Still Giving Away Money
Groot with another bad idea, the latest in a string of bad ideas:
- Is Mayor Lori Lightfoot planning to close streets and sidewalks so restaurants can safely reopen for diners and residents can have a place to run, walk and play? Sure sounds like it.
“People are itching to get outside. Businesses are looking at creative ways to serve customers. The key is how we do it,” the mayor tweeted Friday.
“Stay tuned for some changes to our streets and sidewalks. Transportation is more than just cars. We’ll show how Chicago can be safer and easier to get around.”
Seems like a semi-good idea. Much too reliant on the weather in Chicago, which is iffy every day of the summer anyway, but has anyone in the administration (or the Restaurant Association) thought about what types of streets surround most restaurants?
- Permit parking and.....
This is the important part:
- metered parking
Who owns the meters? It isn't Chicago.
And who has a Contract with the city for the next ninety years that says every time the City takes a meter out of service, they get paid the full portion of the revenue that the meter would have generated had the meter been open? That means the City is paying the Chicago Parking Meter LLC full price so restaurants can serve maybe 33% (tops) of their clientele?
How is this difficult to understand? Are there any adults working at City Hall? And do they know any accountants?
And who has a Contract with the city for the next ninety years that says every time the City takes a meter out of service, they get paid the full portion of the revenue that the meter would have generated had the meter been open? That means the City is paying the Chicago Parking Meter LLC full price so restaurants can serve maybe 33% (tops) of their clientele?
How is this difficult to understand? Are there any adults working at City Hall? And do they know any accountants?
Labels: dumb ideas, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
56 Comments:
First off NO-ONE in the city, county or state know an accountant or any such person who can guide them on budgeting and saving money!!!
Secondly, Once again thank you, Mayor WHEELY DEALY for selling the parking meters, honorable mention to the alder-persons who approved the sale, thereby saddling the city with perpetual debt for 90 years from a capable money making franchise the city owned!
So this video is floating around and unlikely to make Groot any more trusted.
https://twitter.com/imcorinnemec/status/1261498534068736005
Poor LORI
she stealing ideas from other cities and she is usually a week behind.
Im guessing her college grad staff call the other cities for actual copies of the laws GROOT steals.
and POOF
LORI is proclaimed a braniac for coming up with stolen ideas.
JB is doing the same thing he is 3 weeks behind other governors.
The sidewalk is free to pedestrians, My car has to pay to use the street. If you want to tax the pedestrian for walking & eating in the street, have him hang a city sticker from his ass. I expect the cost of the vehicle sticker to go down proportionately to the amount of street I cant drive or park on, too.
Speaking of pedestrians in the street, does anyone know what's wrong with Oak Park's sidewalks that all joggers in that town have to be in the street? I'm sure they'd have something to say if I drove on their sidewalk.
This city will forever be in debt because of shit like this. Sorry Lari you may be a good attorney (probably not) but you suck as a mayor. It's been one full year and you have failed miserably on getting the city in order financially. You have away the farm to the teachers, you ran the casino owners off laughing at your ridiculous demands, and you are now burying the city in debt with your moronic shelter in place crappie. You are literally speeding up the process for the city to go straight into bankruptcy court. That's a great legacy to have. Well done.
YEP , The ACCOUNTANTS ARE THE DALEY CRIME FAMILY , There still Laughing all the way to the Bank on that One ,
Vision zero.
She must be paid by the UN.
It ain't her money. She's a Democrat. She don't give a shit.
Daleys didn't give a shit.
Emanuel didn't give a shit.
It would be interesting to put together an itemized list of all of these brilliant GROOT ideas since she took office and what they have cost the City of Chicago.Kind of like what a Bankruptcy Judge does when you attempt to declare that you are broke and can not pay outstanding debts.
This city is so screwed.
Spread out tables? Thank god that government take lead the way and tell me what’s best for me in my life. Next Groot and her minions can mandate safe ways for me to wipe my ass. By the way ... thank you Little Bug Eye Boy and Gov FatFuck Fatass for unnecessarily destroying our already fucked up Illinois economy and I stress the word unnecessary. When the dust settles we’ll see that their scorched earth policy to combat Covid-19 was overkill.
The mute mayor needs to tell the middle-east owners of meter revenue to fuck off and they already made their money back tenfold. Lil Richey, GFY.
