Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to use $12.5 million in city funds to give away prepaid gas cards and CTA passes narrowly passed committee Wednesday. The narrow sets up what could be a close vote April 27.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to use $12.5 million in city funds to give away prepaid gas cards and CTA passes narrowly avoided hitting a red light Wednesday — but the road ahead could be bumpy.The Chicago City Council’s Budget and Government Operations Committee voted 15-12 to advance the proposal, even as several members blasted Lightfoot’s plan as an election-year stunt that would benefit oil companies without offering Chicagoans real relief from the pain at the pump.
Other alderpeople said the $12.5 million should have been used to expand the city’s $31.5 million universal basic income plan,Lightfoot twice revised her proposal in an attempt to earmark the gas cards and CTA passes to Chicagoans most in need in order to push it through the Budget Committee. In all, the proposal would use $7.5 million for the prepaid gas cards and $5 million for the CTA passes.
“This does not feel like good public policy,” Ramirez Rosa said, adding that it was clearly prompted by Willie Wilson’s decision to hold two high-profile events across the city that gave away $1.2 million in gas before announcing that he will run for mayor.
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