Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget director is leaving, the latest shakeup of his administration’s finance team ahead of what is sure to be a grueling budget season.
Annette Guzman, Johnson’s director of the Office of Budget and Management, is departing the role she has held since the start of his administration. Her exit follows the resignations last week of acting Chief Financial Officer Steve Mahr and Deputy CFO Noor Shaikh in June — coming after CFO Jill Jaworski departed at the beginning of this year.
“Ten years of public service, at the City and at Cook County, has been the greatest honor of my career,” Guzman wrote in a statement released by the mayor’s office Monday evening. “During my tenure as City Budget Director, I am proud of the work we have accomplished to strengthen the City’s financial foundation and help ensure resources are aligned with the needs of…
