Two-Ticket Boot Plan Almost Official

UPDATE

Aldermen delayed a vote Monday on Mayor Daley's plan to boot the cars of drivers with just two unpaid tickets, rather than the current minimum of three, the Tribune reports.

The City Council's Finance Committee put off consideration of the change at the request of the Daley administration, said the committee's chairman, Ald. Edward Burke (14th).

Burke said he did not know why the administration did not want his committee to vote on the plan Monday.

Earlier, Fran Spielman reported in the Sun-Times that the Finance Committee was all set to approve Daley's controversial plan.

The Finance Committee is expected to approve Mayor Daley's plan to make a $48 million dent in the city's massive $420 million budget shortfall, but not without a fight. The proposed booting bonanza threatens to immobilize another 208,273 vehicles.

Comments

[obelus]

I've lived in Chicago for the last 15 years. "City Extortion" is a line item in my family's budget. Our tax rate in Cook County is 10.25%. You practically need a license to walk your dog. The City keeps trying to come up with novel ways to increase revenue. Here's one: how about layoffs of unneeded City personnel.

A while back the sidewalks were replaced on my street. there was nothing wrong with the sidewalks; hardly a crack in them. It took six weeks to do a two-block long stretch. It was a quiet street that dead ended into the river. Their was typically a 7 or 8 person crew. This is abundantly sufficient to form, pour, and finish small stretches of concrete. They worked overtime.

Once, coming back into town after the holidays, I witnessed a convoy of snowplow crews manned by probably 14-15 Streets and Sans personnel snowplowing along the Kennedy where there wasn't any snow, but it was Sunday, a holiday weekend, and triple-time. Now, these same crews work late nights in sometimes in miserable conditions. The Water Dept. guys are out in all weather doing wretched work to restore water when the mains break. But we all know that each City employee is a voting member of the Machine, and they uphold a long tradition of loyalty to the preservation of the Machine. The thing is: some of them have got to go.

[Bobleblah1]

Wiredwilly

Me too I left 2 years ago and have never been happier.
Total lawlessness, racism, yuppyism, about the only thing they do is clean the streets.
Everything else is one scam after another. a city hall that preys upon its citizens.
How they found themselves in the economic position they are in, is no doubt a by-product of
cronyism, theft and lawlessness. But everything is ok
People wont care until it their car gets booted. Then people will find themselves sawing off boots, and ending up with some bogus fascist criminal charge for refusing to comply with this illegal practice.
When Daley turns those 200,000 plus people in lawbreakers, he will finally lose reelection or, worse turn his town into the wild west.

[Eric8869]

Oh boo hoo! glad you're gone too

[Wiredwilly]

Chicago : Most corrupt City in the World , an embarrassment to the Human Race. I moved out of Chicago years ago & would rather live with rats. Boot away. People daft enough to live there deserve what they get.

[Eric8869]

Good Riddance - we don't want you here anyway.

If you want to live with rats move to NYC - they don't have back alleys for their garbage and keep their garbage out on the sidewalks in front of the buildings.

Chicago is a world class city - Chicagoans were rated happiest with their city in the whole country.

If you don't love it her - don't live here. Period.

[geobushono]

....I'm a Chicago Native (1943)....­....
I left in 1971, came back once-1977.
Chicago has The Art Institute.­.........T­hat's all.

[47th]

I have lived in Chicago all my life, and it is a great city. It is also a very flawed city, and to say love it or leave it is just senseless. The two tickets and you are booted story just shows how out of touch Daley is with his own city. People are really struggling to make it in Chicago right now and Daley is blind to this. Want to make Chicago a world class city? Forget the Olympics and work on real problems, like better schools, safer communities, and a real plan for affordable housing for ALL Chicagoans,not just those that can afford a 500,000 dollar condo! Chicago is a great place, but as the first poster said it is also a very racist and corrupt place.

[rwe]

if they want to make a dent in the shortfall , how abut eliminating drivers, cars, part of the staff and expenses and perks of the aldermen..­. they can also make the aldermen pay their tickets