华埠特别服务区管理委员会（Chinatown SSA Committee）12月16日向中文媒体发布新闻稿，内容如下：
2019年11月6日，在唐人街#73特别服务区（SSA#73）的常规例会上，区长卢汉士的办公室人员以及芝加哥市政规划与发展署人员通知SSA委员会，SSA#73的2020年预算已被修改并削减了72%。
On November 6, 2019, at a regular meeting of the Chinatown Special Service Area #73 (SSA#73), Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez’s office and the City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development informed the SSA commissioners that the budget for SSA#73 for 2020 was being amended and cut by 72%.
对比SSA委员们早在今年七月批准的原2020年预算，修改后的预算中的征收税额将不会被用作以下项目：1）街道清洁与垃圾清理，包括清空红色垃圾桶；2）维护舍麦路中央花坛的景观美化以及舍麦路附近威尔斯-永活街连接工程的景观美化；3）安装自行车架；4）资助唐人街夏季嘉年华；以及5）其他经讨论的社区美化项目，例如在巷子里做壁画。
Compared to the original 2020 budget that the commissioners had approved in July 2019, this amended budget for the 2020 property tax levy does not have allocations to: 1) clean the streets and do trash removal, including emptying the red garbage cans; 2) maintain the landscaping for the Cermak median and the landscaping near Cermak for the Wells-Wentworth project; 3) install bike racks; 4) sponsor the Chinatown Summer Fair; and 5) other beautification projects that were being discussed, such as murals in the alleys.
委员们原本预算了约$20,000用于清空垃圾桶及人行道清洁，原本也预算了约$20,000用于舍麦路中央花坛及永活街新花坛的美化维护。
The commissioners had budgeted approximately $20,000 for emptying the garbage cans and cleaning the sidewalks. They had also budgeted approximately $20,000 for the landscaping maintenance of both the Cermak median planter and the new plantings on Wentworth.
SSA#73安装的红色垃圾桶将不会被移除，只有市政有权力移除它们。它们是用纳税人的钱购买并安装的，所有权归芝加哥市政。
The ten red garbage cans that the SSA#73 had installed will not be removed, as only the city has authorization to do so. They were purchased and installed with taxpayer dollars, and are property of the City of Chicago.
唐人街#73特别服务区的委员们希望缩减预算是暂时的，希望征收税额将恢复到缩减前的数字。
The commissioners of Chinatown SSA#73 hope that this budget reduction is temporary, and that the levy will be raised to what it was before the reduction.
在过去的两年中，唐人街#73特别服务区安装了十只垃圾桶，并在唐人街旺季时进行一周七次（周末每天两次）的清空工作。SSA还在路灯柱上安装了识别唐人街的幡旗，对人行道进行了深度清洁，清除积雪，重新给路灯柱上的龙灯刷漆。另外，SSA很快将在Allen Lee广场安装象棋桌椅和空中彩灯，并在芝加哥公共图书馆唐人街分馆旁安装象棋桌椅。
In the past two years, the Chinatown SSA#73 has installed ten garbage cans and scheduled pick up once a day, 7 days a week (twice on weekends) during the busy months in Chinatown. The SSA also has installed banners on light poles identifying Chinatown, power washed the sidewalks, provided snow removal, re-painted the dragon lights on the light poles. In addition, the SSA will soon install game table sets and string lights at Allen Lee Plaza, and, game table sets at the Chinatown Branch of The Chicago Public Library.
我们邀请公众参加SSA的例会与委员们一起讨论这一情况，例会通常设在每个月的最后一个星期二，地点是祖谅体育馆。
The public is invited to attend the SSA meeting, usually last Tuesday of each month, at the Lenard Louie Fieldhouse to discuss this situation with the SSA Commissioners.
如对损失的服务和缩减的经费有任何问题，请向区长卢汉士咨询www.25thward.org (773/523-4100)。
Please direct all questions regarding the loss of services and reduction of funding to Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez at www.25thward.org (773/523-4100).
（消息来源：芝城华商会 ）