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Cook County Budget Process
Cook County Budget
Below are the Commissioners statements regarding Cook County Budgets
A Yes Vote For 2019 Cook County Budget
On November 15, 2018, I voted yes on the 2019 Cook County budget as a reasonable approach to protecting key services. There are no tax increases included in this budget.
A year ago, I voted for a budget that was negotiated to meet a serious revenue shortfall while still providing essential services. The 2019 Budget solves the revenue shortfall with significant one-time revenues from a City of Chicago TIF surplus; and increased earned income from the Cook County Health and Hospital System.
This budget allows our Cook County Health and Hospital System to meet changing patient needs through better planning by the Independent Board and better use of Public Health resources including Access to Care and the Children’s Advocacy Center.
The Cook County State’s Attorney; Cook County Board of Review, Cook County Assessor, Cook County Sheriff and other offices are given additional staff positions that should be revenue generating for future budgets.
This budget protects the $350 million extra pension payment the County established 3 years ago. Our pensions are among the most stable in Illinois, but they will continue to need extra payments to stay strong.
The future will now be dependent upon better planning and continued suggestions from our residents.
My “YES” vote on the 2018 Cook County Budget
November 21, 2017
This is the 15th Cook County budget I have worked to amend to meet the needs of Cook County residents for efficient services. I voted against the 2015 and 2016 budgets because they did not have the proper planning and coordination to protect our citizens.
Today I voted “YES” on the 2018 Cook County budget, not because it has the thoughtful planning and coordination I wanted, but because it is the best and only alternative to protect Cook County from a meltdown of key services.
This budget has 323 actual employees losing their jobs. These are employees who are being let go through no fault of their own. These are people who every day gave our citizens their best. The original proposed budget included over 600 job loses; but with good faith negotiations and a better understanding of job responsibilities we were able to save many services.
A year ago I hailed a budget that was “streamlining our workforce” with thoughtful decisions that reduced unnecessary jobs. Today we have damaged our workforce with cuts to essential services.
This budget allows our Cook County Health and Hospital System to meet changing patient needs through better planning by the Independent Board and better use of public health resources including Access to Care and the Children’s Advocacy Center.
In the future County Care has the potential to permanently stabilize the system through more earned fees. But remember, Cook County will always be responsible by law for the $110 million in free care required at the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center and the jail along with required services the Department of Public Health provides to suburban Cook County.
Last year’s budget protected the resources necessary to give our county lawyers in the State’s Attorney Office, the Public Defender Office and the Public Guardian office the tools that they needed. This year, after much negotiation, all three offices have the number of lawyers they need but they have fewer resources to do their jobs.
Unfortunately, many of the resources provided to the Circuit Court of Cook County have been eliminated. Reductions in probation services, social services and the elimination of the Mortgage Foreclosure program will make it harder to help people stay out of criminal trouble or financial trouble. In addition, the reductions at the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center will cause operational problems. These reductions may create legal liability.
The judiciary as a separate branch of government must have its independence protected in future budgets.
The problems of the judiciary are compounded by the deep cuts to the Sheriff’s Office which will make protecting the courts and the citizens who use them harder. These cuts will create potential legal liability in the way court services, the Sheriff’s Police and the Department of Corrections are operated. The Sheriff’s Office is essential to all citizen’s safety and it requires more not less resources.
This budget protects the $350 million extra pension payment the county established 2 years ago. Our pensions are among the most stable in Illinois, but they will continue to need extra payments to stay strong.
I have complained about the lack of planning and coordination by the board when considering the budgets and the real needs of the county. This budget lacks proper planning and coordination because of the way in which the board repealed the “Sweetened Beverage Tax.” The isolated repeal outside of the budget process made this budget much harder than if we were negotiating repeal and the budget at the same time.
Also, when the board repealed the “Sweetened Beverage Tax” it unintentionally voided a binding resolution and ordinance from last year that prohibits the raising of any taxes by the county until after 2020. This prohibition covered property taxes, sales taxes, and any home rule excise taxes. The loss of this protection to the taxpayers will make any future budget more difficult.
