Sun-Times:
Chicago has a $425 million budget gap that will require a "paradigm shift" in services the city provides, the way they are delivered and the number of employees and agencies responsible, top mayoral aides told organized labor on Wednesday.
In a closed-door meeting with 40 union leaders, Mayor Daley’s chief-of-staff Lori Healey, Chief Financial Officer Paul Volpe and Intergovernmental Affairs Director John Dunn promised that redundant layers of middle management would share the burden of employee layoffs.
"This is not an exercise where we’ve said to department heads, ‘Cut a bunch of people and give us their names.’ We’re gonna … find areas and functions that don’t make sense. … It’s not focussed at unions. Managers, commissioners, deputy commissioners," will be included, Dunn was overheard saying.
"People want to get their trash picked up, their trees trimmed, their buildings built. They don’t really care about the bureaucrats. We’re looking at all that stuff."
Article via Newsalert in a post entitled, "Chicago's $425 Million Budget Deficit May Jeopardize Credit Rating". Also noted from Newsalert:
For more on Chicago's decline.For how Chicago has lost more people than Detroit(according to census estimates) since the year 2000.
Perhaps saying at least we're not Detroit isn't cutting it anymore.
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