With 30 days to break Chicago’s second straight budget stalemate, a small group of City Council moderates and conservatives are intensifying efforts to craft an alternate spending plan that does not include a corporate head tax.

The plan they hope to unveil later this week would likely hold the line on property taxes, but increase the $9.50 a month garbage collection fee that has been frozen since its 2015 inception.

Sources said the proposal could more than double the garbage collection fee — to roughly $20 a month — while exempting senior citizens.

Even at $20 per month, Chicago’s fee would still recoup just 55% of the city’s actual refuse collection costs and pale by comparison to the rate imposed by other cities and surrounding suburbs.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed $21 a month

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