Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson has forged a compromise to shrink the number of City Council committees from 28 to 20 and replace Finance Committee Chairman Scott Waguespack (32nd) with Ald. Pat Dowell (3rd).
committees from 28 to 20 and replace Finance Committee Chairman Scott Waguespack with Ald. Pat Dowell , whose endorsement of Johnson was a turning point of his mayoral campaign.
Several City Hall sources identified Waguespack, who stuck by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, as among those who could be on the chopping block. Police and Fire would handle all issues relating to those two departments. The Committee on Public Safety would help deliver Chicago from violent crime in a more holistic way.Reports say people are leaving the city and Illinois. President of wirepoints.org Ted Dabrowski says businesses are up and leaving as well. When people leave they take their money with them and the city and state governments lose out on tax money.
Dowell did the heavy lifting for all four of Lightfoot’s budgets and has long had her eye on the finance chair’s job. Johnson’s decision to reward her will make Dowell the first woman ever to serve as Finance Committee chair. "There was a lot of push back on the 28 committees. A lot of push back on the sustainability and viability of that broad of a committee structure. When it was clear to everybody involved that the committee structure had to be reduced, it’s a game of musical chairs, unfortunately," said a source familiar with the negotiations.
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