Why I voted “Yes” on the 2017 Cook County Budget:
This is the 14th Cook County budget that I have worked to amend in order to meet the needs of Cook County residents for efficient services. I have voted in favor of the first 11 budgets that met those needs. I have voted against the last 2 that did not meet those needs.
I voted “Yes” on the 2017 Cook County budget. This budget meets the needs of Cook County residents by:
a.Streamlining our work force. In the last 5 years Cook County has reduced the number of full time jobs by over 6000 positions. This budget reduces the number of full time jobs by another 300 positions;
b.Stabilizing our Cook County Health and Hospital System staffing to meet changing patient needs through better planning by the Independent Board and better use of Public Health resources including Access to Care;
c.Increasing the utilization of Cook County Care dollars to reduce the dependency of the Cook County Health and Hospital System on taxpayer support. In the last 5 years taxpayer support has been reduced from $400 million to $111 million this year.
d.Providing adequate resources to run the Circuit Court of Cook County, the largest court system in the nation, through pretrial services, probation services, court interpreters, mortgage foreclosure remedies, and educational programs;
e.Giving our County Lawyers in the State’s Attorney Office, the Public Defender’s Office and the Public Guardian’s Office the full range of modern resources to properly do their job;
f.Continuing to provide for the County’s pension obligations;
g.Updating technology for use by our property tax agencies need to fairly and properly do their work;
h.Working to reduce the population of our jail by nearly 2000 people per week while still protecting our community from the worst criminals;
i.Providing better services for the children at a newly revised Juvenile Temporary Detention Center and Juvenile Court; and
j.Providing for the consolidation of the Recorder of Deeds Office and the County Clerk’s Office. This effort will cause $1 million in taxpayer savings.
Over the last two years I have complained about the lack of planning and coordination between the budgets and the real needs of the County. This budget does that planning and coordination.
This budget does contain the new “Sweetened Beverage Tax”, which is not a tax on all citizens but on the limited number of citizens who drink these beverages. This tax has a twofold purpose, first it will help us fight heart disease, diabetes and osteoporosis; and second it provides enough revenue to balance the budget without gimmicks.
Finally, this budget comes with the passage of both a binding resolution and ordinance that prohibits the raising of any taxes by the County until after 2020. This action covers property taxes, sales taxes, any home rule excise taxes and will lead to a further streamlining of County Government.
2016
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Cook County 2016 Budget Over $500 Million in New Taxes and Little Reform –Why I Voted NO
On November 18, 2015 the Cook County Board of Commissioners passed the Fiscal Year2016 Budget. For the second year, and only the second time as a Commissioner, I voted “NO” on the budget. I did this because the budget showed a lack of reform, planning and coordination that now subjects our taxpayers to over $500 million in new taxes and the highest sales tax and hotel tax in the nation. I voted “No” on these taxes.
As I reported to you earlier this year, the sales tax increase was done outside of our adopted budget process. Because we did not follow our normal budget process, there was no plan to ensure that the funds would be properly spent and no justification for the need to layer on additional taxes unto already overtaxed Cook County Residents. When this budget was introduced, there was a request for $30 million more in taxes and fees in addition to the already approved $474 million a year sales tax increase.
During the last week, as the Amusement Tax increase of $21 million failed to get enough support for passage, a new $31 million Hotel Tax was proposed. There was no planning or coordination to determine what this Hotel Tax would mean to the region’s economy and what effect it would have on jobs. The Hotel Tax was combined with $4.9 million in new court filing fees to present a “reasonable and modest” tax increase. These taxes and fees will have great detrimental effect on our citizens and the regional economy and are not “reasonable and modest”.
