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We've placed the most recent video first, since last Monday night's City Council meeting contains the newest information and action in relation to the City budget -- the rest are posted in descending date order.
We strongly encourage those who've not listened to the audio tapes, or read the extremely scanty coverage in the local rags to give your time to viewing the meeting videos. As time allows, the PRU Crew will attempt to add indexing to the videos to give our faithful PRU readers an idea of what comes up for discussion throughout the meetings. But DO NOT FEEL YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR US! We will not mind at all if you all go whipping through these on your own! Really! We're o.k. with that!
All of what the City Council is doing is precisely what your government is supposed to debate and vote for or against on your behalf, presumably in representing your best interests.
How's that working for you so far?
City Council Meeting 4-5-2010
City Council Budget Workshop 3-31-2010
City Council Budget Workshop 3-29-2010
City Council Budget Workshop 3-27-2010
April 7, 2010
Finally! Budget Workshop and Council Meeting Videos!
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/ct-met-ohare-expansion-0407-20100407,0,3423914.story
The Ohare project just got $410 million.
The city airport commission and the council are imbeciles if they think $165 thousand for lobbying will make a dent in a fight against Ohare. If the council gave the airport commission all the $500 thousand they asked for it would not make a dent. They are pissing our taxes away on tilting at windmills all because some whiners just woke up and found out planes fly over Park Ridge.
What's the matter with these uploads?
The 3-31 stream just stops where they're discussing the FD.
Anon 2:41
Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport will get $410 million in federal funds to help fund its runway expansion and modernization.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the funding at O’Hare Tuesday, accompanied by Mayor Daley and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois).
and so....
The City of Park Ridge is going to spend $105,000 on lobbying efforts to halt expansion.
I hear the Park Ridge Falcons have the New York Giants on their schedule this year. It should be a close game.
..............meanwhile, the rains just keep coming......we are only a few weeks into spring.....I hope all the elected officials are getting their stories together for when the basements start to flood......"ya se I formed this commission....yada...yada...yada...."
Pru you asked how;s that working for you?
It's not working for me!
I want as much police and fire protection as my taxes will get me not stupid politicans blowing money on lobbyists!
The Council is betting big that there won't be flooding so that their plans to defer sewer and flood control work in order to divert $165,000 to fighting O'Hare, $186,000 to community groups, etc.
And if Quinn makes good on his proposal to dock the municipalities 30% of their income tax sharing revenues, what do you think Hock and the aldermopes are going to cut after they've already given away our cash to the anti-O'Hare lobbyist, Brickton Art Gallery, etc. in order to make up for the lost $936K?
Where is Mayor Dave on this? We need his leadership now more than ever.
I kind of thought he would have issued one of his press statements or something by now.
5:13 PM
Forget about Mayor Dave. Where is each alderman on this? Oh, yeah, that's right, they voted to give the $165,000 to fight O'Hare.
Never mind.
5:09:
With all respect, even if the council were to take all the money you reference and point it at flood control, it would do nothing. 250K does not even buy one releif sewer (which Mayor Dave promised us in his campaign) or even the one new truck they say will help with cleaning the sewers.
You may disagree with money going to the O'hare gang and or the community groups, but let's not pretend that if the Alderman gave that money to flood control instead all the issues would go away.
Lastly, I agree with 5:13. I think Mayor Dave bet pretty big.
One of the biggest mistakes of the Frimark admin, which Schmidt correctly pointed out and used against him, was that there was zero progress on flooding. The problem is that based on the Mayors agenda there will be nothing done on flooding until at least November and that will be hanging on a referendum vote to spend god knows how many millions. Any bets on how that is gonna work out?
I feel for the council and the mayor because they are stuck with the budget problems which have brewed for some time now and a bad economy that has brought things to this point. Some very hard choices have to be made about what to cut and what to raise and what to spend the money on. What I do not understand is how they are prioritizing their choices. It makes no sense to me to raise our taxes cut our public safety and other city staff and then fund arts and lobbying. I do not understand what they are trying to do or how they are making these decisions. The prioritizing is a bafflement to me.
Anon@6:10 --
Your bafflement, and lack of understanding how politicians prioritize their decision making, speaks volumes about the good quality of your character and thought process.
Would you consider running for office?
PRU, that is very nice of you to say! I do not want to run for office though. I do not feel I know enough.
I believe the Mare said the lobbying effort got us what may be significant grant money. That's a good investment if we get the money. The money is out there and unless earmarks go away (like that's gonna happen), Schmidt said we were getting some money; $500K was the fig I heard.
On the other hand, SOC or some form of it, as was sold by Mayor Witecha, was not and is not an "investment." It's a sop to the folks who rightly feel impotent and abused and can't believe there's nothing to be done. But let's remember the EXTREMELY Republican Federal Government pre-Obama as well as the Dem/Repub Combine of Illinois insisted on the runways, not just the Dems-Only City of Chicago. O'hare is a national transportation hub, or the national bull's-eye, depending on your perspective. The folks whose neighborhoods got chopped up for the superhighways we all love, the universities we all attended, etc. etc. felt the same way. We are the eggs in this particular omelet. It sucks, but there is a benefit to some Americans if O'Hare is more convenient for them. There is NO benefit to anyone if we piss away $165K on fighting O'Hare. We pissed away three times that much on SOC already. Enough! Let's start fixing sewers!
Mayor Dave isn't on top of things. He sent out an email late this morning saying the videos except for the first one Pru posted here at 3AM! was still processing.
Mayor Dave isn't paying attention to details I guess. We could all be in trouble since he still is the most responsible one in the administration even if he did say lobbying got us money. He's got to know lobbying against ohare isn't the same thing as lobbying for grant money.
I really don't get why Mayor Dave seems too quiet about all the nonsense going on with the council and the ohare commission. He's got to know this is dumb and worthless and a waste of our money.
What gets me ticked off is I know it's only 5 bucks, but paying 5 bucks more for a vehicle sticker to fund stupid crap just ticks me off. Stop nickle and diming us to death!
anon 7;12,
I agree with you. I don't want my taxes to go up and the nickle/dime fees to go up, but if what I get is the same good services I can understand the increases.
But art clubs and lost causes?
It "ticks me off" too.
LOL. At council when the mayor was talking about the new liquor licenses it sounded like he got his Goombas confused with his Gumbas. Could be time to lay off the Italian beef there Mr. mayor.
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