We will now have a roll call to establish quorum.
chairman laspata present Vice chair Cruise
all the person Hopkins president remote online will call
you in in just a moment. Uh all the person who Robinson may
be joining all the person. Jansy Alderman Chico.
We will uh, give us just uh, he's coming down the line
ottoman Quinn.
Allman Moore
Thank you chairman. I'm here. We will Motion in and just a
moment, sir. Thank you for joining us all in Curtis.
vice mayor brunette
chairman Ervin
Uh alter person knutzen.
all the person Lawson
all the person Martin
and all the women Mana hoppenworth
Do we have any non-members present not yet at the moment.
Um we have
We have 8 members present. We have a quorum committee
members Hopkins Robinson Moore Curtis and Irvin.
Have request to participate in the meeting remotely
pursuant to rule 59.
We have otterman more and ottoman Hopkins with us. Uh, can
I get a motion? Uh, and we'll subsequently motion others
who join us, but can I get a motion to allow ottoman
Hopkins and ottoman Moore to participate remotely ottoman
Martin so moves
all those in favor say I
all those opposed say nay in the opinion of the chair that
I have it, uh ottoman Hopkins and ottoman War. Thank you so
much for joining us. Thank you chairman. Thank you. Thank
you, Mr. Chairman.
President today and we'll be uh counted accordingly for the
Roll Call.
At this time, we will begin the public comment period out
of respect for everyone's Time Each speaker is limited to 3
minutes. Our first speaker is Mrs. Lawrence.
Mrs. Lawrence, are you with us?
Okay.
Hello everyone. If we're talking about Public Safety today,
let's talk about it from the Viewpoint of a citizen.
First and to begin with um, I'm gonna take y'all down a
road today and imagine yourself sitting in a car.
And you rear ended?
boom
bam
That's how loud it was no breaks.
then your
nice and friendly officer comes to the scene.
And when he comes to the scene, he checks everybody but he
checks the 1 that's also on methadone.
How do we learn that because we were denied the foyer
request.
And had to go through the Attorney General to get that talk
about transparency.
Okay.
Then he gets to get off.
No citation.
No tickets, no arrests.
Fill my pain do you feel my pain?
Because right now I'm still angry.
I'm very angry.
That an officer would even allow this.
He knew he was under some kind of drugs or impairment why
because the cfd static.
But no arrests.
Nothing, and this is happening to too many people out here.
Let's talk about the ACLU and what they reported last year
because I'm quite sure all of you all smart enough to get
out there and do your own research.
2 of these people that were involved in this car accident
were black drivers the 1 who did the damages came from the
suburbs and was a white man.
This is a problem that got a history of doing this.
and it also had the stats of why so many of these things
are occurring because
they're letting them off.
And what about my damages?
Oh you have insurance? Yeah, well got jacked up with the
insurance as well and he had no insurance but he gets the
walk and let's go, uh The Next Step. Let's claim
bankruptcy.
How about that?
Yeah, I'm pissed.
And what any of you all going to do about this public
safety that's going on constantly over a half a million
black and brown people were arrested last year in 2023 from
driving their cars I come with the facts.
Let's do something about that and clean this bowl up.
Thank you, Mrs. Lawrence. Our next speaker is Mr. Ed Ed
Fitzpatrick.
Good morning.
I'm Ed Fitzpatrick a almost 50-year resident of the 2000
block of Mohawk next to Dickens Avenue.
I am here to speak regarding the Dickens Greenway bicycle
path, which was recently installed by CED Dot.
In view of the time limit. I will refer you to my July 8
and May 6 emails to this committee.
Those 2 emails raised 2 questions.
first
who authorized C dot to close down Dickens at Stockton when
C Dots own plans distributed to the public and discussed at
public meetings for the last 3 years showed that
intersection open and allowing 2-way traffic.
This committee approved the lowering of the speed limit on
Dickens and allowing the 2-way bike traffic on the 1-way
portions of Dickens as a part of that project.
Yet C dot never told this committee.
or The Neighborhood
or anybody else about its plan to close the street
completely.
C dot clearly wanted to avoid igniting even more opposition
to a plan which was already opposed by all the nearby
neighborhood associations.
So that's my first question to the committee second
question.
