{"id":465153,"date":"2010-03-23T17:25:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01310fd279b6970c"},"modified":"2010-03-23T17:25:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:25:02","slug":"aldermen-endorse-part-of-daleys-plan-to-give-city-watchdog-more-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/465153","title":{"rendered":"Aldermen endorse part of Daley&#8217;s plan to give city watchdog more power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Hal Dardick<\/em> at 4:25 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A key City Council committee today endorsed Mayor Richard Daley&#8217;s proposal to strip his beleaguered compliance office of half a dozen jobs as he seeks to invest more authority in the city&#8217;s inspector general.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest step in Daley&#8217;s campaign to shrink the authority of his own Office of Compliance, which he created to oversee the city&#8217;s court-ordered efforts to keep politics out of city hiring. Daley has said the office isn&#8217;t doing a good enough job.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The measure would send five of the jobs to the Inspector General&#8217;s office, along with more funding so the IG could take over the role of overseeing city hiring.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>But aldermen have balked at other aspects of Daley&#8217;s plan that would give Inspector General Joseph Ferguson authority to investigate aldermen.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Daley hopes to end federal court monitoring of city hiring this year, and his administration believes the proposed changes to the inspector general ordinance could advance that goal.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Efforts to reach a compromise have yet to bear fruit, and it has been suggested that the non-controversial portions of Daley\u2019s proposal could be approved by City Council while leaving the question of aldermanic probes to be addressed later.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Tony Boswell, the executive director of the compliance officer, recently returned to work from a 30-day suspension imposed by Daley on a recommendation by the inspector general. Boswell was accused of mishandling a sexual harassment complaint, but he is challenging his suspension in court, saying it\u2019s all part of an attempt to punish him for criticizing hiring practices in the city Law Department.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Both Ferguson and the city hiring monitor appointed by the federal court have criticized Boswell\u2019s hiring oversight efforts, which Daley last month said \u201cdid not yield the results we hoped for.\u201d<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Hal Dardick at 4:25 p.m. A key City Council committee today endorsed Mayor Richard Daley&#8217;s proposal to strip his beleaguered compliance office of half a dozen jobs as he seeks to invest more authority in the city&#8217;s inspector general. It is the latest step in Daley&#8217;s campaign to shrink the authority of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}