Cut the 50-member City Council in half. Combine the elected jobs of city clerk and treasurer and make it a mayoral appointment. Impose annual increases in a garbage collection fee that’s been frozen at $9.50-a-month since its 2015 inception.
Those are among the proposals in the latest edition of a report the Civic Federation issues every time Chicagoans elect a new mayor, hoping to make the formidable job of confronting Chicago’s enormous financial challenges easier.