Who is responsible for the oversight of the safety of the
pedestrians on the Ozark sidewalk portion of that Bikeway?
the Illinois Department of Transportation refused to give C
dot federal funds for the Dickens Greenway until C dot
responded to Ed Fitzpatrick's questions regarding the Ozark
safety.
part of that
uh bike weigh
C dot evaded that oversight however by funding it not by
federal funds as they've told the neighborhood but rather
using City of Chicago funds
C Dot's own surveys show 390 users of that sidewalk at a
peak hour
yet C dot has done nothing to protect those Ozark users of
the sidewalk from speeding bicyclists. No signs. No Lane
markers No Ex know widening of the 2 N sidewalk.
You just run the bikers right through oh Park.
Thank you, Mr. Fitzpatrick.
our next
appreciate it, sir, uh, noting Vice chair Ruth cruise with
us for quorum to see you order woman Cruise our next
speaker is Michael Young bae.
Hey how y'all doing today?
I came today.
to this meeting
to show
what I want to say our loyalty.
to the new party
That's what I came to show, you know, because y'all
g*********** down here. I figure I g********. We all read
you know the show that we going red.
Because y'all not respecting the citizens.
It don't matter what nationality.
Is it don't matter what Creed it don't matter what
background y'all ain't even respecting y'all yourself that
was disgusting that last meeting.
Where a person giving you an opportunity as a alderman to
have freedom.
The challenge certain things on the floor.
So the mayor can't say. Oh, you can't appeal that and break
the law.
Cuz like contrary to popular belief it's people in here
that know the law.
Y'all may not want to recognize it.
But maybe you know cuz you're a lawyer.
Or you've been in law or something you let you feel that
you above somebody but other people who just come and say
listen know the law and common sense. Why wouldn't you want
to be free?
Why won't you want to challenge if something is wrong or go
against the interest of the public other people people
coming up here on the on the microphone the virtual just a
butt kiss.
And I'm talking about the all the Majestic buckets. They
want to be known they vote. No. No, they hiding all into
the into the it was a clown show, which most of this stuff
is.
So, you know.
the United States
symbol is the bird.
The eagle you ever see a damaged eagle.
You know so old ball headed, you know, 1 Wing got a little
life in it. The other way is is out of there. It can barely
get off the ground.
So we hooking on that Wing that got a little life to it.
Because it's still it's still the same bird, but we going
to cling on to that Wing that got a little life in it.
So we
get something better.
Because y'all democratic system machine or whatever. You
want to call it. Somebody got to be running this machine
because the machine ain't got common sense a robot can't
Reason will have a will Etc. So someone controlling the
machine.
And it seemed like you all them is y'all just want to be
puppets?
Y'all just want to be a part. Y'all ain't even use a common
sense for the best entries of yourself.
That's it.
Thank you very much. Our next speaker is Mr. George,
Blakemore.
Play the race card.
You have that in the deck.
Play it.
The race course not no Brown card.
But the Black Card play the race card.
with the police stops
harassing black driver
walking white black jogging white black driving white black
something is wrong here.
Something is evil here.
Something is racist here.
and
something has happened to the black.
man
That's the only 1 identify, but I see 2 identify with black
people here 1 is passing for Hispanic and the other 1. I
don't know if he's trying to pass.
But I see you white folks here.
Now I am totally against.
Abusive treatment that black people receive with these
traffic stops.
From the Chicago Police Mr. Blakemore you not in the
police, uh a meeting.
Uh you in pedestrian traffic and they they all the same.
But they connect to God.
They all the same.
The system is broken. I'm totally against and then the
streets.
These are elected officials before you and you right now
they sold the streets out.
I I said look at all this money for these parking tickets
and all of this but this machine that's still in existence.
So the streets out.
Who does that so who do they what kind of English are you
speaking your Niles of whatever?
These people here are Democrats.
bags of racist Trump is too I'm taking my
Allegiance and my vote to Trump
I'm doing redeemed.
You all have been so evil you Democratic machine here. I
want redeemed you hit me I hit you back.
I hate this machine.
I hate it. It's a 1 146 stuff all Democrats.
working against
the black man entry and the black Democrats are just as bad
for Hispanic 1 the Asian ones the white I'm going red.
I can't stay here.
And and I had the family just so open this door open this
door, but you gonna tell me when my 3 minutes are up MMO
you sit down.
Thank you, Mr. Blakemore.
We have 1 speaker joining with us.
Online Peter are you with us?
Yes, I am with you. My name is Pete senika from the 45th
Ward.
Let's follow up on C Dots evasions.
