ONARGA, IL. (ECWd) - The Onarga Community Public Library District Board of Trustees held its monthly meeting on June 11, 2019. After a late start, the Board heard our complaint about their illegal vote and removal of a board member last October. Imagine if the majority of an...
ONARGA, IL. (ECWd) - Our last article showed how the Onarga Community Public Library District voted to (unlawfully) remove a member of its elective board. This article will explain how wrong that vote was. How vacancies and appointments of Library District Trustee are supposed to work: Each local government...
ONARGA, IL. (ECWd) - "Brazen and reckless disregard for the rule of law" "Clear violation of the right of a citizen to vote and have their vote count" "Attorney Malpractice" Those are but a few words which came to mind, along with "who do these people think they are?," ...
ONARGA, IL. (ECWd) - The Onarga Community Library District, apparently on advise of their attorney, George P. Cuonzo, has been destroying public records in violation of the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") and Local Records Act ("LRA"). Last month, I requested copies of certain public meeting recordings...
ONARGA, IL. (ECWd) - John Bank, who has been President of the Onarga Community Library District Board of Trustees for the past 17 years, sent a response to an email I CC'd the library on, where I filed a request for review with the Attorney General's...
ONARGA, IL. (ECWd) - Last night, the Onarga Community Library District held its regular monthly meeting in violation of the Open Meetings Act. The Open Meetings Act specifically requires public bodies to post meeting notices and agendas at least 48 hours prior to a meeting. Those notices...
Iroquois Co. (ECWd) - During our past coverage of the games being played by Iroquois West School Superintendent Dvorak, the local paper printed information that was factually false. We demanded a correction to be published by the paper and also demanded an apology from the Superintendent...
GILMAN, IL. (ECWd) - We had previously reported on the inaccurate comments made by Iroquois West CUSD #10's Superintendent on the cost of FOIA request made by the Watchdogs (here); she told the Gilman Star it costs the School District $2,977.00 to respond to our FOIA...
According to verbal confirmation from the Board of Education President during the last meeting, the board approved a "team building" retreat to Lake of The Ozarks and Dr. Dvorak was kind enough to let them use her property for the event. When I asked my...
Iroquois Co. (ECWd) - While reviewing the public records that the Iroquois West Superintended lied about the purpose of our request, I found numerous troubling matters on the credit card statements that we bet the vast majority of the public had no clue of. CUSD 10 is...
