2023 City Budget Hearings [ Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities; Public Safety Administration; Business Affairs and Consumer Protection] AFTERNOON
Chicago City Council
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022
1:00 p.m. — 5:00 p.m. CDT
121 N LaSalle St Chicago, IL 60602 (Directions)
Most days of budget hearings are expected to run all day, with an hour-long lunch break somewhere in the middle.
We are splitting each day up into morning and afternoon assignments (9am-1pm and 1pm to end). If you are available for the whole day, feel free to apply to both morning and afternoon assignments.
You have the option of documenting this meeting in person or remotely. If you choose to attend in person, an additional hour will be added to your total assignment hours.
If you choose to document remotely, the meeting will be live-streamed at https://www.chicityclerk.com/.
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This is the ninth of 12 days of departmental budget hearings. It will feature overview presentations from the following city departments:
- Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities
- Office of Public Safety Administration
- Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection
See also: Our guide to navigating the city budget process.
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Reporting
Edited and summarized by the Chicago - IL Documenters Team
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01:38 PM Oct 19, 2022 CDT
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Meyer: 48% of my employees speak a second language, and that’s 14 different languages
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Andy Fox, Director of Office of Labor Standards: The fair work week cases involve more employees, we have some cases with 42 locations — for us, “food industry and manufacturing” represent the most labor and time spent
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“Some caveats are that it would be seasonal”
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Bars that get out of control after midnight are a “time suck” for police and their office
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Meyer: No we still do mailings for sure, absolutely.
Tunney: So the consolidated billing part — often times businesses are inundated with information
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Meyer: No, the grants were important for business survival during the pandemic but now “we’re looking at helping put in more permanent structures” …
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Meyer: That’s part of the ordinance ahead of the Council right now — “I don’t know that I have an answer” for how the expansion will impact the parking meter deal.
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Meyer: “It’s down but there’s more out there, that’s the problem”
Reilly: Can we audit these?
Meyer: “Right now they just ignore us … I want to get more teeth,”
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Meyer: We can work with you on that, we should have a conversation
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Meyer: Yes
BACP rep: It’s difficult because their residential, so we have to catch them in the act
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Meyer: We give the money to the local chambers but yes they would obviously have to work with the landlords
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We partner with various non profits or delegate agencies who haven’t invoiced us yet, so the money might be available but it’s committed and we just need to get on top of billing
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Coleman: No, empty storefronts that landlords rent out unlicensed to people for events after hours
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