“Transparency around the conditions at these shelters is crucial, and we will continue to push for information and accountability in order to ensure individuals under our care are treated with the humanity that everyone deserves,” Lee added in a statement.
The city has contracted with a company called Favorite Staffing to maintain the shelter.
Favorite Staffing Vice President Keenan Driver told the station that they take the complaints “very seriously.”
“Favorite Staffing takes all staff complaints very seriously because we are concerned not only about the migrants, but about the safety and well-being of our own staff,” Driver’s statement read.
The city released a statement acknowledging the complaints and insists that improvements are in the works.
The statement
added
that “because of the rapid expansion of this shelter population, the city had to make improvements to the shelter, while, at the same time, intaking hundreds of new arrivals,” according to the
Guardian
.
Meanwhile, the city continues to contract with more private groups to help care for the wave of illegal immigrants entering the city thanks to President Joe Biden’s border crisis.
Migrants are camped outside of the 1st District police station, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
In January, the city revealed a new contract with a company connected to local fast food favorite Buona Beef to help feed the thousands of illegal aliens at city shelters.
The city handed a company called 14 Parish a $57 million contract and gave a $45 million contract to Seventy-Seven Communities to feed migrants.
Joe Buonavolanto Jr., one of the sons of the founder of Buona Beef, is
listed
as the executive director of Seventy-Seven Communities. Buonavolanto is not the only Buona Beef connection, either, as Seventy-Seven’s director is Mike Iovinelli, who is also the vice president of Buona Beef’s catering company, Beyond Catering, according to Book Club Chicago.
“Seventy-Seven Communities has been delivering quality meals around Chicagoland for decades and has experience creating specific menus for groups with complex needs, such as Chicago Public Schools students,” a city press release claimed.
Mayoral spokesperson Ronnie Reese said that the city did not intentionally leave the Buona Beef connection out of its press releases on the contracts.
The snafu, though, comes as calls for transparency have grown around the spending and contracts conducted by the mayor’s office.
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