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After DuPage Townships failed meeting of December 4, 2020, where two trustees leaving office and one supervisor who is seeking election used a public meeting in a failed attempt at censuring a fellow trustee, resulting in a lawsuit, it appears they will repeat that process at the March 16, 2021, township meeting. First, we must note that a Township There is no provision in the constitution or the Open Meetings Act which expressly authorizes public bodies to sanction their members for revealing...

During an alleged meeting on December 4, 2020, Defendants Maripat Oliver, Ken Burgess, and Felix George are alleged to have violated the Open Meetings Act and the Township Code in several ways. A lawsuit was filed, and we are one of the Plaintiffs, with allegations which include: Improper notice of a special township meeting - did not comply with Township Code Failure to provide the public attending remotely to have contemporaneous access to the discussions, deliberations, and actions of the p...

Candidates who were removed from the April election ballot by a Maine Township Electoral Board vote have filed an appeal in Cook County Circuit Court, asking for their candidacies to be reinstated.

A recent ruling in a McHenry County Township case may become problematic for DuPage Township and their administrator, Linda Youngs.  We first wrote about the administrator making a change to the levy that was approved by the Board in this article.  With DuPage Townships history of being sued for excessive tax levies four years running, we understand another may be coming for the most recent levy.  While the past levy suits have focused on excess funds being levied, a new suit may point to ...

GW One Posted at 09:48h, 31 December This might be a bad joke but for the fact that the transaction is fraudulent. States Attorney should take this matter up right now. If the States Attorney fails to engage I will refer this fraudulent transaction to other authority that would see this matter for just what it is. John Q. Public Posted at 11:28h, 31 December Wow – the Township Supervisor runs a “non-profit.” The Township Electors, which the Supervisor – in essence, oversees or has a dir...

that the township violated the OMA when it conducted a meeting without adequately providing for the electronic attendance of board members and the public by failing to provide a mechanism to where the electronic attendees could contemporaneously hear all discussion and votes that the township entered into executive session for discussions on things not listed as an exception to open meetings - the alleged censure of a trustee that the township took action on an item not properly listed as an ac...