Committee advances multiple referendum questions
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The committee approved several referendum questions for Chicago voters, including measures on gunshot detection, a festival and outdoor event space, pension funding timing, and an independent legal counsel for City Council. It also adopted a rules change making City Council and committee meeting video recordings downloadable, while sending several investment-related items back to the Committee on Finance.
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What this means
The committee moved a set of questions and rules changes forward for full City Council review. Several proposed ballot questions would let voters weigh in on issues such as public safety technology, pension funding, debt collection from sister agencies, and housing limits in the 26th Ward. The committee also approved a change so meeting videos must be downloadable, which would make them easier for residents to access and save.
Key decisions
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- Approved the April 2025 and September 2025 Monthly Rule 45 reports.
- Approved three corrections to City Council journal proceedings from September 25, 2025 and December 19, 2025.
- Re-referred three investment-related items to the Committee on Finance.
- Adopted a rule change requiring City Council and committee meeting video recordings to be downloadable.
- Adopted referendum questions on permanent festival and outdoor event space, gunshot detection technology, recovering compensation related to ICE operations, earlier pension contributions, withholding funding from sister agencies over debt repayment, a monument celebrating music and arts, and independent legal counsel for City Council.
- Re-referred a ranked-choice voting referendum question back to the Committee on Committees and Rules.
- Adopted as substituted a 26th Ward referendum question on limiting new shared housing units.
- Adopted a tribute to late Sam Sianis.
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- Noticehttps://occprodstoragev1.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/meetingattachmentspublic/01ca4c31-5279-f111-ab0d-001dd80c6696.pdf
- Agendahttps://occprodstoragev1.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/meetingattachmentspublic/088d4a00-1311-459e-9705-58a2c05867aa.pdf
- Summaryhttps://occprodstoragev1.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/meetingattachmentspublic/225f7645-b98d-4e89-ba68-d9a01c082eeb.pdf
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