Here's an excellent, in-depth analysis of LarryBoy's joke of a committee...
"...William Charles Development’s John Holmstrom III was named chairman of the ad hoc committee....Holmstrom contributed $700 to Morrissey’s campaign, as did William Charles, Ltd....

Appointee Ted Ross, retired vice president of finance at Sundstrand, contributed $31,995 to Morrissey’s campaign.

Fellow appointee LoRayne Logan, president of The Workplace and a Rockford Board of Fire and Police commissioner, contributed $9,962.45 to Morrissey.

The Workplace contributed $9,320 to the mayor’s campaign...Phyllis Ginestra, ... will serve on the board, too. Ginestra contributed $2,234 to the Morrissey campaign.

Rockford Consulting & Brokerage’s Ryan Brauns, also secretary of the Rockford Board of Election Commissioners, will take part as the city’s health insurance consultant. Brauns contributed $165 to Morrissey’s campaign....

Perhaps most disturbing, however, is that the president and publisher of the Rockford Register Star, Scott Bowers, accepted an appointment to the committee.

Although neither Bowers nor the local daily has political campaign contributions on the books, the potential for conflict in this arrangement is egregious....." Now keep in mind,these LarryBots

"...kicked off their work Friday morning...(Sept.11)
Members of the ad hoc committee, hand-selected by Mayor Larry Morrissey, plan to study and analyze the city’s budget and submit a report to the mayor with recommendations by late November...."
So, since this is such a pointless panel WHY NOT?
"ROCKFORD — City officials took the first step today toward laying off possibly 30 city employees.
The mayor’s office issued a release this evening to the media stating the city has given union leaders formal notice that “impending layoffs could come as soon as Oct. 2.”..."
So WHAT IN THE BLOODCLOT will the LarryBotPonyShow come up with in LATE NOVEMBER?
LarryWorld, Idiocy Everywhere!!!!

Wonderful perspective... a hand-picked group of developer/speculators, protecting THEIR slice of taxpayer dollars(especially TIF handouts), celebrate the end of the Labor Day week with an assault on the city employees providing the BASIC CITY SERVICES....priceless!
And so begins LarryBoy's stooge panel ...."Members of the ad hoc committee, hand-selected by Mayor Larry Morrissey, plan to study and analyze the city’s budget.. what city officials described as “uncontrollable expenses” — personnel and pension costs tied mainly to the public safety arena..."See, you got MoneyBags Sammuls feeding this hand-picked group the information LARRYBOY WANTS THEM TO SEE...and they point out the problems as LarryBoy SEES them...
I mean really, I feel like a broken record but I'm simply astounded that BASIC CITY SERVICES are the stuff people pay taxes FOR...the TIF bond debt, the hockey team, mall tear-out, luxury lofts and myriad other "special economic development schemes" that LarryBoy
has embraced since first taking office, THAT'S the drain on the city coffers they DON'T want people looking into....
" “We have built an organization that is unsustainable,” said City Administrator Jim Ryan. “It was built on the premise that tomorrow will always be better than today. ... History has proved that it hasn’t been.”..." EXACTLY!!!!!!!

So LarryBoy seems to be trying to stay low...but watching the Council on TV he sure seemed, oh, I don't know, preoccupied ?
See, I don't know if LarryBoy KNEW Rev. Jesse Jackson was going to speak....and can't see his reaction when the camera is on the speaker, but it sure appeared Jackson was decidedly focused on
Larry as he spoke....and by the time he gave his Officers'Report, LarryBoy showed none of his typical smooth phony concern....noticed he's upped the police presence last few weeks....I think he's SCARED!

(kinda ironic how he hates public workers until he NEEDS them)

After LarryBoy first was elected, it was one and a half, two years into his term before some started to question his "leadership" ("Coppergate",Jim Ryan's DUI, TWO "hundred-year" floods, remember?)
Through it all,the RRStar stood by their Man(sing it, Tammy) and, as the last election rolled around, the typical short-memory voter, forgot the spoiledbrat/narcissistic/developers'greed-feeding management the city had suffered for 4 years and apathetically re-elected LarryBoy.

