...alleged false statement under penalties of the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act, which describe willful violations as a crime involving a Class A Misdemeanor: Sec. 4A-107. Any person required to file...
...wrote the Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act and established clear Prohibitions. As far as conflicts of interests being “routinely cured through abstention or recusal on a specific matter”, such abstentions...
...employee who has the necessary knowledge and experience but also has a family relationship with the Supervisor, Board of Trustees, Highway Commissioner, Clerk or Assessor will not be considered a...
...general assistance, township collector, and township assessor.” The Township Board has no power pertaining to employment for three Township Offices, general assistance, collector, and assessor. Nor do they have the...
...additionally alleged that the IGAs cannot violate state law, such as the Municipal Code or the Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act. We noticed that the Kankakee memo never mentioned “Aldermen”...
...Cooperation Act, which means it was created by the action of a law (see this article) and only has the powers granted it. However, (i) there is NO clear legal...
...Supervisor of Assessments (SOA) and that he was an employee. Better question, what kind of employee gets a $115,000.00 fee for his employment? The fact of the matter is the...
...the board’s Office and Rules Committee, which oversees her office, and the consensus was that the hourly rate for the appeals work was “reasonable,” Metzger said.” OK, how the paper...
...was legal.” Now there is a no-brainer. No one has ever said it was not legal to divide the county into four sections, known as the establishment of a quadrennial...
...all payments to Directors for the past couple of years. What I found was actual compensation per meeting anywhere between $600.00 and $700.00 depending on which Director was compensated. Read...