Author: Kirk Allen & John Kraft

31 Jan Algonquin Township & Road District – Legal Bills

Posted at 22:24h in Algonquin Township, Anna May Miller, feature, James Kelly, McHenry County by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 0 Comments

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McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Legal bills in the Township of Algonquin and its Road District have been a point of interest to residents and the local paper. In fact, today a comment was made by the local media that triggered us getting this article up today. "I...

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30 Jan Algonquin Township Road District Time Card – Fuzzy math?

Posted at 20:14h in Algonquin Township, Anna May Miller, feature, McHenry County by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 0 Comments

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McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Basic Math - 1+1=2, 1+2=3, 1+3=4, etc.  According to the policy manual, the following apply to pay: if a person is "required" to work on a Holiday, they get paid overtime, (time and a half) for that work.   And you guessed it, Bob...

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30 Jan DuPage Township Clerk ignored her duties

Posted at 13:41h in Bolingbrook, DuPage Township, feature, Will County by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 5 Comments

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Will Co. (ECWd) - It appears the recently appointed Township Clerk, Kulsum Ali, does not understand her duties as Clerk and ignored proper requests for a meeting by two trustees while honoring a later request by two others. Trustee Alyssia Benford informed Clerk Ali that Trustees Benford...

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29 Jan Algonquin Township – Anna May Miller – Vacation-gate

Posted at 10:49h in Algonquin Township, Anna May Miller, Bob Miller, feature, James Kelly, McHenry County, McHenry County Board Chairman by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 0 Comments

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McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Anna May Miller began working at the Township Road District for her husband in August of 1998 according to records obtained from the Road District. August of 2013 is the fifteen-year mark putting her at an entitlement of four weeks vacation each...

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28 Jan Algonquin Township – Anna May Miller and travel-gate

Posted at 11:45h in Algonquin Township, feature, McHenry County by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 4 Comments

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McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Over fifty Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to Algonquin Township & Road District from the local paper and not a single request for records pertaining to Bob Miller, the former Road District Highway Commissioner. That is based on records provided through an...

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25 Jan Algonquin Township Attorney James Kelly put on notice – Sanctions to be sought

Posted at 20:41h in Algonquin Township, feature, James Kelly, McHenry County by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 1 Comment

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McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Paper trails are like bread crumbs and while the birds may have eaten most of them during this cold snap,(or was it a rag that wiped the computer hard drives?), James Kelly has left one crumb the size of a loaf of...

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24 Jan Algonquin Township – Mosquito-gate – the gotcha game backfire

Posted at 14:04h in Algonquin Township, feature, McHenry County by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 0 Comments

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McHenry Co. (ECWd) - As the three-ring circus continues in Algonquin Township, a recent gotcha attempt appears to have backfired for the person raising the issues, but has resulted in positive steps for compliance with the law. Each month for quite some time the Algonquin Township Trustees, particularly...

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23 Jan Algonquin Township Road District – Bob Miller – Phone Gate

Posted at 14:51h in Algonquin Township, feature, James Kelly, McHenry County, Racheal Lawrence by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 1 Comment

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McHenry Co. (ECWd) - It appears from the records, the former Algonquin Township Road District Highway Commissioner Bob Miller was a busy man just prior to departing office. Records reflect there was a flurry of township road district cell phone transfers and phone purchases. It appears at...

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20 Jan Plainfield Township; $69,951.80 in self dealing – Investigations continue

Posted at 18:41h in feature, Plainfield Township, Will County by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 7 Comments

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Will Co. (ECWd) - Over the past 2 years, we have written about numerous townships and exposed more self-dealing than I thought was possible, and it appears, Plainfield Township is not much different than many of the others as it relates to having problems, but much...

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19 Jan Algonquin Township Road District vs. Union 150 – Court Transcript- the truth

Posted at 14:20h in Algonquin Township, Algonquin Township, feature, James Kelly, John Styf, McHenry County by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 0 Comments

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McHenry Co. (ECWd) - As promised, the transcript of the recent Union 150 case against the Algonquin Township Road district has arrived and available for download at this link or viewed below. Most telling is the fact it does not contain many of the allegations we heard...

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