By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News
(CHICAGO) Monday afternoon, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposals to balance the 2018 city budget with higher taxes and fees sailed thru a couple of city council committee.
Just about $65M worth of higher taxes and fees are in the mayor’s spending plan.
Ride-sharing passengers will be paying a new 15 cent fee and downtown Alderman Brendan Reilly objected to most of that money going to the CTA, saying “I’m responsible for managing the City of Chicago’s budget, but have no purview over sister agency budgets. That’s where I’m rationalizing this idea of sending precious resources to other agencies that are not directly or even indirectly accountable to this city council.”
There is a property tax increase in this budget. Very little attention has been paid to it, but the second year of the big increase for police and fire pensions is in there for another $63M.
@ 2017 WLS-AM News
