>> Pressure is mounting on Mayor Brandon Johnson as the city faces an end of year budget deadline.

And as the mayor's handpick school board prepares for its last meeting before a partially elected board takes over a growing chorus of principles and older people.

>> Urging it not to dismiss schools, CEO Pedro Martinez, plus President elect Donald Trump's border chief promises mass deportations at a northwest side Republican holiday party here with all that and more is our spotlight politics team Amanda Heather, Sharon and Nick Blumberg.

Welcome back game.

So deadline to pass a city budget keeps getting closer cause time marches on Heather.

But it looks like the 3rd time might be a charm.

What happened today at City Well, the City Council's finance committee advanced the part of the budget that taxes Chicagoans to pay for the budget on a vote of 14 to 12 and the City Council's budget committee agreed to spend that money on a vote of 17 to 16.

So we are talking.

>> In incredibly small margins and a lot of controversy over exactly what this budget would do, which is you said would tax Chicagoans to the tune of 234 million dollars more if this is approved on Friday, it will mean that it will be more expensive, signed up for Netflix or any other streaming surface.

Your property tax will go up if you own a property worth $250,000 you'll pay about $50 more a year and it's going to be just a whole bunch of other taxes that filled the city's budget gap, which started at 982 million dollars.

But will there be 26 votes to pass this package?

Today's margins tell us if there is it's going to be incredibly incredibly close call to that point had or what does that narrow margin mean with what can we expect on Friday?

Well, I would imagine that the mayor's staff are frantically making calls to make sure that they have the votes that they think they have the votes.

And if they suggest that they do the U.S. you want to with kuz on to what if we all want to be done with this on Friday rather than the stretching into the week before Christmas and then potentially to New Year's.

You know, there may be some trading going on behind the scenes.

We saw some allegations of that today at its city council.

Couple committees, other budgets suddenly increase and then decrease putting the spotlight shone on them.

That is a time honored way of sort making sure that your friends and Alice stay with you.

But, you know, it's not clear sort of what else the city has to give because if there was more money left to sort of make easier vote, it would have been spent weeks ago.

The mayors handpick school board.

They are also scheduled to have their last meeting before the hybrid board takes over.

Of course.

>> Half of that board was recently elected.

Nic, what is the latest in the power struggle between the mayor and the schools chief Peter Martinez?

Well, the latest thing we were looking for is the agenda of that board meeting, as you mentioned, just 2 days away.

They had to put out their agenda by today at 5 o'clock.

>> There does not appear to be any specific item on the board's agenda relating to the tenure of CEO Pedro Martinez.

Nothing on.

They're talking about potentially dismissing him, as you mentioned, you know, just yesterday we saw 21 Alder people send a letter to the current board, urging them not to make any big changes like a lot firing the CEO before this hybrid board takes over next month.

We've seen, you know, Villegas, you come out and, you know, praise Martinez's support during a really his tenure, during a really tumultuous time.

But there's always the possibility of say emergency meeting that the board calls.

It is not necessarily, you know, that Martinez is out of the woods yet.

But as of this last meeting that we have scheduled doesn't appear to be anything that puts his leadership at risk.

>> Okay.

So let's turn rule by the Illinois Supreme Court that some might refer to as Madness.

has to do with cannabis in car searches, Phyllis yes, think this might perhaps a little confusing for folks.

So just to spell it out, you had an decision issued back in September.

>> That said that the smell of burnt cannabis was not reason for police to be able to search your car without a warrant.

Now, this new decision just out says that Rois best Mel police can.

And the justices say that there's a difference said basically if you smelled pot that is burnt, then it means that it was >> already done or currently being smoked, which they would fairly obvious to an officer, right?

Like if you see somebody worse as they say that wrong cannabis, because the law says it has to be in over proof container.

>> You're automatically breaking the law.

If you can smell raw cannabis.

Now there was a dissent.

One of the justices wrote that this is absurd and defies logic and said that that's, in fact, not the case that you might smell raw, cannabis, not just because it is clearly a violation of the law and not in a car in a note approved container.

But maybe it's just the snow that's on somebody because say they work in a dispensary or they helped to grow marijuana.

But it is the latest ruling and that is the case.

So if you are going to have marijuana with you in your car, keep it in the container.

If you do want to get in trouble coming to locked up And of course, you did explain this for our viewers.

Folks can find that on Yes, thank you you can read the whole kit and caboodle, so getting pulled over, though.

This is something that Anthony driver, he is, of course, the head of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability in Chicago.

That is the civilian police oversight agency.

>> Heather, he's familiar with getting pulled over.

What do you tell you?

So in the last 11 months he's been pulled over 5 times by Chicago police officers.

And this is I think, especially.

>> Startling because he not only is the head of that police oversight board.

He is in the process of crafting new rules that limit the police department's ability need to make these kind of stops.

