CHICAGO (WLS) -- According to a BGA Policy analysis, departmental budgets for three of Chicago's oversight agencies fall short of minimums required by law.

This is reflected in how the city handles fringe costs.

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When the city sets its annual budget, pension and benefit costs, also called fringe, are not included in departmental budgets. Instead, those get lumped together in a citywide category called "Finance General." That means agencies like COPA, OIG, and CCPSA don't have those costs directly listed in their budgets. Those costs are then used to say oversight agencies are meeting their budget floors, even though those dollars are not clearly broken out in the budget.

The city's Office of Budget and Management issued a statemen

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