>> Hello and thanks for joining us on Chicago tonight on Brandis Friedman.

Here's what we're looking at.

>> People do not abandon your values for temporary thinks I believe we just hundreds, if not thousands of jobs.

>> City Council debates whether to delay the end of the tipped minimum wage.

Action from Springfield.

These resources will vans.

Chicago public schools facing a 730 million dollar budget deficit.

>> A look at the potential impact.

And a Bola is spreading on the other side of the world.

How is Chicago preparing?

>> First off tonight, the city of Chicago has a new government watchdog city council members today unanimously confirmed David Clock to serve as the city's next inspector general.

The former assistant U.S.

attorney vows to, quote, prioritize problem solving over finger pointing.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's pick to lead the office says he'll also work to speed up investigations.

worked for comment.

Parent company Epsilon overseeing the company's efforts to comply with a deferred prosecution agreement resulting from the scandal that sent former House Speaker Michael Madigan to federal prison.

Survivors of domestic violence and families of fallen first responders are calling on the city and the county for stronger enforcement of people domestic orders of protection, criminal warrants or on GPS, electronic monitoring systems.

>> Like me.

So many field at the core system is entirely broken.

First, harmed by Herb users and then by the dysfunctional systems meant to protect us.

>> Several older people, including 20rd Ward Alderman Silvana Tavares are backing a resolution calling for hearing with Cook County law enforcement and circuit court officials to address concerns and improve transparency.

The group points to the deaths of 2 Chicago police officers and 2 Chicago firefighters who died in the line of duty in separate incidents where the alleged offenders had active court warrants.

The group notes that of the nearly 4400 defendants on the county's electronic monitoring program.

The chief judge has confirmed 8% of them are missing.

Chicagoans love a good name because if you thought naming a snowplow was fun, just wait till you hear the finalists for the 2 baby bald eagles found hatched in Park 5.97 of the Chicago Park district.

The eaglets are the first born in the city limits in more than 100 years.

More than 3200 possible names have been submitted in the Park district's naming contest.

The selection committee has narrowed it down to Magee Z, which means bald eagle in a jib way, Marion and not to marry in Burns.

The Chicago environmentalist with strong ties to the city's far South side and quite you met.

That's a play on Calumet the Southeast side region where the eaglets Nest is located.

You can head to our website to learn where you can cast your vote.

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>> The Chicago City Council approves a measure designed to rid the Chicago Police Department of officers with ties to hate groups and far-right extremist organizations.

The vote caps, a debate that has lasted more than a year.

Alderman Matt Martin authored the proposal and asked for his colleagues support while acknowledging it will not solve all the problems facing the city.

>> Refusing to act because one proposal is not a silver bullet.

That's a mistake.

We should do what we can.

Where we can.

With the legal tools that are available was and we should do it now.

>> Our Heather Sharon joins us now live from City Hall.

Have or what with this ordinance do?

>> Well, it would give the civilian office of Police Accountability, the authority to activate to investigate.

I should say officers accused of actively participating in groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.

Now this comes after nearly a dozen officers over the last several years were accused of being members are participating in those groups activities.

And former inspector Deborah, which former Inspector General Deborah Woods, Berg said that the city fell far short of holding them accountable for those associations and making sure that Chicagoans could trust that the members of their police force were there to protect them, not to try to overthrow the federal government.

Otherwise such fierce debate.

Well, a number of people were frustrated that this ordinance only applies to members of the Chicago Police Department.

They They said the Arden should apply to all city employees regardless of whether they are members of the police department.

However, the Chicago Law Department said that such an ordinance banning associations for all city employees, including elected officials, would be unlikely to withstand legal scrutiny because it would likely violate the First Amendment.

The courts have held that cities have the ability to restrict the activities of law enforcement officers because of their special rules.

They carry guns.

They have the ability to arrest people.

And of course, they're required to testify under oath that what they're saying is true and they take a vow to uphold the Constitution.

There was a lot of frustration that this ordinance is limited.

While some older people cite it as an attack on the Chicago Police Department Alderman Martin's Porter said that's just simply not true.

It's also I think important to note that no other members of the city's work force outside of members of the Chicago Police Department have been accused of participating or belonging to extremist groups.

In other action, Heather, the city council voted to delay the end of the tipped minimum wage for an additional 2 years.

