Migrant funding hits roadblock in City Council

“We need to come up with a better plan” than “asking for more money every two months,” Ald. Ray Lopez said Wednesday. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

A controversial plan to use $51 million in surplus funds to put a financial Band-Aid on a migrant crisis that has stretched Chicago to the limit hit a legislative roadblock on Wednesday.

With Mayor Brandon Johnson presiding over his first City Council meeting, Alderpersons Anthony Beale (9th), Ray Lopez (15th) and Anthony Napolitano (41st) used a parliamentary maneuver to postpone a final vote on the fund transfer.