COOK COUNTY BOARD ENTERTAINMENT, WERE NOT FOOLIN.
See how crafty Sims is, her clinic babies are looking forward to being adopted by you. Don't fret you know you can trust Cook County especially with the boards well rounded background work experience. Sims claims it will be just a mere extra $12.00 added to your bill and she feels you can afford it, but there's more!
Lets take up the offer by Commissioner Butler (D) who agrees with Sims (D) and said he would pay for it. Send your bills to him we know he can afford it with all those tunes he has spun out and his side business. Do you think Cook County, Chicago and Illinois ever hire him for gigs?
Check out this link http://www.onlinetalent.com/Butler_homepage.html
"The Iceman" Butler has enjoyed a musical career that began when he and Curtis Mayfield formed a rhythm and blues group, The Impressions, in Chicago in 1958. You can find him on the fifth floor of downtown Chicago's Cook County Building, down the hall from Mayor Daley and you can book him for live entertainment to boot. We imagine he is one busy man about town.
Take a look at Iceman's solid work experience at this link. (bottom of page)
http://www.co.cook.il.us/district03.htm
Now take a look at Sims solid back ground and experience at this link. (bottom of page)
http://www.co.cook.il.us/district05.htm
Commissioner Deborah Sims (D-Chicago), without using the words "property tax increase," indicated that she might push for a higher tax levy to prevent planned closings of health clinics in Ford Heights and Phoenix.
"Sims said. "If we can get this $23 million on the table, we can save my two (clinics)."
"That's not a lot of money for the taxpayers to assume," Sims said of the $12 figure. "I think that's one of the things that we should look at ... if it means saving clinics and providing critical services."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Heights,_Illinois
Commissioner Jerry Butler (D-Chicago), who also has protested the planned cuts in health care, indicated he would go along with Sims.
"I'm prepared to pay the bill," Butler said.
Board President Todd Stroger has proposed a $3 billion budget for the 2006-07 fiscal year that would not involve raising taxes. A majority of the board has said it agrees with his budget plan.
But Sims sounded ready to fight after another commissioner said a $23 million levy increase would mean that the average homeowner in the county would pay $12 more per year to the county in property tax. Budget officials said they were still working on an official estimate of that impact.
(SHE IS CONFUSED, remember the 12.00 dollars is not a lot and lets get the 23 mil on the table her own comments.) Too much Cook County experience will cause this.
In going over the numbers, Glaser and Comptroller Walter Knorr also made it clear that the county is nearly broke. Revenue from patient fees at Stroger Hospital and other county health facilities, which lagged behind all year, dropped off even more at the end of the fiscal year -- coming in $97 million, or 23 percent, behind budget projections.
"October and November were disastrous as far as ... patient fees," Knorr said. "Frankly, in looking at the numbers, we're running behind already in January and February's collections."
Story link http://www.dailysouthtown.com/news/224476,231NWS6.article
Commissioners http://www.co.cook.il.us/commissioners.htm