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Access and display infrastructure, tax increment financing, school, transit and neighborhood demographic data.


To learn more about NCBG's work download our 2005-2006 Annual Report


The Neighborhood Capital Budget Group: Following The Public's Money, Organizing For Accountability!

A Fond Farewell
Effective February 1, 2007, the Neighborhood Capital Budget Group & its Campaign for Better Transit have ceased operations, due to lack of funding. For details, please read our Letter to NCBG’s Friends & Allies.  Then, connect with Key Community Leaders who will continue the movement for government accountability and reforms!

You may send inquiries to:  NCBGCBT@gmail.com

Join us for an NCBG reunion & celebration:
Thursday, March 15, 2007, 5-7 pm
Garfield Park Conservatory Community RM, 300 N. Central Park Avenue


Rebuilding Our Schools
NO Child Left Behind? New study shows that millions of America's public school students and their teachers - are being left behind - when it comes to access to high-quality school facilities.

NEW!PDF Updates on the Campaign to Reform Chicago Public Schools' School Closings Policy! Fact Sheet on the Schools that CPS has closed, and Briefing Paper on HB0200 - School Closings Reform Legislation pending in Springfield

NEW!PDF  Read NCBG's analysis of Mayor Daley's "Modern Schools Across Chicago" program.  Should  our neighborhood public  schools have to depend on TIF funding to build safe and educationally adequate facilities?

Read the report just released by NCBG and our national partners in "Building Educational Success Together", "Growth & Disparity - A Decade of U.S. Public School Construction" ( - 2MB).


Organizing For Accountable Development
New! Updated PowerPoint on Tax Increment Financing
By popular request, NCBG’s ‘Digesting the Aldermanic Menu’ returns!
 


“To TIF or Not To TIF?” – Cook County Starts To Ask Questions!
NCBG’s ongoing efforts to bring about greater accountability and transparency in the City’s top economic development program, Tax Increment Financing, recently won additional support from Cook County Commissioner Michael Quigley. See http://www.commissionerquigley.com/tif.shtm for more.


Rebuilding Our Schools with TIF Dollars?
The Illinois General Assembly has yet to pass a state capital budget to fund improvements to school facilities across the state. Contact the leaders of the House and Senate and tell them to fund the state school construction program!

President of the Senate Senator Emil Jones Jr

Senate Minority Leader Senator Frank Watson

Speaker of the House Representative Mike Madigan

House of Representatives Republican Leader Representative Tom Cross


The Real Alternative To Arbitrary & Disruptive School Closings?: Real Planning!
Rebuilding Our Schools
NCBG is caling on the Chicago Public SChools to embrace comprehensive educational and facility master planning. Call on your elected officials to endorse NCBG’s call for a Facilities Master Plan, "Building A Vision for Chicago’s Schools & Neighborhoods." (2MB - ) and call for CPS to release its Capital Budget for 2006! (Don’t know who your legislators are? Look them up at http://www.vote-smart.org/.)


BEST Releases Public School Facilities Policy Report
Rebuilding Our Schools
The BEST collaborative has developed a set of model policies based on a four-part policy agenda to: 1) increase public participation in facilities planning, 2) create and support schools as centers of community that offer school-based supports to children to eliminate barriers to success and serve the broader community, 3) improve facilities management, including maintenance and capital improvement programs and 4) secure adequate and equitable facilities funding.


Who We Are
The Neighborhood Capital Budget Group is a unique citywide coalition of grassroots community groups, neighborhood economic development organizations, and concerned residents dedicated to equitable and smart public investment in Chicago’s neighborhoods. Through NCBG, Chicago’s community groups are organizing to hold local government accountable for how it spends the public’s money on infrastructure, economic development, mass transit, and public facilities. Together, we’re working to rebuild all of Chicago’s neighborhoods from the ground up, and put the public back into “public works.” To read more see the About Us page. To join NCBG, click here.

 

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