• Michael McDevitt
    DEC 17, 2025
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    Finance committee approves finalized version of alternative revenue proposal, which avoids head tax, garbage fee increase but raises taxes on retail alcohol sales, licenses city spaces for ads

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    Ald. Nicole Lee (11) speaks at a special City Council meeting on Feb. 26, 2025. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

    A coalition of alderpeople behind a competing 2026 budget proposal unveiled a revised version of their revenue measure on Tuesday, and the Committee on Finance advanced the revenue portion of the plan 22-13. 

    The latest version of the group’s alternative revenue ordinance (SO2025-0021719) is different in myriad ways from a version introduced last week.  

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