Sunday, February 13, 2011

The Inspector General's Office - Take a Look at the Quarterly Report

The City of Chicago's Inspector General's Office is an independent office dedicated to ensuring honesty and integrity in City government by rooting out corruption, fraud, other misconduct, and waste.  Joseph M. Ferguson is the Inspector General and took over the office about one year ago, after David Hoffman left (David Hoffman developed and built the office).

Check out the January 2011 Quarterly Report:  http://www.chicagoinspectorgeneral.org/pdf/IGO-2010%20Q4%20Report%20Final.pdf

If you read the report, you can see how hard this division works. The IG reports "continued difficulty in exercising independent authority to operate and manage the office".  The barrier:  the Mayor.

Other aspects of the report:
  • A particularly interesting section (page 22), "Aviation Overtime Audit" reveals that millions of dollars of overtime was spent on Aviation Security and Laborers & Motor Truck Drivers, when developing full time positions would have been more cost effective, and potentially could have saved about $1.4 million and created about 74 new full time positions.
  • An investigation about a products-management firm working with the O'Hare Modernization Project (page 5).
  • Update re: "Operation Crooked Code" (page 16).
  • "Budget Options" section, (pages 26 - 27),  "The IGO estimated the total savings and increased revenues of these options to be approximately $244 million.  Take a look at the Mayor's response, and see for yourself why the city has no money.
The IGO needs support from citizens through their aldermen to do their job, so they can protect and save taxpayers money.   We need corruption, fiscal mismanagement, fraud, and waste out of city government once and for all.
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  1. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2011 at 10:41 AM

    We have to make sure the next mayor and alderman are on board with Ferguson. The only way we will be able to keep cost and corruption under control.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2011 at 11:16 AM

    244 million would go along way toward covering pensions. If I were mayor I would expand the IG's office - have them work 24/7/365 to root out all the waste.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2011 at 11:27 AM

    interesting report. I see we still have building department problems too. I didn't know these reports were available. would be a good thing to have on our non-existent 41st ward website.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2011 at 7:42 PM

    The O'Hare Moderization Project sounds like a nightmare. why hasn't the expansion been halted? What a waste.

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2011 at 8:27 AM

    This is an incredible report. I read in the other post about the Streets and Sanitaiton new Grid System saving $64 million and that the "alderman panned" the report.

    This kind of behavior by the aldermen can no longer be tolerated. The aldermen need to work side by side the IGs office.

    Does anyone know what the aldermanic candidates have said about this report or the office?

    I don't see much in the questionnaires. Maybe they will post something?

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2011 at 8:37 AM

    I was at the Edison Park Forum and no one said anything about the Inspector General's office or working to get rid of corruption and waste in the city. I don't think any of them know about the office or the report. I bet they are all planning to learn about these things after the election.

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2011 at 10:01 AM

    i think there is a citizen responsibility to read reports like this and provide feedback to the alderman. How is/ could be implemented now/in the future

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2011 at 1:56 PM

    ditto the above comments

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2011 at 4:56 PM

    I think we have been kept outta the loop, on purpose for, oh, about 20 years.

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