09.08.10
Last week the Civic Federation blogged about the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District’s reaction to its estimated $24 million budget deficit. Specifically, we outlined Executive...
09.08.10
Last week the Civic Federation blogged about the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District’s reaction to its estimated $24 million budget deficit. Specifically, we outlined Executive...
09.01.10
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District recently announced that it is facing a $24 million budget deficit for FY2011.
After hearing a report of the FY2011 budget and the grim financial projection at a...
07.28.10
On June 17, 2010 the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District held a study session to...
07.21.10
Last week the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Board of Commissioners held a public study session meeting to...
03.24.10
All ten Chicago-area local government pension funds analyzed annually by the Civic Federation had negative investment returns in fiscal year 2008 for a total investment loss of $7.1 billion....
03.16.10
The total unfunded liabilities of the ten major Chicago-area public pension funds reached $18.5 billion in fiscal year 2008 . That is an increase of over $15.1 billion dollars in ten years, up from $3.4...
03.10.10
As reported in the Civic Federation’s latest report on ten local government pension funds , the most recent audited financial statements of the Chicago firefighters...
03.08.10
This report analyzes basic financial data on ten major local government employee pension funds in Cook County. It is intended to provide lawmakers, pension trustees, pension fund members and...
12.22.09
The redesign of the Civic Federation website in July has provided the public, government officials, and the media better access to the Federation’s analyses of government services in Illinois. The regularly-updated Civic Federation blog especially has provided a constant source of...
12.09.09
As noted on page 9 of its FY2010 Tentative Budget , the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago will begin to address concerns over its increasing pension liabilities....