The Transportation Committee met on September 23, 2026, at 6:00 PM. The meeting began with public comments, followed by the approval of minutes and a consent calendar of routine items. All motions passed unanimously.
Four members of the public addressed the committee:
Call the chair. Thank you, Chairman. Thank you. I'd like to call the transportation committee to order. Madam Chair, that we still have a quorum. Chairman, yes, at your recess, you had all members present. There is an excuse absence for Commissioner Laurie. Is Commissioner Gainer on line? Do we need a remote roll call? Commissioner Gaynor. Commissioner Gaynor has disconnected. We do not, sir. All right. Madam Secretary, are there any corrections to the agenda? I have no changes to your agenda, but we do have public speakers, sir. All right, could you please call public speakers? Uh-huh. In this order, if you can make your way to the public speaking mic, please be reminded of our public speaking rules. Zoe Lee, Jessica Jackson, Jackie Sample, George Plaquel. Cook County Department of Transportation. In January 2026, the county had a Cook County judge, who've got a good one, I guess, ruled that you guys improperly use 243 million dollars. Y'all actually stole 243 million dollars. And I just want to talk about, I want to know when are y'all gonna stop stealing all of the Department of Transportation money because we, as property tax owners of houses, properties, or tenants. I know a lot of college students and stuff think that they're out here fighting for affordable housing. Well, your rent is gonna continue to go up if these politicians in here continue to steal all the transportation money or the uh epidemiology money or uh steal all this money in the name of HIV and AIDS when y'all know dang well that y'all shouldn't have y'all spending millions of dollars on condoms when the HIV rate is out of control, but we the taxpayers have to continue to deal with another tax. We are our property taxes continue to go up because you guys are professional thieves, and then y'all get on here and start acting, acting like y'all care. I know y'all don't have the 243 million dollars, even though million dollar Tony purchased a mansion while our property taxes are going up. Why the bill is delayed? I think the bill is delayed again because y'all have a third-party system, it's probably out of China or India that don't know what they're doing. So the taxpayers have to continue to deal with it while y'all got y'all pensions, y'all got your tax bill money, right? Or did y'all put it to get a $10 uh quick claim deed and put it into your nonprofit and then go take a $50,000 mortgage out and then go do what y'all do with it while we have to continue? We gotta continue to pay for y'all mistakes because what is not even mistakes, you guys are doing this on purpose, and then we'll come in here and put it on everybody else, but y'all, y'all put on the police, y'all put on the sheriffs, y'all pull it on the offenders, y'all put it on, y'all make it, y'all saying I'm the problem. I'm the problem. I'm a constituent. I'm a I'm a daughter of a mother who y'all thought we were gonna play in her hometown. I hope that she would do this to you for your mother as well. If you love your mother, but majority of y'all got mommy issues, daddy issues, drug issues. 30 seconds on the spectrum, mental illnesses, eviction issues. Y'all got a lot of issues for y'all to be making sure that y'all are legislating us. Absolutely not. Y'all are incompetent. And so I hear Jessica Jackson is next, followed by Jackie Sampo. So um, Commissioner Stanley Moore. You're my actual commissioner. I'm on the cuffs of you and Bill Laurie, and you know that. Okay, so how about we do this? Because I met with you about my case first, and you had an opportunity to review the documents before anybody else did. So how about we do this since Scott Britton is sitting there? Why don't you, Stanley Moore? Or Michael Scott, who saw the documents, or Alderwoman Caskell, who saw the documents.