City of Chicago 2019 Budget Overview

[Pages:208]City of Chicago

2019 Budget Overview

Mayor Rahm Emanuel

2019 Budget Overview Letter from the Mayor

Dear Fellow Chicagoans,

This year's budget reflects the hard work and shared sacrifice our city has made to ensure a brighter future for our residents for years to come. It shows the tremendous gains we've made to strengthen our fiscal standing, reduce our structural deficit, address our financial legacy liabilities, and build on our investments in youth and public safety reforms to improve the lives of all Chicagoans.

Since 2012, our fiscal management has generated millions of dollars in cost savings and reforms that have created more certainty by strengthening our financial outlook and keeping our spending in check. The fiscal discipline we've exercised over the past seven years has led to an 85 percent reduction of the structural deficit, making it the smallest in 12 years. We've stabilized the financial conditions of the City's four pension funds, and reduced health care costs ? budgeting $33 million less this year than 2011. We've improved the delivery of City services like garbage collection, putting it on a grid system, and invested in energy efficiency and smart energy purchases. We've made the City more attractive for corporate relocations by making sure Chicago has the best talent, training, and transportation potential employers expect. We've done this while boosting our economy and shrinking our unemployment rate to the lowest ever recorded ? and most importantly, increasing our investments in children by $55 million over 2011.

As we've taken a hard look at our long-term financial obligations and made the tough choices to address them, we've made children our priority. That's why we've expanded early childhood education by ensuring that all kindergartners go to school for a whole day, and are moving toward free full-day pre-school for all 4-year-olds by 2021. We extended the school day for students and saw high school graduation rates climb from 56 percent seven years ago to 78 percent today, the fastest growth in graduation rates of any major city. We've also invested in youth and summer jobs, developing one of the largest youth employment programs in the country. This summer, more than 32,000 young people received job and internship opportunities, giving them valuable life experiences that will set them up for success. We're making sure that nearly 8,000 young men and women can partner with a mentor who can help change their life. Year after year, we've built on these investments in youth to put a generation of our children on a path to a brighter future.

Investment in our youth also means investing in the communities where they live. This investment includes making our neighborhoods safer and strengthening trust between the police and the communities they serve. To rebuild trust between youth and police, the City is following the recommendations of the Community Policing Advisory Panel and Youth Advisory Councils to discuss ways youth and police can better engage with one another. These efforts are important steps police are taking to strengthen their partnership with the residents of Chicago.

Chicago has faced tough challenges over the years, but we've done the hard work and faced each test together. Whether it was shoring up our pension funds to protect the future of our workers and their families, implementing public safety reforms designed to strengthen police accountability and build community trust, or making investments in children a priority, our continued efforts in making a better and brighter future for every Chicagoan will endure for many generations to come. Mayor Rahm Emanuel

2019 Budget Overview Table of Contents

This Budget Overview is a companion to the other documents that together comprise the City's annual proposed operating budget, consisting of the 2019 Budget Recommendations, which contain the City's proposed line-item budget, the 2019 Anticipated Grants Budget, and 2019 Draft Action Plan, which relates to federal entitlement grant funding. These documents are all available on the City's website.

Letter from the Mayor

Proposed 2019 Budget: Key Reforms,

Savings and Investments

11

Introduction

11

Savings, Reforms, Efficiencies

11

Financial and Budgetary Reforms

12

Revenue

15

Investments

15

Conclusion

18

Discussion of Proposed 2019 Budget

Overview

23

Revenue Discussion

25

? Corporate Fund

25

? Special Revenue Funds

30

? Enterprise Funds

33

? Debt Service Funds

34

? Property Tax Levy

35

? Grant Funds

36

Expenditure and Workforce Discussion

37

? Introduction to Expenditures

37

? Proposed Expenditures by Type

37

? Personnel Costs and Workforce

37

? Non-Personnel Costs

38

? Proposed Expenditures by Function

39

? Pension Funds

40

Capital Improvement Program

42

? Introduction and Relationship to Operating Budget

42

? 2019 Capital Improvement Program

42

? 2019 Tax Increment Financing Program

43

Financial and Budgetary Policies

45

2019 Budget Overview Table of Contents (continued)

How Chicago Budgets

? Budget Process

49

? Budget Documents

50

? Budget Calendar

51

? Basis of Budgeting

52

Program and Budget Summaries by Department

? City of Chicago Organizational Chart

55

Finance and Administration

60

? Office of the Mayor

61

? Office of Budget and Management

63

? Department of Innovation and Technology

65

? Office of the City Clerk

67

? Department of Finance

69

? City Treasurer

73

? Department of Administrative Hearings

75

? Department of Law

77

? Department of Human Resources

80

? Department of Procurement Services

82

? Department of Fleet and Facility Management

84

Infrastructure Services

89

? Department of Streets and Sanitation

90

? Department of Transportation

96

? Department of Aviation

102

? Department of Water Management

106

Public Safety

111

? Chicago Police Board

112

? Chicago Police Department

114

? Office of Emergency Management and Communications 118

? Chicago Fire Department

120

? Civilian Office of Police Accountability

122

Community Services

126

? Department of Public Health

127

? Commission on Human Relations

131

? Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities

133

? Department of Family and Support Services

136

? Chicago Public Library

140

2019 Budget Overview Table of Contents (continued)

City Development

142

? Department of Housing

143

? Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events

145

? Department of Planning and Development

147

Regulatory

150

? Office of the Inspector General

151

? Department of Buildings

155

? Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection 158

? Chicago Animal Care and Control

161

? License Appeal Commission

163

? Board of Ethics

164

Legislative and Elections

166

? City Council

167

? Board of Election Commissioners

170

General Financing Requirements

172

Budget Detail

? How to Read Budget Detail

177

? Revenue

178

? Expenditures

183

? Personnel

185

? Grants

187

Glossary

191

Appendix A

? Chicago Facts and Demographics

199

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