City Council meeting, December 29, 2025
- When: Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 10:00 AM (Chicago time)
- Where: City Council Chamber, 2nd Floor, City Hall, 121 North LaSalle Street - Chicago, IL 60602
- Status: Scheduled & Published
- Body: full City Council
- Video: https://vimeo.com/1148341931
- Transcript: full text (5,869 words, automatic captions)
Meeting notes
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The December 29, 2025 City Council meeting opened with an invocation by Alderperson David H. Moore and seven public commenters, several of whom asked for funding for a community violence prevention and outreach group. The clerk reported executive orders prohibiting the sale of city-owned medical debt and establishing oversight of Chicago Police Department overtime. The council passed Budget Committee fund transfers for several wards 48-0 and a series of technical corrections to the 2026 annual appropriation ordinance, after Alderperson Jason C. Ervin told Alderperson Matthew J. O'Shea that a program name correction would be handled in a January amendment. Alderperson Jason C. Ervin withdrew a Rule 41 notice, and the council held a moment of silence at Alderperson David H. Moore request for former CHA chief legal counsel Bob Whitfield.
Topics: 2026 appropriation corrections, ward fund transfers, executive orders on debt and police overtime, violence prevention funding, public comment
Agenda items discussed
- 59:59 Public comment period: discussed
- 1:18:58 Communications, including executive orders on city-owned medical debt and CPD overtime oversight
- 1:21:11 Budget: transfers of funds within the 4th, 6th, 9th, 28th and 37th Ward accounts: passed
- 1:25:27 Technical corrections to the 2026 annual appropriation ordinance: passed
- 1:26:33 Budget: transfers of funds within the 15th and 28th Ward accounts: passed
- 1:26:51 Agreed calendar resolutions: passed
- 1:27:18 New business: aldermanic introductions, including video gaming terminal location limits
- 1:30:05 Rule 41 notice filed by Alderperson Jason C. Ervin withdrawn: deferred
- 1:30:40 Moment of silence for former CHA chief legal counsel Bob Whitfield
Alderpersons who spoke
- Jason C. Ervin (alderperson): Presented Budget Committee transfers of funds within several ward accounts. (1:21:11); Said the violence reduction program name would be corrected to community violence intervention in a January amendment, noting on-the-fly corrections can unbalance the budget. (1:22:20); Moved adoption of technical corrections to the 2026 annual appropriation ordinance. (1:25:27)
- Matthew J. O'Shea (alderperson): Asked whether the violence reduction program listed in the budget recommendations would be renamed community violence intervention after the new year. (1:22:00)
- David H. Moore (alderperson): Recognized the late Bob Whitfield, former CHA chief legal counsel and advocate for public housing residents, and asked for a moment of silence. (1:31:16)
Exchanges between members
- 1:22:00 O'Shea asked whether the violence reduction program name in the budget would be changed to community violence intervention.
- 1:22:20 Ervin answered that the change would be made in the January budget amendment.