{"id":122,"date":"2007-09-27T07:53:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T13:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/preliminary-2008-budget-numbers\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T07:55:46","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T13:55:46","slug":"preliminary-2008-budget-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/27\/preliminary-2008-budget-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary 2008 Budget Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Stroger&#8217;s office is predicting a budget shortfall for the coming year of $307 million.\u00a0 On Monday, October 1, the County Board will be discussing a proposal to raise the county portion of sales tax from .75% to 2.75%.\u00a0 The revenue generated by this proposal could mean an addional $749 million in annual revenue for Cook County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean for us in the Public Defender Office?\u00a0 This means another season of political debate about where to shave County operating expenses, another season of fighting to protect our Office and our clients, and another call for assistant public defenders to get involved in these very serious matters that effect us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Stroger&#8217;s office is predicting a budget shortfall for the coming year of $307 million.\u00a0 On Monday, October 1, the County Board will be discussing a proposal to raise the county portion of sales tax from .75% to 2.75%.\u00a0 The revenue generated by this proposal could mean an addional $749 million in annual revenue for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}