and I
think similar,
To all the improvements.
To all the improvements are being made. There's a component
of communication and that because our board offices are on
the ground. You know, we we tend to get the email of like
we didn't see the sign till this morning. And now we got a
ticket that finding ways for us to partner up to also
proactively. Let folks know where there's a text message or
email from the Ward office or 311 like that would be
helpful too. And I think now that we've got a whole new
DTI, write the heat apartment separating a, I asked, you
know, it says my dream. Now, that you can have those books
to focus and maybe wait to amplify, and help you all out.
Because again, you all just do amazing work. I think last
see through the chair. We often hear about like the
different Vehicles, whether it's the superintendent vehicle
where, you know, the snow plows receivers about what is
working with needs repair. What the death is, the end of
the Delta is between what idea looks like. If you could do
the chairs, give us a breakdown of like hey, here's what
it's looking really good in your ward. Here's what needs
fixing. And here's what the ideal number would be. I need
those of us
Another word that y'all do.
Another word that y'all do understand. You're not going to
get that number in a year, but for us to know,
year-over-year, how to kind of get to those numbers and be
able to help would be something we're all interested in.
And I keep referring to say I guess they know there's
industry standards out there, you know, if your if an
industry stranded on a piece of heavy equipment is 12 years
you can start looking at. It's like 14 years, okay, come
on. We got to start turning this stuff around so we worked
very closely with them in regards to that, but your points
taken to the Wiz otters, have a better understanding,
right? Cuz I know you all are working hand-in-hand, like an
engine, I need, the more information, we have, like, I am
Vision part of our role is running defense, right? Where
the constituent facing part of government. So as you all
are doing all the work in improving, when they come to us
the more equipped we are the more were able to address that
and said expectations rather than not having that Network
calling you while installing you all up and get some of
this done.
so, I can just
So again, just want to thank you all for the amazing work
you all do. Like, I'm trying to organize our words, we do
like an annual picnic for the labors of people, see the
folks at cleaning up their stuff, because they deserve to
give them proper tribute and just thank you for what you
do. Thank you, sir, thank you.
Thank.
Thank you. All.
Thank you all done.
Thank you, Alberto Vasquez, all the men.
Pat.
Patent right.
Are they still out there?
They're still out there. Thank you, chair. I know we had a
late night last night, so, happy Friday, commissioner. It's
great to see you. Thank you and your team. I'm not jumping
into the best word to contest, but I will say, as you
shared those numbers about the hiring that you've been able
to do and bring it on the additional neighbor stealing, all
these positions, I'm really impressed and excited to, you
know, be a partner for your department to help continue to
fill those positions, you know, who are words, who retired
earlier this year. And because of right, like kind of
previously, like you guys have such a great track record
of, you know, bringing in those laborers, bringing industry
Tremors bringing in people, young people started in your
organization who develop experience and professionalism. It
seems difficult difficult to replace Danny Murphy, but
Write ice cream.
Right, as fantastic.
Right as fantastic Adams, great and being able to work with
your department and find somebody internally right to who's
got, that experiences is wonderful. So, I'm, I'm glad to
hear about those hiring numbers and, and want to make sure
that we can keep supporting that effort. And so, I'm glad
Department of Human. Resources has been a good partner for
you in that. I can comment on that also, cuz I have to
thank our friends with the union. We were able to train
people. We were literally able to put people back in the
beautiful Trent. If you haven't seen the training center
for Laborers, it's unbelievable. It is impressive. There's
will get you an invite.
It.
it's
H.
H r, d, d, went down 37% and that comes from.
Ever.
Every.
Everybody. He
Everybody here, supporting this department where DHHR hurt
and said, let's get them. People he's not robots. We are
men and women out there in these alleys.
Show.
Show me.
So much so that this body has brought attention, new
stations are asking to see a life in the day of a, a
garbage garbage. And it have to be to two females on the
back of that truck. When I said, give me a good crew,
that's going to be able to speak to the media and do a good
job. It was two, females on the back of that truck. So this
department works very hard and trying to keep our work for
safe. Are they do do try to do their best, but there are
some challenging situations that they do Pace. But with
the, the support getting this down to 25011, people trucks
and the training that the union is now restarted after the
three-year Hiatus. I think we're seeing the benefits. I got
one, follow-up question to ask this question around me for
treatment, so I have the distinct honor of serving with mr.
Malcolm Whiteside, on our urban forestry advisory for it
was just want to say Malcolm. You've been
Fantastic. I'm so appreciative.
Majestic, so appreciate getting.
Fantastic. So appreciate getting to continue to work with
you in that role. So it's my understanding that I believe
we've got a respondent to that RFP for the treatment, if he
was over 5 years. So it looks like I'm over 5 years at
treatment. Should be about a million and a half a year,
more or less. So, just want to make sure it is that in your
budget at least for 2020. For the, the first year of
treatment, we have a million in there for this year, a
million in the first year. So, that might be something.
Maybe we'll talk to procurement about 2. I can ask to see
how far along we are in that contract. I just want to make
sure that we're able to to execute that and that you guys
have what you need in order to make that happen. I guess,
the last thing I want to speak to is the rat. Someone just
as a bit of humor, I don't know how many of my colleagues
have seen the astounding technology that New York City is
remaining.
remaining three tests.
Limiting reagent, same as a technology, they're
implementing to deal with their wrath. The garbage cans.
Carver.
Garbage.
Garbage can.
Garbage cans there finally using garbage cans over in New
York and that's how they're going to come back there. A rat
problem. So I just want to appreciate Chicago and are
leading Technology Innovation and using garbage cans and
being really good about replacing them. But I am I have
noticed.
The right.
The rats are.
The rats are in.
The rats are innovating to. So I appreciate all the work
that your team does Josie and her team for for responding
to that. But I'm excited to hear about some of the
additional gains that you're making and just want to put a
pin. I've got some ideas around rat abatement that I'd love
to bring to you guys in 2024 when we all ears on that.
Fantastic. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you for all
the Manhattan with the new technology. I'm sure we will get
better at it. The ottoman, the Spotify load by all the men
March.
so, they've
So they finally stopped putting the garbage on the the
street corners in New York. I think that might be the real
cause of the rats they should. They should think about
that. Be great to be with you, my staff every day, since we
know it's on the budget. This one says that the top all
caps, please break the rules and thank everyone! First Ward
staff, you know how this works? Shame on you, shame on all
of you. But I'll let that comment lie. Where it is the last
person. Anybody wants to talk to you or argue or
four-legged friend. I did have a question from the team, in
the budget from the management ordinance which seems to
repeal a section directly related to rats 7-28 dish. 7:30
All right.
Around a betta.
Around a baton.
Around a beating, right?
Around abating raps on private property around the ability
to site owners of buildings. For harborage of rodents is,
is the team reading the management ordinance, right? Is
this that we're making
I want to.
I want to be.
I want to be make sure I'm understanding you as far as us
cleaning up ordinances in this department.
One.
One of yours is.
1 years ago, maybe there used to be a dumpster task force
that
we were.
we would.
We would go into businesses and basically set up shop in
those businesses and that went over to cdph that aspect of
our team. Went over to cdph just like electricity
electricity used to fall under here. So we were cleaning up
or the Skyway Bridge. Those are things that all were in
streets and San that we move. So I think if you're
referring to two, that we were just cleaning up the
ordinance.
where,
We're not take.
We're not taking away any of our authority to be able to do
what we do. It was we literally used to go into businesses
with a 14, a team of
San.
send a
send Terrance sanitarians went to cvph.
I will.
I will say, give.
I will say given the department with the, the fewer
percentage of vacancies. I feel like I wish that Authority
went back to your office but I will only speak for myself
personally, on that want a wholeheartedly applaud to work
on Green Bay Street remaining. After the time that we
talked about it is Justin such a rousing success. There is
a few city services that you could ever say have improved
172% in one year and to be able to accomplish that together
is borderline mind-blowing. So I'm really, really grateful
for that. I think I only have a few minor questions related
to the budget one is in.
Search.
Section.
Section two. So,
Section 267.
Before.
42.
4025 under refuse collection. There is a lot of motion in
terms of where we're hiring motor truck drivers. We're
we're hiring pool motor truck drivers. These are probably
things that I should already understand better. And I
apologize for that. But if somebody could explain the
difference between those two categories, and
I wear.
Hi, we're shifting play.
Hi, we're shifting positions, I'd appreciate it.
It's just we're converting people through the new contract,
be converted people, but two to level set this.
We will.
We we were adding 43 positions, we converted to for a net
gain of 41%. So we're not losing Persei positions, this is
a lot of conversion when I'm in regards to empty these, the
pool with due to the labor labor contracts for my own
edification, we moved 125.
In.
Into.
Into a motor truck driver position from a pool truck
driver. So it's a pull truck driver is empty. Diaz career
service that we committed to the union and agreed to the
union that we would keep a certain amount percentage of GDP
versus apple. And then we have a two-hour driver also. So
there's there's three aspects of our game up to our driver,
which is a pool Drive.
What?
What specie?
Much appreciated. So I noted also, if we're looking at
Pages, 273 + 274 where we're looking at far as the
operations within worlds, are looking a tree removals. We
see a 6ft. Head count in tree trimming.
What up?
What about?
What about a a 13 position? Headcount increase in
pre-removal? Can you talk about why we see this increase in
headcount on tree removal?
It's just where they live.
It's just where they landed. We're going. We're going to
clean that up with a switch where they landed its again.
It's not like we're adding more to our tree removal season,
you know, pretty much starts in in December right now.
We're saying there's a little over three thousand
Dad.
Dead tree.
Dead trees that we've inspected.
I think, I
I think I appreciate that sir on that topic. I was
wondering in this is through the chair, not urgent but if I
could have provided a list by Ward and this might require
some coordination with C. When you do the do the arterial
tree planting. But the number of trees planted by Ward
against the number fuse removed. Is that information that
can be provided. Yeah, that's not a problem. Final question
that I wanted to ask just because it is a
What?
Rod.
A number that I just want to make sure that I understand.
I think.
I think, for,
I think for four years, I didn't look at the back of the
budget at some of these alternative Revenue sources like I
should have. But looking at page 380 under the motor fuel
text and brings recommended to 18.7 million to
Space and saying that.
Streets & Sanitation, specifically towards material and
supplies. Not a very big new number, but could you explain
what that number is, and what that means for your budget.
So we don't look. So we have four hundred twenty five
thousand tons of salt. That's a number that the budget
department has supported us on and that's what we feel
through. All our experiences. That that's a great number to
start the season with appreciate it, sir, finally. It is an
odd thing to ask about the reproductive health of rats. But
my, my staff estimate myself asked me to. Look at whether
we have pursued abatement, techniques designed around
reducing the reproductive abilities of rats.
Well.
Well, we've mentioned New York a couple times today. New
York literally came to their head of rodent came here and
spent a day with us. Drove around with Josie. I actually
got a picture with the 21 from New York and one from
Chicago. And when they, they sat down with us, they said
you have a rat problem here. We should always get beat up
all the time here.
and,
It.
It was.
It was the first thing they said, will what what I should
we have garbage cans. You know, it's it's a huge help to
have these cans and we met with her probably about 6 months
ago and I hear that they're putting cans out is pretty
interesting because I say all that to say, the more cans we
put out there, the more cans we put out there, the more
were introducing that and we just got to get that.
Dogfish.
Dog feces in a bag. Going into that basket walking down
that commercial Corridor, instead of walking at home and
putting it in your own. Can, these are all contributing
factors. So, to answer your question, we did try years ago
cuz somebody must be Googling. We did try years ago to
solve the reproduction problems in this department for
rodent control. We did do a test on that.
I appreciate it, sir.
I appreciate it. Sir is it is an odd question but a
question. Nevertheless hopefully my answer. Wasn't that a
final question on our final minute. I was wondering if we'd
ever looked at the efficacy of the overnight winter parking
ban program, certainly spend it affect in Chicago for very
long time. We also it is night. One of that that our office
gets the most complaints about particularly when it comes
to how we enforce it. Have we ever evaluated Deadpool game
in weather?
There.
There might.
There might be a willingness to 2 Shift. How that operates
its
We?
we have to go.
we have to get the message out because
If ever.
if everybody can remember on a big year where it snows and
you go to those neighborhood streets and you see the street
or two cars can go back and forth from each other. And if
you have a really heavy snow season, you'll be lucky to get
one car yet, you will get a big truck where you can't get a
big truck down the street because they're the road just
shrinks because of snow. So what we say is bear with us, we
work with bacp to try to get the messages out through the
businesses. We try to get that message out. Hate, we're
firing car, we fly our cars the week before to try to get
the message out. Try to get the message out but we need to
keep those are where the buses go. Those things are
designed for bus routes.
we can keep the
We can keep those streets open.
We can keep those streets open ever.
We can keep those streets, open, everybody will comment.
Nobody's really going to say all your main streets. Were
terrible during the snow program. You're not going to hear
that too often. You're going to hear about those side
streets and decides to eat some of the challenges. We have
are those cars being parked there. So, we ditch this.
That's why we do it. No matter if it's sitting and that's
the frustrating part. It's 60°. We don't want anybody's,
we're not what we're trying to establish December 1st to
April 1st. We need this to keep people moving week, we can
have people where they can just park on the street, not
move their car, and then we're driving around and then
we're burying everybody's car in there. So those are some
of the challenges we have. I need to keep those routes.
Clear if there's a way perhaps offline to meet with your
team to think about. It's the Night One Towing that have
some folks, a little nutty, but that's a account.
Supernatural.
Supernatural fly.
Apps for offline. I appreciate everything that you do. I
realized that all caps statement at the top there and thank
you so much and thank you, dear. Thank you. Are you
Baptist? Are you Baptist by chance?
About.
about to,
A Baptist.
A Baptist Church Baptist. Preacher has three closes. You
had three final questions have three action point. Oh, it's
okay. I'm just, I'm just trying to understand that's all we
just. You just want to understand. Alright, we're going to
have ice cheerleading followed by Alderman Moore.
Thank you.
Thank you, share.
Thank you sir. I'm so excited. It's my turn and I'm glad
that you guys got an earlier spot this year. The late night
last year. I'm going to join in the the course of
accolades. I think one of the very distinguishing features
and attributes of your entire department entire team is
every single time I call anybody, you come with Solutions.
And that's consistently. I remember every single person
that's in the box and I've talked to just about everybody,
I'm pretty sure multiple times
I'll
All Star.
I'll start.
I'll start with.
I'll start with the tree trimming. I want to congratulate
you on the grid system, I think it's amazing just joining
the rest of my colleagues in that as I've been out there
talking to people about what the new system is, I point out
to them dirt in the world. I can tell you about there at
like what the grid is right now and they're trimming every
single tree and after they've seen it, there's like, oh
yeah, this is great. Like it's going to get to you. It
might take a little while, but will get you, and if there
is an emergency Malcolm and Jimmy says the team.
Enemies.
An amazing and very respond.
An amazing and very responsive.
An amazing and very responsive especially in those emergency
situation. So really, thank you for that. One question that
I have is, you know, if there's any way to consider making
some sort of investment and a tracking, I'm similar to what
you do with the snow plows so that we can the communication
front be able to have more information for the public to
know where they are currently like, if they're in that
great, at some point in the next few weeks are going to be
getting to you. And I know we are the ones that decide
which grade comes next. But you're just as a suggestion
that might be something that is a little bit more of a
set-it-and-forget-it, sort of thing. I where we can just
point people to
let's,
Let's see. I wanted to give a special shout-out to to Tommy
Johnson. I came to him with my words, soothe, you know
what? The problem is. Not a problem with the challenge. In
this language accessibilities, I'll just give you a shout
out for their one of the things that I've noticed over the
time that I've been serving as last year is that people get
notifications. I got a warning, adores had and it'll just
be in English or Spanish. A lot of my residents are Chinese
and they do, they can't read either one. So I asked if we
can have that translated into a traditional Chinese, it was
done within a matter of about a week so I think that you
guys are incredibly open to suggestions and really want to
be Problem. Solver, so thank you for that. I think we've
seen positive a positive results from that.
I'm going to.
I'm going to go to the app.
I'm going to go to the accolades.
I'm going to go to the accolades inside the first time and
I really do have a question. The graffiti I want to say I'm
doing, but I think it's worth noting. All of these things
we've had quite a bit of racist graffiti in our Ward and
literally, as fast as I can, call Dad Lopez and her team
there out. We had an instance where a black owned business
had received graffiti on her shop and they were out, but
literally within about an hour, cleaning everything up. So
I can't tell you how much that is appreciative. His reason
we don't tolerate that and the word in the city and that
shows through the actions of your department to the
questions, the compost pile. I know we started. Talk about
that last year. What is that going to cost the city?
You're the pilot.
For the pilot program a running now.
Chris.
Crystal.
Crystal Lake. Deputy
Call Krista.
call Krista weyandt.
call Krista way to pick mr. So thus far of the cost has
been for the containers themselves and for The Hoppers on a
modified vehicle X used existing Vehicles, Ford F-350 and
outfitted it with a small satellite Hopper. I think they
Cart cost that are
Is about.
Is about 6.
Is about six.
Is about $6,000 is reporting about eight cards every
location, and then the hopper that is going on. The back of
these vehicles is about the total expenditure is about
$94,000
Reach, thank you.
Reach. Thank you. I know we had a report of a 311 request
and fulfillment times. I'm not going to go through all of
these, but I guess I want to ask you to sort of a general
question. You know how is fulfillment times changed since
last budget feed and I know we've got a lot more personnel
as well. Where is the strain most burdensome right now and
where can we help?
As far as.
As far as yes.
As far as just respond.
as far as just responding to stuff like that various
response times on all of the things, the many things that
you respond to
I would.
I would like,
I would like to report out.
Bed.
that just
That just getting that understanding for example on tree
removal at seasons of small window. It's it's December
through April 16th but we're working with
I've been.
Are the new?
Are the new gentleman that set up here.
from a is Nick Lucius, I constantly getting better and
Getting.
Getting more.
Getting more accurate times for stuff to be able to give to
the public.
and,
And some of our challenges are on the app with an address
that we're working through there. I'm pretty excited as his
most that we have turn-by-turn, we have Premier, what we're
putting things in place to make it better. But to answer
your question, I have to think about that one because
I'm sure.
I'm sure I'll hear from the audience where we fail where we
can do better. So if there's an area of concern for you,
that
That report.
that report is not accurate. As, as you would like, he's
handing me Hair Academy things, where we literally track
what we do abandoned vehicle, complain, or average day is
our average response. Time is 12.46 B. Wasp removal are
average response, time is 3.85. Bulk pickup are average
response. Time is 5.67 so we look at all these and I can
share these with what we what our goal is and here you can
highlighted tree removal, request shows 144 days.
Show.
So it's it's those numbers there that we know, we got to
work better, thank you, interesting, suggestion, come
through and it was about sterilization for rent, at birth
control. And I know I mention it mention, if we literally,
We will.
We, we literally try that Josie. Am I correct in saying
that Deputy Commissioner Josie Cruz? Am I correct in saying
that you literally back in probably 2008-2009? We try birth
control for rodents correct. So I think, I think all with
all of this, we are in a partnership. And I think, you know
what we have to do is Alders to his work with our
constituents. How many citations have Streets & Sanitation
officers issued for people? Not picking up dog poop.
Oops.
Open.
Hopefully, she'll see.
Hopefully, she'll say, but I can't say, I can't imagine
anybody, but if it's in somebody's backyard, we will. We're
trying to work with people. You know, that's our goal is to
is to work. Educate, you know, if you got three dogs in the
dog is going out there and you don't clean up after three
days, he got a lot of feces back. You know, she'll work,
we're really work. We're trying to educate people and I'll
pick up after your dog who who in there.
When they?
When they're mine.
Who in their mind would think that a rat likes dog feces.
You know, it's just not. So we say I kind of jokingly to
get it out there but it's a big problem of people not
picking up. So there are instances where we will issue
tickets on that but those are minimal. It's more of the
let's have a knock on the door and have a conversation
westerdam of the fact that we all have poop signs that we
print out and hand out at our offices in
the signs.
The signs are.
The signs are are great at someone's reading them, but if
they're a person that's not going to pick up the poop,
they're going to do it anyway. And there's just not an
enforcement mechanism which I wish there was, there's just
not enough people. And certainly I'd want you focusing from
a priority perspective and other things. So my last request
is that you please please. Please keep that Cubs sweeper
out of the 11th. Ward, I'm never going to live that one
down. Never never ever a gallon.
I'm so, so,
I'm so sorry. Thank you.
NOCO.
No cup sweeper and the 11th ward. Is there a is there a is
there a ordinance for from that one? Okay.
Well.
Well, I have a bull sweeper so which is cool. So I'm cool
with that the ultimate Martin. I'm sorry I denounced you
and I had skipped you. So it's your next followed by
Alderman Moore.
Nope.
no, prob
No problem. Thank you. Chair still good morning when a
commissioner and and team won't go on as long as
colleagues, even though it would be warranted in terms of
the thanks to you all for your work. And I think the, one
thing I would just uplift is the culture that you all have
cultivated, its Streets & Sanitation, Inc. Most everybody
here in this room is experiences reaching out directly to
most if not all of you with both systemic issues, as well
as one of Crisis. So just want to encourage you all in your
colleagues to keep up that work. Cuz we're hearing it from
smokes and be able to know that. In a moment's notice we
can get that responsiveness has is very reassuring. So
thank you. I guess, I just want to follow up on this road
in peace. A little bit more cuz you know, we have the
Illinois answers project come out with a very detailed
investigation and terms
Malcolm standpoint.
Malcolm standpoint opportunities for
From an outcome standpoint opportunities for improvement.
I've had some residents asked about whether you want to
call contraceptive contraceptives or something else. Why in
your experience was that, perhaps not as successful as some
people might have thought it would have been some years
ago.
April.
I, before we get
I before we get to Josie's 25 plus years experience, I will
say, as you mentioned, we're going through an audit right
now with the Inspector General. That we welcome. We
welcome. They got us to where we're at the
inspector-general got us to where we're at with weed
cutting.
Do.
so,
So we know that's not perfect, but we're continuing to
follow the guidance and they're listening to us there,
listening to 25 years of experience, cuz we want to deliver
a better product to work work. Work with an audit right
now, we're with their audit team. We're welcoming their
audit. We're here you go. How can we get better? Do as we,
we talked before Josie, a cruise, Deputy Commissioner of
rodent control if you'd like to talk about the
contraceptive of the rodent program that we did before, if
you can expand on that a little bit to help me out. We just
try it. And what we saw was that you have to actually use
it in a closed environment because you have to track the
rats that actually go to feed on this on this liquid.
because it's a liquid, and I could not put
Because it's a liquid and I could not put the liquid in
alleys or people's backyards because it's not where other
animals that could, you know, take some of it. So it's not,
it's to be used in a very closed environment, other
agencies have used it, but they use it in the railroad
tracks. Things like that and city in CT a location, but it
just was not in the winter and would freeze up in the
summer. It became a gel. So we did try for several months
and actually it went from the spring all the way to Winter
and we found it. It just wasn't affected, we just can't
track them. I mean, track on, because you have to tag them.
That's not possible. I can appreciate that in person at
being an expert when it comes to those Rodan issues.
Looking forward to seeing what comes out of that report and
would underscore, I think of some of the great work that's
been done in recent months, in years with tree trimming,
As a result.
As a result of.
As a result of your Department's partnership with the
inspector General's office of figuring out, what can we do
to improve on what is already being done. And we'll see,
I'm happy to see an increase in here in terms of personnel
for your division. Probably, like most people, it's not
enough, but most of our divisions and departments would say
that. So, hopefully, I will continue the constructive
conversation this time next year to see what's working.
Where there are?
Where there are additional opportunity.
Where there are additional opportunities.
Are there additional opportunities for improvement of
turning to recycling and composting. I'm excited to hear
about these Regional composting sites because I think it's
part of a broader approach, expanding on the half, dozen
sites that right now are being managed by Community
organization. So I think we're on this trajectory, which is
good. I also know that in recent documents like our climate
action plan, the way study report curbside composting is,
is ultimately a goal. And I know in speaking with Chris in
recent months that there's some hope that the EPA will stop
in and provide some financial assistance for that to
happen. Cuz at the end of the day, I don't think we want to
make it as easy as possible for people knowing that at
least a quarter of our way. Stream is Organics where what
eight or ten years away from being at capacity with our
with, with our our dumps? And so this is good for Mumbai.
Mentalist.
Metal stamping.
Mental standpoint School.
mental standpoint could form a
Mental standpoint could from a job standpoint, it's good
for the city's bottom line. So Chris if you can speak a
little bit with your permission, of course, commissioner to
like what the benefits of curbside composting can be in and
what we're hoping the EPA can step in and provide some
assistance with because I feel like that's the next step.
After these, Regional composting sites are up and running.
Rice.
Rice's drug.
Bryson tiller. I just like the men mention of Senate Bill
1555.
so,
So Crystal Bay. Can you please speak to the other ones
concerns, composting location, it's organic or the organic
collection that I think we do need to do pay more attention
to in terms of programs and that we offer that way,
strategy, that you mention call. Organic elections, has a
big piece that could help us improve diversional brawl. So
then, the food waste drop-offs is definitely the first
attempt at getting that kind of programming out there in
the community terms of how it's going to function in and
just want to talk a little bit about the other
municipalities, we have discussed their foray into food
stamp collections. Every single one of them had mentioned
to us to my team go slow.
Be cancer.
Be conservative with.
Be conservative with the type of material accepting, so
that you're keeping a consistently clean string. A big
thing that the commissioner mention was a sign up that we
have to our website were asking hustles to engage with us
in the communication piece. You know, we want to
communicate directly with people that are using the sights
on what's working was not working, provide the metrics on
how that program has been successful. So Organics is
definitely probably a whole new day for us.
Recite.
Recycling.
Recycling and it just waste diversion I was just read,
right? Hopefully, cuz the money they were looking for from
the EPA is quite modest. If there are things that we can do
is city council to uplift a task, it's just several million
dollars. And if we're really at this point, we're we're
just trying to right-size things before we expand its a
very modest asking one that in my opinion should have been
granted a long time ago. So let us know how we can continue
to support your efforts. There the last thing I want to
talk about it and it's really more of a statement than a
question is around. Emergency tree removals I know that is
we continue to do great work with the bureau forestry with
trimming and removal that we've seen in City Counsel both
anecdotally as well as through the finance committee that
there are times where were put on notice that a tree is
dead that it poses, an imminent safety risk and that their
time. So we can
go to quickly in there to
go to quickly in there times when
Go to quickly and their times where we are unfortunately
unable to. And we recently had a case come through Finance
where there were some, pretty disastrous consequences in,
in our colleague, Alderman waguespack towards. So I know
that it's going to be an ongoing conversation in terms of
how to right-size this, but I guess I will ask a question.
I'm just curious how conversations have been with other
City departments, whether it's Lara, otherwise, to make
sure that we're finding that right balance between
You.
Using.
Using all of our Forestry Resources in a timely and
efficient way but making sure that when emergencies like
this come up that we're getting you the information that
you need and resources so that that emergency removal does
happen again. I'm going to mention was in the last two
years we were at 14 cruise and it was pretty
was pretty.
was pretty hard.
It was pretty hard to do the job with 14 Cruise where we
were last year. We got us within the last couple years, you
got us up to 30. We know what we're going to be faced as I
mentioned, a couple times with water, so we better get some
more. We're getting to be an end to the other concern was
the equipment that they have equipment to drive. So we work
with our friends over at Fleet AIS and their their
mechanisms. Now in place where we're going to be able to
rent equipment, so we're we're continuing to grow to meet
the need of
don't fight.
In 525,000, Parkway trees Street, trees that are out there
and it's just, again, the communication between us and your
office is just needs to get better. That's, that's where
I'm at with that because the work on a piece of paper. If I
put that in front of Malcolm, I hope sent out to everybody.
What trees? Got trim? How many trees got trim this year
versus last year in the ward?
and so,
And so, I know you.
And so I know you can go out.
And so I know you can go all that's great, but the
communication is what's lacking. That's where I test
everybody in that that Bureau and myself and my group to
get better at. Yeah, I just reiterate both with Malcolm is
well as with Jim she and who Alderman or she mentioned
earlier. I think the communication has already been strong
but opportunities for continued improvements, we have this
new program and so I think that let's make sure the piece
around removing dead trees has is part of that
conversation. Thank you commissioner and everybody on the
team and they capture
big.
I got.
Agape. Martin Alderman, more followed by Alderman Harris.
Thank.
Thank you.
Thank you so much that I want to go a lot of stuff. I was
hearing when I was in a meeting, unfortunately upstairs,
and I was checking in. So some of the stuff was talking
about and I just known a couple things. First, let me thank
you, coal for Christmas. And for your leadership and within
the whole department, just give kudos to everybody because
you all were collectively as a team. And when I I know when
I call you all are very responsive and there's one person
I'll tighten up on, I ain't going to call him out but I'll
tighten up cuz we got a good relationship, but I will get
that will get that together. But my thing is, I just want
out.
Appreciate all.
Appreciate all you all day.
appreciate all you all day that you
Appreciate all you all day that you do.
Would.
Would dealing a.
Would dealing. I know it dealing with a lot this when I
get, hopefully, get this. Keep the cago clean Orton. It's
gone. And I appreciate, you know, your your thoughts around
that in and looking at it as a good idea, I look forward to
working with Chana Maria hadn't and the environment of the
new commissioner on that of environment. So we can make
sure that that happens and everything. And it'll save you
all very excited about that. Save you all, you know, some
time and money. So the tree cutting and I appreciate the
great system is everybody saying, but I just want to make
sure and what we're dealing with these tree cutting.
Especially one that's hanging over the roof. That was those
the ones people, they want the ones out the street, and
we're working toward that. But the ones that's hanging over
people's roofs. How can we better deal with that? What is
your thoughts? Will take care of those will work with the
word superintendent.
come up, we'll take
Come up, we'll take care of those. Okay? Can't have we can
have an unsafe situation like that. Absolutely. And the
what happened to the writing on the back of the truck. When
did that stop? I know I stopped at some point or cuz I
don't see it and turns out the garbage am and hopping on. I
think it was a safety issue or they just don't do it.
Anymore. Total Safety issue. It was a total. How much show
Show.
show my
So much. So we worked at the union.
So much. So we worked with the union and we're putting
cameras on every incoming truck that comes in for the
garbage trucks were putting on backup cameras for the
safety of our workers. And so I heard during my absence
from here that has a net gain of 41% and also was going to
start back. Putting two people in the back of the truck. Is
that what I is that correct information? That I heard what
I'm trying to work. The message that I've been trying to
get out with saying the good position budget?
Did.
DHL.
DHHR has done for us along with working with this team to
where there was a month last year that I keep referencing
of, we had 169 one person trucks.
Hundreds.
100.
100, sorry, I'm sorry commissioner. Can you keep it down?
Just a little please. If you don't mind, thank you so much.
We are 169. One person trucks that were averaged out over a
month.
and,
And rdds went down.
30 Chevy.
37% based on us, being able to get members are laborers,
1001 members into the training center to train these folks.
Dude.
To take.
Do taking steps working with Tommy Johnson as the person
over operation with over 35, 30 years of experience in
garbage.
where,
Work.
Working.
Working with the deputy Mike cericola.
I'll be.
I'll be a.
I'll be important.
The importance of safety, this department has lost people
on the back of those trucks show. We're in a position. Now,
to where we have laborers, we went to an average of this
month. For example, we're at like 51, one person, trucks
versus 169. So the hiring that we've done is been
great team.
Great teamwork between us and DHR, okay? Cuz cuz that
concern I know was a dress was getting those rakes on it. I
think I mentioned this last year as well and it, and it's
locked in and I, and I got my calls went up on that in my
community in terms of those, they're not putting up with
rates down when they drop garbage or if or where they drop
it or not, or if it's garbage on the in the alley after you
pick up the garbage, them not Reggae night. So I just want
to
turn up, make you
I want to make you mine for about.
I want to make you mine for the best.
I want to make you mine for the best so that as you're
talking to the team out there they got you got to press
upon them. They got to put that wreck down because what I'm
saying, and this is me looking out of my window. And I've
had to go out there a couple of times is that because
they're walking and it's a slow walk, right? There's no way
cuz you can still put that right down and catch up to that
truck. Cuz I'm watching it and I'm and I'm not doing this
to trick on anybody but to help folks that that that at the
end of the day, as your as the truck is moving slow and
you're going to your next stop, you going to hit that right
down there and then walked a little faster, you know, to
catch up to the truck. And that's what's frustrating me
when I don't see them putting that right now. We want to
hear,
It.
it's gray.
it's great.
It's great to hear. We all love to hear how great the
department is how I want. But I I like to hear the bad
stuff and we all like to hear the bad stuff so we can fix
it. We have after-action meeting for everything we ever
after actually meeting for the marathon next week, to try
to improve on things. So we so I love to hear, you know,
you mentioned where you don't want, you don't want to
trick, we need to hear those problems. So we can fix him,
because I mentioned earlier last year, it was two years ago
as easy for me to sit up and go and we didn't have people,
we didn't have supervisors, we were short best, we were
short of that, and you would hear that from your
superintendent's, I'm sure.
We?
We're.
We're run.
We're running out of excuses on why those alleys are clean.
When we have people, we have equipment, we're going to put
stand up, another quality of life team slots back in the
game. These these young adults with one summer, I adjusted
to have those, those young adults out there on those
boulevards, picking up, paper, mulch around trees. All
those little hands in it all. And then, as you mentioned,
what you wanted to do with your with the ordinance, as far
as all those things coming to play, we're two thousand
strong, but there's two million people in this city with a
million people working in visiting in here every year. It's
a lot of garbage. And then the other thing is, I think I
brought this up last year and I can't remember the answer
and summer, write it down. So I was looking at my last
year's notes, and I didn't see it in there, but I know I
had brought it up and it was and I don't know if this is a
union issue. So windy.
Dry.
Drive.
Driver is sitting there in a truck and it, we are. We in a
notice Ali's, that's got over growth and all of that, what
prohibits them from putting that into the 3116? Oh,
nothing, nothing. We have a system to where it's division,
show Precision division, she wore tube rcc's. Fss's. One
thing we learned for example, from listening to work
superintendents was in
Certain areas. How do you expect me to do all this weed
cutting
And I do.
and I got,
And I got three thousand vacant. Lots, how do you want me
to do this by by myself? You know? So we looked in those
areas and we gave them people to help out in those types of
situations. Two years ago we didn't have those people to
give people it was work more hours you know. It was just a
bad system. So now with type typing up Erin as the senior
managers of this organization and getting people to act
like supervisors train people how to be supervisors. Be a
lot of this comes from the inside.
where,
Where they?
Where are they? These were, these were co-workers three
weeks ago and now your supervisor and it's just getting to
that message of a, you got to call the shin, you got to
call this and it's not just want to make sure, you know,
you pushing that down commissioner that especially those
drivers because if they end of system, the team can get it
done. But we we got a lot of Alize s towards to pass things
but he's running around chasing other things as well, but
if that if that driver is why they're dumping and he
noticed that you know Allie is just overgrown, get that in
the 311 system in that way. My with my words and my
director, customer service is not out there spending that
time, chasing that stuff.
Yeah, I made your point. We all have radios. They call on
the Rays Radio, mainly call radio Main and whether it's a
pothole, whether it's a street light out, whether it's an
abandoned car, they all have that ability to call those
are. Okay. But I'm going to what I'm saying? Secure
commission and I appreciate it. It's not happening in that
understood and said we have to make sure that and I noticed
when it is it's not happening enough. So I don't know if
it's the supervisors a before y'all go out here. Don't
forget some things just have to be repetitive and I think
that's that's one of them in. That'll be very helpful to
noted that whole thing. Thank you so much. Appreciate you
all.
Thank you.
Thank you, autumn.
Thank You, Oughta. Be more Alderman, Harris, follow the
volleyball tournament against Josie and Gloria. We have
Kelly very back there too and I worry her to death about
everything. So she gets the biggest amount of Praise
because I'm telling you on any given day, she probably say
all know his she go again. So Debbie. Thank you. I know
that we make a lot of calls to you and I'm not the only
person and only office making a call. So I can't thank you
enough for everything that you do. But on a real side, I
got it. Thank Tommy cuz I call him to when we
Free him.
