Mismanagement
Mayor Daley said Monday he would eliminate 220 vacant city jobs, cancel cost-of living pay raises for 3,500 non-union employees and order those bureaucrats to take 24 unpaid days off to honor his promise to keep his hand out of taxpayers’ pockets in 2010.
Together with cuts in non-personnel spending, the latest round of bureaucratic belt-tightening will reduce spending by $64 million.
The remainder of the city’s $550 million budget gap is expected to be filled by raiding reserve funds generated by city asset sales. That’s a controversial move that threatens the all-important bond rating used to determine city borrowing costs.
The 220 jobs are a drop in the bucket - there's plenty of middle management that can be eliminated across the board in any number of departments. The belt-tightening is long overdue, but don't expect any sweeping change the way we didn't see any last time they "tightened" things up. The "reserve funds" are monies the mayor lets the connected people play with at taxpayer expense.
Here's a clue - how about the City trying to live within it's means?
Here's a clue - how about the City trying to live within it's means?
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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It's all smoke n' mirrors.
Those who are laid off will be quietly re-hired in a few months.
Masters Masters Masters Masters
Mayor Daley said Monday he would eliminate 220 vacant city jobs, cancel cost-of living pay raises for 3,500 non-union employees and order those bureaucrats to take 24 unpaid days off to honor his promise to keep his hand out of taxpayers’ pockets in 2010.
Ouch!
I have heard a Cmdr now makes Capt's pay
After this, a Cmdr will be making Lt's pay.
true?
Here's an idea use the TIF money. That's our tax dollars that Daley is skimming of the top to take care of his connected friends. It's time the city explains where all the TIF money is going. Hundreds of mullins are being stolen from the taxpayers
Maybe the "Outift" infiltrated the "G". It sure looks that way in Chicago.
Use TIFF funds to close the gap.
And you don't see this as Daley playing the media and the city against us in the hopes the arbiter believes his bullshit and fucks us for raises?
That's what this shit is, media games to get to the arbiter. His sole purpose now is to do whatever it takes to try and fuck us out of raises using any lie and fabrication he can.
It'd be nice if you treated this shit for what it was.
let me guess, they're gonna claim to be budgeted for only 200 new hires, and then have one class of 43...
Don't fall for it. Smoke and mirrors. Property taxes will go up. Count on it
The Great G.Gordon Liddy states the only service cities need to provide are police, fire and garbage pick up everything else should be private. I remember a couple years ago I heard cops saying what a good job short shanks had done. In truth it was uppie dollars from urban renewal that cleaned up chicago inspite of his honor not because of him.
After arbitration, good or bad for us, money will be there for shorty D[ick] and his 50 thieves.
Get rid of the TMA and every political hack associated with it.
Worthless.
Daley: Police hiring to stay slow
After hiring only 46 Chicago Police officers all year, Mayor Daley acknowledged Monday that the slowdown would continue in 2010, dramatically impacting the city's ability to fill 591 police vacancies
As of Oct. 9, the Chicago Police Department was 591 officers short of its authorized strength of 13,500 -- and that's not counting hundreds of other officers on duty- and non-duty disability.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/1834266,CST-NWS-cops20.article
Is it just me, or do the number of vacancies seem to stay the same for the past two years? Are they keeping the average of 30 retirees each month on the books?
My husband says this job use to be fun but not any longer. He was so disgusted by J-Feds attitude to the "blue shirts" in DC. Would not even acknowledge them.
4 more weeks and he is pulling the pin and we are out of the City.
Stay safe and remember Cozzi.
A wife.
he was ready to pour every cent he could get his hands on to fund the olympics....now he s suddenly strapped for cash. which is it? stevie wonder could see this line of bullshit coming.
JUST THINK OF ALL THE DESK DOLLIES SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE STREET... BUT THEIR ALL HIDDEN INSIDE SAFE SOUND AND DRY.
THE WHOLE CITY DOES THIS!!!
