Victory for Transparency!
I am pleased to announce that the Cook County Board today passed my resolution to put the county check register online.
This is a victory for the county taxpayers, as well as everyone who believes in reform and open, honest government. We ask our taxpayers to shoulder the highest tax burden in the country - we owe it to them to provide full transparency on how their money is being spent.
The board passed this resolution during the same meeting at which I introduced a resolution calling on the board to appoint a bi-partisan, private sector commission charged with identifying waste and abuse in the county budget.
We’re declaring war on the waste and abuse that costs taxpayers millions of their hard-earned money. It’s time to usher in a new era of transparency and fiscal sanity in Cook County government.
UPDATE: Thanks to the following blogs that posted about this victory for the taxpayers:
Click here to read Illinois Review’s post.
Click here to read OpenIllinois.org’s blog post.
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Mike Maddaloni - The Hot Iron on
Thu, 5th Mar 2009 5:21 am
Excellent - can’t wait to see this. And do you know how much this will cost to develop and maintain?
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