Let then file suit, time the courts make a decision no one will care. This bald eagle useless mayor needs to take a hike and take her s/e and w/s gang banger mutts to Utah. The mormons need to people to join their ponzie game. Bug eyes then can have 5 wives.
Why yes they have thought this thru. It will be a boom for the parking meter company and their guy Richie Daley.
Yeah, yeah. This "turn the bad, evil streets into walking spaces" impulse grows under the skin of liberal politicians and keeps breaking out at the damnedest times.
I saw State Street torn up and "pedestrian malled," and I was dodging the jackhammers years later when they reversed the whole process and car-streeted it again.
Net gain to anybody but contractors - $0.00
This idea just ran up Groot's overalls leg from NYC - they blocked off miles of streets in the middle of a pandemic, and it's been a disaster, hundreds of illegal ATVs and roaring dirt-bike gangs knocking people down even on the sidewalks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578350/Biker-gang-vs-police-streets-New-York-City-video-showing-NYPD-crackdown-illegal-unlicensed-quad-bikes.html
Uh...who is going to be using your "pedestrian mall?"
Nearly 420,000 of NYC's richest residents have fled the city amid the pandemic with smartphone data showing Upper East Side and West Village populations down by 40 percent
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8323377/New-Yorks-420-000-wealthiest-residents-fled-city-two-months-new-smartphone-data-shows.html
I wonder what the Chicago figures are...
Time to call in the Feds. Have them look into the scamarific agreement concocted by Shortshanks when he was Mayor, and who now works at the firm that concocted that agreement which screwed the taxpayers out of BILLIONS.
Give the LLC a choice: Walk away, return the property to the City - or get a Federal investigation/forensic audit. EVERYTHING comes out and is on the table. All the payoffs, scams, etc. for all to see.
String Daley up by his balls and put him in prison. Surely those scumbags have made back their Billion and more in 10 years.
And the next time some asshole politician wants to sell off public property for some short term gain? Get out the Tar and Feathers.
this woman doesn't have a clue.
Accountants - hahahaha. The democratic party has their own particular accountants. Democratic accountants figure out how much it’s going to cost to buy enough votes to stay in power and how much more can we steal from the tax payer. They obviously have never been concerned with cutting costs or balancing the books, like real accountants.
"Who owns the meters? It isn't Chicago."
I always wondered, if I'm a resident of the city who pays taxes and purchases a city sticker to park on city streets, how can a private company charge me to park on those streets?
Reporter commented on chan 7 relating to Church Services Sunday " Groot says she just cant look away from non compliance " This is a red flag if You need one at this point. Look at the corpse count that have been murdered on Chicagos streets .It's obvious Groot already promotes non compliance when she wants to and for who she wants to.groot and prikster both appear to have mental disorders.
Lari Littlefoot is so dumb. God damnit !!! It’s painful to hear her and fatso speak about these things.
We keep going backwards with this complete Moron of a Mayor...please , someone with even a half a brain help!!! Lets hope these next few yrs fly by...we cant afford Groot in charge anymore.
But it looks so nice to see man bunned soy boys sipping their lattes outside while reading their phones. It shows all is good.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
What the Hell do they care it is not their money they are wasting it is yours. City filing for bankruptcy could get them out of the meter contract once and for all, along with all the pension problems. Might be a good idea.
And King Richie Daley and family strikes again !!!!!!
Sure hope anyone who helped his nephew get away with killing that kid was taken care of
Why doesn't someone go to court and try and stop these people from giving away money? It seems any pension related group has standing in State Court to file for an injunction.
Maybe the trick with the parking meters is to get Shortshanks out of retirement, but officially working for Dubai and the Morgan Stanley Chicago boys this time around.
...Thank you, thank you very much.
Definitely a money giveaway.
You would think Larri would know since she’s been around the City administration for decades that LAZ LLC owns the rights to OUR streets. LAZ -Daley Inc is entitled by Contract to parking revenue WHENEVER there is a street closure on metered streets. Includes parades, fun runs, peace marches, and sewer and infrastructure digs. They get a paid for every space that becomes unavailable for any reason.
Nice deal for LAZ, huh.
What Larri LightFührer is doing is toss out a nugget to the IL Restaurant Assn after they started complaining last week to JB Blue Plate Special that his lockdown was excessive. So Larri stepped up, one upped JB again. Starting to see some power tug o’war here?
