Where is This Money From?
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced $56 million in funding to go towards a request for proposal to expand contact tracing in Chicago.
Mayor Lightfoot said the money is coming from the Illinois Department of Public Health and the CDC and that 85 percent of the funding will go towards at least 30 community organizations that serve communities experiencing high economic hardship.
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The neighborhood organizations will hire a workforce of 600 contact tracers, supervisors and referral coordinators, who will have the capacity to trace 4,500 new contacts per day.
The contact tracing process begins with interviewing a person who tested positive and then identifying people who they were in contact with. Public health officials will then get in touch with those individuals to urge them to get tested and, if necessary, self-quarantine. It also allows the state to track the progress of the virus and its spread.
Contact tracers can earn $20 an hour with supervisors earning $24 an hour. All positions will also come with full benefits.
$56 million....for a virus infection less deadly that the seasonal flu....and that's already burning itself out.
We certainly hope the FOP is keeping track of all these miraculous dollars that keep reappearing when Groot wants to fund some pet projects.
We certainly hope the FOP is keeping track of all these miraculous dollars that keep reappearing when Groot wants to fund some pet projects.
Labels: dumb ideas, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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I am not expecting a contract or raise within the next 4 years.
This is total bullshit
The dnc will disappear the money
And there it is.
Politicians must create these 'Programs',complete with budgets/staff/supervisors/vehicles/computers/Office so that they can hire their friends and steal money. Lori made a bunch of promises to get elected, so time to deliver the pork.
Forbes has some insight into Illinois pensions:
Chicago (22,000 employees) – We calculated that the city paid out $521.2 million in extra pay (overtime, vacation, supplemental, fitness, etc.) above base salaries. Four deputy fire chiefs made between $314,983 and $351,715. Police officers made up to $272,672 and EMT’s up to $270,851. The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) paid line workers up to $300,135, telephone line workers up to $282,123, and escalator mechanics up to $203,855.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/04/27/why-illinois-is-in-trouble--109881-public-employees-with-100000-paychecks-cost-taxpayers-14b/
Catanzara and Lightfoot will become friends during their first meeting. Both have many commonalities and are cheerful people.
Lightfoot wants the police to work hard at reducing crime in a professional manner and is willing to compensate for discipline changes.
Catanzara wants the political class to change the narrative and blame poor parenting for crime wave rather than blaming police. Catanzara is willing to advance discipline changes with appropriate compensation.
6% a year for ten years. Property tax credit for police in city. No merit promotions, D3 for FTO's, CIT pay, and Officers moved every 3 years to a different district in order avoid burnout and circulate experiences.....No more commanders pulling family friends to cush spots........
The money is coming from the elimination of Police Overtime that has already contributed to people being shot at a record pace.Also the newly hired Contact Tracers will receive full medical benefits.That money is coming from the Medical Benefits that the City took away from retirees.
And years from now all these people will still be collecting a city paycheck waiting for the next pandemic. Each aldercreature will submit the names of 12 of his constituents to make up this workforce. They are still working on a fully funded pension for these folks. God bless our mayor and all the pos that voted for her or him or whatever.
Give some more money to asshole lawsuits too Groot... the people in the communist communerty needs more money
And then in September, much of the workforce of 600 contact tracers, supervisors and referral coordinators will go to work for the Illinois Democrat Party GOTV organization?
More "free money" stolen from CPD?
Money magically deliciously appears!
The illustrious Dr. ARWADY did not know what kind of educational requirements would be necessary to land these Contact Tracer Jobs.I am thinking less than a GED.GROOT says the jobs could lead to a career in the Heath Care Field.HA HA.Good one GROOT.Dr. ARWADY also says that the City is bending the curve.I feel better now.
More money woes...
The Chicago Transit Authority and Pace have all seen ridership drop in the past few months as well. The CTA’s ridership has dropped by 80% and Pace has dropped by 67%. The decline in use is expected to make for difficult budget decisions with virtually no revenue coming in.
The Regional Transportation Authority, which oversees CTA, Pace and Metra, anticipates losing $1 billion this year.
Metra announced on May 20 that ridership is currently down 97%, with fewer people taking the service to and from work each day and downtown for activities. Metra is expecting a $535.5 million shortfall in their 2020 and 2021 budgets.
Hire the useless Safe Passage workers. They can track us and steal our identities at the same time.
