The Chicago City Council should be naming its own committee leadership, not the mayor, as the rules state, according to the BGA.
A potential change could be coming to a long standing precedent in Chicago City Council.
For decades the city's mayor has been allowed to pick committee chairs, giving the administration greater power over the council. "City Council rules actually say that the city council gets to select their chairs," said Brian Zarou of the Better Government Association. "But over time, it started with the first Mayor Daley, many, many years ago where he kind of took the budget process away from that council, and over decades and decades they've been advocating more power and sucking up power more council from council.
"It's not become law or rules, it's become more tradition, and it's time to break that tradition," Zarou said.
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