There probably won’t be any street closures and the re-opening ain’t coming without a little quid pro quo.
LightLoafers is still on the power trip. Bet on JB Wild Root to deliver the grand reopening news well before Angry Toad
Very little was said about this Daley crime family corruption when Lil Richie pulled this one over Chicago’s eyes. What ever happened to the billions of dollars from the sale of the Skyway? The fake news Trib & Slum-Times let Lil Richie slink away with a ton of “gifts” from business and Chicago movers and shakers. The law firm that represented the parking meter company even made him a partner even though Lil Richie is a “merit” lawyer who needed 3 tries to pass the bar exam and never ever stepped into a court room.
Saw the Street Parking Fee rumor need to correct the error in the math. The city currently has over 4 million cars registered. So if you back out the Link cars that leaves about 300,000,000 cars X $200= $600,000,000. Done seal after the Fall elections. That on top of the new water and garbage rates and mill levy they will pass. The privilege of in living Chicago will get very expensive next year and for all the years that follow. Gotta love those Democrats never letting a crisis go to waste. Pony up people, we need your money to fund our deceit.
Gee, with Lori Lightfoot being a super smart lawyer, you’d think she’d try and get that parking meter company in court. File some type of order-ish paperwork to save our tax dollars? Get a court to look at an obviously shady deal and open it to re-negotiations?
Downstate Illinois Counties will have the opportunity to vote on a referendum to have the City of Chicago removed from the State of Illinois beginning the 1st of January 2021.Good Luck to those counties.The disaster area of a City has been dragging Illinois down for decades.Mayor GROOT can have the distinction of presiding over the only major city in the country to be kicked out of their State.
This underscores one of the big issues...has Lightweight ever run a business? Has she ever run anything besides her ugly mouth? The answer is no so she comes up with ridiculous and simplistic answers without thinking about the fallout or collateral damage. We have started hearing it more and more..."The cure can't be worse than the disease" and Governor Fat Boy and Groot are making sure it is just that. They want to drive Illinois to critical mass, not that it was too far away, financially and beg for a Fed bailout and blame the virus for needing it. They couldn't be anymore transparent.
The fact that Pritzker's wife and kid don't have to follow the rules is just icing on the cake. Remember Leona Helmsley that bitch from the early 90s who said "We don't pay taxes. Only little people pay taxes" That is Fat Boy's mindset all the way.
About time someone named all the clouted persons in this deal again...........remember Avis Lavelle, Daley's press person was one. They should be ashamed of themselves.......
Accountants?!? I think they developed common core math, but skipped a few days in the classroom. Ols school math is to difficult for them.
These ruling despots are here to make life miserable.
Sin has allowed the Rulers of Evil to prevail for this short time.
Just eminent domain the fucking meters already, what are they gonna do? Sue? Any settlement is probably a better deal.
"The mayor’s office offered no additional guidance when asked what exactly Lightfoot meant by her tantalizing tweet". Of course not. Sounds like Brown and his magnificent shot to the moon plan. Resetting to the new normal is makes things more upsdie down than ever before. I'm just hoping these democratic dictators push people too far and get immense push back that loses them and their
She has no bloody idea what she is doing. And she never has had an original idea in her little pea sized brain. "Also throughout the city, there are some restaurants that have little side parking lots. Maybe they can use the side parking lots to do outdoor dining", said Sam Toia, a mayoral appointee to the Zoning Board of Appeals, and Illinois Restaurant Association President. But then where are the cars suppose to park? Just close more residential streets huh, what about the people that live there?
Toia stated there are a lot of details to be worked out, the impact on CTA buses for one, and this beauty, parking meters. And if removed require lots of compensation. Selling off the parking meters, another idea from the Chicago Way crooks. No word on how lightbrain will handle that. This is typical with her, puts out a tweet with no real plan at all. Really there are smart kids that could run the city better and with more common sense. But when you vote for someone based on their color, sexual preference and gender rather than their experience and integrity this is what you get. Illinois along with New Jersey are the jokes of this whole country. Even in South Africa Chicago is laughed
Resetting to the new normal is making things more upside down than ever before. I'm just hoping these democratic dictators push people too far and get immense push back like they have never seen before. They will continue to pacify their voting base as much as possible with money and promises.
