Gottemoller, Miller Charged with Conflict of Interest on Township Consolidation Referendum Vote

Bob Anderson

Bob Anderson

Although the Ethics Complaints that Wonder Lake Republican Precinct Committeeman Bob Anderson made were not included in the Agenda Packet of the Thursday Ethics Commission, they have been released pursuant to a Freedom of Information request filed by McHenry County Blog.

The first complaint is against McHenry County Board Chairman Joe Gottemoller and District 1 County Board member Anna May Miller.

Both are accused of having “township pecuniary interests” not recusing themselves from the vote on whether township consolidation referendums should have been put on the Primary Election ballot.

Anderson claims the votes of both should have be disqualified.
Anderson Ethics Complaint 2-8-16 Gottemoller + Miller
This is the second challenge to votes cast by opponents against putting township consolidation referendums on the ballot.

Anderson won his first challenge, which was an Open Meetings Act complaint about the Board’s allowing Michele Aavang and Mary McCann, both “No” votes, to cast those votes by phone. Aavang was in Washington, D.C., on Farm Bureau business. McCann, who participated in the floor debate, had to leave to catch a plane at O’Hare Airport.

Neither, according to an opinion from the Public Access Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, gave the required advance notice that would allow voting by telephone.

This is the second time that Anderson has filed an Ethics Commission complaint about Gottemoller’s being in a conflict of interest because of his being the Grafton Township Attorney and about Miller’s conflict because she works for her husband Bob Miller at the Algonquin Township Road District.

The first time around, Assistant County Administrator Scott Hartman suggested Anderson take his complaint to the Management Services Committee.

Anderson followed his advice, but got no satisfaction.

He cited the following two part of the rules for County Board members:

Country rule that Bob Anderson thinks Joe Gottemoller and Anna May Miller broke.

Country rule that Bob Anderson thinks Joe Gottemoller and Anna May Miller broke.

The second part of the Rules cited by Bob Anderson in his complaint that they demonstrated conflict of interest by voting on the issue of whether or not to allow referendums concerning the consolidation of townships.

The second part of the Rules cited by Bob Anderson in his complaint that they demonstrated conflict of interest by voting on the issue of whether or not to allow referendums concerning the consolidation of townships.

The Management Services Committee seems to have taken no action, stimulating Anderson to re-file his complaint with the County Ethics Commission. (You can read all the paperwork here.)

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Tomorrow, McHenry County Blog will have information on the second Ethics Commission Complaint that Anderson filed against Anna May Miller.


Comments

Gottemoller, Miller Charged with Conflict of Interest on Township Consolidation Referendum Vote — 4 Comments

  1. Thanks go to some members of the McHenry County GOP and Joe Gottemoller for setting up the Task Force headed by the incompetent Board member from Crystal Lake who is backed by Mike Tryon to become a State Rep.

    That Task Force gave Anderson hope and he will not ever back down now!!

    For the benefit of the taxpayers in the County will those same people who gave Anderson the hope now convince him to retire from his prime life objective?

  2. Of all the things in IL and county government to cut, trim or save the taxpayer from this is not it.

    Township government is the smallest most pure form of government we have.

    As with any government body it can become corrupted and bloated.

    If you have a problem with your township the get on that board and fix it!

    This is not a county issue if two townships wish to consolidate then vote on it but STOP trying to poke rural people in the eye!

    When will the can of worms known as the Conservation Dist be taken apart and reviewed to save us some BIG tax dollars???

  3. Bobby might hold the record for the most waste of our $$$$ in the county in the last year.

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