Rahm has $4 Million Left Over
- Six months after the NATO summit, City Hall has hit the total button on the cost of hosting and protecting world leaders at a gathering that was historic for Chicago but a stretch for local resources.
The final bill for the city of Chicago was $27.5 million, according to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office, with more than $20 million of it covered by the federal government.
The remainder has been covered by some of the nearly $33 million in private donations raised by the Chicago NATO organizing committee.
The private donations also covered the committee's tab for hotels for NATO guests, receptions and dinners for dignitaries, a media facility and insurance for the event. More than $10 million of the private donations was left over for the mayor to spend.
Sarah Hamilton, a spokeswoman for the mayor, said $4 million of that surplus remains at his disposal after recent announcements on using leftover money for park improvements.
Thousands of coppers short, millions short in pension obligations, and Rahm is spending it all on parks without any oversight whatsoever.
That makes sense.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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The REAL question is: What favors were given out for the "private" donations!
Do you really think that corporations are going to cough up $33 mil. and not expect something in return?
Ethics? Wut?
So if you hand out a tax break first. Then happen to get a donation in return. You don't have to account for how the donation money is spent because it doesn't play by the rules of taxes. Is that how it works?
Private donation you can do what you want with and don't need anyone's approval or oversight right?
The new and improved Chicago Police Department.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/16494907-418/chicago-cop-fired-for-lube-wrestling-and-moonlighting-as-bouncer.html
How about paying us the rest of thr OT money they screwed us out of by not paying the adjustment of start times and the extension of the tour past 8.5?
Can't wait for Jan.
CTA fares set to rise by an average of 50% with fares on the blue line set to double I'm hearing.
Combine that with the payroll tax break expiration in Jan and we have all the makings for social unrest.
Forgot to mention. Just like the pension money was stolen we have that entire electricity bill thing going down too where any savings the poor joe could of made by changing energy providers Rahm is going to latch onto instead.
Upgrade the parks mayor. We're all going to be sleeping there soon at this rate.
Let's measure the $4 million leftover in terms of shootings @ $52,000 a piece or homicides at $400,000 per investigation and prosecution. How much is left now?
Let's see...$400,000 X 10 homicides whoops there goes the $4 mil..We blow that money in just one weekend.
Or 77 shooting whoops $4 mil. gone on ER and healthcare expenses in one month.
F--k that, the people of Chicago are unwilling or unable to follow that money trail. This money is private donation money for me to spend. You pay for that s--t with your taxes, I'm building a park. HA-HA Sad dad for you!!
Paying high taxes for a service that we're not getting...
Witnessed an accident about 45 minutes ago, called the police 40 minutes ago. There is a station around the corner & they are still not here. Have to love it their timeliness.
http://www.facebook.com/vero7997/posts/10151254570534556
Investigator: Conspiracy of Silence Protects Dirty Cops
Former Internal Affairs Commander says probe into officers would have ensnared more personnel if it had been allowed to run its course
be quiet about this,anita will want to use it to bail out the guy who shot the doctor.
Of course crime is down. ha..that's why we see an increasing amount of community alerts and request for help on bank robbers and such..But hey if they take you property go sit in the park that Rahm gave you that's all.
9th District Police Community Alert
re: Robberies
This alert gives notice to the citizens in the 9th District of an increase in robbery related incidents have occurred during the month of November. In these incidents offenders approach victims and imply or display handguns, and then demand property
That money is not fungible with the taxpayers money. Oh-no.
See the TAXPAYERS pay the $1 million dollars for the Cease Fire Street Friars that haven't done a damn thing.
This money over here I get to spend how I please.
If you're a corporation I'll give you a $10 mil tax break and you give us $5 mil back and we'll have our media friends tell everyone how kind hearted and generous you are by donating this money out of your own free will. Do the math.
Don't you love how they act like the $20 mil from the fed for NATO was like a freebee and we didn't have to pay for that because it was fed money?
