Today’s Board Meeting

January 27, 2009 by CookReformer
Filed under: Budget, Reform, Taxes, Todd Stroger

The Cook County Board meets today…some more wrangling over the Stroger’s proposed county budget that heaps a huge back-door tax increase ($740 billion in new bonds) on the Cook County taxpayers.

At the last meeting, Tony Peraica introduced several common sense, budget-cutting amendments that were summarily rejected - including a measure to cap the budgets of commissioners’ offices. We thank that last one struck a nerve with some commissioners…stay tuned for what happens today.