A year ago, I pointed out our need to plan for criminal justice issues to reduce the gun threat and reduce overall violence in our county. During the last year the Chief Judge, State’s Attorney, Public Defender and Sheriff have been required to report on their efforts to reduce crime through pretrial service programs and drug diversion programs. Their efforts have been working but the response to success has been to restrict programs that work in this budget. The Chief Judge’s budget and that of the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center(JTDC) were restricted and the State’s Attorney’s very successful Drug Diversion was eliminated. The County Board restored successful programs in those budgets by adopting amendments that I sponsored. In addition, I was able to restore the Chief Judge’s successful Mortgage Mediation Program which has helped thousands of people keep their homes during the foreclosure crisis.
A year ago I was blocked when I tried to get additional funding for our pension system. I stated that we would need $160 million in additional payments this year. This budget makes a $270 million payment to the pension fund which helps avoid an immediate crisis but efforts to ensure future additional payment were defeated. The pension issue must have a long term solution.
I was unable to restore full funding to the Restorative Justice Program, Access to Care Health Plan, and the Bridge Behavioral Health Aftercare for children being discharged from the JTDC. These programs improve the quality of life in our County and I will continue to fight for them.
This budget also puts the Cook County Health and Hospital System in jeopardy because it cuts $42 million from the County’s subsidy to the System. While the System is working better than ever and we are serving more insured patients this is not the time to lessen our support. If the System is to stand on its own in the future, we must support it adequately now.
Finally, this budget delays for 6 months a 2% pay raise for all non-union County workers. All union workers will get the 2% raise immediately. This is not right. All County workers should be treated the same. For all these reasons I voted “NO” on the Budget.
President Preckwinkle Announces public hearing on the preliminary forecast:
6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 16. in the Cook County Board Room on the 5th floor of 118 N. Clark St.
President Preckwinkle Announces Plan To Consolidate, Modernize County Real Estate
Thursday, October 24, 2013 Special to suffredin.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle today highlighted a plan that is expected to save more than $100 million over the next 15 years by consolidating and better managing county real estate. The County plans to reduce downtown office space to save $30 million. The County anticipates saving about $8 million by consolidating highway facilities, roughly $18 million by modernizing records storage in County warehouses, and $45 million by removing considerable unused space at Oak Forest Health Center. The Department of Capital Planning will perform an analysis of each project phase to determine the necessary capital investment required to ensure the plan is successful. “Historically, Cook County did not maintain a complete portfolio of the real estate it owned and operated,” President Preckwinkle said. “We have compiled these records to understand what we have and what we need. Now that we’ve studied our inventory we have developed a long-term strategy to reduce our footprint and save significant taxpayer money.”
Reduce Downtown Office Space
The County occupies 1.6 million square feet of office space in downtown Chicago. This includes the County Building, the George W. Dunne Administration Building and the non-courtroom areas of the Richard J. Daley Center. By adopting more modern space use standards and reconfiguring offices, the County will be able to reduce the space it uses by up to 22 percent. The County would then be able to lease open downtown office space to generate revenue, which is expected to cover renovation costs. The County has already leased the 34th floor at the Dunne Building and is actively pursuing a tenant for the 35th floor.
Consolidate Highway Facilities
The County maintains five highway facilities which serve as district headquarters for road maintenance operation. Snow plows and other necessary equipment to maintain county roads and highways are housed at these facilities. The County plans to close the LaGrange Park location by consolidating the functions and staff to other district facilities. Available space at the Orland Park maintenance facility would be repurposed as an impound lot for the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, allowing the County to sell the current impound lot. This work will begin in 2014.
Modern Records Storage
The County uses three warehouses – which total roughly 985,000 square feet – to store records. It cost about $5.5 million a year to maintain that space. Modernizing County records collection is expected to reduce storage space between 20 to 30 percent. In addition, the County recently purchased a new warehouse in Cicero that will allow for the more efficient use of space. As an example, the County will be able to increase the density of boxes per square foot up to eight from two at the Cicero location. The County plans to implement this plan within three years.
Repurpose Oak Forest Health Center Campus
Oak Forest Health Center occupies 1.1 million square feet. The County estimates roughly 50 percent of the campus is underused or used as inactive storage areas. Over the next 15 years, it will cost the County $251 million to maintain these buildings. With some of the buildings on campus dating back to 1910, the County also estimates the campus will need roughly $129 million in capital repairs. In order to avoid expenses on functionally obsolete buildings the County intends to reduce the Oak Forest Health Center Campus by up to 75 percent. Health care services would be located in buildings designed to enhance the delivery of care and reduce costs.