Free him and bakari Myers.
Free him and bakari Myers is the best superintendent in the
city of Chicago is. So just a real shot of my favorite
program safer Foundation.
An.
and I,
And I'll
And I like to figure out how we can increase their budget,
so that we can have more Cruise. That's my request on the
budget that we can't figure out how to give you more money
in the budget to increase the amount of cruise or safer
Foundation. Thank you, Jeremy.
Autumn.
Are all New Year's.
Are all music.
ignoring,
Hey, good morning, Commission.
Hey, good morning, commissioner? We talk to you weeks ago.
Thanks for your help on that thing. I really appreciate it.
I know, everybody feels like they have the best word, soup.
I'm new here. I got to bring a Moko. I think everybody
likes him. So thanks for your kind of urging me to make
sure he's stuck around. A couple things. I want to touch
on. You all talked to her earlier about the Aging Fleet of
trucks that you have through the chair. Could you get us a
list of your vehicles and what the ages are? And something
that kind of speaks to a shelf-life. Yes, thank you. Three
can of peas and it's been a lot of talk about that and how
just how I'm kind of beautifies our communities. But
there's a challenge I have in mind where we still got some
of the old lighting, and even some of the new lighting
makes it, particularly dark and are canaries. Is there some
coordination between y'all and
Ritter Park.
The department.
Apartments in.
The department that kind of thing through.
The department to kind of think through how to support the
tree canopies with the same time, makes our neighborhoods,
that are safe. I'll definitely have Malcolm and his team
reach out to your office. Next week, set up an appointment
will get that we're good. We'll get on the same page there.
Okay, cool. Thanks.
The.
But I can't remember a student or any program. Can you talk
a little bit about that? What was that a student trainee
program, students as trainees? You have in your budget
overview book? Summary I increase the number of students as
trainees with in the office to provide year-round
opportunities for Chicago used to learn about public
service. I'd love to to mention here and that was one
summer Chicago. It was
We?
we have the door.
We have the door open to wear those young folks coming and
working with us this summer.
Then.
They enjoyed with.
They enjoyed what they did so much that they asked
organization asked if we would support that for another two
weeks. So it will support that for another two years. It
was such a positive impact. We do have. We did say that we
would come up with 22in, turns up to three interns in our
budget. We're looking for young Talent. As you mentioned,
Beijing now,
Please.
Fleet are we have an aging Workforce. So what we're trying
to do, as the elders in the organization, is to bring the
next group up. So we're with our hands down to, to bring
people up, to teach him how to be the next leaders of this
department. Okay, I love to see how many books. How many
young people from The Fifth, Ward participate in your
programming around returning residents are for men
incarcerated people, you could share the number of those
people who have been impacted by the program and then if
there's some plan to increase that I can tell you,
I've been.
I've been doing.
I've been dealing with the re-entry folks for probably the
last 12 to 15 years.
We?
We've.
We're at the.
We've had thousands thousands come through that both
programs.
Never.
Never had a better.
Never had a bad experience retention rate. It was, it was
great. We worked with the unions and I'm proud to report
that we have two members that were once with the shaper
Foundation. Now, have the opportunity to be a labor and our
labors in our Workforce. So to me that was a
Aw.
Awesome. Show that give people an opportunity and they're
going to turn their lives around for the, for the, for the
good. And then one last thing, I'm probably one of the
majority who hate the grid system that you all use for snow
removal. You having an East Side war that borders, the
lake. We have issues with lake-effect snow on cuz of the
grizzly. I understand the green going west to east end of
run into some kind of significant issues around that. I
don't know if there's a way to repair I going to have any
snow.
No, it's
It's always something.
You know something I'm very confident about been doing it
for a long time. What we did was we noticed that people
weren't finishing on this at the same time and we get down
on that word, superintendent. How can you, how can you not
be done? How can you might be done, you couldn't give us
the answer, so that we dug even further. You got a lot of
experience in that box with a lot of experience in them.
we looked at,
We looked at it.
there were
There was people.
There was people that were literally there inside section
was 36 miles.
Are.
Other sex.
Other sections, in other words were 8 Miles. So we redid
the whole city to where everybody. Everybody's inside,
section has between 16 and 18 miles. At the same time,
South original yourself, you cider.
and to
Antoine.
Network, originally Southeast Lake Effect. We watch Lake
Effect.
Mount.
Malcolm.
Mount Carmel. High School. What do understand? Fifth Ward,
do understand the effects of lake effect. Snow are we been
fortunate the last couple years but just 33 years ago. We
saw 30 Seasons worth of snow in 3 weeks. So if there's an
issue that you have because I know you have some type
parking over by University. We get that we're there for
you, okay? Okay. Street cleaning in residential areas, I've
got a particular couple of blocks where every time the
signs go up, there is a coordinated effort, to remove those
signs like, to find the person. That, I mean, we're
literally view. Saran Wrap. We were using anything, so
we're well aware of that.
we definitely got to do some
We definitely got to do something better.
We definitely got to do something better for next year. Do
we believe me, it wasn't for lack of trying on your
warships part. It was so, we're well aware that made as
well wear. Thank you. Just as a suggestion you made, if
need be, you can put up some permanent postings and areas
that you that you think need that support on an ongoing
basis. So you may want to consider doing and do you, what,
what the hell is a caravan? I never understood that mascot.
I just never, never really I think.
I,
I think.
I think alderman.
I think, Alderman, Conway is next, and I think that will
work.
Any.
Finish those at that started that were here on time. So go
ahead and come way to the war to pretending to be 8. But as
a, as a new Ward, I did want to thank you, commissioner for
your role in helping us bring on board such an experienced
and high-performing word. Superintendent is as a first-time
Swan and working with us to make that happen.
Very briefly.
Very briefly on.
Very briefly on the on the the subject that pervades all of
our, all of our hearings as the number of migrants
continues to grow in Chicago. How do you see it affecting
your department? And what do you think we ought to be
thinking about and city council has released your
department very much? An open-ended question, I know it's
touchdown a few things but wanted to give you an
opportunity to opine on anything like that.
We?
We know we have to do a better job. We set up a schedule.
Now, in regards to the cleanup.
We're.
Orvis.
We're visiting the Zone DropZone Florida, six times a day.
We put a regular Cadence on the police department's to
assist. Because as everybody knows this humanitarian effort
and it's all hands on deck, we've been tasked with this and
we know we have garbage that's going to be an issue when we
were aware of the Rodan issues show. We're working at
forestry. We know, we have to go in certain areas to
illuminate and work with C. To illuminate and cut some
trees back.
Do they?
Listen.
so this is what we
So this is what we do. This is, this is presented us with a
mama.
Moment in.
Moment in time that we're all going through that, we're
figuring this out as we go.
and we,
We were.
We look to those.
we look to those challenges in regards to we deal with
large events, we deal with snow. Emergencies, we deal with
tree emergencies, we deal with emergency type situations
and if there's any input that we can get from the group on,
how we can help,
and,
Any.
Anyway.
Anyone specific ward in this, in this time we're in we're
all ears at work. We have people on pretty much around the
clock 365 days out of the year.
Yep.
A wonderful and as as you see things on the ground that
perhaps we're not aware of, please don't hesitate to reach
out to myself or anyone. In our anyone in this didn't seem
right guy, have a migrant shelter, my ward two more across
the street from my ward sell Australian. Very attuned about
how that's going to
put strain.
Put strain city services and what we can do to help with
that. But that's all I have is so Mister chairman. Thank
you. And I yield the remainder of my time to the collective
and you thank you. Thank God. I'm in Conway.
Go.
Go to.
Go to Alderman Rodriguez. Sanchez followed by all
rhombuses, not in followed by.
Roderick.
Rodrigo.
Rodriguez.
Thank you. So
Thank you, sir.
Thank you, sermon commissioner, thank you so much. I know
that everybody has price tears today. I do want to say that
I need the department of Streets & Sanitation as our first
line of care for our communities and
Baseball.
they both died.
That is both by the signs because of the work that you will
do. But it is also because of the people that carry out the
work and how they choose to interact with our communities.
And I want to take a little bit of time to brace, some of
the people that do this work that I am sure that you are
aware of how wonderful they are, but I can let their names
deserve to be recognized. I want to recognize our Pat
Sanders who is the division 2 superintendent Mayfair pod
has provided an enormous amount of support to both of my
white Supreme tendon particularly the the most recent one
at a time. All in order for him to be able to do his work.
Pat knows everything that is incredibly efficient and runs
a super tight. Operation is always available and I am
incredibly grateful.
Work that he does.
We all.
We also.
We also have John Evans who is our street sweeper and he is
incredible. No complaints ever and goes above and beyond
all of the work that is required from him. I am so happy to
have him and we have Ariat York, which is our sign hanger
and we have had quite a lot of turnover in that position
and got a lot of complaints at some point and he came in
and he organized the work. And we haven't gotten any
complaints at all for a very long time since he has been at
working with us. So, I'm very proud of the work that they
do out of the way that they care for Community Center. Of
course, my worst superintendent who is absolutely no
contest the best for superintendent in the city of Chicago
area,
I was.
I want.
I wanted to thank.
I wanted to thank you, also, for the culture of kindness,
and compassion, that you have created with on House people
in the city of Chicago, the department of Streets &
Sanitation as I have observed. If incredibly thoughtful in
the ways in which they interact with their own house
population, which is everybody's business. But particularly
for 30 says that are in charge of the streets, anybody that
lives in the street is treats and science business as well.
And the Very Humane and compassionate way that you do that
work, I know that it is also resolve the culture that you
have created in this department.
okay, enough by
Okay, and I pray.
Okay, no face. I want to ask you about two main things
because I think that a lot has been covered in this hearing
one sweeping last year, we were sweeping for as long as the
weather was fine. Are we planning to continue to do that
every year now or 100% it? We have to get the leaves off
the street and you know, I'm not going on with as we speak.
We, we've gotten lucky the last couple years with snow.
Luck's going to run out at one point. We're going to get
snow, so we got to get those leaves off the street, so we
can take this moment. We don't blow your leaves on the
street.
If?
If you.
If you're
if you're a private,
If you're a private vendor, take your leaves with you. You
know, there's leaves play a big role in us being able to
have a successful snow season. So it's it's imperative that
we sweep as long as we can, but there is water in that
machine that causes where we can't have freeze up. And then
we are created with putting water on the street and then
we're so very mindful of that shows, the sweeping continued
for for, for a long time last year and asked us, whether
changes and, and climate changes, we will probably also
have to make adjustments because it's never going to be the
same. Then the other question is for the last two Winters,
we haven't really had a crazy amount of snow.
So, I am.
So I am not up to speed with this development but in my
work, we have a lot of very small streets and at some point
of four by fours, we didn't have enough of them. So I
wanted to know how we were doing with those vehicles and if
they're going to be ready to be able to, to, to help with
snow removal in the winter, for those small Street, yes,
you have no, you have no issues. And if you do have an
issue, you got a lot of snow.
It's
It goes from October 31st in the last 10 years, we've had
programs two times and on October, 31st and Halloween one.
A couple years ago, it was a record breaker from October
31st until that last week in April.
We?
We have plow.
We have plows on pretty much 24 right now. It's not 300
plows but we have plows on that can take care of those
one-offs. And as long as that word superintendent is not
satisfied with the way the world looks. That's why we ask
that works superintendent to send you the email. Send us
the email that our Ward looks good. Our Ward looks good,
but know that, we understand that he can't check every
street in the, we understand that. So if somebody takes
their snow and everybody's just snow blowing out in the
street, in that street covers up again, all it is, is a
phone call and we can address
so, I
So snow snow should not be a topic snow will not be a topic
for every but we just always ask a be conscious of that
first Rush Hour. You know all the rest are we change it to
the inside streets? Baston up neighborhood streets. We know
those are our challenges. So that's where we get the
communication out there and thank you to all of you. We
really appreciate your work in the Box. It's to sweep it
without Waters. Like hell. However, is you get into the
later portions of the Year where it just may be a
temperature issues, but not us. No issue. Cano sweepers run
without water number one. And if not, is there an additive
that we could put in that would not allow it to
read.
Resume.
result, if we
Result, if we got to, you know, 30 degrees, 28 degrees,
something of that nature as you imagine without water. You
see the dust storm that it creates in the summertime, in
the winter time with that salt on the street, you will, you
wouldn't even be able to look, but to your point on the
it's
It's not just.
it's not just the weather, it's those those
be a
vehicle.
Vehicles go in for a complete overhaul. We had they're
tearing those things down and putting them back together
because they get beat up so bad. I mean, we have some some
sleepers that are going for 16 hours a day. For example,
these things are being called in for repair, but we know
the importance of trying to get out and we do sweep
throughout the winter. We just don't have that many out.
We're trying to sweep. We sweep on the mains. We work with
the word superintendent throughout the whole winter, if it
is feasible, we will be out there sleeping as far as the
additive. I can ask our friends at Fleet that question cuz
I don't have that answer. Thank you. Automedon Rodriguez,
summer. I need to make an adjustment for for one of our
members. Ottoman Taylor. Go ahead.
Xmas present.
Thank you. Mister president. How you doing call? I'll call
you in about 10 minutes. Cole, don't think. I'm, I get
frustrated because I love you and I want the record to
state that. If I got something to say to you, I got your
phone number.
No complaints.
No complaints when it comes.
No complaints, when it comes to snow cuz my people alike to
your best work shoe prints on it, is the bomb, I know and I
appreciate it. Let it was you woman. I know, right? They
don't y'all need more of them. And for the record Debbie is
one of my people so that we thank you. I appreciate you.
What are we doing? 2 to have a better relationship with the
state when it comes to clean it expressways cuz it seem
like from Cermak 295th Street, they just horrible it. It
doesn't get. Clean is always trash and don't get me wrong.
Let me say we got some nasty people in our communities cuz
they will dump out their whole car is, and I see it, but it
doesn't seem like the state is doing cleaning enough. Is
there a possible that we can talk with him about getting a
schedule and when it supposed to happen cuz like some days
I'm like, okay, it's clean. Other days, it's just nasty.
as I
As I mentioned.
as I mentioned before,
Rob cell.
Route, south side of right here.
and,
Any.
Any help that?
Any help that I can get from this body.
Run.
Robinson.
Robin state is welcome.
We're.
Where where?
We're well away.
We're well aware of what needs to be done here.
and,
and we,
And we can tell.
And we continue to work. Where am I? I can't get on the
expressway at 83rd Street.
and,
And look at all.
And look at all this garbage, we had to sweep. We're going.
It's we know it's a problem. I'd like to say
Over.
Over the shop.
Over the summer. They did an expansive clean up. Where was
like, why can't we keep it like that? Why can't we get on
this Cadence. So I'm constantly on him because we get the
phone call. If there's garbage anywhere, as someone
mentioned in the Parks it's treats and Sam's problem is
there's garbage anywhere, it's our problem. If people
aren't thinking of the state, when they're looking at these
expressways, they're thinking it is Cheech and Chong. Show
any support that I can get from this. Body would be helpful
with the state, but know that, I'm constantly like Mom and
290. We got to do better. So well. Well, well, well, well
we're back. So we we need
Movie.
Move it.
Move it like this really, just even in the summer time,
like, just cut that grass and keeping it clean. I can says
a lot about our sitting when you ride down the expressway
and it's just nasty and so that we, we're going to figure
out how to help you grass.
so, I got a lot of
So I got a lot of lots in my ward. The first two years, I
felt like the grass, cutters were great. Now, not so much
so I don't, I don't know if that was that. We need to write
legislation to change. How you all pick the grass, folks,
who do grass, or what needs to happen on, how do we support
that? Cuz for the last couple of years, I just feel like
they are used to take them about a month to do the entire
world, right now, it's taking longer. So, how do, what,
what can we do with the grass contract, to make sure we ask
for additional funding in this budget because I'm going to
give mine to another shout-out. She said that people in the
ward 20th, Ward were literally. Now, talking about out of
the city latch were looking pretty good in, people are
getting accustomed to seeing something better a better
outcome. And I'll say back twenty years ago, the budget for
weed cutting was $900,000. We did was do from
Made.
May thirty First.
May 31st.
May 31st to Labor Day at was it, it was cut it down and go.
There was no picking up there was piles of it was to where
we're at now Gloria Pittman it is over that program.
She?
She work.
She works very hard and we know we can get better. Trust
me, I'm not going to sit up here and
I will.
I wait for,
I wait for the day where we're not having that weed
conversation in regards to high weeds and it being a
problem because it's a safety issue. And it's and it's a,
it's a quality-of-life issue. So we asked for extra
funding, which can get us a little bit longer, then the
company sees that we're for real, you know, we're not
trying to stretch that dollar now from the middle of April
until
Why do?
Why did he?
Why did hearing will say we're trying to get that and we
mean business, where you're held to a higher standard. So
Tommy Johnson managing Deputy Johnson, Gloria, Pittman
Mickey Mantle we put were put in the kitchen sink on that
because we see the benefit just helping my delight, helping
my aunt ale with people. So she's not out there from 6 in
the morning till 8 at night, 7 days a week. And so we
looked at the wards, the 17th, or the 24th, or 22nd give
them people, we now have people to where it's like, go in
there. Monterrey, can they work an extra 2 hours cuz we're
in garbage? Let's get it done. Let's get it done. So those
are steps we take thinking about hiring.
Locally for grass cutting.
Locally for grass cutting again.
hopefully, you
Hopefully, you're so
Hopefully, you're seeing positive.
Change.
Change versus we have no excuses next year with this
funding that we're getting. If it's approved, we should be
in a better place. We're realizing the importance that we
have to help people. I was awarded superintendent as the
other dimension with very minimal vacant. Lots to wear.
When I was done with him, we put them on Vincennes and let
him run bring sense from 115th, all the way down to 83rd on
that on that Metro property. But we understand that one
person can't do that. Got in certain areas, so we're trying
to offer that help to is there some conversation around you
asking for more money for for certain Ward. So like myself
16/3, who have a lot more. Vacant, Lots
I was.
I want.
I want you to.
I want you to receive the same service in the same time.
that I
that every
That.
That everybody else does, that's the goal to go and we'll
sit there and I'll keep looking over at glory. In case I'm
saying something. She can throw something at me saying
something wrong. We literally do it based on the input. So
if we look at it,
and,
and I could look at,
And I can look at something and not sheep stuff, being put
in.
I can assure.
I can assume in this position, that'll everything's okay
and certain towards its
it.
It took.
It took a while.
It took a week off in the person didn't put anything in,
people have vacation time. So these are all things that
were very mindful of that. We try, they're trying to do
better. What do you all think about plowing the sidewalks.
There's been some conversation about that folks will come
to us if you have you been talk to have there been any
conversation with you about
It was.
It was presented.
It was presented to us that this is something we're going
to figure out and we're working with it's not just us and
see that. It's everybody seeing how big this effects from
Eve with disabilities? We see the impact on this. So, we
have a really strong with the mayor's support. The mayor's
team, kind of keeping us all on task. He's given us team
members from his staff to keep us on task to be able to
present to you on May 31st. Here's a piece of
Here's what we.
Here's what we're finding. Yours will be.
Here's what we're finding. Here's where we're at. Is there
talk about or something in a budget that gives you increase
around helping out at the different events. So like when
you have the marathons or it's the case instead of taking
Ward superintendents from their Wards to help out, is there
something in this budget that says you get to hire more
labor or you will get folks to help out with those events
as word as I pointed out, we got a lot of work
superintendent. Everybody works superintendent. Raise your
hand over there. That was a form of words. You print that
it what we're trying to do, what we're trying to do is not
put more work on a war to print on it. We're trying to show
this is what it takes to run the Bud Billiken parade. This
is what it takes to run the marathon. This Is What It Takes
when the Sox win the World Series, the Cubs win the World
Series, the Bulls win the championship.
Choice.
so, it's not like,
So it's not like we're going. Hey, we want to take your
ward shootout on a Sunday. It's we want to take your word
superintendent on a Sunday. So when the opportunity
presents themselves where they can sit in that seat or they
are prepared, this is 20. + years of people just pouring
information into me p*** information into me. This isn't
how you woke up with the book. This is just where I sit
there and go. Why am I here? What do I have to do it? For
if you back in 2006, I'm doing Treetops. Why am I out on
Lakeshore Drive?
Two Thousand Eleven.
2011, for
2011 Forester.
2011 for 36 hours straight and then go, Loco, go get the go
get downtown, it put me in a place to where I can sit here
in front of everybody comfortably based on the experiences
that were 27 hours. I believe it was to prepare for 5
million people to come down here for the Cubs celebration
that comes from opportunity and giving people experiences
that they wouldn't have and some of them come not Monday
through Friday, you know 95-80 would what is it clean
Street and Swap. All the other different organizations that
do cleaning.
We?
where,
We're so glad to have swap back so bad. So I know
I,
I'll
Eileen.
I leaned on a lot of people in this group to try to help us
get to that point to where they're back. They're back safer
Foundation. Can't say enough about them, can't say enough
about them, we coordinate with them, they're part of the
team. We've been in many wards where you've come out,
everybody's come out during a police glitch and give kudos
everybody there. Everybody mention safer, Foundation has a
great organization. If you didn't hear me before I
literally said,
it's
It's pretty off.
It's pretty awesome to see somebody that come from safer
Foundation working for this department.
let,
Got to pee pee.
Got two people.
where,
War base garbage.
that's,
That's all I got.
That's all. I got. I thank you cuz I only like the look on
your face. You think you're feeling better?
Can.
Can I get to?
Can I get you that answer to the chair? You know, I need to
know now, I know you can you can you can think or a little
bit? Almost sure that's going to pop back up at you. So I'm
going to go to the kenootz in for the Baltimore Silverstein
I think so.
Great. Thanks so much.
great. Thanks so much chair.
Commission.
Commissioners.
Commissioner. So I know we talked a bit about the community
composting program and how is it still is, I know a bit of
a pilot. What I'm wondering is what metrics will be used to
measure success as we, hopefully grow it out.
Our first match.
Our first manager that were pleasantly surprised and
Reporting out was 1650. People signing up for it, but I
truly believe.
If?
If we.
if we were to be honest with ourselves,
We?
we were in a
we were next.
we weren't expecting that number. We did a media release on
Monday,
and,
and the number just jump like that immediately. So it was
Trivia.
tribute.
tribute to the work that crystal vase put in over the 20
plus years to finally get to this.
More.
MoMA.
moment, where
Moment where we can go Hayward work. We're starting to
crawl. You know, we're going to crawl before we can walk
but I'm going to say one of those top measures right there
was seeing 1650 people and
By.
5-day.
5 days, sign up for that. That was a pleasant surprise. One
of the things were, we're really looking at is just to make
sure people are actually signing up. It's not restaurants
that are coming from the suburbs dropping off their stuff
cuz we experienced that through the cardboard when we had
cardboard up north, or over mirrors of a suburb the bars,
we want to make sure that people are putting it in. We have
enough receptacles for people to actually put with the
material and, and
Give me.
Keep it.
Keep you posted on.
Keep me posted on that. Okay, Yankees will success Drive,
whether you open more locations and in scale it out.
Can you be?
Can you repeat that?
Can you repeat that question? I'm just wondering. So you
know, there's certain, I think it's great. We're starting
with 15 there, certain areas in the city where, you know,
some of the media out push showed a map that just don't
have the same level of access to it. We're going to be
talking a lot about it from our Ward and it when I
explained it to my residence. It's you know you got to
drive a few Wards away. We're on the lakefront and that's
fine. I love visiting. Daniel spot is war and our closest
site. And I think it's kind of like the light front on the
Northside, in the far south side. There's just some gaps.
So, we've course want to push his sight. That is like all
words with that people can get to pretty easily. What we
did there was we put in by a city streets in San Francisco
city
just,
Joshua.
just so we can gauge and see if somebody's going to pull up
with a pickup truck and just do we want to be able to clean
it because we don't want this to turn into a negative. So
we put it by the intentional. We were intentional in our
locations to put it. We tried to spread it out throughout
the whole area.
but we try,
but we tried to put,
But we tried to put it by the sea.
But we tried to put it by City facility streets in San
Francisco tea. There's some challenges where we couldn't
put it by a certain area due to a security issues. So we're
Mindful and where we picked understand that, the people
downtown, we're asking about where we're looking, we'll be
looking at other areas, but right now that was the intent
on how we picked those locations and other ones. A lot of
us use the private waste knots. And otherwise we talked a
lot about composting from the work. So very excited to see
how it goes. Rats again, not an original question, were
talking a lot about rats. Thank you. Josie you for teaching
me so much more than I ever, thought, I'd know about rats,
and we have particular instances in the war bet.
I have yet to.
I have yet to the oldest.
I have yet to be able to tackle and it's people who are
just feeding pigeons and the pigeon feeders, we try to take
it them and the Smart Ones avoid paying the tickets and
they continue feeding the pigeons and this exacerbates the
rap problem. Do you, you know, have any ways off the top of
your mind that we could really crack down and that that
type of residential pigeon feeding
I'd like to say,
I'd like to say before I was a, ward superintendent.
Are you?
I got rid.
I got real close to former State Rep for an early in the
nineteenth Ward over pigeons, we got to know each other,
trying to figure out the pigeon problem and that was a long
time ago, we just asked people with bird, it's an issue. I
mean you'll get into people that actually have the only
pigeons right where it's more of an issue. So I walk
downtown, you see, people feeding the pigeons, it's an
issue that I don't have an answer for right now. Okay.
Maybe. Did you envision that? It could be a legislative.
Like if we, you know, make stricter pigeon feed a nuisance.
Just to try.
just to try to crack the
Just to try to crack down and make it easier for you and
like it, and I'll brag about my soup at some point. But we
get really creative on a few of these houses that are just
making it so hard for their neighborhood because it's
created such a rat problem in like we're talkin by pigeons
used crazy. And we don't know the right lever to pull to
really stop it.
Living room.
believe it or not, in my
Believe it or not in Raven and see what we can do to crack
down cuz I'm sure some of my colleagues have similar
pigeon. Hotspot before.
Jose.
Josie. Do you have any any suggestions or any comments that
I don't want to?
I don't.
I don't like the throne.
I don't like to throw much through the chair, so, if we can
offer some suggestion about getting something stronger, you
know, it's an ordinance. I think that would help us
tremendously. There is one in there now, but it's that
residents that they put up bird seed and hit, they have to
make sure that they clean up after. But they don't and I
think that, you know, the bird feeders and yards without
plates underneath that becomes a big issue also. So I think
that that's really a great idea for you to push that as an
ordinance, okay? Great, I'll call you about it. We can work
on it. Your people who do not react well to the upsetting.
Gray.
Great. You know, we talked a little bit, you all put so
much work in for the marathon in special events and so many
other things. And I always wanted gage-it bike to drive
right by the drives incredible. I think it makes everyone
in the City View, the city from a different lens. I'd love
to see it off the top of your head, just is the stress of
bike, the drive comparable to the marathon for your
department,
we do.
We don't show host.
We don't show stress, you don't show it. We do / 1302, /
1300 events. And if there's one thing I can say that this
city does really well.
It's true.
Is throw up.
Is throw a party. I mean, it throws events were there to
help secure that perimeter to make sure that people can
celebrate and have fun.
because I
Because that's all we were.
Because that's all we want. You know, we want somebody
asked me the other day cuz I still go out to the marathon
and as all who the supervisors go out there. And they said,
what what do you worry about today? You know, what, how do
you keep your for the marathon in? So I couldn't receive it
and I still might make concern right now. Is everybody.
Safe are workers, are safe. You got to watch people backing
up the trucks and people walking in the car for so many
moving parts to that. So my main focus on that day cuz
everybody's safety. So, to the bike to drive, it's what we
do is watch Chicago, does we do it? Somebody wins the
championship.
We do it people.
We do it. People know how to have fun in this town will
always think about maybe expanding certain certain
programs. And other than that, I just want to say, I got to
sign up for those suit competition. Marty Casey is amazing.
We do we do Ward ride-alongs? Every member of the office
like every other month with Marty and he's so open to it
and he's such a great teacher and it really allows the
staff to view things through his eyes. And it's a huge help
and also Deputy Cruz. I feel like this is weird and the
internet to dark place. But there's these, these rat
control YouTubers and they've got huge followings and it's
this dark space that talks about birth control and all
these other things you've got a future as a YouTuber
influencer if you want it. Cuz I just think you're so
effective. And I really appreciate the help that you've
given us through the ward, as we really struggle with rats.
Don't think so.
Don't think so much. The government can do sooner. Altima
Silver State volleyball in Robinson.
Thank.
Thank you.
Thank you and good afternoon.
I first.
I first want to stop.
I first want to start by saying thank you to you and to
every single person in the Box, here. I know. Greg Wagner
is, not sure, but he's included. I am telling you when I
call or my staff calls immediate response, you are all
really top-notch. So thank you. Thank you so much.
An.
and,
and my new,
And my new Ward superintendent. The bill is doing a great
job, so I'm happy. All of that has worked out just a couple
of questions and comments. I chew just want to learn my
voice to extending Sweet street sweeping for as long as
possible. I know that companies giving time when we're at
the end of it, there are still many, many leaves on the
trees and I get many many calls about getting people's
Street swap. So if there's any way to keep that going, I'm
all in favor of our garbage cans. Are you stocked up? Do
you have plenty of those were pretty much?
within three, we
Within three weeks. So worried, we're in great shape. So,
thank you. Thank you, everybody for the the continued to
pour it on, you know, you mentioned earlier that all them
in by in the garbage carts and hopefully can get out of
that business because we're wearing real bad shape. And
then I have one other question and that is about hateful
rafidi. I did introduce an ordinance revising, the hate
crimes and so that's tap on mind. And just today I had a
report of some hateful graffiti in my neighborhood which by
the way, is already gone. So, thank you, thank you. But I
just need to know about tracking and Reporting when you get
those
Parts, are you?
Parts, are you for hate?
Parts, are you for hateful?
Parts are you for hateful? Graffiti are you giving that over
to the police so that they can keep track of it? Or do you
just remove it and then it's gone. We were we remove it.
We?
We're.
We're moving to.
We remove it immediately and the police are aware. A lot of
times, we're getting the calls from the police. Yesterday,
we got a call from Alleman Hall in, regards to police
station at 71st and cottage. Those are a medians. Those are
meteors as you just stated. Those are two medians. I just
want to make sure that you're in communication, with the
police about things like that, 100%, that's really all I
have. And again, thank you all very, very much. We in the
50th Ward, really appreciate all that you do. Thank you,
thank you, thank you. I don't know why these two showed up
today, but we will welcome Alderman, Scott and Altman
attorneys. Go back to the chamber and he's just checking to
see if everybody says back in their respective. See
sandwich, please.
And all.
And all the tiniest dog.
And all the tiniest ready for us to have lunch. We've got a
significant number of members after lunch. So I didn't
normally I would try to get through the but since we have
so many, we're going to go to Alma Robinson, they were
going to break for lunch and you and the team can join us
for lunch upstairs. Altima Robinson, go ahead.
Thank.
Thank you, cheer.
Thank you. Chairman, first and foremost, I would like to
say go Caravan.
Set.
I s.
Secondly.
Soup.
Super.
superintendent, I want to thank you as a new altar or
allow.
Allowing me to.
allowing me the opportunity to come into this body. Come
into a ward that I can do my job and you and your team have
allow me to do that. You take calls at all times of the day
and night and I want to thank you. Also want to thank your
team in the Box, I specifically Malcolm who spent some time
in my Wards, awesome problem areas that I was having. So I
want to give Malcolm a Kudos and really just thank you for
the work that you and your team do for. Not only the
fourth, ward of the tire City of Chicago. You mentioned
that you don't have many jobs to fill. I'm curious. What
are those jobs? Is it possible to receive a list? If we
haven't all those jobs and how can we be helpful to fill
those? Those rolls that you have open?
How many?
Ebony and I'm just going to use you.
Ebony and I'm just going to use the art are vacancies or
122, which is a really good number for us. We hired 345
this year as I mentioned, but 73% of those 122, which
equates to 89 Falls in four categories 51 labors.
20.
21 dry.
21 drivers 7 tree trimmers in for sanitation Clerks.
that's,
That's it.
That's 89 and I can't thank DHHR enough for getting us in
this position. We've never been in this position ever and I
can pretty much say we're probably in one of the better
positions, but it took a whole effort by that whole team
that sits behind me to get to this point. So for four
titles are 73% of where we're at. And then the other ones
are one-offs that we that were working on and they're
already moving in the direction of started the process. So
again, my hat's off to Katie Doyle in the team because they
have did nothing and the mayor's office and budget. We've
got a lot of support from the body.
It.
it's
It's the support.
It's the support that this department gets is unwavering and
it goes definitely noticed thank you. Is it possible that
we can get the openings that you do have? Is that something
that we can put in our newsletter? I'm sure like many of my
colleagues everywhere. We turn, people are looking for
opportunities and it looks as though this can create as a
laborer, somebody to be able to get into the middle class.
I'm looking at some of the Staffing that you have and the
salaries we can create opportunities in the city. Chicago
to get someone again. That starts off at a labor into a
really 60, 70 80 thousand year job career, that can give
back to their Community is so it'd be great. If if if it
all possible those opportunities that you do have that we
can get out to our constituents so that way that we can
steal somebody's post.
The echo.
the echo, what you just
To Echo what you just said. If you did a poll of all of us,
the majority of us here that have been around for a little
bit, we've come from those ranks. So I I come from I was a
labor 20-plus years ago. Tommy Johnson was your driver
20ft. Malcolm was a tree trimmer 20 plus years ago. So it's
a good organization to work for there's opportunity.
I'm sure.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, so we we literally are examples and hopefully give
encouragement to people that a stick around.
What?
What, you know.
What your nose it is.
Put your nose to the grind and put in the time and have
great people around you and great people behind you, too.
Pushy up there's opportunity here. Well, I think that this
body should be able to Champion, be your cheerleaders.
Again, is nowhere that I go that people are looking for
opportunities. And I think that this could be a great way
for folks to be able to take care of their family, to be
able to be in, in this department is certainly, there are
others, as well. And so it'd be great if we could get that
list to be able to put out to the public, what those
opportunities are in last week, you might have answered
this. How can the fifty of us? Be helpful to you and your
staff.
Until?
Continue this.
Continue to support that we get again, great to see friends
here from couple years ago, we've we've always gotten that
support. This department is blessed. I'll say, with that
support, I keep waiting for that one day, we don't get that
supporting that. I know it's time for me to go, but it's
just, it's the outpouring of support that this department
gets and the resources and the
The listing at the.
The listing that this.
The listing that this department gets for.
The listing that this department gets from this body of
something is as minimal as asking for additional resources
for carts, when I walked into everybody's Office, three
years ago, when I got this journey with two and a half
years ago, when I got this job, everybody's top priority
was carts. I walked in everywhere cards cards cards cards
to everybody wanted cars cuz it was a 60-month 868 month
weight.
Shos room.
Show through us working together as a group.
It.
It should.
It shows.
It shows that the full power of what we can do when we all
work together. Thank you, thank you so much ended. Thank
you, Miss Cheer, and you, thank you. We will be at ease
until 1:45, which we will start back with all their been
waguespack fallible, all the Michiko & Gutierrez,
Show up at 8:30.
drive to
Good afternoon. We're going to go back into session here.
We're going to start with the ultimate. You go to Temple, I
can share personal and thank you for your help. In these
last five months, you were the first commission to reach
out to me. I appreciate that. You might have unique needs
of my Wars. You know why something being one of them?
You're very responsive to that and I appreciate that. I
appreciate the many women in the Box. Several of them I've
seen in my ward already. I don't know Gloria Lewis I can't
get out of my work but I appreciate that one question.
I know.
I know where we.
I know where was?
I know where was to.
I know where was Tom?
I know there was talk your past about removing ultramatic
request for tree removal, is that on the tables at and
play? We never conversation. And the reason I asked is
because I get about three or four emails a week regarding,
remove a
Remove old.
Removals and it's messing up. The sidewalks messing up
their driveways and is something that we can actually do. I
can't go to a block party without
Dumps.
Don't show up.
