Posted on 01/26/2022 6:10:23 PM PST by simpson96
Mayor Lori Lightfoot got the go-ahead Wednesday to sign emergency contracts valued at up to $1 million without City Council approval, but only until the end of the year.
Last month, Lightfoot’s most outspoken Council critics used a parliamentary maneuver to delay the vote.
That prompted the mayor to sign an executive order giving herself expanded emergency contracting authority to deal with supply chain disruptions and inflationary price increases that threaten to leave the city without the water purification chemicals and other products needed to protect public safety.
Budget Committee Chairman Pat Dowell (3rd) used her own parliamentary maneuver at Wednesday meeting to resurrect the emergency powers ordinance, pushing it through the Council on a 39-to-6 vote.
It happened during a wild and woolly meeting that featured a protracted floor fight over an attempt by Ald. Anthony Beale (9th) to force an immediate vote on his long-stalled plan to empower the Council to hire its own legislative counsel.
Last summer, 22 of Chicago’s 50 Council members signed a letter to the mayor demanding that she “honor and consistently follow” the Council’s rules of procedure, citing numerous occasions when Lightfoot made parliamentary rulings contradicting those rules.
Implied, but not stated, was that if Lightfoot continued to disregard those rules while presiding at Council meetings, members would insist on having their own counsel and their own parliamentarian, or challenge Lightfoot’s rulings in court.
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Determined to reduce childhood obesity, Lightfoot also pushed through her plan to stop Chicago restaurants from automatically serving kids meals with sugary, high-calorie drinks. No longer would Chicago restaurants serve or market soda pop or other sugary drinks as the “default beverage” with kids meals.
Serving up money to the well connected.
She should find a new Chicago ISD class, teaching:
1- don’t shoot people
2- don’t steal
The last thing the Democrat tinpot tyrants need now is more “emergency powers.”
This commie is a disaster. Why haven’t they haven’t gotten rid of her yet?
Give the keys to the treasury to a crook?
So, in other words, Chicago City Council just handed Mayor Lightfoot the ability to write $1M checks to her friends with no supervision?
Democrat politicians never miss the chance to get rich. My only question is will she be taking more than the customary Biden Cut (10%)?
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