This work would take four to five years. “This plan requires cooperation from everyone involved,” Preckwinkle said. “I am confident we can work together as we continue to bring the County into the 21st century.”
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FY2011 Cook County Budget Passes with phase-out of sales tax increase
On February 26, 2011, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved the Fiscal Year 2011 Cook County Budget. Along with the budget, the Board voted to reduce the sales tax from 1.25% to 1% on January 1, 2012 and from 1% to 0.75% on January 1, 2013.
Click here to review President Preckwinkle's Executive Recommendation. The Amendment Book can be found here, and Floor Amendments can be found here.
Click here to read Commissioner Suffredin's statement on the FY11 Budget.
FY2010 Cook County Budget Passes with reduction in sales tax
On November 19, 2009, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved the Fiscal Year 2010 Cook County Budget. The budget includes a reduction in the sales tax, from 1.75% to 1.25%. Under state law, this reduction will take effect July 1, 2010.
Click here to review President Stroger’s Executive Recommendation. Amendments to the budget can be found here: Amendments 1 - 10, 11 - 20, 21 - 30, 31 - 40, 41 - 50, 51 - 56; and Floor Amendments can be found here: 1 - 20, 21 - 40, 41 - 65.
Commissioner Suffredin leads the way on sales tax repeal
December 1, 2009: The People of Cook County finally got sales tax relief! After four tries and a change in State law lowering the number of votes necessary to override a veto, the Cook County Board was able to override President Todd Stroger’s veto of a .50% reduction of the sales tax. The rate now for Cook County will be below 10% - a barrier that cost Cook County sales revenue and retail jobs. Thank you for your help in passing this repeal.
Regional Sales Tax Analysis
The Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University has studied the economic impact of sales tax policy. Below find their reports.
Sales tax repeal background:
County’s Sales Tax Repeal Fails (September 1, 2009)
On September 1st, Commissioner Deborah Sims voted to oppose the sales tax repeal. She changed her vote in order to support President Todd Stroger in keeping the Cook County sales tax at 1.75%. I had commitments from 13 other Commissioners, including Commissioner Sims, prior to filing the motion to override President Stroger’s veto of the ordinance reducing the sales tax. The override failed by one vote. This action by Commissioner Sims will hurt the economy of the County significantly.
Here is the roll call on the motion to override President Stroger’s veto:
Voted yes to roll back the sales tax increase (13): Commissioners Suffredin, Claypool, Collins, Daley, Gainer, Gorman, Goslin, Murphy, Peraica, Reyes, Schneider, Silvestri, and Steele.
Voted to support President Stroger’s veto(4): Commissioners Beavers, Butler, Moreno, and Sims.
This action gives greater reasons to remove President Stroger from office.
Addendum from Commissioner Suffredin (9/3/09): I have become aware of threatening messages left at Cook County Commissioner Deborah Sims’ phone. These messages relate to her vote on the repeal of part of the County’s Sales Tax.
Today some ministers suggested that my remarks in disagreeing with Commissioner Sims’ vote may have had a role in causing the threat. I reject that suggestion and I deplore any threats made against Commissioner Sims or any other elected official.
While from a governmental point of view, I disagree with her vote, I defend her right to cast her vote free from personal threats.
Suffredin announces reduction in sales tax (July 21, 2009)
Commissioner Larry Suffredin sponsored an ordinance that passed today reducing the sales tax by .50%. This action will reduce the overall sales tax to 9.75% on January 1, 2010.
