Busy day for the PRU Crew! We appreciate those of you who have waited patiently for a COW recap!
Our sources have provided notes and we will be double checking things, but in the meantime here's another installment from our PRU cub reporter, Naomi de Plume!
From the desk of Naomi de Plume:
Oh Lord. Anyone who attended the Committee of the Whole meeting last night is already starting to put together their survival kit.
The City's finances are spinning out of control, and the mayor and City Manager Hock are sitting there like twin Neros watching Rome burn while Finance Director Diane Lembesis mumbles about how everything will be great...in 20 years!
It bordered on the the ridiculous. No, it went well beyond the border. Hock issued a memo stating that the Uptown TIF Fund (a/k/a Black Hole) is soaking up an increasing amount of money from the City's General Fund, but the General Fund can't afford to kick in any more. But Hock said not to worry, everything will be fine based on projections.
Alderman Schmidt correctly recognized that Hock was starting to sound like the happily-departed Tim Schuenke who left the City in an awful mess, mostly because the Council spent freely based on his own rosy, but throughly unrealistic, projections.
This is not good. It's bad. Really bad. Better get your batteries and bottled water.
February 24, 2009
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3 comments:
Pay no attention to the lack of facts/back-up behind the numbers. All is well - Howard & Hock (the Bialystock & Blum of Park Ridge goverment) say so.
anybody else get a phone message today from Frimark's campaign? It's a lot of nonsense.
Tell me please if Howard has been Mayor since 2005 - then maybe we can get down to his accomplishments in a matter of mins our is it seconds!
Let's all dwell on the positive - April 7th!!
The problem is that he believe's his on BS !
:)
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