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Good morning. I am chairperson. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez.
It is 11.
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on July 12th of 2024 and the meeting on the Chicago City
council's committee on health and human relations will now
come to order.
We have 2 legislative matters on the agenda today. Uh, we
have ordinance 202400007841 introduced by Alderman
Napolitano, which is an amendment of Municipal Code section
728710 by prohibited dumping of food stuffs that are afford
food or harborage to wild animals Alderman Napolitano has
prepared a substitute version of this ordinance and that
was shared with committee members yesterday.
And we will also hear ordinance 202400008939, which was
introduced by Alderman Ken.
Uh, it is an amendment of Municipal Code section 84147
prohibiting unattended substances or weapons on public way
or on private property.
Alderman Ken has also prepared a substitute version of this
ordinance that was shared with committee members yesterday.
That substitute has been amended 1 final time and was sent
to committee members shortly before this meeting. We have
printed the substitute. So if you don't have a copy.
Please let us know.
We also have some guests in the Box this morning here to
answer question.
Um, and we will ask them to introduce themselves later.
Before we begin I will call the roll call to establish
forum.
Alderman Robinson
not present Alderman Janie not Preston Vice chair Ramirez.
Vice chair Ramirez is present Other Woman Gutierrez not
present Alderman Lopez. Not not present. Um Elder woman
Coleman.
not present other than sexual Lopez
Is present other women Fuentes?
Other Woman fentes is present Elder woman Cruise.
Alderman cruise is present Alderman Carlos Ramirez Rosa.
Alderman Ramirez Rosa is present Elder woman Mana
hoppenworth not present Alderman Lawson.
Is present Elder woman Haden?
And chairwoman Rodriguez Sanchez is present and I have 9
members present and we have a quorum. I also want to
recognize non-members. Um Alderman Napolitano Alderman
kenson and Alderman Bernett was with us, um a little bit
ago. Um, we have a request for remote participation citing
rule 59 from Alderman Robinson. Can I get a motion to
approve remote participation of aldermen Robinson Alder
person Crusoe moves? Um,
um, and I also have other woman Gutierrez, uh who just sent
um, uh requests for more participation. Um, can I can get I
get a motion for Elder woman Gutierrez
so moved by other 1es all those in favor of allowing remote
participation of both Alderman Robinson and alderwoman
Gutierrez. Please signify by saying I
opposed say nay in the opinion of the chair. The eyes have
it. These Elders will be counted Towers roll call. I want
to recognize Alderman. Yansi. Thank you for joining us.
Um, we will begin our meeting with public comment.
This period is limited to 30 minutes and each speaker is
limited to 3 minutes. We have 4, um in-person public
speakers who have signed up and we don't have any um, uh
virtual public speakers. Um speakers will be called in
random order from our pink slips and we are going to start
with Mr. George, Blakemore.
I can't believe it's starting 30th the Human Rights
Commission.
And I only see 1 of black person.
On the committee of President and I see 2 want to be white.
On the committee a call Chef like king of us anyway.
human relation Commission
What is human relation? How can people get along with each
other?
Their relationship with each other. Is it a wholesome
relationship or is it hostile?
It's hostile here in the city of Chicago because they have
brought a illegal people in to compete.
For jobs good contracts and service with black people and
they're moving them into our neighborhood.
And they're competing over at County Hospital.
And they coming under the name of sanctuary.
Now if I I have a long history with the Human Rights
Commission over 40 years. I have a long history. I'm an
expert in this.
I found many complaints with the state human rights the
city of Human Rights the County Human Rights.
But I'm black.
I'm black and and other people come in and have the
audacity if you gave or whatever and and go to a a a a a
work staff Financial Stalin house all covered by the Human
Rights Commission. But when you black you at the bottom of
the social economic you get nothing illegal can come over
and and not even and be a Chicago post.
Face and not even a citizen they can go come to the state of
the city and say I'm being discrimination on my job.
And you're not even a citizen.
But when I file a complaint they said what is your
complaint with the commission race?
I'm black and
Weeks later you will say I will get a letter say they found
no fault. No guilt.
And that my complaint me nothing. It means nothing when
you're black.
In the city of Chicago with this Democratic man.
fail fail let me and you gonna have that gastric when I go
over my
Your time is up. You have succeeded go 3 minutes you have
succeeded.
Thank you, Mr. Blakemore.
Our next speaker is Mr. Sims.
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Um, hey, good good afternoon committee.
um, so human rights
I have a just have to reading exactly what you all cover.