Stop showing me a train and the damn just causing. So he's
kind of why I continue to work with Danny as you know but
Danny Jimmy Malcolm it's if it's causing a tripping Hazard
stuff like that week we can address. Okay.
Thank you.
Thank.
Thank you, will.
Thank you will automatically Altima Gutierrez for the ball
in the sky.
Thank.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, mr. Chairman as well as the listener and
all of your grade staff is Bane.
And I'm
An amazing.
An amazing journey inside took office to get to meet the
doors.
Right.
right in the
Right in the city. I just want to Echo the great team that
you have commissioner.
Cuz you can't.
Cuz you can tell right away that work, the busy partment.
does every single day when you were talking about,
The.
Then.
then neglect.
then a collection and being forgotten for 20-30 years of
the tree trimming, that was my Chicagoland area.
now, can
Now constituent.
now, constituents feel
Go.
Good. They feel hard and I'm proud to be there. They're
aldermen alderwoman, but also to be able to continue
servicing them with honesty and transparency, and that's
what your department looks like.
I was.
I wanted to add.
I wanted to ask about the pilot for compost, which you said
it's 15 words. I would love to know if the 14 Ward, it's
considered and those 15 tied at work to begin. I moved from
California here to Chicago and since day one I didn't
understood what it had those green card. I thought it was
really something that he was really need it but then I also
understood the weather right in that now and it's not a
year-round where people cut their grass but that's what
needs needed. And we lost to Nowhere by the fortune word is
considered in that pilot program. What's the address of the
closest location that we have to the 14th? Ward
Looks like it would be the one at 3559 Maplewood Park just
to be clear. The commission, mentioned in the locations
were looking for our streets and service yards in a
geographically dispersed throughout the city, and is a
commissioner
My feet.
I feel weak and looked all the locations at this is a
successful program. Will we will be expanding it. So we
know we're actively looking at other sites around the city
that could work, but the concern was having Streets &
Sanitation presents, and having the containers place in a
place where we're in and out of every day. So we have eyes
and and equipment moving in and out. I think it would be
that one on 35591 at 3720. West 55th is also very close and
that will be your team collecting or yes, we have green
cards, we have green cards at each location. We have Crews
that are going out, and picking up those locations and
monitoring along with rodent control.
Call keeping an eye on those, okay?
Call keeping an eye on those location.
Call keeping an eye on those locations.
Keeping an eye on those locations because it's it's new to
us here. Were they cutting their grass or, or how are you
guys going to collect it from us to where we have this
morning was 1650? People that have signed up and it, we're
just trying to do that, to get that information so we can
message it. So we could utilize that information to message
yet, but it's composting a food that you guys are going to
go pick it up from the people have registered know, they're
going to go to the location drop off the phone at the 15
locations, and that we're going to go pick it up from
there. That was my main questions just for me to be able to
pass along our residents and community, that this is going
on? And how is it going to work about yards?
We both.
Boca.
Vocal about the conditions that are 38th and Glendale yard
is and I already spoke all. So, here in the hearings with
that is commissioner and I asked if they can, please move,
but around, and in green,
Safe.
Safety.
and,
And Humanity to our students, and workers in that yard, I
did hear you. Bring that up the other day. She thank you.
We were talking. We've had some
life.
life change.
life changing issues that happened out of that yard. That's
a very close-knit group of people run by Al catch toilet
and show. We talked about it and show, you know, third week
off 34th and Lawndale 34th and Lawndale and
We're.
Where were?
we'll work.
We're working with a I guess what? We're going to do. In
the interim is get trailers ordered out there and those
trailers are there. Nice, they're not dilapidated dirt.
They're nice trailers, show, people that are working there,
all day, working there, all day, don't have to sit in those
offices as you brought to it. It, you walk through there,
just as I walk through there and see the feeling that night
we were literally, we were, I know, everybody got out of
here at 8:15 last night at 8:50 in the other night and
commissioner Blakemore, my hat is off to her and her team
line cross. It was here's what we're doing, here is where
we're at. Because I
Stage.
HG.
Stage 2, referencing 34th and Lawndale, I really appreciate
that. Also, please any information that you may have any of
you that you can send to your office. Just remember,
please, Spanish is really important if you need help with
insulation or anything, but we can also help. But it's also
so important to continue to work together to also us and
myself, work work with you all and help you all with our
reach, right? And also talked to the community and
sometimes we educate about some better.
Wake.
Wait.
ways to
Ways to reduce. So we can have a cleaner and safer
Community, wanted to ask you about the garbage cans. You
were saying that he takes three weeks for them to take a
truly under 14. Work is taking four to five weeks, and I
think it's longer for the blue card. Is there any way that
you can, please help me and check that out. Three weeks
right now, it's three weeks today or days ago. It was, but
we, we were catching up.
because I
Because I am.
Because I in in the July flood, I'd basically shut down
cards for 3 weeks to go cyst in that mission over there. So
if we're delivering three to four hundred car, today is
what we deliver.
We're sick.
We're 6000 carts behind in those three weeks. So, we had to
put resources to that to get us back to where our car
program can breathe again. And we're to that point because
we feel
That.
that it is a coup.
that it is a contributing factor to the rodent.
Pick.
Pick a.
Kicking.
Taking down 70% of cards need to be.
Turn up.
Turn away and get new ones. So I know it's a process. If we
can also enter office help deliver or I spend but just out
cuz yeah mainly Gage Park in Chicago loan communities are
the ones that's totally need a garbage can cuz they also
have not gotten a new one. Twenty-three years ago, call 311
please, if you need a car black or blue car, call 311
he always has a
He always has already mentioned, my apologies catallo. I
also wanted to give a shout out to the Niger coach at which
is her Acting Superintendent. He's being great. Holding the
fort at the 14th Ward, but also Frank and Powerful. I will
we had some emergency with the tree, he's being great as
well. So thank you all for your hard work and continue
working together with y'all. Thank you, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you all doing good.
Thank you, Arlene. Gutierrez ultimate Altima Scott,
Colorado Milwaukee spay. I just want to say thank you. I
owe a lot of things. Do you call? Tommy Debbie, Johnson,
sorry about his name right now, you all work hard for me
and there's not a day that I don't call, but I don't send
an email and something gets done right away and so I thank
you. Thank you for your hard work, for me, and for the 24th
Ward. It is duly noted, and I probably worse than the ward
suit, but I appreciate you all.
I have a question.
I got a question, do you?
I got a question. Do you think so? I know that with the
trees that we've gone to a grid and so took him back some
of my lot and likes and and and 16 and Emma, you know,
Jason at what was having a lot of the lights. Do you think
it would be necessary that we can move those lights to a
grid?
It's far.
As far as.
As far as rimming as far as cutting it with like weed
cutting.
well, how we
Well, how week so, you know, a lot because what I found is
that one lot gets cut, but then they have three more lights
on the Block that we could have cut. But this is the only
life that was put in. And the grasses, the one flat and
other ones, 4 ft high. And you go down the block and it's
three more. But if we can just focus on one particular
Street, that's what it's designed to do. So we will work
with towards you. We will give the word troop assistance.
Because as I mentioned earlier today,
You can't.
You can't put.
You can't put it all in a ward Shoup to do an area like
that so where we have an opportunity now to where we can
offer people to help so we're in a good position. So we do
do it in areas and we will, we will do a better job next
year on that the additional funding for safer.
I think that is nice.
I think that is needed. They do help out a lot. So when you
have, you know, three thousand vacant lot,
you do.
you don't get a bus.
You don't get a bunch of dumps and alleys that I made, this
is just a lot and so it's a lot of them. It's more of us
than it is. You are so you know just trying to teach a
community you take care of their own that that's
cumbersome. I have a question about the. Is it the
composite? What is it? The numbers compost program, so did
the expectancy is so that residents putting the garbage in
their cars and taking it to a location in this program and
there's 15 location Citywide. And in the first week we've
had 1650 people sign up for that so it's just we're
introducing it to from his apartment to the to the folks.
There are six Gardens out there also where people can drop
off a composting and it's just weird.
introducing our
Introducing ourselves to the.
Introducing ourselves to the compost. Will it save? It's
environmentally it stays on the environmental and also
money gases. When it goes to the to the landfill, it causes
Chris.
Chris causes methane methane gas.
Joe this
Joe, this is this way, we can turn it back into the for the
benefit of the earth and the soil.
Okay.
Okay, I'm just curious about that cuz you can get your
nose.
A lot.
A lot more.
A lot more than I do in that in that specific Niche right
there that he can share any information or pamphlets or
just something. We did over the summer was recycled, we did
a recycling video that were just trying to share with
people and shows from where it starts to where it goes to
wear it at and what it turns into it. Just trying to get
that out there. Just to show we have $150,000 in his
budget, for just getting information out. You know, getting
information out to know that things are changin. Things are
changing. We got to change with the with the X. Thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
and we,
and when
And when my dad come back on Monday, we got a lot of work to
do. Thank you for the kind words.
Thank.
Thank you.
Thank you all the men Walker spec of followed by.
All.
Ottoman.
Automobile.
Thank.
Thanks Jeff.
Thanks, Jeremy.
Thanks German, commissioner, good afternoon staff, just
stop telling on that 150. You were just talking about. Is
that reaching out to CPS as well? Or do you do any
coordination with I'm on recycling issues?
Campo.
Campos, which
Compost without composing. It was just for the composting.
But for recycling do you have a budget that you work with
CPS to teach these kids and CPS about recyclers, I'm going
to defer that one to you. However, in the last two years
we've actually had a rotation meetings with CPS once a
month. So right now we have a standing meeting with CPS to
discuss all the programming that we're trying to introduce.
And this particular one on food scrap, with something that
there was a lot of information sharing between the two of
us remaining CPS and what they're trying to do in schools
because there are schools and then CPS A system that is has
been capturing food waste in their serious and we want to
compliment that and what they're doing at their schools and
there's been
A lot of information share.
A lot of information sharing just pissed.
a lot of information sharing just specifically,
A lot of information sharing just specifically about this
one program. Yeah, I think it's not based on what a lot of
aldermen have been saying, you know, it's a lot of
Education out there on composting and Recycling, and it
just seems like our our best place to Target. That is with
CPS students. Because if we can't get adults to change
their ways, at least, you know, students, my hopefully we
do and future Generations. So, I would just keep that in
mind about continuing to work with them. See, if CPS has a
budget for it, I know that they're doing, you know, they're
doing some work around Green Technology that they handed
out two kids and a box that they handed out recently
touched on a recycling issue. But it was a very small thing
that they did. It was just a little card in a box. So
that's why I'm curious if we can, you know, it pays
dividends in years to come that that be the place to go. So
I need
I think my,
I think most of the questions have been answered but I just
had a few notes to bring up around the Bureau of Forestry
while we're doing these treat rooms and I know you're
trying to keep up with out as best you can, are we doing an
assessment at the same time, a Citywide canopy assessment.
Yes. Okay, so that would that be a report that comes out in
a couple years or
Where is?
Where inspector?
We're inspecting as we're.
We're inspecting as well as what they're out. There were
inspecting where this way we're going to. We inspect these
trees yearly, but we're really were in there. Are you
nowhere in there and we're seeing trees at?
Have.
I've been.
Evans.
Haven't seen a.
Haven't seen a chainsaw in 30 years so we're hoping that
we're not where we know that this is really going to be a
positive for a canopy. Okay. When were when were looking at
that?
You.
You know what?
you know, one of
You know, one of the things that came up last month, we had
a settlement or somebody that was hit by a tree that
obviously fell on, what did what have you done in terms of
risk management when it comes to 311 calls?
Department.
Department of Law was supposed to reach out and talk to you
about risk management about how to mitigate some of these
issues. So we don't get more settlements like we did last
month. We try to address of emergencies immediately, but
where an ongoing talks are you okay?
Inter.
In terms.
In terms of the contractors who are doing two different
things, one is Landscaping, the other is planting trees. So
we're looking at the contracts, it looks like companies
like 70, have the contract for planting trees.
Do we have?
Do we have a lot?
Do we have a log of Maintenance that they've done on newly
planted trees over one year to year. I'll get you that
answer through the they're required to do the maintenance
for two years are required and then I'll get you the
information that you're requesting through the chair of
what they've done. If we can get it Citywide because I have
I drive around a lot. I look at those trees, I haven't seen
them. Watering pruning, trimming weeding around him at all.
Now they might be doing it in other parts and I'm just
missing it. But if we could get that through the chair, I
would be great on another note there with landscape
companies. Do we do any Outreach to them in terms of the
type of mulch? They're putting down whether it's or or
rocks that they're putting down in the Parkway and how we
can do a better job of not just maintaining them, but
preventing a lot of that from flowing into our curves and
sewers.
I thought.
I think.
I think you see it, I see it. You know you go buy some
places and there's 23 in of mulch in the curb and are
street sweepers. Are they picking it up and filling up
dumpsters that. Don't need to be but be, it's also going
into a sewer system and potentially clogging that. So what
do we do Outreach to through bacp to tell people, there's
what's good? Here's what's not
I'm not.
I'm not opposed to any any strong suggestions that can help
everything out. So yes I think through that work, maybe
work with pacp and then finally,
The one of my obviously favorite things over the last few
years, was the urban forestry Advisory Board. You guys give
us an update on that and where that stands to
help a
help out to be.
Help out the bureau forestry kind of move forward on the
canopy and where we wanted to be in the next couple
decades.
I'm not.
I'm at Malcolm Whiteside chairs that board speak on that
Malcolm. Go ahead.
W.
Pepsi commercial.
Deputy Commissioner, Malcolm Whiteside Fair, the urban
forestry by gboard has to be at the meeting. Coming up in
December, is Chris going around slowly but
We?
We have new.
We have new Commissioners now, to see be coming on board
with lots of Commissioners that were part of the board. So
hopefully, we had those replaced by the December meeting
but diplomats wollemi the board only makes recommendations
to the council. So when our army has being on the board
with us, we're able to make some good. I'll just ride. So
we'll be able to report back to the council after I
December meeting. Great sounds good.
That's all I had a.
That's all I had. I think I pray.
That's all I had. I think I appreciate everything that you
guys do and I know it's an uphill battle with things like
rats that comes. I think success comes from making sure.
People are thinking about how we throw stuff out where we
throw it out, businesses with grease pits, and things like
that. So that's all I think education effort that we have
to help you with but I appreciate all the work that every
one of your workers does out there from the, you know, the
superintendent level. Commissioner level all the way down
to the workers on the trucks. And I know each one of us
appreciate the work that they do and continue to do. Thank
you very much. Thank you. Thank you. I respect Alderman. Be
ready.
Going.
Go ahead.
and get your
A picture.
And catch air Austin want to say thank you for all the work
that you do. And I'm sure and your team is well here in the
box and and not here, I'll do it. Thank you for your work
around tree trimming that I saw activity in my word this
morning, on my way to the Al's. So thank you for that. But
I appreciate your work towards equity and efficiency. I'm
in your new systems because it is, it is about Public
Safety, we need the trees, not to block light two. And that
points toward safestreets, I know we talked about the
racist graffiti.
Remove alarm.
Remove already. So.
Remove already. So I want to thank you for that we live in
up and not high population of lgbtq plus people but also a
John Argyle with us a number of immigrants so I really
appreciate your work on that. I'm always struck with the
the list of the most stressful professions in in our nation
and sanitation is at the top of that always. And as we're
bringing more young people into the profession showing
them, that there is a, a path to a great life as you are
here to protest. And also knowing that
Got.
That workers sometimes, fine, body parts, and bodies. There
are too many trans women, black women who are found in
dumpsters at night, you know, that's just, that's the
ultimate, but there are there, of course, so many other
layers here, to including what you do, the sensitive things
that you do around homeless, encampments, and our immigrant
population right now. Can you tell me what you are doing
and the resources that you are assigning towards mental
health support, especially when it comes to onboarding new
people and also taking care of the workers that you have
now?
in the fact that you have,
In the fact that you have such a robust team that continues
to stay on through the years. My own words superintendent
is on his third Administration and I think it's because of
leadership and because of the culture that is there. So can
you speak on what you're doing to bring you people in and
also take care of them as you're doing, you know, the hard
work to take care of our city.
It starts with.
a team like the
A team like this is a very experienced caring team.
As.
As you may.
As you mentioned everything, you said there.
Has been.
Has been expired.
Has been experienced in this department. We have a a labor
relations person. Katrina Scott, that works very closely.
Everybody's not comfortable, sometimes bring something to
my attention, his attention.
We are.
We have all.
We have all different types of people sitting in that box
right now, somebody's going to feel comfortable there and
we all make ourselves available or the 2,000 plus members.
But it also comes with the relationship with the unions to
have that relationship with the unions. So they know and
they can trust us and we can trust them for the benefit of
our Workforce. The one thing I would say is in DHHR, they
have a person that's assigned to tragic.
Change that to happen to be.
change that to happen because they
Change that to happen because those do happen. And I work
for us a little more often.
The.
then they,
Then then I'd love to see it. It's what some of these folks
have seen and gone through. We had a situation where I
reached out to the superintendent of police and they sent
their full force of of people to where they were bringing
Comfort talks to 34th and Lawndale because we had a
tragedy. So it's something this group takes very serious.
Mental health is up as an issue and we're here to know that
that's why it's so nice to hear. I I wish I wish my staff
that was out on the street, picking up the garbage. Got to
hear all the positives that are going on, but it's our job
to share the positives because I see that they're the ones
doing the work.
so, I put
so, I play
so, I think
So I thank you.
Thank.
Thank you for the.
Thank you for that. And I also would like to be involved
that. If you do, do a field trip to the training center, I
would like to print out with that. Really cool facility
that the union is put together and it's your pudding
through these folks for training and then or Street train
it's really an unbelievable sight and it again that comes
with that strong working.
Jeep with the Union.
Jeep with the union for the better of the people. And I I'll
just say it, decreasing DD and 37%
Is.
is that's how serious we take this in this, in this group
are
and,
Thank you.
Thank you for the.
Thank you for that. I guess I would I would be interested
in knowing how much of your work Boris is Union. And also
through the think that this is something that I should have
waited before. I'm interested in other departments and how
much are union 95% unit, 70 managers on top of that. But
the majority of artwork Forces Unit Chicago's Union sound.
So I love that our street and Sanders is representing, I
have two questions related to abandoned vehicles. Are one
of them is that it seems that seniors might be
disproportionately disproportionately affected by the
system that we have, is there a way to reach the drivers
that
having a
I have an issue.
I have an itch specially are seniors who have an issue
moving their vehicles because of physical ailments. Is
there a Wii? Fe waiver for seniors because of being sent to
the pound and storage fees that they might be able to take
advantage of and I don't think that happen so often. But
can you speak on that at all about that abandoned vehicle
programs at something? Under you one quick statement out,
one thing we worked with with this body were victims of car
theft, or carjackings to wear.
Those p.
Those Pete and it.
Those Pete and it seems obvious but that's stuff that we
worked on to make sure that they didn't become Vic my twice
as far as anything further on that. I'd like to defer to
Michael Coco, the deputy of traffic Services, commissioner
traffic services, and there is an actual. I know exactly
the person, I think you're talking about, I've talked to
her a couple times. The problem is, there's an ordinance.
You have two vehicles sitting on the streets of sitting
there for more than 7 days. It doesn't get written up as it
does. Now we get to it when we can get to it, that's why we
have Frito notices, go out, but the person that you were
talking about, also didn't have a license plate.
Jubilee.
Do believe it's the same person.
do believe it's the same person, that's what
Do believe it's the same person. That's what caused her,
not to get a Frito. Notice, you've got a Frito notice on a
Frito notice, it was on the bottom that you can call in and
talk. But since you didn't have a license plate, illegal
license plate on the vehicle. There was no free to another
sent out, but with that being said, a majority of the time,
that's what hearings are for. So when you go there, you get
the vehicle, you do have to pay the fine in the fee, to get
the vehicle and then that's where the hearing you can ask
for her. And everybody's giving the hearing
and,
Thank.
Thank you. I appreciate you being available so that we can
understand the process, these make sure that everybody is
getting what they need. I think the other question I have
has to do with towing a vehicle again, and this one about
on plated Vehicles using the right of public way for sale.
And we know that the ACT is involved with that investigator
in basket oreion. But but what is it that you think that we
can do with you? Is there a legislative change that needs
to happen to tow these vehicles more quickly or it can you
speak on that more curbstoning years of experience in that
box on Towing, that's his expertise. So Michael. Coco, can
you please answer the question, Michael Coco, Streets, &
Sanitation, traffic Services. They issue at the towing of
that is the people at the
Play.
A place that aren't on.
Two plates that are on the city, 90% of them are selling the
vehicle, then we show up to tow a hop in and moving right
away. We cannot tow a vehicle stolen Ops in there. That's
the only issue as far is CPD. Could really go out there and
as they will go down right up vehicles for this and write
up citations French. OK, issue comes in there. Not
registering a vehicle. If it's very hard for us to do that,
if you're not registering a vehicle, we can also go to send
the paperwork to they don't never get tickets on them and
stuff like that. So it's very hard issue for us to do that.
If we could go out there and told immediately without, you
know about that. But they all come running out. That's the
issue. So that's the issue. We face with something like
that and then your area where you are, there's a lot of
people that pull them out there, to put them on the curb
Lane and they pull them back, I could work with you try to
set up some kind of thing program. I noticed a lot of
things if I give me the middle of the night that works out
sometimes better.
Ivory ivory.
I appreciate it if you can work with them, my team to
figure that out and thank you for being available at all
hours of the day, I do want to thank you for that. I want
to touch on trees and I would love to work with you too. Of
course at talk about ways that we can use trees in our
public ways. Are you at all? We had our time limit. Would
you want to around 2? Cuz I Stay.
I have to.
I have to get through the balance of you.
I have to get through the balance of your off.
I have to get through the balance of your off our
colleagues and we did move the 10 minutes for this
department cuz I know we have a lot to get the one. I know
we want everyone to do what they need to do. So I'm about
to sign you up from around two or three for you. Okay. All
right. I think I had all the men Cruise or father actually
bill was next all about Cruise. You ready?
What happened?
Good afternoon, commissioner afternoon, sir. I don't have
much to say but in the box so I can rewind the tape from
last year and the year before that in the last 20 years. So
you guys have a great job but I do have just a couple quick
question. The first one is these migraines.
We're going.
We're going to have a few.
We're going to have a huge problem cuz I understand that
they purchased some new snow plows, for the bike Lanes. How
many do you have? We don't have those see. Does but we're
working closely about that situation, on dirty, we put a
hopefully you got a response back from Carney cuz we we
talked he called me immediately on that. The next day I put
our largest spreader at that one turn and we were able to
fit. We're just going to have to notify our drivers to be
conscious of that. And then in that turn, turn lane, we
were coming this way going. We're going to be conscious of
that. But she, that's handling the bike Lanes on those, but
we're working in conjunction. To remove those.
Bear.
Barriers, what are?
Barriers whatever it cuz it is.
Barriers whatever it cuz it is still too tight. I believe
it's entirely shouldn't take. But the question is Citywide.
I think that you don't have, I think they said seven or
eight machine plowback Lanes. Is what they're telling me,
it's okay. You all come through and through all the snow.
Right back. Right back over onto the bike lane, the bike
lane. I'm not going to get plowed.
Are free.
Humphreys going to Alchemist neck and, you know, we're
going to have water back up. It's going to be a larger
problem. Okay, I'm just waving the flag to everybody to you
and everybody in the department if it's a disaster waiting
to happen, Okay? Because you would not be able to get to
them curves and I don't believe we have enough Personnel or
or equipment to plow all the snow. I mean, the bike lane
Citywide so it's going to be a larger problem, so that's
just me. Okay, so noted secondly, I know we talked about
this before autumn. In Taylor mentioned it, have we ever
thought about asking the state to RFP to let the city do
the expressways?
Not in.
Not in my.
Not in my tenure sir. Why don't? Why don't we do a cost
analysis? Okay. And then send it to the state. And says if
you all give us this money we we will maintain the
expressways I believe if we do that are expressways will
look much better and I'm talking both sides of the fence
you know on the street side where you have about 45 feet
man, I
Man, I just think.
Man, I just think, you know, if we even contracted it out
the private landscapers, I think our city will look so much
better if we would look to do something like that. What do
you, what do you think about that? Are we talkin about
cleanliness or we talkin about snow? No, I'm talking about
cleaning this and cutting, cutting the grass. Okay, you
scared me. I thought we were, I was on it snow track and I
know, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm all for anything.
We can do collectively to get the state to clean these
expressways.
I'm not in.
I'm not in the bed.
I'm not in the business of bashing people, but we have to
do something because it's a problem for all of us. And
there were times where we helped them with their graffiti,
and they relied on us to do their graffiti and in return.
Worst.
We're still no.
We're still not getting nothing for that. Where it's like,
I drive.
I drive down the same street, you drive? And it's like,
come on man, let's do something. So anything we can do
collectively as a group to get to stayed on board, I'm all
for it, I'm off work. Well, I think it would have to come
from the administration to put an RPG out or work with the
state and saying how much it would cost for us to maintain
the cleaning and cutting of the grass on both sides of the
fence on the expressways. And if we can, even if we cut it
every 2 to 3 weeks,
and,
And have a.
And have a man.
And have a Manpower would have to really clean it up.
People get depressed going back and forth to work when they
got to look at the expressways. Like they do you know what
they already pissed cuz I got to go to work then, go to
work and they going home cuz I got to still see the same
garbage this bad when they went to work. So I just think
that's something that we really need to explore. And I
mean, I'll take the lead with you all in order to make it
happen. But, I mean, you go to any other big city,
Are.
Arabic.
RX.
Are Expressway.
Are expressways out of worse, in the country. When you look
at how it looks High Grass and cleaning and things like
that. So we work with them but I'd love to take those steps
with you. Let's make it happen. Thanks. Preciate it
preciate you.
Big O.
Big on the bed.
Big on the bill are on the cruise.
Thank.
Thank you, Jerry.
Thank you, Cheri. I want to express my gratitude to
commissioner call and all the staff as well. What do we sit
by us? Is it one? You already talk to me Rami in. Probably
everything I need to know, if your contact information, how
everything was going to work, and because of that, I had a
smooth transition at Wally myself and my team. But again,
thank you so much and I know we talked about who has the
best or soup, I have to take. I have mine Peter Gonzalez by
far. Excellent work ethic. I mean, this man. Do you know
shows up to work super early and does everything it is
required to get going. So thank you for the recommendation
in. That can guide me through that process as well. But I
do want to thank others and somebody that, you know, has
been there also for me. So they want and not knowing where
to go. If it was going to happen, Debbie has been there.
She responds to my emails at any time.
Belated.
Late at night, at times.
late at night, at times a
Late at night at times. And she always see, you know, helps
me also thank you. So we talked about having a dog, please.
We also need a pigeon police. And that's what that becomes
in. To make sure that our community. It's clean around the
areas that we face with pigeon poop. So, thank you baby.
Thank you for everything you do and I'll be joining and My
Collie tell me when he does, you know, look at the origin
meds and try to solve the situation. But I also want to say
thanks to Jimmy Shane. I know, I think, you know, how I
feel about the tree out grid, but he has been an excellent.
It has been always be there for for the staff. So I wanted
to say that but also another shout-out to La Coco as well.
Thank you sir. I was reaching out to us and then Rocco as
well. Just want to make sure I know it's hard sometimes to
give names because they're like, you know, you didn't call
me out. But again, this is the
Could I have the?
Could I have them?
Could I have the most?
Could I have the most interaction with? And I cannot leave
today without saying that it here because again cuz of all
of you and Louise and everybody else we have been able to
transition well but I do want to act cool. Some of the
things that my colleagues have been talking about it when
it comes to the Lincoln trucks or rodent control. That is
also one of her pop calls is rodent control and I will be
reaching out to
Joe.
Jose.
Josie. So you can also help me out and guide me through, but
one of my questions is you said you're on track by the
years and to plan over 2000 trees where you're at now?
2500. So we're going to we're going to go over the 20,000 +
40,000 and that's just not treat since and that's it. It's
a combination of see you. We, we we we do the Lion's Share
with will be at about the Fourteen fifteen thousand mark.
Sheila.
Seattle be
I see. I'll be out about the four to five thousand Mark,
maybe 5510 Parks is in about two-three thousand Mark so
we're plus the twenty thousand for the year. All right.
That's good to know. All right, I don't have more
questions. I guess I just wanted to take the minute to say,
thank you.
Thank.
Thank you.
Thank you, mr. Chairman, and make sure to let me hear add my
voice to the chorus of Praise that you've enjoyed today,
and I hope you have enjoyed it. I've enjoyed it. I've
enjoyed every minute, you know, I mean, you could tell
there's let's all acknowledge there's times when some of
the praise in this room might ring a little Hollow, this is
not one of those time. Every compliment that you've gotten
today's come from the heart of my colleagues, based on the
performance of your department. And to the extent that that
is a result of your leadership, you know, take this and you
earned it. I mean, your job is to make our city livable and
it makes us look good. When you do your job and you've been
doing your job in performing at it outstanding level, and
that's the reason so many of my colleagues have wanted to
give you that compliment today. I'm going to throw a couple
other names as well as his room Cruise, just did Jim. She
and Michael Coco. Christine trozos, Anthony, cappellino,
Debbie de Lopez, just to name a few that we have really
interacted with and in our deserving of a shower.
Let me just say this, okay, there is a 50 way tie for the
best word superintendent, in the city of Chicago. We all
think ours is the best, you know, you've heard that. So I
won't get into that, but I will say there is only one who
has the longest tenure, as a word superintendent and that
is John drove. So, so my work superintendent, he's
approaching thirty years ladies and gentlemen, 30 years and
it wasn't just in my word.
Was.
Was high.
Was higher.
I was hired.
I was hired as a ward superintendent before the second
world even existed as it does. Today started out in the
10th Ward, as you know, right, my Cali from the 10th Ward.
So he deserves a special shout-out. Not only for his
professionalism is diligence, but his sheer longevity. It
is a hard job. It is a physically demanding job, you know,
Up Before Dawn, you never know what the day is going to
involve. Do you have to be strong? Physically, there's so
much to that job and and John drosos just perform sit at an
outstanding level. And it gives me pleasure to acknowledge
that publicly. He deserves all this and more. So, again,
thank you commissioner. I just have two questions. One of
them and the area for rodent control, and in the other, in
the area streets, hoes only start with rodent control every
year or maybe not every year. But every few years, some new
fad, or some new technology comes along and rodent control.
And you see the private sector trying it. You know, the
exterminators on Market at we've tried dry ice
sterilize.
Sterilization, all these other things with varying results,
mixed results. You know some of them were some of them.
Didn't what is the latest? What is the state of the art? Is
there anything new are we open to experimenting, you know,
is there anything? We might be able to try that might help
us turn the corner on the exploding Road in population. And
by the way, do we still do dry ice and sterilization? You
know what is a pilot project? What's what's the status know
that we talked about that one?
Tell.
Sterilization know.
Sterilization know as far as the dry ice it just didn't work
quite well for us that application. We're up for anything
to wear. If if we can get rodent control to where we don't
even talk about cards anymore, that would be the goal. Here
we reached out to New York. We met with New York, New York,
New York flew out to us. We spent the day with New York, we
were in constant conversation to try to get things better.
We hope the addition of in, in the budget at Street Cruise,
but we attach the group to squeeze out another to cruise
cuz we now at vehicles from our friends over at a is so
hopefully, just by adding those five crews that's 100, jobs
a day, you know, 500 a week, you know, you don't start
doing the math, that's twenty-four thousand more jobs and
plus
Are you?
A year that we can get two, and it's just getting that
public Outreach of clean up after your dog. Pick up after,
you know, don't throw the food on the ground feed, the
feed, the pigeons. There's just so many things that go into
this, and there's Outreach that we do. We mentioned earlier
our, our our, our store, hangers are now in four languages
just to try to get that message out there that you don't
feed them, just attracts rats, not picking up after your
dogs attracts the rats, so weird.
open the
Open. Of course.
Open. Of course, I'd be as they mentioned Stray Cats
earlier. So there's things that will look into but we know
it's an issue for everybody. Thank you for that and then my
final question. Thank you, mr. Chairman is involving, the
prioritization of police toes in a media toes and my
colleague. Ultimate be a ghost has been a strong advocate
for going after some of the illegal Towing operations,
which are running rampant across the city right now. And
one of the things that allows them to function is the
prophet that they make by absconding vehicles that were in
an accident or became disabled or whatever the case, maybe,
you know, and that's just really our job. We should be
getting to them. We don't always get to them before the
toll Pirates, get to them. And that seems to me a solvable
problem. If we have ways to expedite identify an expedite,
when it's ho is time sensitive, it may not be obstructing
traffic. You know, I know if somebody breaks down on just
Lakeshore Drive, we're going to get up.
Lakeshore Drive, we're going to get out there as quick as
we can. It's an obvious priority. These don't carry that
same amount of weight but it is actually facilitating and
it illegal industry that is driving out there. So how can
we help combat that by being quicker to get those disabled
Vehicles off the street? Before the illegal operators can
get them and sell them for scrap or whatever it is they do
we're literally Michael Coco myself superintendent Snelling
we're going to get together and have that conversation.
We talked to.
we talked to the
We talked to the interim superintendent to superintendent
Waller prior to that. And we made that brief introductory.
It was like, we'd we got to get to this. This is this is
just an issue that we got to try to sell because we, we are
aware of the problem. When the time comes, we'll be
actually talking to Illinois Secretary of State's office.
Secretary giannoulias is aware of this issue and is
committed to being part of the answer there. Cuz as you
know his his department has something to say as well as the
ICC which regulates the tow Industries so I'll demand Vegas
and I've already reached out and made that contacts are was
your conversations go forward. Please keep us. Informed
them that if we need the state legislation as part of the
solution. Thank you, thank you. Thank you mr. Chairman Tim
Hopkins, ottoman followed by Allman Curtis, even though you
went to Mount Carmel DeLaSalle is still better. Thank you.
but,
but nevertheless, I'm
But nevertheless I'm on the first of all say, thank you.
When I first met you you literally have been true to your
word. You have really helped myself. You help the Sixth
Ward 75th street. We have a safety crisis, the quick
response. You helped us Jess. Wow, at the border yesterday
we had an incident with graffiti trees. You helped us, Jim
seeing who's another dealer Salem man. Nevertheless, and
4th Street, that's two of us, by the way, three, you have
real.
Been an example of what cities are.
Been an example of what city service looks.
Been an example of what city service looks like. So I do
want to personally say thank you to everybody in that
Bullpen. You all make this look so easy but it's not in. So
I want to say thank you. I personally as well as on behalf
of the Sixth Ward. It's a lot better, it's a lot cleaner.
It's a lot more stable because when we pick up the phone
and call you answer and you also up and deliver. So thank
you so much. I'm the only question. I have two questions.
Number one. How much? How, how can we help you? I know it
was asked you earlier, you ate, so maybe you have a little
bit more thought to the question. But is there anything
that the Sixth Ward residents can do to make the job easier
for yourself as well as your senior staff?
Add a
Again.
again, I
Again, I I say this.
all my
Almond milk.
Almond more, if we can get this litter campaign rolling, I
mean litter at my kids, all went to CPS. I had to tell him
about, they tell me again in a car with a seatbelt on dad.
Why don't you ever see? But I want
Focusing with.
Focusing with these little mind. You got three hundred
thousand plus CPS students I think we could make a big
difference and we got to get that litter campaign rolling.
I mean we were betting our heads up against the wall,
trying to figure out because we're two thousand strong. But
there's the city's open, we're at 1,300 festivals at the
city's open for business, you know, so you got a million
people coming and you have people coming to work and if we
can just get that litter campaign rolling, I think we see
and people would start seeing and feel better about these
areas just the commitment that I got for from the, from the
body. In regards to, we cutting, I mentioned it earlier.
Justify.
just the fact that have
Just the fact that have them cut the weeds, trim around the
poles and pick up. The garbage was a huge step for us. Now,
we want to tighten that up even more to manage, it better,
where we were getting there and it's a slow process. I'm
talkin 20 years, 12 years ago. They just use the cut it and
go, and it was from Memorial Day to labor day. So I'm just
saying steps like that, that we keep continuing and hearing
and hearing cuz I I know tomorrow. All our phones are going
to start ringing again.