Where's the Fed get it's money again? Oh yeah taxes! Except that they don't have $20 mil to spend so they have to borrow it first and so our costs as taxpayers is $20 mil PLUS interest!
See you people have this entitlement attitude. No,no-no, not the political apparatus. You people made them spend that money on NATO and demanded more parks in Chicago. No wonder we're broke.
/sarcasm
put the money towards our pension fund &/or hire the couple thousand cops we're short.
Rahm's spending is so consciences don't you see. Thru his skill he didn't even need all the money that was donated for NATO. He saved us $4 million dollars!
/sarcasm
*** Speaking of manpower shortages, specifically the recent talk of the amount of officers in 016 ***
I have a copy of the 2012 CPD Budget Statement dated 27 Oct 11. When it was presented to the city council, many questions were raised by various Aldercreatures. Answers to these questions were put to paper by our St. Sabina Panderer, AKA G-Mac.
One of the questions asked was by 9th Ward Aldercreature Anthony Beale. He requested "the accurate number of police officers per violent crime by district". On 08 Nov 11 McPuppet & Co. responded with the following breakdown for 016:
"Sworn Members" = 240 *
YTD Violent Crimes = 260
Violent Crimes Per Sworn Member = 1.08
Citywide Average = 2.46
Property Crimes were also assessed, to wit:
YTD Property Crimes = 1,744
Property Crime Per Sworn Member = 7.26
Citywide Average = 6.24
* (Unsure if "Sworn Members" counts everyone above the rank of Patrolman, but I'd bet it does)
Maybe someone in 016 can provide an accurate count as to how many officers retired since last November so we have a better understanding as to how many people are currently assigned to that district. And since there have been few new hires...fewer (if any) that got sent to 016...the "240 Sworn Members" number is undoubtedly lower.
Numbers were also provided for every other district, many of which would blow the minds of taxpayers getting fleeced by the administration.
The Q & As in this budget document is also chock-full of other interesting facts, statistics and general information that will shed light on just how fucked up, ass backwards this department, city and elected officials are. Dollar amounts are listed for every facet of CPDs operating costs and the DAMNING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE MANPOWER SHORTAGE IS PUT TO PAPER STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S (McCathy's) MOUTH. He also explains how resources are being redirected to compensate for the lower manpower numbers.
I will be happy to forward a copy of this document to SCC as soon as I can scan every page and transfer it to a PDF or similar type of file. In the meantime, can someone from 016 get a good count as to how many officers retired, transferred out, got promoted, died, etc. and get back to SCC with that information?
OT
YES!!!! NBC 5 at 6pm tonight interviewed a former IAD Commander. They asked why CPD might stop certain investigations into certain officers. The former Commander stated CPD makes these decisions based on "politics, who the person is and what their connections are." FINALLY!!! The truth about our department is finally coming to light!!!! If you have CLOUT you are untouchable!! Case in point, Big Jack Killackey formerly of 011. Robs a cab driver at gunpoint while drunk and still has a job because of his old man!!
Clearly it should go to Cease Fire. Their efforts have made Chicago the safe paradise it has become.
"thousands of coppers short" I assume you mean short of the 13,659 in 2000?. Why is this the magic number? Overall crime and the number of murders have gone down in the last ten years even with a decrease in officers.
I'm just asking an honest question. Why do think that 13.5k is the "right" amount of police officers?
$4,000,000? Not even a drop in the bucket. Your pension system is $92,000,000,000 in the hole.
Jagoff
How can one claim that there's $4 mil. left over from NATO when all the bills are not it?
What about the civil rights violation lawsuits for Grant Park. Win of lose that case you still have the legal fees and the city just might lose.
Gov Quinn, Merry Christmas ---kers!
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QUINN ADMINISTRATION TERMINATES UNION CONTRACT
In an unprecedented step, Governor Pat Quinn’s administration late today terminated state government’s contract with its largest employee union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 31.
