As Mayor Brandon Johnson continues to get rid of the appointment of the lightfoot administration in the city hall, he has been chosen as an interim head of the department of Chicago buildings, which was chosen as an officer of the city, who was found carelessly for its role in 2020, which was found to be a lot of dust and debris in 2020.
Johnson promoted Marlene Hopkins, who has been the first deputy in the department’s department, to be the interim commissioner of the department, a city official said on Friday. Hopkins replaced Matthew Budate, which was fired by Johnson last week. Budate led the department since 2020, when the then Mayor Lori Lightfoot appointed him for the role.
Hopkins is one of the three cities bureaucrats, working at the time with the supervision of building construction, whose former Inspector General of Inspector, who was criticized by Ferguson who was part of an investigation into an investigation into the smochstack of the old Craford coal-power plant of April 2020.
Murdered transplants caused a large -scale dust cloud for envelopes to the small village neighborhood, criticizing elected officials and criticizing the residents, increasing allegations of environmental racism. The company that carried out the sick-known demolition, Northbroke-based Hilco redevelopment partners, is ready to pay $ 12.25 million as part of a disposal for residents, whose health and assets were affected that day. The settlement was approved by a federal court last month.
A spokesman for a department of buildings confirmed the appointment of Hopkins, but refused to comment further. Mayorl spokesman Ronnie Reese said that the administration does not comment on the matters of the personnel. Hopkins also immediately responded to the remarks requests.
In his report, Ferguson said that Hopkins sufficiently followed the following department’s rules as a managing deputy commissioner with the building department, in which applicants needed to share details about the use of explosives and its contractors experience.
Ferguson wrote that Hopkins’ failure gave adequate review of the planned demolition, “the formation of poor public administration and a careless etymology of regulatory responsibility,” Ferguson wrote. The report said that the building department tried to transfer the defect and responsibility after the demolition. Ferguson recommended that Hopkins be disciplined.
Hopkins, a long -time bureaucrats of the city, who worked for about 15 years in the role of that time, was made the first Deputy Commissioner seven months after the demolition before writing the Inspector General’s report.
Inspector General’s report was completed in September 2021, but the administration of Lightfoot refused to call the community, a city council proposal and Ferguson to make the report public. It was finally made public in last February after it was received and published by news outlets.
Elded. Michael Rodriguez, 22nd, whose ward includes Little village, said that on Friday he supports a constant community calls for the city which officially releases the report.
He said in a statement, “If this candidate should become the commissioner of buildings, I will work to make them accountable.”
The appointment of Hopkins was unwanted news for the Little Village Environment Justice Organization, which led the pushback against the city and Hilco. The group criticized Johnson for not releasing Ferguson reports or explaining how Hopkins was disciplined.
“This is incredibly derogatory to promote Marlene Hopkins,” Lavageo spokesman Edith Tower said in a statement. “If we can believe in this administration that if they show us that La Wilita’s health does not matter to him.”