Never before had the City Council voted to set new committee chairs and revise the legislative body's rules at the end of a term, less than a week before runoff elections, prompting several council members to cry foul.
"Why are we denying incoming aldermen who will be selected by the voters of Chicago on April 4 the opportunity to determine their leadership team, and to determine the rules under which they will operate for the next four years?" said Ald. Brian Hopkins
Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza , who is retiring at the end of her term, said it shouldn't matter if the new mayor wants to have a say in who chairs council committees if the City Council truly wants to keep that power to themselves. "You had to be willing to show up and actually discuss this process. You couldn't sit on the sidelines and say 'Hey, I don't like it because I wasn't invited. Everybody was invited. Everybody was asked for input. To say otherwise is wrong," he said.
Other critics said the City Council members behind Thursday's vote were only concerned about their own self-interests, accusing existing committee chairs who led the effort of simply trying to make sure they keep their influential positions regardless of who the next mayor is. Beale also noted that his own efforts to create a more independent City Council in recent years have been blocked.
Critics also noted that, of the City Council's current 19 committees, several of them rarely, if ever meet, and questioned the need to expand that number to 28. For example, the new committee structure separates the Public Safety Committee into two – a Committee on Fire and Emergency Management, and a Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice – and the Committee on Zoning, Landmarks, and Building Standards into a Committee on Building Standards and a Committee on Zoning and Landmarks.
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