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Speakers urge Cook County board to shift funds from policing to violence-prevention and preserve nonprofit tax relief
Summary
Public commenters at the Cook County Board meeting urged the county to reallocate money from sheriff and state's attorney budgets toward violence-prevention, behavioral health and community services; nonprofits urged renewal of the Class L property tax exemption. Speakers cited falling jail populations and existing county investments as reasons to rebalance spending.
Public commenters at the Cook County Board of Commissioners' meeting on Nov. 1 urged the board to shift county dollars away from law enforcement and toward violence-prevention, behavioral health and community services, and asked the board to preserve nonprofit tax relief that local organizations rely on.
CMD Chime, an organizer with Southside Organizer Organized for Unity and Liberation, told commissioners that "the budgets are moral documents that show us what the government officials truly value," and urged the board to "protect funding for essential services like violence prevention,…
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