U DONT THINK WATCH COMMANDERS INVENTED THE HIDE MY EMPLOYEE SO I DONT HAVE TO DO ANY WORK.
AND THE FUNNY THING IS J-FED DOESNT HAVE A CLUE HE THINKS HE IS DOING GREAT WORK.
oh does this mean no new radios or computers or paper,or inv# bags.we dont have that now.
DONT WORRY MORE TROOPS R COMING!
WHEN DALEY RUNS AGAIN FOR THE HEAD MOB SPOT.
HE WILL COME OUT WITH SOME CRAZY NUMBER LIKE 300 OR 400 OFFICER IN 1 YEAR FILLING THE ACADEMY TO THE BRIM.
AND THE VACANT SPOTS HE ISNT FILLING R...... THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT
If there is over a half billion dollar deficit and he cuts 64 million then uses "reserve funds" for the remainder...what happens a couple of years down the road when those "reserve funds" have been used up? What then you little prick Dickie?
Privatizing the police is coming soon. They already have traffic aides and meter maids, along with dept. of Revenue guys out there. Red light cameras and soon to be installed radar units to catch speeders. Cops can be reduced to mere public safety officers at say, $18 an hour.
Had the City of Chicago been a business the board would have removed Daley by now along with his managers (the aldermen). Wake up Chicagoans.
Chop from the top.
In todays Sun-Times Daley says city short 550 cops. That's it. also says only going to hire 80 in 2010.
Anonymous said...
It's all smoke n' mirrors.
Those who are laid off will be quietly re-hired in a few months.
Masters Masters Masters Masters
10/20/2009 12:04:00 AM
OR BE REPLACED BY WORKERS WHOSE CLOUT HASN'T DIED YET.
Question.........do we REALLY need 50 aldercreatures? We can cut them in half and have one in each police district. Think of all the savings of monies. Think of the better communication between them and the commanders of each district. Heaven would be right around the corner.
When I was a kid, I remember my grandfather alway saying that when you went to the doctor, wear old raggedy clothes so he will feel sorry for you and not charge you so much. This was years and years ago, before all the insurance companies.
I have never heard Daley poormouth so much as this last month or so. He complained before about not having money, but not to this degree. It sure does sound like he's "wearing his old raggedy clothes" for the benefit of the arbitrators.
If this moron was the head of a company he would have been fired a long time ago and the company would be bankrupt. Maybe that's why it took him 3 times to pass the Bar Exam. I'm just so sick and tired of this guy. WHEN is enough already. Vote this jagoff out. I really don't think we could do worse, that might be impossible at this stage of his ineptness and mismanagement!
Where is the TIF money Mister Mayor?
Every frickin time we go to arbitration he is crying poor. When the city was doing so well a few years ago, he wasnt renegotiating our contract and offering us more. Be ready to lose any pay raise and you can forget about a retro check. He's claiming he's broke and until someone makes him open up the books he will win. The feds and everyone else just looks the other way when it comes to Daley. Meigs Field fiasco says it all! Nothing happened to him then and nothing will happen to him now. Why do you think we havent heard about Vanecko and his military son Patrick, who is hiding in Russia, for the last two months. Here's why they are DALEY's and are UNTOUCHABLE!!!!!
And yet this asshole mayor refuses to tap into the reserves he has from the skyway & parking meter crap! He makes all city workers live in this corrupt city only to lay them off!
Mismanagement isn't strong enough a word. Criminal is more like it.
Daley is obviously tainting the arbitration process by using the local media to spread his fiscal budgetary woes.
Daley's bold theft from the city's taxpayers is criminal. Sitting on "rainy day" funds is a sham.
Daley is engaged in union busting while he ignores management, both middle and upper, to run up the unnecessary wages paid on the backs of the common or unskilled workers. His city is not HIS city, it belongs to the taxpayers and the sales he's been making to outside buyers is going to bankrupt the city's future.
