A collaborative study of issues from the Civic Federation, the Openlands Project and Friends of the Chicago River related to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD)'s wastewater treatment practices, its landholding and disposal policies and the District's governance and organizational structure.
This purpose of this report was to provide an inventory of local government assessing practices and procedures regarding the granting of property tax exemptions to nonprofit organizations. The report includes information drawn from a survey of 438 assessing offices nationwide in 40 states.
This is a summary of the survey and analysis of local government assessing practices and procedures regarding the granting of property tax exemptions to nonprofit organizations. The report includes information drawn from a survey of 438 assessing offices nationwide in 40 states.
A 6-year trend analysis of indicators that measure the financial health and performance of 9 major local government pension funds from 1993 to 1998.
The Civic Federation supported the Chicago Park District's FY2000 Budget because it continued the District's trend toward privatization and increased management efficiencies. The District did not increase the property tax levy and maintained a conservative operating and capital spending plan. The Federation did criticize the District's budget format and recommended improvements in trend analyses…
The Civic Federation criticized the City of Chicago's FY2000 budget for proposing a 4.2% increase in the property tax levy, as well as a number of fee increases, without adequately attempting to decrease spending through expenditure reductions.
For the second year in a row, The Civic Federation supported the Chicago Transit Authority's budget based upon the CTA's focused, strategic efforts to attract new riders after years of declining ridership, while expressing a concern over rising costs.
The Civic Federation's initial analysis of the City Colleges of Chicago FY2000 budget expressed a broad concern that over the past 5 years, expenditures have out-paced revenues, leading to a decrease in the CCC's fund balance.
This report describes the complex operation of the Cook County classification system and quantifies the impact of various proposals to change that system.
This report compares the unfunded liabilities and funded ratios of the nine local pension funds: the Fire, Police, Municipal, Teacher, Park, MWRD, County, Forest and Laborer Funds. In addition, it analyzes the health of the five collar county funds in the IMRF: DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will Counties.
