Blue City $hitholes

So this came out of Los Angeles on Monday:

• Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass released a proposed budget on Monday that would eliminate a nearly $1 billion financial gap by cutting more than 2,700 city positions — about 1,650 of them through layoffs.…

  The $14 billion spending plan, which covers the 2025-26 fiscal year, would provide funding for scores of new hires at the fire department, three months after the Palisades fire destroyed thousands of homes and killed 12 people.…

  At the Los Angeles Police Department, more than 400 workers would be targeted for layoffs, all of them civilians, according to figures prepared by city budget officials. The number of police officers would continue on its gradual downward trajectory, with new hires failing to keep pace with attrition.

Usually, Chicago steals ideas from New York and implements them here (badly). 

Conehead however, is looking at the Los Angeles model:

• With a $1.12 billion budget shortfall and $3 billion more in federal funds on the chopping block, Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday cracked the door open to the prospect of layoffs and service cuts that he has previously ruled out.

  “We will have to deal with the realities of the billions of dollars that are being threatened by the federal government. That’s a different scenario than we were under before,” Johnson said as he signed an executive order establishing a working group to advise him on ways to confront the city’s fiscal challenges.

  “But I am confident that the collective groups of the city of Chicago will stand firm in our values to ensure that we are investing in people — but we also have to make serious considerations based upon the Trump takeover,” he said.

Maybe he should look at some cost cutting before layoffs?

• like that half-a-billion Trump made Conehead spend on illegal aliens....oh wait, that was Biden;
• or how about that 1.25 million every aldercreature gets for ward projects....something that ought to be covered in normal operating costs in case the alderassholes give "bonuses" to connected employees - who donate a portion right back to the aldercreature;
• maybe close a few dozen under-utilized schools;
• re-vamp the parade and festival season - no funding equals no event;
  
• or the fake "consent decree," which isn't really a consent decree as the Federal government isn't funding those any more (and never funded this one at all). The entire construct is "overseen" by a retired judge, approving fake goals, and diverting hundreds of million for the next forty years.

Hiring isn't keeping up with attrition in any department and maintenance is non-existent - look at the fire apparatus that isn't working and may actually be out of compliance with national standards. 

There's plenty of room for cuts before layoffs.