So you all cover citizen senior citizens Hazel Sims was my
mother.
Um, I'm still being dragged through Court since 2021 while
I was taking out of her home. She was disabled unable to
take care of myself. I was locked away for a domestic
violence not giving uh, what is it called due process. That
number is 211 d v701 1 00011 Port room 401. I'm hoping that
it'll be dismissed.
Um The Fair Housing Act
So my hmis number is 355061. I've been homeless since to
what is it July 2000021 work force discrimination. I had a
EEOC claim 440200222 0907 that claim was. Well, I was told
by the lead investigator Seth Brown that there was no
finding of discrimination all lies. Um and also family
support my child's name is yasuke Roosevelt Sims. I have a
domestic, um over in domestic relations wherever I've been
dragged for the last 2 years 2 3D 79597
Um, these are all areas in which you all cover.
chairwoman
Excuse me, chairwoman. These are all areas you all covered.
And now these are all areas. You all have heard me speaking
on I've come to this committee and every other committee to
address these things but still to no avail. So I've
concluded that I'm not considered a human being here in the
city of Chicago.
And I'm supposing why but Mr. Blakemore hit it right on the
head as a black American you're not viewed as a human
being.
You have no human rights know.
Civil rights or any rights?
I'm concluding.
Unless you be a homosexual person unless you're a um of
Latin descent unless your immigrant or or all these
different things but not a naturalized citizen. Not
somebody who's been living in this country for 43 years.
So I'm wondering why.
chairwoman
you got to pay attention because I'm I'm it's it's it's
it's disheartening and also frustrating to be ignored
consistently you wore a mask to the last meeting, but
you've also canceled 2 other meetings and I want to address
this. So I got you at my disposal today.
So help me out help me understand why I'm not treated as a
human being but everybody else is giving that just do.
Or while this nation of people is not treated and in a
human way what everybody else is giving that just do?
Whether you be homosexual immigrant or just anybody else
outside of this nation.
Helped me to understand that you can be look don't aspirate
because I'm frustrated. I'm more frustrated than you.
I can't address you. I don't even know you but I hear
everybody talking to you as this great.
Human, thank you for your comments Mr. Sims.
Um the next um speaker. I apologize. I don't understand the
handwriting for the um, last name Shanty wait worth.
Okay. All right. Sorry, it's my handwriting. Um, so my
name's Chanty Wadsworth. I am from Evenson Illinois and
over the past few months. I've been doing a lot of work
with states around the country to ban dangerous chemicals
from cosmetics and cleaning products. Um, thank you for
hearing from me today. First of all, um, it's no secret
that the US is 1 of the industrialized worlds unhealthiest
countries our healthcare system, which should be 1 of the
best in the world is so inaccessible that it isn't uncommon
for patients no matter their condition.
To be turned away because of a lack of insurance. This is a
big problem that despite my respect for the committee will
be difficult to solve in the city of Chicago alone.
However, not everything about the US Healthcare System
requires big changes on the part of policy makers after all
the US has the highest death rate among avoidable or
treatable conditions in the industrialized world.
1 of the things that I respect most about the current city
Administration is that attempt to fix the root cause of
many of Chicago's biggest issues. I believe that the same
can be done here.
Rather than spending loads of money on an already broken
Health Care System. We can attack the products that cause
some of America's worst conditions before they hit the
shelves.
This is made much easier when considering the fact that for
years. The American government has taken the word of
manufacturers over policy that those manufacturers make
consider to be overly cautious as a result. Some of the
worst chemicals in America's products today aren't even
included on our labels a product's fragrance for instance
is considered an international trade secret meeting. It
can't even be interpreted in the public eye or even
approved by the FDA as a result companies can put whatever
they want into their fragrance into the fragrances of their
products. This means that many of America's favorite
products include significant amounts of endocrine
disruptors.
Carcinogens and other dangerous toxins and many of us don't
even know.
I can't stress enough how important this issue is to me.
I've watched this countless members of my family fall into
cancer and other preventable conditions.
lessening the chance
that anyone has to deal with this terrible condition and
the many like it is something that I firmly believe we
should dedicate ourselves to I'll end by saying that it's
time that we stopped taking companies at their word.
It's time we stop endangering the lives of ourselves our
children and our family members.
What I'm trying to say.
Is that we need to stop doing what's easy?
And begin to do the work to protect Americans from from the
dangerous chemicals that we use every day. Thank you.
Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is Miss
Jessica Jackson.
Go ahead Miss Jackson.
Um, if Rosa could please stop talking at them to could
please stop talking, please. Can you tell them to please
stop talking?
Go ahead Miss Jackson.
Go ahead.
Okay.
um
I'm here. Okay, you know what? I'm going to forget this
because they can't seem to stop talking and clearly there's
no rules anymore because Rosa.
broke the rules
when he cheated the whole city out of being able to vote
for Sanctuary City and ever since then.
City Hall has been on the quick spiral downfall.
And we've been getting harassed.
Because we witnessed him cheat the whole city.
Because we were here.
So because we witnessed that.
That's how come we get harassed about coming into public
speaking.
Now he gets to sit there. That's the most disgusting thing
I've ever seen especially when this is supposed to be about
humanitarian and human rights, and he used to be so
blatantly disrespectful to Citizens and he won't stop so I
had something that I needed to talk to you about about a
hate crime for black people because our property being
stolen
And see when you all get upset because somebody says
something that you all don't like or agree with you get up
and walk out walk away.
But you're supposed to be on to people.
Everybody doesn't have to agree with you. Well we have to
do is exercise our rights.
And be within 3 minutes, that's what we have to do. We
don't have to agree with you and if we don't agree with you
you all get up and walk out.
All the way to the point where the other day when I
addressed you, see how disrespectful you being right now.
And then in order to get any money that you want to
subsidize any idea that you have you gonna take black
statistics to do it. You gonna have black this black that
black this black that but when black people come and talk
to you about our issues the ones that you throw up on that
board and that all y'all get paid off of the white Alderman
get paid off of it the Hispanic Alderman get paid off of it
the black Alderman get paid off of it. But yet when we come
and talk about our issues it offends y'all it upsets you it
rubs you down the wrong way. So I'm going to go sit right
there in my seat. And as a older person you I'm asking you
to come and talk to me about this hate crime that I'm
trying to do cuz I'm not going to deal with a rude and
incompetent.
Sitting there being rude and disrespectful to me at 61 years
old got that.
Thank you for your comments. Next speaker is Doris Lewis.
Has destroyed City Hall Miss Lewis?
I I need I need silence to continue with public comment.
Thank you. Go ahead Miss Lewis.
What is happening in Chicago particularly to the black
community is a human rights violation. It's a hate crime.
I have been in and out of this body. I have listened. I
have watched I've seen you vote.
on over 400 million dollars for illegal immigrants from
around the world to the detriment of the black community. I
have in my hand a contract. I have in my hand a contract.
Excuse me. I need silence in order to be able to listen to
public comment. If you don't remain quiet you will have to
leave.
Would you would you restore my minutes, please?
Please go ahead.
I have in my hand a contract with black Chicago 2023.
I and my girlfriend sister Erica Don we put this contract
together because we are seeing what you're doing in terms
of voting for all of this money for illegal immigrants.
This contract is about 20 15 government agencies in the
city of Chicago Chicago Board of Education to Chicago
Police Department, the Chicago Fire Department housing and
un down the line we make up 29% of this population and we
want to stop the Carnage that's going on in the black
community. This illegal immigration is decimating the black
community. So we're saying in this contract that since we
make up 29% of uh, the population here, we want 29% of the
jobs in each 1 of these departments education housing
Police Department environment. I am a retired teacher and
counselor with the Chicago Public School System. There are
only 21% of black teachers.
In this system. We want that population that 29% to
represent our population Desmond. Yansi. This contract was
given to you we met with you in High Park in a hotel you
Embrace this contract you agree with this contract. We told
you we'd like for you to introduce it as an ordinance. You
have not done anything, but you introduced an ordinance
recognizing haitian-american month Haitians did not put you
in office 64% of the people in your ward are black 3% speak
Spanish or Spanish who speak the language Spanish. So we're
at we're looking forward to meeting with a select group of
aldermen to sit down and talk with them and ask them to
introduce this as an ordinance so that we can stop the
Carnage in our communities. You've had fairs employment
fairs for illegal immigrants, but you haven't done anything
for young black men in the city of Chicago in some sections
of the community.
Black community. It's 50% unemployment. We talk about crime
where your legislations your ordinances are contributing to
this crime. It's engineered. So we have to stop it. We are
looking forward to sitting down with you all to help us
help the black community. They're taking their land
everything is going on. So we look forward to working with
these Alderman to support us. Thank you.
