Where Did THAT Come From?
Mayor Daley has a whopping $217.7 million hole in his 2008 budget that can only be filled through tax increases, employee layoffs, non-personnel spending cuts or a painful combination of the three, aldermen were told today.
The shortfall is the second-largest in 10 years in the city’s corporate fund alone and is coupled with smaller but still sizeable gaps in the city’s water and sewer funds.
It comes just five months after Daley breezed to re-election on a budget that froze the city’s property tax levy for a third straight year, held the line on all other taxes and fees, and used $94 million of the $1.83 billion Chicago Skyway privatization windfall to finance an array of neighborhood and social programs.
And everyone else, keep voting democratic - tax raises for everyone! Everyone who actually pays taxes that is.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
50 Comments:
WHY ARE THE DETECTIVES IN AREA 3 SO FREAKING LAZY??? YOU CAN TAKE 6 DETECTIVES FROM AREA 4 AND THEY COULD HANDLE THE ENTIRE CASE LOAD THAT THESE LAZY HOOD ORNAMENTS DRAG THEIR ASS THROUGH. I HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH THESE BUMS FOR 3 YEARS AND EVERY TIME I CALL THEM ITS THE SAME ANSWER " YOU GOT NOTHING KID! HERE'S MY NAME FOR THE REPORT!" THIS IS AMAZING THAT THEY ARE ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH THISE BULLSHIT. I GUESS SINCE THEY NEVER APPROVE ANYTHING OR FIGHT FOR AN ASA TO APPROVE ANYTHING. THIS WAY IT LOOKS LIKE CRIME IS DOWN AND THE BOSSES JUST SMILE LIKE THEY ARE THE REASON WHEN IN FACT IT'S LAZY DETECTIVES THAT ARE TO BLAME OR APPLAUD. IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW OR JUST CAN'T DO YOUR JOB THEN JUST ADMIT IT AND MAYBE AN AREA 4 GUY CAN SHOW YOU HOW NOT TO BE A LAZY WAIST OF LIFE. AREA 4 YOU GUYS MAKE THE REST IF THE CITY LOOK LIKE IT'S STANDING STILL.
OK if the King can spend money at will and just raise taxes to cover them (I think I heard the term new Revenue Sources)
Then why cant we expect a raise to cover all the increases we have all endured over the last few years?
STOP PAYING THESE LAWSUITS AND THE MAYOR WILL HAVE AN EXCESS AMOUNT OF MONEY NEVER TO BE A DEFICIT AND MAYBE A NICE RAISE FOR US. HAVE YOUR CORPORATION DUMPSTER ATTORNEYS ACTUALLY DO THEIR JOB YOU KNOW, ACCOUNTABILITY BEING THE HOT TOPIC !!!!
Hmmmm. And this crying poor comes out when all the city contracts are up for negotiation. Go figure.
Question?
The city collects for all kinds of services and whatnots?
How much are collected through parking meters? How much is collected via Circuit/Traffic Courts? How much is collected from parking tickets, water bills, cigarettes,alcohol, gasoline, city sale taxes, employee head taxes,amusement taxes, hotel taxes, rental car taxes and all those other taxes and license fees?
How much money is being collected and where the hell is it going?
US Attorney Fitzgerald.....
What the HELL are you waiting for?
Lock this shitheel up!
Thank you sir.
You got it wrong, SCC. From what I've been hearing, our numbers are down to 9,200, which is a far cry from the 13,500 members we are 'supposed' to have.
And what happened to all the money the city got from the sale of the Skyway and the Midway Airport sale/lease deal? It was a couple billion dollars, wasn't it?
Me-thinks that somebody's got a secret offshore bank account somewhere!
It was bad enough with his flower planters, wrought iron fences, hired trucks, patronage and other graft, not to mention his Olympics crap. I'll be damned if I will pay another cent to the parasites that this corrupt stuttering prick caters to from the cradle to the grave.
Between Daley, the City Council, the Toddler, Blagojevich, Durbin, Obama , Rush, the junior Jackson, Danny Davis and the rest of these Democratic mother f*ckers that toss billions of our hard-earned tax dollars into ratholes, it's time to retire and leave.
