The Scope of the City of Chicago

Executive Body and 2015 Budget

Presented by Dwayne Truss for the Chicago Westside Branch of the NAACP

Or how to get away with

LEGALIZED FRAUD

Ignorance should be listed

as a communicable
disease by the Center for Disease
Control
because it is contagious and easily
spread.

Purpose:
To give citizens a basic
understanding of the
executive body
of city of Chicago
government

The Mayors office represents

the executive branch of
city of Chicago
The Mayor duties includes ;but not limited to the following:

s the day to day operations and FINANCES of the city of Chicago

over City Council meetings

s the annual budget

s ordinances

to City Council approval, appoint members to various agencies,

nd departments except the Chicago Public Schools Chicago Board of Ed
f Executive Officer and Board members do not have to be approved by

ing policy, etc

The Mayor (executive body) of the

city of Chicago
prepares and proposes the
city of Chicago budget
The City Council
does not prepare the
budget
The City Council (legislative body)
votes to pass the budget

The budget
represents the vision and
priorities of the
Mayor

The City Council votes on all

proposed loans, grants, bond
issues, land acquisitions and sales,
zoning changes, traffic control
issues, mayoral appointees, and
other financial appropriations.

The legislative powers of the City Council

are granted by the state legislature and by
the home rule provisions of the Illinois
constitution. Within specified limits, the
City Council has the general right to
exercise any power and perform any
function pertaining
to its
government
and
The legislative
powers
of the City Council
are granted
thelimited
state legislature
affairs including,
butby
not
to, theand by
the home rule provisions of the Illinois
power to regulate
for the protection of the
constitution. Within specified limits, the
public health,
and
welfare;
to to
City safety
Council has
the
general right
exercise
any
and
perform any
license; to tax;
and
topower
incur
debt.
function pertaining to its government and
affairs including, but not limited to, the
power to regulate for the protection of the
public health, safety and welfare; to

Legislate, Appropriate,
Advocate, Coordinate
and Regulate

What is the
TOTAL
City of Chicago
2015 budget?

The citys 2015 total budget

is $8.9 Billion
The operating budget is $3.5 Billion
Source: cityofchicago.org

What does your property tax pay for?

Fines,
Property Tax
Debt
Forfeitures, & Property Levy WO TIF
Service
Penalties
Tax Levy
Surplus

201
2
201
3
201
4
201
5

In millions

632.6

290.8

798

798

583.1

313.5

801

797

788

348

824

798

826.4

369.5

831

798

900
800
Debt Service
Fines,
Forfeitures, &
Penalties
Property Tax
Levy
Property Levy
WO TIF Surplus

700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
2012

2013

2014

2015

What is the tax rate for City of Chicago

12.09
1.209
.1209
9.021
.9021
Or
None of the above

1.209

The total tax rate for Chicago property tax payers is

6.832
Revenues based on other taxes and revenues
sources funds
corporate budget (primarily
administration, police, and fire).

Comparison of composite tax rates:

Chicago

06.832

Cicero
15.522
(School District #99)
Norridge
09.442
(School District #80)
Deerfield
08.875
(School District #28)
Cook County Clerk: David Orr

Other revenues sources:

Water & Sewer
Aviation
Fines and tickets
City sales tax
Personal Property Replacement Tax
Permits and fees
State of Illinois income tax
Federal and state grants

Those
darn
TIF
District
According to the
s
TIF Illumination

Project, Chicago
had $1.7 billion tax
dollars in TIF
accounts as of
January 2014

Cook County Clerk

2013 TIF District Summary City of Chicago
2012
$457,007,111.15
2013
$422,064,665.84

Public safety
costs are
funded by
the Corporate Fund

$74,705,445.85
17.70%

is
the city of Chicago corporate fund
share of tax revenue
loss to Tax Increment Financing (TIF).

http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/tsd/tifs/Pages/TIFs1
01.aspx

http://www.civiclab.us/tif_illumination_project/

Please go to cityofchicago.org
AND GOOGLE
To conduct further research on
Chicago government

Chicago Public
Schools
2014-15 budget

$6 Billion

The Mayor directly appoints all

Board of Education members and
the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
The City Council does not vote on
the appointment of the members
and CEO.

Chicago Housing Authority (CHA)

2013 Budget, $1 Billion.
Commissioners voted on by the
City Council

Chicago Park
District 2014
budget is $426
million.
Commissioners
voted on by
City Council

Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)

2014 budget is $1,384 Billion
The governing arm of CTA is the Chicago
Transit Board. Terry Peterson serves as
Chairman. The board consists of seven
members, four appointed by the Mayor of
Chicago and three by the Governor of
Illinois.
The Mayor's appointees are subject to the
approval of the Governor and the Chicago
City Council; the Governor's appointees
are subject to the approval of the Mayor
and the Illinois State Senate. CTA's dayto-day operations are directed by Forrest
The Privateer Claypool, President.

City Colleges $723 million (including capital), (2015)

McPier (McCormick Place and Navy Pier)
$226 million in operating expenses (2013)
Public Building Commission
Manages construction and renovation projects.

In Conclusion

The City Council approved increasing the Mayors borrowing

authority to $900 million
this past February. Source wbez.org.
The City Council approved increasing the Mayors borrowing
authority to $1 billion for
Midway Airport (how much work or Black contractors and
workers?).
Avoids paying the $557 million pension payment until next
year.
The city will have to borrow up to $65 million to pay for back
pay owed to
the policemen. Source: Chicago Sun-Times.
The city budget has allocated only $71 million for police
overtime pay for 2015,
although 2014 police overtime costs exceeded $100 million.

Thank you and have a good day.

P.S. Dear 29th Ward residents,
there is not a legal neighborhood
named Galewood. Please refer to the Municipal Code
Municipal Code of Chicago
CHAPTER 1-14
OFFICIAL NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITY AREAS
1-14-010 Designated - Naming and renaming.
1-14-010 Designated - Naming and renaming.
The seventy-seven community area names and the one hundred seventyeight neighborhoods named and outlined on the maps
marked Exhibit A and Exhibit B, on file in the city clerk's office and made a
part hereof, are hereby designated as the official
community areas and neighborhoods of the City of Chicago.
No person shall name or rename a community area or neighborhood without
the passage of an ordinance authorizing such naming or
renaming.
(Added Coun. J. 12-15-93, p. 44063)

In
Memory
Of
Rev. Dr. Lewis Flowers
And
James Deanes
My Civic Fathers

Thank you:
Jackie Leavy,
my civic mom
Valerie Leonard
The Lawndale Alliance
The Chicago Westside Branch of the NAACP
(especially Political Action Chairperson, Remel Terry)