Thank you. Miss Lewis that concludes the public comment
period
this concludes the public comment period thank you to all
Mr. Sims. You will be asked to leave if you don't um keep
the Quorum. I need to be able to run this meeting.
Mr Sims
Your time is up for speaking.
Now I'm going to move.
Into the work of the committee. Thank you.
Um, we have also received, uh, written comments from the
public that we shared with committee members yesterday.
Our first item of business is the approval of rule 45 report
from our May 15 meeting. Can I get a motion to approve the
Mets 15 2024 rule 45 report other person Haden so moves all
so moves all those in favor of approving, uh, the rule 45
reports signify by saying I
all those opposed say nay in the opinion of the chair the
eyes have it. Um, the committee was also presented with the
rule 45 report from our June 27 joint committee meeting
with the Committee on Public Safety. We will now move on to
the matters before the committee item number 1 on the
agenda is ordinance 202400000078 41 introduced by other man
Apollo, which is an amendment of Municipal Code section
728710 by prohibiting dumping of food stuffs that afford
food or harage to wild animals Alderman Napolitano has
prepared a substitute version of this ordinance that was
sent and shared with committee yesterday.
Can I get a motion to accept the substitute for this item?
Albertson Haden so moves all those in favor of accepting
the substitute respond by saying I
Um all those opposed say nay in the opinion of the chair
the eyes have it Alderman. Would you like to share uh the
substance of the ordinance?
Absolutely. Thank you madam chair. Um, so what we did is we
took the uh dumping ordinance which is uh, 7-28-22 and it
reads as uh, it shall be unlawful for any person to place
leave dump or permit the accumulation of garbage or trash
in the part. We added was including any animal feed food
waste or food stuff or any dead animal waste veget
vegetables or matter of that kind and the reason why we did
that to this ordinance is in the past all of our Wards, um,
as if an inspector had gone out or your ward
superintendent, um, and and from receiving complaints from
residents that uh, a neighbor is feeding the the animals
feeding the pigeons feeding the cats, um, which isn't the
bad thing, but the problem is is when they leave it on the
ground, uh 1 of our biggest problems right now is the calls
for for rodents. Um, so the way this was written originally
is it is prohibited for anyone to be able to do that, but
you can't and
enforce anything unless you catch them in the act. So what
this ordinance does now is says you cannot leave this a
pile of food laying on your front porch on your on your
property on your lawn to feed, um to feed uh, any of the
animals because of this rodent issue is so out of hand
right now, it gives your your your superintendent or your
inspector the ability to warn that Resident multiple times
prior to taking enforcement, um, which is a fine which have
already been created. Um, if they
Caught the person in the ACT. I I just the reason why I'm
doing this is I I know on the northwest side. We see a high
uptick in Road and uh issues and I think some of my
colleagues feel the same thing. So I would love your
support on this as well if there's something wrong and we
need to change it. Just let me know. I'm willing to add
whatever we need to thank you madam chair. Yeah. Um,
Do we have any questions or comments about this measure?
I I want to thank you for working with the Department of
trees and sanitation and this I already talked to the
commissioner and he was on board with it. So it's it's it's
good policy. Um, thank you for doing that work before um,
bringing it, uh to committee. Um, so if there are no
comments or questions, can I get a motion to recommend
approval of this item as substituted?
Elder woman hadn't so moved all of those in favor signify
by saying I
oppose same name in the opinion of the chair. The eyes have
it. This item will be reported at city council meeting um
next week.
Yes, thank you for being here. Alderman.
We are now going to move to item number 2.
um on the agenda is ordinance 202400000893 9 introduced by
Alderman Ken which is an amendment of Municipal Code
section 84147 prohibiting unattended substances or weapons
on public way or on private property almond has prepared
sub substitute version of this ordinance that was shared
with committee members, um today
Uh, can I get a motion to accept the substitute for this
item?
So moved by Elder woman from Midas, uh, all those in favor
of accepting the substitute to signify by saying I oppose
same name in the opinion of the chair the eyes have it. Um,
I will allow the aldermen to share remarks about the item,
but I would uh first like for the box to introduce
themselves, um,
A good good just it's still good morning. Good morning, uh
chairwoman. I am Nancy Andrade. I am the chair and
commissioner for the commission on human relations.
Good morning. I'm Ken gun. I'm the first Deputy
Commissioner at the Chicago Commission on human relations.
Good morning. I am Danny Serrano, and I am the director of
Intergroup relations and Outreach at the commission. Thank
you all for being here. And now I'm going to pass it to
Alderman Ken to explain his ordinance.
