CHICAGO (CBS) — Mayors from throughout Chicago’s suburbs lashed out Monday at Gov. Bruce Rauner’s plan to cut in half state revenue sharing with local governments.
The governor’s proposed budget would save approximately $600 million a year, by reducing the income tax revenue usually shared with municipal governments from 8 percent to 4 percent.
Aurora Mayor Tom Weisner said that would take nearly $10 million from his community, which would not be able to replace retiring police officers and firefighters.
“It would be reducing our efforts to maintain our streets, to plow the snow, to do the critical services that our residents expect,” he said.
A spokeswoman for Rauner said the cuts are needed to help fill a $6 billion budget hole, but the governor’s so-called “Turnaround Agenda” would help local governments control costs.
Rauner’s controversial “Turnaround Agenda” purports to reduce costs for local governments by establishing so-called “right to work zones,” allowing them to decide whether or not workers should be required to join a union.
Downers Grove Mayor Martin Tully said the Rauner administration hasn’t been specific about how its agenda would cut costs at the local level.
“Literally, week to week, what the ask has been has changed somewhat. Some additional details will come out in terms of the points underneath the Turnaround Agenda,” he said.
The mayors were calling for public pressure on the governor’s office.
from CBS Chicago http://cbsloc.al/1bwQT3J
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