A proposal to cut $84.4 million from Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's 2009 budget proposal failed to win approval Monday, leaving commissioners at loggerheads just 19 days before the Feb. 28 deadline to approve the spending plan.
The proposed cuts, backed by Republicans and Finance Committee Chairman John Daley (D-Chicago), would have gone a long way toward balancing the proposed $3 billion budget, which is out of whack because most commissioners don't support Stroger's plan to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for operating expenses.
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After rejecting the proposal to cut the budget, commissioners rejected a series of amendments aimed at closing the budget gap, which some contend should not exist because of last year's boost in the sales tax.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Effort to trim Cook County's proposed $3 billion budget stalls
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