I certainly don't want my phone number, address, and name given out to these people.
If I got the virus, I wouldn’t get involved with this waist of money BS! If anyone else does suit yourself. Political job program. More waste of money.
Fifty six MILLION dollars.
Your, taxpayer, 56,000,000.00 WTF !!!
We need some adults who can do basic math.
The math says.... stop this bullshit before it destroys the future of our country.
More stupidity from Larry
Ok JCat, so when do we march on Cityhall?
I recommend July 2nd-3rd!
Kind of expensive and very racist with 85% going to people of color. You can betc only people of color will be hired. This will be the tool to extend the lock down for as long as she wants. You will be told that it is now mandatory that you quarantine your self if you came in contact with someone that had the virus even though they or you had no symptoms. 1if the models are correct the vast majority of the population will test positive therefore she will order that the lock down is now extended until there is a vaccine.
So this how you deal with one of her contract tracers. If you test positive your first stop will be city hall then the state office building. Tell the contract tracer you came in contact with 100 random people in each building. Or don't know how I got this haven't left my house in the past 20 days and have in contact with no one. Both work.
So what will she do when the contact tracer interviews a cop. Well,let's see, all the guys on my shift and 50 or so people on my beat and oh yeah during the change of shift most of the guys and gals in the next shift. Spent lot of time in the station as well.
How many people can remember everybody or most people they encountered during the day? How many people would willingly divulge their relatives' names? This is another governmental program, funded by taxpayers, that sounds doomed. It's reminiscent of people snitching on the whereabouts of escaped slaves and hidden Jews. 🤕😷🤒
These 600 will insure the lock down continues indefinitely. Mark my words.
4500 a day. That would mean that each and every one of the Gustavo tracers would make 7,5 calls per day. Think about how much each and every trace would take. Would be lucky to find three people per day. Unless of course this is all done by phone. Of course everyone has the numbers of all the people they come in contact with each and every day. Contract tracing oil nothing but a big waste of money. Deal with those that are infected when they show at Dr or hospital for treatment. 99.8 percent will not die if infected so what the hell is the problem. The really old and really sick will die but you know what they were fling to die anyways. No one lives forever. Take a hard look at the total numbers and see who is at risk. Deal with those at risk and leave the rest of us alone.
What if the first person refuses to be interviewed or provide info?
Just another cash grab for “communitay organizers” who kowtow to the mayor. What a waste of money!
Nashville announced a 20+% property tax increase to pay for the Chinese Coronavirus COVID Follies.
How much will Chicago have to raise their property taxes?
Isn't there, I don't know, some type of Federal law that prevents the medical profession from disclosing your medical records. I guess it only applies to those other cities and states.
Safe passage to contact tracing,that's all that is.
She has to keep her voting base happy. Give me one of those jobs. I can do it from home using Facebook.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Great another patronage army right ? Will they sell Benefit and Fundraiser tickets as well ?
Keep in mind that gang databases are basically contact tracing for violence. LL declared them evil and unconstitutional.
Are the safe passage folks still out there?
More money JUST PISSED AWAY
Predict that one half of the money if not more will be used to write huge necks to Chicagoans whose HIPPA rights were violated. That's right this would be a direct violation of the Federal HIPPA law. But since she doesn't care that she is already in violation of the Constitution and Bill Of Rights why not go for the trifecta. Lovey and Lovey will be loving this. Can picture the class action TV ads now. If your one of the six hundred hope your ready for the law suits.
It's another employment initiative to provide middle-class income checks to low-income under-performing former CPS students. Please realize "government" is the largest employer here in Chicago. That's why Chicago voters "vote", election after election, for Machine candidates, even if said candidates are corruption-tainted, and/or unqualified to administer office's stated duties: there's no incentive to demand better. Life is good, with the "over prevailing wage" salaries (read Wirepoints), the super generous pensions, the low-expectations regarding work-performance for said government employees.
Let's face it, aside from SJW faux pas, it's nearly impossible to get fired from a Chicago or Cook County job. You practically need to commit a felony on camera. Minimal competency isn't expected. On-the-job performance requirements are nil. Your connections matter, that's about it. And so that's how we get HS graduates earning $300,000/year salaries.
