$17.3 Billion Budget 3.2 increase from the first spending plan includes about 36,000 full time positions. 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly joins the Ray Stevens Show to talk about his stance on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget increase. The Mayor’s budget is a disaster. Good news in its current form it shouldn’t pass, bad news the city needs to pass a budget by the end of the year. If no budget is passed by the end of the year the City would go into a receivership whereby the State of Illinois would be overseeing and approving city budgets for the next decade.