Record #: O2014-53   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 1/15/2014 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Budget and Government Operations
Final action: 3/5/2014
Title: Third intergovernmental agreement with Chicago Housing Authority regarding provision of Administrative Hearings officers for adjudication of resident grievances
Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm
Topic: AGREEMENTS - Intergovernmental
Attachments: 1. O2014-53.pdf
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CITY OF CHICAGO
RAHM EMANUEL
MAYOR


January 15, 2014










TO THE HONORABLE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO


Ladies and Gentlemen:

At the request of the Director of Administrative Hearings, I transmit herewith an ordinance authorizing the execution of an intergovernmental agreement with the Chicago Housing Authority.

Your favorable consideration of this ordinance will be appreciated.

Mayor

Very truly yours,
ORDINANCE

WHEREAS, the City of Chicago (the "City"), is a home rule unit of government as described in Section 6(a), Article Vll of the 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois and may exercise any power related to its local government affairs; and

WHEREAS, the Chicago Housing Authority (the "CHA") is a municipal corporation of the State of Illinois; and

WHEREAS, the CHA is engaged in the development and operation of safe, decent and sanitary housing throughout the City for low-income families and low-income senior citizens, and seeks to provide its residents with a fair and efficient grievance procedure to resolve disputes between CHA tenants and the CHA and/or its property management companies; and

WHEREAS, the City Council of the City ("City Council"), by ordinance adopted March 31, 2004 and published in the Journal of the Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Chicago for such date at pages 20968 - 20981, amended the powers and duties of the Director of the Department of Administrative Hearings ("DOAH"), as set forth in Title 2, Chapter 14, Section 030 ofthe Municipal Code of Chicago, to include the power and duty to establish a system for hearing grievances brought by CHA tenants against the CHA and/or its property manager; and

WHEREAS, in 2009, the City, by and through DOAH and pursuant to said ordinance, entered into an intergovernmental agreement with the CHA to provide hearing officers and related services in order to hear and adjudicate grievances brought by CHA tenants pursuant to the CHA grievance ...

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