The City Council’s zoning committee will hold a hearing on an ordinance to allow attic and basement conversion residences and coach houses citywide, and the police and fire committee will consider three appointments to the Police Board.

Finance Chair Pat Dowell is pictured in March 2023. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council Committee on Finance will meet Monday and hold two public hearings plus a regular meeting to consider its routine matters. 

The regular agenda includes various measures allocating tax increment financing (TIF) dollars to citywide projects, bond issuances for office space-to-housing conversions and millions of dollars in proposed settlement agreements in police misconduct cases. Finance committee business begins at 10 a.m. in council chambers.

Hatem Abudayyeh, national chair of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, speaks during a news conference following a hearing on the March on the DNC Coalition's lawsuit on June 6, 2024. [Michael McDevitt/The Daily Line]

An attorney representing three groups suing the city after they were denied permits to protest the Democratic National Convention said the city seems open to negotiating a resolution to the lawsuit. 

The city is being sued by the Chicago Alliance against Racist and Political Repression, Anti-War Committee-Chicago and Students for a Democratic Society at UIC — three groups from the Coalition to March on the DNC that were denied permits to march to the United Center this August. The city suggested an alternate route through Grant Park, which the groups oppose as it isn’t “within sight and sound” of the convention attendees and media covering the event.

City Hall is pictured in this file photo.

The City Council Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight approved a measure Thursday codifying an existing executive order that bans lobbyist campaign donations to the mayor, and the committee approved the appointment of two ethics board members.

The City Council Committee on Housing and Real Estate meets June 5, 2024. [Livestream]

The City Council Committee on Housing and Real Estate on Wednesday approved a measure to continue to allow the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) to use city hearing officers for its tenant grievance process after the measure was held last month.

Ald. Matt Martin chairs the ethics committee. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight will meet Thursday and consider new regulations on the financial contributions that the mayor’s campaign committee can accept and two new appointments to the Chicago Board of Ethics, a month after the committee’s chair called on two board vacancies to be filled.

City Hall is pictured in this file photo. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

Budget Director Annette Guzman and Chief Operating Officer John Roberson told members of the City Council Committee on Budget and Government Operations Monday that Chicago has spent 40 percent of the federal COVID-19 relief funds that are meant to go to myriad community initiatives across the city. 

Officials also noted a few steps the mayoral administration has taken to speed up spending to meet the city’s goal of using all the nearly $1.9 billion at the city’s disposal before it’s clawed back by the federal government.

Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25) chairs the housing committee. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council Committee on Housing and Real Estate will meet Wednesday to consider an ordinance to continue allowing the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) to utilize city personnel for its tenant grievance process weeks after the committee delayed a vote on the measure.

The housing committee will meet at 1 p.m. in council chambers.

The Workforce Development Committee considers appointees to the Human Resources Board on Monday, June 3, 2024. [Livestream]

The City Council Committee on Workforce Development approved the appointment of three new members of the city’s Human Resources Board on Monday, including a new chair. 

The appointments now go before the City Council at its next regular meeting.

City Hall is pictured in this file photo. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

On Monday, the City Council Committee on Workforce Development will meet and consider several appointments and the approval of two collective bargaining agreements, while the council’s budget committee will hold a daylong meeting to discuss the current spending of federal pandemic relief funds by city departments and offices. 

The Committee on Budget and Government Operations is set to kick off an 8-hour agenda at 9:30 a.m. in council chambers. The workforce development committee will meet next door in Room 201 at 1 p.m.

Ald. Andre Vasquez (40) asks CTA President Dorval Carter questions during a transportation committee hearing Thursday. [Livestream]

Dorval Carter, the embattled president of the Chicago Transit Authority, struck a defiant tone during a combative hearing before the Committee on Transportation and Public Way Thursday, which came a week after a majority of alderpeople signed on to a resolution calling for his resignation or firing.

“I have been turned into a caricature. I have been turned into something that is less than a human being,” Carter said. “I can tell you as an African American male, that bothers me a lot.”

Ald. Matt Martin (47) attends a City Council environment committee meeting Wednesday. [Livestream]

The City Council’s environment committee meeting met Wednesday and held a subject matter hearing on Commonwealth Edison’s preparedness ahead of summer and approved the creation of a citywide advertising campaign for reducing litter, which will go to the City Council for a final vote.

Alderpeople will get a chance to grill the president of the city’s public transit agency at a committee hearing Thursday, and the mayor and a key council ally hosted a groundbreaking for a Logan Square public improvement project.

Ald. Maria Hadden (49) is pictured speaking about a proposal in her committee to electrify new buildings in Chicago. [Michael McDevitt/The Daily Line]

The City Council’s environment committee meeting will meet Wednesday to hold a subject matter hearing on Commonwealth Edison’s preparedness ahead of summer and to vote on the creation of a citywide advertising campaign for reducing litter.

The Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy will meet at 10:30 a.m. in council chambers at City Hall.

Ald. Bill Conway (34) is pictured during a council meeting in October 2023. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

The City Council passed two ordinances last week aimed at addressing persistent retail and office vacancies downtown. The measures, which loosened regulations on cannabis establishments downtown and high-rise signs, were approved earlier in the week by the Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards.