CITY OF CHICAGO
COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
CITY COUNCIL CITY HALL - ROOM 200 121 NORTH LASALLE STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60602
September 15.2021
Honorable Anna Valencia City Clerk
City Hall. Room 107 121 North LaSalle Street Chicago, Illinois 60602
Dear Madame Clerk:
Please be advised that at the City Council meeting on Monday. September 20, 2021, I intend to move to suspend the Rules to consider the attached resolution, which sets forth routine procedural steps related to the passage ofthe Budget for Fiscal Year 2022, and ask that you include this letter and the attached resolution in the published agenda for that meeting.
Respectfully submitted,
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot on September 20, 2021, submitted to the City Council the Executive Budget of the City of Chicago for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2022, and ending December 31, 2022; and
WHEREAS, It is provided by law that at least one public hearing shall be held by the corporate authorities on the budget document not less than one week after publication thereof in such manner as the corporate authorities may determine, and prior to final action thereon; and
WHEREAS, It is further provided by law that notice of such hearing shall be given by publication in a newspaper having general circulation in the City of Chicago not less than one week prior to the time of such hearing; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, That the budget document for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2022, and ending December 31, 2022, as submitted by the Mayor to the City Council, be published in pamphlet form and made available for public inspection in the Office of the City Clerk and in the Chicago Public Library no later than September 24, 2021; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the public hearing on said budget document be held by the City Council at 12:00 p.m. on October 14, 2021, in the City Council Chamber in City Hall, unless it is determined that a remote hearing is prudent due to COVID-19; and the City Clerk is hereby directed to cause a notice of such hearing to be published in a newspaper having general circulation in the City of Chicago at least one week prior to the time of such public hearing.