{"id":733380,"date":"2010-05-25T15:27:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T19:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0133ee7a6957970b"},"modified":"2010-05-25T15:27:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T19:27:49","slug":"daley-no-property-tax-hike-in-next-years-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/733380","title":{"rendered":"Daley: No property tax hike in next year&#8217;s budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by John Byrne<\/em> at 2:28 p.m.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Mayor Richard Daley said today that he will not propose a property tax increase as part of next year&#8217;s city budget.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>But Daley said unspecified fee increases and service cuts remain on the table to balance the budget, describing those steps as &quot;a last resort.&quot; Service cuts could be permanent, or last &quot; a year or two,&quot; Daley said.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p><\/br>&quot;We&#8217;re living in austere financial times in America,&quot; Daley said during a speech to the City Club of Chicago.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Daley also said new city beautification efforts will be put on hold, saving $4 million. Existing planters and trees will be maintained, but new ones will not be installed, he said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>A new program for city workers to get prescription drugs will save the city $12 million, Daley said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Daley refused to comment on his re-election plans for next year during a question and answers session following his speech, urging attendees to participate in state and national elections that are coming up in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by John Byrne at 2:28 p.m.Mayor Richard Daley said today that he will not propose a property tax increase as part of next year&#8217;s city budget.But Daley said unspecified fee increases and service cuts remain on the table to balance the budget, describing those steps as &quot;a last resort.&quot; Service cuts could be permanent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2515,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34MI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}