Speakers.

Okay.

I'd like to call uh to order the business and economic development committee to order.

Madam Secretary, can we please call the roll?

Thank you, ma'am.

Commissioner Britton is excused.

I'm sorry, Commissioner Britton is absent.

Thank you.

Chair Gainer is excused.

Commissioner Laurie.

Present.

Thank you, sir.

Commissioner Miller.

Is present.

Thank you.

Commissioner Moore is present.

Thank you, sir.

Commissioner Marita.

Present.

Thank you, ma'am.

Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Thank you.

And Commissioner Sean Morrison is excused.

And Madam Chair Anaya is present.

Present.

Ma'am, let me revisit those that did not respond.

You have an absence for Commissioner Britton and absence for Chair Gainer as well as Sean Morrison.

There is a quorum.

Thank you.

We will begin with uh public speakers.

Thank you.

We have two speakers.

George Blakemore and Dr.

Sandy Norman.

Is she present?

If not, Mr.

Blake Moore, please come to the mic and be reminded of our speaking rules.

You may begin.

What committee?

This is an economic development.

And you can see everybody getting up leaving.

Is it something wrong with me?

Uh look at here.

Business and economics.

And the commissioners have left.

It's only two commission that that's present.

Well, Mr.

Blake Moore, they don't want to hear you.

It's three.

Why?

Why is she leaving?

Why?

Mr.

Blake Martin, she is not in the committee.

Well, wait a minute, young lady.

Business and economics.

That's one thing that black people need is business.

And they need economics.

They need finance.

That's what's wrong with the back ghetto and teen takeover and drugs and non-functional uh uh uh uh communities.

They don't have any damn business and they don't have any economic development.

It's not happening in Chinatown, it's not happening in in the Jewish community, or even in the uh Latina community, they have what, Mr.

Brake?

They got bids and they got economic development.

So don't look at me like I'm a damn fool.

And before our black so-called leadership to get up and start out with your abandoned building, your vacant lot, your high crime, your food deserts.

And they gonna switch out.

She's some kind of doctor.

The miseducation of a black man and black woman.

Where's your business?

Where's the economic development?

You got high crime.

One minute.

Stop it.

Stop it.

Go to the ghetto and Michael Scott and see what kind of economic development and bids.

Don't even own the liquor stores.

The air gone in, don't even have a growth.

So don't have no bank.

When I came here, blackhead banks.

Johnson had Johnson supply.

Chicago have done fun.

In the black community, no business and no economic development.

Thirty seconds.

Make me say, oh, let's get the next question.

The next speaker.

Next speaker, please.

Sandy Norman.

Yes.

Well, first I just want to um give honor to uh the Cook County Board of Uh Commissioners.

And you know, I'm I'm okay.

Give me a second.

Oh do we start?

Okay, I will start her time again.

Thank you.

Miss Norman, please begin.

Thank you.

Okay, now you can begin.

Okay, honor to you and uh thank you for extending me uh the time.

So my name is um a Dr.

Sandy A.

Norman.

My organization is Life Beyond Limit Inc.

Uh, we're known in the community as Chainbreakers VIP.

VIP stands for violence intervention and prevention, and so part of my organization's goal is not to bury uh young men and women in our community, but it's actually to prevent violence uh before it actually starts.

And so when it comes to uh workforce housing and community uh development, even this committee.

Some of the things that I want to point out, because I deal again, I I say this every time that I come here.

I'm dealing in communities where there are murders.

You don't ever have to question if I do violence prevention because you can look on my page, you'll see 20, 30,000 photos, videos, you'll see me actively present doing the work here in the city of Chicago.

I want to say um even when we talk about workforce uh development, um housing.

I work with a lot of young people, and a lot of the young people that I work with have are act active shooters, they've been in shootings.

Some of the young kids that I've actually worked with have been the actual uh shooter.

One thing that I will say uh to this committee when there are actually jobs, um love and support, and people like me that actually go and get the children off the street and give them jobs.

You see uh measurable results, you see a change in violence.

I want to say to the committee when you're dealing with uh violence, part of the one of the things that I'm led to do.

There are young men that want to um they need housing.

When you are um a person that's a major target, you live in a red zone, you've been in a shooting, or you're a target pretty much for death.

It makes you more of a target when you have to go back to the same neighborhood that you live in.

And so most of these shootings are between people that know each other, and so we need some type of housing, whether it be um funding, you know, for relocation.

Not we don't need to just keep relocating people after they die, but there are some people that want to get out, they want um housing, they need you know a way of escape because the probability of you being a shooter or engaging in violence, and you have to come right back to your neighborhood.

The probability of you making it out is very much zero to none.

And so I say that um respectively.

30 seconds.

I'm willing to meet with anybody.

I'm here, I'm not one of those pastors that come to your office, ask for things.

I'm actually you see me in the streets.

I'm here in these meetings.

I'm at the police department, I'm out here with young men that are dying.

And again, a lot of the places that you go to to partner to try to get resources and help, they're not gonna work with you because number one, they see you as a threat when you're doing the work.

And it's just this is a system that has to be changed.

And so I'm gonna continue to show up, and I'm asking you all, take time out to sit with me.

Take time out to really hear what's not being said that you all don't hear, but that what I live and what other people in our communities live.

Commissioners, I'm tired of coming here, tired of being in our neighborhoods, and the only response I get is Chairman.

Madam Chair, that concludes your list of speakers for this meeting.

Okay, I apologize for going over my time.

Thank you for your testimony.

Um, we will begin with our first item.

This is uh the approval of the item number 26 1958.

This is the approval of the committee minutes that um uh for June 9th, 20 uh 26.

This has been moved by Commissioner Miller, second by Commissioner Moore.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Those opposed, nays, the ayes have it.

I will be bundling um the tax incentives for uh for um for the next four items.

So this is um a motion to approve item 26 1647.

This is a proposed resolution for uh 13 uh 55 Green Leaf RTL C for a six B property tax incentive request.

This is in uh the village of Elk Grove in the 15th district.

Um also approval of 26-1648.

This is a proposed resolution for CHP NCH uh holding LLC for 6B property tax incentive request in the village of Malrose Park in the 16th district.

Also, item 26 1649 proposed resolution from Framos Properties LLC 6B property tax incentive in the village of Bridgeville in the 6th district.

Um, and finally, item 26-1650 proposed resolution for routine 80 Realty uh LLC uh property tax incentives in the village of Melrose Park in the 16th district has been moved by Commissioner Miller, second by um Commissioner uh Marita uh for approval.

Any questions or anybody from the department that wants to speak on these items?

Uh seeing did you have any comments or any none?

Okay, are there any questions by any of the members in the committee?

Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye.

All those opposed, nays, the ayes have it.

The motion passes.

Finally, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

This has been moved by Commissioner Miller, second by Commissioner Moore.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

All those opposed, nays, ayes have it.

We are adjourned.