In addition the ordinance requires that, "The Cook County Budget for Fiscal Year 2010 will be based on the actual revenue received in Fiscal Year 2009, and there will be no further increase in taxes. The Elected Officials of Cook County shall present their preliminary Fiscal Year 2010 budget requests to the Finance Committee of the Cook County Board of Commissioners at a public hearing, using Fiscal Year 2009 revenues, minus any changes caused by this ordinance reducing the tax rate from one and three-quarters percent (1.75%) to one and one-quarter percent (1.25%). This information will be provided to the President for use in preparation of the Executive Budget Recommendation for Fiscal Year 2010, as provided by 55 ILCS 5/6-24004. This will allow the 2010 budget to be a realistic document that will provide full funding to all essential services."
Commissioner Suffredin said, "The reduction vote today should restore citizen confidence in the fairness of the County tax system."
Statement by Commissioner Suffredin on sales tax veto (May 5, 2009)
On May 5, 2009 I voted to repeal 1% of the Cook County sales tax. This measure passed 12-3 with 2 commissioners absent. President Stroger vetoed the bill and yesterday I voted to over- ride his veto. The over ride vote was 11-4 with 2 commissioners voting present. The over ride needed 14 votes to be successful.
After the over- ride vote I voted to repeal ¾% of the Cook County Sales tax immediately and 1/4% in a year. This measure passed with 10 votes but President Stroger indicates that he will veto it. If he does then the veto over ride would be taken up on June 2, 2009.
While I believed on February 28, 2008 that the 1% sales tax increase was the right approach to stabilizing the County, especially with the establishment of the Independent Professional Health Board, that I sponsored, to run our Health System. The Health Board now controls $1.1 billion in spending that President Stroger previously controlled and mismanaged.
Today, because of the economic reality of the times we live in and because the Independent Health Board is doing their job I believe we can and need to repeal the 1% sales tax. Repeal of this sales tax will stimulate the Cook County retail community and create more jobs. This repeal will also have a boomerang effect and cause shoppers who have left Cook County to come back and shop in Cook County.
I will continue to push for the repeal.
Cook County Revenue Analysis
In 2007, the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability issued the following report on Cook County's revenue stream.
Cook County Pensions
Commissioner Suffredin refutes Cook County Pension Board tactics to scare retired senior citizens
The Cook County Pension Board and President Todd Stroger are taking advantage of retirees in an attempt to pass an ill-advised bond issue by sending out letters implying their pensions are at stake, according to Commissioner Larry Suffredin.
“The Stroger administration has hit a new low by using scare tactics on retirees in order to gain support for an ill-advised bond deal that will needlessly cost taxpayers millions in the long run,” said Commissioner Larry Suffredin. “The Stroger administration wants future generations to pay for their current mismanagement.”
In a letter sent out to pensioners, the Cook County Pension Fund alleges that the fund’s financial health is in jeopardy if the Cook County Board of Commissioners fails to approve a bond order to fill a funding gap. The Cook County Pension Fund is currently the best funded public pension fund in Illinois. Current pension benefits are not in jeopardy.
“There are plenty of alternatives to make a contribution to the pension fund, other than saddling the taxpayers with the costs of an expensive bond,” Commissioner Suffredin said. “The Stroger administration is endangering their relationship with retirees with these reckless claims.”
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Friday, April 20, 2012
Preckwinkle moves to hire vendor to run county's sick-leave program
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Crain's Chicago BusinessCook County also faces pension funding gap, new analysis says
Monday, April 09, 2012
Chicago TribuneCounty Board urged to avoid layoffs
Thursday, November 03, 2011
Chicago TribuneCounty Hospitals Up Revenue Projections, Again
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Cook County Rx
Friday, September 23, 2011
Chicago TribuneSome county commissioners say furlough days are for union workers, not them
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Chicago Sun-TimesGreetings, Dr. Raju Welcome to one of the toughest jobs in Cook County
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Chicago TribuneToni Preckwinkle says county layoffs this year are ‘inevitable’
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Chicago Sun-TimesPreckwinkle lifts Cook County ban on big-ticket spending
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Chicago TribuneStatement of Commissioner Suffredin on the passage of FY 11 Cook County Budget
Friday, March 04, 2011
Special to suffredin.org20 Cook County prosecutors cut under approved budget
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
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