Me.
Meeting how we could help you.
meeting how we could help you and May
Meeting how we could help you and make things better just a
natural or here. That's what, that's what we're here for. I
want to hear. We always said, we want to hear back. Give us
a bad. Do we can try to fix this? Stop is if we just sit
there and I think that every day is going to be like today.
OK. You guys do the best. You do the best. You the best. It
ain't going to challenge everybody in that box. Want to
challenge me and thank you for that. And we look forward to
partnering on that. You've helped us again so much and your
staff has helped us so much especially around our safety
plan which includes clearing out. Pathways vegetation, I'm
neighbors Rejoice still to this day on how you cleared out
areas close to Halsted Englewood in particular we spent a
lot of time there with you. You didn't want to say thank
you when things including I want to ask is that, you know,
the mulch that residents can oftentimes go a hundred 3rd
and pick up that is free from the city. At the end of the
year. Is there a
let,
Left.
Leftover.
Leftover or is it taking advantage of like? Is it something
that we should maybe partner work? Do a better job of
communicating with always got mulch? She's really not a a
problem. It becomes like if there's a big storm
that's,
that's when
That's when it be.
That's when it becomes a problem for us because we're piling
it higher and higher and higher. And that stuff will start
combusting underneath and will we literally had at 103rd a
fire so we're very mindful of that. So we try to clean that
mulch out but mulches. There's not enough people that would
want mugshot. Yes I am coming up so I could be more mulch.
Yeah, we got, we are okay cool. So I just want to say thank
you. You made my job a lot easier. You made a ward safer,
cleaner. And your staff is five star feed them. Just
represent you and I said you. Well, and hopefully next time
you can remember, DeLaSalle is always better than now, God
bless.
Okay.
Okay, I won't jump on that when I leave you guys alone and
Lawson.
Thank.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you. She'll let you know. I don't have any really
classes that I really don't have any Quest. You know what?
I just walked in the room when you was talking about the
Leaky truck. So if you could just give me a little bit of
that.
We?
We have.
Are free.
Our friend.
Our friends over at a is helped us out. They've helped us
out and they're getting us additional equipment.
On the reading.
I'm the red and Garba.
They're adding garbage trucks. So we're going to see
additional equipment being in the in the rotation. So it'll
give us an opportunity to get those leaky trucks. Out to
get them fixed because we know it causes heartburn for a
lot of people in this room but there's certain times a year
we get to a point.
We can.
We can't get rid.
We can't get rid of that leaky truck. At that point, we got
to send the sweeper there. Because I can't, as you would
know, the term. I can't put the truck on the wall because
it's leaking because that's
One.
150.
115 alleys that will going to get behind. So with the
additional resources that we're going to get from a, I
guess I feel will be and I will be in a better spot, but as
the Leaky trucks come, I got from all the McWane a list of
five trucks. Give us that, give it to him. If you get them,
if you hear about them, give them to us. So we can get the
number Day of Service. So we can get those things taken
care of great. And, and the
I know.
I know I buy new equipment is not an issue right now. The
issue is Parts. Correct again.
We go.
we got a
We got a pivot. We can't just sit. I can't just sit up here
in front of you and go karts. That you've heard that now
for a couple years. I'm sure what we did was we work with
are friends. Again today is a, we got to rent this stuff.
We got to rent this stuff. We got to rent this stuff. We're
going to be at, in 10 pieces of equipment to forestry
within the next month through rental. Within our budget. We
esperides 1.9 million. + rental to get us to where I can't
sit here and go, hey, we didn't have a pen. I have a clam
to pick your stuff up. We didn't have it. We have to run
out of excuses sometime and and hear a is is giving us the
tools we need. So we don't have an excuse so we can take
care of the job.
Right. Right? So you know with me is I'm still, I spent 11
and a half years and has wore suits and I work with
everybody in the Box for years. It was the best war two to
forgot, Michelle Harris and that I am all the Wyndham
reward because I can't turn it off. So so, you know, I'm
not having issues if I do, I call one of the
Happy.
Japanese in wheat.
Japanese and we take care of the issues right away, so I'm
good. I want to thank everybody over in the Box. I miss
seeing a doctor alone become dr. Chris things guys, do an
end up again. When you coming up through the ranks and I
wish all them and Taylor was still here. Let me to tell
her. Not only is my delayed a great operation of her but
she's a great administrator so so she has she got it also
and I will let her know that. So thanks so much for all you
do and I'll be calling soon as I need something. Thanks.
Thank you.
I got.
May God.
Agave.
A Godwin.
A Godwin Alderman lost and fall about all the men mostly in
the city was getting a raise. And it looks like they're all
going about 67 per cent across the board. So I was happy
to. Is that right?
Hey.
it's just
Page 271 looks like they're all going to do great.
Bible.
I believe it was a little higher but I just ate so my math
is no good. I want to thank the entire team for everything
that happens on a large scale in the 44th Ward. What? That
is Wrigley or Pride or Marathon are all the different
vessels. We have many years ago, we were scrambling to get
things together with postings at Owens and then that
doesn't happen anymore. And so the coordination is really,
really appreciate it. I just have to say, thanks, I'm not.
I don't want to say thank you for the composting pilot. I
was actually going to suggest a location on the North light
front, in my friend in the 43rd Ward, at the note of Art
Museum, which was a drop-off location for recycled
materials, and Christmas trees and is a great Thai into
what they do there. So he's waiting for the address right
now.
that's,
Oklahoma.
Also, this is stain Ability Center and 24 old drive right?
Better than just going out today. So I hope you have
another 800 sign ups at least by the end of the day cuz I
think I think that's going to be a welcome change and I
know we talked about that really on I've got a rabie
neighborhood you know that we've got rid of it so it's a
lot to stay on top of it and and we're always chasing the
carts and I think one of the things that has come up as if
when we're doing a road in Baton Rouge.
Inspection.
An inspection or just regular pick up. What are we doing?
When we see, we have bad cards cards with no Lids. It is.
There are they being taken right away or they being
flipped? So they don't use them. I'm not, I'm not quite
sure what the process is now, but we know we're behind on
the taking part. We're up, we're up to
Where were?
We're in a good place with the delivery of cards. We got to
do a better job in picking up the old ones because even if
they're pushed it aside people are still using 100%. We
know that. And so we're
I was trying.
I was trying to get.
I was trying to get you that where I was able to sit in
front of you and go. Hey, we're in October, you know,
because over the summer I had to shut down cards for three
weeks to move our assets around. So I lost those three
weeks. I've been trying to gain those 3 weeks. So now we've
gained we've gained we come together as a group and we
gained so now I got to start getting the street card shop
the street, right? And it's a constant battle Jenna. We're
using Arduino use to put word out. We got a lot of people
who their first city apartments in.
Award.
I wore them. I don't know.
I wore them, I don't know what to do with garbage, or what
their garbage is rather using everybody else's. So it's
only what I was working on. So, whatever you guys put out,
we're going to blast your help. There are, you know, I live
in for you in a building, we put one black card out once a
week and our two blue cards are busting at the seams by the
two weeks. If we could look at if we, if we had another, we
get to blue car, pick us up a month. If we had a third
somehow that would that would hurt card but other third
pick up a third pick up. If there was a way to, I know,
we're not going to get it every week that start every week,
but if there was a way to add something else in at some
point, I think that that would be helpful for a
neighborhood like mine, I'd like to add a card to those
areas to that type of area do have an immediate impact.
Because that one thing we say,
When are?
When are no?
When are numb?
when our number, when we have
When our number, when we have to say our number, it's we
know that a situation like that after that second card full
moon, or that that's going in that black car. You're not
going to throw it on the ground or it's overflowing or it's
on the ground.
because,
Because more people.
Because more people, are we?
Because more people are becoming conscious of that. We'd
like to get that card out there because we're in a good
situation with Coach. As I mentioned, we have a lot of
issues with private contractors. That you know why I don't
have to tell you about, but it's something that I'm
Citywide, you know, I think we need to do a better job of
enforcement with them, not on the time. But I'm the under
usage on the, on the separating. I, no sleeping is good.
This is sort of an odd question, but you two were staying
warm or Air BnB shared housing, which are really business.
Is operating in residential areas. They're all still
getting us there for you. That's the last. They're also
getting our standard pick up though. Generally, I don't
know if this has been an issue in other places for the
address by address for me, I don't know if it's friend in
my college, but I just want a flag that is if it's been
such a great flag on the back here at almost all rentals
now. And so it's a different kind of garbage. They're not
probably not cooking but there's more beer bottles are.
There is more
but I
But I'm moving.
But I'm moving in.
But I'm moving on garbage but it's just a different need
and it's a bit sad, right? Lastly, I know we talked a lot
about trees and the stump removal. See if we can put that
into 31, can you repeat that stump removal? Okay we talked
about getting that into 31 water or there's a better way to
follow up on that because you know, without being in the
system, it's tough to do.
I really do.
I really don't.
I really don't think this come up but you do know which
we've talked about stumps before and what comes up there
till about, I will say, thank you and keep up the good
work. We're looking forward to a great winter season and
Beyond. Thank you exclamation.
Thank you. All.
Thank you all been lost in all the men. Mostly
thank you.
Thank you, commissioner.
Thank you. Commissioner coming today or we appreciate you.
I one question before I go into some other things, can you
talk to us about enforcement on businesses that aren't
keeping up there? The trash, you spoke earlier about
littering what we can do with you but I'm seeing a huge
problem just like the 87th Street Corridor where there are
businesses that are doing well but not being good.
Neighbors.
As you.
as you know,
As you know, I travel 87th and I travel 83rd, and I work
with your office.
and it's
And it's a bit.
And it's a big big issue for us to see that and that's been
my complaint. Those aren't vacant businesses in their those
businesses are booming in there. Let's get on that cycle.
Are we want to work with them? But you know there is that
enforcement tool you have the the folks in there that need
to do and your office is is very productive in getting
conversations. We saw the the one vacant building on 83rd
across from the mall at your office. Got on it made
contact.
The person they were out there within 3 days. Cut,
The person they were out there within 3 days, cutting
cutting those trees down that were black in that sidewalk.
So I think that constant back-and-forth with us, can
definitely help and you'll see things better. But it does
start with the word superintendent will get Curtis to help
out and it's that conversation. We we now have ticket
books, new ticket books that Curtis can pick up because
that reaches out and touches you where if you get the
ticket by the phone,
We're here.
We're half.
We're happy.
We're happy to say, were in July right now. But if you're
looking for that immediate that immediate immediate
response with that ticket book, where they see that ticket
book.
Attendo.
A $10.
They tend to listen a little bit closer. So there's things
that we can do. And again it's just getting that
conversation where it's like, come on, you got this
business, district are 87th Street and 83rd. Again you
know, I drive down those almost every day. And I've been on
the phone with Curtis and your new wardrobe. Let's get,
let's go, let's go, let's go. So it's it's a lot of
communication and a lot of us working together.
Commissioner, I have to thank you for the communication as
you giving me the communication from the folks in the Box.
I mean, when I came into being in Autumn and I knew that
most of these services, that people really care about that
called the most about resigning your department.
I've been nothing but a true part.
I've been nothing but a true partner. You make me a better
Alderman by picking up the phone and being able to Debbie,
get the high lift, Tommy gets the cleaning, the quality of
life, team out to clean out by Ali's and so forth and
really a war in which apart that I have been just
She?
Share that this been neglecting their that it hadn't been
touched for years that people hadn't been receiving
Services. We've been able to make just an Empire this year
alone. And so, I really think open the app and look forward
to continuing working with the great Department of Streets,
& Sanitation, the 21st, Ward thinks you, and I thank you
for being a true partner and helping me deliver for my war
and you ever commit moving forward. We're going to continue
that and we're going to give you that good Baseline that we
can have it would build off of
You think?
Thank you, mr. Chairman. Hey, commissioner. How are you?
You know, my main concern is right. We we we go but I don't
know if we need to Hash it out publicly but a couple things
I want to thank you and all your staff. Everybody does such
a great job. We appreciate you of course I think a lot of
my voice suit just like everybody else and she she says
that Tommy Johnson really helps her a lot Debbie to Lopez.
She said everybody is very helpful to her.
I really appreciate all.
I really appreciate all of the help.
I really appreciate all of your help. Thank you also, and
everybody for giving us more attention doing snow, I really
appreciate those things. So thank you all very much and,
and, and I think that's Debbie who deal with the rats.
Don't say Josie Josie. I'm sorry, Josie, I apologize. Josie
is on the balm and she takes care of me. Cuz, you know, I
got a rat problem by my house because I live by the United
Center and because the the cab drivers in the limo driver
sit by my house and eat and do all the garbage on the
ground and I'm constantly cleaning up. I was like, I was
like cursing under my breath about, all my neighbors cuz I
was looking at all this garbage in the street, right? I
thought it was my neighbor's. Then I saw a cab driver
limousine driver throwing the eating and throwing his
garbage on the ground and going to a whole pan of
Papa.
Popeyes. They had a whole box of Popeye's with chicken and
chicken bones, and I saw the rat going to pop a thing and
take it out and run run somewhere, you know, and I was like
that's what if that's why these rats come around here. And
that's what his food is coming from from the limo drivers
and everybody going to the United Center and I want to ask
this commissioner. So my house is between the United Center
and Ashley. You all do you all do Street Ops up to Ashley?
Between.
between my
Between my house and be.
Between my house and between the, the Lionel, train tracks
United Center, cleans up. All this stuff all the time.
Street Austin.
Treetops clean up everything Easter basket in between. I
just get all the garbage right there at me and my wife,
cleaning it up every day. I'm like how we have to clean
this stuff up everyday, you know? And I know what it is.
Tell me this and I heard you say something earlier about
How?
how do you get around festivals and stuff? Y'all clean up
right around my house. Everyday, why don't nobody clean up
over there yet? You're by the pink line. Right? Is this a
PICC line.
Hey.
It.
A dad.
A dab. Stretch it. A little farther. Okay, starting
tomorrow. Thanks I appreciate it.
Okay.
Okay, thank you. Also, I want to talk to you about car
parts, so it's a new thing going on and it in the black
neighborhoods with cars. I don't know if it's in any other
neighborhood but in our neighborhood with the cars now, all
of the drug dealers, take the car. They also take the
dumpsters and they block the alleys, so the police can't
get in a Lee's. Right? And we I think streets and saying
the police and
Also privy.
Also private.
Also, Private Drive.
Also, private private garbage. Operators need to figure out
something to stop these guys from Block in the alley so
they can get away from the police. Because what happens is
you got Miss Jones, you know who can't hardly, she can't
move a dumpster but moving heavy garbage. Can you have to
get out of her car to try to get into her garage? And try
to move a dumpster move, a car and is just it is impossible
for them in. This is becoming real daunting for people in
the neighborhood and do, you know, people can't just call
the police to come and move the garbage can, right in that
and called an ottoman to come and move garbage cans and
move garbage dumpsters cuz of drug dealers. Keep pushing
put in garbage cans and thank God. And I know you I know
your garbage man. Go through it right cuz they probably had
to move all the garbage cans back. I'm moving out of the
way to even get in the alley and then move them back to
where they were supposed to go. This is a challenge on the
west side and then and I know it's
You don't mean it.
We don't mean any.
They don't mean anything.
you don't mean anything to anybody else, but for us, it's a
challenge man challenge for the police. And so what what we
need to sit down together, maybe I don't know, come up with
some different cards or something. I don't know how we do
that, but we need to really figure out a way of dealing
with this situation because it's really become the
challenge in our neighborhood.
we, we
We we dealt with the 11th.
C'mon.
Command.
Commander. And
Commander in the 11th District because what was happening
is we were going there. There's the streets and sand people
and moving them, and that we were getting run out of there.
The game. Bang is a drug urine to beat you up at messing
with the garbage can right now with the police. Because
Tommy, Tommy and myself were really on this due to the fact
that this is starting to really happen. And we can't put
our folks in this position because in the beginning where
we are like what is it what what's the issue will? Now we
know what the issue is and we can't send our folks in there
because they're getting run out of there. So we're
coordinating with the district's to do that but we're
getting those calls also just so you know so I don't know.
I do.
I don't.
I don't know. We go.
I don't know. We got to pass some ordinances for bigger
fines for people who mess with garbage cans or something.
Make it a law. I don't know what we got to do, but
something had to happen cuz I'm telling you, I go to the
block party and that's my biggest complaint. I can't walk.
I can't get halfway down the block and the seniors are
saying I can't empty my garbage. I can't get to my I can't
get to my garage, you know, and this is this is is sad for
people who lived on those blocks to have to deal with those
things.
Epsom.
So, we really need to pick.
So, we really need to figure out.
So we really need to figure out something. Damn mad idea,
man. I said every year you all need to get the garbage
disposal, if we will have less rats cuz it'll be less food
in the garbage can, you know, we should I'm telling you to
be it'll be a good thing for these companies. If they did
that you know that
Chrissy.
Princess.
Percent.
Rosetta. I think we put that in a great composting idea.
Put it on the list. But again, thank you all for
everything. I appreciate everything that you all do for us
in our Ward. And I want to, I want to thank you, also, for
using the, the the returning residence to clean with safer
in the other groups that you all are working with. That
works very well with our locks, I mean, and they do
specials for us sometime. So we really appreciate that.
That's very helpful. But you know, I was telling her the
mayor's office that they should an old, folks don't get
offended by this place and they should maybe with some of
the migrants they should get them best. They should get a
stipend and they should let them go clean up at least
around the areas where they are and in. So they can be, you
know, contributing
To the community.
to the community and cleaning the
To the community and cleaning up.
To the community and cleaning up, get him a couple of
dollars and let them clean up to, you know, and you know,
so that's just a thought. Okay. I don't know what the
Unions would think about that, anything but just wanted to
mention that. Thank you very much, sir. Thank you for the
kind words.
Thank.
thank you are my
Thank you. All my Burnet altamaha Park. Did you have one
item?
Thank you, sir. I think that it was mentioned earlier about
number of trees that you want to plan since I appreciate
that very much. And I think one thing that I would like to
ask is if you could work with the community to make sure
that we understand who is taking care of the newly, planted
trees, to make sure that they actually Thrive where they
are, I did get some feedback about some trees. That didn't
survive. I don't know why. I don't know if it was on
Parkland or if it was in front of the house, but all we
want more trees. So I appreciate that too.
No.
Notice.
Noted.
I'm in.
I'm in the
I'm in that. I also wanted to mention that I was born in
the 10th Ward. So but I represent the 48th Ward now. And I
want to Champion my word superintendent and also say that
it seems like he's he's very modest person. So but I do
want to shut him out because he spent a stick and if there
ever was a award superintendent Olympics, I would
definitely encourage. Connor Connor to Conrad's
bright starts
start to
I had started to join cuz he would definitely be at the top
of the list there. Thank you for all you do. Thank you that
question earlier. We talked about this compression issue
last year. Did you guys get schedule adjustments this year?
They
Thank you.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes, and I will say that.
they
thank you to
Thank you to this group. Thank you for bringing that up.
because there's
Because there's people sitting right next to me boost whose
Ward superintendent had to make a tough decision to take a
$10,000 pay cut to get a promotion. There's others in this
audience whose word troop had to take a $10,000 pay cut to
move up in the organization. We work really hard and those
class that grade went from a 17 to a 19. So now they
actually are getting their there. They're responsible for a
hundred people. And so now they're getting that opportunity
to manage a hundred plus people.
Do.
so that
So that the projector e of opportunity. Now, for somebody
that's not going to have to make that decision of feeding
somebody.
To try.
Detroit.
To try to.
To try to better themselves in an organization like this
was huge. So I want to thank this body again for helping me
and standing alongside me and this group in making a move
like that was able to get people an opportunity to grow in
this department. And actually I was there was actually want
to question those in the razor. I saw that The Spits cuz he
still stay here at the union. Stay ahead of everybody. But
those are there a year, there are two that that are above
your deputies. And, you know, sometimes that's the
challenge of having to manage folks that are making more
than you and your, you know, you're the boss and I was
wondering
You know.
You know, why the Dead?
You know why the depth?
You know, why? The Deputy Commissioner salaries weren't
brought above that level especially in the bureau that he's
in it. I think there's a street off the street, so I jumped
out at me, that, that, that still, is that still existed?
Even though we went through all of these changes are the
only other thing that jumped out at me in the Bureau of
Sanitation was the number of hours that your general
laborers went down from $65,000 to $28,000. And I just
wanted to know what the rationale behind that was Eric.
What?
Weather.
What age?
What 85 at the end of the year was it was just the people
from seasonal to full-time position.
Okay. And
how many?
how many season, or
how many seasonal workers do you have in total?
Inch.
Entry.
Instagram story, 85 total, 85 total. And then with all the
seasonals are they similar to are like multiple drivers the
to our guys, or are they? They stay around like the the
labor pool similar.
to the
To the motor truck food, where we on that and how many
people are we down? Daily that we could feel with people we
to call off.
D&D.
DD, what have you and sanitation?
Work. That's where
Work. That's a work-in-progress still. We're working with
the Union will be working with budget mayor's office to
create this pool. That will really help us again right.
Now, we're at 51. Open position for Laborers. Show. That's,
that's continuing to be a work in progress.
and then,
And then, how many people are you short, daily.
Or May.
We're making a.
We're making adjustments because with the new contract they
get in a couple extra days. So we're we're strong right
now. We're really strong right now. We have again out. I'll
mention we have 122 vacancies but of those hundred
twenty-two vacancies pretty much. The majority of those
positions are on the way. The process is already started.
So where I can't sit in front of this this body and say
that Manpower is now and it is an issue for us.
Hey, come.
Hey, come to work on Monday.
hey, come to work on Mondays and
Hey come to work on Mondays and Fridays, you know, come to
work after a Bears game come, you know, come to come to
work after those but Manpower where we're sitting right?
so,
I got to go.
I got to get.
I got to get that. I know you got your folks but those
Mondays those Fridays especially if you were in the ward
that's a Monday or Friday pick up. Jen can have some more
have some challenges.
I see.
I think, I
I think the other real concern that that we talked through
has been around 4th Street and the need to communicate
where people are in the grid. It only benefits us all to
know where folks are going to be in the Grid on a on that,
on that day of the week that they are in the grid. I know
that.
Ouija.
We do.
We just want to.
We just want to communicate what's happening to our resident
so that we're all aware and can help with you know, cars
being moved. We just want to limit excuses as to when
Stop.
Stuff, not be.
Stuff not being able to happen in those respective on those
days that you guys are are are trimming. So Alden, did you
have anything for okay, go ahead.
Thank.
Thank you.
Thank you, Sharon. Ervin. Commissioner you just mention 51
open positions for the laborers. Now, I know our caucus
advocated, 400 labor position last year and last year's
budget, for this year. So 49 have been filled in where, in
October this year. We have 100. So we hired 168.
We?
We have 5th.
We have 51 left to fill and 46 of those hundred and
sixty-eight went to see.
Soul.
so, the fifth
So the 51 open positions. Do you have a deadline to hire
before? December 31st to bring people and get them trained?
That that's not going to stop any more additional laborers.
We have a total of
40.
43 /.
43 positions that
that were
that we're hiring.
That we're hiring. In addition, we have 43 additional
positions for a net gain of 41 because we switch to
positions for a nail a 3.
Why have we do?
Why have we decreased the amount of Labor positions versus
last year, additional 43? So we're looking at 168 labors
that you hired 51 open positions, and then an additional 43
for this year's budget for our open positions are 13
drivers. I'm going to chew up that 41 number 13, drivers,
80.
18 layer.
18 labors.
82.
A tree trim.
8 tree trimmers.
To see.
Touche.
To safety specialist.
and,
and to
And to forestry supervisors.
How are?
How are the?
How are the the Lots verify that are clean? Cut and trim,
is it Prime solely dependent upon our streets and work. You
been helped and help and it will give help help by way of
the SSI. Does this budget reflect any additional resources
to get more SSI? Especially for like division 7
specifically base with f f, f f f f, f word in a good spot
there. What does that mean? That people that Awards where
that need is? Were able to provide them that person we
provided in 17, we provided in 16 and in twenty years war
in a 28-24, what will we can afford to?
give the
Give that help.
give that help during the
Give that help. During that season. Can we afford to give
those Wards a permanent FSI daily to be assigned to that
war? Just as you have a war to print in it Best Western
Plus I right now.
so,
Joe.
So again, we're giving it, I need, but right now, were, we
know that we'd season is a tough season for that war tube.
So we made that adjustment to give that additional helper
to that location. And then,
When?
We're in the bay.
We're in the business of helping people. So when we, when
we were made aware of a certain situation, you have the
full box there that is is willing to help and step up and
get you where you have to be.
and,
And I could.
And I couldn't.
And I couldn't agree with you more Debra, Lopez Tommy
Johnson, Gloria, Pittman and the rest of you all are
amazing. However, as amazing as the executive leadership
is, I think to ease off some of the workload because we all
work hard, we need to look at having a permanent SSI
assigned to war that are in dire need Bailey. So that we're
not dependent on, you know, one person this week and
someone this month I would like for us to look at boards
that need the help that they get a permanent FSI,
commissioner.
Thank.
Thank you.
Thank you in advance.
Does the?
Justice for,
Does this budget, reflect any additional funding for safer
Foundation, or one city United?
We?
We do.
We deal with safer Foundation. One City, United Deb, who's
one city, one city United, not with us.
Have.
have we looked
Have we looked at a span expanding 1.7 million. We went to
1.9 million in regards to our commitment for safe.
Only.
Only Towing.
Only 200,000, only 200,000.
And why?
and once in a,
And one city United is not one of our partners.
Yeah, once in a
yeah, once in your now,
Yeah, once in the united is a fencing company, we don't.
That's not who we we have safer Foundation that we have the
country.
Are we look?
Are we looking to possibly expand? Cuz there's a we've got
a lot of city and a lot of lives to a one city United.
They do.
They do the fence.
They do the fencing I'm and I'm going to assume for see
that if it's it's fair to say that but they don't actually
Department of Housing and Cook County, Land Bank have
returned them to do, what safer Foundation is doing. So I
think I'm all in for safer, don't get me wrong. I wish 1.9
was more like, 3.9.
Play.
But I'll see.
But also wants you to United, can help with what's safer.
What we depend on safer to do as well.
Just put.
Just want.
Just throwing it out there. I'll talk to GFS just to see
where we're at and operation. Went to clean up, clean up
Department of streets. And San that we work with that. We
do not, that's not work with safer Foundation right now. So
we have to go to the RFP process. But I will commit to
having that conversation with the FSS. I would like for us
to increase, funding for safer Foundation, because what
they do is a major help to Ward's like mine and 20 and 6.
Okay?
Ali.
A lien is.
Ali initiatives. What have we has? Anyone asked said or do
we have any any new initiatives with addressing Ali's?
It.
It's
It time, it is.
It's a m talk about it because we're we're going to put
together another quality of life team. But then I'd like
Tommy to be able to talk about what he's task the
supervisors to do, because we have the people to do the
job. Now we have the supervision, we have the Manpower, we
have the equipment, so Tommy.
Tammy.
DiamondJacks.
Tammy Johnson managing Deputy over operations.
Thank.
Thank you.
Thank you, Tommy Johnson managing Deputy Commissioner. We
passed our managers with survey needs alleys and surveying
the alleys for cleanliness or the overgrowth and things of
that nature. So that during this time that we're in right
now for the garbage numbers are down and the hiring is up.
We're now having these Cruise in, as commissioner said,
with train and another quality of life crew. So we can get
that level of service with those two to go through these
alleys and cut back all the way.
and,
And trimming.
And trim and clean along the others. And we've also have
the rcc's task in the crew that survey knees Ally before.
And after the cruise to make sure they're also picking up
and cleaning along the way as well as put in the garbage
cans back outside of the garage. So that the residents can
come in go in and out of the garage but I had to get out of
their car while I'm letting you know. Now I tell 16 do not
put your garbage car in the alley until garbage pickup day
cuz they will be Borrowed by PeeWee in them. Last question
hylas.
Living.
Division staff.
Division. 7 is not a sign of high list.
What were?
What will it take for division? 7 to get a high-lift
assigned to that division. Not the but a high-lift. There's
way too many. Vacant city-owned Lots in Wards like mine in
division 7 and we have to wait 7 Days sometimes two weeks
and I've been waiting a few months or certain $5 until I
tell let commissioner Johnson know of course and or dub.
Yeah. Yes.
We sent.
We send Lisa.
We said we send the major major fly dump site 58th, and Ada.
And when we have to get with C. But what would it take to
get a high-lift assigned to every division, specifically
division fabric
Other there in that area. It's just a matter of where we
park them, so they can get to where they have to go. That's
that. Those are pieces of equipment that can travel, they
can travel on the roads, and they get their, whatever your
high-lift need is, as you. I hope have seen. When, when we
do get those, I request that we go in there as a group and
we all serve a it, their all their there, they're all
there. They're there for you.
I am so proud.
Chauffeur for, we have high winds, that pull out of 52nd
and Western. We have high lift that pull out of 83rd and
Vincennes. We have Heelys that pull out of grand and
Rockwell, so that need that need
I can promise.
I can promise you.
and,
in the
In the upcoming.
In the upcoming season. When it's heavy you're going to see
a benefit there, you're going to see a positive that it's
having now and 16. So I'm going to hold you to that promise
that that high live will be in our division everyday.
You be.
Because commissioner is Heavy D and D3. We know those are
the the three divisions out of the nine where the majority
of the we do $5,000 a year.
Thank.
Thank you.
Thank.
Thank you.
Are.
All right.
Well.
They?
That the that concludes the question-and-answer session for
this department.
Again.
Again, I think it is. I think I'll McQueen stated earlier
that the next to police is probably the most public-facing
department at. We have that we get more calls and that we
have the most interaction with as far as Alderman. So you
all are extremely important to the work that we do. We
can't get done.
We need to get done.
We need to get done without.
We need to get done without your assistance, so we
appreciate it. Thank everything that the, that the group
does I will, especially state that I'm a D3 guy. So, I like
D3 and all of us in D3. Appreciate the, high lift. I know
we have some challenges between the the weed, cutting in
that Miss, Pittman has helped resolved The Hot List at the,
the debit help resolve the graffiti in the road instead and
Josie has helped resolve. I'm not going to throw Malcolm
under the bus today. Are we going to get more of him? A
little action to even though we still mad he'll tell us
when do is treat, your weather going to be at on in the in
the grid. But none the less.
Whip.
We're pretty.
We appreciate everything.
We appreciate everything that's going on with Streets &
Sanitation and we can say that I think as the labor pool
and proves the the amount of work you all get done in the
efficiency of what you doing or when it proved. So thank
you much and you all are excused. Thank you.
Commit.
Committee will.
Committee will stand at ease for a few minutes to allow
procurement to come in.
You have to.
Good afternoon. We will begin the hearing for Department of
procurement services with us. Today is a cpoa leave
Velazquez or if you could introduce the
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes, ottoman.
Ottoman.
Automobile.
Army barracks.
Thank.
Thank you.
Thank you, mr. Trump
Thank you, mr. Chairman
We?
We have.
we have a
It'll?
in order.
An organ organization, that was under the impression that
once they provide in order to provide public testimony,
that they would provide testimony when that organization
was up for for the hearing, I would ask if it's possible
mr. Sherman to see, if the young lady who represents the
organization is allowed to give her testimony. She's been
here since this morning at 10, but was unaware of that, she
needed to provide that testimony at that time. So she was
waiting for procurement to provide that testimony.
The.
so, you're
So, you're so you're your your question is, can somebody
provide testimony at this point? Because they did not know
that. That was the only time to give testimony for or the
day. Yes, yes.
Well.
Okay.
No.
No way.
No. Wait. I guess I'll let me
Turn.
To who?
to whom is making this request.
Requesting.
I'm requesting a
Requesting a of the chair.
I,
All right, I'm about
Alright, I'mma put one in the credit column then I
appreciate it. Thank you. Who do you have that? It's the
executive director of the Federation of women contractors.
That would like to provide testimony on behalf of the 100
members that are members that she represents. Who is it
individual Jamie Lee.
Oh, okay. I'll see with modified to see if she was in my
fax. See you drop a black BMW?
You sure.
Easter Easter.
You sure did actually. So I know you were here, too. So, so
very well. Go ahead. Now,
I think.
I think you get a
I think you did after
I think you good afternoon everyone. Thank you cheer. Irvin
Thank You by Cher, Lee, and thank you to the Department of
Human Services, but all of your all artwork, my name is
Jamie. Nearly the executive director of the Federation of
women contractors, a thirty-four-year-old membership
Organization, advocating for women-owned businesses in
construction, representing over 100 contractors were mostly
signatory, majority established and many of which are doing
business with City of Chicago. My remarks today or in
partnership with the Department of Human Services for the
Pooh applicable to most departments regarding late payments
project. Close out pay out and in some cases, help
attention
Route.
Retain it.
Retainage.
Retainage, I like to paint the picture. Imagine waking up
everyday. Want to work for. Of time before, man.
Exceptionally, well, you wash the communities benefit from
your hard work and that you're not paid.
I need.
I know you're not paid.
I know you're not paid for long periods of time with no
interest nor compensation for the additional cost that it
takes the float. Lengthy periods of overdue payments chair.
Here are some negative impacts that late payments.
Nick.
Niger.
Negative in.
Negative impacts.
Negative impacts of late payments. In sequential order,
late payments to small businesses. Often times call cashflo
shortages those cash flow shortages bruise, financials, as
a former Banker Ruth financials contractor comes into a
bank with government accounts, payables me on 90 days where
they were essentially, closing the books and tell him. Good
luck for those bruises came in a limit the access the
working capital or they pay a premium 7 + percent on their
working capital, those blue financials also limits behind
capacity, those limited capacity, reduces the contract
opportunities. Those contract with opportunities result in
decreased job opportunities and we all know what happens to
communities while high and unemployment rates. What we also
know is that better payments on time frames with remote and
attract more and new diverse firm to bid City of Chicago
contracts,
It would also help to me.
it would also help to meet, and it's the
It would also help to meet and exceed. The diverse bingos.
It was the same businesses for generational wealth
building, and it will keep Chicago working building and
creating better communities. If it has always been a
supporter been supportive of small women, a minority
vendors, and we're confident that this issue will also be
made a priority. We are here as a partner again. So help us
help you. Thank you all for your continued support for
women in construction. Thank you. We're going to open up
with a cough. After Kofi will have a CPR Velazquez
introduce her staff here in here in the well, as well as
those that are in the box after which, you give your
opening statement abbreviated please, and it will go into
questions. Please raise your hand if you have half of one
third,
Can you?
Anyting.
Anything.
Anyting.
Anything any questions or anything? So I cannot begin
Market, folks off on the book. I'm sorry. Danny Janice
okay, I'm
Okay, I'm Daniel. First wrong with Copa. And next up, we
have the department of procurement do in our before the
budget hearings and our conversations with members, we had
different Regional conversations with members in until we
put in internment was something that came up quite a bit.
So we put a question out to the members in a survey of
ranking, the different of procurement issues by what was
most important to them. I know the math doesn't really
check out some members. All chose all options as their
number one issue, but the main ones would be disadvantaged
business enterprises that being a minority women better in.
And then the next would be prompt payment to the city
vendor's followed by the selection of City vendor's the
speed of certificate, the certification process and speed
of it. And if you don't look
Should.
Should you do about the minority? Women veteran? Should
those be separated? As far as the certification process?
so, it's PAW
So as far as procurement Services operating budget, we're
looking at 14.6 million for FY. Twenty four, proposed that
it's 2 million. More than fi23. There are allocations for
136 ft. He's representing an increase of 3 over the fi23
budget, 80.87% comes from the corporate fund bets, 12.7
million and personnel and 1.9 million in non personnel.
and so,
And sell it.
And so if we look at this as a breakdown by Fun type, as
you can see, I'm almost 80% is coming from the corporate
fun. That's where the bulk of the employees 104 are and
where we see an uptick in fpe's would be coming out of the
Chicago O'Hare Airport, find as well as the Midway Airport
fund.
and,
And that is a Coppa.
You're?
You left.