>> Here's Alderman Jason Ervin blasting his colleagues.

>> We know that's written skyrocketing.

Inflation is up.

You don't have access to the same health care things the communities.

We'll catch up with.

You in 11 news.

We'll catch up with 2 down the road.

>> Alright, Heather briefly, because we're just about out of time.

But what does this mean for Chicago workers who earn tips?

>> They will not get a raise in July.

They will not get a raise in July of 2027 and people who work for large companies will have to wait for 2030 to make the overall city's minimum wage.

And for if you work for smaller organizations, you'll have to wait until 2023. a huge blow to one of Mayor Brandon Johnson's signature legislative accomplishments.

Jason Ervin, as you just heard, was the only alderman to vote against this measure, making it likely that even if the mayor vetoes it, the city council will override him.

>> Okay.

Heather?

Sharon live at City Hall for us.

Thanks, Heather.

And you can read others you can his full coverage of today's city Council meeting on our website.

It is all at W T Tw Dot com slash news.

>> Chicago, >> Public Schools is facing a more than 730 million dollar budget deficit for next school year.

Cps leaders cite rising pension payments and operating costs as factors for worsening the district's finances, but also argue that those expenses would be manageable with greater support from state and federal leaders.

Joining us to break down the deficit are Austin Berg, executive director of the Chicago Policy Center, which is part of the Illinois Policy Institute and McKayla Blaze, CPS board member representing district 5 be with constituents in neighborhoods like North Lawndale and Garfield Park.

We should mention we also invited Chicago Public schools and the Chicago teachers Union.

But they declined.

We also reached out to the Chicago Principals Association but haven't heard back.

I think the 2 of you for joining us.

Also.

Let's start with you, please.

Because as we mentioned, CPS is citing rising operation and Pence and pension costs as well as lower federal and state support as responsible factors for the budget deficit.

Is that how you see it?

Pension costs are definitely a factor.

But the fact is we have records, state revenue and CPS and record federal revenue and CPS as well.

>> I think the real cause behind this deficit is twofold.

One is that the district really went on a hiring spree during COVID against the advice of most financial experts.

They're adding a lot of recurring costs on one-time revenues that they knew would go away after the pandemic was over.

So that included adding 9,000 new district staff and increase the size of the central office by 60%.

Meanwhile, student enrollment fell by over 10% fell by 45,000 students.

Over the same time.

That's really huge factor in the second really large factor is the Chicago teachers union was demanding at the bargaining table.

Things that we're going to cost way beyond what CPS could afford.

even when confronted with that information they pushed and they got what they wanted.

But the money isn't there to pet.

>> Mckayla, how do you see it?

What what do you think is behind the deficit?

I think CPS has been done historically underfunded for decades.

We haven't had the money that we're supposed to have by the state's own admission by their own funding formula.

We are under funded.

There's no surprise or mystery in the fact that CPS has not had the resources it's needed.

And blaming CTU seems.

Just like in the easy response to a significant issue cost of everything are up and we're dealing with.

>> 80 year old infrastructure there's a number of things that we have to accomplish now.

That we need funding for.

>> Mccarley, you've said that the state should be doing more to fill that funding shortfall facing CPS.

Explain your view.

What it what do you think they should be doing?

>> I'm not saying that the state should do more, but the state said the state should do more, but they haven't.

They got all the experts together and they figured out how much CPS should be funded and from their own something formula.

We're over a billion dollars short.

>> and so it and it's not just CPS's schools around the state.

And so we're just encouraging them to ramp up their plan to increase the funding for CPS.

Just give us the funding Then what they're actually planning for.

>> Of course, you're referring to the evidence based funding formula, which is based on what it takes in that district to educate the children in the districts based on its Cps has also said Austin, that it's not receiving enough federal funding.

The district previously received.

As you said, that influx of pandemic relief money, those funds have dried up and CPS, you use that that funding, as you said, you believe that the district became too reliant on that pandemic aid in.

Is it possible that the thinking at the time was okay once the pandemic money has gone to state money will start to kick in and we can afford all of this.

that's really are responsible budgeting.

Imagine if we did that in our household budget and you get a windfall from a lottery and you start spending like you're going to burn, you know, 10 million dollars a year in perpetuity.

But obviously that was a windfall.

And you have to sock that away for a rainy day.

