As the City of Chicago mulls getting taxpayers to cough up on unpaid parking tickets, water bills and other fines, it turns out municipal workers themselves owe a total $23.5 million in such debts.
That’s the latest revelation in a report by Civic Federation, a government watchdog, which reports that more than one in 10 Chicago Board of Education employees and one in three Chicago Transit Authority workers is currently delinquent.
Civic Federation’s president Joe Ferguson told CBS News that the city should demand its own workers “pay up in the same way that regular taxpayers — who are paying their salaries — are being called upon to pay up.” (1)
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The report is eroding public trust at a time when the city’s $1.15-billion deficit is making headlines…