Ersel Schuster
McHenry County government has a lot of meetings.
And, that’s even without paying members per diems, as used to be the case.
Back in the day’s of yesteryear, some might have wondered if meetings had been called just to fatten the wallets of County Board members.
My guess is that they would have been right.
But that payment system was abolished and replaced by a salary for County Board members.
Board member Ersel Schuster suggested a return to the payment per meeting approach after she researched the absences of County Board members over a several month period.
Her idea didn’t go over big, that is, it was defeated.
Next she advanced the idea of putting County Board member attendance on the County web site.
You can imagine how those with poor attendance records reacted.
Schuster points out that Kane County’s Board member attendance is on the internet.
But, Schuster has more than logic.
She has a hammer.
If the County Board doesn’t make the information available, she will.
Unwilling to replicate her research, I’m waiting to share the information with you.
I wonder how my father would have reacted after he decided to take long winter vacations in warmer climes.
He probably would not have cared.
Hang in there Ersel Info could be posted like the baseball scores
Maybe call it the County Sluggers.
Take their salary and divide by the number of meetings and FINE them for missing work. They should be present for the full meeting for the day to count. No work, no pay…just like the rest of the world!
Maybe a portion of the salary should be based on the number of meetings attended.
The DeKalb City Council (DeKalb being where we lived prior to coming here) had an ordinance on the books that the Council could dock an alderman pay for missing meetings.
Several of them qualified for losing pay, but their colleagues on the Council never enforced it.
Can’t imagine why I was surprised.