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CPS will take out $389 million short-term loan

Friday, May 19, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller

* Mayor Emanuel laid out his plan today to keep the school doors open. Tribune

The CPS board will vote on Wednesday to take out a $389 million short-term loan backed by expected state aid payments that have been delayed by the long-running budget impasse, said Carole Brown, the city’s chief financial officer. […]

State block grant payments now are nine months behind schedule. City officials say the state now owes it $467 million, but Brown said the district is only allowed to borrow on 85 percent of that amount.

The new short-term borrowing, which will come at a hefty cost because of the school system’s junk bond rating, will allow the district to make a required June 30 contribution to the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund, Brown said.

The fund is owed $721 million. The borrowed money would cover the bulk of that payment, while money coming in later this summer from a first-time pension property tax levy of $250 million will cover the rest. […]

Even if Emanuel’s short-term plan is implemented and carries CPS through the summer, the district would still face a massive shortfall in 2018 absent some new source of revenue or infusion of cash from the state. The mayor is expected to unveil another plan to deal with next year’s finances, one that likely would include a tax hike, according to sources familiar with the mayor’s plans.

* Reuters

The grant money upon which the borrowing will be secured is part of $1.1 billion in state payments Illinois owes to more than 400 school systems. The state has been unable to distribute those grant payments because of the unrelenting budget stalemate.

The mayor’s office said CPS expects to receive its allotment of state grant funds in “coming months.” But Abdon Pallasch, a spokesman for Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza, said on Friday his office has no idea when the money will be disbursed.

The comptroller’s office just made last September’s quarterly grant payment in April. So, it’s going to be a while before CPS gets any more of that money.

* Click here for more from CPS, including stories about other struggling schools waiting on grant money.

Attached to the press release was this map, which CPS claims shows “school districts across Illinois that are facing funding challenges because of the state’s delayed payments”…

       

6 Comments
  1. - Big Joe - Friday, May 19, 17 @ 1:53 pm:

    Winning…..BVR

    Crisis creates opportunity.


  2. - cover - Friday, May 19, 17 @ 2:00 pm:

    Where can I find a blank map of those school district boundaries?

    Even better, TV stations could use such a map during the winter to show which school districts have declared snow days.


  3. - Investors win again - Friday, May 19, 17 @ 2:09 pm:

    So will the governor’s investor buddies make a profit off of the loans?

    Hmmm maybe all this turmoil benefits those investment bankers


  4. - City Zen - Friday, May 19, 17 @ 2:19 pm:

    Probably the only time you’ll see Chicago colored red on a map.


  5. - 32nd Ward Roscoe Village - Friday, May 19, 17 @ 3:17 pm:

    Went to younger son’s symphony/band concert last night at Lincoln Park High School which is not just a neighborhood school, but magnet from 90 elementary schools all over the city. Sometimes the instruments break and the school can’t afford to fix them–yet it manages to be one of the top rated in the state (recent Washington Post rating). They need those $.


  6. - Small town taxpayer - Friday, May 19, 17 @ 3:18 pm:

    ===… which will come at a hefty cost because of the school system’s junk bond rating===

    I wonder how much, in dollar terms, the short term loan will cost the Chicago tax payers?


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