Friday, October 31, 2008

Aldermen gripes abotu budget cuts

Clout St:
City Council griping about Chicago's financial woes reached its loudest volume Thursday as Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Michael Picardi testified about Mayor Richard Daley's 2009 budget proposal.

The mayor's budgets often have passed with the support of all 50 aldermen, but this year nobody is happy with plans to lay off almost 1,000 city workers. Daley said the cuts are necessary to erase a $469 million budget shortfall.

"This budget is becoming to me more and more unacceptable," Ald. Sandi Jackson (7th) said as she questioned Picardi.

Added Ald. George Cardenas, among Daley's most loyal allies in the council: "I cannot support this budget as it stands. There is a lot of fat in that budget, there's no doubt."

Council members worried about the effect of budget cuts on garbage pick-up and other services provided by Streets and Sanitation, the largest City Hall department.

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