Let's face the bitter truth. Pat Fitzgerald, our only hope, is just pissing up a rope with "da Chicago Way" slime.
The working middle-class is doomed. The electorate is either brain dead or bought off. The inmates have taken over the asylum--for keeps!
Ever notice how all the border suburbs with the city are lit with city Chicago lights. "Green pole". Lets start charging for the hook up. After all most of these streets have shopping on the suburban side. "Tax rev for those jurisdictions". Oh then we eliminate all but 9 of the alder creatures Make them alder monsters of regions Southwest southeast west near west city center near north far north west. They get same pay as the current alder creatures ... Just created thats an easy $7 Mil I just created
You newbies can kiss that Pension good bye.
TO SAVE MONEY WE ARE IN A CRISIS:
A) CUT DALEYS STAFF
B) CUT DALEYS FLEET OF CITY OWNED CARS
C)CUT ALDERMAN TO 25
D)CHARGE AT TASTE $7.00 A HEAD
E)CHARGE FOR FIREWORKS ON THE FORTH AMOUNT EQUAL TO HOW MUCH LAND MASS YOU WANT A "RENTAL FEE"
F)SAVE MONEY PUT IDIOT PROOF HYDRANT CAPS ON WOULD SAVE CHEMICALS NEEDED TO TREAT WATER
G)LET COPPERS GO TO COURT ON TOWED VEHICLES WOULD RESULT IN $$$$ FOR THE CITY MORE CARS+MORE $$$ SIMPLE MATH
H)LEASE CITY HALL
I) WHY DOES THE CPS HAVE A HUGE HQ DOWNTOWN SELL IT
J) STOP ALL SCHOOL BUSSING BULLSHIT SAVES MULTI-MILLIONS AND STOPS SOME POLLUTION
K)BIG ONE HERE STOP GIVING ALL THE ILLEGAL ASSHOLES FREE EVERYTHING WOULD SAVE BILLIONS
L)MAKE CROOK COUNTY JAIL PRISONERS FORM CHAIN GANGS AND CLEAN EVERYTHING GIVE THEM FOOD SO THEY CANNOT GET STRONG AND COME OUT LIKE THE ANIMALS THEY ARE
M)CHARGE AT LINCOLN PARK ZOO
N)NO MORE LINK CARDS IF YOU WANT WELFARE AND YOUR A LEGAL RESIDENT FINE MAKE THEM WORK LIKE IN WPA DAYS NO WORK FUCK YOU NO FOOD HOUSING FREE MEDICAL ETC... FUCK THE BLEEDING HEART LIBERALS
O)ABOLISH THE DUMOCRAT PARTY
P)STOP HIRING SECRETARIES FOR VICTOR REYES THE ONE RUNNING O'HARE NO EXPERIENCE PAYING THIS IDIOT 175K FOR WHAT?
Q)STOP GIVING MILLIONS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS MR.MAYOR
R) ON AND ON!!
As a retiree (for a while now) I pray that I live long enough to piss on the graves of those no good MFs; stuttering midget prick daley, media whore race baiters jackson and sharpton, that agg drunk driver kennedy, and the anti-christ bitch oprah.
Get rid of the CRAPS program. That cost's at least 5 million every year. And what's the return? You tell me because I've ben trying to figure that out since it was implemented.
LOOK IN THE BUDGET........
MAGGIE KEEPS GETTING MILLIONS UPON MILIONS FOR HER AFTERSCHOOL BS.
MAJOR CITY DEPTS KEEP GETTING CUTS.
ITS TIME FOR CHANGE PEOPLE.
Didn't daley magically find $500 million for the olympic bid not to long ago?? Wanna balance the budget, why do we have to change the flowers in the flower pots every month whether needed or not? Why does it take 4 guys to watch one guy with a shovel? Why does the driver of the truck get to sleep at jobsites? I don't get to drive to jobs and have someone else handle the call, have them pick up a shovel. Take away all the unneeded take home cars from EVERY dept. in the city. Why do daley's bodygaurds get D3 pay? I could go on and on about the city's wasteful spending but the biggest problem is, WHY DO WE HAVE SO MANY DAMN ALDERMEN???