This is my third public comment on the subject of the
proliferation of illegal unwarranted stop intersections on
residential streets for this committee.
I've left 12 messages for the cot public information person
since May 10th with no return calls. I've left 10 phone
messages and sent 8 email for the cot Deputy Commissioner
for traffic design since May 24th.
with no return calls
Let's look at an example from my 45th Ward. There's a
neighborhood in Forest Glenn. That's about 120 Acres.
That's about 12 square blocks 660 by 660.
Is bounded by Central Avenue on the East Devon Avenue on
the south a railroad embankment on the west and the Village
of Niles on the North?
You can't exit the neighborhood on the North to Niles.
There's no connection or on the west because of the
railroad embankment or on the south.
You can only exit the neighborhood on Central Avenue and
yet this neighborhood this 12 square block neighborhood has
10 4 stop intersections on.
intersections of residential streets
as I uh told you guys before
the proliferation of stop signs only promotes drivers
ignoring the stop signs
there's been plenty of uh
study on this in the last hundred years. This was a problem
100 years ago and yet
the people who train you at idot about stop signs will tell
you. Oh the political warrant is what is used to establish
illegal stop signs.
Because of dangerous drivers speed up drivers ignore them
because they know they're meaningless.
And this committee does a disservice and the seed dot does
a disservice to the city residents by allowing these to be
be stop signs to be illegally erected.
Uh, all national guidance starts with the manual on uniform
traffic control devices the mutcd in December of 2023 a new
mutcd was forwarded by the federal government.
The states have 2 years to implement the requirements of the
new mutcd.
The new mutcd instead of saying stop signs on residential
streets.
Should not be there for speed control now. It will say
shall not be there for speed control.
Let's get ahead of the game right now and review all the
warrants.
Thank you, Mrs. Nika.
This concludes our public comment period
our first order of business is the rule 45 report from June
which was sent out via email and distributed to committee
members. Can I have a motion to approve the June rule 45
report?
So moved all our person Lawson all of those in favor of
passing the report say I
All those supposed to say Nate in the opinion of the chair
the eyes have it. We will now begin with items before the
committee.
We will begin with the direct introduction ordinances on
pages 1 through 3. Can I have a motion to recommend
approval of all direct introduction ordinances on pages 1
through 3 by the same roll call vote as was applied to
determine Quorum all the oh she beat you to it, but I'll be
coming back to you all the women man. Now hopping with so
moves hearing no objection. So ordered let us turn to pages
4 through 6 for the recommended recommended portion of the
agenda. Can I have a motion to recommend approval of all
recommended?
Ordinances on pages 4 through 6 by the same roll call vote
as was applied to determine to determine quorum.
I believe that is on a person kutson.
So moves, uh hearing no objection so ordered we will now
turn to Pages 7 through 9 for the no recommendation portion
of the agenda, which are items that received no
recommendation from City departments. These ordinances were
submitted as overrides are on the agenda at the request of
the order person, or do not require departmental approval.
Can I have a motion to recommend approval of all ordinances
on page 7 and items 1 through 17 on page 8 by the same roll
call vote as was applied to determine quorum.
Vice chair crew so moves hearing no objections so ordered
For item 18 on page 8 we have received a substitute
ordinance that is correcting language per recommendation
from the Department of Transportation. The Substitute
ordinance was emailed out and distributed today. Can I have
a motion to accept this substitute?
Waterman lost and so moves hearing no objections. So ordered
with that. Can I have a motion to recommend approval of the
substitute ordinance? So 2024 - 0000995 item 18 on page 8
by the same roll call vote as was applied to determine
quarrel.
Alderman Lawson, so moves hearing no objection so ordered
Can I also have a motion to recommend approval of item 1 on
page 9?
But yes, and I should have said by the same vote as was
applied to determine whether Cruise so moves hearing no
objections so ordered.
For the final portion of our agenda. We have 2 amendments
to the municipal code for uh, introduced by Alderman Reilly
pertaining to the sparked streets pilot. We have Robert
Kearny chief of staff for the 42nd Ward and Michael Howlett
from the legislative reference Bureau here to answer any
questions for item 2 on page 9. We have a substitute
ordinance that was emailed out and distributed today.
the ordinance amends the end date of the smart streets pilot
pilot from June 30th 2025 to June 30th, 2026 while the
substitute ordinance.
changes the end date of the program to be the second
anniversary of the date on which the first notice of
violation is issued pursuant to the program. Can I have a
motion to accept the substitute ordinance?
