Having just finished filing my campaign disclosure form for the Skinner Campaign Fund, I thought it was time to start looking at campaign finances.

First up is the McHenry County Recorder of Deeds contest.

Three candidates:

• Tina Hill
• Joni Smith
• Joe Tirio

Tina Hill and Joe Tirio have filled their campaign disclosure reports; Joni Smith has not.

Such reports are due on the 15th of October.

Hill reports having $6,433.65 in the bank at the end of September.

She raised $6,290. Contributions of over $150 are made public under state law:

• $1,000 – Gavers Asp. Paving & Excavating, Inc., Woodstock
• AECOM US FEDERAL PAC, Arlington, Virginia
• $250 – Karen & Daniel Grabow, McHenry
• $250 – Jack Porter & Associates, Inc., Woodstock
• $500 – Mathewson Right of Way Company, Chicago
• $250 Gary Overbay, Crystal Lake
• $200 -Michael Stanard, Woodstock

Hill spent $7,814.28.

She reports $510 in “transfers out,” which are supposed to be to other Political Action Committees.

Such checks were written to the McHenry County Council of Governments, which is not a PAC.

$5,810.68 in expenditures were identified.

Handouts include

• $480 for campaign pens
• $840 for emery boards

Other highlights include

• $1,926 was spent on consulting, printing and campaign materials with One Zero Charlie of Woodstock.
• $447 went for parade candy.
• Woodstock’s Tequilaville Cantina got $460 for meetings and a fundraiser.
• $298 was spent at R & S Screen Printing of Woodstock for signs, tee shirts and decals.
• $245 went for postage.
• About $210 was spent on office supplies and fundraising stuff.
• $160 in checks were written to the McHenry County Bar Association for meetings.

The second candidate who has filed is Joe Tirio.  (Both Hill and Tirio are from Woodstock.)

Tirio reports having $11,360 at the end of September.

During the three month period, he reported spending only $40.

His contributors of more than $150 follow:

• $5,400 – Vincent Foglia, Sage Products, Barrington
• $5,000 – Dorothy Mueller, Retired, Woodstock
• $500 – Monarch Senior Care, Woodstock