Good afternoon. My name is the last German officer to my
right. I have Monica Jimenez. First Deputy procurement
officer to her right? Tammy Morgan Contracting. Every
officer in the locks Patrick Paul general counsel, at
Freeland Office of Public engagement, Benjamin whole every
picture of an officer of it. John O'Brien in office of
Professional Services that he doesn't Jeopardy. Procurement
officer Goodson Services. Re-engage director of public
affairs. Gabrielle Rodriguez, Deputy procurement officer of
Contracting equity.
Vizio.
Vizio cord.
Desio, Cortez. Deputy procurement officer design and
construction floribama Shore? Deputy procurement officer of
Aviation?
Good.
good after
Good afternoon. My name is Nadine Velazquez, and I and the
chief procurement officer at the city of Chicago, I would
like to thank Mayor, Johnson, chairman Irvin vice-chair
women lie in the members of city council for allow me to
present on behalf of the Department of procurement
Services. The department of procurement Services is
responsible for administering. A spare transparent and
competitive procurement process in turn. I use the
Department's deliver Mission critical services to
Residents. We are also responsible for fostering inclusive
opportunities for the city to build a diverse vendor
Workforce, which helps small and diverse perms gain
Equitable, access to Contracting opportunities, that can
assist with your growth and success.
We've.
We place the highest priority on the directive to
facilitate the responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars
and promote a greater share of the benefits with our small
and certified vendor Community this year. We began the
process of replacing the city's Antiquated for my camera
system with a modern alternative. That leverages current
technology and Industry. Best practice. This initiative is
part of a Citywide effort to operate its core. It systems
the new procurement
Elmo introduced. I'm in.
Elmo introduced time and cost savings to the city and
vendor Community by streamlining and automating much of
what has historically been a manual process additional and
use your benefits include added guidance to assist with
vendors with responding to solicitations and more accuracy
in identifying and correcting errors in Bangor submission.
The first space of the initiative is nearing completion and
negotiations are ongoing with the new subscription service
provider. We expect to award contracts in the fourth
quarter of this year after which we will engage a
consultant to assist with a project oversight, and assist
with a selection of vendors, to implement the software and
ensure the new system iproperty. Integrated, the
solicitation to secure in Plantation, vendors will be a
target market initiative to facilitate participation
opportunities for certified.
Please.
And WWE firms. We have undertaken several key. Key
initiatives to ensure that a greater share of the economic
benefits of doing business. With the city, goes to small
women on in minority-owned firms. This year, the office of
Contracting Equity. Also known as Ocoee launch. A new web
page that consolidates in one location information and
resources that are necessary to help firms with any sort of
Patient. And
Patient and understanding.
Patient and understanding how the city manager is compliance
with mwbe participation requirement. The website is
accessible user-friendly and includes the city. Start a
fight from a directory, in a serious of recorded workshops
that DPS administers to assist vendors with building their
capacity to do business with the city. Next steps in our
efforts to increase. Mwbe participation include conducting
target targeted Outreach to render certified with Nicholas
related to each project. Ocoee will collaborate with you.
So departments to develop future Outreach opportunities, to
inform vendors of upcoming projects. With those department
for the more OC will host to do, business-to-business
matchmaking events, given small women-owned, and
minority-owned first and opportunity to meet and network
with user department and Prime contractors. Additionally,
he will, we
He will work with.
he will work with a
he will work with, and if
he will work in the department.
He will work in the Department of Business Affairs and
consumer consumer protection on an up-and-coming
capacity-building workshops for vendors. Lastly, all see,
with the assist agent is working with the assist agencies
to recruit local businesses to become certified with the
city of Chicago and work areas where they are opportunities
to improve mwbe participation. I have also directed our
contract Administration unit and use it Apartments to pay
your
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I'm wondering.
I'm wondering solicitations and implementing shorter
durations on contracts, which will increase opportunities
and introduce new firms to are qualified Vanderpool, will
see assist in these efforts we develop training materials
were user department on how to engage for chairman and we
have begun facilitating Life Training sessions with more to
come.
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14% Asian American frontier page 71 million or 7% and
non-minority women-owned firms, were paid, 45 million, or
4%. Finally, we maintain an emphasis on facilitating a
comprehensive Outreach and education program with many
small and WWE ferns rely on to navigate the process of
doing business with the city. From January to July, we
participated in 15 vendor Outreach events hosted by our
sister and a cyst agencies. Additionally, our annual
construction stomach and procurement Symposium Drew record
interest with a cumulative. Total of 2400 individuals
registered. We continue to collaborate with City and assist
agencies to develop and administer additional training
Opera.
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Avengers. Lastly, we look forward to leveraging internship
opportunities in 2024, in an effort to expose and attract
the Next Generation to the procurement profession. I am
proud of the hard work DPS staff has done this year to
modernize procurement and build a more Equitable
environment for vendors to secure contracts with the city.
I remain committed to continue this work and implementing
new initiatives to ensure our vendor Community reflux.
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Rich diversity, of our, great of our great Community, we
appreciate your partnership and he suffers and we look
forward to continuing our work together. Thank you.
Thank.
Thank you. So
Thank you, CPR going to start with all them anymore for the
bottom in Vegas.
Thank.
Thank you. Can you?
Thank you. Can you go to the next person? I was trying to
digest this information, she just gave us so
I can.
I commit.
High Commissioner. Thank you everybody for being here today
and hanging with us. Know, we're getting a little bit of a
late start and make something. I am going to try to make
sense of it through the question. So I'm one of the things
that I was interested in is how many how many minority and
women-owned business firms are currently being paid in. In
this one point I guess 1 billion dollars in payments to
Prime contractors of those. 36% went to M, B & W, e, b, e
Farms. Does that mean that those were primes? Or are those
just paid in some way through the contracts?
this is,
The specific.
Specifically, I'm interested in crimes versus
subcontractors.
Their Prime and sub their Prime. And so can we get a break
down through the chair? Is fine of which ones were Prime
and which ones were so great. Thank you.
I mean.
And I know we had.
I know we had a public speaker earlier was going to be one
of my questions. What's the average time for payment? This
is something that I care very often from minority-owned
businesses in the Asian American Community Contracting. A
contractor seem to experience a lot of delays and you know
as much as we want to be really proud of the work that
we're doing with minority and women-owned businesses, we're
not doing them a real great Justice. If we're holding them
up on payments, we should a city do much better in paying
our vendors payments are not done in procurement, so I
handle the contract but this and I am not trying to promote
what we're trying to do with the system. But today it's
it's in silos invoices come in and we really do the city as
a whole doesn't know what's in a payment invoices may be
sitting with user departments and not reaching the
controller's office and so therefore, the receipt of goods
is not being done in a timely manner and obviously if
we see a
We see if.
We see if the goods are not received the control.
We see if the goods are not received the controller's
office doesn't have a thorny to pay. So in the interasian
of these systems that I mention all of Eustis Donuts in
modules would talk to each other and integrate, and the day
that will flow from the time of budget. When budget is
actually identify to the time that the procurement process
is done, then come send the receipt of those good and then
the issuance of that invoice and finally payment. So we
hope with the integration of the system that that process
becomes automated because today is a manual process to
ensure a more expedited process. In the meantime, I am
aware and I don't have all the details but I am aware that
the controller's office is working on Pilots to be able to
expedite payment and pay vendors within 30 days.
Set.
So everyone.
So everyone's got a different, a slightly, different
system, and depending on the department you're working on
software, that's going to integrate all of that. Do we have
any sense of where we are in the timeline of getting that
accomplished? Yes, so the software vendor has been selected
and we're finalizing. We're in the midst of cut, the
contract negotiations, in the Enchanted, to have the
contract executed by the end of this year and then we'll
move with the second phase of the project, which is
identifying from our vendor pool. A issue a target market
task order to find a vendor that can take what I serve as a
project manager to lead the
Initiative.
Initiative unemployment.
Initiative on implementation.
Initiative on implementation and delivery of those tool.
and,
And that's
and I scheduled,
And I scheduled to start on next year. Okay, so that's the
identification of a from the vendor pool to can project
manage. Once we get the project manager in place then the
love musume have to write a plan for an exception of it and
it's correct. He will be put together to identify the
Avengers that can assist with the implementation of the
different modules. And then obviously I said, she has to
identify the I already as to how these modules will go will
be in front. I appreciate all of the diligence that we have
to do. I just I wish these things can reply faster cuz I
think realistically we might get through most of that and
maybe Implement in the next year. So you do it in the
meantime. I'm glad to hear that the, that the controllers
work on some things to get people paid faster. I think
that's really, really important for us is the city,
especially for our small minority. Not in that every single
one of them.
find me at
I'm at work.
Find me a quick.
Find me a quiz on or do I pay bills if a vendor or or an
elder person reaches to procurement to navigate the payment
process with a particular vendor. We provide the
assistance. So although I don't pay the bills, I can get to
the user departments and make sure that they do the due
diligence of receiving the good, or am I getting the
contract? If that's the case for been delivering presents.
What?
Or whatever the case may be. So that the
Or whatever the case may be. So that that been
Or whatever the case may be so that that vendor can get
paid as soon as possible. So I do not just redirecting
people to the Controllers Office, I hand hold the the issue
until resolution. Thank you.
What?
What's the?
What's the current process for approving vendors? Drop this
migrant crisis. I think I've had many conversations with
constituents people from, Mutual Aid organizations and just
other organizations out of the pitching in on all of these
efforts in Anderson that the the challenge that we have is
that we have to assume was going to do business with the
city, they have to be approved, does a vendor and there's a
process for registering to be a vendor. Can you talk about
what what that process looks like to just be able to be
paid by the city and how long it takes generally from the
time that someone checks in our complete an application to
be a vendor to the time. It's approved of everything in
order. You have to be. So I don't have access. I should
say, you're not at all, but you don't have access to
downloading any sourcing activity. If you haven't been
registered with the city, the next step is whether you're
you're a minor. What are you been doing? Once you be
Where to buy?
Notify.
Certified. That's okay.
Certify. Naturopath
Certified vessel passes and takes place. Then you big do a
solicitation, right? We both are solicitations on our
website. You been to the solicitation. If you are granted
the contract and you are warded, the contract. You wait for
a notice to proceed from the use of the apartment. They are
the ones that decide when the project starts as you do as
the work is performed, deliverables, are matched you. When
you should be invoicing to use an apartment based on the
contract terms and it is to use your department who
received the girls acknowledge deliverables and those
invoices then moved to the controller's office, got it. I'm
interested in just what the registration process is like.
Then you register as a vendor and then if you are minority
women own business and then there's that certification,
that's totally separate which I understand. And I know that
there's, that's a very involved process. Can you please?
Could a?
good after
Good afternoon. My name is Benjamin Howard. If you become
an officer, the registration process consists of
registering in eye supplier, which is the City's online,
bidding and invoicing system. This is a part of the Oracle
Erp and vendors need to provide a W-9 and they need to
provide basic information about the business such as deer
business name, and address, and persons, who we use.
The sister.
The system.
The system in.
The system. And this is the process that can be facilitated
by them calling. The ice supplier help desk. If they run
into any concerns and it's help desk and a cyst, or they
run into an additional issues. It is escalated to somebody
at the procurement office which is one of my staff to or
system, okay? So once they clear all those hurdles.
Allowed.
Allowed to.
Allowed. There were
Allowed the registered.
Allowed the registered in the system and then for whoever
the department is that's looking to do the Contracting
because at that point, pull them out of the registered
pool. After they do all the things that they're supposed to
do for my perspective. Thank you. That was the term was
looking for. Okay, thank you for that.
Turn.
I got a bunch of other stuff so I don't know if you want to
go on somebody else, I don't want to. If you're okay with
me, keep going on. I will but
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good after
Good afternoon, CPO question around.
Slowpoke.
Slow pay for the forecast for Benders, slow payment for
vendors. How are we? What are we doing? As a city to
provide quicker payment for for some of our subcontractors?
What it, what, what I'm hearing from vendors is that in
some instances, it's taking months to get paid as a result
of that, you're having to take lines of credit in order to
continue to make payroll and then stay in business is so I
wanted to kind of find out what are we doing? Is that part
of the it upgrade that's going to help deal with this? Like
what what are we doing there?
in the
In the living room.
In The Limited.
In The Limited information that I have because again
payments are made in the controller's office. I know that
the control the system start work, trying to implement will
assist because he will automate the process today that
process is manual invoice. As can be sitting at somebody's
desk and not being processed in a timely manner and nobody
knows or has accountability for the systems were, when they
integrate and they will be talking to each other. So if I
issue a purchase order and I issue a contract, there's
obviously needs to be a receipt within a certain amount of
time. It will be looking for that. Be
need to be done by the
Need to be done by the Houston.
need to be done by the use of
need to be done by the Houston apartment, invade the
Need to be done by the Houston apartment. If it doesn't do
it, escalates it will have levels and it will allow for
that. First point of contact. If they don't take action, it
will escalate to my manager and no longer be accessible to
that person. So I can ability the system will be building
accountability to facilitate and automate. The process has
been done today. You know, what is a manual process and I
stand behind what I say. If I'm if somebody reaches out to
me to assist with a Cisco vendor and getting paid, I will.
That does not in my shop and I don't have to rise to
payment. Let alone is she the check? I do make sure that
our department stays with that vendor through some level of
satisfaction, and a lot of it is,
Thanks Andy.
Thanks, I needed.
Thanks. I needed to be done.
Thanks. I needed to be done to have not been done
contractually. Sometimes, it depends on what it is today. I
know that's a pilot that the controller is working on a
pilot to be able to expedite payment within 30 days. And I
will defer any questions related to that pilot to retention
retention is a big issue. And depending on what that
percentage is, I wanted to get your opinion as to how how
you feel.
Affect.
Strike that does, your does your department, does your
department support a reduction in retention as the job is
progressing? I know that in some cases of the 10% reduction
of 10% retention that the city May hold, but when the
project is halfway through or getting close to being
completed, we're still holding that 10%. And I wanted to
kind of get up the sense from you as to what can we do to
reduce that retention still keeping a little bit of
attention cuz obviously you need to have some something to
hold onto in order to make sure that the project closes
out. But I think that when when you're holding retention
and the contractor is not getting any interest on this
payment, I think, I think does a disservice to to those
vendors that are working with the city.
I was.
I would say.
I would say that if I,
I would say that I think it's fair to take a look at that
and see because not at all if equal. And, and there's
reasons why some of their attention is there. If the
deliverables are being met in a consistent manner, I would
be open to considering that sort of change. Our staff is
working on taking a look at dealing with retention and
making sure that as retention is held that after a certain.
Of time that there is some interest that's paid at in order
to kind of
Make.
Make the sea.
Make the city.
Make the city more quicker because it's just unfair that
you have vendors that are having to pay take out lines of
credit in order to to pay their, their workers, and and
supplies and stuff like that. And we're holding, we're
holding money for them for any type of retainage on our
construction contracts. So everything is being held by the
use of the apartment that we need to know about it. At
least, run the prime contractor or the subcontractors, and
the language in the subcontract agreement. There should be
no retainage from the prime to the sub to me about
potential legislation and provide those examples of where
retentions being requested. So that way you can allow you
can notify those agencies that that's not required and
maybe even at some point issue, a
a letter to these.
a letter to these apart.
A letter to the department saying that we don't require
retention. So and we will be happy to collaborate with with
you and anything needs to be put forth to clarify that. It
should take you out and then veteran business Enterprise
program. I know that that was your staff and appreciate
that where that we're trying to move in the same direction
of getting more better and certified and in taking a look
at how to be creative and reciprocity.
So, that way.
so that way then,
So that way vendors that have went through a certification
process of some sort are not having to fill out additional
duplicate paperwork, wherever there's paperwork that you
need in order to satisfy the certification, and I think
that we need to take a look at that. So, if there's
something as a related legislation needs to be changed to
accommodate that no, please reach out. I'll be more than
happy to help try to assure that through the city council
because I want to make sure that veterans are participating
on these publicly under contracts currently working on the
reciprocity with the county, that's all the questions for
now. Thank you.
Well.
Well, I do.
Well, I don't know about that, you're ready? I'll write all
the men more. Go ahead.
Thank.
Thank you. So out, I was just a bit confused, but I think
Alderman of the 11th, ward asked the question and I just
want to be clear. So the 1 billion is it all prime or is it
Prime and sub?
The 1 billion is Prime and sub, okay, why do we put why do
we put that in here? That it was too tall to Prime
contractors then in the in the in the latter he was at by
Aaron. Why did it whatever I do, we put it in here that it
was by prime contractor. Was that an error? If that 1
billion is out so the one, the 1 billion dollars are
payments to self payments to Prime contractors, the
aldermen and indicated that these, she wanted a list of who
are the prices for the subs.
Okay.
Okay, so I just asked a question that start with this one
but it is 1 billion include Prime and Subs Wonder, hold on
it. So I heard two different answers. I started over here
with the first time. Is it Primus up?
The.
The one by.
The 1 billion dollars is to Prime contractors and then we
paid m b e.
To.
200.
296 million w b. He's got 64 million estimating on the 10%.
Like it's 10% comes out to 101, so we just rounding up. The
105. Was that what it is?
The payment, the 105.
The payment. The 105 is so African-Americans, got 105. It's
10% of the 361 million.
Play music.
Give me the telephone number that went to M & W's.
Okay.
Okay, we got to recalculate that cuz I'm not at what time
frame. Are we speaking of here? We say this 1 billion.
What's the time frame?
Jay.
Janet.
January 6th.
January to July 31st, through July 31st. We don't have
anything through 9:30 third quarter, we closed all year. We
just
We?
we don't have that.
we don't have that here today.
July.
The last.
The last conversation on my apologies. The last
conversation. I thought we were like pretty.
We?
Wake.
Quicken.
Quick on getting this quarterly information out based on
the change in system or or or, or is that not the case? I
thought I was expecting to see the reporter numbers today,
will be released in the next October.
Go to.
Go to go home.
Go to go ahead.
Okay. And
Okay.
okay, maybe I can.
105 million.
One by.
One bill.
1015000000.
When?
1 billion /.
1015811005 forty-six. 10% of that is 100 and 1 million 581
154. That's not the temper sent to African-Americans,
correct.
That is.
That is the.
That is the 10%, but it's the number is more than a billion
dollars. So it's a rounding issue within our system and for
the record of all of that is prime contract, no Sub in
there. If I'm looking at the book and I don't know who
provided, this chairman 2024 department, but the human
documents, which I believe came from your office, but at
the request of the different department,
The age of adaline a million sperm. If you can go to that
book, somebody has that book up there.
The.
The fan.
The five million ninety-eight. I think that'll be five
million through 11 6:37 3123 and that'll be five million
ninety-eight. Write the ottoman with what's up with work
book, on your furniture or big book.
I hope so. That would be the five million 98 +.
Afternoon.
After making NBA ESPN against the 317 million. Correct?
Quest.
question, I'm looking at 11 6:37 3123
Okay.
Okay, that's that's million right by me. No $5,098. If you
contracted dated for the Department, not for the city,
that's what this is.
I wasn't.
I was not what country were you say not for the city. We go
to let me get them this naked. Maybe I can count on the
reference.
We?
We are pleased to.
We are pleased. It was all right.
What?
What kind?
What contractor?
What Contracting that is it then let me ask that question.
Do it.
So, what?
So if you're looking at, this is based off of contracts of
Department of procurement. Utilizes with Tammy red off is
mbewe participation of All City contracts that go through
the department of procurement Services. Okay, I'll right
now. Let's get to
Custer.
Constructs.
Construction, contracts man wears construction. So that
that helps a lot. Where is construction Contracting at?
Do do do payments.
Do do do payments on his.
Do do, do payments on construction projects have been 218
million of that, 218 million 60312 n bees, which is 29%
wvee, 15 million, which is 7%. How much is that? West
African American
Add.
Africa.
African America.
African Americans receive 9 million dollars and that is 4%.
Okay. Why is that number so low?
so, the Pooh
so, the pool at
So the pull of African Americans that are certified, and
they that do actual construction work, we have to work on
that pool. We have to increase at Bender Pool.
Okay. So, how much can you talk to me about that? And what
are we doing to increase that pool? I mean, are we working
on? And I think we had this conversation over the phone in
terms of preparing contractor. So, what has been your
initial since you've been in office? What has been your
initial worked or was this? And then, what are you going to
be doing in the future? Cuz this 4% is, it is just
heartbreaking?
in the
India.
In the end of August and infrastructure department and
we're working with the infrastructure department at let's
take for example water, we've been meeting with water on a
weekly basis to ensure that the projects that are coming
down the pipeline. I've broken down into smaller scope so
that we can advertise and be able to award to multiple
vendors.
Wanted to.
Wanted two of those Awards. How many are they have a
capacity?
Hey, hey me.
So, What by
So we're breaking that, we're working with the
infrastructure departments to break down the work on and
create smaller scope so that we can award to multiple
vendors and they can pay you know the smallest go as many
times as they can. I do the work whether that's one
contract or multiple contracts to allow them to build
capacity and continue to grow their business. Tell me
anything else you want to add.
so, we
so, where were
So we're working with user Department, 24 cast out the
works and services, that they'll be needing to prepare
vendor so that they can get ready for the opportunities and
possible. Possibly do a joint venture. We're doing business
the business matchmaking. We're working with assist
agencies to increase our Bender Pool.
I don't.
A lot of These Fine Days.
A lot of these projects are also on and we started this with
water. We're looking at being able to put some of these
some of this works to SB. I was looking at job to change.
There's going to be a I need to change some of the
Municipal Court as a pertains to job, but I will allow us
to award to multiple vendors where I was today, we cannot
do that. These are all the things that were working on. And
now they are, we meeting with water and we will continue to
do the other infrastructure, departments as well. But we
are meeting. We are to scheduling meetings to me with some
of your partners, although Alderman more than welcome to
participate on a bi-monthly basis to give you an update as
to how that sort of war is being divided with. Then we're
starting with water, but the intent is to continue to do
that to all the infrastructure, departments starting with
water. So then and construction, so is
Who do?
who do we have a
Who do we have over there then? Are they coming from your
department? Or they coming from water and turns up, any
Deputy over there, that's looking from a contract and
Snapple King directly with the commissioner and her
deputies. And I have a deputy of procurement that is
dedicated to infrastructure to seal. Can you please
address?
The man.
The matter.
Looking.
Look in your
Hello. Can you hear me? I just your court as Debbie of
design and infrastructure and construction. So, in regards
to your question. Yes, they are. The minority pool.
African-American vendors in the construction site is small.
So the intent for the city is to try and expand that pool,
expand the number of companies that can actually did on
these contracts and I get that part. So we just have one
person over in and water from procurement. That's like one.
Deputy how many positions over there that has the
day-to-day interaction with the commissioner and her staff?
How many people
I'm
How many?
How many people in his unit, his two deputies, only one.
Deputy first ten of us total with myself, would be 11 that
are in charge of the actual procurements of the country in
that department of African American.
and,
and I,
and that unit,
And that unit in in the unit.
To.
23.
For.
For how many 11 total with myself and actually, it'll be 5
starting November 1st. I have additional higher coming on.
All right. I think that I would like to add. If I may we
have vacancies in a lot of the vacancies are in titles
related to a lot of the infrastructure on but will go that
will go over there in a minute.
Okay.
Okay? And this brings me to the question of retention. What
has been the retention like in the department of computer
because it's important that we keep people in there and
just to be honest and blunt I've been here while I develop
different relationships. I see people coming and going like
where you going on? Look what you made, you leave in
procurement what year did, how many people have left
procurement?
Set.
Search.
since you've been in this pain and these key positions but
I can tell you that we have, this is throughout the city
and I just in procurement, we move to higher were
constantly advertising poster
Isn't trying.
Isn't trying to hire. We hire to and somebody will leave or
3 or something. Somebody will leave for a better
opportunity either throughout the city and that's all
related to salaries, okay?
Go ahead chamber.
Go ahead chairman to the next person. I know we got time
but go ahead. I got to put some stuff in order to get all
the men.
Differ.
Different plans.
Different plans of attack. Two things one. Can you give?
Can you give kind of a timeline? So I won't be something
that's open ended.
and to
And two, I didn't hear anything about preferred vendor list
and you speak to that.
It's
the timeline on the
The timeline on what do a lot of different. What programs
are, what things are you going to do to all set that 4%
that we hear Whitney in in line in black with this patient
and you got listed off a few things that you're going to
do? What is the time? I get a lot of this stuff
accomplished cuz we don't just want it open in. Do we want
to see some results to see some fruit if it's a d
Department of Water, okay? On the project in collaboration
with the Department of Water and that will be the example
that would be a father with all the so by the beginning of
the year next year that process
The outline it will.
The outline if we're looking to chat.
The outline if we're looking to change.
The outline if we're looking to change jobs, we're looking
to come in to visit it requires a code change. That is
something that we're looking to get through the process, to
be able to use Jack in an infrastructure and be able to
award to multiple looking to have somebody Shepherd that
change to the code to allow us to do that work. So, we
already have, some people are starting to heat up.
Are we concerned?
We?
We already.
We already have a list of contracts to do specific things
that we can always make the process more easier. We already
have people that we know do this job at you. That was at
the job. I think that was the point. I think she talked
about as relates to jock that was going to require the code
changed to allow for a larger pool of individual cuz
Carlene only allows for one particular of one particular
vendor. So that's a cool change that we're looking at that
will Roland probably sometime their fourth quarter this
year.
All.
Altima.
Alderman more, thank you. Cuz I don't want to. I want to
just finish this part up if I can't and that's in the
previous year cuz we're 4% on the previous year. But what
was that percentage of
Play.
Blackish.
Black Country.
Black construction Contracting.
Yeah.
Yeah, we were at 10% last year. We're going down so
somebody else can deal with that. I just want to
respectfully and we talkin about programs and even if those
programs are going to be a minute. Cuz my question was,
what have you done? And what are you going to do? I'm just
concerned that, that was something that was being done.
That's either stop. Being done going to go from 10% to 4%,
because what is going to be happening. Should be a more of
a increase. Oh, we should have been at least level and
they're looking to go up and I'm and, and whatever we
didn't do last year, and you were here last year, something
happened and so it's not understand, putting programs in
place. And that's what I mentioned something about lying
those out, but something happened.
What's?
Between last year. And this year, the payment is higher.
This this last year, we still push for target market when
we can and construction you can do tiger market and what
we've been working with you. As your department is to
unbundle the services to allow allow for multiple vendors.
Were also looking at different Nichols and where are the
vendors certified that tends to be the challenge with some
of this work, which is why we're taking and Tammy can speak
to that we're taking on training. I am making sure that we
exposed certified vendors. In the areas that the work is
being sought up because it's Nick, is is Nick told Jr. And
we don't have no.
and I,
And I see.
and I see how,
And I see codes and we don't have a lot of vendors in the
African-American community that are certified in those
areas.
Let,
Let's do the.
Let's do this one question. And in this box, we spent you
saying a hundred million dollars through
June 30.
June 30th of this year. We just use a q1 and Q2 numbers,
right? Of the hundred million dollars where what
departments number one was spending this money and number
to What specifically is being done from you all
Respect.
Respect from you.
Respect from your department.
respect from your department into the user Department, to
Foster more participation after which Alderman Vasquez you
next
The right now we're looking at the next code, we're making
sure that whoever certified in this particular next go,
we're looking to expand that Vanderpool. So we're talking
to you just a plumber's, right? You may be a plumber, but
you may not be certified in this particular next code. So,
we're letting you know that there are opportunities and
this other next phone and giving you an opportunity to get
that current next code. Because the next codes are based on
what you're qualified to do, like a reading when they were
when they were. Instead of waiting for the war to come to
our department, and we're trying to partner with the user
Department, prior to then reaching our department so that
we can do it. Look at any of you, the scope of work and be
able to Davey, that scope of work and smaller scope, so
that we can award to multiple
And how?
And hopefully you.
And hopefully awards has smaller businesses to again, assist
a business in expanding their capacity in 2022. We were at
10% participation fast-forward to 2023. We go down to 4%
participation in my sumption is that you all are trying to
do this work but something something clearly did not didn't
happen. Now, is that Dollar Wise the same or something
because to his point that. Just intuitively does not make
sense. If you all are breaking stuff up doing this doing
that that are supposed to be in accordance with the
practices.
It was.
The result.
The result should.
You should show.
You should show that.
We should show that, but in this case, the result, when 50%
opposite direction. So that, that's something that I think.
And then again, what departments are we talkin about? We
need to understand who are the user departments that are
not meeting the targets that we would like to see. So is
this all
In.
You know, seed.
You no see. Is it. Aviation is water. Who are the users
that are not meeting to go to the apartment, right? So
we're working with water and we started with one of these
changes start with water. We're going to be working with c.
And but these are just the change takes time to be able to
get there. We have projects that were already in the works
before we established these changes. But the collaboration
and the meeting and trying to stop the work before I get
advertise and unbundle it and break down the skull is
something that we've started to do the issue as well as
that the numbers for this particular. A pair of payment is
higher than the last. So that affects those percentages as
well.
Well.
Well, I do.
Well this is all. I mean I think you you're going on here
three or four in your in your charm and this is we walk in
the wrong direction here. We got it. We got to move in the
right direction. As relations is participation or aspect
and I own a dress mother, she's in the budget that I see
that, don't job with that as well, but all them in the
basket is going.
Do to.
do to just
Do too, just to clarify. I'm in. I just completed my second
year. And so to be fair, change takes time, people resist
change for, we're continuing the course of making those
changes in working with, in collaboration with user
departments, to get there and that's the commitment that
I've made it out of continue to go down that path.
You know.
You know what I mean? Let me say this and all. I want you
to understand this, the CPR, that the two positions in city
government that have term appointments, and yours is one of
them. In the reason that you have a term appointment
because your job to push through to change the people don't
want without the repercussions of the politics. And it's
very clear that this Council African-Americans and Latinos
said, hey, we want to see diversity is part of this City's
program 70-plus percent of the citizens in the city or our
non white. And this is something else is the city that we
want to see happen and the cold gives you that protection
in order for you to do that job.
it's so,
It's so that they're there should not be any excuse, you
need to be a bull in a china shop to get this done. That is
what we have been powered you to do because we have give
you that protection outside of some extraordinary craziness
that we have even have to prove your dismissal that we have
given you that level of protection.
How to get the job?
How to get the job done.
How to get the job done and in that is what this council is
looking to see is to get the job done on behalf of all of
our citizens behalf of the contract Community behalf of
everybody. You, you're the only person that every time I've
said this before, I got you weren't here, but I've said
this you that you were the only person guaranteed to be
back here today from last year. You'd only guarantee person
to be here and so we want you to use that guarantee to push
and push and push so that we can get the type of results
that our communities and looking for out of the city of
Chicago. Ottoman.
Thank.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for that chairman, cuz I actually was
curious about that context of the fact that you're
providing why, there's a term to it is important. Is that
do the municipal code?
Yes.
yes, I
Yes, I do. I
Yes, I walk. Oh yes. Mean we can change it we could just we
could. Okay there is an I ask that is I also don't I can't
tolerate excuses. Like telling people it takes time when
will were screaming about is equity but also speed is
something that is unacceptable. We are in a moment of
Crisis, wear when we try to bring up issues and solutions
that we want to find out the answers, we get back is that
procurement is wild.
It's our job.
it's our job to make sure
It's our job to make sure it's working properly, so making
sure that we have to do at the municipal code then so be
it. But I've got questions I want to ask I'll just jump
right in. So
We?
we've just
We've just gone through a crisis through covid where we had
to figure out a lot of Solutions in record time with a
sense of urgency. What learnings, and efficiencies were
found during the time of covid. 1, we had to move quickly
to bring the Benders on in a time of crisis.
so, I
So I'm doing it was your choice. I last part of covet which
was when Supply was scarce and what we did to ensure that
we got in the hands of our user departments. That's good
and services that they need. It was looking at the contract
moving forward with trying to piggyback another contract to
get the service is on hand reissuing B, solicitations to
come back with a new contract for those services at the
user Department.
We?
We were.
we want, if I
We want to find.
We want to find out which department of the ones that are
the issue. If that happens to be the case, would you be
open if this Council wrote ordinance? Requiring quarterly
reporting so that you could let us know who's doing well
and who isn't as a release of procurement.
Well.
What are you?
One of the reporters related to the lake rather than having
you come up once a year, having you come up once a quarter
to let us know what's going on and what's being approved?
And what we need to work on
Ask.
actually, they
Actually that's done through the meaning of contracts and
inequity to do, they actually do have that function per se
but he's with her every month. What I would like is to know
when we have those hearings. So, the rest of the council
knows cuz I'm showing up for those wearing Palace, okay?
To, during that time, the city entered in the contract with
favorite Staffing, for Coborn's support, how did the city
land on favorite? Where their other candidates?
so, the city
So the city, the Department emergency office of emergency
management was looking for ways to be able to mitigate that
crisis. Okay. The stage had a contract with favorites and
it was being appropriate to piggyback on that contract to
be able to address their prices right away.
Given.
Given the pay.
Given the piggyback answer, cuz I got another one related to
that. Like, it, is it I'll piggyback because it just move.
So slowly at the sea level, we have to jump on other
people's contracts, like, what we do to make it quicker, to
be able to address the prices ASAP and it's on a temporary
basis. So that the department has an opportunity to create
the scope of work and get it to work. Chairman for a
sourcing activity you know we're saying the same thing.
What I'm saying is we're both saying is it because the city
is not moving quick enough. Your piggybacking on the state
to get it ASAP. My question is why can't the city do it
quicker?
Do.
Tell.
So keep in mind that for the municipal code, we can
actually piggyback on another contract that are sourced by
other governmental entities. So the intent here is to allow
time for the user departments to be able to do the due
diligence and create the questions. I do, understand the
piggyback process. That's not the question. I'm asking. Why
are we so slow that we have to get on piggyback contracts,
what can we do to get faster?
So that's a quest.
So that's a question. What is a comprehensive and off and
final if it's Kristin Services, we issue a bid and the bid
is awarded within 60, 60 days, okay, that's a bit. That's
the easiest one. If it is Professional Services once
procurement receives the the scope of work at comprehensive
scope of work and sign up for Mac, we issue the
solicitation and we get to identify the vendor to be
awarded within 6 months and that's actually ties in with
best practice in the private sector, how can we get faster
than 6 months?
While.
well, once we
Well, once we get our systems automated, I mean, we get
subject matter, expertise to assist, we probably can do
better than that. Is actually what in private sector is
customary for a 9 ft, which is what takes longer be mine.
And I feel requires an evaluation and, and a committee to
evaluate a different song than a bit. I heard a story. I
want to share about a time when Chicago had to transfer
Taste of Chicago which was under Park District supervision
over to the city on and at the time, someone was
Volume.
Timer to.
By Amir Saad that move quickly and they got an RFP done in
six weeks instead of six months. So, what's the difference
now?
I'm at.
I cannot talk to that event because I wasn't here, so I
have no details related to that. A bunch of a conversation
about that cuz if you were able to move things quicker back
in a slower. Now we're moving in the wrong direction and
I'm very concerned that the fact that we can't move
quickly. It was putting us in positions where we have to
piggyback on contracts, like gardaworld, where we have
concerns about them as an actual contractor, where we have
concerns about some of their history, we're going to get 29
million dollars, where we know that we have people here in
Chicago or actively seeking this work. When we have such a
fight among the different caucuses here and it's not
between a caucus and billionaires attention that the
migrant money is coming to migrants but black Chicago can't
see any of it cuz the procurement not moving quick enough.
The fact that is not moving fast has repercussions that
aren't just process. This is tearing the city apart because
it would be easy for us to figure out a solution. If the
folks who could provide the services came from the
community are most impact it is that important. And so
that's not a question. It's
The Pointe at.
the point, I want to
The point I wanted to make clear because it has very real
impact our city. I moved from that cuz I think I made my
point clear in that regard when looking at the actual
Workforce diversity of the department, I'm looking at 88th
employees, are there seems to be a Delta between the Latino
Community as far as the
pain in the,
In an amount of hiring.
In an amount of hiring and I'll see I see the same when it
relates to the union employees. So we're asking you to have
other folks to meet those numbers. What's the challenge for
you? I'm getting those numbers.
