All the budget stuff's been quiet this week....I bet old Sammuls burning thru calculator tape trying to find other creative ways to toe LarryBoy's threat to cut city services to balance the budget(BUT NO TOUCHING MY"ECONOMIC{BUDGET-BUSTING} SUICIDE DEVELOPMENT"!!!)
So looking for more DATA,I'm struck how,while LarryBoy praises,embraces "new" technology,how LAME is the city website...
http://www.ci.rockford.il.us/
Still touting his inauguration trip(real UP-TO-DATE), with all the hundreds of thousands of TAX DOLLARS he's spent with BlackBerrys for all his henchmen,pay bills on-line...yada,yada,yada...
Course,you get THIS...

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For the complete March 12 2009 RockStat Report, click here.

Lead issue...

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SICK TIME USE REVIEW

Great,what can we learn???
Seems like a lotta meaningless numbers,BUT near as I can tell,they use 3% as some benchmark and those deptartments sucking up all the tax dollars ALSO harbor the biggest sick time(ab)users!!!

Economic Development.... 13%
Administration..... 19%
(both with 0 in "Lost Productivity"column)
Wow,now THAT'S some useful DATA!!!!

Wonder how much we paid for that ROCKSTAT dog and pony show......

AND YET...
there's also Fire Dept. DATA that PROVES LarryBoy's LYING to the public about fire service,staffing needs...LOOK....

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Fire Call Growth.... 9.46%
Analysis
• Fire full response times in this area are
longer compared to the rest of the city
due to the lack of concentration of
resources. The most firefighting units
this area can accumulate in 4 minutes
drive time is 2. A full complement for a
house fire is 4 firefighting units (2
engines, 2 ladders).

So IF he wants to claim "EXCELLENCE EVERYWHERE!!" AND cut staffing,he actually needs to BUILD MORE NEW STATIONS WITH MORE APPARATUS