Why can't the leadership at FOP at least address, in the same local media, that Daley is not only exploiting the press as always but also he is intentionally in violation of fair labor practice.
The man is totally out of control.
Save our pension
eliminate district commanders
assign any qualified police officer to commander spot at captains pay
Daley-a man without ethical responsibility
CIDRA:
the overname for the arbitration
protocals in the City of Chicago lists the following:
8-V-1
The importance of confidentiality...
I suggest M.D., head of FOP ,review this section and complain loudly in the local media, where they rarely listen,
about the mayor's not so subtle tactics.
I'm one of those who will have to take 24 unpaid days and no cost of living increase..and my salary isn't even $64k before all those cut-backs. It's rough, but ofcourse it would be worse...if he laid all us non-emergency people off. You still have your paid holidays -- fight to keep them. Once they're gone...they're gone!
lets see mayor whi do you need a press aid making 180K + 2 cars and drivers! Hey jackie heard hows those dope houses you own doing? hows your criminal brother? Nice how you fuck over all real reporters like at the times and trib!
Anonymous said...
Here's an idea use the TIF money. That's our tax dollars that Daley is skimming of the top to take care of his connected friends. It's time the city explains where all the TIF money is going. Hundreds of mullins are being stolen from the taxpayers
10/20/2009 01:34:00 AM
Does Moon know????????????/
If scrapping jobs is so crucial, why did this Dept. promote RW to cmdr and send her to the Academy? It's not like she had a big impact on training.
The previous ADS managed to run the place without a cmdr, so why did someone high up in WEISel's cabinet decide to overstaff the place with two levels of command for all of 46 trainees hired this year? Daley isn't sincere about anything. Those 'Group __' Detective Division Deputy Chief jobs are all a bunch of BS too, and everyone knows it. Cut the fat there too, Shortshanks, and maybe you'll be taken seriously.
you can bet those "connected' won't go. It will be interesting who the names are. How about starting with those who are already pulling a city pension and their connections got them another high-paying city job. I can name at least a dozen.
How about cutting some aldermen? Use district boundaries for the new wards. A face off of all aldermen for the spots.
if shortshanks was truly for real, he & the alderthieves would take a pay cut, give back their raises and their cost of living, take ALL unpaid vacation...INSTEAD of milking the little people.
everyone will have their judgement day in their last breath no matter how many bodyguards you have, God bless all.
24 of unpaid furloughs? Shortly after they will receive 24 paid overtime days!
Maybe the "Outift" infiltrated the "G". It sure looks that way in Chicago.
10/20/2009 02:14:00 AM
I couldn't agree more! In fact they have even probably infiltrated the white house!
How about reduced the rubber stamp city council to 25? or 10? Jist the adermanic slush fund would equal $32,ooo,ooo for 25 alder creatures or 52,000,000 if we got rid of 40 of these slime. That is not icluding the aldercreature salaries. Who knows how to start referendum? SCC should lead the charge. FOP will not
Property taxes should go up. The city is no different than any other business, when costs go up you have to reduce costs or increase revenue and unfortunately for us raising revenue means taxes. However, a RESPONSIBLE mayor would have afforded small increases over time rather than put the city in the quagmire it faces now. When the increase comes through it will be huge.
I know a lot of this is smoke and mirrors for the contract negotiations but we are way overdue for a tax increase outside the usual school board, park, etc...raises, and it will be ugly when it comes due. Of course those facing 24 unpaid furlough days basically got the same as a tax increase only much larger. Figure an average daily pay of $150 (conservative I know) X 24 days = $3600.
Something’s got to give and it will be sooner rather than later and it will not be pretty.
Reserve funds from Sale of City assets? Would that be the cash he intended to use for the Olympics?
Just how much has he squirel'd(sp) away?
King Richy we arent getting the Olympics.
