Group IDs 64 Ways to Improve City
Monday, Jan 26, 2009 | Updated 3:25 PM CDT
Venson Kuchipudi
The report, prepared by the 21st Century Commission on City Government, identifies 64 recommendations on everything from from infrastructure to the environment to city services.
From jobs to traffic to government, a 140-page report delivered Thursday identifies dozens of ways of how to make the city that works, work even better.
The report, prepared by the 21st Century Commission on City Government, identifies 64 recommendations on everything from from infrastructure to the environment to city services.
Co-chaired by the mayor’s budget director and former top mayoral aide Sarah Pang, the recommendations include:
Mayor Richard Daley welcomed the recommendations and he said he would certainly welcome any kind of economic stimulus money that might be forthcoming from the incoming presidential administration, but he refused to say whether or when the 64 recommendations would be implemented.
The commission started its work more than a year ago, before the economy turned to what the mayor called Thursday "a recession."
Part of their work in recent weeks has been adjusting their recommendations to the new economic reality. Daley asked the commission's members to keep meeting and to keep refining the study.
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