Thank you so much chairperson Rodriguez Sanchez and to the
box, which we'll get to after this. I'm going to set a
little bit of the story The lay of the land here and then
we'll move to the commission. Um and our legal experts who
are present as well.
Um, so today I'm here to discuss the stop hate littering
ordinance, which is in front of you all.
Every new piece of policy comes from an issue that arose
without a solution and that's the story we have to tell
here today.
On a Monday morning this past April a resident and their
child came into the 43rd Ward office holding a Ziploc bag.
Inside the Ziploc bag was a blatantly anti-semitic flyer
and pellets that had the appearance of being rat poison.
They had found the flyer on a car on their residential
street and wanted to inform us that there were many more
our local police jumped right on the case and found over of
80 of such anti-semitic flyers in the area.
This was weeks after similar flying with that flying
without the added substance appeared on the other side of
our Ward.
We immediately sent award wide alert to our scared
Community with a clear message to the group. That was
spreading the Flyers. The message was this you are
committing acts of hate my office as well as the Chicago
Police Department will hold you accountable your threats
against the Jewish Community are repulsive and vile and
will not be tolerated in our community.
Through the CPD investigation in different hate crime
briefings by Chicago Commission on human relations and
other subject matter groups. We quickly identified the
group that spread these flyers.
It's a white supremacist hate group based out of Florida
with local operations in several States. I will not name
the group as they hoped for notoriety in order to monetize
their hate.
Although we identified the group we had won big problem our
local law enforcement. Let us know that under the current
law. There was nothing that they could do.
They couldn't give the group a warning let alone a ticket.
No, this frustrating reality brought us into brainstorm
mode with our partners at the Chicago Commission on human
relations commissioner Andrade Daniel Serrano and Kenneth
Gunn who are all here today.
In looking for a solution, we learned through the southern
law poverty Center that over 26,000 incidents of hate
flying have occurred in the United States since 2018.
This hate trend is Nationwide but has a a few striking
Locale examples that you probably know well as my
colleagues, for example.
In June 2018 stickers with swastikas and phrases like
refugees not welcome here or Nordic white boys were posted
in Logan Square with razor blades hidden behind them.
in June of 2020 black lives matter signs and posters were
defaced and stolen in North Center and racist Flyers were
put on properties that previously had the BLM signs.
In October 2020 the hate group The Proud boys plastered
cars in Lincoln Square with with racist phrases like BLM
burn Loop murder Clan with the tan and racist epithets in
references.
In December 2016. Nazi Flyers were hung outside of lgbtq
plus Multicultural and gender and sexuality student centers
on the University of Chicago's campus.
The group behind the Flyers posted videos of burning Pride
Flags, including 1 honor the pulse Massacre calling for a
race war and used other anti-semitic tropes.
The examples are plenty with incidences that have targeted
the Chicago Jewish Community Muslim American Community
black communities lgbtq plus communities and more.
Through this research. We learned from cities like San
Diego who have passed similar measures that these hate
groups use the trend of hate flying because they know that
they can't because they know the laws as written do not
prohibit it.
This is advantageous to them as many of these hate groups
monetize their ongoing operations. And therefore do not
want to break the law as it's written.
Like San Diego and like California who is looking to do a
Statewide ordinance soon.
That is what needs to change the stop hate littering
ordinance before you makes simple and narrowly tailored
modifications to the law in order to number 1 provide a
similar CI a civil penalty for up to $1,000 ticket to these
intimidating hate flying incidents and number 2 to tighten
the law to deter hate groups from organizing this kind of
hate flying in Chicago going forward.
for the past couple of months this stop hate littering
ordinance has had over 10 versions based on recommendations
by the Department of Law, the city's constitutionality team
Chicago Commission on human relations, the Chicago Police
Department lrb, the city's prosecutor and more.
The city has many brilliant attorneys and we really got to
know them on this moreover as an attorney myself and
introduce and introducing this ordinance. I was clear on
the need of passing language. That would be defensible from
any kind of constitutional challenge.
Basically in ordinance that will last for years to come and
that other municipalities in our country can copy for
themselves.
That is what we have here today in ordinance drafted to be
content neutral narrowly tailored and to leave other
avenues for groups to get their message out.
It is targeting materials that is left on real or personal
property like your car or your doorstep. It is not
targeting someone who has a megaphone for example in the
public way.
I'm grateful to the many people who prioritize this process
with their time and hearts on weekends and late nights.
