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Quarterly Report of the Office of Inspector General First Quarter 2015
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Joseph M. Ferguson Inspector General
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
City of Chicago
740 N Sedgwick, Suite 200 Chicago. Illinois 60654 Telephone: (773) 478-7799 Fax (773)478-3949
April 15,2015
To the Mayor, Members of the City Council, the City Clerk, the City Treasurer, and the residents ofthe City of Chicago:
Enclosed for your review is the public report on the operations of the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) during the first quarter of 2015, filed with the City Council pursuant to Section 2-56-120 of the Municipal Code of Chicago.
The first quarter of 2015 marked the closing of a months-long public discussion about the City's fiscal challenges—what they are, where they come from, who is responsible for them—and, at the quarter's end, a pivot to the necessary work of meeting them. As the City turns to this task, there may be an almost inevitable impulse to frame that work in terms of fixing budget deficits. However, the interests of all constituents might be best served by approaching the moment from the perspective of fixing government. This broader approach would pursue savings and efficiencies less from the naturally arising crisis management impulses and more from basic public administration principles and practices that would better position the City for sustainable, continual, long-term fiscal and operational health. This broader approach might include leveraging best practices in municipal management such as,
Zero-based budgeting,
Performance-based budgeting,
Performance management.
Quantification and justification for tax exemptions and tax expenditures, an...
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