Branch Court Closings?
- Two small branch courthouses and a juvenile detention center building would close under a long-sought budget settlement between Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and Chief Circuit Court Judge Timothy Evans.
The proposed deal also calls for nearly 2,400 workers in departments controlled by the chief judge to take 10 unpaid days off work or face layoffs if the unions representing most of them don’t agree. Judges would not have to take the furlough days because their salaries are paid by the state, not the county.
Details of the agreement were included in a “memorandum of settlement” that Evans sent to judges and employees under his jurisdiction Tuesday, and were later presented to county commissioners. Attorneys for Preckwinkle and Evans are expected to finalize the deal in court Friday.
The plan would close branch courtrooms at 2452 W. Belmont Ave. and 155 W. 51st St. by September. The preliminary felony hearings and misdemeanor cases heard there would be shifted to other county courthouses.
And get a load of this:
- Evans had to cut costs after last year's repeal of the controversial pop tax, which took more than $200 million out of Preckwinkle’s proposed budget.
Perhaps if they didn't spend the money before they collected it? After all, by Prickwrinkle's projections, the county would have collected the $200 million in about two years.
Labels: county, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
48 Comments:
All the County Morons - I mean politicians - need to wake up and smell the Starbucks.
The Money is NOT there. Start cutting the budgets!
I haven't been to court in years...even if I tried!
Every last cook county judge should be fired, just like the Gary IN PD was a few years back. Vote in new judges but this time no democrats are allowed on the ballot. Restructure the system so that judges can be fired and charged with criminal negligence.
Killer of 5 at Yorkville restaurant in 1973 is granted parole
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/news/ct-abn-yorkville-pine-village-parole-st-0427-story.html
These are the parole board members
https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/prb/Pages/prbbdmem.aspx
The county should sell the old Cook County Hospital, whose value has increased due to its location in the hot Medical District. There is no good reason to hang onto this old rock pile. Also, the old Audi Home and it’s parking structure should be sold due to its great location. If a Juv. detention Center is needed, one should be located at the county’s Oak Forest Hospital in a re-purposed building.
Taxes are necessary to support government. Take taxes away and you have to take some government away also.
You can fake it 'till you make it, unless of course
until you run into the dreaded budget.
I'm happy Toni is facing Judge, otherwise you
would never hear the end of it.
Her incompetence will result in the closure of
two court buildings. This is what happens when
you trust the kids with the money. There ain't
no "do overs" in real life.
Next they'll start closing down the jails since no one of color is being charged for breaking the laws in this savage run city...
Why even have court?? Just issue ANOV for everything and be done with it.
765B
Hey, crime is down.
We don’t need these extra courts
Prickdinkle is so full of Skita. There's NOT a revenue problem, Just a SPENDING problem....Sooooo....Let's close Belmont/ Western Cts, and OVER BURDEN some other cts. Yeeeeesh....
Being fetal is working......nobody getting locked up anymore....thanks ACLU....BLM....no need for courts when there are no new cases...Let the libtards fend for themselves...you got the police dept. you wanted.....blinders on all day......19 Boy !
"Perhaps if they didn't spend the money before they collected it"?
Every democRAT in the state, county and city just got a case of the shits. This is the way it has been done for centuries. As long as we have an idea of where the money is going to come from we can SPEND IT. Aaaaah feel better already. We could always cancel more PO's Health Insurance. Besides they only complain until they die.
Man, I feel sorry for all the VICTIMS that now have to travel much further to court proceedings because you know (most of the time) the OFFENDERS are going to show up
Vote Republican time to sell the house
Get out of Dodge while you still can. Smart people are leaving Illinois and New Jersey in droves. If you want to see what the future looks like; take a ride through Harvey or Maywood.
Democrats always flunk Econ 101. No surprises here.
A small price to pay for repealing that unconscionable soda tax.
The last two years I might have been in court twice. I'm Fetal big time.
Why not close up the courts? No need for a Police Department after that. Isn't that the goal?
J.J.
Here comes the layoffs, last time the union voted against taking the unpaid days off. Why support your fellow officers when it's all about you.
All branch 29 and 42 cases are being moved to 16501 S Kedzie?
Anonymous said...
