Mayor Daley demotes Paul Volpe, best known for helping to carry out the parking meter lease deal. But don't be fooled—the person responsible for that fiasco still has a job at City Hall. It's Daley himself.
As the mayor's $6.1 billion budget passed the City Council, alderman Tom Allen blasted the administration for misusing taxpayer money, and alderman Berny Stone accused Allen of being "brainwashed by the media."
On October 21 Mayor Daley proposed a $6.1 billion city budget for 2010 that he said would be balanced without raising taxes or cutting core services. But not all of his claims passed the sniff test.
A group of aldermen float a new proposal requiring that privatization deals receive more scrutiny before they're voted on. Others wonder why the City Council needs a new law to help it do its job.
A lawsuit against the city and state over the parking meter lease agreement is moving forward, which puts the office of Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan in an interesting spot, since it's still conducting its own investigation of the deal.
A hearing has been scheduled for this Thursday on the origins of the parking meter lease deal. Is it possible the City Council is moving from rubber stamp to revolution?
Aldermen introduce another proposal to slow down approval of privatization agreements--and to cover their rears for agreeing to the parking meter deal. But not everyone's buying this one.
The office of the city's inspector general, David Hoffman, has been looking into the parking meter deal. A press conference at 2 will reveal its findings.