The growing number of migrants arriving in the city of Chicago has raised questions among leaders about how the city can continue to shoulder the growing costs…
Mayor Brandon Johnson has said his administration re-negotiated the contract; invoices uncovered by NBC 5 Investigates show previous hourly rates billed by Favorite ranged from nearly $50 to $156 per hourThe growing number of migrants arriving in the city of Chicago has raised questions among leaders about how the city can continue to shoulder the growing costs of staffing migrant shelters and caring for more than 18,500 asylum seekers.
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget proposal allocated $150 million to cover the cost of migrants, but some aldermen have raised questions about whether that figure would cover the current costs in the coming months. For employees assigned to housekeeping, according to the invoices, Favorite Healthcare Staffing billed the city of Chicago for four weeks at a median pay rate of $17,000 for each of their housekeepers. At that rate, taxpayers could have potentially paid a median of approximately $221,039 for each housekeeper supplied by Favorite.
The Johnson administration has also said it has encouraged hiring locally and put out a request for proposal to look for local providers interested in operating shelters. That process is still ongoing. An Oct. 6 deadline application has since been extended. Ferguson said the pandemic proved that governments do have the ability to provide real-time information to the public and that the city could do a better job with transparency by making all the invoices public.
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