DuPage Township’s Illegal General Assistance Expenditures –

Trudy, you must not have been at the meeting last night or your not getting the right information. You mentioned he blamed the attorney and the auditor yet didn’t own his mistake. How is that possible when he clearly said he apologized. It was very heartfelt and humble. In regards to the attorney, your right, he did fire the attorney (his right) and he did try to appoint a new attorney (his right) and yes the infamous 3 trustees voted no (their right) so he appointed the attorney for his position (his right). Nothing he did was wrong or against election code. You making an assumption….well that’s just wrong. You commenting “he was still committing the same public aid fraud with the new attorney” – makes no sense – do your research before commenting.

Jackie did a good job of pointing out that Supervisor Mayer has never taken advantage of the training offered at TOI, nor the manuals that TOI publishes annually regarding general assistance. To use the excuse that it was always done that way and go on a long story about the auditors and the attorney, is how he always deflects everything. Again, he was still paying out illegal expenses with his new attorney. He just paid a $4,000 bill to an IT company he forced on the board, while he had a new attorney. The auditors should come to a meeting and respond given that they are now being blamed. The board will probably learn that Mayer never listened to the auditors either. SECTION 15-55 of the township code states “The township supervisor shall be, ex officio, supervisor of general assistance.” He argues with the board, refuses to takes direction from the board, but then blames the board when he is caught doing something illegal. Didn’t he just pass a budget with food pantry costs listed in general assistance. Illegal again. HE WAS IN THE WRONG, not the board. This was one of his primary responsibilities. He didn’t think he should go and get trained and he held this position since 2005? TOI offers training and manuals year round. When was the last time he attended the General Assistance Training? It doesn’t sound like he has ever attended the training, because he said “it’s the first time he was learning of this”. Is that also the board fault, that he didn’t take the initiative to make sure he was properly trained? Jackie was right, ignorance is not a defense and the law said “he was solely responsible”, not the board. I am disappointed that funds meant for those in need were not used properly. I will be attending a meeting and urging the board to report Supervisor Mayer and anyone else that assisted him with his fraudulent activities over to the proper authorities. Public assistance fraud is a serious matter. Didn’t someone comment at the last meeting, that DuPage Township was fined in the past for public aid fraud. Wasn’t Mayer on the board back then and the only one of the current board members on the board back then. Public Aid fraud is a felony, right? Something that serious means, he should have taken in upon himself to be properly trained. So to answer your question, he should have known he was doing wrong by “knowing the law and making sure he was properly trained to carry out his duties.” He knew exactly what he was doing, he just didn’t plan on getting caught.

Trudy, you don’t know what you are talking about. I simply asked a question. I did not make “false, misleading statements”.

Wow, Trudy you are good at deflection. Interesting how you continue to do that. Steve is making an excellent point that the 3 trustees clearly violated the Open Meetings Act, otherwise the board would not have had to hire back the terminated employee and pay the attorney that represented her. Sure sounds like guilt to me. Plus from what I heard one of the trustees admitted to calling the police.

So at 9:44pm you said he doesn’t own his own actions, yet at 10:12pm you state he apologized, which is it? Deflection again. OMA Violation did occur, plain and simple.

Word of the day is defection! General Assistance is William’s responsibility. If this article is wrong, then where is the man named in the article? He should be saying how wrong this article is…

This article has nothing to do with Alyssia or Sheldon, but thanks for recognizing them as not being “ followers”. They have both been asked to do other things, while Willam is “stuck at Supervisor” and everyone else is moving on. So who is riding coat-tails? To even bring their name up says “jealousy and envy” . William’s arrogance is doing a good job of taking him out. His arrogance doesn’t need anyone’s help. Stop deflecting! A real leader admits when they are wrong, real leaders don’t blame others.

So if the General Assistance activity was legal, call out this article as “fake news”. If not then go help William learn the Public Aid code and everything else he needs to learn about his job. I heard the recording from the first budget workshop. He admits some things you may not want me to share. It will prove his ignorance.

One more thing… Isn’t William a long time Republican and former Chair of the local Republican Organization? This post makes no sense.. Well Republican or Democrat, he is still in charge of General Assistance and still hasn’t said this article is fake news.

You seem to be missing the point. Illinois and New Jersey have the highest taxes in the US. Illinois also has over 7,000 government entities, the highest number in the country. Each entity requires our taxes to support it. The work this township does in the way of services to its residents is good but it can be absorbed into other current government units, and you eliminate the cost of its overhead. What’s overhead? The salaries of the various commissioners, the costs of buildings, trucks, utilities etc. it’s the way businesses work, they try to be more efficient. This township has a assessors department and the counties have Assessors departments. Why can’t they be combined, at a lower cost? Just because a township may be a small part of our tax bill doesn’t mean we keep them around. If they are not pulling their weight, get rid of them. If you walk into the office of the CEO of any major company saying please keep my useless department because we don’t cost very much, you will be laughed out of his or her office. Believe me I’ve seen it happen. Stupidity is wasting tax resources on useless government entities. I don’t like inefficient and wasteful governments and Illinois is full of them. We can provide even more services only if we make the process more efficient.

Naperville has had a food pantry since 1984 that is a non-government run organization; it’s called Loaves and Fishes. Please access their website to learn of the many social services that they offer.

Your correct, great organizations do not violate the law, however in this case there were 3 trustees that violated the law, not the entire organization.

Defection is the desertion of one’s country or cause in favor of an opposing one. “Defection…..William Mayer is in charge of General Assistance!!!!” What are you trying to imply?

Also, “Deflection is what William does best”. First, I find it hard to believe you even know him, if you did, you wouldn’t be calling him William, you would know that he goes by Bill. Now, if you do know him and still chose to call him William, that obviously shows disrespect and clearly shows which side you have already taken.

Let’s try to see if you can see a different view point in regards to deflection. Would you think deflection is someone that is trying to find everything possible to pin on the supervisor so she can deflect away from the fact that she has her daughters doing data entry for a financial software program without board knowledge, has violated the open meetings act, demands access to a terminated employees email and now has missing emails and also demands access to the website? Now that is deflection, plain and simple, can’t argue with that.