How About Returning the Money?
In many operations, if you don't spend budgeted money, you lose it. It goes back to the general fund and is applied to other things. In the future, your budget is cut by the returned amount since you obviously didn't need it. Not here though:
With incumbents everywhere in trouble and another election fast approaching, Chicago aldermen should be tripping over themselves to drain the $66 million-a-year pool that allows them to choose from a menu of street, sidewalk, alley and anti-crime improvements.
Instead, thirteen aldermen left at least $500,000 of their $1.32 million-a-year allotment on the table and four of them closed the books on 2009 with more than $1 million unspent. Nine others failed to use anywhere from $250,000 to $500,000, records show.
At the bare minimum, we're talking $10 or $11 million unspent, probably quite a bit more based on carry over money from previous years. Couldn't this be used to alleviate layoffs or furloughs? It's nothing more than legalized bribe money that aldercreatures use to "buy" ward improvements and it's no better than the TIF money Shortshanks treats as his own personal ly controlled piggy bank.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
18 Comments:
I HOPE ARBITRATOR BENN READS THIS BLOG!THIS CITY HAS SO MUCH MONEY IT IS SAD!without the police and fire we wouldnt have a city of chicago wotha sh..t!ITS ALL ABOUT THE FIRST RESPONDERS!U DONT FEEL SAFE, U DONT VISIT OR RELOCATE HERE,WHETHER A FAMILY OR A BUSINESS!!WAKE UP!!!!DA RANGER..!!
the city and county governments are rancid. lets hope what happened in massachusetts happens everywhere. the extra money should go toward saving jobs. maybe the aldermen can ''put some skin in the game''? who am i kidding....
Hope Republicans win Cook County. All we need is an Alderman in the County level GEEEEEEEWIIIIIIIIIZ.
The sad part is that they lay people off and force people to have unpaid days, cutting into their salary and our pension and this waste is here? Can we sue this city as citizens? I am not kidding.
Another scam brought to you by "Whitey Bulger" Daley! Rats, nothing but thieving rats in this city!
Seems like LA has the right idea about priorities:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-la-budget22-2010jan22,0,7701014.story
Hope Republicans win
yep. they are ALL honest. sheesh.
they whole system is corrupted. somebody different is all we can hope for. please don't beleive blu or red matters. illinois has a long history of scumbags from both parties.
If they didnt't spend it, then where is it? That's the question.
They never return the money. I have family that works for CPS, and the blatant waste that occurs there daily is mind-boggling. They have storage rooms full of books that have never been opened, furniture, etc. All so they can keep getting their funding + federal matching funds. There's no incentive to save, so why save it? The whole process needs to be revised so government is run more like a business, and less like a socialist bloatocracy.
I think it's called "kickbacks".
I wonder who it goes too.
God Bless the CPD.....
God Save the United States.......
Anonymous said...
I HOPE ARBITRATOR BENN READS THIS BLOG!THIS CITY HAS SO MUCH MONEY IT IS SAD!without the police and fire we wouldnt have a city of chicago wotha sh..t!ITS ALL ABOUT THE FIRST RESPONDERS!U DONT FEEL SAFE, U DONT VISIT OR RELOCATE HERE,WHETHER A FAMILY OR A BUSINESS!!WAKE UP!!!!DA RANGER..!!
1/22/2010 12:20:00 AM
and luberman "finds" 60 million to hire the revs relatives for "citizens on patrol"! LOL!
All that money goes back into that fucking thief daley's secret accounts. After all, he is Da Boss !!!!
Somewhere there's a jail cell with his name on it & a really big person who wants to be his friend & play drop the soap.
OT: SCC can you please start a post about the bullshit test that swat gave for sgt's. It seems Masters, Marianabitch and his merry band of meritorious sgt's strike again. The fix was in and so is ray ray Hamilton. Two sgt's that tested had previously been dumped from that same unit. In the interview portion one of them doesn't "pass" because Marianabitch says so. The other one is ray H who miraculously passes and is coming to swat. Anyone that took that test should sue or file a grievance because it was all fixed. Stay tuned cause the stories keep gettin better. Unfortunately somebody is gonna get hurt.
TO 2:27 am posting regarding trhe SWAT SGT TEST. : One of the Sgts. that was here is a total goof, got dumped to the 5th district for kicking a PO on the SWAT Team in the groin for screwing up during an excercise, He took the test again and passed the shooting because he used to work on the range, he passed the run because he works out, but his mind is not right, he has this giant chip on his shoulder and did the test to be spiteful to the SWAT GUYS, They don't want him back. As far as Ray Hamilton goes, he is a little different but isd loyal. because he works on the Supts. staff shouldn't penalize him. Lt. Marianovich will never be Lt. Bosse or Lt. Kennedy but he has to deal with alot of prima donnas that were hold overs from the old HBT TEAM who think the world owes them a living. Many egos exist there. Anytime you have an oral interview , you should be able to pick who will be an asset and not a problem. Some guys just open their mouths and you know they will be a problem. Yosh is bent because he couldn't be in charge. He should not be there, and a few of the MSF SGTS who tried out shouold not be considered, they just don't have it./
EVERY SGT TEST THE DEPT GIVES IS RIGGED!THATS WHY THIS DEPT IS DOOMED!!KASS,KASS,KASS OS SOMEBODY INVESTIGATE OUR SGT TESTING AND MERIT PROMOTION! U WILL HAVE A FIELD DAY!!
Anyone ask Alderwomen Toni Preckwinkless how she has spent in TIF money?
PSSSSSST......... it's all legal the Chicago way.
TO 2:27 am posting regarding trhe SWAT SGT TEST. : One of the Sgts. that was here is a total goof, got dumped to the 5th district for kicking a PO on the SWAT Team in the groin for screwing up during an excercise, He took the test again and passed the shooting because he used to work on the range, he passed the run because he works out, but his mind is not right, he has this giant chip on his shoulder and did the test to be spiteful to the SWAT GUYS, They don't want him back. As far as Ray Hamilton goes, he is a little different but isd loyal. because he works on the Supts. staff shouldn't penalize him. Lt. Marianovich will never be Lt. Bosse or Lt. Kennedy but he has to deal with alot of prima donnas that were hold overs from the old HBT TEAM who think the world owes them a living. Many egos exist there. Anytime you have an oral interview , you should be able to pick who will be an asset and not a problem. Some guys just open their mouths and you know they will be a problem. Yosh is bent because he couldn't be in charge. He should not be there, and a few of the MSF SGTS who tried out shouold not be considered, they just don't have it./
And the sgt's that are there do???You wanna talk about goofs and egos. Holy moly batman we could go on for hours. AK is a fucking merit moron who doesn't have a clue what is going on.He has never passed the test or been to the swat school. He is a joke. As far as Marianabitch goes he has far surpassed Bosse and the old HBT. Merit, clout, and politics has infiltrated swat and if you cant see that your an idiot too. CB=clueless & merit. TL= lost his mind, cant think fast enough, merit. JM=merit. DM=merit. Marianabitch=merit. How can you even attempt to say its legit. None of those people "have it"
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