Just another democratic funded bribe to the community. I wonder how many billions of dollars are spent helping the community? And how many studies are done to see what the outcomes were? What I see is a bunch of MB revruns with new rides every time a new social program comes around. Tell me it ain't the truth. All you west side dogs know what I'm talking about.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
This is total bullshit
5/27/2020 12:04:00 AM
But it's for your own good, atta boy,...now go vote democrat for the old man.
Time for some blue line days out there. Enough is enough already
Anonymous Anonymous said...
What if the first person refuses to be interviewed or provide info?
5/27/2020 05:44:00 AM
They forgot to mention that each Tracer will be accompanied by a uniformed police officer
This will be used to get the folks out to vote democratic in November under the guise of contacting virus victims. Great coverup right in front of our eyes. Who’s kidding who and we are paying for our own demise.
Prickwrinkle’s said I just don’t make no kinda sense to share Crovids info with the first responders.
And somehow Larri is going to get this info and knock on doors?
Maybe help do a Census, get a voter regeration’ while her shultzstaffel is there doing a bed check ?
Contact tracing.
Will there be an ID Card issued once you complete the survey? Does it include travel permissions?
The anticipated $56 million will come from the Covid’s BailOut the Blue States Bill that Pelosi put up. Dems also want the ability to use other appropriated grants to fund their pandering projects, like tapping into highway, bridge, lakefront and natural resources money. If the Pelosi bill doesn’t get passed and it shouldn’t, expect that money to come from some other essential budget, like police or fire with more overtime constraints.
Covid’s is fading away and nobody knows if it will make a comeback. Dems have to find another lockdown viable disease.
We know have murder hornets and mosquito-bourne disease coming (Zika, West Nile, Chikungunya, dengue, and malaria) some The Summer of Larri could keep y’all inside until your mail-in ballot is sent out.
Contract, what's that?
It is OK to have a "department" under your control, staffed by your hires, to question and document citizens interactions using a Medical condition for your legality. It is not OK for the Police and other Law enforcement Agencies to compile Gang affiliations and interactions based on Arrests, Investigations, and Deaths. Please explain.
and this can all be done for free with a cell phone app
Ok, so paying off the community AGAIN......
I wouldn’t tell any contract tracer a single fucking thing......
Unless it’s a lie......
Where did you go last Thursday? LAKE GENEVA
Where did you go last Saturday? Harrahs in Indiana
Where did you go Monday? Groots grocery store
Where did you go Wednesday? Father Flagers office
Where did you go Thursday? Walked through City Hall 4th floor
Fuck em......
Once again and without a second thought, wasting Federal money by pissing it away in the ghettos for the vote, while at the same time fucking over all the churches in those same hoods.
Any further federal money should have far more spending restrictions on it before getting it than it has now.
If Trump wants to stop letting the DemoRats piss away federal money for votes he needs to agree to pay their. bills for them. All states and cities should have to send every single and legally accountable bill for damages resulting from covid and let the Feds pay the debt.
That way the Rats don't get the opportunity to do what they do best, piss it away on those who have no intention of improving their lives on their own but rather demand more for free from the rest of us.
Hey Trump, you just can't give the Rats money. THIS is what they do with it.
Dont worry, Fat Ass and his corrupt Legislature, will give the CTA and Metra a nice raise, because ridership is down.Fuck You Demorats!
Isnt it a shame, that these people are elected by idiots! People are out of work and our illustrious Legislature, give them selves a pay raise, like I alwayes said, you elected these crooks now live with it!
There is no law (yet!) that states that anyone has to give information to the contact tracers. Since I was following the "stay home" order,lol, I only left my house to go to the grocery store. Try finding out who may have shopped at the same store on the same day and at the same time I was there!
I heard the update to the Apple smart phone has the contact tracer app included. If you haven't already, you may want to set your phone to not have the update on automatic. I am very leery of it!
$1,700,000 for gang bangers to stop violence , was ll disappointment mentioned about the lack of results , who ,when ,where were they working , what hours mmmmmm money wasted by LL
Maybe the teachers could do this job since you have less than 60% working but enjoying the full pay benefits plus paying 2% into the pension and when you look at your real estate tax bill they take up approximately 3/4 of your bill look at the money thrown away right down the shit hole:
Less than 60 percent of CPS students are logging on for online classes most days, new data show:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2020/5/27/21271582/online-remote-learning-cps-students-public-schools-engagement
Just think all the administrators all the people not working sitting at home for pay benefits plus they still get their vacations and a pension is fully paid into and the mayor was laughing about the first responders pensions about the funding!
