The County Executive referendum supporter yard sign for Jack Franks’ referendum that failed.
McHenry County Board Chairman Jack Franks in the worst way wishes that his referendum to create a County Executive form of government had passed.
It didn’t, but he is trying to convince compliant Republicans that it doesn’t matter, that he is a Chief Executive.
Bottles of water with Lying Jack Franks Cut 10 sticker affixed.
That’s what happens in Washington.
That/’s what happens in Springfield.
But that is not what is happening in McHenry County.
With the entire staff of the County Administrator at his beck and call, whether following the law or not, Franks has the ability to come up with a budget in which the property tax levy is 10% less than this year.
Or maybe he doesn’t have the courage to present an Executive Budget.
Jack Franks
Remember his pre-election promise:
“Join me in sending a message to McHenry County leaders in support of this 10% cut.
“And know that I will introduce this plan on my first day as your new McHenry County Board Chairman.”
“– Jack Franks”
I guess that’s after Franks hires his patronage workers.
Cal is critisizing Franks for not submitting a budget based on the responsibilities for the office he does not hold supporting his claim with evidence he cannot substantiate!!
McHenry County has still not posted the final fiscal year 2017 (December 1, 2016 – November 30, 2017) budget in the budgets and finance section of its website.
The draft budget is still posted.
Even though we are now in the 6th month of the fiscal year.
http://www.co.mchenry.il.us/county-government/departments-a-i/administration/budgets-finance
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The budget is listed under:
County Administration
Peter Austin
County Administrator
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The path to the budget is:
County Government > Departments A – I > Administration
The McHenry County FY 2017 Levy, Budget, and Appropriations were passed at the Regular Board Meeting on November 15, 2016.
The Minutes and Minutes Packet for that meeting were altered on February 22, 2017.
There is no indication of what changes were made.
Strangely, the last page of the Minutes Packet lists:
“S/ Jack D. Franks
Jack D Franks, Chairman”
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Jack D Franks was took his oath of office as McHenry County Board Chair on December 5, 2016.
Adding to the November 15, 2016 Board Minutes that were altered on February 22, 2017.
Under Item 20 (Adjournment):
“Dated and approved in Woodstock IL this 21st day of February, 2017.”
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There was a Regular County Board Meeting on February 21, 2017.
The Board approved alterations to the FY 2017 Budget at the February 21, 2017 Regular County Board Meeting.
FY 2017 is December 1, 2017 – November 30, 2017.
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FY 2017 is December 1, 2016 – November 30, 2017.
So to recap those comments.
The FY 2017 budget was passed by the County Board at the Regular County Board Meeting on November 15, 2016.
The FY 2017 budget was subsequently altered, and the alterations approved at the Regular County Board Meeting on February 21, 2017.
Note the alterations are listed in the Agenda, Agenda Packet, Minutes, and Minutes Packet of that February 21, 2017 Regular County Board Meeting.
Those documents are located on the McHenry County Meeting Portal.
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There is no summary document though of how the “Final” budget looked before and after the changes.
For example, what is the summary of how the changes approved on February 21, 2017 affected Revenues?
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Non property tax revenues were approved by the county board on February 21, 2017 to be added to the FY 2017 budget.
What is the Revenue Committee?
Is that referring to a standing committee, an ad hoc committee, or some other committee?
Just to recap:
Cal is critisizing Franks for not submitting a budget based on the responsibilities for the office of county exec, which he does not hold, and Cal is supporting his claim with evidence about Republicans he cannot substantiate.
Meanwhile,
Markobot the liar is trying to suppress information, per usual, by plagiarizing without parenthetical atribution.
The County has not yet posted its FY 2017 budget.
Jack Franks the County Board Chair has not proposed his FY 2018 budget.
Read the Chicken and Weasel story on the blog to learn one former county board member’s opinion of compliant Republican county board members since Jack Franks took the oath of office as County Board Chair.
Watch the Project Veritas Rigging the Election series on YouTube to learn about agitators such as Moderate.
To be more complete:
The County has not yet posted its FY 2017 final budget on the Budgets / Finance section of its website.
The County has posted its FY 2017 draft budget on the Budgets / Finance section of its website.
