According to the FY 2024 budget, we are expecting a 55% decrease in revenues from last year and a 3% increase in expenditures! $1.5 million coming in and $3.5 million going out.
According to the FY 2024 budget, we are expecting a 55% decrease in revenues from last year and a 3% increase in expenditures! $1.5 million coming in and $3.5 million going out.
Also, I think it would be a real problem politically for the city (leaving the legal jeopardy aside). The Melika Gardner/Sebastian Nalls crowd thinks that reparations should be given to everyone who has ever experienced any kind of racial discrimination (regardless of whether or not the city was responsible) and has criticized the city's program as being too limited.
I think there is a subset of these people who are also worried about the potential of the new school as being a gentrification-accelerator.
While I would be quite interested and (probably) amused to see how someone like Melika would balance her inability to criticize the D65 Board/Admin's poor financial management with the City helping to bail out the new school by raiding the reparations fund, I couldn't see the city council wanting to get involved.
According to the latest monthly financials, the Reparations fund is -100k in the red!
https://www.cityofevanston.org/home/showpublisheddocument/95403
According to the FY 2024 budget, we are expecting a 55% decrease in revenues from last year and a 3% increase in expenditures! $1.5 million coming in and $3.5 million going out.
https://city-evanston-il-budget-book.cleargov.com/9510%60/fund-summaries/reparations-fund
I really can't see the city having any money to throw at D65's White Elephant
And you are right, this is a complete dead end. Thanks for the help
Also, I think it would be a real problem politically for the city (leaving the legal jeopardy aside). The Melika Gardner/Sebastian Nalls crowd thinks that reparations should be given to everyone who has ever experienced any kind of racial discrimination (regardless of whether or not the city was responsible) and has criticized the city's program as being too limited.
I think there is a subset of these people who are also worried about the potential of the new school as being a gentrification-accelerator.
While I would be quite interested and (probably) amused to see how someone like Melika would balance her inability to criticize the D65 Board/Admin's poor financial management with the City helping to bail out the new school by raiding the reparations fund, I couldn't see the city council wanting to get involved.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2023/05/29/city/community-advocates-celebrate-direct-cash-payment-reparations-option-but-push-for-more-funding/
Hell, wasn't it a couple of years ago when the city gleefully offloaded the crossing guard costs to the District?
Ah thank you for this, that top link is what I was looking for!