More proof positive that Leadfoot is a Fascist.
So let me get this straight. This 60 million dollar expansion of bureaucracy of wasteful proportions is going into effect? So if you get Covid-19 some stooge wants access to your personal contacts? WGN news on preckwinkle just vetoed a law that passed 9-7 that provides 1st responders information that their next job person has Coronavirus. So fungu you 1st responders that information isn't pertinent
Anonymous said...
Catanzara and Lightfoot will become friends during their first meeting. Both have many commonalities and are cheerful people.
Lightfoot wants the police to work hard at reducing crime in a professional manner and is willing to compensate for discipline changes.
Catanzara wants the political class to change the narrative and blame poor parenting for crime wave rather than blaming police. Catanzara is willing to advance discipline changes with appropriate compensation.
6% a year for ten years. Property tax credit for police in city. No merit promotions, D3 for FTO's, CIT pay, and Officers moved every 3 years to a different district in order avoid burnout and circulate experiences.....No more commanders pulling family friends to cush spots........
5/27/2020 12:23:00 AM
I’ll have some of what ever you’re smoking
Groot has huge sums of money but only for her pet socials programs and to build her own patronage zombie army. Otherwise she poor mouths and raises taxes. She's a good Socialist.
Everyone looks at the Annual Budget. But the real money is always hidden in the Comprehensive Budget. Check it out.
Idiots voted her in, she doesn't give a crap about anybody other than her "community" and is taking $50mm of your dollars and giving it to her community. Contact tracers? More like a political party. WTF are they going ot do with these "grants"? Start knocking on doors in the hood tracing Corona? lol. Get ready for a lot more shootings.
Make sure they get a warrant first.
This "contact tracing" is just an excuse to assemble an army of ballot harvesters ready to go into action for the election. They will be kept busy with contact tracing assignments for the summer, but this is not about contact tracing. It is ALL about using them to harvest ballots and fill out fake mail-in ballots to steal the 2020 election.
Why are CTA Employees paid to shoot dice in the Bus Barns?With ridership down 85 to 90% couldn't they be laid off or let go?Why is the CTA and RTA running empty buses and trains?Why haven't Chicago Public School Administrators,Teachers, and staffs been laid off?Why does Cook County need all those Assistant States Attorneys,Judges,Public Defenders,and court clerks when there has been no court for over 3 months?Why do I have to pay my taxes in full when there has been no School and the Police assigned to the Beat that I live on are sent to the 011th District every night?What do CAPS Officers do?Really,what do they do?So many questions with still no answers.
600 patronage no show/no work jobs for community "organizers" to hand out
My body, my choice. If it’s good enough for the pro death abortion lovers, it’s good enough for a liberty loving conservative. They don’t need to know citizens whereabouts and interactions. I don’t remember these Stalin like tactics being mentioned when the HIV was spreading throughout the gay community.
And if someone from the government comes to take any citizens by force to get immunized against the Wuhan, like Alan Dershowitz said the government can do, it’s Katie bar the door. This is what the left wants, they see their plans going up in smoke and are pushing more left in desperation. They will stop at nothing.
And you can bet Revrun Jackass of operation SHOVE will want some of dat walking around money don't cha know.
I’ll have some of what ever you’re smoking
5/27/2020 12:55:00 PM
I don't think they are smoking it.
Mainlining some heavy-duty, death-wish type shit is more like it.
iOS 13.5 speeds up access to the passcode field on devices with Face ID when you are wearing a face mask and introduces the Exposure Notification API to support COVID-19 contact tracing apps from public health authorities. This update also introduces an option to control automatic prominence of video tiles on Group FaceTime calls and includes bug fixes and other improvements.
Some features may not be available for all regions or on all Apple devices. For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website:
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222
Phone will auto tag you as Covid19 exposed should you come in close proximity with another infected people/folk. The apps will communicate between phones. Essentially it’s a blacklist.
Knock. Knock. Door opens. Yes? I'm a Contact Tracer with... Door slams. Lock clicks.
I’d be willing to bet their insurance is better than our crap blx and Caremark prescriptions that denies all prescriptions and wants prior approval
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