For the last two weeks, the Chicago City Council has been holding hearings so they can vet Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s more than $9 billion dollar budget for 2016.

It’s a part of the annual budgeting process: Leaders of city departments and agencies come in, and aldermen get to ask whatever they want.

They do ask about things you would expect, like the nearly $600 million property tax increase and the proposed monthly garbage collection fees. 

But they also spend a lot of time on mundane and trivial issues.

And topics you might not ever expect.