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By Benjamin Cox on June 1, 2021 at 11:59am
Village of South Jacksonville President Tyson Manker has announced his appointee to a recently vacated trustee position on the village board.
In a press release today, Manker has announced that John R. Stewart will fill the vacancy left by Todd Warrick. Warrick announced his resignation from the board last week.
Manker cites Stewart’s energy and his service in the U.S. Marine Corps as qualities and experience he sees leading the village into the future. Stewart has worked with the Illinois Department of Employment Security as a Veterans Employment Representative and Intensive Services Coordinator for the past 6 years.
By Benjamin Cox on April 28, 2021 at 1:36pm
The Village of South Jacksonville’s President-Elect has alerted the public of a 5-year old lawsuit concerning the city’s utilities.
President-Elect Tyson Manker says that the village has been involved in litigation since 2016 with Jacksonville Affordable Housing LP over water and sewer utilities. In the alleged lawsuit, Affordable Housing, better known as Labor Drive Housing, discovered in the Spring of 2015 that the village had been overcharging residents of Labor Drive over the past decade. The lawsuit alleges that between January 2006 to December 2014, residents of Labor Drive were overcharged over $326,000 and from January 1, 2015 to May of 2015 they were overcharged nearly $35,000.
By Benjamin Cox on February 6, 2021 at 10:04am
Calls of impropriety continue to be heard over the ballot for Village President in South Jacksonville. On January 26
th, Tyson Manker filed suit in Morgan County Court to have his name restored to the ballot in the upcoming April Consolidated Election. The Village of South Jacksonville Electoral Board consisting of current village president Harry Jennings, Village Clerk Megan Moore, and village trustee Paula Belobradjic-Stewart voted unanimously to have Manker struck from the ballot on the grounds that Manker failed to file his statement of economic interest with the Morgan County Clerk’s Office as required by state law in a hearing on January 21st. The objection to Manker’s candidacy was filed by current village trustee and current opponent Dick Samples. Manker contends and has evidence that he was directed via email by Morgan County Clerk Jill Waggoner’s Office to file the statement at the Village of South Jac