Lightfoot administration outlines 5-year, $3.7 billion plan to repair, maintain roads, bridges, other city assets – Chicago Sun-Times*

"In virtual briefings conspicuously timed for Election Day, aldermen were told the massive borrowing would be bankrolled by a mix of tax increment financing, a first-year bond issue backed by property and/or sales taxes and “interim financing and cash-flow management” in anticipation of future state and federal funding."
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NB-Chicago
5 years ago

If passed, I’m sure the majority of $ will be handed out to direct hire city crews (cdot, street&san, water dept) doing work THE CHICAGO WAY–no questions asked/ incredibly inefficiently/ on t&m basis as opposed to being competively bid. Look for lightweght to claim she has won city labor union negotiations savings in exchange for no questions asked about how city infrastructure $ are being spent, city labor union handouts. Shes also trying to dump Ferguson, the only person in city that gives the public any indecation on how EFFICIENTLY city tax $ are being spent

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