The City Clerk apprises the City Council of communications from various departments and agencies that were filed in his or her office from the time of the previous meeting. The City Clerk also notes the publication of the previous City Council Journal and other documents required or requested to be published. Matters submitted to the City Clerk by members of the general public or other entities requiring City Council approval are also introduced and referred to the appropriate committee for deliberation.
Standing committee chairmen report out to the full City Council the recommendations of the membership on matters under their consideration. Joint committees comprising two or more standing committees also report their recommendations at this time. Special committee chairmen present their reports.
Non-controversial resolutions honoring or paying tribute to individuals or organizations or ceremonial in nature are considered under the Agreed Calendar and on recommendation of the Chairman of the Committee on Finance, they are voted upon as a group by the full City Council. The Agreed Calendar is also commonly referred to as the Consent Calendar.
The City Clerk will "Call the Wards" and read into the record new legislative proposals ordinances, orders, petitions, resolutions, or other original matters introduced by aldermen on a variety of topics including but not limited to Municipal Code amendments, traffic regulations, zoning matters, licensing requirements, etc. The order of presentation alternates each meeting beginning with the 1st Ward on one meeting, then the 50th Ward on the next succeeding meeting, and so forth.
Matters may be referred to a Joint Committee for consideration; however, if two or more committees are called, the subject matter is referred, without debate, to the Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics. Corrections to the Journal of Proceedings are presented and referred to the Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics for review.
The Chairman of the Committee on Finance will also recommend that the full City Council approve of the Journal s of the last preceding regular meeting, as corrected, as well as any special meetings which occurred from the time of the last City Council meeting. Aldermen may request that the City Council call up for consideration previously deferred items. Notification of intentions to consider such matter s must be given to all aldermen and must clearly identify the item intended to be called up for a vote.
At this point in the meeting, any alderman may motion to discharge a committee from further consideration of a matter which has been pending in committee for more than 60 days. The motion to discharge requires a majority vote of all aldermen 26 votes are required. An ordinance is presented setting the date and time of the next regular meeting of the City Council. If no meeting date is set, then in accordance with the Municipal Code, the regular meeting shall be held at a.
An omnibus vote is a single roll call vote taken and applied to all items not voted upon separately, or for which another vote was not employed during the course of the meeting. If no further business is to be considered and the meeting is concluded, then a motion is made to adjourn.
The call for a special meeting must be filed with the City Clerk at least 48 hours prior to the time the meeting is to convene. The call must also specify the purpose or purposes for the meeting, and the business conducted shall be to only those matters. Legislative bodies exercise their authority through the issuance of laws which impact our lives and livelihoods.
Once a document is drafted and introduced into the City Council, it is assigned to a committee where hearings are conducted to review the proposal. Following deliberations, the Committee will report out their recommendation to the full City Council. Changes and amendments may occur at any time in the legislative process up to its final consideration by the City Council. If approved by the full City Council, the legislation becomes law.
During the legislative process documents may be amended in part or substituted in full before final consideration. At each City Council meeting, as the order of business progresses, the Clerk announces a very brief summary of the subject matter of each newly proposed legislative document, including the name of the sponsor and the committee to which it has been assigned.
Pursuant to City Council Rule 41, all proposed legislation is automatically referred to a committee for consideration and only acted upon by the City Council at a subsequent meeting.
If during the presentation and reading of new business two or more committees are called for assignment of the legislation, it is automatically sent to the Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics which will make a recommendation regarding the conflict of jurisdiction. After recording and processing by the City Clerk, legislative introductions are immediately transmitted to the assigned committees. The committee chairman will then schedule a meeting and send notification to the Aldermen and City Clerk of the date, time and location of the meeting.
All committee meetings are open to the public and citizens wanting to testify at a committee meeting are advised to contact the committee prior to the scheduled meeting date. The committee chairman will provide an agenda containing a listing and brief description of the items to be considered.
Although consisting primarily of legislation previously referred to the committee, City Council rules also allow operating departments to introduce legislation directly into committee to facilitate expedious consideration or in cases of emergency.
During committee review, members will discuss and debate the legislative proposals. Members also may request to hear testimony on a particular issue or may submit amendments or changes to a document.
If the committee decides not to act on a matter it will remain with the committee. Such motion to discharge requires the majority vote of the full City Council i. Members may also recommend referral to another committee due to the subject matter of a particular document. Most items are approved in committee by a consensus of the members. James Cappleman. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa.
Related Stories. Former State Rep. Watch All Video Kids Video. Programs Programs A-Z Playlist. Events Event Calendar. On September 15, , U. District Judge Harry Leinenweber ordered a preliminary injunction to block plans by the U. Department of Justice to connect public safety grants to cooperation with federal immigration agents. The ruling followed a lawsuit filed by the city of Chicago on August 7, , against the department over revised criteria for the Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant JAG program, which is used to provide federal funding to cities and counties for police equipment and training.
On July 25, , the Department of Justice announced that jurisdictions wishing to receive JAG funds had to comply with three new conditions: 1 the city had to share any immigration status information collected by city agents with federal officials, 2 the city had to honor requests by federal immigration officials to receive hour notice prior to releasing certain detainees, and 3 the city had to allow federal immigration officials access to local jails and prisons in order to interrogate prisoners.
In announcing the new requirements, U. The city contended that the new criteria were unconstitutional. In its filing, the city petitioned the court to issue a ruling by the September 5, , deadline to apply for the JAG program. On April 28, , the President Joe Biden D rescinded the executive order made by former President Donald Trump D that introduced penalties against sanctuary cities , including making them ineligible for federal grants.
This total represented the city's highest number of reported murders since were reported in From to , Chicago's annual murder totals peaked at in and hit a low of in In , there were murders.
A Pew Research Center report stated that Chicago had the 14th-highest murder rate, at The following table shows the city's murder totals as reported by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics database from to In July , the Movement Advancement Project described Chicago, Illinois, as a city or county that prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of gender identity via ordinances that apply to public and private employers.
At that time, a total of 71 of America's largest cities prohibited private employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, while 69 of those cities also prohibited discrimination based on gender identity.
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