McHenry Co. (ECWd) - According to the Illinois Local Records Commission, Algonquin Township has provided an application for authority to dispose of local records one time in its history and that was in 1978. The linked request is the record retention disposition, however, none of those...
Illinois (ECWd) - According to Governor Rauner, "In Cook County, we have a corrupt, abusive property tax system that is rigged to benefit political insiders". What makes him think this problem is limited to Cook County? In the fall of 2016, concerned business owners in Coles County asked for our...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - It is the finding of the General Assembly that the cost to the public is increased and the quality of goods, services and construction paid for by public monies is decreased when contracts for such goods, services or construction are obtained by...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - As we continue to wait for the clerk to comply with our Freedom of Information Act request we continue to identify major concerns through other venues of obtaining records she appears to not want us to have. The used street sweeper getting so...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - We exposed the sale of a used sweeper by former Highway Commissioner Bob Miller in this article. According to the minutes from the Village of Island Lake, this sweeper had 25,000 miles on it. Considering numerous Miller supporters lashed out at us about...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Former Highway Commissioner Bob Miller claimed a now-deceased man signed a letter in 1997 that reports an audit was done pertaining to Bob Millers sick time. Mysteriously, two copies of the letter reflect slight differences while still representing the same information. We...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - A simple request for phone records from the Algonquin Township has yet to be fulfilled and the last response points to a complete failure of the current Township Clerk, Karen Lukasik. Additionally, the response points to the appearance of attempting to protect...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - When the government takes your money in the form of taxes, use of that money is bound to specific laws. Spend it outside those restrictions and it is considered a violation of the law. Algonquin Township receives Motor Fule Tax (MFT) based on...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - The parting gift former Highway Commissioner Robert Miller gave to the Algonquin Township was a claim he was owed 263 sick days accumulated when he was an employee over 24 years ago. That claim was supported by a document from 1997 that contains...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - A letter used to support a substantial departing payment to outgoing Highway Commissioner Robert Miller was dated February of 1997 and presented at the April 12th, 2017 meeting. (See the previous article on 1997 document here) Dates are significant. When documents conflict it is only...
