An interesting issue with “defund” (or “reallocation”) in suburbia: many Cook County suburbs are villages _and_, coterminously, townships, with the village owning policing and the township owning many of the services you’d “reallocate” the funding to.
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This was one of the reasons River Forest shot down a “reallocate” proposal in July: “we don’t reallocate dollars across taxing bodies; if they need more money for social services, they can alter their tax levy”.
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In fairness: River Forest actually has a big forest preserve that is transected by the Des Plaines river. I don’t know where the fuck Oak Park got “Oak” and “Park” from. (Oak Park and River Forest share a high school, OPRF).
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How is “River Forest” the absurdity you’re responding to and not COTERMINOUS VILLAGE AND TOWNSHIP? They both have trustee boards!
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I come from a Catholic country so I just assume there is also a coterminous "Municipal Spirit" and that these mysteries will one day be revealed to the civically righteous
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