Just to start commissioner Nancy Andrade Danny Serrano
Gunn Norman White Chris Cole. McKay Murphy Bianca Newell,
Eli Stone and my whole 43rd Ward team. I'm going to go now
to pass the mic to commissioner Andrade so that she can
give give her perspective on CCR on the stop hate littering
ordinance and explain to us why CCR recommended approval of
the ordinance in their recent 202?
24 annual report on hate crimes and incidents from there.
We'll go to the Department of Law, but I'll pass it to you
commissioner. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, good
afternoon. Good morning. Good afternoon, chairwoman
Rodriguez Sanchez and esteemed members of the committee and
of the city council. I'm here today in my role as
commissioner and chair of the commission on human relations
to voice our full support of the threatening material
ordinance brought before you today by Alderman Timothy
kuden.
Alderman kuden approached to see CH are immediately after
his Ward was targeted with anti-semitic Flyers placed in
plastic bags with what appear to look like rat boy's name.
This was the fifth such incident since November of 2023 in
Wards throughout the city and the last 1 Target the 50th
ward in May of this year which brings the total count up to
6 Wards experiencing this threatening and intimidating
intimidating incidents. These incidents are very disturbing
as they instill fear and panic in people. Our team responds
to each and every single incident like that. What was most
disturbing was the fact that it appears that the
perpetrator or perpetrators had a conducted very calculated
research to identify blocks specifically consisting of
predominantly Jewish families.
No, 1 should ever be targeted to instill fear or
intimidation
Up until now there has been no mechanism to stop these
incidents this proposed ordinance addresses this need.
Let me be clear First Amendment rights are very important.
And the law department has been diligent with working the
language of the proposed ordinance to protect Free Speech.
We are satisfied that the proposed ordinance protects not
only Chicagoans but most importantly preserves 1's First
Amendment rights to freedom of speech.
This proposed ordinance aligns with mayor Johnson's
initiatives for a stronger better and safer Chicago. It is
also 1 of the recommendations that the cchr made in its
most recent report first annual report on hate crimes and
hate incidents. So we we we fully support this, um
ordinance and we ask you for your support as well. Thank
you. Um if I may add and if I may pass this over to um, my
colleague Daniel Serrano who will elaborate a bit on the
ccr's response to each of these incidents.
Uh, thank you commissioner.
Uh, essentially the thing that I can add to this is that
I've actually uh working with uh other members of CCR, uh
Team Norman White and aracelis Bayers when we would hear
about these incidents either from Alders who would reach
out to us or reading about it in the media. Um, we would go
to the location.
is in the different Wards and respond by bringing literature
of our own, uh informing the local community about the uh
ordinance that was passed, uh adding hate incidents to the
hate crimes, um ordinance and letting them know that uh
prior to that they they didn't have a tool for reporting
these non-criminal hate acts to the city, but now they have
1 and uh, it's 1 of the things that was true. Every time we
went out when we would talk to people is that they would
communicate to us, uh, that this was unsettling that it was
disturbing the peace that it was causing, uh, uh, uh fear
apprehension that other hate crimes would follow uh on also
to people would comment that this is the kind of thing that
can provoke violence people, um can respond to this in ways
that uh, we don't want them to as echr. What we do is
Advance,
peace so uh, when we saw that this was disturbing the peace
and we started to talk with um, uh Alderman kuden. This is
why it ended up that the report ended up recommending, uh,
the passage of this proposal because there's very real
victims out there.
Are there any questions or comments from members of the
committee about this item?
Well, I want to commend you for the work that you have done
with this ordinance. I know that this is uh your first
mayor piece of legislation in the council and it is a
really beautiful 1 to start your policy making um work here
in the in the city council. I'm very proud to support this.
I'm very proud to have work, uh with the commission to
bring this to committee. Um, and and I'm really excited to
continue to work with you on this kind of legislation.
Thank you so much, uh commissioner, um, and and all of the
commission for being here today. Um,
if there are no comments or questions, can I get a motion
to approve these item?
Alderman jansy, so move all of those in favor of approving.
Um these items signify by saying I
Oppose say name in the opinion of the shares the I have it.
I will report this item as a recommendation do pass at the
next city council meeting with there being no further
business before committee. Can I get a motion to adjourn?
so moved by other by Vice chair Ramirez, um all of those, uh
in favor signify by saying I opposed say name in the
opinion of the chair the eyes have it this meeting is
adjourned.
Thank you. Thank you.