Committee on Committees and Rules meeting, September 16, 2024
- When: Mon, Sep 16, 2024, 2:00 PM (Chicago time)
- Where: City Council Chamber, 2nd Floor, City Hall, 121 North LaSalle Street - Chicago, IL 60602
- Status: Scheduled & Published
- Committee: Committee on Committees and Rules
- Video: https://vimeo.com/1008529569
- Transcript: full text (7,577 words, official captions)
Meeting notes
AI-written from the transcript. Speakers are inferred from cues in the recording, so treat names as estimates and check the video at the linked time.
The Committee on Committees and Rules met on September 16, 2024, heard thirteen public commenters, and approved its July 2024 Rule 45 report. On a roll call, a motion to re-refer the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability referendum ordinance to the Public Safety committee did not prevail, so the item remains in the Rules committee; several public commenters had urged that re-referral. An ordinance directing the police superintendent to contract for acoustic gunshot detection technology was laid on the table, and an ordinance setting a 25 mile per hour default speed limit was re-referred to the Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety. The committee also recommended a resolution renaming a City Hall meeting room for Mayor Harold Washington and two direct-introduction resolutions amending the sergeant-at-arms designations and standing committee memberships.
Topics: committee referrals, CCPSA referendum, ShotSpotter, speed limits, Harold Washington meeting room, committee assignments, public comment
Agenda items discussed
- 13:55 Rule 59 remote participation requests: passed
- 14:35 Public comment: discussed
- 53:31 Approval of the July 2024 Rule 45 report: passed
- 54:22 Re-referral of referendum ordinance on expanding the Commission for Public Safety and Accountability from 7 to 11 members: held
- 1:01:04 Re-referral of ordinance directing the police superintendent to contract for acoustic gunshot detection technology (O2024-0011032): held
- 1:01:56 Re-referral of ordinance establishing a 25 mph default speed limit to the Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety: passed
- 1:02:46 Resolution renaming a City Hall conference room the Honorable Harold Washington meeting room (R2023-0005295): passed
- 1:05:14 Resolution amending designation of the sergeant-at-arms and assistant sergeant-at-arms: passed
- 1:05:47 Resolution amending chairs, vice chairs and members of standing committees: passed
Alderpersons who spoke
- Michelle A. Harris (chair): Responded to concerns about room size by saying the renaming is a beginning and the city can go bigger later. (1:04:49)
- David H. Moore (alderperson): Said he could not vote yes on the re-referral because he had not been briefed on it. (57:11)
- Chris Taliaferro (alderperson): Said renaming the meeting room for Mayor Harold Washington and commissioning his portrait would honor his service to the city, state and country. (1:03:09)
- Bennett R. Lawson (alderperson): Supported the renaming but said the room is too small for current committees and suggested honoring Washington with a room that fits. (1:04:05)
- Andre Vasquez Jr. (alderperson): Supported naming the room for Harold Washington and said that under the Open Meetings Act a smaller room may be acceptable. (1:04:33)
Exchanges between members
- 57:11 Moore told the chair he would vote no because he had not been briefed on the item.
- 1:03:09 Taliaferro thanked the chair when presenting the renaming resolution.
- 1:04:05 Lawson thanked the chair and raised the room size concern.
- 1:04:49 The chair responded to the room size concern, saying the renaming is a beginning.