Chuy was right. Open the books!

Remember when mayoral candidate Chuy Garcia was mocked by Rahm and by the media when he said he wanted the mayor to "open the books" before he made budget recommendations. Well, with the Feds in town looking at secret no-bid deals and CPS 'crats making $20 million addition/subtraction errors, who's mocking now?

Today's Sun-Times:

-- Fred Klonsky

Chief Administrative Officer Tim Cawley sold the $260 million Aramark deal to the Board of Education and the public by saying it would free up principals’ time, result in cleaner schools and save the cash-strapped district millions of dollars. Some of the savings was to come from layoffs of hundreds of custodians.

But the district was on the hook for some $20 million more to Aramark than it promised, essentially wiping out the $18 million Cawley said the district would save in its first of three years, as first reported by WBEZ.

That’s partly due to CPS miscounting some administrative offices, school branches and district stadiums, McCaffrey said. And then someone forgot to count entire schools, he added, but he was unable to say how many.

Oops! He forgot to count... Yes, that $20 million, with an M.