At this week’s Grafton Township meeting, the Township Trustees refused to vote to pay any bills.
Pay the ones that are in dispute in the separation of powers suit now pending or pay none of them. That was their position.
Not even electricity and gas.
Now gas probably isn’t an essential in summer, but Com Ed does have a limit on how long it will keep the power flowing to computers and lights during the summer.
Just in case you might like to see the bills now on the unpaid list, here they are:
Grafton Township Trustees (from left to right) Barb Murphy, Rob LaPorta, Betty Zirk and Gerry McMahon
- Ace Hardware – $49.80
- Ancel, Glink -$39,994.88
- AT&T – $393.62
- AT&T – $393.62
- AT&T – $393.63
- Cardunal – $418.69
- Cash – $140.00
- ComEd – $275.55
- D’Angelo Spring Water – $7.75
- Eder, Casella & Co. – $35.00
- First Congregational Church – $25.00
- Grafton Twp. Road District – $150.00
- Interact Business $134.61
- Jack Freund – $284.60
- Trudy Jurs – $43.93
- J.A. Ketchmark – $1,550.00
- Key Equipment – $230.57
- Legal Link, Inc. – $548.36
- Linda Moore – $3.20
- Matuszewich, Kelly & McKeever, LLP – $1,886.10
- McHenry Co Council Of Government – $76.00
- Nicor Gas – $52.19
- Printing & then some – $123.50
- The Law Office of David R. Gervais – General Assistance
- $507.50
- Shaw Suburban Media – $174.30
- Tom Peck Ford – $28.18
- TOI – $240.00
- TOI – $971.51
- TSI – $25.00
- Vahl Reporting Service, LTD – $5,907.60
- Verizon – $111.61
- BlueCross BlueShield – $2,645.51
- Humana – $519.18
The big bills, you may notice are related to the court case.
And these doesn’t include the Road Fund.
Incomplete Cal, I figured that your loyalty to Linda Moore would have ended by now . . . you sat through five days of testimony and listened to how Linda conducts herself and how Linda operates as a township supervisor. You failed to write about the dozens of bills that Linda has refused to pay for months. Cal, time for you to see the light.
What kind of patronage job did Ketchmark do for moore?
Hmm…I thought that the LM camp didn’t want a township office. They want the Supervisor to work out of her home right? So really, the Trustees are helping her with her goal. If no bills are paid and the electricity is shut off, then she can go home and continue her quest to abolish Grafton township government.
Lol, get it right for once…tell the WHOLE story. The point is not that they don’t want her to pay bills….they want her to pay the ALREADY PAST DUE bills first.
Linda Moore wants $3.20?? Really??
Suck it up Linda!!!!!!
It’s interesting to see the title of this entry, “Who’s Not Getting Paid by Grafton Township?” with a picture of the Trustees beneath it. When was the last time the Supervisor paid the Trustees? When was the last time she paid herself?
:: Grafton Township Trustees ::
:: Grafton Township Trustees ::
Found on the Trustees Page of the Grafton Township Assessor’s Website:
Note the very last sentence.
Betty Zirk
Gerry McMahon
Rob LaPorta
Barbara Murphy
The township board of trustees is the legislative branch of the
township government. Each single township has four trustees and
a supervisor, which comprise the board. Each board member
elected at large within the township, has one vote on all issues
before the township board.
Trustees certify tax levies for the township and road
district. For the road district, the amount of the levy is determined
by the highway commissioner.
In their capacity as legislative officers, trustees adopt the annual
town budget and appropriation ordinance, the general assistance
budget and the road district budget. Trustees also are responsible
for approving all township expenses and auditing bills submitted for
payment by the highway commissioner.
The trustees are obligated to approve all legally incurred bills, that
is, those appropriated for expenditure. Trustees also must reject
for payment all requests that are not debts which have been legally
incurred by the township. With few exceptions, the supervisor
may make no payments without approval of the board of trustees.
There are exceptions: payments for general assistance claims and
township and highway department employees’ salaries.
The salaries of elected officials shall not paid until the accounts
have been audited and approved.
“The salaries of ELECTED OFFICIALS shall not paid until the accounts have been audited and approved.”
Have you been receiving your paycheck, Linda? Unfortunately, you are an elected official. According to this, you should not be paid until you release the financials for you’ve removed from Township computers and have been sitting on for audit.
Linda, you are a TRAIN WRECK!
Resign now!
Why are you getting paid then Duh!!!!
You’re out of order, you’re your all out fo order!!! out of order, out of order.
If she’s getting paid it just one more law she’s breaking bring on the cuffs
As Government. William J. LePetomane said, “We’ve have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen. We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harumph! Harumph! Harumph!”
Go back to your paddleball, Linda.