11.21.12
In June 2012 the Forest Preserve District of Cook County Board of Commissioners approved the issuance of $110 million in bonds to finance capital improvement projects and to refinance existing debt...
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09.27.12
On June 30, 2011 the Civic Federation released Recommendations for a Financially Sustainable City of Chicago . The report offered a comprehensive set of forty recommendations to improve the City’s long-term fiscal condition....
04.18.12
Last week, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced two alternative service delivery initiatives: 1) managed competition for County...
12.07.11
The Civic Federation offers conditional support for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District’s (MWRD) FY2012 Tentative Budget of $1.0 billion. The Federation is concerned that the budget...
11.11.11
The Civic Federation's legislative priorities for 2012 include public pension reform, requiring the State of Illinois to develop and implement a capital improvement plan, dissolving the Illinois...
11.03.11
The Civic Federation supports the Cook County FY2012 Executive Budget Recommendation totaling $2.9 billion. Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s proposed $2.2 billion General Fund...
10.21.11
The Civic Federation supports the DuPage County Proposed FY2012 Financial Plan of $434.7 million. The County is reducing expenditures for the third year in a row while pledging to maintain the...
07.20.11
In many of its past reports, the Civic Federation has recommended that local governments integrate performance management into their budgeting process and make that information public.
In the Cook County Modernization...
07.13.11
Two years ago, the Civic Federation profiled efforts by Cook County governments to increase the transparency of their operations by launching Twitter accounts. The “Tweeting Towards Transparency” blog posts ( here...
07.07.11
In the Civic Federation’s “ Recommendations for a Financially Sustainable City of Chicago ” report issued last week, the Federation discussed the importance of a government making data about its operations...