To the first poster:
Detectives are not magicians. The bad guy might have all kinds of shit in his background, but if you don't have the elements for what you are calling in, you can't charge him for what you think he was going to do.
There are two sides to every story. Maybe the p.o.'s in A/4 have their shit together and know what the elements of a crime actually are.
Next time you DO really have something, do the dicks a favor and try calling BEFORE you leave the scene, release the witnesses & victim, forget to call the E.T., neglect to retreive evidence such as video, etc. In other words NOT 3 hours after the fact. Thanks!!!!
eliminate alderman good idea
la has 17 chicago could get by with less, not only salary look at$$$$ saved on body guard details
fop get a petition and send it out to every member
we can get family and friend to sign it
I'm asking Mayor Daley if he would put a condom on the tip of my night stick this time before he sticks it up my ass because I'm starting to get splinters in my anus. thank you :-(
I think your on the right track
How much money is being collected and where the hell is it going?
7/31/2007 12:30:00 AM
Lets not forget the airports- Landing Fees, 911 taxes, Fuel taxes, Consession Rents & Gross Sales kickbacks(10% of sales) Parking Taxes, Taxi fees($2/$3 for drop off and pick up) and lests not forget landing fees. Those could add up to 1800 USC for a 747 landing and taking off, and just how many aircraft land and take off at Ohare and Midway each day?
Two things can be seen here. #1) Mayor has a cash cow, and the Revenue stream here is almost max'ed out.
2) Ohare expansion will increase the number of flights and passengers thru the terminals wich equates into more $$$$ for his highness to spend
TWO WORDS...........CONTRACT TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You got it wrong, SCC. From what I've been hearing, our numbers are down to 9,200, which is a far cry from the 13,500 members we are 'supposed' to have.
13,500 is the department's total number for all ranks up to the Supe, we never had 13,500 patrolman, the number for patrolman is more like 9-10,000.
it's the oldest trick in the book. sometime before labor contracts expire start hideing money then feed stories to the media about fiscal hardship and posible service cuts, tax hikes and layoffs. then after negotiations conclude the money is magicaly found and all the clouds clear up.
pretty basic stuff.
As a dispatcher at OEMC, i been trying to get our union to take on the money issue for YEARS. Homeland security money (millions and millions), the 911 surcharge, and the sell off/access to building equipment (the city leases much of its equipment after massive sell offs and some of its actual infrastructure) should mean that the OEMC (and by extension CPD and CFD) enjoy some of the finest and higest quality training and equipment anywhere in the world. Wrong. The technology, the consoles, equipment and everything else up there is so outdated its embarrassing, not to mention critcally short staffing levels. The union and the media dont seem interested in pursuing this angle though
But as someone else pointed out the city always cries poor around contract time. A way to squeeze the vice tighter and tighter. I dont buy it and neither should any other city worker. The TIF districts alone generate almost a half billion dollars annually.
But subsidies for big business (including an unsolicited offer to assist the MERC and BD OF TRADE), and money for the Olympic Bid, and the hiring of more and more highly paid bureacrats magically appears on demand.
Didnt we just lease the skyway? and have NON REFUNDALBE money thrown at an olympic bid? I H A T E this city
It's called,
employus fuxthemmuch!
Latin for, Fuck the employees.
maybe if the little irish prick didnt spend so much city money/time in south america and italy we would have some more money..granted i know its a small piece of 217 mil but its the principal
The take your ass out of Area 3 and go save the city on the west side.
"EVERY TIME I CALL THEM ITS THE SAME ANSWER " YOU GOT NOTHING KID! HERE'S MY NAME FOR THE REPORT!"
"I GUESS SINCE THEY NEVER APPROVE ANYTHING OR FIGHT FOR AN ASA TO APPROVE ANYTHING."
AREA 4 YOU GUYS MAKE THE REST IF THE CITY LOOK LIKE IT'S STANDING STILL."