Ottoman Martin so moves here hearing no objections so
ordered. Um,
Uh Chief of Staff Kearny. May I ask you to speak more into
the ordinance for the members? Yes. Hi. Thank you chairman.
My name is uh, Robert Kerney. I'm Alderman Riley's Chief of
Staff. Uh, the smart streets pilot program was passed at
the end of Mayor Lori lightfoot's term. Um, unfortunately
the city, uh has not been able to get automated enforcement
cameras installed on City vehicles yet, uh due to issues
finding a vendor. Um, so since this cameras have not been
installed yet. We don't have a specific date. We wanted to
tie the 2-year timeline to when the first notice of
violation was issued. Um Alderman Reilly respectfully
requests and I vote and if you have any questions, I'm
happy to answer them. Thank you very much. I appreciate the
collaboration with the committee and our staff. I
appreciate the collaboration with the mayor's office and
and getting this uh set up. Do we have questions from
committee members almond Lawson?
Thank you chair. Um, thank you Mr. Kearney. I'm not sure if
anyone here is from seat out or procurement, but do you
have a time frame on when it should start?
We we don't have an exact, uh timeline yet, uh, uh C dot
decided to go with a vendor that the Department of Finance
currently uses for uh, software and hardware for their
current enforcement, um programs, uh, currently there is a
contract amendment that uh doof, uh finished writing and is
with the vendor right now. So we're actually pretty close
to um, having an agreement and getting cameras installed.
That's good to hear because I think this is a program a lot
of us would like to see move outside of the central
business district those of us with stadiums those of us
with with busy busy areas near airports. This is a tool. We
should be using more of so my full support and keep us
posted. Let us know what we can do to assist. Thank you
chair. Thank you.
So very welcome. Uh, do we have any other questions or
comments from committee members?
Uh, seeing no more. Can I have a motion to recommend
approval of the substitute ordinance? So 202400000000 77768
by the same roll call vote as was applied to determine
quarum.
Vice chair crew so moves hearing no objections so ordered we
also have a substitute ordinance for item 3 on page 9 there
was sent out via email and distributed to members this
substitute expands the reference sections under the
definition of covered offense for the smart streets pilot
to include metered parking violations, before we motion to
accept the substitute. Uh, again Chief of Staff Kearny.
Would you mind going into detail? Yes, thank you. Thank you
chairman. Again Robert Kerney almond Riley Chief of Staff.
Um, when Alderman Reilly sponsored the smart streets pilot
program, um under mayor Lori Lightfoot, we thought that
parking meter regular parking meter violations were
actually part of that original ordinance. Um, so this is
just a trailer cleanup, um ordinance to to fix that we know
downtown that uh, there are lots of violations for parking
meters and we have a finite number of meter.
Enforcement agents. I think there's only 8 to 10 or so for
the entire Central business district, which is pretty
small. Um, and the substitute is just a cleanup of some of
the language that the Law Department wanted to to write.
Thank you. Chief of Staff Kearny. We'll go to questions for
in just a moment. But may I have a motion to accept the
substitute ordinance?
so moved
to close 1 we will give it to Alderman Hopkins Alderman
Hopkins.
All right in just 1 quick moment almond Hopkins so moves
hearing no objections. So ordered are there any questions
or comments on the substitute ordinance? Can we go to the
panelists side?
Okay.
Meanwhile in Chambers any any questions comments from
members present in person?
Seeing none. We we hold for technical difficulties.
I may just go ahead um panelists with your hand raised you
uh want to come off mute.
Uh chairman, this is almond Curtis. I just wanted to be
recognized for please.
Almond Curtis glad to oblige you. May we have uh a motion
to allow ottoman Curtis to participate remotely via rule
59.
Uh ottoman kutson so moves all those in favor. Say I
All those opposed say nay in the opinion of the chair the
eyes have it. Welcome aboard Alderman Curtis.
Thank you.
No further questions.
on this item
Can I have a motion to recommend approval of the substitute
ordinance? So 2024 D 0000096 34 by the same roll call vote
as was applied to determine quorum.
uh chairman Lawson so moves hearing no objection so ordered
we will report these items out at the next regularly
scheduled city council meeting with there being no further
business before the committee. Can I have a motion to
adjourn?
So moved Vice chair Cruise all those in favor signify by
saying I
we are adjourned. Thank you so much.