City officials went to a Northwest Side library branch Tuesdaynight to discuss nuts and bolts of an estimated $2.4 billion citybudget.
But many in the public audience wanted to discuss six cityworkers checking out a fire hydrant and what they saw as otherhorrible examples of the city wasting their money.
"The other day six city workers came around to check the firehydrant by my house," declared Eugene Miller, 66, a Portage Parkresident. "Six men! How come? And then you think the answer is toraise property taxes."
Miller was soon followed by James Nowacki, a North Sidehomeowner, at the city's first neighborhood meeting on the projected1988 budget, held …
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