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First day of City Council budget hearings: CPD hiring, mayor’s staff under scrutiny

The lines of questioning from alderpersons include the size of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office (too big, many said) to what the city is doing to recruit and train enough police officers to keep pace with a record number of retirements.

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Philly has never had an openly LGBTQ City Council member. That could change after next year’s election

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia is the largest U.S. city that has never elected an openly LGBTQ member to its City Council, and some local Democratic insiders are pushing the party to change that.

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Biden to meet DeSantis as he visits Florida after Ian

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Berkeley ordinance would outlaw racially biased 911 calls

LOS ANGELES — Berkeley could make discriminatory and racially biased 911 calls illegal in a new ordinance being considered by the City Council.

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Over €15 million in vacant site levies owed to Dublin City Council

Councillor Daithi Doolan said it was "shocking" that DCC was owed this amount of cash when they face "huge" financial challenges

Dublin Live

Mayor makes case for 2023 city budget, Argyle Street voters’ top issues and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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Lightfoot makes case for 2023 budget, urges City Council to ‘be bold with me’

Delivering the 2023 budget address that will serve as her reelection platform, Lightfoot’s $16.4 billion spending plan has a laundry list of new and continued investments intended to ease violence, homelessness and poverty.

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Chicago must reform how it manages private use of public property

The worst example: the parking meter deal. The most recent: the Chicago Fire soccer facility. The practice of selling off public resources to private interests, for a certain time at a certain price, is called a “concession.”

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‘We don’t have a place to go’: Clearing out the Bay Area’s two largest homeless encampments

Bay Area authorities are in the final stages of closing the region’s two largest homeless encampments, displacing hundreds of unhoused people as they clear massive clusters of tents, shacks and broken-down vehicles that have drawn complaints for years.

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Accused of vendetta in handling of Fire Department promotions, Lightfoot reverses course, promotes 30 to lieutenant

The 2009 lieutenant’s list has been reinstated. It was not immediately known whether mayoral critic Ald. Jim Gardiner (45th) was among those promoted from that list.

Chicago Sun-Times

NJ official eyed for chief in city where George Floyd died

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has announced that he will nominate a former public safety director from Newark, New Jersey, as his top pick for police chief

The Independent UK

Another 'sanctuary city' abortion ban dies in California after attorney general's warning

LOS ANGELES — After California's attorney general warned Temecula against passing a local abortion ban, the City Council in a heated meeting Tuesday voted not to pursue the measure.

Los Angeles Times

California City Responds To Rising Bike And E-Bike Accidents

Carlsbad, California’s City Council is investing in infrastructure development, as well as improved drivers’ education to make roads safer for cyclists.

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Police: Oakland high school shooting wounds 6 adults

Authorities say six adults were shot and wounded at a school campus in east Oakland, California

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Mayoral allies urge Lightfoot to scrap plans for $42.7 million property tax increase

The increase is half what the automatic escalator approved two years ago allows. But Ald. Jason Ervin, chairman of the City Council’s Black Caucus, is among the mayoral allies advising the mayor to find another way.

Los Angeles Times

California attorney general warns city of Temecula not to pass abortion ban

LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Rob Bonta warned there will be "legal action" against the Temecula City Council if it passes an abortion ban in the city in an attempt to override state law.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Former Abscam Congressman ‘Ozzie’ Myers is headed back to federal prison — this time for election fraud

The last time former U.S. Rep. Michael “Ozzie” Myers stood before a federal judge to face sentencing in a bribery case, Ronald Reagan was president and Abscam — the 1970s scandal that sent Myers and a host of other elected officials to prison — dominated newspaper headlines.

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Philly mayor signs executive order banning guns at city recreation centers, a move that could spur legal challenges

PHILADELPHIA — Mayor Jim Kenney signed an executive order Tuesday banning the possession of firearms and other deadly weapons at city recreation centers and playgrounds, a move that could reignite a long-standing debate about whether Philadelphia should be able to write its own gun laws.

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Is City Council really ready to show its independence?

Chicago City Council members can select who they want on committees and who should lead them. State law and the city’s own rules clearly spell out they have that power. They just have always opted out and have given the mayor their blessing to do their bidding.

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City Council urged to declare its independence from Lightfoot by choosing its own committee chairs

The Better Government Association published a policy statement Friday renewing its call for the City Council to shed its reputation as a rubber stamp for Chicago mayors.

Chicago Sun-Times

Soccer facility plan lets CHA sidestep its pledge for public housing

Supporters said the Chicago Fire soccer facility will be good for the community. It’s now up to the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development to ask serious questions about how the facility will fit with the CHA’s stated mission.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lightfoot accused of scrapping CFD promotion list to punish controversial City Council member

Ald. Jim Gardiner — a Chicago firefighter on a leave of absence — is accusing the mayor, with whom he has clashed repeatedly, of scrapping a CFD promotion list because he was second in line to be promoted to lieutenant.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago’s newest City Council member: Just call him ‘Timmy’

The name was part of an emotional and potentially high-risk coming out for Timmy Knudsen after he graduated law school and joined a buttoned-down Chicago firm he was not at all certain would welcome an openly-gay attorney.

Los Angeles Times

Proposed surf park in California desert is rejected by La Quinta City Council

A developer's proposal to build a surfing lagoon in the Coachella Valley desert has been rejected by the city of La Quinta after residents raised concerns about noise, lighting and the resort's substantial water footprint in a time of severe drought.

The Denver Post

Citing death of Elijah McClain, Aurora officials take hard look at sedatives

DENVER — Aurora officials are debating how to regulate the use of sedatives by paramedics following the high-profile 2019 death of Elijah McClain, who died after a violent encounter with police that ended with paramedics injecting him with ketamine.

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