“In 40 years of collective bargaining, Pat Quinn is the first and only Illinois governor to terminate a union contract,” AFSCME executive director Henry Bayer said. “His actions will heighten employee frustration, provoke instability in the workplace and make settling a contract more difficult.”
AFSCME has been in negotiations over a new collective bargaining agreement for nearly a year. Scheduled to expire last June 30, the previous contract’s terms had since been extended by mutual agreement of the parties. But following a bargaining session with a federal mediator in Springfield today, the Quinn administration rejected a further extension offered by the union.
Terminating the contract has little immediate practical effect, as all existing terms and conditions of employment remain in place under state law. But it signals the Quinn Administration’s lack of respect for the collective bargaining process.
“While AFSCME is committed to reaching a fair agreement, Pat Quinn seems bent on heading in the wrong direction,” AFSCME director Bayer said. “Our union wants constructive engagement but the governor is choosing confrontation instead.”
AFSCME Council 31 represents 40,000 men and women who work for the State of Illinois. AFSCME-represented state employees care for veterans and the disabled, help struggling families, protect children from abuse, maintain safe prisons and much more.
more --> http://capitolfax.com/2012/11/20/this-just-in-afscme-quinn-terminates-union-contract/
Chicago police pensions are already 5% lower than everyone else.
80% - Mayor, Alderman (part time job) and legislator pensions (part time job) top out at 80%.
80% - Civilian city workers pensions top out at 80%.
80% - State Police pensions top out at 80%
80% - Downstate and suburban police pensions top out at 80%
75% - Chicago Police pensions top out at 75%
That is 5% less every year for life in a very dangerous job.
Way off topic
Wtf??? Chicago cop fired for "lube wrestling".....
Wow, I'm speechless. It's a whole new breed of stupid. Almost as stupid as the media referring to the soccer team incident at Maine west hazing. They pinned some kid on the ground and were putting their fingers in his butt hole trying to tickle him from the inside. That's agg csa in my town.
Call me old fashion but I played sports from the time I could walk and while i can't speak for the lube wrestler, we never gave the new kid the stink finger as a welcome to the team.
Http://www.suntimes.com/mobile/16494907-463/chicago-cop-fired-for-lube-wrestling-and-moonlighting-as-bouncer.html
Did I read this right? They cut down almost 900 trees for "Maggie Park"?
Riot in Newark, NJ city council chambers, police use pepper spray
http://mobile.nj.com/advnj/pm_31084/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=gyTumMB1
Claypool Bus Co. (a.k.a. CTA) is poised to charge
$ 5.25 as a one-way fare to O'Hare on the Blue Line, beware, they might get the bright idea to do the same for the Orange Line to Midway. I guess this week's labor agreements with the CTA Unions did not come cheap.
I'm just asking an honest question. Why do think that 13.5k is the "right" amount of police officers?
11/21/2012 02:24:00 AM
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simple answer 'ol timer. because this poster obviuosly came on the job in 2000 when we were at that number- give or take , so they are not aware of the actual number of officers we had before this " number" was put out there and not aware of the fact that at that time were were running short already . the department has gone through a starvation style diet ( although not by choice) over the last decade and like we always hear that this form of dieting is not healthy, we are now now experiencing the side effects of such dieting-- grave
$4,000,000? Not even a drop in the bucket. Your pension system is $92,000,000,000 in the hole.
11/21/2012 02:46:00 AM
that empty lot of a park that their pouring $50 mil into to do what exactly? would have made a significant dent into our pension + the forgotten fact that the fop board of nolan and company who allowed (forgave) the city of $20 mil just to give us 70% at 29years and a day !! all in all this would have only left 22 million if you didn't account for the forgiveness the city swindled from us without the membership knowing at that time.
you know we will continue to get screwed !!! a friend of mine retired from the state police recently with 25 years on and they're gonna collect 79% ... and they will /still have a long life ahead because they didn't have to put up with the shit we have to and we have to put in 9 more years + one day just to get a measley 70% of what is looking like no money. i'll be working til i'm in my 70's !!!