Now we did, of course, reach out to the police department.

They declined to comment on specific traffic stops on specific people.

But Superintendent Aaron Spelling has said that he has worked to reduce the number of traffic stops that department is making by nearly 60%.

by the start of the year.

Now, we've seen pretty significant drop in murders at that same time, which I think will raise more questions about weather traffic stops are in effect of law enforcement technique.

And at the same time, there's a big debate over going on whether the city's consent decree, you should expand to include a traffic stop.

So that would give a federal judge authority over what that final policy would look like.

Although Anthony Driver and the is likely to have some role in sort of figuring that all out.

But this is another indication that traffic stops remain a very hot button issue.

And Anthony Driver says that he believes he was pulled over because he's a large black man who wears his hat, his hair in dreadlocks, which raises real questions about CPD is ability police constitutionally on Chicago.

Streets course.

and there are also calls for how police respond to hate crimes where the details.

also this is a measure that passed the Senate and you're going to have a new year.

The legislature returning the last sort of bite at the Apple before New General Assembly is seated and they have to start overall legislation.

So >> a really diverse coalitions, something that you don't necessarily always, you know, see, this is literally like leaders of major civil rights organizations, human rights organizations, the Chicago Urban League Representan UN Organization for >> sick individuals for I let he knows all coming together to say that they believe something has to be done because there's been such a surge in hate crimes nationally, but is well as in Chicago and Illinois.

And that police really need to better understanding of what constitutes a hate crime.

If you don't have that, they say that you might be handling inappropriately that interaction with potential victim traumatizing them or maybe you're not going to have something prosecuted as a hate crime which carries a higher threshold of penalties because it is motivated by bias.

By definition.

And so they want there to be required training.

Interestingly, this is something that the police standards board that governs what police need to be taught characteristically there like, right.

We've got enough.

They're not opposed to this effort.

So really all eyes looking to January to see whether legislators get this over the finish line.

All right.

So holiday parties, they happen, right?

President Trump's border chief was the keynote speaker at a holiday gathering for the northwest side.

Republicans.

>> Nick, want to say as you mentioned, you know, this is Tom Homan, who's the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

>> Now being tapped to be Trump's border czar, which is not necessarily an official position, but it certainly doesn't require Senate confirmation, for example, which we've all been hearing a lot about.

sounds waiting for this sounds very And, you know, this is huge policy role, though, and clearly something that, you know, the Trump fans campaign put a lot of effort in.

He says Chicago should expect to be ground 0 for deportations.

Now was walking a line a little bit where he said we're going to be focusing on, you know, criminals are alleged criminals to to pick those folks have.

But, hey, if you're alongside those folks, you should expect to get picked up 2.

He also said that, you know, that the immigration issue here in Chicago is a problem because the mayor and the governor the actual word he used.

But he also, you know, sort of implored them to come to the table and negotiate with him.

You know, we mentioned the Senator Durbin mentioned the planned use of the military for some of these deportations home and says you shouldn't be expecting, you know, tank sweeping down the street, but not really backing off of the hardline him.

you know, image that they're projecting here says there's not necessarily a plan in place for family separations which we saw in the first Trump administration.

But there are no guarantees that something like that could well happen.

So he had to, you know, pretty tough message very much in line with what we heard during the election cycle.

Mayor Johnson and Governor Pritzker's reactions.

It's sort of what we've heard all along.

We didn't get much of a reaction from either of Pritzker spokesperson said, you know, Illinois is going to be under attack for a lot of things and essentially not going to dignify everything with the response, but certainly from an Illinois politician there, Senator Durbin on the Judiciary Committee trying to paint a pretty stark picture at that hearing earlier today.

Not just about that, the human impact of this, but also heard a lot of folks, you know, talk about what the economic impact might be, the problems with the labor market that might happen if undocumented immigrants are suddenly gone from the United States.

So clearly this is something that people are going to be keeping their eye very closely.

Heather, 30 seconds left, Mayor Johnson, senior adviser Jason Lee coming under scrutiny for having voted in Texas.

Don't you have to live in Chicago?

You sure do lived Chicago to be a city or Chicago employee.

And if you do not live in the city of Chicago, you are subject to termination.

And I think there are a lot of questions about that right now.

>> We asked Mayor Johnson about that yesterday.

He sort of decline to get Jason Lee a full-throated.

I have full confidence in him endorsement but their close allies.

And it's not really clear if Jason Lee's problem is here in Chicago with his employment or if it's in Texas for voting in an election, he said he wanted to because his sister's replacing his late mother in Congress.

So I think that we aren't really sure how that is all going to work out.

Inspector General Denver, what's Berg told me that couldn't comment on whether she's investigating his residency.

Her agency would be in charge for probe like that, OK, I guess we'll learn more