The Republican Party apparently decided not to run candidates in Dorr Township.
Of the candidates who filed as Independents, there is only a race for Township Road Commissioner:
- Tom Thurman (incumbent)
- John Fuller (current trustee)
Dorr Township Garage
The following have filed as Independents for the other offices:
Supervisor – Sue Brokow (current clerk and new GOP committeeman)
Clerk – Brenda Stack
Assessor – Veronica Myers (incumbent)
Trustees (4 to be elected)
- Jon Sheehan (incumbent)
- Rick Hoyt
- Bryce Calvin(
- Chris Cantwell (incumbent)
Mark, what kind of compensation we talking here?
Economical pole barn building, nothing fancy.
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Thomas E Thurman
2015 – $77,787
2014 – $70,595
2013 – $67,880
2012 – $69,804
2011 – $67,771
2010 – $65,797
2009 – $63,880
2008 – $62,090
2007 – $60,282
2006 – $58,526
2005 – $55,531
2004 – $52,000
2003 – $53,500
2002 – $52,000
2001 – $48,250
2000 – $42,000
http://www.OpenTheBooks.com > Widget > State > Salaries > click Recipient Name > select Illinois > type in Last Name followed by First Name > search
Vernoica A Myers
2015 – $70,999
2014 – $67,052
2013 – $63,784
2012 – $64,406
2011 – $63,731
The current Dorr Township Supervisor is Robert E Pierce.
2015 – $41,270
2014 – $39,741
2013 – $38,213
2012 – $39,307
2011 – $38,191
2010 – $37,108
2009 – $36,056
2008 – $35,074
2007 – $34,082
2006 – $33,118
2005 – $31,923
2004 – $31,000
2003 – $31,894
2002 – $31,000
2001 – $29,313
2000 – $26,500
The following is posted on the Dorr Township Website.
http://www.DorrTownship.com > Clerk > Total Compensation Package
Dorr Township Total Compensation Package.
Public Act 97-0609 and the Posting of Employee Compensation Information
In compliance with Public Act 97-0609, a listing of each employee with a total compensation package exceeding $75,000 will be available by request at the Dorr Township office at 1039 Lake Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois 60098.
http://www.dorrtownship.com/Clerk/TotalCompensationPackage.aspx
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The Crystal Lake High School District posts something similar.
Both Dorr Township and Crystal Lake High School District 155 are violating Illinois State Law (PA 97-0609) regarding the posting of total compensation of employees participating in the IMRF pension fund whom have a compensation package over $75,000.
Here is the law.
Public Act 97-0609
“Within 6 business days after an employer participating in the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund approves a budget, that employer must post on its website the total compensation package that exceeds $75,000 per year.”
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What can one do?
Email, call, write, your elected officials; and / or make a public comment at a board meeting (each board should allow public comments about non agenda items at a specified time during the board meeting).
Write a letter to the Editor.
After the information is obtained, send it to the blog so it can be posted.
Brenda Stack
Dorr Township Clerk
$8,640 in “Data Year” 2016 (“Data year for BGA does not necessarily match at fiscal year or calendar year)
Started January 14, 2014
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More on Thom Thurman
BGA has a salary of $74,181 for 2016 for Tom Thurman of Dorr Township Road District Highway Commissioner with a start date of July 28, 1992.
Again, BGA data year is not necessarily a fiscal year or calendar year.
Also, Open the Books gathers pensionable income from the pension fund, whereas it seems BGA may gather the data directly from the employer.
As a side bar, it’s good to gather data from both the employer and the pension fund, as the pension fund data does not reflect non pensionable income.
For instance, a new technique in some school districts is granting non pensionable post employment bonuses to employees; the benefit is the income is not pensionable; the drawback is that income is not prominently posted on many school district websites.
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source: Better Government Association (BGA) salary database
The Dorr Township website shows Brenda Stack as the current Township Clerk.
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Here is all of Dorr Township from the Better Government Association Salary database.