>> Instead, it was spent on more and more recurring expenses again, adding 9,000 members of Central District staff increasing the central office by 60%.

I do want to talk, though, about about resources.

I think it's important to note that.

There's been a lack of a realistic plan to get additional resources from the state.

I should note that people spending has doubled that CPS over the last decade.

It's now $32,000 per student per year.

If you want to talk about those resources, I think it's important to note that City Hall has the worst relationship with Springfield of any mayor of the last 50 years.

I think that's an important thing to note.

They have not been able to put forth a credible plan to get Springfield to move on this issue.

There is also hundreds of millions of dollars on the table for public school students in Chicago today.

If the state would just follow the example of Colorado Governor Polis and New York Governor Kathy Hochul and opt into a new federal tax credit for education donations that would send hundreds of millions of dollars to public school students in Chicago.

But the Chicago teachers union and the board member blaze have voted against that proposal.

I think that is unconscionable.

We need to get resources in the hands of students through private services for students with special needs.

Those can all be funded with private donations.

If we opt into this McKay, let me give you the opportunity respond to that as well.

But I also want to talk about what CPS has said about how they plan to address the deficit.

>> In a letter to families, CEO Macklin King said, quote, CPS will make significant reductions to Central Office network offices and >> citywide expenditures.

CBS made 270 million dollars worth of similar reductions last summer.

Principles are also learning about cuts at the school level, including funding for assistant principals at smaller schools and teacher losses are expected capped at 4 for elementary schools and 6 for high schools.

Mcconnell, what do you think?

that is gonna look like.

>> I think that's going to be tough We've seen Gray's we've seen improvement and turned out.

It turns out the more invest in our schools, the better they do.

So that's a classroom are going to be really tough but they may be necessary if we find the funding in Springfield.

But I and II.

I'm not don't know.

Mayor Governor Pritzker's relationship.

But I do know that there are a number of state legislators that are committed to making sure that CPS has what they need.

And it's again, not just CPS since its Illinois state schools are rural areas are suffering as well.

And we've really got to put our money where our mouth is.

We have to put our money where our values are.

If we care about.

educating our students, we have to give them what they need.

It's just that simple.

And so as we look at our budgets and be talking to Springfield, but also be talking to city We were able secure.

520 million, very 520 million dollars last cycle.

I don't think we're going to get that close.

But we're going to keep pushing on all sides.

I mean, that's our job board members is to make sure that we secure the funding that we need.

>> Austin, a couple seconds left.

What do you think needs to be done to get CPS to a balanced budget?

Cps right now is in really serious fiscal trouble.

We are the largest junk bond issuer in the country at CPS.

So there needs to be a serious conversation about state rep Curtis Tarver spill in Springfield for State financial control over CPS.

We need to opt-in to the Federal Tax Credit scholarship program to get money into public schools and we need better leadership in city Hall to get what we need from Springfield craft.

That's where we'll have to leave it.

Of course, we'll keep an eye on CBS to learn what happens next.

Micaela Blaze Alston Bird.

Thanks to both for joining us.

Thank you.

>> Up next, efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak.

Global health organizations are racing to STEM an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

That's already led to more than 130 deaths.

And while the immediate threat is still far away from Chicago, local specialists are working to make sure that we are prepared for all possibilities.

Joining us, our Dr Michael Lynn infectious disease specialist and hospital epidemiologist at Rush University.

And Doctor Larry Cosio like an infectious disease specialist and vice president of System Preparedness Prevention and response at Lurie Children's Hospital.

Doctors.

Thanks to both for joining us.

Dr.

Lin First, what do we know so far about the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

>> But this is an outbreak that's so rapidly evolving was first identified with a local Ministry of Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Just last Friday, May 15 and just in a couple of days, then the World Health Organization declared to the public health emergency of international concern.

So we know that this is an Ebola virus and that's been spreading quite rapidly.

The numbers are still very difficult to nail down simply because there's not a lot of information at the ground level.

But we know that there are at least 100 deaths, 500 suspected cases.

And it's an area where there's not lot of stability in terms of health care.

And so although the Democratic Republic of Congo has a lot of experience with Ebola.

This is something that's still very much a work in progress for response.

>> Dr.

Jose How would you say this one?

This outbreak is different from previous outbreaks in that region.