It's all.
It's on talking about the apartment. So actually, all
right, in the end of the apartment is the total Department
right positions. Included, we are at 7%, Asian
African-American is as 45%. Hispanic is at 22%, is that
what you're talking about now? I'm sorry. The reason why I
asked that is, if we're looking through with his contract,
departments, all of it. I need the thing that we talked
about between black and Latino caucus is, is parity with
the population. If someone's doing better than a amazing
son was doing below, there's some work to do and so we feel
great and should be proud that the black community is
actually there's more hiring the nurse to the population,
but there's a Delta when it comes to Latino community. And
so, I want to know what's being done to improve.
That we need.
That we need to.
That we need to fill. And so it's a matter of what I do. You
people coming through the department for the sort of work
that were trying to hire, but that's always been a parody.
And department is important to me as well, and we're look
at that. The wild Department in making sure that
opportunities in this profession are given to anyone that
has the skill set and come through to for a vein interview,
an opportunity to work in procurement. I would really
appreciate kind of outline documented plan for improvement.
I think we come here every year with the same concerns and
I think to be fair Avenue, articulate a vision for how you
get to Improvement is something that would be helpful to
us. Because when we're talking about the way, the city
moves for their three departments that I think are crucial,
but we don't really talk about them enough to get the
moving properly. When is it? And thankfully, I have some
getting split so we can focus on making our technology help
us move quicker.
Letters H.
Others HR. So I
What is HR? So when they come, we're going to have that
conversation because hiring used to be moving faster as
well. And the third one is y'all. And so I want to make
sure that whatever that plan is its articulated and
documents of something. We can hold you accountable because
we want to make sure Infuse thank you very much, Jeremy.
Thank you are ottoman Vasquez and I, I go back to, he made
his relation to the number of vacancies that do you guys
that you all have and why you always baking
Raiders.
Greatest.
Raiders is a little higher than what.
Raiders is a little higher than what, what we're used to
seeing. Figure your rubber and somewhere around 35% of your
total positions are vacant. What's the game plan there to
hire and what's, what's been the hold up in hiring and 48%
of those, vacancies are actually hell within two titles. I
have 21 positions in a procurement specialist title, which
is part of the contract Administration unit. And I have a
positions in certification and compliance which is part of
the office of Contracting. It would, and the plan to hire
we're constantly advertising, we have posted these
positions at least six times throughout the to be able to
hire with people into these roles and they're constantly
being posted. We hire
you know, as I
You know, I think we have Twenty-One position. You're
constantly being posted. We may hire one or two and, and
the full thing goes right back out.
The new.
Anyone.
Benny. What is your I guess the other question will be at
what is your trip or what was? I don't know the answer this
but if you could
What?
What last year. How many vacancies did you have last year
at this? At this point, I guess it's the September 30th day
cuz that's the date of this document last year cuz this is,
it seems to be a lot. But keep in mind that at that point
in time we were given 20, like 23, new positions were added
to our budget. So I want to go back to when you were
speaking with all them anymore and you said that we were
10% last year and 4% now. And you said that the payment
went up. How much more did the painting? What up? Go up?
Do they?
Do this, you
Do this year pay.
do this year payments are 218 Million last year, they were
112 million
and,
and so, we
and so what was the increase for?
Do they?
Do this year.
Do this year and bees got 63 million in construction
payments. And last year, they have 41 million and
construction payments wbees, got 15 million. + 8 million
went to WBEZ last year, African Americans, got 9 million,
and they got nine million last year.
okay, if
Okay. And so I'm a move on from that one, but I would like
for the, I would like to this information to come back to
the chair, it was, it would be great to get a list of
minority vendors and from and from the different
departments so that we can know what are the minor.
Preferably African-American black a list of minority
vendors from the Departments
and,
And I can.
And I can come to the chair. Okay. And I want to go back to
I want to go back to how are these vendors chosen?
When?
when you were,
When you, when will choose and vendors, how do we choose
them?
so,
So we go through it and open a fair and transparent
process. Also the cetaceans all work related to any City
Department that flows supercare man is advertised in a
local newspaper. There's a open big listing that is that is
summarized in an open bid this thing and that open bit
missing his chair what newspaper Tribune. Okay. And the
listing is provided and updated into our website and it
shared via re newsletter with 7,000 vendors in the in the
city of Chicago. We also get that listing on a weekly basis
to all of the other person's
and we,
and when we go,
And when we go to the selection, it depends on the service.
As if its goods and services that don't require y are
highly on expertise, our expertise scale that goes to a
bed. And, and, and the award is done based on the most
responsive responsible, Louis better, if it's so, so who.
So, how is it that Susan by the members in the box? So how
is how is that chosen? Like so I want to know you not like
the pasta, what's your process on? How you choose? Like,
okay, we have five. How do you bet that dealt with the with
the bed is based on the requirements of the solicitation?
Okay? With an IP are or knife Q wish. I could be
Professional Services. Highly-skilled may be highly skilled
work. Then an evaluation criteria is developed by the user
Department, seeking the services.
Committee of three.
Committee of to evolve.
Committee to evaluate the services ice also identified by
the user department, and the and then it goes to that
process of evaluating the responses to get to the selection
of the vendor that have been responsible to all the
criteria's and met. All the criteria requirements be
assessed by the user department. And that's how we arrived
at the selection of that vendor. So that if they committee
for our fees in our fears,
Merry.
Medi lifespa.
Merida's put together by the user.
Merida's put together by the use an appointment with
Representatives, have not only of the user department, but
other departments as well. And know all the person they are
not in those elections. Correct. That's not right. You're
not part of that process is is, do you think it would be
helpful to have? So you think that would be helpful to have
that in the committee that in my head
Tell.
so,
So that will be bring a lot of transparency if it was in
the committee because then we can actually see who's up for
bidding and how you're selecting.
cuz they're
cuz then, they
Cuz then, then African Americans wouldn't be at 4%. Correct
time the services are being sought. When you're looking at,
selecting the vendors, you're looking at the criteria
identify by the user department and whatever vendors made.
That criteria can be awarded. So it's based on criteria.
It's not necessarily based on ethnicity. Is based on the
work that the city is trying to procure for that user
department. So,
The.
Then.
Then it would.
Then it would never be. So the numbers will never be higher
than tempore to 10%. Because if it stays up on a Criterion,
what the city is looking for another African-American or
another ethnicity, have never had the opportunity to do it,
they'll never fit the criteria. So her the municipal code.
We cannot award contracts based based on ethnicity or not,
but but, but hear me out. It will never be transparent with
clear, because those people would have never had the path
to be in that criteria. Did you understand that tell is he
using Apartments? Okay, election of the people that are
working at the end. In that evaluation committee, that is a
representation of that user Department. That means you're
going to take it around, but the mere fact, is that those
people will never be in that criteria because they wish
they'd never have to work because they never have the
opportunity. So they'll never be in that. They'll never fit
the criteria.
and,
and that's why the
And that's why I've been.
And that's why the numbers are.
And that's why the numbers are so low for African-American
vendors because they'll never fit that because they never
get to work. 80, 90% of the 97% of the work is already.
Not.
Not African.
Not African-American. So we will never get those jobs or
never.
Can I?
Can I play Ninja?
Can I clean juice? Elaborate Monica Jimenez. So there's two
solicitation process. There's a bid, solicitation process,
and there's an RFP RFQ process in the B. Solicitation
process. It's based on Louis responsive responsible bidder.
So it's based off of price for goods and services who's
going to come into the city at the lowest price. That's
what the code in the city of Chicago, Fire. The chief
procurement officer to do as well as state law as it
relates to Professional Services. It's based off of
qualification who is the most qualified firmness responsive
to their criteria and actually the minority women number is
here that that Tammy has will show that in the Professional
Services. African Americans actually are at 12 percentage.
In.
In the end.
In the, in the Professional Services African-Americans are
at 12%, participation overall, that's a really good number.
Yes. As a matter of fact, we all been talkin about
construction and that's where Tammy and her group are
looking at, in terms of achieving it. So, if we look at it
right in terms of the competitive process, it is now trying
to bring awareness and try and
Bring.
Bring it.
Bring education to the black and brown Community. As a
relates to construction work or competitive work, but the
code again today and the competitive a project is based off
of Municipal Code and state law, the lowest responsive and
responsible bidder, okay? And so how are you being
proactive and kind of
I know you.
I know you say.
I know you said it's in paper in the newspaper but how are
you?
I didn't.
I didn't know the newspaper that I got to do that work. But
how you been proactive, proactive and advertising these
these resources
Do.
Don't.
Don't worry.
When we sail, besides the paper, which is required and
mandated by the municipal code we create, we post all of
the sporting activities and I newsletter with, which has
its own so-called DPS alerts, which has an Outreach of
7,000 vendors in our community in the city of Chicago. We
give you. You receive on a weekly basis those bits as well,
for you to assist and spreading out the words of the work
that's out, there they are. I bid opportunities where we
actually meet with the vendors to say, this is coming, we
have the additional, we're coming down, the pipeline
rebuild on a part of your bases. A buying plan that
includes all the projects that are coming down the pipe.
Find.
Mine, and we do this on.
Mine. And we do this on a quad.
Mine. And we do this on a quarterly basis for our city as
well as Cook County and stayed in our sister agencies. This
is done on a quarterly basis and just identifies all the
projects that the city is looking for that quarter to bit
out that gets a vendor, an opportunity to reach out to
either. But your money, they want additional information or
reach out to the user Department, understand Windows,
solicitation second, I hit be advertised and my last
question is what are good and services that
My.
Minority. Not
Minority numbers.
Tell.
so, we have a
Do we have a divided as under with chain construction and
non-construction? Non-construction, S, everything
Professional Services Goodson service and we give the list
to the chair, the numbers for the chair, for the
first-quarter, and second-quarter have already been
distributed. So you should have received and instead on our
website, as well as forthcoming by the end of the month is
third-quarter. Okay, thank you, Professional Services and
the other other than Professional Services and construction
would be three different sets of numbers then. Is that what
you're asking? Okay, is that broken down that way?
We have.
We have come.
We have constructed.
We have construction ruin. Everything else is
non-construction, okay? Okay, service is from
non-construction and I would give you theoretically,
everything else. Is that right?
If you.
if you were,
If you break down. So construction is a separate category.
Professional Services good sense to everything else.
Professional services and goods and services are in the
category of Nana construction. What's your question, are
all the meat? We already posted the numbers for the first
and second quarter. What? So and you should have received
it as well because we do the reporting on the party basis,
but we will share it with you shortly.
He's asking.
he's asking for,
he's asking for is the
the fur.
The first and second quarter numbers for construction.
Okay, do you?
Okay, you are. I mean you all should have the first and
second quarter numbers with you here. I mean this is all we
all should have that with you. I have I have all the men
are Robinson, volleyball, membernet.
German.
German, I would like to hear.
German I would like a yield my time to a mall in Manhattan
and then after her, possibly, no problem question. And I
ever appreciate everybody else's questions. This is her and
I'm sorry I had to step out. So if you already mentioned
it, the reporting that we do on the looking at potential
vendors are contracts on the slavery era. Disclosures was
wondering when that will become searchable, kind of on our
websites for the public.
End.
And keep.
And can you please address the question?
Venture.
Venturian, how?
Venturian hotep. You become an officer vendors that
disclose reported in. I believe a quarterly basis to city
council now and awake and we can take those reports and
post them on the website. That that would be fantastic and
we just had some interest from the general public of
wanting to be able to see that. And so, if maybe through
the chair, as you guys kind of cuddle up after this, you
can give us an idea of, you know, what that something we
could expect in, you know, q12020 4 at night. If you have
time frame, I would appreciate it. That's why I don't lie,
and that's stuff.
Thanks.
Thank you to.
Thank you, chairman chief, it's good to see you.
I don't.
I don't know.
I don't know any of your staff because I'm new other than
one person. And I want to tell you that, I think that you
have a very smart Higher by Bank bringing Patrick on board.
I was in the Journal Sunday, for five years and it was a
challenge of working with legislative affairs here at the
city. But one person that I will tell you, that always
worked alongside of me with Patrick and so cheap. If you
have them on your team, I think that you need to utilize
him as much as possible. I will also share with you that
you are not alone. The state of Illinois has the same
challenges around procurement particularly around on
minorities in the African American Community. The only
difference is Chief is that we have a Meredith committed.
To.
To making sure that African-American show up in
procurement. And so my suggestion to you, because I want to
be helpful is that I think that you should sit down with
the mayor and talk this out. It, it seems as though there
still a challenge around procurement but the only issue is
that you have a merry have a council that serious about it
and serious about doing the work until the first question I
have for you is how can we be helpful to you and your
department?
To help you increase the numbers.
To help you increase the numbers that are in front of us.
So,
So elaboration, I read like, I am trying to get out to the
community each of your community to talk about procurement
to talk about the procurement opportunities to educate the
vendors and see if we can get additional vendors certified
in these calls where historically African Americans, don't
play a big role and that's construction. That is the
reality African-Americans. For whatever reason, do not
certify in in construction that says, the spirit of
Hispanics 10th to certified and construction, they do.
Well, I'm not construction work and I think we need to
level the playing field and bring him in. Educate them on
what they need to do and how to get there, right. And we
have a cyst agencies that help us with that delivering that
message. But I would like to be able to deliver that
message directly to your ward and be able to meet with your
vendors that are in your community. That may be a certified
in
Construct.
Construction and I see Colts and understand why are there
not going for the the coast that we use in the city?
Because the work is, it's a little different, right? And
expand the capacity to be able to be part of that vendor
community on the construction site. That's been the
challenge at the city. All along. We try to understand why
we know that there is some challenges that were working
with no bonding is a challenge. When we also know that
insurance is a challenge and we're working with the
controller's office to address those, but I think it's
necessary when you talk to some other vendors, they are not
aware that there are two different and I see close as they
can be part of their not aware that the bulk of the work
related to infrastructure flows through construction. So
being able to partner with you and your ward and be able to
meet with your vendors, would be a great opportunity to get
that message to
The.
movie to the bank.
movie to the vendor directly on a chairman. Do you have the
resources to be able to do that work? Because I hear what
you're saying, but that takes resources. Right? So do you
have a budget set aside to work with the Alders work with
businesses in our community? Do you have those resources?
Give you that work? We have.
just a
The Staffing. It's what I
The Staffing, it's what it is. And and if we can hire, and
we can move, and and bring equality to salaries, we maybe
can complete all the positions in higher. All the positions
that we have, we have resources on the expense ties to be
able to go out to the community and educate and train and
develop a relationship. We have those resources, I think to
be able to start, and we partner with eye of a structure
departments as well, so they're willing to go out with us
to have those sort of conversations with the vendor
Community. Do you utilize organizations, like the young
lady that spoke earlier, like the Urban League? Are you
utilize and Community organizations that work alongside of
contractors in? And that's another point we keep talking
about Contracting and I am chief. I appreciate you
mentioning some other sectors. I'm not for sure. Why we
always talk about contract chicken in the African American,
write the
Be right there. Other sectors to billion dollar budget.
Technology is one that I would like to to bring up.
What does a?
What does that look like? What does that number? And also,
what's the percentage of crime in the technology sector?
Cuz I can't we talk about construction and many of my
colleagues brought up construction but there are many other
sectors that touch procurement, correct. The professional
side and none construction you can. And when it's when it's
possible, when we look at the work that's coming in and it
allows us to go target market because we have the vendor
certified to be able to assist with the word. That's why we
push more with our user departments. To ensure that when
that opportunity comes up, we stopped and say, okay, hold
on a second. This is great. This is a gray skull that can
be put together and allow Target Market vendors to to bed.
And what that does is take step.
Work in.
Work. And I'm only allows for minority companies to be the
ones to be responding to that work. And as much as we can,
that is something that we do today. I have two more
questions at Sherman and and I promise you, I'll wrap up.
I'll bet you again. One particular sector being technology.
Is it possible? We can get WhatsApp wine percentages on
technology.
and,
and then we
And then we'll go.
And then we'll get you that to the chair. Thank you. And
then back to my question. Regarding Community
organizations, or are you working with Community
organizations right now, to be able to get that word out to
be able to innocence right side. These organizations up to
to allow them time resources to be able to get them to
where they need to, get to tell me to respond to that. We
currently work, with the assist agencies to provide
technical support to the vendors. And so, really spread the
word about our Contracting opportunities to work with
Community groups. What are those Community groups?
Lisa can.
Lisa, can you play?
Lisa, can you please adjust a question? Do you give a
couple of examples? Please are made up of local Chambers of
Commerce has and not-for-profit organizations of Jamie
Neely's organization. Federation of women contractors is
definitely one of our sister agencies. We have the cosmic,
Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce, we have business
Leadership Council.
Hi.
Higher.
Hyatt.
Hyatt Regency.
Hire360, I'm just made me some off the top of my hair cuz
it's like 40 of them, sorry about that her Sia.
No.
Those.
Those are.
Those are few but we have 40, I can definitely if you need
a list, the complete list of those assist agencies, we can
definitely Supply you with that. And just to add for every
solicitation that is let out through the department of
procurement services. That is just agency is actually
listed in the expect document that as an alder, I continue
to hear and that's that's jobs and that's contracts and so
I can only understand the frustration of the altars in this
room and certainly your frustration as well. But we got to
figure out how to build a bridge around procurement and
chief. I don't know.
I don't.
I don't know why.
I don't know what that bridge is. I'll just tell you that,
I feel the pressure in the room because I get that pressure
on a regular basis. What are we doing? Why the number? So
dismal at the state at the city, and I don't have an answer
for you, but the only thing that I can tell you is that
this body and from my understanding that the mayor is
serious about it. And so, if you have the mayor and you
have all those that are serious about it, that means that
you have a long list of a speak to be able to do your job
and to be able to increase his numbers. I just implore you
to figure out how
We can be able to be able to sense to you.
We can be able to be able to distance to you to be fair.
We're leveraging that we're leveraging, the opportunities
that we have today, that this is important to everybody,
and that's why I am making sure that we work with the user
departments. To say this is important, the project needs to
go and it's that has to be a fair share to everybody with
that represents the city, okay? We have to represent the
city of Chicago in our contracts, in our efforts, to do
work throughout the city, because we are all represented in
our community and we need to do the same when it comes to
Contracting. And so that's what we've been working on Tammy
is the office of contacting Equity. She's been tasked with
ensuring that we educate. We bring assist agencies to work
with us to make sure that we get these messages out. And
I'm working with the infrastructure departments to ensure
that the war
I'm sending a.
I'm sending a way to.
I'm sending a way that we can share the, the work with
small companies and be able to leverage the opportunity so
that smaller companies. Minority companies can also
participate and I just a big benders
keep a
Depends.
do you think you're very
Do you think you very much? I missed the chair. Thank you.
Thank you all to me.
Thank you. Altima Robinson, all the internet.
Yeah.
yeah, thank
Yeah, thank you very much. First of all, commissioner I
want to thank you and your department for all your help.
Miss Freeland is my go-to person and anytime I'm trying to
help a contractor to get certified or whatever the case may
be. I tap into her, I think I've been knowing her for over
twenty years now working on your department and he's very
efficient and represent you very well. So I just wanted to
mention that to you. Thank you for your efforts and work
with myself. All the men are being Alderman, Michelle,
Harris argument, that dial Alderman. Greg Mitchell and I
think it was all them. It's also in relationship to the
Did it?
did Aaliyah.
did it lead?
Did it lead removal and can you explain how that's going to
work out in relationship to? That was so, I don't know if
you did that already, but if you can, I appreciate it with
water. I have, I mentioned earlier to see all, which is my
Deputy procurement also became an officer for
infrastructure working directly with them. And so, are we?
and,
On a weekly basis. We
on a weekly basis with me with
On a weekly basis. We meet with them to go over these on
this particular work and be able to identify the make sure
that the locations are smaller. I'm instead of the big
projects that are used to put in so that we can break it
down and have multiple Awards. So that a vendor that is a
mid-sized company can bed and walk away with one or two
locations that they can have. That they have the capacity
to do the work. The work is still getting done. The vendor
is going, its capacity to be able to handle additional
work. That is what if they discover screen review to go
either SPI or we're making the changes to the job so that
we can have you jog in multiple awarded for multiple
vendors. I met with the intent to have the work at hand
being smaller years and allow for multiple vendors to come
in. We were working with water to break those down. We're
also working
the committee.
The committee that.
The committee that you just mentioned to keep you abreast
of what's being done, okay, and be able to have an
opportunity to impact the strategy and meetings. We're
working with the IG, IGA office to schedule them bi-monthly
meetings and that will bring in water as well as the office
of Contracting Equity. A chairman to talk about the
initiatives and make sure that you are breast of what the
next step.
Going to be.
Going to be okay. Well I want to thank you very much for
that and I know we got a meeting coming up soon and
hopefully we're going to have a meeting sort of an intake
meeting to prep contract, is to be able to do this work,
right? Going to be worth going on for the next 30 Years. Or
fifty years, remove Inlet pipes, 40 years, 40 years, and
how many billions of dollars.
Bill.
billions, and
Billions and billions of dollars. So, we want to make sure
that we have equity in reference to that. And we build
capacity with other contractors and create new contract.
This is a great opportunity, I think for the city of
Chicago. But but also, you know, back to my colleagues
questioning in regards to technology and when I said, first
start off by saying we always focus on construction, right?
Its construction, the biggest procurement that you have or
is there other things that's bigger than Construction?
Do.
So is seasonal like it depends on where we're at.
Construction is big the big projects. We have big
initiatives because of the changing infrastructure that
were, you know, that's too funny. We got through the r52
move infrastructure. So that's a big initiative initiative
today, but we also have a lot and I T,
H e, i r.
ITI obviously, you know,
HEI obviously, you know, we're embarking on changing our
systems. That's going to be a lot of work. A lot of money
that's going to be spending and I see as well so it is to
be. So so have you met with the the African American
organization that?
The.
Delete.
The latest.
The Leadership Council.
The.
The busy.
The business Leadership Council.
Have you?
Have you all met with?
Have you all met with the business Leadership Council at
all?
Is it?
Is on his way.
This organization is selling some of the prominent
African-American business people in the city of Chicago.
Y'all. Nothing me with the business Leadership Council.
Beyonce.
TLC.
DLC officer, I have met with them. Me and Candice Moore met
with them late last year. We have not touch base with them.
Okay, I think you should re-read revisit that. Yes, cuz
they a lot of the, a lot of big companies or potential
companies does growing. They join that organization, that's
African-American. But also
What's?
What's the percent?
What's the percentage of time that black blacks African
American contractors bid? What percentage of time? Do they
win?
We do.
We don't have a
We don't have that information but we can represent
African-American contractors. There was always waivers for
nve WBEE. How many waivers have you all had no waivers this
year. That's fantastic.
so, even though
So, even when African-American contractors having one bids,
have you asked them what they could do to win the beds
with? What, what, what what can what can be done to help
African contractors Winnipeg.
Who usually is the technical.
Who usually is the technical support.
Y'all got a free.
You've Got a Friend.
The technical support and then giving them the opportunity
to partner with another company, such as a joint venture,
you know, let him know ahead of time so that they can
prepare themselves for the up-and-coming opportunities. So
who can you tell me what? Ethnicity get the largest
technology contracts.
We got, we would have to provide that information through
the chair.
Okay.
Okay, so sometimes it seemed like maybe some of some of the
minority contractors should joint venture with some folks,
too. If they pretty much went and everything to the things
that we do in that environment, I see, is haven't seen a
construction. So we can't do Target Market to ensure and we
have a vendor. I got a target for it related work. And if
we have the appropriate representation of African-Americans
or minority-owned companies, we didn't take that work out
at the target market, which only allows for those vendors
to respond to the solicitation winners winners your turd,
what does your charger Vin?
I'm so,
I'm sorry, when is the
I'm sorry. When is your time?
I'm sorry. When is your Tire, Man?
I can.
I try.
I turn.
My turn. Yes, I believe I have two years left. So the only
22 does that is procurement. And who else? Is a c h? A
respected General Spectre, General, but see, AJ is the same
thing, isn't it? They have a contract. They did their
contracted. I think the person is CH a is contracted. I
don't think the city of Chicago, has any Commissioners
under contract at one point to the lady in aviation
products, Jamie was under contract. But I don't think that
we have any contracted Commissioners at this point. So,
appreciate the diversity of your staff. You got some good
people working for you. We just got to be more laser focus.
I appreciate the fact that African-Americans are getting
more money.
but,
But let's go.
Belasco.
Belarus country.
But let's contracts. I don't appreciate. So we need to
really work on that, and then we should all try to work on
that together. Put us too attached, right? Let us all try
to work on that together, okay? Thank you very much. Thank
you. You ready? I think it's already been answered. Just
you can say that. But what challenges you see for African
Americans in this pool of procurement? What do you see?
Some of the things that constantly come back? Some of the
things that you were, you know, constantly challenged with
What's on?
What's some of the issues?
What's some of the issues that you see?
so,
Zodiac.
So the issues that we know, how do you see on the
construction side? African Americans. Don't tend to get
certified on the construction site, which is a big portion
of student expenses and steady work. The other challenge
that we know I've bonding and insurance and we're working
with the Controllers Office on those. I'm as well. So the
process is Lynch to the challenges has there been, do you
have the amount of money somewhere that or have you made
efforts to invest in more classes is investing more small
group sessions to walk through the process if you have how
much money has been invested in that process,
The.
so, we have
So we have funding in our budget for outreach events and
different conferences and we've created we have workshops
almost every every other day, Okay, online. So that if you
miss it live, you can actually go in and take the workshop
on your own there so that you have the opportunity to do it
on your own time and at this benefit to your work hours and
then we do the Outreach. We typed you, we have two major
conferences throughout the year. This next year we're
adding to networking business, to business events to ensure
that we have these vendors come in.
I'm a.
I'm in.
I'm in have an opportunity to network network, with our user
departments infrastructure, user department and the vendors
at in the pine vendors to be able to develop a
relationship. And then the training, we will use our assist
agencies to train on how to get certified on the process.
That is the process to get certified. Educating them on how
to get certified and how to be a little bit to put together
a business case. I do want to say that you and your staff.
I mean, I get to update contract B in my email, I just want
to offer a suggestion as an aide to help as a pastor
churches are the biggest organizing tool people gather
different diversity different voices, rather diverse
audience. So, I just wanted to be part of our portfolio.
It's like a black hole, people don't know. It's a lot of
mystery that he say, she say, all of these things that are
offered, maybe we can look at a more strategic marketing
and engagement.
That's the
That's being.
That's beyond.
That's beyond the big conferences and Beyond this morning
utilizing more Community Partners to host, maybe even an
automatic offices, Urban League so forth. And so on to go
out instead of the idea of coming in because it seems as if
there's a disconnect in communicating, all of these things
that you just expressed to the city at large last question
you mentioned. There's a you know I T the other things that
have been mentioned as opportunities
Where did?
Where do you see?
Where do you see all?
Where do you see also, the opportunity for women-owned
businesses in particular, black on women businesses? Where
do you see in Turning Point on, that has not been taken
advantage of a black woman owned businesses in the, in the
portfolio of work that you have.
and,
any in the commodity area.
I'm at.
Commodity.
Commodities Goods.
Commodities goods and services and services. Thank you all
so much.
Are you?
Are y'all in the house?
Are y'all in the hall? I am I don't have any of the first
round of the only had you wanted to do anything else. You
want to add all the more I just, I just want to make sure I
who I had lined up for 20K Coleman more Villegas. Before we
go to the round. 21 question is do we have a form of a
mentor Protege program to help the our subs, get some
meaningful experience in hand holding in, in in this
processor? Or is that something that we could scope is part
of the bids that we're doing, especially on certain size
projects that there, there needs to be a secondary
relationship to help bring some other people alone.
Yeah.
yes, we
Yes, we currently have a mentor Protege program. We are in
the process of revising the mentor-protege program.
end the
And that is that is there a certain dollar qualifier that
you would consider that at door? What what Woody what are
you all starts on it.
so, the maximum
So the maximum participation data a, a contractor korner's
up to 5%.
Sitting.
Say that again to Patient on a mentor. Protege.
that the
At the condo.
That the contractor took can turn this up to 5%.
Alarm.
I don't know.
I don't, I don't understand of the basement.
Do that.
oh, that's a
Oh, that's a bit and see.
Oh, that's a big incentive. Is that okay? Got you? So is a
good. Incentive is a 5% Business Center for a theoretically
for any bed, a person could have a Mitchell, Protege
relationship and get a 5-person. Big credit often. Is that
is that awarded
it's
It's not used.
It's not used very often.
Yeah.
Yes.
if I,
When is that, is that set by? I'm sorry. Go ahead. Go
ahead.
First.
First or the B that have come in the far as January to
July, no mentor-protege agreements. Were entered as part of
the B, the middle and is that
Bob.
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Papas and set by ordinance or is it set by rule?
Okay.
It is.
It is a it is a organ instrument but no one is taking
advantage of that particular piece, okay? How many I don't
know if you if you have it, that's fine last year, how many
times was just awarded was this computer? This part of the
award?
I,
I could get that in.
I can get that information to the chair has to be asked for
or is it something is automatically calculate so you get a
5% credit for Mitchell, Protege relationship, and
I do.
I don't.
I don't know.
I don't know the answer to this and it may be anecdotally.
Should.
Should that dessert?
Should that doesn't number need to be raised a percentage
or does it? Are we seeing bids that are so close? That this
actually could make a break, somebody getting a particular
contract.
I need.
I didn't get with.
I didn't get with regard to when the construction diversity
of Despair to study came out. It was a recommendation for
us to look at our incentive programs and want to know what
one of them was the mentor, Protege program. So, the office
of contract in equity, is actually looking at our current
men produce a drug program to try to revamp. It encourage
more participation at the mental Protege, participation
level and whether any other
Suggestions, that she gave.
Suggestions that she gave to us.
Suggestions that she gave to us that we should we should be
able to maintain this part of this potential revamping. She
asked that we look at all our expenses or particular
dementor Protege. Where the other question was on the? Do
we have design bill for construction engineer Construction,
done by the same firm, or do we use design-build services?
is the
Is there a?
Is he okay? You play?
Is he okay? You please adjust a question.
Look.
Looking.
Look in your
Looking for design and construction still design-build is
an option right now. The city does not use a lot of
design-build, there is some designs bow contractor coming
through Aviation previously. But for the infrastructure,
departments were usually have a pool of qualified vendors
that do the design of the project, that do the construction
management of the project and the actual construction of
the project. Usually it's three contracts. That wouldn't
that would basically facilitate the entire delivery of a
single project. We are looking with the enforcers
infrastructure Department to look and see what projects we
could. Identify that could possibly be all-in-one,
design-build contract.
I is.
I isn't easy.
I is it, is it?
If we.
if we start looking,
If we start looking at that type of a scenario when we're
looking more of a, for an RF to give generously, give us
the opportunity to have a more diverse pool of of people
participating at that level versus in RFP process, at one
of the RFP process. If you're going straight RP, usually
appear singular project, singular, delivery, when we look
at the RFQ, we're looking at the qualification of multiple
firms for a multitude of projects or task orders that
issued at any given time. So yes, it does allow, it does
open the door. And with the target market program, it
basically creates a niche market for smaller vendors to
actually apply and wbmw firms.
But if you look at the point of using an RFQ with the
design-build team that has a level of intentionality with
it, might we get better diversity in our spoon at the at
the end of the day.
so, there are
So they are dependent upon the qualifications are required
to actually deliver that project, right? So we would have
to build that solicitation to actually have those that
returned, that solicitation has to be specific in what it
needs and also specific on what needs to be delivered from
the vendor. So, yes, we could put in requirements in
regards to increasing the participation is required target
market. Contracts are used
let
led by a mine or
led by a minority firm
Led by a minority firm so that participation is from them
directly. But yeah, there's ways to to look at that and try
to expand the opportunities that we have there.
Oh, okay. I think I automatically waguespack had not had
his first set.
author
I thought you had.
I thought you had felt wrong. When I apologized. Go to
Albany Walker Spectre in I'll go to Alderman Coleman. Go
ahead Altima walks back. Thank you chairman. Good evening.
I just had actually had a lot of stuff but it sounds like
you got most of it covered here and then
I understand the need.
I understand the need to go expediently on some issues but
also with good deliberation on others, you know, the way
things used to be around here 20-30 years ago is why we got
to the place that we are now and not having a good set of
rules can lead to basically the city being Prime for
corruption like it used to be so there's a good reason to
have a set of rules that we have to follow. However, I
think a lot of us here also want to see much more
deliberate speed when it comes to some of these contracts
and one in particular that we're trying to figure out or
this budget is coming through the Office of Public Safety
Administration and that is for the helicopter purchases two
helicopters, and if you could
I like you.
I'd like you to kind of take a step by step.
I'd like you to kind of take a step-by-step through the
I'd like you to kind of take a step by step through this
because it's my understanding that we had seen approval for
this. A year ago, it went through initially, I think
through a different process.
It was.
it was for a
It was for Professional Services.
An.
and,
And a reference contract and then it didn't come back until
about a month ago that we were now looking at a
non-competitive review board contract and that that's only
just a few weeks ago. So if you could explain why we are,
you know, now having to go through a separate process when
it was asked to be a soul, procurement process at the
beginning, and what the timeline is to get this done, so
that we can get this almost 12 million dollar budget item.
Moving quickly will actually that went through a
non-competitive process and crb that was approved and the
contract is in final stages of being executed. So, right
now it's between the Department of Law and to use it, if I
meant to respond, to a couple of questions and be able to
get to execution,
So what? What kind of?
So what what kind of questions would the?
So what what kind of questions would those be? That were be
holding it up. I do this week, but it is the Department of
Law that is asking those questions. And if you want to know
what they are, I'll be happy to get that through the chair.
Yeah, I'm just looking at the June, the request for
approval. It doesn't say anything about it, going back to
the Department of Law or the user agency, which is TSA. So
I'd be curious to know what those are and what the holdup
is. I think the problem here is that, because we took over
a year to get it done the list that your put on, for this
particular company. Now, hold us back almost another year
before we can actually play.
I want to see.
I want to say,
I want to say.
I want to say procure but actually coming receipt of the
actual product. So we might be looking a whole nother year
out before we can see those actually land here in the city.
So whatever you could give us through the chair, that would
be helpful. I'd like to see the process that it went
through and the timeline and then also what those questions
are through the chair. Thank you. Absolutely.
Thank.
I got.
A yard.
They got me on a Coleman.
Thanks.
Thank you, cheer me.
Thank you, chairman.
I want to.
I want to beat a deer.
I want to beat a dead horse, but you'd mentioned that the
first and second quarter numbers for goods and services
were published.
Yes, Prima.
Yes, payment, that was about him half an hour ago, no one
could go and get those numbers to report to US during
budget season. During the session to get you a copy of them
to, to give us with those numbers are at 8 actual budget.
Hearing actually we didn't we said, we would provide you
with those reports to the chair with a man. So no, we
didn't send anybody to go get those, okay? But you said
that they were published today, I publish where was that?
Where could we find that first and second quarter were
published bank? And you talked to the Coeur d'Alene
officer, the quarterly numbers for
the minority numbers are posted on the city's data portal.
So you have to go to data chicago.gov and I'm not quite
sure of the name of the data sets, but then you would type
that in there and you would be able to see that perhaps one
of my fellow deputies knows that through the office of
contacting Equity report on those
The office.
Contacting Equity, as well. As those numbers been given to
Sherman Michigan to report. I don't recall them in our
lives. At what's the Outreach budget that you mention to? I
believe, Aldrin Hall.
and,
An update.
And of that. How much have you exhausted in quarter 3?
Don't.
Don't feel the Outreach budget is.
100.
A hundred and $5,000 and that includes our conferences as
long as well as the Symposium and the day today that we do
and coming out to the communities.
Do.
Do you want?
Do you all have a, how to do business with the city of
Chicago? I know that the CPO before to Prior cpos were very
intentional about coming to the community colleges and how
to do business with the city of Chicago geared toward, and
they were very intentional about getting minority firms
pacifically. Especially in the African American communities
of getting blacks.
Turn off.
Certify.
Certified.
that's,
Badger off.