ROMLMAO
We can save a hell of alot of money just in the Police department. Why do we need all the first deputies, assistant deputy superintendents for every bureau, chiefs for every unit plus deputy chief, commanders and so on. We've got more overpaid do nothing chiefs than indians. Realign the department, cut at least 25% of the exempts and there would be more money for the things we need. But first get rid of Weis and the extra 150,00 dollars a year wasted. If they paid him what he's worth a new recruit would make more money.
***ALL CITY WORKERS VOTE DALEY OUT!!!!!***
This Mayor makes the loan sharks blush!!
jfed request second watch aa sheets
and compare names to second watch work sheets. district commanders have all the clout babies working inside . $310,000 a year and can't figure that out .
The stuttering prick said today that the remainder of the cash from the leasing of the skyway is being spent on classes for ex-cons. Now it is GONE!!!
Anonymous said...
The stuttering prick said today that the remainder of the cash from the leasing of the skyway is being spent on classes for ex-cons. Now it is GONE!!!
10/20/2009 09:53:00 PM
You talking about 'Quarters Boyle' again?
Anonymous said...
Daley: Police hiring to stay slow
After hiring only 46 Chicago Police officers all year, Mayor Daley acknowledged Monday that the slowdown would continue in 2010, dramatically impacting the city's ability to fill 591 police vacancies
As of Oct. 9, the Chicago Police Department was 591 officers short of its authorized strength of 13,500 -- and that's not counting hundreds of other officers on duty- and non-duty disability.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/1834266,CST-NWS-cops20.article
Is it just me, or do the number of vacancies seem to stay the same for the past two years? Are they keeping the average of 30 retirees each month on the books?
My husband says this job use to be fun but not any longer. He was so disgusted by J-Feds attitude to the "blue shirts" in DC. Would not even acknowledge them.
4 more weeks and he is pulling the pin and we are out of the City.
Stay safe and remember Cozzi.
A wife.
10/20/2009 07:33:00 AM
God bless our wonderful police wives. We put up with a lot but our wives put up with us! Who has it worse? Mine is an absolute treasure and I would do anything for her. She loves me and takes care of me and listens to me and doesn't complain a bit, unlike many on this blog.
Best wishes to you both in retirement and I hope you collect those pensions checks for many years. Yes, remember Cozzi.
24 of unpaid furloughs? Shortly after they will receive 24 paid overtime days!
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Idiot, don’t comment unless you know what you are talking about.
The people (and I am one of them) who will be getting at least 24 days off without pay next near (on top of the 16 days this year, on top of all the damn days off without pay over the last several years ... whenever Daley wanted a publicity stunt) NEVER get overtime. We are expected to work nights, weekends, and holidays in order to get the job done and do not get one red cent extra for the work.
When Weis got here there was 3 Chiefs.
Now there are 7. Thats what I call great management.
This is bullshit!
Ouch!
I have heard a Cmdr now makes Capt's pay
After this, a Cmdr will be making Lt's pay.
true?
10/20/2009 12:16:00 AM
Yes that is true. On top of that, they can't work a part time job to supplement. That is really really fucked up. My Commander is here 24 7. That is why he isn't married, can't afford one and is never at home!
'But first get rid of Weis and the extra 150,00 dollars a year wasted. If they paid him what he's worth a new recruit would make more money.'
YOU SAID A MOUTHFUL!!!!
The fire department has an 'Affirmative Action Chief'
Completely useless position probably making 140K per year.
24 of unpaid furloughs? Shortly after they will receive 24 paid overtime days!
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Idiot, don’t comment unless you know what you are talking about.
The people (and I am one of them) who will be getting at least 24 days off without pay next near (on top of the 16 days this year, on top of all the damn days off without pay over the last several years ... whenever Daley wanted a publicity stunt) NEVER get overtime. We are expected to work nights, weekends, and holidays in order to get the job done and do not get one red cent extra for the work.
10/21/2009 09:55:00 AM
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No wonder Stevie G. gotted promoted.
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