Posted on 09/10/2024 8:18:23 AM PDT by Salman
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday froze hiring and travel in all city departments — including police and fire — and eliminated overtime “not directly required for public safety operations” to begin to confront Chicago’s burgeoning budget crisis.
Johnson is not the first mayor to freeze hiring and restrict overtime to solve a budget crisis.
But most past hiring freezes have been confined to “non-essential” positions. Public safety jobs in the Chicago Police Department and the Chicago Fire Department have routinely been exempt.
Johnson doesn’t have that luxury at a time when he’s refusing to rule out the property tax increase he campaigned against.
He’s got just four months to fill a $223 million gap in 2024 caused, in large part, by the Chicago Board of Education’s refusal to absorb a $175 million pension payment for non-teaching school employees. After that, Johnson faces a $982.4 million deficit in 2025.
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Gee…I wonder how they coul possibly run out of money. It’s a mystery.
Yep, they’ll bailout Chicago, just like they did New York.
The public schools will be the death of us all.
Yep.
We all thought the Democrat run states and cities would go bankrupt because they can’t print money.
The Democrats at the federal level just use federal money to bail them out.
There is no good Democrat politician.
Anyone who still supports the Democrats has a criminal heart, mind and soul.
Federal bailout coming in HOT!!!
Dear God, give them bankruptcy.
It makes me want to vomit thinking that I’ll be forced to pay for Chicago’s gross mismanagement.
Whew. For a minute there I was worried that the illegal aliens in Chicago would be affected.
City Council Votes 30-18 to Spend $70M More to Care for Migrants in Chicago
The Chicago City Council on Friday voted 30-18 to spend an additional $70 million to house, feed and care for the migrants sent to Chicago from the southern border after another impassioned debate that once again exposed the racial fault lines dividing Chicago.
https://news.wttw.com/2024/04/19/city-council-votes-30-18-spend-70m-more-care-migrants-chicago
Recent lawsuit sheds light on how Chicago migrant funds are being spent
City’s migrant spending website lacks details of all transactions related to more than $400 million in expenditures.
The latest figures from the City of Chicago’s spending dashboard shows the city has spent more than $400 million over the past two years on migrants – with the bulk of that money going to private companies that helped forge lease agreements or provided staffing for migrants shelters.
Patronage guys and dolls will still get jobs. Is there a black democrat mayor anywhere in the country who isn’t corrupt beyond corrupt?
His first executive order on day 1 of his administration was "get the money."
Odd how they never see what’s coming and always end up in crisis.
Trump to City: Drop Dead
2024 Chicago Shot Clock:
Chicago weekly street kill rate:
The latest figures from the City of Chicago’s spending dashboard shows the city has spent more than $400 million over the past two years on migrants – with the bulk of that money going to private companies that helped forge lease agreements or provided staffing for migrants shelters.
It would be nice to see this headline after the Presidential election:
“Trump to Chicago - Drop Dead”
Who is the city being run for, the citizens or the illegals? Why, the citizens, of course: that small number of citizens who are getting rich off the illegals. A well-oiled graft machine is a wonder when it kicks smoothly into high gear.
Second City Cop on the subject...
https://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2024/09/no-hiring-no-ot.html?m=1
Paying for the illegal alien invasion is expensive.
Billions spent on freebies for illegal aliens in violation of section 1324 title 8. Naturally no money left for anything else.
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