(Chicago Tribune) — Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkleon Monday put the brakes on a host of “nonessential” projects and services in a move she estimated could save tens of millions of dollars during the current budget year. The moratorium will last until the board in late February approves a 2011 budget, Preckwinkle said. Between now and then, the county will determine which contracts can be deferred, eliminated or changed to save money. “We won’t spend like the county did in the past,” Preckwinkle said about her executive order, which comes one week after she took office. “We’re creating a process to review, defer, restructure and even eliminate all ill-advised contracts and wasteful spending that marked the previous administration.”
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