Anonymous said...
Chicago police pensions are already 5% lower than everyone else.
80% - Mayor, Alderman (part time job) and legislator pensions (part time job) top out at 80%.
80% - Civilian city workers pensions top out at 80%.
80% - State Police pensions top out at 80%
80% - Downstate and suburban police pensions top out at 80%
75% - Chicago Police pensions top out at 75%
That is 5% less every year for life in a very dangerous job.
11/21/2012 05:58:00 AM
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simple question---- WHY? and Why IS THIS ALLOWED AND THE GOVT DUZ not step in... would there ever be a possibilty that one day we'll hear a news conferance and hear someone ( politician) say we're sorry thst this has destroyed so many of the lives and livelihood of our police officers and firefighters who put their lives on the line everyday to protect our city, so i'm here to announce that we will be depositing the 90 million + dollars to the underfunded pension that these first responders have invested in throughout their whole carreers and again we say we're sorry. i will not be taking any questions .. thanks you...... that would be the readers digest version that sadly we will never hear-- at least not in our lifetime.
GOD HELP US !!
I'm just asking an honest question. Why do think that 13.5k is the "right" amount of police officers?
11/21/2012 02:24:00 AM
experience.
try it, you won't like it.
Chalkie
"Downstate and suburban police pensions top out at 80%" Wrong. 75% also.
$4,000,000? Not even a drop in the bucket. Your pension system is $92,000,000,000 in the hole.
11/21/2012 02:46:00 AM
chinese water torture, in reverse.
thanks for your uplifting comment.
Did you see the additions to the city budget for 2013? He wants the poor children in the school system at age three. He can than have the government feed, raise and show them how they should vote?????
I know where the mayor gets a lot of "private donations".
Now, Kees me you fool!!!!
Will the media ask Rahm why he won't use any money to help the pension that was guaranteed to us upon employment? Rahm talks about the pension problem all the time, but he won't do his part to fix it, just a little. Ask Rahm how he plans to fix the problem if he won't do anything on his end to fix it. We put our money in every two weeks, but the politicians squandered the money, spent it and invested it elsewhere. Remember the government uses "the pension" to attract people to work for them. This was part of the employment agreement.
It won't be a lot of money upon retirement, but it was told to us that "if you work for us and contribute to the pension, you will get it." They can't change the rules in the middle of the game just because THEY SCREWED IT UP. Put the money into the pension Rahm!
Who cares? It is all play money anyway. With the way they are printing money it isn't worth what it used to be. Start buying things while it is still worth something.
$4 million lying around? Its for the children...
80% - Downstate and suburban police pensions top out at 80%
Wrong: Suburban Police/Fire Departments that are in the Downstate IPPFA pension fund also top out at only 75%, and no health benefits. Sorry to tell you that!
Retired
Kelsey Grammer's critically acclaimed Starz show 'Boss' canceled(Rahm couldn’t take the truth)
FOXNEWS.Com ^ |
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/11/20/kelsey-grammer-critically-acclaimed-starz-show-boss-canceled/
This guy is daley on steroids. He hates the police, it will be one step forward two steps back when it comes to us.
Hey we don't stick together so stop whinning about it. We have only ourselves to blam.
Stop working special employment for 2 months. Stop writing movers and parkers.
Write paper at every job. But that won't happen because we don't stick together.
It's allfor the "chilens"
Kelsey Grammer's critically acclaimed Starz show 'Boss' canceled(Rahm couldn’t take the truth)
FOXNEWS.Com ^ |
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/11/20/kelsey-grammer-critically-acclaimed-starz-show-boss-canceled/
11/21/2012 11:01:00 AM
That's a shame. When people would ask what Chicago politics was like, I would tell them to watch this series.
I do believe that Rahm and his Hollywood connections had something to do with this.
It looks like everything Jerry Finnigan related in the March 2012 Playboy interview is dime on.
