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BGA Goes After Township Government – Road Costs
A couple of weeks ago news media unloaded the latest attack on township government. They were working from a Better Government Association report. Most of the attention was aimed at Cook County...
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Dunham Township Road Commissioner Gets his Million Dollars
The results for the $1 million were not even close in Dunham Township. 63% of the electorate voted to allow the Road District to borrow money to fix local roads. The vote, with early and absentee votes...
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Road Commissioners Slush Funds Mntioned by Belvidere Township Assessor
Boone County Watchdog masthead. I was reading an article Boone County Watchdog criticizing the Belvidere Township Assessor’s petty cash fund when I ran across the following in a referenced article in...
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Nunda Township Road Commissioner Hiding Audit of Senior Bus Services
McHenry County Auditor Pam Palmer conducted an audit of the grant to the Nunda Township Road Commissioner for Senior Bus Service. Since County government was responsible for awarding the money, it...
View ArticleOver $8 Million for Unincorporated Subdivision Roads
The McHenry County Transportation Committee has voted to budget $8,060,000 over the next five years to attack the problem of unincorporated subdivision roads. A memo explains what’s up: In accordance...
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Cement Trucks on Dorr Twp. Roads
Taking the shortcut to Woodstock I saw two cement trucks coming to and fro from the road building on Route 14 near McHenry County College. The maximum weight for them is 82,000 pounds, if memory serves...
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Over Mowing of Roadsides?
The following was written by Lisa Haderlein of The Land Conservancy of McHenry County. I saw it in the Woodstock Independent on the weekend of July 4th in an edition distributed to Wonder Lake and...
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Naperville Township Road Commissioner’s Credit Card Spending
The Naperville Sun, now a Chicago Tribune paper, has investigated the township credit card expenditures of Highway Commissioner Stan Wojtasiak from September, 2013. $3.500 was found spent on food and...
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Fight over Township Road Commissioner’s Authority
The Village of Schaumburg and the Schaumburg Township Trustees think the Township Road Commissioner should turn over a large portion–16 to 20 miles–of his roads to the village at a savings of $800,000...
View ArticleMike Murphy Re-Elected Hartland Township Road Commissioner
Facing off against Hartland Township Road District employee Rickland Rasmussen, incumbent Highway Commissioner Mike Murphy won re-election. The vote was almost 2-1 with one of the two precincts still...
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