Keith Nygren
Former McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren apparently thought he had more power than he did.
The Law and Justice Committee considered a resolution today that would legalize an agreement that Nygren made with the U.S. Navy to house prisoners at the McHenry County Jail.
The relevant portion of the resolution reads:
“…the US Navy was notified that McHenry County incorrectly executed the 2012 contract and a new negotiated contract is being presented to the McHenry County Board for approval and execution for the remainder of the terms of the 2012 contract.”
The memo accompanying the resolution says,
“In August of 2012, the United States Navy put out a solicitation for Correctional facilities to provide a safe quarter and subsistence for military detainees.
“McHenry County responded in September of 2012 with a letter of technical submission to continue working the US Navy (McHenry County had an existing relationship with the US Navy).
“Detainees are held at $85 per day and provided the same services and privileges unless otherwise stated in agreement on pg. 25.
“The SAO office did review this agreement and discovered that this had not been approved through the proper authority under the Counties Code which states that the County Board alone has the power by law to bind a county to contract.
“This contract was originally signed by the former Sheriff and now needs to be authorized and approved by the county board to comply with state statute.”
Nygren was King.
He had way too much power.
Good thing he’s gone!
Nygren was no better than a thug.
Zinke thought he would win and be the next Nygren.
Ha ! When Cook County won’t even hire him that says a lot.
Nygren didn’t play the game by the rules, but no where in Cal’s story did I see if Keith’s folly costs us any $$$$$?
Well?
Don’t like that sappy look Keith!
Correctly done or not, God forbid Nygren try to fill the jail with some sort of income rather than let portions of the jail, built with some taxpayers money, remain empty.
It’s like an air line filling a planned flight with cut rate fares to make something rather than let it fly half empty with less revenue
BTW; please note that HOW Nygren did what he did for us was in question, not THAT he did what he did, since what he did is being re-done so if conforms.
It’s NOT being ended-just that paperwork is being done to continue to house Navy prisioners
He looks like an older version of Mike from “Mike and Molly”.
Maybe he should try comedy next.
It makes no economic sense in an impoverished County (property values dropping as the rest of the country enjoys property price recovery, property taxes above 4% of total home value, remarkably low rates of owner occupied homes in contrast to rentals) to keep a public facility open and staffed , then fill it with contract clients paying lower-than-breakeven rates.
This goes for schools as well.
There is no population growth possible with property taxes above 4% of home value, unless externally subsidized.
So it makes no sense to keep several school, building open and staffed but serving only half capacity of student enrollment.
Better strategy is downsizing public facilities which cannot charge enough to pay for the services offered.
The U.S. Navy won’t go hungry if McHenry County refuses to subsidize US taxpayer by providing discount prisoner housing.
All the medical supplies for all of the jail are priced much higher than normal.
We need to look into that!
Prim should demand the going rate for that stuff (if not a discount for volume) but refuse to pay some jacked up prices Centegra is charging knowing the tax payers are footing the bill.
May be off topic but has been bugging me since I found this out in 2010.