Shelby County

16 Mar Grain Belt Express Clean Line High Voltage Transmission Line permit revoked in 5th Appellate Court decision –

Posted at 17:56h in Clark County, Coles County, Douglas County, Edgar County, feature, Shelby County by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 1 Comment

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ILLINOIS (ECWd) - The Illinois Appellate Court, 5th Appellate District, issued an Order which effectively revoked the Illinois Commerce Commission's issuance of a nonpublic utility company's certificate of public conveyance and necessity under the expedited review process set forth in the Illinois Public Utilities Act. Click here...

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11 Nov Former Village of Tower Hill Treasurer Nancy Finley charged with Class X Felony – Theft over $100K

Posted at 12:19h in feature, Shelby County by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 5 Comments

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Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The village of Tower Hill's former Treasurer, Nancy Finley, has been charged with a Class X Felony for alleged theft of over $100,000.00. Will this be another micro-example of Dixon Illinois where over $50,000,000 million was stolen, all while everyone claimed clean audits? The...

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07 Jun Democrats cause Township employees to not get paid –

Posted at 15:26h in feature, Shelby County, Shelbyville by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 8 Comments

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SHELBYVILLE TOWNSHIP, IL. (ECWd) - The Shelbyville Township board of trustees held its regular meeting on Monday evening, June 5, 2017. During the meeting they went into executive session to discuss an appointment to the vacant seat of Township Supervisor. It was vacant because former supervisor Steve...

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02 May Newly Appointed Shelbyville Township Supervisor not qualified to begin 14 day term

Posted at 14:04h in feature, Shelby County, Shelbyville by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 1 Comment

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Shelby Co. (ECWd) - In yet another example of poor legal input, the Township Board appointed a replacement Supervisor to serve the remainder of Steve Shoaff's term, which is a whopping 14 days, and it went downhill from there. In order for a person to enter upon...

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02 May Shelbyville Township Supervisor Resigned

Posted at 12:16h in feature, Shelby County, Shelbyville by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 5 Comments

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Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The May 1, 2017 regular meeting of the Shelbyville Township board was met with multiple resignations from office.  We covered the attorney/FOIA officer resignation in this article. Under new business, the current Township Supervisor, Steve Shoaff, tendered not one, but two resignations.  He resigned...

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02 May Shelbyville Township Attorney Resigned (video)

Posted at 11:10h in feature, Shelby County, Shelbyville by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 2 Comments

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Shelbyville Co. (ECWd) - At its township meeting on May 1, 2017, the Shelbyville Township attorney resigned from her appointed position as township FOIA Officer and also informed the board she would not seek to continue being the township attorney (effectively resigning from that position as well)....

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07 Apr Shelbyville Township Violates Township Code – Holds illegal meeting

Posted at 13:53h in feature, Shelby County, Shelbyville by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 2 Comments

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Shelby Co. (ECWd) - One can only wonder why this Township can't seem to get things right as once again, they have failed to either read the law or follow it. What time can a Special Meeting be held in a Township? "Special township meetings may not begin...

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28 Mar Shelbyville Township Trustee Homer Walden paid 3 times other Trustees for Illegal Contract –

Posted at 18:38h in feature, Shelby County, Shelbyville by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 4 Comments

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SHELBYVILLE, IL.  -(ECWd) - We rarely see a situation like this, aside from Lerna, IL., where an elected official decides to work for the public body that he is elected to govern. Doing so is a felony in this state. Trustee Walden has been pulling in $7,638.00...

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27 Mar Shelbyville Township – Financial reporting not adding up

Posted at 10:49h in feature, Shelby County, Shelbyville by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 0 Comments

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Shelby Co. (ECWd) - While reviewing the financial reporting to the Illinois State Comptroller for Shelbyville Township, some serious discrepancies have been identified.  I briefly referenced those discrepancies during the last meeting which can be viewed from the video in this article. For the purpose of this...

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27 Mar Shelbyville Township March meeting video

Posted at 09:46h in feature, Shelby County, Shelbyville by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 1 Comment

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Shelby Co. (ECWd) - Below is the video from the March Shelbyville Township meeting.   A few items of interest are the length of the meeting in relation to what the taxpayers pay these people, the employment status of the attorney, and the notification that numbers being...

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