2016 “data year”
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Name – Salary – Position – Start Date
Tom Thurman – $ 74,181 – Road District Highway Commissioner – July 28, 1992
Veronica Myers – $69,787 – Assessor – October 17, 1994
Susan Brokaw – $56,000 – Administrative Assistant – September 10, 1997
Rebecca Pender – $43,795 – Dep. Assr. – April 13, 1999
Robert Pierce – $329,741 – Supervisor – May 5, 1997
Brenda Stack – $8,640 – Clerk – January 14, 2014
Mark Andersen – $120 – Trustee – September 9, 2003
Christian Cantwell – $120 – Trustee – December 6, 2011
Jon Sheahan – $120 – Trustee – March 13, 2012
John Fuller – $120 – Trustee – May 20, 2013
Don Limbaugh – $29 – Foreman – December 6, 1992 (must be hourly rate for these lower numbers)
Nicholas Lechner – $27 – Road Crew – November 6, 2000
Jeremy Brokaw – $25 – Road Crew / Road District – January 31, 2005
Judy Kruse – $21.51 – PT field / Assessors Office – April 21, 2005
Tammy Benitez – $20.61 – PT field / Assessors Office – April 1, 2014
Correction above, should be:
Robert Pierce – $39,741 – Supervisor – May 5, 1997
Now let’s look at Open the Books data for Dorr Township for 2015.
Again, Open the Books reports pensionable income.
Thomas E Thurman – $77,787
Veronica A Myers – $70,999
Don R Limbaugh – $67,519
Nicholas S Lechner – $63,163
Jeremy R Brokaw – $57,213
Susan J Brokaw – $56,808
Rebecca A Pender – $44,328
Robert E Pierce – $41,270
Judy A Kruse – $26,296
Tammy Benitez – $25,110
Once again, the Open the Books figures reflect higher amounts than the BGA data.
There is likely pensionable income over and above base salary that is not being reported by the Better Government Association.
Open the Books also has a Snapshot Spending report for Dorr Township.
Here are the directions to generate the report.
http://www.OpenTheBooks.com >
> click on Illinois on the map
> scroll to bottom of page
> Under “SNAPShot Reports” click on “Village, Township, County, Park, Library, Local SNAPShot Reports”
> Under Year, select “2016”
> Under Document Types, select “PDF”
> scroll down, select “500 items per page” in lower right hand corner”
> select “2” at bottom of page for items 501 – 2,000
> click on “DorrTownship.pdf”
The URL is very long.
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Items shown in above report include:
– Salaries given above
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– Employee Counts
– Total Salary
– Percent Change (not percentage increase) in salary over previous year
– Average Salary
– Given CPI, what the Salary would have been
– Given CPI, what the Percent Change (no percentage increase) would have been
ALL that is is shown for the last 12 years.
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A chart comparison of Actual Total Annual Salaries v CPI since 2004:
Actual – 33.94%
CPI – 25.85%
with the notes
“FACT: Since 2004, Total Annual Salaries has increased by +31.29% over Consumer Price Index (CPI) = (inflation).”
“FACT: Since 2004, Total Annual Salaries have increased by +$157,534 or +42.24%.”
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Top Pensions including:
– Year
– Name
– Annual Annuity
– Retirement Date
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The SNAPshot reports are being underutilized by the public.
Take advantage of all the work OpenTheBooks has done.
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A major reason taxes are high is the Tax Hikers are outworking the Tax Fighters.
This is a township that could be abolished!
Townships represent small/smaller government.
So County can do the job and you think that’s the answer?
In essence you are only growing Bigger government.
Is that really what you want?
Because that’s all you would be doing by abolishing a smaller form of government to replace it with Big Daddy county heck why not just let the broke ass state of ILLINOIS do the job, they need the money! LOL!
My Township does a Fantastic job and so what positive do you offer?
(Crickets)
Suddenly the so called Flag Flying hypocrite conservatives aren’t so conservative after all
THX Mark.
The position of road commissioner isn’t paid excessively IMO.
Anyone who voted to make supervisor a FT job and doubling the salary should be voted out!
That’s BS
And oh look at the nepotism.
Sue Brokaw the one running for supervisor has her son working there.