Taxes are necessary to support government. Take taxes away and you have to take some government away also.
4/27/2018 02:54:00 AM
So, it's a win on both counts.
Anonymous said...
The county should sell the old Cook County Hospital, whose value has increased due to its location in the hot Medical District. There is no good reason to hang onto this old rock pile. Also, the old Audi Home and it’s parking structure should be sold due to its great location. If a Juv. detention Center is needed, one should be located at the county’s Oak Forest Hospital in a re-purposed building.
4/27/2018 01:01:00 AM
Maybe we could house Volvos and Saabs in the old Audi home, too?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Every last cook county judge should be fired, just like the Gary IN PD was a few years back. Vote in new judges but this time no democrats are allowed on the ballot. Restructure the system so that judges can be fired and charged with criminal negligence.
4/27/2018 12:52:00 AM
You sound like a complete fool. No democrats are allowed on the ballot. How are you going to accomplish that. Maybe we should have you decide who should be on the ballot. Why restructure the system, we would have already not allowed any dems on the ballot
That puts how many out of work?
None. All will be relocated.
Maybe Lucky will finally get the message to step down too.
PrickWankers overwhelming re-election victory and Demoncrat party leader appointment secures her nasty reign in for life.
As for the rest of us...
The extra drive time and having to pass through the jhetto to get to 26th & Cal will be a bitch.
Make it worth your while and pack a lunch when down there.
Don’t like the drive or the all day stay...don’t arrest.
Had work crews at 51st Street less then a week ago. Fixing ceiling and putting in new flooring in courtrooms. Ripped out seating to do floor and then put it all back. Scaffolding for ceiling. It was a big production. Now they are going to close those court rooms? Nice waste of tax payer money.
Sheriff Tom Dart Merit Board blunder and other suits are going to cost over 140 million and this hasn't even hit the budget yet. Is Preckwinkle going to name the new tax after Tom Dart. that would be fitting.
Will there be a sale? maybe more section 8 housing on these sites? anything to generate revenue?
Then here lets box:
Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley tensions boil over; Bill Daley defends brother
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/rahm-emanuel-richard-daley-tensions-bill-daley/
Quote billy:
It’s unseemly to keep blaming the previous administration, which has been gone seven years,” William Daley, who followed Emanuel as White House chief of staff under former President Barack Obama, told the Chicago Sun-Times on Friday. “It’s kind of like Obama blaming Bush after seven years and saying, ‘I’ve got this problem in the Middle East, and George Bush did this.’ Come on. Put the big-boy pants on, and move on. It’s kind of sad
*like this "big boy pants" or maybe a wedding dress, ballerina outfit?
Where have we this secret video of Billy and Rahm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4trn2lJxl00
everybody has a budget to follow. even the courts.
Anonymous said...
Taxes are necessary to support government. Take taxes away and you have to take some government away also.
4/27/2018 02:54:00 AM
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Thank you Captain Obvious.
So take some government away. Take a LOT. Illinois has more government agencies than any other state - CUT spending!!]]
One crystal clear area of BLOAT and overlapping bureaucracies are the four regional transportation agencies - CTA, PACE, RTA, and METRA. Dissolve ALL into one Board and one Agency - get rid of all the Patronage positions and pensions and perpetual Healthcare benefits for all the cronies.
In Illinois - if you cannot find any government fat to cut, you must be totally blind.
We're not talking about a scalpel or making some small laser cuts on the far. Bring in the Chain Saws.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Taxes are necessary to support government. Take taxes away and you have to take some government away also.
4/27/2018 02:54:00 AM
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Hey Einstein, have you pondered just how much and many taxes you pay for the privilege of living here? Property taxes that go up no matter what, high sales taxes, taxes on your gasoline, taxes on you home heating gas, taxes on your landline, taxes on you sail foam, taxes on your electric bill, taxes and user fees on your water, sewer and garbage disposal, license plates are a tax, city stickers are a tax, sales taxes on your new, used and leased vehicles, liquor taxes, smoking taxes, drinking water bottle taxes, $100 and up ANOV and parking ticket fees, the damn county has a tax on firearms and ammunition. Since when the hell can they tax a constitutional right? I want them to tax progressives big God Damn foolish mouths for all the Marxist oppression they spew but that'll never happen. Tax your income, invest some of the money and pay more taxes because your money made money. Die and they want some more of it.
