Continuing what I started yesterday: [table id=39 /]
Category: City Watch
Dare to Compare: Vacation Time Payouts
Chicago City Council proposes reduction of vacation time payouts: As it now stands, departing longtime employees can get paid for up to 75 vacation days they did not take while working for the city. Under Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan, the number would decrease to 30 at the start of 2013. […] The changes are in…
A Closer Look at DeKalb Per Capita Debt
This table was part of Friday’s long post, but deserves some attention of its own. [table id=34 /] You can find the breakdown of the FY2010 overlapping debt in this document, on p. 153. FY2010 ended June 30, 2010. Let’s look at some of the GO bond issues since that date: DeKalb County: $16,000,000, 10/14/2010…
A Look at City of DeKalb Debt
As a Home Rule community, DeKalb has no state-imposed legal limit on its indebtedness. Non-Home-Rule municipalities (at least those under 500,000 population) do have a limit. It’s 8.625%* of the taxable value of the properties within their boundaries, and they must report compliance with the limit by computing Legal Debt Margins for their Comprehensive Annual…
Our Newest Boondoggle
You thought they learned their lesson with the skating rink? Hah!
My Views on Home Rule
Since it appears the issue of Home Rule could easily be revived in DeKalb, I’m going to indulge myself by setting straight my position on it. For those of you who don’t know: I ran for mayor of DeKalb in 2009, and from all indications was generally known to oppose Home Rule. This belief was…
DeKalb Threat Data by Neighborhood
A member of the City of DeKalb’s Safe/Quality Housing Task Force recently offered me copies of the crime data the group has been poring over this summer — but only if I promised not to publish it, because it’s not for public consumption! Perhaps we should be training these committees, commissions and whatnot in the…
Town Hall Next Week at Conexion Comunidad
Third Ward Alderman Kristen Lash will hold a town hall meeting next Wednesday, August 31. So far, participants are: Kristen Lash, 3rd Ward Alderman Jim Luebke, DeKalb Township Trustee Paul Stoddard, County Board, District 9 Julia Fauci, County Board, District 9 Alderman Lash hopes also to include a representative of the District 428 school board.…
City of DeKalb’s Liabilities for Compensated Absences
DeKalb’s whittling of its workforce to meet budgetary goals has not made much of a dent in the liability for compensated absences. [table id=27 /]
City of DeKalb’s Post-Employment Expenditures
For a number of years, the City of DeKalb has provided post-employment health and life insurance coverage for all of its retirees, whether contractually obligated or not. Known as Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB), this program has been changed for greater sustainability as a result of recommendations by Executive Partners, Inc. (EPI) in May 2009. Perhaps…