Former Alderman Helen Shiller No Longer Interested In City Council Budget Analyst Postion
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago Aldermen have to rethink their positions on who will become the City Council's budget analyst. Former Alderman Helen Shiller has broken the stalemate over the job by saying she no longer wants it, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
The City Council was supposed to select the director of its own budget office at least a year ago but while the Budget Committee Chairwoman Alderman Carrie Austin wanted Helen Shiller, a meticulous former colleague to get the job, Alderman Ameya Pawar was lobbying for other candidates he felt were more qualified and independent.
Austin thinks Shiller's two decades on the City Council made her ideal.
"It would have been a benefit for them because she would have been able to add to them where it would take them even longer to even work through that process or even know how the process even goes," Alderman Austin said.
Now that Shiller says she is no longer in the running, Austin says it is up to the Budget Committee.
"Do they want to go back and re-interview those that have been submitted already, submit someone else, add someone else?" Austin said.
The job pays $107,000 a year.