OT, but interesting to see what’s going on in Harvey when a municipality doesn’t contribute its share into the pension funds. Wonder how much havoc that could cause in a larger municipality such as, oh, I don’t know, Chicago maybe? All these new coppers coming onto the job and their contribution is still only a band-aid on a chest wound. Maybe one of the mayoral candidates can talk about funding the broken pension funds while talking about all the police reform. Just a thought.
Rumors might be true,
IKEA wants belmont & western.
What a great plan for the Dems, close the courts at Belmont and Western. It will dissuade victims, witnesses & coppers from going to court even more. Why would you want to travel even farther in traffic to go to maybe Grand & Central, Harrison & Kedzie or even the south side or the burbs. Plus these other courts will be even more crowded than they are now. Plan to stay all day. Less victims & coppers who want to get involved means less crimes being prosecuted which is the Democrats new mantra. Also Belmont & Western (courts & old 019) is old building not well suited to be remodeled. Now don't you think the Dems have some private developers (also donors) salivating at the thought of building on that huge piece of property. The neighborhood on the east side of Western has been hot for years now. And is it just a coincidence that they just pulled down the flyover Western Ave bridge at Belmont. Make way for "Residences & Shops of Old Riverview"
All branch 29 and 42 cases are being moved to 16501 S Kedzie?
4/27/2018 09:49:00 AM
Wouldn't surprise me one bit. That'd be their plan to prevent victims from showing up to court.
Hey maybe they can open a homeless shelter at 51st so they can increase the amount of shitheads already sleeping in the station. We can give them our poor and huddled masses.
Good. See you court people need the police. If it’s not for us enforcing the law then no need for the courts. Traffic court you are next.
Rumors might be true,
IKEA wants belmont & western.
4/27/2018 02:48:00 PM
Give them Lane Wrech!
everybody has a budget to follow. even the courts.
4/27/2018 01:47:00 PM
Bwahahahahaha! Apparently, you aren't from Chicago! This is Bizarro World. Common sense does not apply. Around here, a budget is viewed as a mere suggestion!
When I started going to the misdemeanor courts 13 years ago as a court advocate, at 51st, and at Flournoy and Kedzie, there were so many misdemeanor defendants they were standing in the aisles.
Now, a person can enter at 9:00 and still have a whole bench to himself. Last week at Flournoy, there were about 10 defendants, for whom 10 government workers had been employed: 1 judge, 1 Assistant State's Attorney, 1 city attorney, 2 public defenders, 1 clerk, 1 court stenographer, 2 sherifff's deputies, and 1 social worker. Plus the two CPD officers.
There are other ways to cut expenses than closing 2 locations -- one way would be to have branch courts open alternate weeks, making the staff go to different locations rather than the defendants, witnesses and victims.
I remember when the tac office on the 2nd fl of the old 007th Dist. was Branch 49.
What do you expect from CPS schools, math geniuses. Democrats have a math system all their own 2+2= whatever they say it equals. To them math is not exact it is a guesstimate.
Why not close them all. No charges for serious crimes, no one allowed to be in jail so just why do we need any courts. Police wild arrest them keep them off streets for 24 hours then cut them loose. Just think of all the free things that could be given to community with the savings. Sanctuary city living is so wonderful.
Are you actually saying that less government is a bad thing. You must be a life long dumbocrat.
7;32, I also remember deliberately making disorderly arrests at about 0200 so they would clear by 0700 and by the arrestees choice (which you could easily convince them) be transferred upstairs and when you got off at 0830, went upstairs and as a midnight PO your case would be called first, especially because you got to know the court clerk!!! Easy money!!!
Can't wait to park in those judges spots at 51st. Those idiots would have hissy fits when someone left their squad in their spots . Bye losers and espically to those cpd court do nothings later! Hahaha
I really hope this goes through, and they close that entire place. Sell the land off to a private developer. Take some of the money and put it into the police pension. This is "prime real estate", no need to waste it on a criminal system that sucks money from working tax paying citizens. After all how many convictions do you ever get from these branches (29/42)? They have been a JOKE foe years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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