Anonymous said...
"Who owns the meters? It isn't Chicago."
I always wondered, if I'm a resident of the city who pays taxes and purchases a city sticker to park on city streets, how can a private company charge me to park on those streets?
5/16/2020 06:22:00 AM
Because the city sold them that right. Also the rights to increase the number or meters and to increase the costs. That’s how
Open the parks and lakefront so the hyperventilating no mask wearing corona virus spreading disgusting sweaty smelly joggers can spread out before fucking the city streets up more.We are ordered to not eat in clean restaurants but can eat at tables in the street with the piss bums , dog shit, rats , drive bys and stray bullets? AGHHH Come on People.the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois are totally out of line.We are the People of this Great Country not spineless weasels Let's start acting like it.We The People of Illinois arent your personal toys you politicians get to fuck with ,fuck up then throw away.You want to fuck the streets up so Pedestrians can spread out when you ordered parks and lakefront closed. WTF
nonymous said...
What the Hell do they care it is not their money they are wasting it is yours. City filing for bankruptcy could get them out of the meter contract once and for all, along with all the pension problems. Might be a good idea.
5/16/2020 07:52:00 AM
Yes, you are spot on. No mayor wants to be the one in office when it files for bankruptcy, but this crisis might be the perfect cover.
Her and Fred Flinstone are taking orders from Madigan. They are deliberately bankrupting the city and state. They are hoping to skate out of pension responsibility.
Open up all the restaurants and let us decide our fate.
I'm an adult - If I feel that a restaurant is unsanitized, I won't return.
Are we still going to be eating outside when winter arrives?
Last I've noticed, it's impossible to feed myself or drink liquids with a face mask covering my mouth.
I would feed the Daley Meters, but since I'm not allowed to return to my job, I thus, have no money.
If the streets are closed, how do cars and buses transport people? ☹️
Paging competent lawyers ........
Vote YES on the Referendum to remove the City of Chicago from the State of Illinois that will appear on the November ballots.Hopefully Cook County will be next to be removed.
Open the parks and lakefront so the hyperventilating no mask wearing corona virus spreading disgusting sweaty smelly joggers can spread out before fucking the city streets up more.We are ordered to not eat in clean restaurants but can eat at tables in the street with the piss bums , dog shit, rats , drive bys and stray bullets? AGHHH Come on People.the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois are totally out of line.We are the People of this Great Country not spineless weasels Let's start acting like it.We The People of Illinois arent your personal toys you politicians get to fuck with ,fuck up then throw away.You want to fuck the streets up so Pedestrians can spread out when you ordered parks and lakefront closed. WTF
5/16/2020 01:32:00 PM
You don't need to be so diplomatic about it.
No you have non-business oriented SJWs running the show. Ann Sathers guy goes with the flow.
Why did Chicagians vote for this world class CLOWN ??????
Keep voting democratic...you fools !!!!
She’s gotta pay the Shortshanks Inc. Australian shell company to do this.
Richie says: Rona problems? Fuck you, pay me!
Chicago should not be in the State of Illinois. Chicago should be it's very own State. Illinois could do much better without Chicago in Illinois.
If there was Justice In this world . DALEY would be getting out of FEDERAL PRISON about the same time!
Mayor Lightfoot will punish the black reverends, God fearing people for worshipping the Lord .
She does nothing about drug dealers poisoning the children of Chicago’s , the gangs terrorizing citizens or stopping gangs from shooting citizens of Chicago ! Lori why no case reports from million dollar technological shot spotter , are you killing crime ? I sure think so , it is illegal to shoot a gun within city limits , yet these calls are cleared with a 19 P .
Liar ,liar keep all those supervisors, patrolman and command staff at the public safety buildings doing nothing .
Another colossal blunder by the Daley shit show Democrats. How much money went under the table on that one. Their still hauling the money in on that one and tax payers are on the hook again. Now Groot's got a new version of the parking meter scam by the city paying for meters not in use for street side restaurant tables. You got to wonder how many drive-by shootings will happen while patrons enjoy their caesar's salad. Groot's fuckery is part of the continuing corruptive practices under the reform umbrella that makes her a value part of the Democrat Machine.
Oak Park people are special, or haven't you noticed?
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