>> this differs in many ways, one, this is a strain of Ebola virus.

That is more unusual than the ones normally caused outbreaks in that region.

For that reason that we don't have a ton of research on this virus.

Now, the virus, it causes less severe disease than the other ones.

So that's reassuring.

But on the other hand, there's no vaccine or treatment for this fire is currently.

>> And doctor you know, since the U.S.

has withdrawn from the World Health Organization, USAID has also been dismantled.

How have all of those impacted the Globes ability to respond to Ebola outbreaks.

>> We certainly worry that World Health Organization, which is really leading a lot of the coordination across the globe for the response that they need all the resources they can get.

So the U.S.

pulling out of the who is I think hampered who has the ability to be able to respond as effectively as the floor.

But I understand that there's still coronation between CDC and who and we're doing the same between us and local and state Department of Public Health.

>> Dr Cause the elect planning for the threat of Ebola in Chicago goes all the way back to at least 2014.

Give us a little bit of that history.

Please.

>> And in October of 2014, there is ball outbreak in West Africa and at the time actually Dr One, Kyra, together in Philadelphia in October 2014, when the first Ebola case wasn't Dana find in a Dallas hospital in what happened was because there wasn't nationwide preparedness to nurses unfortunately contracted Ebola.

Both fortunately survived a week and a half later, Dr One and I found ourselves at City Hall.

Dr on Emanuel walked in.

He he looked at the room and said we're not going to be the next Dallas.

He had convened groups of health care leaders, public health leaders, first responders, emergency management leaders.

And at that time the Chicago Ebola Response Network orange and we developed citywide that became a statewide system for preparedness says that time that has evolved beyond the ball and he's helped us address outbreaks related to M-pox COVID-19 measles other serious pathogens in the city of Chicago.

>> And Dr Co Co.

Let's check in with you for a second.

You know, with all this planning around the response rubble of what is the actual risk to Chicago right now?

>> It's very, very low.

And the reason is is because we do still have great coordination.

And so there's work.

I'm going in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in surrounding countries to identify individuals before they leave the country today.

Just within the last few hours, the Department of Homeland Security as made the decision to funnel all flights from Ebola impacted areas too.

Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., and so now we have a focal point in the U.S.

where all individuals at risk we'll fly through and they'll be able to be screened.

And if they have symptoms or have risk factors, there will be systems in place to monitor them to ensure that there's no community spread.

>> And it sounds like what you're just saying just now is a bit of a shift from what we knew earlier in the day where they were 5 specific airports, including O'Hare, where they would be specific screenings for flights coming from that region.

But it sounds like you're saying now they are all going to tell us that we won't be getting any at O'Hare.

They will be landing correct in in past outbreaks, Chicago has been one of 3 or 4 cities over flights have been routed into.

And that's why we have this really great city and state infrastructure.

>> To respond to that.

But in this outbreak and just review the memo in the last hour they are all being funneled to one single airport Washington, D.C.

>> Okay.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Dr Lin, are there treatments vaccines available for Ebola?

What can be done?

>> as not to cause the like mention for this particular strain of Ebola virus, it's really more supportive care.

But that's always been the backbone of treatment for patients with Ebola virus.

And so when we say it's a supportive care really means supporting the patient's terms of their blood pressure in terms of their respiration, their ability to breathe, cetera.

So and well resourced hospitals.

We think that we can do very well in terms of can you patients through something like Ebola virus, but it certainly takes a lot of people and resources and equipment supplies such as PPE.

And that's what we're prepared to do from the standpoint of being a special treatment center.

>> Dr Cosio.

Look, we've got about 30 seconds left.

What would be the next few steps on if case of suspected case were to show up in our area.

>> If a suspected case was identified, the kind department of Public Health Illinois Department of Public Health of the notified immediately.

And if it's a pediatric patient, I would be contacted if its adult patient Dr.

Linwood be contacted and we would activate our bio containment units in our hospitals ensure that we can receive that patients safely promptly and provide them that supportive care.

The document just described.

>> Ok, sounds like we would be well prepared.

We've got the right to guests to talk about this here on Chicago tonight.

So have to leave it there.

I'm sure the 2 of you are monitoring this.

Hopefully we won't have to have you back to talk about it again.

Doctors Michael Lind and Larry Cosio like thanks to both.

Thanks so much.

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