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Resident says grocery tax reached council agenda without finance committee vote or public hearing
Summary
A member of the public told the finance committee that a grocery tax appearing on the council’s new-business agenda was not vetted by the finance committee and therefore lacked a public hearing, and asked how it reached the agenda.
A member of the public told the Waukegan Finance and Purchasing Committee on Monday that a grocery tax listed on the City Council’s new-business agenda was not considered by the finance committee and therefore had not received a public hearing.
“This is Trevor Estellis…my only concern is that the grocery tax that’s coming on the new business agenda tonight was not voted on in the finance committee. And therefore never had a public hearing,” the speaker said during the meeting’s public-comment period.
The comment was recorded during the committee’s public comment period; committee members did not take formal action on the remark during the meeting. The transcript does not show a committee response detailing why the City Council placed the grocery-tax item on its agenda without prior finance-committee action.
