Chris Goodman
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Associate Professor @NIUMPA. Public finance & local govts. Special districts, mostly. You'll hear about bikes.
Chicagoland
Joined January 2009
I guess it's real now. `countyfips' is on SSC. . ssc install countyfips https://t.co/Nav0d1F0sy
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I am very happy to have helped a tiny bit on this piece. Thanks for reaching out @ad_quig and @AlexNitkin!
Denise Gilmore feels like she’s being taxed out of Humboldt Park. Her property tax bill has ballooned more than 60%. Taxes could hit even harder next year after Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s office increased the home’s value by $60,000.
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Do you have a smaller regional public with declining enrollment and a student-to-instructor ratio of less than 20 in your area? Then this might be coming your way, too.
WIU has 7,500 students, with 285 tenured and 81 tenure-track faculty (plus about 80 instructors). It's not a great situation, but it's clear to see that the university is going after one of its largest salary line items. https://t.co/qAnl93gMV5
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WIU has 7,500 students, with 285 tenured and 81 tenure-track faculty (plus about 80 instructors). It's not a great situation, but it's clear to see that the university is going after one of its largest salary line items. https://t.co/qAnl93gMV5
tspr.org
The administration told TSPR that no official decisions have been made.
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Look at some of these reports from the @govfinanceUIC. They clearly outline that rate increases (and therefore bill increases) tend to be quite large. And that's mostly among public providers. https://t.co/YP75fi6isF
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Take Willowbrook's increase in 2023. Depending on your water usage, say 13k gallons (a lot, but not unreasonable if you water your yard), you can easily get to a $ 30-a-month increase. https://t.co/OmpBoKeQcS
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Not indexing rates or including annual changes leads to large single year increases regardless of ownership status. A public utility would have just as sizable increases (and have). cc @MPTeodoro
https://t.co/9nPbw44MGf
dailyherald.com
Illinois lawmakers including Rep. Nabeela Syed of Palatine and Rep. Dagmara Avelar of Romeoville joined consumer advocacy group Citizens Utility Board on Wednesday to call for legislative reforms...
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Large scale, cross border economic development wars are back, baby! (Not that they went away, but this one had a sort of truce for a while)
Kansas will greatly expand its sales and tax revenue bond program in an effort to entice the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs and Major League Baseball's Kansas City Royals to cross the border from Missouri, under legislation Gov. Laura Kelly signed on Friday.
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Question: What states adopted (and in what years) the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act before Euclid? I have the states but not the years, and I cannot seem to find them anywhere.
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I’m not on here much anymore, but this is totally worth it.
Word is that NBC has managed to finally secure the music rights necessary to sell Homicide: Life On The Streets" to a streaming platform. Andre, Richard, Yaphet, Ned, and so many others who labored on that wonderful show on both sides of the camera will soon regain a full share
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What if I told you there was a place with plentiful drinking water, a temperate climate with lots of climate change overhead, and reasonably cheap housing? That place is Chicago, but the name itself turns people off.
Rise of the Boil Belt ... Millions in US face extreme-heat threat as experts urge better protections | US weather | The Guardian
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great to see @SarahAnzia and @trounstine's new paper on how municipal employees' organizations contributed to the adoption civil service reforms published https://t.co/jNr835TDWF
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This is unequivocally a good thing. Regardless of which one, local elected office is a considerable time commitment, and we should adequately compensate people to do it. Also, it allows more people, some of whom don't run because of financial concerns, to run for office.
The Kane County board will vote Wednesday on increasing the pay of county officers who are elected in November.
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New from me and @leland_suzanne in @LGStudies on special district dissolution. We find limited evidence that dissolution is creation in reverse (TELs on cities ↓ exits; home rule ↑ exits), but the results are extremely fragile.
tandfonline.com
After analysing 40 years of census data on U.S. local government change, this study finds that the dissolution of special districts (specialised governments) or ‘exits’ in U.S. counties are largely...
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Check out this new paper by @cbgoodman and @leland_suzanne on special districts. My students always have lots of questions about special districts. If yours do too, consider assigning this next semester.
🚨New paper forthcoming in Local Government Studies with @leland_suzanne🚨 tl;dr granting cities more powers generally leads to fewer special districts, as their need to circumvent restrictive state laws is lessened. These results disappear in district subgroup analyses.
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You can read a preprint version here.
cgoodman.com
Christopher B Goodman is an associate professor at Northern Illinois University, researching special districts & preemption and teaching public finance.
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🚨New paper forthcoming in Local Government Studies with @leland_suzanne🚨 tl;dr granting cities more powers generally leads to fewer special districts, as their need to circumvent restrictive state laws is lessened. These results disappear in district subgroup analyses.
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Voters in Gwinnett County, Georgia, voted to approve a measure creating the new city of Mulberry in northeastern Gwinnett. Voters will elect the five new city council members at the general election in November 2024.
In northeastern Gwinnett County, Georgia, voters will decide on a ballot measure today to create a new city called Mulberry. Mulberry would have around 41,245 residents. If approved, this would make Mulberry the 24th largest city in Georgia.
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Special district dissolution methods are often difficult to parse. This one no longer provides any services, but the referendum to dissolve it failed (so it exists as a taxing body doing nothing). Now, the legislature steps in.
Legislation that would dissolve the Elk Grove Rural Fire Protection District has cleared the Illinois General Assembly and is now awaiting the signature of Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
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Hi @evernote, can I request a simple feature? Can we have a quote text format, preferably one that is respected from an import of, say, a markdown file? That would be swell. Thanks!
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If LinkedIn is your thing, @NIUMPA is updating our presence, and we would love it if you would follow along with us. https://t.co/2Y0VcKRzOt
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NIU Department of Public Administration | 823 followers on LinkedIn. Improving the quality of life for all in our communities by strengthening professional and ethical community governance. | Our...
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