And then, almost magically, we learn how, first the MetroCentre, then the city are facing impending financial disaster. But what we DON'T LEARN is how the spoiledbrat/narcissistic/developers'greed-feeding management the city had suffered for 4 years has CONTRIBUTED to this situation....borrowing million$ for TIF debt, adding lawyers and layers of upper-management,high-salary positions of questionable distinct duties AND necessity....while ignoring BASIC GOVERNMENT SERVICES...

Now, THIS attitude of refusing to adequately address the importance of FIRST funding these same BASIC GOVERNMENT SERVICES has really, in my opinion, greatly contributed to this current mess we're in....keep in mind, LarryBoy APPOINTS the Library Board that CHOSE to sink $4million into that east-side branch with disregard for STAFFING....likewise, the forced-annexations and Capital Improvement Programs increase engineers,supervisors,etc. but ignore the needed MANPOWER and EQUIPMENT to adequately maintain the growing city boundaries and new roads (w/Custom ManholeCovers!!)
The increased city area also stretches the city's PUBLIC SAFETY resources, with LarryBoy's attacks on both police and fire ignoring the reality that his "economicdevelopmentutopiahallucination" revolves around handing over millions in tax dollars to attract jobs,business and people to an increasingly LESS SAFE UNDESIRABLE PLACE TO LIVE AND WORK!!!!!!!!!!

And THAT'S the state today of LarryBoy's Empire.......

Doc Slafkosky stands on temporary pads installed along Main Street for the On the Waterfront celebration Sept. 4-6, 2009. The pads outside JR Kortmans, Kryptonite and Octane should allow some outdoor festivities that would have been severely hampered by the removal of the downtown mall without it. Originally the city had hoped to have the project substantially complete by Waterfront.

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And so continues the special interest, ridiculous extravagant spending targeted for a few LarryBots during the city's "dire financial crisis"....(I have only seen those Custom Logo manhole covers on Main and Church Streets from downtown to the LarryLandLofts at Garrison)...

WHO PAYS? library staff, public safety, public works and TAXPAYERS!!

LarryLove....

"Morrissey said Rockford is a city in pain and needs its mayor to lead it toward healing. He also said he must remain unbiased and visible."
Gee,GREAT LarryBoy....way to step up....see, but as my last post noted, his remarks at City Council were NOT unbiased, his concern(you can put the lawyer into an elected office,but you can't take the ambulance-chasing, phony out of the lawyer)for the victim OVERWHELMED his snub of the cops...
For example, he says he discouraged and then turned down a group’s request for a march down State Street in support of police. (Another group of about 200 people marched down State Street last week asking for justice in the Barmore case.)

Enough for now....

Well, LarryBoy really showed his disdain for city employees last night.
Whatta tool....he starts his remarks with all this care and concern for the shooting victim, his family, the Rev. JJ, the community....
but POLICE OFFICERS? Nah, didn't hear it...just some crap about the cops being tense, jittery, or some such bull.
He's been warned continuously by one public speaker,former cop and County Board member BRUCE ROBERTS that, despite all the cute charts,graphs, and assorted other statistical cosmic debris the city spews, CRIME IS UP AND THE STREETS ARE DANGEROUS...


and then this...
"...During public comments, Gwen Lashock, who had been a candidate for 3rd Ward alderman, encouraged the City Council to place a referendum on the ballot to raise revenue for the library and prevent cutbacks.

“Because of the economic crisis many of our citizens face, we need library services now more than ever before,” Lashock said. “I call upon the mayor and City Council to find the money to maintain services now and allow taxpayers to vote on a referendum to secure future funding.”

Mayor Larry Morrissey said state legislators enacted laws that are leading to significant increases in public safety pension costs that are crippling city resources. He said the state needs to take action to correct that situation and that he would not support a referendum at a time of high unemployment..."

So wait LarryBoy............?,!@?
Despite all the evidence given that library workers ARE indeed city employees, he refuses to allow a referendum because..." significant increases in public safety pension costs..."
Wait?now they are PUBLIC SAFETY personnel????

as I said, WHATTA TOOL!!!