Has your office ever done that in your tenure? We do
Outreach nothing. We haven't done any with the city of
colleges, if that's what you're referring to, but we do our
reach Ryan, can you talk about the Outreach?
Thank you.
Thank you for.
Thank you for the question, Ryan, Gage director of public
affairs. We do have a workshop that deals with how to do
business with the city. We also have one on how to gain
certification, what to do after your certified. Additional
Court workshops include how to respond to an RFP. How do
you was already procurement system? I'd be happy to get you
a list of additional courses that we offer, but we do offer
workshops. I was not here pre-pandemic. When DPS was
conducting. The workshops in person since I've been here,
we conduct them virtually on a weekly basis. We also post
recordings of those core workshops, all of the core
workshops and some of our secondary workshops for on-demand
viewing 24/7 on YouTube page.
so, I know they
so, I know that we're in a
So I know that we're in a virtual space, however, you know,
sometimes people need to see and talk to and feel and have
a little hand-holding and holding while the urge and the
the appetite to get certified. So I would recommend while
everything is online online.
But being intention.
But being intentional.
But being intentional about coming out in the community, I
keep hearing you say, we do things in the community, but I
haven't heard one community that you've done something in
Englewood or Chicagoland or Marquette, Park yesterday, and
we're happy to come out to your work to do a workshop on
how to get certified or how to do business with the city as
well. Would love that. Thank you.
when were
When will the are
When will the RFP for the O'Hare? Concessions. Be
Laura.
Laurel.
Laurel, can you please address then?
My name.
My name is the.
My name is.
I'm Ralph.
I'm Ralph Lima sure, the deputy procurement officer over
the aviation unit. Currently, the concession contract
management has been awarded the department of Aviation
issues, their own concession, symposiums, as well as
Outreach independently of the Department of procurement
services. So when they go out for the Midway Inn O'Hare
concessions, Aviation does it independently, but we hired
the management team that oversees the business practice in
the leasing of the airport, I understand that. And that's
some Posey and will be November 1st, however, I also
understand that Aviation is up that work concessions, which
has not 40 years.
and I,
and I've been to,
And I've been told that we're waiting on procurement or a
timeline of when the RFP will be released. And when will
that be? As the question, I will have to get back to you,
to confirm which concessions contract. They're speaking of
her little one in terminal 3, and Susie Monica Jimenez, are
you talking about concessions that are actually in the
terminals like McDonald's in such bad Terminal 1, in
terminal 3. So those types of concessions are actually
procured by the department of Aviation. They do not come
through the department of procurement services.
They're right at.
They're right after.
They're right after you also. I think that there is a
misstep there.
What?
audited some of the rfps because I think the general
consensus especially from
both these
Both these African-American caucus and Latino caucus of how
these are peas. Are rich are written.
If?
if mine or
If minority firm, who is certified capable competent. But
there's sometimes there's a line that says, with 10 years
experience or with 15 years experience, and if you're never
given an opportunity to get that experience, that you're
not found in the, as you say, a part of the municipal code
and guidelines, you're not applicable.
What is?
What is your offer?
What is your office or what have you done in the last 2
years? To take an assessment or do you do? Should we get an
outside audit of the rfps? Because to report that 4%
minorities or $0.04 4% African Americans are doing
business. And we understand it is a challenge. However what
have we done?
To.
To Remy.
To remedy that challenge. So, the level of expertise it
comes from, if it were talking about construction, the
level of expertise and experience is something that we have
from the use it. If I meant the Ivy, the other ones that
deal with the Opera, the day-to-day operations. And so we
looked at your engineers and Architects to decide what
level of expertise, they need to be able to do the March
that's where the subject matter. Expertise exist. Today,
I'm just you or anything else you can add
Yes.
Yes, I do.
Yes, I just do Cortez, every design construction. So when
it comes to procurements of the Professional Service side
of the construction services, the requirements are vetted
by the Department's. The Department's have historical data
in regards to the performance of certain contracts dollar
values associated with those contracts that evaluation
criteria crafted by that user Department. We follow the
guidelines in regards to the proposed, reviewing proposals,
there's a difference between an RFP and are q and actual. A
bid for a basic Construction contract. When we talk and
construction, we talkin lobit, who gives us the best price.
We're talkin RFQ. We're talkin. Who who
We're talkin RFQ. We're talkin who has the best
qualification, the ark? You can be a joint venture try,
Venture quad Venture. Whatever. It may be. Whatever kind of
team that can put together to bring Sports the best
qualifications. That's what they're guided upon. In order
makes collection. When you talk about an RFP, they're
looking for an all-around TurnKey project, usually singular
nature and involves the dollar value as well. The dollar
Babies part of the evaluation during that evaluation, we
can bring in firms to what we would call oral interviews
where they can actually come in, do presentations present
their team and then that becomes part of the final
quantitative qualitative assessment on that Bender.
All.
All of.
Off.
All of those of the beds because I want to help you out
with a mistake that procurement has done. That has affected
district 7, the lowest bid is not always the best firm for
the contract. So I question, who's verifying that the
applicant has the capacity to fulfill the job? And this is
specifically for streets of Sanitation and the firm that
has District in in district 7 because I'm a part. I'm a
victim of a firm that this office chose because they were
the lowest bid, but they do not have the capacity to
fulfill the job.
A Nintendo.
and this is a
And this is a construction project for streets in San. This
is the lot clean, trim and cut.
so, I
So I would I don't have any discussion about we cut it so
yes that was a competitive bid that was issued out last
year. The department asked when win-win for children
services receives the bids right? We evaluate based off of
Lois, responsive responsible bidder. Did they meet the
criteria that was said in the contract and we identify the
little bit and we will then take that information and we
send it over to the user Department to Denton firm based
off of our our assessment. Do you agree that these are the
firm's to be awarded a contract. So it is not just
procurement services with regard to making the
determination. We go to the uses Department and ask them
for their review and concurrent, which in turn is a
recommendation of a ward. They come to the Department of
procurement. Didn't say, yes, I agree that we should based
off of the specification that they wrote the song.
Or.
or in, for,
Or in terms of the requirement that these rooms do have the
capability, we then move forward with that contract and
warding that contract to the vendor. Chairman may, I ask
just one last question regarding that. So, when the vendor
is found, that they cannot fulfill the job, and this is a
five-year contract. Then what does your office do? When the
department then finds themselves that? Okay, we made a
mistake. What can you all do to fix it. So there is a
process involved in that we can just tell the firm. No, you
can't do this. The. Did Department actually have to
document a performance that they had a lack in performance
in order for procurement and our legal department to take
action against that vendor, how long does that take us to
cure? How long does that take the notice to cure Patrick
can you advise? But
Get.
Again.
again, we
Again, we have to have documentation from the Department
making us. We didn't put our legal documents together and
then a bunch of candy called a council. The process is nice
to me time-consuming. It really depends on when we get that
documentation from the user apartment and the request to
issue what's called a notice to cure or notice to default.
These are all standard terms in our contracts but
Department.
Apartments, because they managed.
Apartments, because they manage the car.
Apartments because they manage the contracts performance
have to kind of document those performance issues and asked
us to take action against the vendor. But all in all the
time is, is not extremely time-consuming process. Once we
have that information, if they don't come to us with regard
to the poor performance and have that document, the chief
procurement officer can't move forward with any type of
action. I'll be holding a meeting with you and the sfso.
Thank you, chairman vice-chair Lee and aldermen more by
sure, you ready?
I'm so,
I'm sorry. And
I'm sorry. Ann Villegas price check.
Thank you.
Thank you questions for you. So right now, do you have on
your staff 4444?
and,
And how?
And how long have those vacancies? How long do you have the
bacon cheese? Still are 48% of my vacancies, are in two
titles and their procurement specialist, and then
desertification and compliance officers.
Okay.
I think so.
I think someone,
I think someone started to ask you this question earlier
and I apologize if I'm being redundant. But what are your,
what are your biggest challenges? Do you think with hiring
people to fill these positions? They know that the HR
department for a lot of Lake, salary evaluation Bluestein
Personnel Services, go up
Thank you. So is compensation and I know that there's going
to be are going to be implemented next year. It is also the
fact that these are the skill-sets are very sought-after.
We have used the Department's, I have similar titles, which
were humans older titles that are being used by some of our
city departments which means we should we hire it could be
that we're hiring the person and we do the training and the
person didn't go to one of these or it could be that the
the user Department salary is higher than ours. So please
help.
Custom.
And I constantly being average.
And I constantly being advertised.
And I constantly being advertised to be able to hire into
this wall and we right now I have 21 position, which is not
competitive right now. That we seen, we seen increases in a
lot of other departments. I wish that your department would
have been prioritised because think about the sort of
ripple effect of actually, having a full staff and being
able to retain those, excuse me, I've heard I've heard from
other contractors are doing business with the city. That
your Staffing. Your Staffing challenges are also causing
delays with processing. Think 60 is, I want in particular,
where there's a supplement to a contract that was already
approved by the user department. Has lasted since December
of last year, without that approval, they can get paid. Cuz
I get these, I, I will come to you with the exact the exact
details, but just hearing this, cuz you don't put feelers
out for every Department to constituents, just to say, hey,
I'm going to be before
Departments of life.
Departments of like,
Departments would like to speak.
Departments electric speed me or questions and they got a
question like that from a minority-owned business. It
doesn't feel good that information with me because
amendments to contracts to extend a term or two to do when
delivering places to allow for payment are initiated by the
user Department. In a lot of times, they're not an
initiated in time the only initiated the services continued
because they extended the contract of contact may be
extended the services continue, but they don't come in and
aligned of the amount of dollars that they have against
that extension and bills are continuing to pile off and
only we only hear about it through some of the vendors or
so. Some of the Year, I'll demand that will bring that
information to us. When we start looking into it, we don't
have any documentation in our department to be able to act
on that we do, vendor limit increases and
I'm a mess.
A message.
I'm a mess to.
I'm a mess to extend the term within 30 days of receipt as
long as it's in their Department in the funding sources
identified, okay? Those are easy because you're not
amending the contract and services or the skull that you're
basically just extending the contract wedding additional
dollars. And we tend to turn those around within 30 days.
So, if you can, please share that information with me.
Because those, I take very seriously. We do move them as
quickly as they get my stuff is committed.
Everybody.
everybody in that box, know that they
Everybody in that box knows that there's no reason why.
Everybody in that box knows that there's no reason why I
even deleted increase or the amendment to extend the
contractor and should take any more than 30 days from
receipt of the, in the department. And that means 30 days
for the, okay, great? I will, I will definitely send you
the information and I probably have a few others in my, in
my inbox and there's technology that's coming. But while
the technology isn't here yet we need to have better
communication with everybody cuz there's a there's a lot of
BS going on. If something is, this is Eva's Apartments
looking to buy or tie something, they do it all the time
because I ever ate with the Department's, all that is
required, is for the commissioner to pick up the phone and
call me and say, are you deciding? This is coming your way,
is there any way we can expedite that? And we, I hear that
more often than not and that's exactly what I push my
stuff. Okay, great.
Madea.
How many yellow?
All right.
all right, I'll
All right. I'll just have this one.
The.
That's about.
That's about women-owned businesses and it's clear from the
WB participation at the store percent that our messages are
really getting across to the city's Prime contractors. What
have we done this year? And what, what do we plan to do in
the next year or two to address the situation?
What?
Will contain.
Will continue to do Outreach to women-owned businesses as
well as minority-owned businesses. We're working with the
user Department to identify opportunities and make sure
that the vendor population knows about it ahead of time.
We're doing business the business matchmaking, we're
working with our sister agencies as well.
in our,
And are we talked a little bit about the certification?
Assistants do? We do certification assistance for more like
you do up and coming businesses you want to do business
with the city but are having trouble navigating. The
certification process are available by phone. We meet with
vendors to walk them through the certification process, as
well as hold workshops and our workshops are online but
they can watch at any point in time. Thank you, picture.
Is it?
Not.
Knock.
Not going.
Knucklehead.
All right.
Are you?
May I have nowhere to be. I am just, you know, I'm just a
wife know where I'm at. So it's not a problem. So,
Aw.
All.
Ultimate MO.
Alderman Moore.
Thank.
Thank you, Joe.
Thank you Tim and his last 5 minutes of these next things
I'm passing through the chair. I just wanted to be clear
and I think it was written down but I just want to stay you
did mention that you've been here for about 2 years. I
thought it was longer. But regardless to tell to the chair
provide, what I asked for in terms of the number of people
have to have left under your tenure, since you've been here
and those those people I'm by ethnicity, please. Okay. The
other through the chair request is again. Just to be clear.
They would probably ask Mom but I just want to be clear.
That is stated upper bathroom. Share the construction
numbers that we talkin about the technology. Professional
Services from 2018 to 2023 for African American African
American women. Okay?
All right. And then my final question will be around the Erp
system so I jest as a is who the other day who was the lead
on the laissez-faire, the lead on it are you are you
familiar with the Erp system, okay. And it in terms of what
have you ever worked with it? Or you just going to put you
in the process, you learned about it. How are you familiar
with the Erp system?
Afghan.
I've gone through two implementations of Erp system in my
past experience working with it personally. Okay?
What were?
What, what did you?
What, what did you work with those at the Erp system app
and Tech sector in the private sector? Okay. And
If?
If you can.
If you can say, the difference between VIP system in it and
spending that money to do that, instead of upgrading
Oracle, what will be your reason for Ben? Can you address
to your pee in the comparison to Oracle? Please answer. The
Oracle system is the current computer system. Fmps chip
system that the city uses as its Financial HR and
procurement system. On the Erp system was alluded to
biking,
when she mentioned that, we are looking
When she mentioned that we are looking for in technology
upgrade to help us with evil Kermit. This is part of the
Erp project and Oracle. I'm work day in sap, where the
vendors that were considered through the competitive
process that I don't see po over saw earlier this year. And
there is a contract that is being negotiated. Now, for the
Erp system, who's all on the evaluation team evaluation
team is that much in mind that to you through the chair.
Don't.
Don't we have?
Do we actually have? I can talk to you at a high-level, but
we do have that detail and we can provide it to the chair.
So we have representation from every Department that was
looking at wiring on module on a is it Budget Finance and
procurement
and with a,
and within those,
And within those Department that were two members of each
department that were identified to be part of the
evaluating committee, there was a list of other members by
each department, that were Jean subject matter, experts
that were, that were part of the demos and the process to
gain to the software provider that we identified today, and
who will please do, and who was on the team from curement.
and,
And who?
And who then help myself is that, is that normally how it
goes? I'm just thinking about when I was at chla and we did
evaluation that, I didn't know the head of procurement.
Wasn't on it, because they're also the ones that I'm
signing the so it is because one of the modules is for
procurement. So, I was addressing the, from a, from the, in
the valuation perspective, my, the module for the
procurement department. So, each commissioner was
addressing their own module through this process and I was
there representing procurement module.
okay, and then
okay, and it's not a
Okay, and it's not a conflict. In your opinion, I'm just
asking cuz I have just thinking about user Miami user
apartment because we had an evaluation committee for five
different departments. And everybody was looking at their
role as it pertains to the module. That was being for sure.
But who evaluated it, then your module to supplement with
commissioner said, just at the evaluation committee
Ask.
Actual.
Actually looked at all, the all the members of all the
committee's looked at all the module. So did then there was
discussion.
About all.
About all the time.
About all the different models. Of example, we are not
experts and budget, but we also saw the budget box won't.
And so the primary folks who would to have the expertise on
the budget bathroom, where the budget representative?
However, you just looking at it from, from an outsider's
perspective, we provided our comments to budget and the
Department's generally would defer to the wishes of that
module owner, but happened 40
Clifford.
The different module.
The different modules.
The different modules to budget would give us input into
what they thought was the best for Kermit module, even
though we are the experts in that in. So, it was a
give-and-take amongst all the committee members, which
address is you're concerned about about, I guess, bias or
conflict with regards to the different modules. And then
the last thing that a chair is provide me, the number of
Union grievances against the department that are currently
pending. Please. It's a lot of new folks here to know
people in for Kim. I barely know anybody these days. So
please just provide number of grievances union, grievance
against the department that I currently pending, okay?
Thank you.
I think.
I'll take you all to.
I'll take you all to meet all of them and a helper work.
Did you have something to? So you do know,
Thank.
Thank you, Cheri.
Thank you, sir. Thank you. I'll demand more. I also am
interested in, as a new person, learning more about what
your department does. So can I get a, take a commitment
from YouTube to follow with my team so that we can learn
about a procurement and everything about it? And can you
tell me? And I'm also, really glad to see that you're
getting more.
Restore.
Resource.
Resources.
Resources for it. I hope that I see that there's more for
professional Technical Services and other third-party
benefit agreements. Is that for it need to upgrade your
sister that's funding. So that's related to work that we do
internally the funding for the Erp system is actually house
with the budget. It's not allocated. My department is the
funding for the project is with within the budget of
Great.
Great idea.
Great. I think that I'm upgrading systems is going to help
a lot. It seems to me. I had a question about your
advertising. Can you tell me a little bit more about how
you use your advertising budget?
So,
So bye.
So, by Municipal call, we are required to advertise any
solicitation. I'm in the newspaper. So we do. We do that?
We're also used advertising and yeah, which that we do with
the different seminars and trainings. We also use that
money for the videos in the automation of the training
session that we do anything else. You want to add
Thank.
Thank you. I'm I I've been listening to the need to fill
your vacancies and also the need for diversity in our
Workforce. And I was I was hoping to get your commitment
cuz I I think that you said that you advertised through
media through the Chicago Tribune and I would like you to a
commitment from you that you were going to explore other
media, such as Chicago Defender perhaps you know of
Juneteenth Productions or Indigo, or Southside weekly. I
think it's just something that you could commit to it that
are super taste to the sourcing activity. Absolutely.
Thank you. So
Thank you so much. We have a lot to do in terms of creating
a environment where young people understand what we do in
city government and I would like your commitment also to
I'm working at the Chicago Public Schools too so that we
can Champion. All the things that we do, we want to be
transparent. And when can you speak on how you're working
with Chicago public? We have for the first time I believed
in this apartment, we have money for internship and that's
the whole purpose of it is to be able to get interested in
so that we can educate in the procurement professionals.
Listen to West.
Listen to our students.
Thank you so much. Thank you, cheer.
Thank you so much. Thank you, chair.
Then.
Thank you.
Then go all the way.
Nikki Altman. We're going to go to quickly to augment
Burnett and then we're going to close up with the vice
trailer. I'm sorry man, I can't see you pass the ultimate
Burnett over there but go ahead. And then all the beings.
Oh, okay. Thank you, mr. I'm just question. So is it to my
understanding that procurement deals with grants also?
You are.
Do you all leave?
You already got you a grants? No we don't deal with. We
don't issue Grant agreement. If the procurement does have a
grand associated with the sourcing activity, then that's
actually viewed by our department legal department, as well
as the law department. So we don't issue G. The derivation
May apply for, who any of their grass go through you all.
Do you?
The yard.
The ottoman ottoman Villegas.
Take.
Take me to.
Take me to German.
do the
Do that.
Religious.
Through the chair. If procurement could provide some more
details around it. Contracts that were never put out their
sap.
And that.
and then,
And then it's related to selection committees when
selection committees are put together.
Who.
Who is?
Who is, which is it, the department that's leading the
selection. And then procurement, just a part of the
selection committee like how does that work? Do you want me
to start an activity? Through a knife. Knife. Qubes
process, not loaded. So the selection, there is an
evaluation committee that is identified by the department
store. Seeing the project, is it fair to say that the
majority of the people that sit on selection committee will
be from the Department that's actually receiving the
services. Differ during the evaluation committee is
compliance for the most part, by the use of the Power,
Ranger seeking the services. They may bring other expertise
from other areas like they made in what am I bringing speed
up? For whatever reason to have representation of the CDL
Department within their solar.
station evaluation committee, but it
Patient evaluation committee but it is driven in the
selection is made by the department, seeking the service
that's policy.
QuikTrip.
QuikTrip DP.
Pre-trip DPS, will you talk about procurement numbers
earlier? Was this procurement numbers that that you're
actually in control over its your budget or is it? Are you
reporting for overall as a Clearinghouse I am reporting for
the entire city of Chicago so those are reflected. Those
numbers are the reflection of all of them that they will
Chicago departments that goes to a sourcing activity
through the other procurement officer. You're actually just
reporting, what the Departments are reporting to you, but
it is a Pity that the user Department do on those projects,
it's toasted, Monica Jimenez. It's those contracts that
come through the department of procurement services,
not like,
Not like you.
not like you, you how
Not like you you have all the contracts for water and you're
saying we're going to do this and you just the Clearing
House. So, really went, when we were talking about the lack
of parity or diversity, we should be really talking to you
plus the other agency, right? Because you have the
authority that this body has given you to say, hey, Water
Department. Hey Siri. Hey, Aviation, this is what we want
you to accomplish. That is totally correct. And that's what
we have been doing. Since I started, its pushing back on
the use it. If I meant to say, you cannot come to
procurement and say, I need this project and we're just
coming to you, but I needed it like yesterday but based on
the results that were saying they are doing that they
aren't, they are telling you, this is what we going to do.
So I think, I think that the position that you have in the
authority that you had in the support you have from this
body, I think that to speak earlier.
He needs.
Can you let?
He needs a leopard.
Can you do leopards out of?
Can you do leopards that Authority? Little bit more to
really if these departments are not willing to press the
envelope and really challenged the industry's around
Traverse City that we need to know about that. So that way
we can talk to the Departments and say, hey, this is what
you need to do. I mean, I like back to the user department
on to you. No say, in this unbundle this do you have an
opportunity to
Or.
or we look at,
or we look at it, and it,
Or we look at it and it doesn't come in till I get Mark and
when we do it can go out target market and I've pushed back
to make those changes obviously. There's always the
pressure that we really have to hurry up and get this
workout because he there is no that was the funding. Or I'm
going to not have the services in time for a specific
season or whatever the case may be. So whenever Sherman
begins to Fork to formulate,
At what?
At what point?
At what point is your office engaged? Is it just like, Hey,
we're thinking about this? And then they give you a short
window or are you guys communicated throughout the whole
process and your team is looking at going to hate? I think
there's an opportunity to Duke. Manor, Protege does an
opportunity to Target Market, excetera play to get us at
the table because the work is already. The scope of work is
here there. They're so deadline to get it out and we're
trying out to my vpos to say we need to be aware of the
project that they're working out that they're planning for
for the next water so that we can affect how that project
is going to be sourced. You have that Authority now. Yes.
And I'm doing a lot better. Thank you, thank you. And maybe
Can.
Channel.
Repeat.
Procure.
Procurement move.
Soca.
Tuacahn.
To contract without your signature.
in a
Interpreter mode.
In a procurement move to the water department go by.
Bob.
By my.
5 miles of pipe without your blessing, will it? If you are.
So we need you to know to let it up and let it down Disney.
Be people will only do with their allowed to do and it will
allow them to keep doing what they doing. If I'm them, I'm
going to keep doing what I'm doing until I'm told to do
something different. Otherwise again is, is is is is Odd
Movie agency stated. We have empowered person in a position
to to do exactly just that. If it's not meeting what we all
dream for need to meet, then you what you have to say no,
and until the department. And then once they get the
message, they will they will comply. They can't get done.
What they need to get done today. I'll comply. But we need
you. You are the, you're the stopgap. We need you to say no
and send them back in and get done. What needs to get done.
Vice.
Vice chair.
Why surely you had a couple?
Why surely you had a couple items you want to put on the
record? I'm sorry. I do appreciate you coming with your
team to my work office and explaining to us all of the
processes and all those great work for us are doing. And as
chairman just said, keep up being the person you are, you
know, and I am confident that with you and your great team
you're going to we're going to complicate things and just
please continue to share with us if you have any workshops
or any opportunities for local businesses so we can share
them with our Wards and I just wanted to congratulate you
and keep up the good work. I know being Latina and being
the strong woman out there. Sometimes it's difficult but I
want to give you all my respect. This is what we need in
the city. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much.
Thank you. I just had a couple of questions here.
Anaconda.
A new country.
under contract in the
Under contract in equity into in the corporate fun. I see
you guys are down two positions. While it, why would you
positions are removed out of contract? Inequity, they were
not be reclassified a position. We have not moved any
positions out of contrasting I couldn't what was an officer
one assistant procurement officer dead in 23 revised were
there in 24 recommendation.
No.
not the
Not there that he account went from 30 to 28 so that that is
a reduction of a two positions into high-level positions of
for Contracting a queen. So the people we have a deputy
procurement officer and we have to
My.
mad at
Manage.
Managers.
Managers have cervix certification and compliance. What
that title of manager's certification in compliance was
reclassified temporarily to hire an individual that we
needed to do and is being reclassified back to the manager
of certification and compliance. Also, it was a temporary
change. That position is coming back. It's, it's coming
back into the office, contacting, Equity manager,
certification and compliance. This is here, it was here in
23 and a chair. Now, the position, I'm speaking of is a
deputy procurement officer, in assistant, procurement
officer in contract in equity,
Yes.
The assistance.
The assistance of the police officer, we've always had one
position and the position is still in place and they be
assistant procurement officer is a new position that was
actually created in 2023 and that position is still making
their position. According to this, document is no more that
stuff. My question I've got to
Sure.
Recommendation.
01, that people chat room. I will look into it because I've
been here in the office of Contracting equity, in that
position is actually spelled
Open looking at.
Okay, I'll look into it and looking at it the challenges
that we're having an equity. Will it? What kind of
positions do does it quite sit? Well, with me by Steely you
had a couple lives would have put on for a future. I do
thank you. And just all of these through the chair, you
don't have to answer these. Now, I think this is just like
the report type numbers on, can you please provide a list
of the MW bees that make up the numbers that you provided
earlier today and include the following contract numbers,
the name of the firm amount paid to date?
I'll go.
August.
August, or
August. Or whether the The Firm was counted on the
contract, as an MBE. Or is it w be under the minority woman
was counted as a w b e under the TPS regulations, but his
payments were counted. Under the firm's race like an
explanation as to, why would these firms were categorized
the way that they were there, so you can only be
categorized as once.
I'm
Asian America.
I'm an Asian-American with.
I'm an Asian-American woman. I can either be counted as a
woman owned business or in the Asian-American count. So I'm
just, I want a clearer picture of that. When there's a
compliance band that is submitted by the prime contractor
and they submitted a Schedule D, they list of
subcontractors, we have to remember that. This is a program
goal goal. This is not an ethnical. So what they're doing
is doing the certification is either m b, e r w, b e. I can
be certified as both but I can't use my certification
towards both to M & W. Rachel one has to be selected. So,
who decides that the prime contractor general contractor
because they're the ones that are committing to the goals
that are done. If I'd in the specification document, when
we put that solicitation out for bed. So then you we don't
make that decision. And in fact, if that's the way the
application comes in, you wouldn't actually know if that if
that woman owned, business is actually also a
minority-owned business nearby.
Bacon.
Naked women.
Naked when the application for certification comes and
that's where you make it, apply for everything. But what
are they, what are they actually certified based off of the
eligibility requirements? It's really in the hands of the
primes at that point at the time when they're putting their
compliance plan together when they're submitting the bed. I
understand that. Thank you for clarifying that then how
many
How many men?
How many minority?
How many minority whip?
How many minority women?
How many minority women businesses are currently certified
with city of Chicago.
1000.
1000 2000.
Yeah.
Your question with.
Your question with that is what is the backlog of people
who have an 820 7827? I'm sorry, I'm Sorry by Chicago in.
Chicago PD is 2945 firms, okay?
What was?
What was the one?
What was the 1583? Those are friends in Chicago all those
are chicago-based. Okay.
I don't know.
I don't know how.
I don't know how you keep.
I don't know how you keep it straight, okay, I was alluding
to how many, how many application certification
applications, both new and renewing are currently pending.
You can get back to us through the chair if you don't have
that. Right now, we have a new application is 368
You were.
you suppose, I just dropped
and,
and the
And the NCA.
Just me. And
Just me application.
and then through
And then through the chair, if you can provide a list of
the firm's pending including the firm name, ethnicity
gender, Ward, and date. The application was first filed
with CPS,
Penny.
pending a
Pending applications pending application pending yes,
that's all I've got.
Thank.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I'll pick.
Don't think we have any.
I don't think we have anything else again, CPO, thank you
and the team for joining with us today. I know that we're
all
No.
No, can beat.
no, can be tough at times, but
No, can be tough at times, but I think we all have the
vested interests of this city and wanted to see greater
levels of participation amongst all of Chicago. So I know
it's tough sitting in that chair there can be but we know
that that you got thick skin and they can take it and I'll
take that energy and you know roll the ball forward on
behalf of all the Chicago so you can thank you for. Thank
you and your team for joining us. I do have one ass though,
we have water and see. On Thursday and the based on the
conversations today. I think we need someone of some level
of authority from your team to join us on Thursday because
I do believe there's some of the same issues are part of
that conversation as they are your user department. So I'm
not sure who exactly would be best to send from.
Your unit.
your unit, but the Audi
Your unit but the I'll leave that to you but I do think it
be necessary for on Thursday when we do baby I'm sorry to
water and see. For that conversation, then. We'll get the
aviation in post-chaise.
Thank.
Thank you.
You are.
You want to stick my?
You want to stick around?
Victor.
Good evening.
We?
We will stay.
We will start with the final Department of the day.
it's so,
At 6.
At 6:35, is the Department of Aviation. We will have a
couple with the quick quick overview, followed by
commissioner, re-introduced your staff. I am going to waive
the reading of the opening statement. Otherwise, ottoman
sposato, I think will kill us. All will waive, the reading
of the opening statement, it will go to school. Go straight
in the questions, starting a wheelchair person, Aviation
committee chairman of Shea Theodore Kofa, followed by
commissioner followed by chairman. If you can come up a
storm from Copa. Last today, we are Department of Aviation
this real quick. They're at by 24. Budget is roughly 1.4
billion. That's 200.
Set.
70 /.
70 point.
70.9 million / f. Y, 23 for the proposed 2004 budget.
Allocates 2238. F, t e. That's a tee with an increase of 81
at Pease. Compared to 23.93% of their funding comes from
the
O'Hare.
We are grabbing.
Hair of Revenue fund will try to go through leave quickly,
but if we look at it by funding roughly about, 50% comes
from local funds but that's the O'Hare Revenue Fund in the
Midway Airport phone so they are essentially
self-sufficient and then the other amount of money come
from Grants. The O'Hare Airport Grand in the Midway Grand
last year and the year before that they did receive cares
act grants that they are not receiving and 24.
This.
despite,
As far as the employees, that's 1899 for O'Hare in 339 ftes
for Midway.
and when you break it down,
And when you break it down by a procreation category, of
the largest increase would be the contractual Services
where they are seeing an increase of 243 million, which
makes up a large majority of that. Increase of 270.8
million. Thank you.
thank you, quote for
Thank you quote for commissioner. My name is Jamie r e j a
m, i e last name, r e, r h e e. I I am the Chicago
Department of Aviation with me next to me. I have nephew
Samad. He is our Deputy Commissioner /, Finance in the box.
I have Tracy Payne. Our chief administrative Officer
Dwayne, Hayden are managing. Deputy Commissioner or
Airfield Ops? Albert, Midway, Elizabeth Granado's Perez
managing, Deputy Commissioner for Midway O'Brien? Or
managing Deputy Commissioner. Safety, and Security dietary
Town's Deputy Commissioner for IGA in Workhorse, Amber
Ritter a managing, Deputy Commissioner or chief commercial
officer, Wayne Daniel, Deputy Commissioner landside
operations at Southeastern a Deputy Commissioner
interagency relation Rob Hoxie managing? Deputy
Commissioner Chief development officer and Bob Lopez,
Deputy Commissioner for Safety and Security.
German.
Green.
Good evening. Commissioner has been an honor and a
privilege to work with you these past several years. Jamie
we are five years into the developmental deal, that was
signed with the airlines, the 2018 Airline use and lease
agreement at O'Hare International Airport.
A.
April.
Can you provide?
Can you provide us with the current status of the progress,
towards realising, the goals outlined their? Can you go
into that little bit with us over the last couple years?
Obviously, with a pandemic, we saw for the first time
because our passenger numbers obviously to plummet and had
not seen that type of impact over a decade ago hair. But as
we continue to progress and we're seeing the strongest, I
think we are seeing the strongest improvements in our
International traffic, which is obviously critical to our
economy, our local economy. And so right now over all our
we're at O'Hare. Right now we're probably at about
eighty-five 86%. Recovery rates. 2019, Midway fully
recovered. It does not rely on the international traffic is
O'Hare does or or the business travel right now? What we're
seeing is about a night. We are
and I,
and our internet.
and our International truck.
And our International traffic traffic was saying about a
91% return to service and some of that delay is really
caused by some of the transpacific coming on later, as well
as Canada which shut down completely during the pandemic.
But over the years, we continue to deliver. We accelerated
on Terminal 5. As you know, we delivered 350,000 square
feet of new terminal. Space is should bid for concessions,
than those concessions are starting to go in this year. We
had built a new gates, nine of them are up.
so now we moved out to
So now we move Delta Air.
So now we move Delta Airlines over there, broke ground on a
six-story parking structure which will double the parking
allowed for Terminal 5 replacing that old surface lot. We
also did a lot of work, I'm enabling work for the the
terminal area plan, which is obviously our submittal
project at O'Hare which will include the O'Hare, Global
Terminal, A connecting tunnel to saddle lights one and two
the ogt or O'Hare, Global terminal, replace Terminal, 2, +
sin, existing spot and will serve to call locate a domestic
and international Rivals. We are currently past and 30%
design. We sat down and had over 200 technical meeting for
the airline Partners. That's where we're very fortunate to
have to HUB carriers over there as well as others, that
participate as signatories, that really work with us day
and day, two to really look at ways to
IMAX.
maximum.
maximize.
maximize efficient.
Maximize efficiency are air carriers, have been very clear
with us that we must deliver the scope for the budget. That
was provided in the 2018 agreement. That was as you noted,
it was five years ago. So it was passed the airport using
lease agreement which really dynamically change the way
that the airport operated. Emitted been under an old lease
for 2025 years and it really shifted the Dynamics and it
also provided eight and a half billion dollars in 2018
dollars for Capital Improvements. All of which we talked.
Sweeney.
We need.
We needs a significant progress over over the last couple
of years and we are seeing recovery, come back as I've
said. And what was true in 2018 is still true. Now we need
to replace aging infrastructure. Terminal 2 is about 60
years old at the end of its useful. Life was dedicated by
John F. Kennedy and Richard J Daily and really does not
does not provide us. The space where the gates are the
amenities that we need for modern and terminal to be
competitive. It also what we looking to do is to increase
efficiency, making sure that our gates are where we're
replacing all of the gates. Now, with what we call Mars
Gates, which are able to accommodate aircraft of all sizes,
as technology continues to advance in and the airlines are
updating and and doing a variety of business decisions. So
we have to continue to do that. Making sure that we don't
lose.
Of.
of a
of of
Of of adding capacity and accommodating capacity. And so
those things are Still Remains true today. So we are moving
forward and look to align the budget with the scope
required under the use agreement and slip to have
discussions with the carriers. In the first quarter of
2024. Acdbe participation is the topic. It's very important
to the people in this room.
When we?
when we talked about,
when we talked about our acdbe participation,
Middle.
Midway or not.
Midway International Airport.
Fifth.
58 +.
58%.
Oh, how
O'Hare.
O'Hare Inn.
O'Hare International Airport 38%. How can the Chicago
Department of Aviation?
Until?
Continue.
Continue to achieve these levels and how can you maintain
them? How can you even consider exceeding them and O'Hare?
I think it's about the highest in a decade. The FAA is goal
is 10%. So we are way surpassing that but still will never
be satisfied with those numbers and you're absolutely
right. It takes work and intentional work to make sure that
we maintain that we're having a an event on November 1st
over at the UIC forum. There you go, it should be in your
package. We want to make sure that you encourage anyone
that has anything to sell or wants to offer services at the
airport that would be food. Retail many types of other
services we are open and we're going to be building out
those those concessions for the first time in decades, very
critical that we that we cast a wide net and get folks.
