Fosterburg, IL. (ECWd) - While we deeply sympathize with families and friends of loved ones who have died, there is absolutely no excuse for using public funds to pay for funeral dinner food. If there was a need, the board members should have reached into their...
Fosterburg, IL. (ECWd) - After receiving financial records dating back to 2008, it has become more apparent this water district thinks it is a private company and thinks it can expend public funds on anything it pleases - the law be damned. As an example, since December...
FOSTERBURG, IL. (ECWd) - The Bottom Line: Alcohol-fueled entertainment on the backs of the taxpayers. Fosterburg Water District finally provided receipts for their Super Bowl Weekend festivities and other parties they have been paying for with public funds. They claim, in writing, that no public business was discussed....
FOSTERBURG, IL. (ECWd) - "Effective January 1, 2017, No local public agency may reimburse any governing board member, employee, or officer for any entertainment expenses." So says the Local Government Travel Expense Control Act, 50 ILCS 150. On January 18, 2017, the FWD Board voted unanimously to adopt...
FOSTERBURG, IL. (ECWd) - On top of the Fosterburg Water District's unlawful delegation of their statutory authority to a nonmember of the Board of Commissioners (here), I decided to what else they were up to. Turns out, they are up to quite a few things that...
FOSTERBURG, IL. (ECWd) - In our continuing coverage of the complete mess about to be constructed by the City of Carlinville, Fosterburg Water District, and a private corporation, Jersey County Rural Water Company, we have found some interesting new concepts in play in the Fosterburg Water...
COLLINSVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - In a Motion to Dismiss an Ordinance Violation, three Defendants claim the City of Collinsville has wrongly accused them of certain Ordinance Violations related to real estate they own. The combined Motion to Dismiss alleges that: there were no dates alleging the zoning...
Someone must hold elected officials accountable for their actions. Why not you? Americans for Prosperity Foundation-Illinois is hosting a Citizen Watchdog Training to teach YOU how to hold elected officials accountable. Over the past several years, the efforts of two veterans from rural Edgar County have caused the...
COLLINSVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - What does it say about a Mayor that cannot sit there and listen to a citizen exercise his right to address the council during a public meeting? Mayor John Miller committed a criminal Class C Misdemeanor during Collinsville's City Council meeting on July...
