Kankakee Co.(ECWd) - "Springfield, Ill. – A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Sept. 7, that charges Roy Collins, former executive director of the Kankakee Valley Park District, with defrauding the park district and a related not-for-profit organization for his personal benefit. Collins will...
CHAMPAIGN, IL. (ECWd) - WCIA-3 reported on our citizen watchdog training held in Champaign yesterday. It was sponsored by AFP Foundation - Americans For Prosperity Foundation and was a non-partisan 4-hour session on how to monitor local government using the Open Meetings Act, the Freedom Of Information Act,...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - On January 20, 2017, the Illinois Supreme Court issued its Opinion in Board of Education of Springfield School District No. 186 v. The Attorney General of the State of Illinois upholding the Appellate Court's decision to uphold the Circuit Court's decision to...
MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - As I alluded to in the previous article on the most recent resignation of Charity Murphy, the director of the park district, we believe this to be simply another temper tantrum in order to get a pay raise, more free stuff, or...
MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - The Agenda has been posted for the January 19, 2017, Clark County Park District monthly meeting. One of the listed items for action is to "discussion and vote to accept the resignation of Charity Murphy as Executive Director." This is not the first time...
EDGAR CO., IL. (ECWd) - During the hearing on January 11, 2017, the Court heard arguments from both RIDES Mass Transit District and Edgar County on Edgar County's Motion to Dismiss the lawsuit brought by RIDES-MTD. Judge Glenn heard the Motions and arguments, denied Edgar County's Motion...
OLIVER, IL. (ECWd) - The Clark-Edgar Rural Water District has set its 2017 regular board meeting dates as listed below: CERWD - 2017 Meeting Schedule January 16, 2017 7:00 pm February 20, 2017 7:00 pm March 20, 2017 7:30 pm April 17, 2017 7:30 pm May 15, 2017* 7:30 pm June...
EDGAR CO., IL. (ECWd) - The list of candidates who filed their petitions for Clark-Edgar Rural Water Commissioner, prior to the end of the filing period, are as follows: Sandra O'Neal Lisa Thomas Seth Thompson Charles Warfel Brad Adams Phil Adams...
CLARK CO., IL. (ECWd) - The Candidate Lineup (gleaned from petitions that were submitted by close of business today) for the Clark County Park District Board of Commissioner seats in the April 4, 2017 election is as follows: 3 full (4-year) term seats - Roy Sweet, Joe Ewing,...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Here is a link to their Municipal Minute article (click here). . Court Interprets "Public Recital" Requirement of OMA Prior to Final Action . We don't get a lot of guidance from Illinois courts on compliance with the Open Meetings Act (OMA) (most of our guidance...
