Conehead Failure Theater

This is some raggedy-ass governing:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson called off the vote planned for Friday on his $17.3 billion 2025 spending plan, raising the odds of an unprecedented shutdown of city government in just 18 days. 

  Johnson’s decision to delay the budget vote is an acknowledgment that the spending plan that would hike property taxes by $68.5 million and increase a host of other taxes and fees by an additional $165.5 million does not have enough votes to pass the Chicago City Council, even if Johnson cast a tie-breaking vote.

  The City Council voted 32-17 to recess the meeting, causing members of the public who had planned to speak during the public comment portion of the meeting to erupt in anger.
  

And now they're talking about a government shut-down, something we don't recall ever happening in nearly six decades of residency.

But Conehead has a plan!

• However, there are more than 1,000 vacant positions in the Chicago Police Department, which accounts for nearly 46% of Chicago’s discretionary spending, that could be eliminated to save approximately $170 million, according to budget documents.

Sure! Failing to fill police vacancies while property crime is skyrocketing can only be a good idea, combined with the couple thousand cops who are maxing out over the next two years, what could possibly go wrong?

Also notice how there isn't even a whisper of a suggestion that twenty or thirty under-utilized schools could be closed and the staff redistributed (or eliminated) from consideration. Schools built in the early 20th century for 1,200 students, currently occupied by 100 students....or less.