Why has the County under the leadership of Board Chair Jack Franks and County Administrator Peter Austin not posted the final FY 2017 Budget on the Budgets / Finance section of its website?’
McHenry County FY 2017 Final Budget Timeline:
November 15, 2016 – County Board approves “Final” FY 2017 Budget
February 21, 2017 – County Board approves changes to “Final” FY 2017 Budget.
May 15, 2017 – The County still has not posted and has never posted a “Final” FY 2017 Budget, neither the one approved November 15, 2016, nor the one approved February 21, 2017.
So when talking about the FY 2017 McHenry County budget, one cannot simply refer to the Final Budget.
One has to specify the Final Budget approved November 15, 2016.
Or the Final Budget approved February 21, 2017.
Were there changes to the Final Budget on other dates too?
Will there be more changes?
One simply needs to refer to the fact that Mark is the biggest plagiarist of information on this blog.
Mark consistently posts the same thing over and over again without attribution or parenthetical citation.
The surest way to know that Mark is about to post is if I post – don’t believe me? Watch, Mark will post AT LEAST three different unrelated posts below this one to burry my opinion.
Mark does this because he is an agitator.
For more information, please refer to project veritas. Also, please note that Mark just referenced a post on this blog wherein a poster threatened the life of Chairman Franks.
Cal is criticizing Franks for not submitting a budget based on the responsibilities of an office of county exec, which he does not hold, and Cal is supporting his claim with evidence about Republicans he cannot substantiate. Markobot the liar is trying to suppress information, per usual, by plagiarizing without parenthetical attribution. And, again, I will assert that Mark is about to post AT LEAST three posts below this one!
Moderate’s latest attempt to discredit the blog and promote Jack Franks.
Apparently his attempts have failed to date, since Moderate is still here.
More transparency failures by McHenry County government under the leadership of Jack Franks have been exposed on the blog.
That being, there is no final county budget posted online and it is now in the sixth month of the fiscal year.
The FY 2017 “final” county budget budget was approved…twice…by the County board…the second approval three months after the first approval.
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In the past, the Administration has proposed a budget to the Board.
But since McHenry County now has an elected County Board Chair who ran on a pledge to cut the property tax levy by 10%, one would think that Jack Franks would actually propose his budget plan.
We will see if that ever happens.
Doubtful.
But what has happened, is the county board chair has not posted its current fiscal year budget by May 15th.
Has that ever happened in the past?
Or is that something new since Jack Franks is County Board Chair.
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Who other than Jack Franks and Moderate has stated they believe comments in the weasel and chicken story to be a legitimate threat to Jack Franks or anyone else.
Readers can read the story and draw their own conclusion.
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Agitation is a key Democrat strategy.
Agitators are networked nationwide.
Watch the Project Veritas Rigging the Election series on YouTube.
Learn about Michael Madigan control of Illinois and Madigoons in the Michael Madigan movie, also on YouTube.
Madigoons are agitators.
The County hired, at the request of Jack Franks, a Democrat operative who was formerly employed by the Michael Madigan House Democrat organization who also was released from his state job to work Democrat political campaigns.
This person was hired to work in a position not yet created at the time of the hire which was not posted.
That is county transparency under the leadership of Jack Franks.
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Devious Diabolical Democrats deploy to spread disinformation, discredit, and destroy their opponents.
This is politics for the foreseeable future.
The only way to fight through the sludge is to gain understanding.
Thus the purpose of Moderate is to prevent understanding.
Speaking of the budget approval process.
The next Regular county board meeting is Tuesday, May 17, 2017 at 7PM.
The agenda packet is posted here:
https://mchenrycountyil.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3983&Inline=True
The Agenda Packet is stamped, “Updated 5/11/2017 2:42 PM”.
Pdf Page 205 of the agenda packet begins a proposed revised county budget approval process.
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Remember the Oliver Serafini and Bridget Geenen who were hired for positions that were not posted and the full county board did not even know existed?
Pdf Page 209 of 332 of the proposed budget policy (which is unchanged from the current budget policy):
“Vacant Positions –
On October 1, 2002 the County Board approved Resolution R-200210-12-196 authorizing a county wide budget policy on vacant positions.