IAD buried thousands of beefs for the CLOUTED while hanging out the unclouted for minor rule violations.
Illinois State Police top out at 80% and its the last days pay that you get 80% of not the average of the last 4 years or in the new hires case the average of the last 8 years
"Who cares? It is all play money anyway. With the way they are printing money it isn't worth what it used to be. Start buying things while it is still worth something."
well said.....much has been said about the upcoming "fiscal cliff"....most folks seem to think that Congress will cave, to some degree, come up with more political bullshit.....there are some, though, who say, let America go off of the cliff, let cities, states, and the country go bankrupt (it's what the democrats/socialists want anyway)....we'll all go on food stamps and into bread lines....the future of Amerika....congrats to Obama
Pension funding? Naw, it will be broke in less than ten years. All you retired or soon to be retired better get back to work.
1.Pay off Abate lawsuit,case closed.2.Put the rest of the money aside for a rainey day,who knows what is coming down theroad.
Anonymous said...
$4,000,000? Not even a drop in the bucket. Your pension system is $92,000,000,000 in the hole.
11/21/2012 02:46:00 AM
Yeah, why put in 5% when zero percent helps us SO much more.
Whats wrong cease fire out of money?WHEN WE GO OFF THAT FISCAL CLIFF BETTER AMMO UP!!People will not be in very good moods.Thanks for voting the idonesian in folks.Now you will pay.
OOOH, OOOH...There's 4 million left over!
Add 3 more feet to Maggie Daley Park for the dogs to shit.
This $4 million will wind up in the hands of one of two groups: either the big business executives or the link abusing crowd.
That's certainly been Rahm's track record so far.
Anonymous said...
Did I read this right? They cut down almost 900 trees for "Maggie Park"?
11/21/2012 06:48:00 AM
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What a waste to honor Faux Royalty !!!
Use the $4,000,000.00 surplus to get the "runt" some elevator shoes, he looks like he should be starring in Home Alone III
How about some to Jesses defense fund some Ceasefire and give the rest to Gary for drinks.
Didn't anyone catch the news item about Rahm wanting to keep for the City any savings realized on negotiating lower electricity rates? This passed in the recent election. Left unsaid was the tidbit about who gets the savings that City muscles out of comed.
Rahm wants it. We pay same as always, City gets savings like it was a tax increase.
Come on SCC, read up on this. Another outrage in the offing by miserable bastard mayor through now you see it now you don't.
Only way out is to cut your own electricity deal with some company before getting thrown into City's rate deal.
No joke.
Didn't anyone catch the news item about Rahm wanting to keep for the City any savings realized on negotiating lower electricity rates? This passed in the recent election. Left unsaid was the tidbit about who gets the savings that City muscles out of comed.
Rahm wants it. We pay same as always, City gets savings like it was a tax increase.
Come on SCC, read up on this. Another outrage in the offing by miserable bastard mayor through now you see it now you don't.
Um, go back a full week and read the post titled "Rahm Proposes Robbery" and you'll see we covered this.
Evidently, you're from Lighthouse for the Blind like that other guy.
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Did I read this right? They cut down almost 900 trees for "Maggie Park"?
11/21/2012 06:48:00 AM
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What a waste to honor Faux Royalty !!!
11/21/2012 10:21:00 PM
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Maggie Park is just a cover-up.
The work on Millenium Park was shoddy and the REAL reason for Maggie Park is the Grant Park garage is leaking badly and caving in. It has to be rebuilt, so Rahm is hiding the substandard work by Daley's connected buddies by 'building' a 'new' park.
the mayor used a mayoral mandate to build a new 6 million dollar boat house for a row team in burnahm harbor......why you ask? hmmmmmm his daughter is on the row team!!!!!! true story check it out!
Worried about retirement and your government's commitment to your pension plan?
Precious metals - guns and ammunition.
Retirement plan - minimum one year long-term food storage for each family member and similar water filtration/storage capability.
Oh, yeah: Get out of Chicago.
ECS
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