...the statutory authority to hire (appoint) any employees without first obtaining “advice and consent” from the county board Additionally, the board has to set any SOA employee compensation – the...
...commissioners, past commissioners, and their family members. After some back-and-forth discussions and several requests for information thru the Freedom Of Information Act, we finally received the answer to a question...
...fair market value. The fair market value of the fringe benefit is to be added to the employee’s total compensation amount shown on his W2. Subsequent to our article, NIU...
...now-former commissioners are still commissioners until the next meeting – that would be a false assumption because they cease to be commissioners when the county clerk canvasses the votes. There...
...produced any agenda or minutes where the county board considered and fixed the compensation of Mr. Becker, both requirements under the law, nor have they produce the minutes where the...
...out of her own pocket and nearly $200,000/year compensation package as Library Director). Just because Weimar can legally do something as Director doesn’t mean she should be doing it. It...
...scheme that would have benefitted McLaughlin. This scheme, enacted by the Village last year, would have increased McLaughlin’s compensation from $40,000/year to $150,000/year while automatically increasing his state pension upon...
...an Ethics Commission consisting of himself, another commissioner, and the newspaper owner and business partner of a third commissioner – all of whom had ethics complaints against themselves or their...
...and nothing else, leaving the compensation discussion and vote in its entirety. In the October 4, 2012, meeting, there was a discussion on compensation, and there was a vote on...
...compensation to be fixed by the county board and paid by the county.” We raised this issue during the last County Board meeting March 14th, 2017, and were advised that...