Chicago’s Ethics Board will look to amend the city’s ethics ordinance in response to a Tribune story that detailed how several aldermen used tax dollars to pay a former top Park District official after he’d had been asked to resign.
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Williams was asked to resign from his position as the Park District’s chief programs officer in late 2021 after he was repeatedly cited in an independent investigation as among several Park District executives who mishandled allegations of sexual harassment and abuse in the lifeguard program. “I’d think do not hire lists should be shared and honored between sister agencies and the City’s various branches, including the legislative branch,” Berlin said then in an email. “However, who can and cannot be hired as a City Council independent contractor is not addressed by the Governmental Ethics Ordinance.”
“Contractor oversight has long been this kind of no man’s land, and I’ve been talking to the Ethics Board about the need to figure out good ways to remedy that,” Waguespack said. “You just see this rotating circle where contractors get in trouble at one agency and move on and get hired at another one. There are ways to address it.
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