City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has never stopped congratulating her self for adding “transparency” to the council’s pork-distribution process in the wake of recent slush-fund scandals.

But it looks like her members can act like spoiled children just as well in the sunlight as in the shade.

The latest display of greed is especially galling: The council’s just-passed budget boosts member-item spending — the cash pols get to pass around their districts like Christmas turkeys — a full 9 percent over last year, to $396 million.

That’s nearly $8 million per member.

And, as with all spoiled children, blame accrues mostly to the parents — in this case, Quinn and Mayor Bloomberg.

Typically, the speaker uses the pork pot to enforce discipline among her members. Thus, it’d be a bit more understandable if the member-item bloat was in the service of passing a budget that actually held the line on spending.

But the overall budget grew 6 percent, even as fiscal doomsday still looms.

Quinn and Bloomberg should’ve taken their cues from Gov. Paterson — who vetoed thousands of member-item expenditures in an effort to drag state legislators back to the bargaining table.

And the pork itself?

Well, some is probably worthwhile, some is completely wasteful — and some will undoubtedly wind up in councilmembers’ pockets. (Of particular interest: a $180,000 appropriation for a housing group tied to the disgraced ACORN.)

But it’s all corrupt: Just as the speaker uses the cash to buy members’ votes, so do they, in turn, toss it around their districts to buy political support.

Essentially, member items are little more than an incumbent-protection racket — which should, by rights, be subtracted from the public campaign funds pols get during election season.

Though, frankly, we’d settle for a hint of shame in the way they constantly grasp for more.