City Council Street Sweeping Quorum Falls Short

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Mar 31, 2010 9:20PM

Earlier today, we mentioned the efforts by Ald. Joe Moore, Willie Cochran (20th), and Ricardo Munoz (22nd) to call a special session of the City Council to fight Mayor Daley's new proposal for street sweeping. While Daley relented on his original plan and proposed a compromise, Moore et al went forward with today's special session but fell just one alderman shy of being able to call a quorum. That means the new "compromise" plan begins tomorrow.

This most recent plan has the sweeper in the ward for two entire days. On two other days, the sweeper works the ward for five hours or so, before it’s assigned to work adjacent wards for a few hours. Then, just one day a week, the ward’s sweeper is assigned to work outside the ward after working with one or more other sweepers to quickly address that ward’s cleaning obligations for the day.

Said Moore, “I’m willing to give it a try. I appreciate Commissioner Byrne’s attempt to keep the street sweepers in the wards. There may be some bugs to work out.”