Open Post today with a topic sent in by a reader.
The reader specifically wants to see some City of Chicago reinvestment for our tax dollars. Furthermore, what have we received for the over one billion dollars of property tax money we have generated for the City of Chicago in the last decade?
"No need to factor in the alderman's menu money dollars that went into street, curb, sidewalk projects"... states the reader. The alderman's menu budget money is about $1.3 million dollars/ward/year that comes directly from the general budget.
But what major projects/reinvestment's have we seen in the 41st Ward? An example may be - a new park, a new community garden, a school renovation.....
Sounds like the "reader" already knows the answer, but won't disclose it.
ReplyDeleteSchool renovations come out of the CPS budget, not the general budget and it took over 20 years to get the Garvy renovation. Won't count that.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a trick question, because we all know nothing has been re-invested in this Ward.
I think we all know reinvestment has gone into downtown and other communities. But, in the past the alderman and mayor knew, many city workers live here, who are forced to live here, so who cares what happens to their community.
ReplyDeleteCity county and state are run by liberal democrats which means redistribution of wealth. Of course there is little if any reinvestment in 41. Duh!
ReplyDeleteI Live on Hood St, and I saw a police car for the first time in three years today. I thought it was a noteworthy event. Anyone else see one recently? I was beginning to think the police didn't exist anymore.
ReplyDeleteUnless you send a time-stamped picture of the alleged police car with a landmark of somekind in the background, no one will believe you. You could be McCarthy creating another illusion.
ReplyDeleteObviously, the police officer was lost. He was probably told to go to the "Hood".
ReplyDeleteThat is an offensive question. The people of the 41st ward need to pay taxes in order to support Democratic programs. It's redistribution of wealth! Keep voting for combine candidates. America.
ReplyDeleteWhy are junk trucks allowed to drive thru and rummage through our alleys? Today I was outside putting up Christmas decorations and I counted 23 different trucks drive through our alley and many of the trucks had no plates or markings.
ReplyDeleteCan't an ordinance be passed to designate one day/week for junkers to come through ward, and only through the streets, not the alleys?
Should we call 911 everytime we see a junk truck in the alley?
ReplyDeleteAnd there won't be any reinvestment in the future either. Watch and see. Property taxes will be going up in the next two years to fund city worker pensions, specifically firefighter and police pensions that are now only about 35% funded and need to be at least 90% funded in the next five years or so.
ReplyDeleteWhat this means is watch out - your property taxes are going to go up a HUGE amount. We can no longer afford public safety. Police and firefighters salary and benefits are about 45% of the personnel budget.
There have been no published forensic audits announcing where money has gone. Decades of mismanagment has brought us to this end and no accountability. This current budget still supports a enormous layer of middle managers, politically placed (look carefully at the Park District - loaded with patronage, to this day). Look for very basic, essential services from the city and no ungrades of anything for the ward.
To November 25, 2011 4:43 PM,
ReplyDeleteI understand your frustration. There are plenty of laws already available to handle these scrap guys and their unsafe vehicles, unfortunately there are not enough police offices in 016 to deal with this nuisance. A traffic stop on one of these scrappers could turn into hours of that officer being off the street, creating an even bigger shortage of officers to cover the geographically huge portion of the city known as the 016th District.
Dude and Dudesses,
ReplyDeleteScrappers are not the issue. The issue is that Chicago is a sanctuary city. The walls have been breached, the enemy is within the wire and our Commanding Officer (elected official) is joined at the hip with the enemy.
Scrappers are a problem. Scrappers dart out of alleys and hit people. Scrappers pile so much junk on their trucks, some of it falls out causing accidents. I saw a scapper reach in a neighbors yard and pull put an expensive birdbath and throw it in their truck. Scrappers are a problems and someone needs to deal with them before someone in the neighborhood is seriously hurt.
ReplyDeleteThe Chicago Park District resodded Brooks Park's Football field last year.
ReplyDeleteWhy? I have no idea.
How about the senior center located at Norwood Park? The only positive thing I could think of.
ReplyDeleteHey 4:28, keep trying. Some day you will write something other than babble.
ReplyDeleteHey 11:36 - Move to Texas. Y'all thaank ya died en went to heaven. Walmarts as far as the eye kin see, oil en water right out the kichen sink. En ifin ya wants to keep the yung-uns home to chores, ya jest say ya home-skule the yun-uns, like jeezus told ya.
ReplyDeleteYou can thank Alderman Doherty for the lack of reinvestment. He didn't think TIFs were a good idea. Meanwhile, every other ward has millions to spend while we make up for the loss in the city's general fund.
ReplyDeleteTo 9:09 pm: Thanks for illustrating a problem. In three lines you insulted an entire population of a state and region of the country. Worse, you dragged religion into it and insulted people of faith. When you can't make an inteligent argument you stereo type and demonize an entire group. So So typical...Open minded as long as people agree with you. I will say a prayer for you. No need to say thanks.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean we didn't get anything , we have jets flying over our houses now instead of a noisy route like Touhy Ave., and we only see police cars at the start of the Edison Park parade, and we have plenty of section 8 housing so we can become real diverse like Hyde Park. This ward is out of control !
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