These are these are opportunities that these leases are
long-term 15 years. Plus, we want to make sure that we're
capturing
Also getting out early and getting Folk.
Also getting out early and getting folks.
Also getting out early and getting folks, to understand the
process. And those that may not be certified. To get
certified through the department of procurement Services as
the acdbe. You are an airport concessions. Disadvantaged
business Enterprise, that takes a lot of effort and a lot
of Outreach. So, we're going to, this is the first of many
of those types of kinds of events where we are out seeking
new entrance or helping people navigate that process.
Thank.
Thank you.
Thank you want to switch again. Workforce Development,
you've discussed in the past, and he talked a little bit
about what Chicago Department of Aviation has accomplished
this year, with respect to developing the future. Workforce
in the aviation industry Johnson came in and stressed the
importance of making sure that we are providing
opportunities. Not only local small businesses diverse
throughout our 77 Community areas, but also getting people
ready for careers than an aviation. Is one of those careers
that can translate no matter where you go in this country,
certainly even beyond that into the world. And so we
started working on a series of different ways to engage at
different levels. And and so one of the first things were
very proud of his activity books and coloring books for
kids. The you to get them engaged and understand what kinds
of jobs and careers are available looking at high school
clubs, you know, 2 to bring CPS students out into our
Airports, would we do? But I
airports, would we do bread to
Airports, would we do Bradley to give them to her so that we
can get that excitement going underwear, Johnson? We
launched the O'Hare Community vehicle, which is a band.
It's outfitted with flight simulators. And even though my
two daughters think that I can fly a plane, and I cannot
they hear Aviation a lot of folks think that, as long as we
can get, you hooked, it doesn't matter. We just want to get
kids engaged and know that there are ports out there that
are available and careers that are available. And then we
just worked under Mayor Johnson also with the city colleges
and developed a webinar that has been very successful in
getting folks educated on what airport, what how are ports
operates? How they're funded, what regulations, apply to
them and then also, again, what careers are available, we
had several sessions and very happy to keep working with
the city. Colleges out a tile olive-harvey, they've got a
transportation curriculum out there and to have now moved
to getting an associates degree.
We intend to be a.
We intend to be a pain.
We intend to be a part of that.
We intend to be a part of that in the pipeline with 50,000.
Badged employees between the two airports. We want to make
sure that we are engaging at a very young age, and can
capture those folks and get them into our industry.
Commission.
commissioner really appreciate
all your
Are you were?
all your work. I'd like to recognize the folks in the box
at working at both O'Hare and Midway international
airports. But also the thousands of other employee is the
Chicago Department of Aviation that each and every day,
welcome people to our great City, appreciate all your work,
folks, keep it up. Thank you. Commissioner chairman
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wife. Shirley
Thank.
Thank you to.
Thank you, cheer.
Thank you. Chairman commissioner, Welcome to The Primetime
spot. I'm so excited to be back background for some of my
colleagues here. Who may not have gotten this at the
beginning. Can you just briefly talked about the revenue
that's generated by all of the work? Is that both airports.
So our airports are both have what we call residual airport
agreements. And so, I'm essentially what that means is they
are self-sustaining. So all the revenue that is generated
at the airport weather that beach, we Landing fees
terminal, run cargo concessions. All of that revenue is put
into a pot and all the bills are
and,
and at the end,
and at the end of the year,
And at the end of the year, whatever money is left. Over was
returned to the airline's. This proved to be very
successful for us, incredible Partners. Like I said, I I
cannot think my My Hub carriers enough for all of the
tireless efforts as special kovich. All of the, all of the
efforts that we all did financially to make sure that our
airports are sustainable. And that we kept people employed
as much as we could, but knowing that we were going to need
them back when the recovery came and you don't kudos to to
a lot of the folks at the airport that that really had to
do a lot of hard work during those couple of really bad
years on both, airports are like that airport. Money is
subject to what they call Revenue diversion. And what that
means is any airport money generated by the airport, must
be used for an airport, purpose of the city, the fund, and
air at O'Hare, and Midway both helped to fund positions
through other City. Departments that give support to us.
Department of Law.
Department of lost a
Department of Law etcetera. And so, any cost that is for,
by the city is eligible for an expense or any Airline money
or airport money during the pandemic passenger. Travel
passenger numbers were way down. Can you talk to us a
little bit just about like cargo and the importance of
cargo?
Absolute.
Absolutely. So I
Absolutely. So cargo actually is one of the things that we
saw. You know what the Boom in e-commerce that happened
during during covid fitted. We have just now. Finished a
phase 3 of of cargo we added three additional base and we
are completely full within one day of a truck ride from
O'Hare, you can get to about 30% of the continental United
States. So, what that does is it makes us very marketable
for cargo carriers. We processed more cargo by value than
any other word in in the Americas. So we are getting very
heavy equipment or expensive things. Until hear it really
helped sustain us through covet that the Boost we continue
to see searches the geographic location again for Chicago
is second to none and is going to continue to support that.
And so why we just finished phase 3 of cargo.
How to say, looking at?
How to say, looking at new rap?
How to say, looking at new revenue-generating ideas, what
revenue does to bring in Revenue. It keeps rates down for
our Airlines, which is important to us. We know it's
important to them and it's important to us but cargo also
supports 5,000 jobs out at O'Hare. It's an incredible
industry in and of itself and we've had very good success.
Stories were folks have started off as ground handling
cargo and advantage to go onto then lead team and to get
into other Aviation career. So it save
a good starting point as
A good starting point as well. We work very closely with our
cargo carriers to make sure that we are marketing them and
and and have them at our job fairs and and make sure that
were casting a wide net as well, the very symbiotic
relationship. We have to make sure that everybody at the
airport, all of the above are different Industries all come
together to make that passenger experience on this
memorable. Enjoyable, safe, secure, it takes all of us. So
it really is for us to be able to work with such great
Partners at the federal level are state level. The city
council the committee on, Aviation you guys doing a
credible job of work with us, and so we're very grateful
for that. Thank you. And if it goes without saying, to just
the passenger in the car, 12 more. So the passenger travel
drives so much economic activity within the city of
Chicago. And then with just Chicago, being a hub for a lot
of birds are lines to Legacy carriers, and we get a little
Let everything go.
Let every single time.
Let every single time, right? There's a connection. I'm so
the passenger fees are great, great revenue for us. I know
that we said at least I have gone into collective
bargaining unionizing, the work for the csst providers are
really the the ground handlers and like that, that help
support the cargo
Operation, so they're not interested.
Operation. So they're not interrupt contract with us,
they're not our employees. And we do not have any contracts
are contracted by Airlines provide services weather that,
you know, cleaning the planes and things like that. So the
city passed an ordinance a while ago. We've been working
very closely to create what we call a labor, peace
environment. So, we absolutely as an airport must make sure
that we are limiting and minimizing any disruption in
service. And having a strike obviously, is that requiring
labor? Peace has been at the Forefront of what we've been
working on over the last several years. And I am very
pleased that we made a lot of progress. We saw the few that
were working with what we have to determine is. If there
are reasonable efforts that are made towards labor, peace,
and that is a little subjective. But we've had some really
good successes lately with the with the, with the companies
out there, including our concessionaires that have actually
signed on to collective bargaining agreements.
well, looks
Well, look forward.
well, look, forward to all of the new
Well look forward to all of the news.
Well look forward to all of the new stuff that's coming
especially with the concessions coming soon. Thank you very
much and anybody you can I will and I will be there to
thank you.
Anchorage.
Thank each. And
Thank you. Chairman of commission is always good to see you.
And just real quickly, thank you and your team especially
this town and Tracy who is constantly reaching out. When
the things you do is your proactive not reactive. So you
try to give us information throughout the year, but also
involve us it's not just information, its involvement in
terms of, you know, employment in terms of hiring fairs and
all that. So, and contracts as well. So I just want to say
thank you and your team for constantly reaching out,
although Miss towns where we get to her later. But anyway,
I'm looking at the
The two.
the toy.
The 20.
The 2024 Department budget hearing documents for his book
that ornament Irving, has an end, and I have no doubt
because of, you know, who you are, and try to always push
back with it. I'm looking at this afternoon City race of
management,
25 +
25% of
25% African-American. 17% Latino, what are, what are some
of the things we doing? A can do to get that number up and
have you been trending? And I think you have I just don't
have yet a year comparison in the right direction on
I'm a.
I'm a fool.
I'm absolutely.
I'm absolutely how to make one of the things that we first
started really doing was casting a wider, net of, where we
advertise our jobs. And so is you mentioned by does
incredible job of getting it out to elected officials. So
that you're able to pass that on to your constituents,
historically black colleges, we worked directly with them.
We work with our trade associations, a CIA Mac, which is
what organization for minority concessionaires and
construction is well. We're passing is widen as possible
and she's not relying on the city's website. But doing what
we know we need to do to make sure that we're getting folks
that may not otherwise have access to those jobs to know
that they aren't that they exist and we also hold job,
fairs me to get me hold job fairs a couple times a year
where we get into all the airport out and you don't
advertise that on our billboards.
Yuna radio.
Yuna radio spots.
Yuna radio spots on b o n. We use the local newspapers out
in the communities to make sure. And then the other big
thing that we do, as we work with are associated
contractors, United hacia higher 360 wbtc wcoe. We work
very closely with them as well. To make sure that they know
that there are jobs in the area comparison in this book and
I'm hoping it I think it is trending right? But the 49%
compared to the 25%, what are some of the problems while
we're not getting that number higher, which is
representative. What the city isn't? Even the 17% down
exactly of of our staff ethnicity to work 27% of all our
field positions. Right now feel 27% are female and 73%
male.
Do all bees.
you obviously have a lot of
You obviously have a lot of work to do there but I think
that's indicative of the industry as well. And so, a lot of
efforts have been made and getting women into Aviation. We
continue to work with a CIA, another National organizations
on that, but we show is out of the total staff of Bright
Now 1619, which is what we have filled that 37% almost 38%
are African-American. 23% are Hispanic 2.8% Asian and
3%.
3%, Caucasian it. So it seems like this book may be off cuz
I'm looking at. That's not a page number on there. So just
look at that and see if those numbers coz there's a
QuikTrip Cena, versus what these numbers are showing a
little different. I don't know if there's just a problem
and in that and that goes the same one. I'm looking at the
union,
I'm
I mean.
I mean, they got, I think the salaries as well cuz I was
looking at the median, salaries, where I, where I'm at
that, I'd lose that.
Is that?
Is I was looking.
Is I was looking at something, is that? No, I don't need
any help next day, median, salary, Union employees. So
African American on both male and female are around 80,000
and then white males at 100,000. So,
What?
What's?
What's the real?
What's the reason for? That is what I would say to that is
I do think that like a lot of departments and Aviation is
one of those that once it gets in your blood, it's hard to
get it out. Is my third time, we've a lot of folks that are
that are I have been there for 30 years plus. And so, those
are incremental increases that happen as, you know, as
those positions, get reposted in and we're changing over
which we expect to see that Dynamic change.
Base, which is around.
The.
This.
This are term contract is the facility, facility complete.
So there.
so, there is
So there are still punch list items that are happening but
it but it is being used. Currently it is the third base
that we're done under the for the base 3 money and we got
I'm still hearing that we got some contractors out there.
That's not fully paid.
As.
as of today,
As of today, can you talk about? That is absolutely one of
the things that, you know, we are working with right now we
have I think there are six things that are on that
property. And so, that's complicating, some matters. We are
working very closely with the Comptroller in the Department
of Law. And that I am in constant contact with real term,
which is the that's who our contract is with, they have
been subbed that out and it's incredible. Success, story
mbwb, participation 50%. So, it is going to be an
incredible story. We are finishing. Sometimes the the
hardest part of a project is the very end and and so, we're
working with everyone involved. Make sure that that project
is delivered successfully and can be closed out and we're
close to the end. It is God occupancy, but we just had an
invoice last night. We had some back and forth, It's that
the city has been convening, the party.
I'm working.
I'm working directly with them.
I'm working directly with them, as we
I'm working directly with them as well.
I'm working directly with them, as well as our Department
of Law, like a second controller, but we got an invoice
last night that were looking at ways. How can we front Pond
or get that money into the hands of the GC so that they're
able to pay those subs? So that was just last night. So
that's hot off the press and and will continue to have
communications with them on that important because these
JC's have to be able to pay any of their subs that they
had. And also hopefully continue to run their business. And
so if everybody is now done and making money, you know,
that that s*** and I'm going to, I have no doubt that
you're doing your part in this, but wherever we need to get
involved that we need to know that on the front and
commissioner. Okay, so that we can put them here. People
that's picking up. Garrett arms. Are they are their portion
of everything at the airport done, or they still have some
other work out there.
Back.
Back 15, 20 years ago. This was the final phase of it, so
it is Phase 3. So that portion is done but the ground
lease. And if they manage those facilities for us, will
continue on building. The construction is what is nearing
completion, and, and it's oversized them managing it. Or do
you know if the bidding on anything else out there?
Currently at the airport? I'm not aware of anything. Okay.
Thank you.
Thank.
Thank you, Joe.
Thank you, Jamie.
Thank you, that's all. All right. Thank you all the men
more. We will have ultimate Villegas.
Thank.
Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman commissioner, some of
the data you talked about with Airline traffic seems like
we're getting close to pre-pandemic numbers which is great.
I think the the business side is lacking a little bit. Darn
Zoom just really hurting us on that.
Be.
because of,
Because of the pandemic are we behind on the project?
We?
With.
with the
We picked.
Whip it with the whole project that that's that's going out
there to see, Mars are complaining. Are we behind on that
project? We received our federal approval as, you know,
that had to go through an environmental assessment. So it
was completed by the FAA and we got our environmental
approval in November of last year. And so we've continued
to do Design Elements. Now, it was complicated by covid. I
will absolutely say that there were as you know, there were
company that we're not available, you know, they were a lot
of folks were working remotely so that you know, added
complications but we just got our approval and we're just,
if we're past 30% and I hope to be sitting down again to
talk with our partners at 60% to a line that scope with the
budget that they that is provided for in the 2018 Houston,
lease agreement.
There's no.
There's no really, no big delays.
There's no really no big delays. On the construction side
of it, this year we did take a step back with our Airline
Partners. After getting our approval, we've taken a step
back to the kind of reanalyze. Some things and work
together just to make sure that we're all in concert. One
of the things that I pride myself on in my entire team and
you know I I've got the best team in the city I will. He
say hands down is that they're respected. That relationship
is is one that we can work together and work through
issues. And so we take a little bit of time to sort of
really make sure that we were on the right track in and the
city. You know, an order for us to make decisions on
phasing and and and other important elements of bringing on
the infrastructure, those conversations have to be done in
concert with our Airline partners. And so our commitment
was that we would get at 60%, We Believe will be again the
first quarter of next year and that we will be able to make
decisions based on good strong.
this is,
Listen.
Listen for
This informing us of of of how to phase and and to bring on
days, a critical infrastructure project.
so, we
So wet.
So we're at thirty percent.
So, we're at 30%, completion of the project. I design
design. I'm sorry 2018. This was approved. So how many more
years are left? If I'm doing the math? It's a 15-year
project. Yes, it was a 15-year. Total is the Houston. Lease
agreement goes on for 15 years, that's correct about the
what's the duration of the project? So we have actually
already broken ground on several of the enabling projects
that are necessary for us. In order for us to bring on the
infrastructure, we need to First address some of the
taxiway configurations and that work is under way. We have
some stormwater, some Basin, so we have to move. So that is
all under way as well as picking out some gates. Our first
satellite one will be the first element that will come on
and we've already relocated some of those gates to start.
Some of that nibbling work.
So talk to me if you continue on the construction side, I
think that you reached out to the chairs of the respective
caucuses the black latino so we can start getting those
meeting. Set up again though around the working group.
Does the airport?
Does the airport other Pia lays out their project labor
agreements at the airport as relates to the construction
site of this project? We were part of the city's p21e know,
it would be colleagues in the Blackhawks. I think might be
a good time to talk about the project labor agreements, and
taking a look at making sure that there is diversity from
the the employment site, making sure their apprentices. All
the trades are reflective of our respective communities. So
I think that billions of dollars worth of work that's going
to occur at the airport. See. ETA Center. I think this is a
great opportunity to inject ourselves and making sure that
the trade group's, we all support and the pla that we all
support I just reflecting on the communities. I was
if there are
If the airport?
If the airport's work expired but given the fact that
you're the Citywide be late. So it is it has expired. Do
you does the airport? Do some of your contractors and
Professional Service folks partner with any of the CPS
schools to expose the youth, 22, the construction industry
to Aviation excetera. Absolutely are part of what we
negotiated when we negotiated, this seemed our contracts
are construction managers that risk.
which,
Which we are.
Which we are very proud.
Which we are very proud of the way. They all are very
diverse with joint, venture Partners at the top and
minority and women. And when we negotiated that, we've
negotiated extensive Workforce as well as Contracting
opportunities. Making sure that we're unbundling, making
sure that we were offering. I think we've done since 2018.
We've done 29, sbi's, and it dies. So that we're breaking
down those packages that we can build capacity. We've seen
joint ventures between two diverse firms that first time
out there at the airport. So sweet. We continually see and
have passed. That was a long to all of our contractors as
well. We've got incredible Partners out there. I'm so proud
to be working with them. They they give back they reach
back as I was saying, we are engaging directly with CPS as
well. So do they one of our contractors just brought a
group of kids to take an Airfield tour with a week and a
half ago? I believe one of our see Mars partners
I'm so,
so really
Really everyone is laser-like focus. Their Johnson has made
that very clear that this is what we need to be doing. You
know, if we are going to build a better safer, stronger.
Chicago, we need to make sure that we are reaching into
those communities and that Folks, at what you just lie, not
be a part of this project have that opportunity. Having
said that, we're five years into a 15-year long project so
plenty of time or still designing the big main elements,
which is billions of dollars and that's either in jobs,
apprenticeships Contracting opportunities. We all
Have.
we have one of the things that we
We have one of the things that we did early on was when we
got our cares act money in May of 2020 with with kovid,
when we got our cares act money, one of the first things we
do is develop a reimbursable agreement that we could go out
and encourage people to help other minority women-owned
diverse companies either through hiring or business
assistance. And we gave a $30,000 Grant one of the entities
that we've got what got several, but one of the entities
that we've gotten was higher 360. So, they're reaching back
directly and helping us fill in some of those gaps. Another
one we did was the Monroe Foundation they are providing
returning citizen with helped expunging records so that
they make it a badge or get them ready to work. We've done
with the Black Chamber did. Did once we got several that we
have engaged in that are really helping our minority and
women-owned businesses, the most
so, we wanted to make sure that we
So, we wanted to make sure that we were directly infusing
cash and to get them the assistance that they needed that
person. And I know that you, you hear from us, what, we're
trying to accomplish this. My last Point, given that we
have Bowie.
Process.
Prosser.
Prosser Dunbar and I think CVS, when I was taking the trade
schools, I would like to see more of an emphasis from the
vendors in. Those folks are doing work out there to reach
out and try to tap into those seniors that are graduating
that potentially can lead to apprenticeship positions. And
I will say, Mary Johnson from day one, the whole of
government approach is what you need, right? We need to be
talking to each other. We need to make sure that we are
liaising with our counterparts. I think the mayor's office
Jenn Johnson and the Workforce Development team that
they've got. We've been working directly with her as well
as Candace Moore and racial equity and looking at how do we
take these numbers and translate them into plans to to
where we see deficiencies? What is the plan to get us to
where we need to be? And we have got a considerable amount
of support from them in furthering. A lot of these
objectives and you'll see some of these rolling out, even
we've got some new employment guide.
becoming a
Be coming out that.
Be coming out that show how a career can start from an
unarmed security position at O'Hare to then working with US
Marshals or CBP or TSA or Chicago police, but we can do the
training. And we we actually walk people through sort of
what has minimum qualifications. So there's a lot of work
that's being done, I think in that space and a lot of
credit to the folks in the mayor's office better
prioritizing and I appreciate that, I always tell people
about your story of where you started and where you're at
now, so they kind of product of that.
Thank.
Thank you. Almond Villegas Auto.
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make a
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making sure my
Make a German commissioner just real quick. Thank you for
all the work that you've been doing. You know, we, I think
all of us like to have this type of relationship with our
commissioners where we can get information quickly, get
responses to things that were concerned about in any
Department, especially Aviation. I think you've done a
great job there, you know, I'll skip the questions and and
leave it there are, you know, I I think you've kind of
handle that stuff when I've gone through O'Hare, whether
it's domestic or International you know last year we had
that pick up with Customs assume that you got that ironed
out and you know, if that's the kind of response, we want
to see as both elected officials, bit as passengers going
through the airport and I'm citizen. So I appreciate
everything you and your whole staff to you. Cuz I know
you've got a great team that is behind you.
And what?
And what that?
And without that gray.
And without that great seeing, you know, you can't get that
stuff done. So kudos to everybody and thank you for all the
work that you do. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank.
Thank you. All.
Thank you. I was jamming. I just want to take this
opportunity to come in by the commission on everything that
you do. Thank you and your team for making sure that you
got a diversity throughout the airport. Appreciate all the
job fairs that you have. I know that there's still a
challenge and trying to get him Ploy, he's too out the
airport which is the same challenges that people have all
over the all over the I guess the country, maybe since
covid but appreciate you having several job fairs. I know
you got a couple coming up pretty soon so we really
appreciate it. One from. Is it one tomorrow or is it one
today? But we will be posting we did our last one that we
had our our big job fair was in May that we did at the UIC
forum and will be doing another one of those where we get
the whole of both airports and everyone is hiring their
next clue to the FAA, the airline's, I mean, they really
come out and so it was
was an incredible event and we
was an incredible event, and we actually,
It was an incredible event and we actually had people that
were hired on the Spot while sitting right here in front of
me. That's right. Yeah. So do you get a lot of people
coming to those who show? So no one should be without a
job. Tell me there. So I know that the airport is
I know they.
I know that the airport has strict guidelines sometimes or
whisper security reasons. So do our
Are.
Are they?
Are there exceptions for returning residents to be able to
work at the airport? A couple of things we put great
emphasis on that it is a the badge requirements in order to
get a badge to work at an airport and he has to be
approved. There's TSA guidelines. So their federal
guidelines across the country, it's the same, exclusions
that will prevent you from certain felonies that will
prevent you from getting what we're working with for with
the Monroe Foundation. It what is Monroe? Looking at
expungement and looking at old records that perhaps could
come off. So we look at that as one way to address it. So
Otis is the recipient of a grant of $30,000 that he's
focused on working with our chief judge Evans and looking
at ways to do that, we also work with West with other
groups, that that also will will, will help to say,
profound
You should.
you should we met with them to
You should we met with them, kids?
You should be met with them to sort of developed. How do we
get them into our pipeline? One of the biggest Advantage
is? I think that we've got that we can do is you don't
necessarily have to get a badge to help support the
airport. You could work off site and be able to perhaps,
get some time and get some experience. Before you have to
go to get a badge to work at the airport, create based on
the airport, throughout our entire region. And so it's just
not those 50,000 patched employees. But those that do
answer is a food that is made the pit is prepared to go on,
the claims does not get prepared on site that has been
brought in. So, there's lots of ways to look at that. And
one of the things that we did with Otis and looking at our
badging, in our badging, office is to start trying to
identify those folks, that would not make it for a batch to
see if we can fit them in somewhere else. And so, that's
one of the focus is, we have, we want to be not only the
best, the busiest. We want to be the most accessible and
that means for folks that want to be part.
Of the airport.
Of the airport that.
Of the airport that there is a place for them to have you
lucky you are still with us. So thank you very much and
again I want to thank all of your staff. Also. Appreciate
how you all I recall us. Blackhawk is talking to you doing
Kobe when a lot of the African-American concessionaires had
a challenge because they still had to pay the airport and
when they weren't making any money. And so,
Why?
I really appreciate the fact that you were
I really appreciate the fact that you worked.
I really appreciate the fact that you worked with them or
doing that process, because it was very challenging for a
lot of time. So thank you very much for your consideration
and before that could German, O'Shea and vice-chair Curtis
were instrumental. During that time, they served on a
reconstitution task force and one of the things that they
said is really looking at that Federal money, that was
coming in to make sure that we were prioritizing that
working with our Airline Partners. Make sure that we were
putting that money where it needed to go. So kudos to the
committee on Aviation because without their support, I
think that there will be a lot more people that had to
endure things, that they shouldn't have without that
support. So thank you. Thank you. Commissioner.
All right, then.
alright, thank
Alright, thank you all. Remember net, all the amount of
hard work
Thank.
Thank you, cheer.
Thank you, chairman. I love you commissionary excited to
get to know you. And, and to learn all that you do is
sounds like a very exciting committee to sit on it though.
Thank you for everyone in the Box as well. I just wanted to
check in about well, firstly, thank you for all your Equity
work. Thank you for bringing in the kids into this into
this world bringing in coloring, books and arts. I
appreciate that so much. I wanted to ask you about your
advertising. I asked the previous
about, which
About which local news.
About which local meat.
About which local media.
About which local media you use. Can you speak on that shirt
off. My head? I know that we could go see us now is one of
the public defender. Chatham's, not local papers. We tried
to reach as many local Outlets as we possibly can, and I
can get a list of the chair of who we have advertised. So,
for example, are concessions, Fair, we've done radio spots,
making sure that weak-ass that way, you'll see him on the
Billboards when you go down the interstate. So we're making
sure that we get the word out as much as we can. But we do
know that a lot of people still rely on their local
newspapers to get information. And so we do go directly to
those sources we translated in and again into Spanish for
negocios now making sure they were casting a wide net for
that. I appreciate that very much. Can you tell me how you
all are doing with the humanitarian crisis? I just wanted
to check in and see cuz
Basinski.
Buses. Keep
Buses, keep coming. But also people are coming by plane.
Can you already gone that too? So we stood up a transfer
facility in our existing bus shuttle Center which is really
the first floor of our main parking garage. So it's in
between the Hilton Hotel is in between that and our
Terminals and then the bus shuttle Center if they placed
where it would look like a bus depot, it was where Regional
buses would pick up like the van gelder going to Rockford
or hotel shuttle that would come through. That is a sort of
so, it was designed so,
So it was designed sort.
so, it was designed sort of for
So it was designed sort of for us a terminal bus, terminal
looking face. We converted that into being a a transfer
station working with the EOC or the OMC downtown currently.
Today we have six hundred and sixty people that are in the
bus shuttle Center and we are part of the decompression. So
the folks that are in our bus shuttle spinner, or actually
being flown here, there are no buses. That would be Revenue
diversion. So our money is used to support the people that
are flown in. So, they are coming off lights, the operation
is Mandan house by favorite Staffing, which is the a
contractor for the Department of Family and support
services. The airport provides the space. We rented some
dividers, so that we could have privacy, we gone in and
upgraded some of the electric. So we made sure that we had
charging Outlets. We provide our ASO airport security
officers
Are there any?
are there and then
Are there and then we worked.
Are there. And then we worked directly with CPD but it it
really is meant to be a transfer station so that they are
decompressed. We're in that schedule with police station.
So as I felt become available, they are moved out. Do you
feel like you're getting enough support towards that? And
absolutely, we were actually visited by Homeland, Security,
female mayor's office. It came out to do a site. Visit got
to talk to people, got to her.
Thanks.
thanks, and I
Thanks. So I do feel like, absolutely. We have the resources
and know how to escalate and know who to call. So yeah, I
absolutely love that. Thank you. Thank you. I know that you
are doing more to bring art.
To.
To the airport's. Can you speak on that to? Yes. I'm
actually working. So we just added the 350,000 square feet
to Terminal 5 part of that was to get one of the largest
acquisition for public art. I think it's in last 10 years.
Three hundred, three point, five million dollars of, for
local artists. So we worked with the Department of cultural
Affairs. Did an RFP and a selected, the local artists and
those are on display. Now we will be doing and you will get
an invite and we will be doing. I don't even have a public
yet, but we got to save the date. For November 16th, I
believe is the date and that's going to be to dedicate the
art over at Terminal 5 and so that you can see all the work
that's going on and really get to see that first impression
that people get of Chicago when they come in. We know how
important that is to see a friendly face to hear your
language to be welcomed and to see art that actually
represent all 77 Community areas. We have translated all of
like
Sign.
Signs in too many, many.
Signs in too many. Many languages. I actually started at
the airport as a multilingual assistant and so have had
that customer service in my in my every fiber of my being.
And so I think it's very important that we realize that
that is sometimes the first and last impression, they have
our great city, thank you so much. Commissioner far, you do
and can't for welcoming people? I'm all sorts of people to
our city. We are welcoming City and, and you really are the
manifestation of us, but thank you for all that you do.
Thank you so much. I'll have been looking forward to
working with you all Derman Manahawkin work. I got one
question in this. Is it as we go to airports throughout the
country and we seem like we may be a little behind the
curve. Like, for example, I look at the Hilton and it looks
like we haven't touched that in years, right. So, what's
the game plan on the third-party investment coming into the
airport?
That.
That's a very.
That's a very big success story. We actually only Hilton
and got the Hilton is actually managing it for us. We did
an RFP completely change the fee structure, and her making,
I think tens of millions of dollars more in Revenue. Every
year, it is Antiquated. It does need to be evaluated and we
have gone in with some different time.
Diners. And
Diners and and other companies property management.
Companies to really look and see how we can Elevate that
experience. But it is booked. It is very busy. It's right
there on site. So it's very appealing for folks that want
to come in and have a meeting to meet their, stay the night
and get them leave Hyde Park. Hospitality does other food
and beverage for that. So that was also been out as part of
getting the management company to sort of manage this for
us and then the yard Park Hospitality doing the food and
beverage. But there are Renovations that we're looking at
for the room and Decor, because it has been a lot of years
as you said, but that are P. I think we, we, that was in
maybe 2018 when it actually flips in, and came back in and
went out. And we awarded the new contract, 2018, 2019.
Okay. Like I said it it just looks like it. Definitely need
need need need to upgrade not as it relates to mbweni. I'm
sorry. I'm on my way.
BB.
BBE.
BBE, which is the only concession side. We've done which
terminals have been done. We still have some stuff
outstanding is, as I understand 2011, I believe is when the
terminal 5, which is a separate from our main terminals. 1
2 and 3 Terminal 5, we awarded a new contract outs with
Westfield is our master concessionaire and then somewhere
around 2016. We went out or awarded the
We partners.
A partnership over at Mid.
A partnership over at Midway.
A partnership over at Midway but the main terminals
terminals. One, two and three. We are extremely fortunate.
We've got some incredible on providers. Are there.
Concessionaires that people from around the world? Tell me
like what an incredible experience they had but it is time
to go out and and rebuild those. And so that is something
that we're working on now. But what what was very
important. And and I will give also a lot of kudos to the
mayor's office in talking about how we address. This was,
we wanted to make sure that we have enough time for people
to get certified so that the b****** doesn't go out on the
street and they don't have time to form those Partnerships.
They don't know what it takes to be certified. They don't
know how to partner up, they don't know who to go to. And
so one of the things that we're looking at with that
November 1st, date is really exposing people to our current
prime vendors people operating at the at the airport,
currently, but then also be a c p, a b kudos to Ken Meyer
and his team.
babe
They've got Financial.
They've got Financial resource.
They've got Financial Resources for small businesses that
may need them. We're also working with procurement.
Obviously, they will be certifying the companies and so we
want to make sure that we have enough pardon the pun Runway
there to give people time to get into the position where
they're ready when that bid comes out and that will be four
terminals 12 and 32 really complement our Capital program.
Okay. Well, we definitely want to get that get that stuff
up and rolly get that opportunity for some of our local
folks ottoman Hall.
give her
difference between
Difference of all just want to say thank you you and your
team really are a shining star and City Hall good energy. I
so thank you for being that I last night between at close
to 2 in the morning from the border and we landed on 10
left at O'Hare and it was a pleasant energy to be there.
But I have just a few questions. Number one when you look
at this massive important in as you look at the book, I
mean with all of these projects are both Midway Inn O'Hare
where do you see an opportunity that's often times
overlooked wear black small minority business women-owned
businesses can really capitalize but I'm way somehow it
just don't make that jump in What disqualifications or
Communications? Where is an entry point where that can be
maximized. You know, I do think that it starts with
education and it starts with opportunities. So we have from
day one.
Getting their weave.
Getting there. We wrote book.
Getting there, we wrote books out of Duty.
Getting there, we wrote books, how to do business with CDA,
how to do business with construction managers. We did at 3,
you're buying plants of the people can see what's coming up
and they can prepare for that. We go out into the
communities, we work well, in this house, in the west side,
we go to the church's, we go to the, we go to the different
organizations, and work directly with them, to make sure
that they are getting that word out. When we host our
events, we try to do them into the community to make sure
if you were getting aware of them. Because a lot of folks,
just don't realize that the airports are sitting in another
city. We buy everything, we buy plastic forks, we buy it
Services, security, concessions, designs construction. But
what I will say is, I do believe that is so r3c. Mars, that
we talked about our construction manager, at-risk one of
the things that we had them do when we negotiated that
contract, when I first got, there was to make sure that
they were doing that Outreach as well. And many of them
have opened up, satellite offices, on the southwest side,
to make sure there were capturing those people that they're
getting out there because they will essentially be the
Do I?
doing.
doing the bidding and
Doing the bidding and so they are bringing folks in and
they have what I will say a lot more latitude on working
with folks, been government. Does I used to say when I
can't fool, you were too high profit as a company that I
can't do is government. We can pay and help. And so those
delegate agency, grants that I talked about getting that
$30,000 Grant wbdc did and red bulls intro into aviation101
with there. 30,000 and they had at the time, it was during
covid.
they had, you know, if
They had 50 businesses in there that have never had any
exposure to the airport we went in, and we talked them cuz
it hears how you do it hears, the steps to do the
difference between Federal and a d v e, n m d. W, b e, r a
b c, d b, we actually got to go in and educate Polk and
what we're seeing is the fruits of our labor. Now that
takes a lot of up front to see if mentally you're going to
see that but I it's like the Ripple in the pond. It's like
getting those four year olds right now to know that ORD is
the call sign for O'Hare. If we got him at 4 we'd one and
that's where we've got to start, you know, early before
these opportunities come out because when its advertising
in the paper, it's simply too late. Final question, which
airport am I flying in? And out of you. You've done a great
job and I definitely want to be an ambassador to a lot of
things. But moreover making sure the people that are part
of these huge economies that are prosperous and doing well,
Especially.
Especially do.
Especially those who.
especially those who may
Especially those who might not know. I definitely would
love to help you get the word out about so you can walk it
Monday through Friday and say I own a business. I'm not
certified. I don't know if I ever can. I have the kids
everything for me here, we will take you in and one-on-one.
It's at our building on some Key Road is on her first
floor. You walk in and it's right there, and we can go down
there and talk to them about
We could go down.
We could go down and see.
We could go down and talk about.
We could go down and talk about Professional Services
accounting firm. What beds are coming up, given the
resources. So please send anybody and everybody our way do
you mind cuz I got to go to sleep? If maybe we brought your
office and then he goes home and do that at our office
sometimes. It may not know how to get to that side street
down the street around the street so we go out and we will
be there with Rockstar along with your talent right there
is in that box. They are amazing and I couldn't do my job
if I didn't have the support and all of their hard work
that they do every day to keep safe secure a position and
you do make O'Hara number one, number one,
Thank.
thank you.
Are.
All right. We are all German. You got anything at the
close?
Noches.
No, just stop. Jamie, keep up the great work again. Thank
you to everybody in the Box. We really have an unbelievable
team here to Chicago Department of Aviation. And again to
all those people out there working at our airports 50,000
+, thanks Sherman. All right, thing. And if these vacancies
occur, what are we doing? Are you guys got almost 500
vacancies out the airport and I don't know what that is and
if the owner percentage-wise percentage basis, but we, we
definitely need to come up with ways to filling these
vacancies are some look harder to feel than others, but we
definitely need to be moving or trying to get your stuff
off till then.
Okay. Anything else we're all good? Are you coming down
here to bug us?
Okay. Alright, I was directed to you so on us here.
Alright, very well, we will stand at ease until 10 a.m.
Monday or Aviation, you all are subject to recall.
What are?
1 hour.