You can't shine shit little Boy, Nothing +Nothing =Nothing,it is what it is. Have a little cry on Mommy's lap & you'll feel better come next tour.
In the meantime, Go get your Shinebox& Kneepads they're waiting for you upstairs@ 3151 W. Harrison.
Well Mr. Daley you just pissed away 680,000k on your assinine gun program.
The airport project is draining the city coffers. We would have been better off if they built the airport in Peotone, but Daley wanted an airport named after him. The economy is great. It is a disgrace that this deficit exists. The Federal Gov. has reduced its defecit dramaticly.
Of course we'll get the blame for being selfish and asking for a raise.
Pallidin
The city is budgeted for 13000+
Police officers.
And if there are only 9000 on the job were is the money goeig for the 4000.
I know this for a fact because when I got suspended--I was told my money was spent when I got restated during the same year I didnt get paid on pay day they said I was not in the system.So I had to work 4 weeks b4 I got paid The city budget is based that all police officers are at top pay.
which means that a PPO is paid the starting base pay but the budget is for ALL police officers at what ever top pay is.
When OW was super he always had a return to the city from the police bugjet.
Because he managed the suspension money.
I agree with another poster. Get rid of some of the alderman. New York and LA both have less then we do. That might save at least a million if not more.
I agree with the 1st post! You lazy dog area 3 dicks are the worst crew of do nothings I have seen in 16 years on the job. The other day the 19th dist. watch commander was so fed up with them that he actually went upstairs to give them an earful. Just because you wear a suit and tie doesn't, for one freaking second, make you better than me. Quit trying so hard to look good and spend more time working your freaking cases. Another thing, you dogs take 3hr lunches, run your personal fucking errands all day and still give us working P.O's attitude!! It's about time you jags get a major overhaul upstairs and i hope people get launched to area 1 or 2, better save up your money for gas!
Anonymous said...
The city is budgeted for 13000+
Police officers.
And if there are only 9000 on the job were is the money goeig for the 4000.
I know this for a fact because when I got suspended--I was told my money was spent when I got restated during the same year I didnt get paid on pay day they said I was not in the system.So I had to work 4 weeks b4 I got paid The city budget is based that all police officers are at top pay.
which means that a PPO is paid the starting base pay but the budget is for ALL police officers at what ever top pay is.
When OW was super he always had a return to the city from the police bugjet.
Because he managed the suspension money.
7/31/2007 09:06:00 PM
HOW MANY TIMES HAS YOU CHECK BEEN INCORRECT? AGAIN POLICE FINANCE IS ALSO IN THE SHITTER NO ONE THERE HAS A CLUE!
Listen up people! Stop voting Deomocrat! You support the Daley Machine! Period!
You got it wrong, SCC. From what I've been hearing, our numbers are down to 9,200, which is a far cry from the 13,500 members we are 'supposed' to have.
We're supposed to have 15,000...not 13,500
Area #3 has always been that way thats why I left to go out South. The bosses all have there guys they take care of so the resy of us get pissed off and take it out on the P.O.'s. I have heard guys laughing about the shit they did to P.O.'s related to cases. Most of us are told to try to classify cases as the lesser of the two evils. Which means make an obvious Agg. Batt. a Simple Batt. Last year we made almost every case that came our way a criminal tresspass instead of a Burglary because our bosses wanted to lower the numbers. Time to shake things up!!!
hair gel police let's grow up
if you have an agg battery burglary etc write the facts in narrative and don't change it
if requested to change classification enter in narrative per order of sgt.
also we have to keep impoundments,traffic enforcement up so an arbitrator will side with us that the revenue is there for us boys in blue what does the cfd or steets and san bring in nada
to save money, add on:
STOP all the "consulting fees" to the Daley cronies....i.e. finding new supe, olympics$$, o'hare project, etc. Where are these consulting fees billed to the city posted??????
Daley is a liar and has been stealing from the Chicago Taxpayer for decades now. By the time the lame-o Feds get him Daley will have died from old age. Maybe the Feds don't want to get him, or have been told not to, by their higher-ups, on the take also.
