The Chicago City Council just voted 26-23 to approve Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to use $12.5M in city funds to give away 50,000 prepaid gas cards and 100,000 CTA passes.
The Chicago City Council voted 26-23 on Wednesday to approve Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to use $12.5 million in city funds to give away prepaid gas cards and CTA passes.The program was approved by just one vote — with Ald. Sophia King absent after she announced she had COVID-19 — after 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.
Those changes appeared to be enough to win the votes of Ald. Debra Silverstein, whose Far North Side 50th Ward will now be included in the priority area, and Ald. Derrick Curtis , whose South Side ward is now included. Both voted against the plan when it came before the committee.Shortly before the razor-thin vote, Lightfoot urged City Council members not just to focus on what was best for their ward, but what was best for the whole city.
The CTA passes would pay for approximately five full-fare round trips and the gas cards would cover two tanks of gas. But alderpeople objected to that plan, and the plan limits the program to those who earn no more than 100% of the area median income, which is $65,300 for an individual or $93,200 for a family of four.
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