This resolution can be viewed under County Board Records on the County Clerk’s web page at:
http://www.co.mchenry.il.us/departments/countyclerk/Pages/CountyBoardRecords.aspx”
Clicking on that URL results in:
“Oops, the page you are looking for may have been removed, renamed, entered wrong or is temporarily unavailable!”
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Pdg Page 215 regarding the Serafini and Geenen hires:
This is also unchanged from the current budget process.
“If budget savings from an unfilled position occurs and is used in any other manner, the unfilled position will cease to exist and will need to be re-established as a new position in the next budget process (R-200305-12-113).”
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After the questions over the Serafini and Geenen hires, the budget process to prevent such occurrences in the future was not clarified or changed?
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The budget approval process does not state when the final budget must be posted on the County website in the Budgets / Finance section under Administration.
This is notable as it’s May 15, 2017 and the FY 2017 Final Budget covering December 1, 2016 – November 30, 2017 still has not been posted.
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The budget approval process does not address the issues posed in this blog article, that being, should the county board chair propose a budget too, in addition to the administration.
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Pdf Page 212.
At least in his capacity as an elected official Jack Franks will need to submit the following:
“When a department head / elected official has completed the required budget forms and data entry, a meeting will be schedule with the County Administrator and Associate County Administrator – Finance to review and ensure budget policy compliance.”
Here is what the DuPage County website states about the role of the Dupage County Board Chairman (who is also elected by the voters and not the county board).
“The County Board Chairman is a countywide elected official.
He serves as the chief executive officer of the County Board, supervising the implementation of the Board’s policies and programs.
He chairs County Board meetings, prepares the agenda, schedules meetings of the Board and prepares the proposed annual budget.”
http://www.dupageco.org/CountyBoard/Cronin
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One would have to compare DuPage County Board budget approval policy to McHenry Count Board budget approval policy to determine any differences between the two.
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The revised McHenry County Board budget approval policy is a consent agenda item on the Tuesday May 16, 2017 7PM County Board meeting agenda.
All items on the consent agenda are voted on at once, not individually.
A Board member has the power to move to pull an item off the consent agenda.
Then, for instance, the board could discuss the item individually prior to voting on the item.
“On his first day” Someone should tell him he’s a big failure or liar!
All you people buying in to his lies have been fooled.
Imagine how they feel!
Mark/rainman
looking at how many times you posted and the time and effort you waste here, you would be much better off if you got a paper route or even a part time job for that matter.
Another Jack Franks cheerleader aka Moderate.
It would be so much easier for Jack Franks and his supporters if everyone just gave Jack Franks what Jack Franks wants.
Unfortunately people:
– connect Jack Franks and his Democrat supporter Jeffery Lichte who ran as a Republican in the same primary in which Jack Franks ran as a Democrat;
– remember that Jack Franks said he would not run for County Board Chair in 2016, then of course he did run;
– remember that Jack Franks said he would would introduce his plan as County Board Chair on his first day in office, but of course he didn’t;
– remember that Jack Franks said he would only run for 3 terms as State Rep, then ran for 9 terms;
– remember the Jack Franks letter to Governor Rod Blagojevich’s administration asking that Jack Franks’ wife, sons and friends be considered for state appointments and jobs
– remember that under Jack Franks as County Board chair, suddenly McHenry County labels McHenry County Blog a Frequent Requester for FOIA purposes;
– remember that under Jack Franks as County Board chair, McHenry County Blog is blocked from County wifi;
– maybe some other people want to round out the top 10 list.
The sunshine blogger’s camera doing a wonderful job again. This picture of Jack Franks was the very best our sunshine blogger could find. Nothing personal; just a professional work of patriotic journalism. Or not? 2018, are you here yet? Tic, tock, tic, tock…
Why are you looking forward to 2018, Angel? The Democrats are going to lose at least 3 Senate seats. Or are you as excited as I am that Trump is going to get to replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg with Bill Pryor? It’s going to be awesome!
Note: RBG will be 91 in the final year of President Trump’s second term. To paraphrase you, Angel, tic, tock, tic, tock… hahaha