Daley has, by his own admission, mismanaged the City into the poor-house. He should resign immediately. He is too incompetent to even run a westside shoe shine stand.
Last year we made almost every case that came our way a criminal tresspass instead of a Burglary because our bosses wanted to lower the numbers. Time to shake things up!!!
8/01/2007 12:36:00 PM
That's a Stone Lie in the Highest order. You NEVER EVER SPENT A DAY IN AREA 3, AND ARE NOT A DETECTIVE PERIOD.
Area 3 Detectives are the bestest. They go to cool coffee-shops and lounges and restaurants, and don't have too much cases to work on. And they get overtime too. And the same pay as busy detectives on the Sout Side. It's really a good fair job.
i hope people get launched to area 1 or 2, better save up your money for gas!
CAAN'T GET LAUNCHED IF YOU ARE A BID SHIT FOR BRAINS. GO CRY TO MOMMY. THE 019 W/C STORY IS A BUNCH OF LIES.KIND OF LIKE YOUR PATHETIC CAREER ON THE DEPT. THE JEALOUSY IS JUST SEETHING THRU. DO THERAPY, IT WORKS WONDERS TRY IT.
Anonymous said...
Daley is a liar and has been stealing from the Chicago Taxpayer for decades now. By the time the lame-o Feds get him Daley will have died from old age. Maybe the Feds don't want to get him, or have been told not to, by their higher-ups, on the take also.
8/01/2007 11:55:00 PM
Everyone wants the "FEDS" to get the Mayor. The FBI consists of people who have no idea how to make a case. They are, as I heard an agent say out loud at a meeting, information whores.
So if somebody wanted to get Daley they would have to catch him in a criminal act and then go to the FBI and tell them, and present the FBI with some sort of proof.
Make sure if you do this you do it Monday thru Friday during normal business hours, cause if you do not they will not even be there. I know this for a fact.
They laugh at how corrupt this city is, but these cheap Mother Fuckers make sure they have their weapons exposed at lunch time so they can get a discount.
It took two years of complaints, and in person complaints naming names before they even started a case in the 007th District. If it was not for the CPD IAD the Gangsters from 007 would still be at it, these guys are a fucking joke.
If they catch you it is because you want them too, they are so lame in Public Corruptions that the best agent they had quit and went back to the private sector. Why? because no one ever wanted to stay late.
They could not catch Daley if they tried, fuck these mother fuckers could not find dope in a pharmacy, and could not buy aspirin at Walgreeens.
They could not catch Daley if they tried, fuck these mother fuckers could not find dope in a pharmacy, and could not buy aspirin at Walgreeens.
8/02/2007 01:59:00 AM
I agree. having worked with the "G" while I was in 189, I can attest - they ARE NOT the police.
If you were involved in white collar crime, there is none better, but when it takes a little looking into - they go in the crapper.
Remember, they too have a colege requirement - and it is a little tougher than the CPD's. So, what you get are more people who think they are smarter than the average Joe because they studied this, or they went to school here, etc, etc. Bascially, an elite attitude with nothing to back it up on. Have you ever come across that on this job??
This is not ALL, just most of them - they do have good ones just like we do. They just are few and far between.
"I'd rather have my sister in a whore house - then my brother in the FBI" -
that youth dick upstarirs who answers he phone in a/4 is a joke.....retire you asshole........your good for nothing...and by hanging up the phone will not stop someone from coming upstairs and confronting u pussy!!!!!!!!!
How about a buy out for police and fire? Buy a couple of years and retire early.
the money is buried at the Ohare airpor extention.
I am sure millions could be saved by ending the "street scape" projects around the city. You know, where they tear up streets and sidewalks that are in perfect shape to put in curb cuts with those rubber inserts that will wear out in a few years and have to be replaced, and flower boxes next to the streets like they are doing in 014 and I am sure elsewhere in the city. Why waste money on this shit when the tagging and garbage in the streets makes the neighborhood look like shit anyway. You can't polish a turd. Who really cares about this beautification bullshit when there is a budget crisis and city employees are getting the ax. What is more important, a few flowers or p.o.'s earning receiving a decent raise/contract.
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