Would you like a pastry with your coffee?

April 27, 2010 by CookReformer
Filed under: Budget, Spending, Taxes

Last week, we posted on revelations of Cook County’s “coffee czar.”

This week, we learn that county government is spending tens of thousands of your dollars each month on fresh bread, rolls and pastries.

As The Prairie Stater reports:

According to the county’s publicly-available online check register, the county paid out $19,404.03 to Chicago-based Alpha Baking Company during the month of January 2010.

According to an agenda for the Cook County Board Finance Committee dated April 16, 2009, Alpha was on track to receive a one year contract with the county “for the purchase of fresh break, rolls and pastries for John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County and Oak Forest Hospital of Cook County (Contract No. 09-83-30).”

The total value of that contract was $233,506.34.

As the story points out, Commissioner Peraica is responsible for pushing for the online check register that has made revelations of these questionable expenditures possible.