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In interviews, building managers and local pool contractors described a excessively complicated and short-staffed state inspection and approval process that has led to prolonged pool closures and inspection delays that have stretched for months, if not years, even though the work to replace a drain cover is relatively simple and often takes less than a day of labor. “The state is a nightmare,” one said. “I want to move because I can’t stand doing business here. This year, I have done not one commercial job because of the permitting process.”
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Typical Illinois issue. Locals pass a “tough” job onto the State. The State was never staffed to inspect hundreds of pools.
On the bright side, outdoor heated pools will be approved for use in January!
This is a public service. Who would want to get into a swimming pool Democrats frequent?
I don’t care how much chlorine is in the pool!
Enjoying what a dysfunctional, Marxist utopia looks like? It will get worse if the Dems continue to have their way. “ In this country where I come from/ Nobody works/ Nothin ever gets done/ Hang fire…”
“(T)he city passed off most pool inspection responsibilities to the state in 2024 because of the increased workload caused by hosting the Democratic National Convention”. Pool inspectors were needed to work for the Democratic convention? Chicago paid the salaries of pool inspectors to work on the Democrat convention, yet they are still not back to inspecting pools? What are they doing since the convention has been over for a year now?
They just do not care.