Frpm Bob Anderson of Wonder Lake:
Many Townships Have Zero Qualifying Clients.
- Of McHenry County’s seventeen townships, eight had zero clients.
- Of Lake County’s eighteen townships, five had zero clients.
Townships are over distributing grants per client.
- McHenry County…Hartland Township $748 per client. Average $345
- Lake County…Benton Township $10,264 per client. Average $242.
DeKalb Township performs General Assistance for 18 other townships, one in Putnam County.
Population Range 1,432 Township Governments
- Below 1,000 residents 700.
- Between 1,000 to 2,499 325. Estimate 50% Have Zero Clients
Largest population Rockford Township 178,527.
Smallest population Colfax Township 136.
Illinois Comptroller: The Illinois Responsibility Report Card Act (requires) all local
governments to submit a report card called the Annual Financial Reports to the Office of
Comptroller. We provide transparency, efficiency, and accountability to the financial
reporting of local governments.
Research: About 21% of Townships in Violation.
Illinois is the only state that has Township General Assistance.
Summary:
When the township form of government was established in1850 a township might have less than a hundred settlers; General Assistance was a viable form of public aid.
This is no longer true in the 21st century as the functions and duties of Townships’ General Assistance have been replaced by other government agencies, churches and the private sector.
Most townships do not have any qualified clients that meet General Assistance qualifications, many others less than five.
Many townships are not filing required Annual Financial Reports with the Comptroller Office, risking fines.
ownships are performing General Assistance for other townships.
Administrative costs to distribute aid are extremely high.
Millions of public money is levied when fund balances are bloated, breaking the law.
Bottom Line: Townships’ General Assistance, public aid programs designed for the 1850s, should be eliminated.
Bob fighting townships since 1850. And nothing has changed. Time well spent.
Without the GA how would township supervisors justify their salaries?
There only other functions are:
(1) Overseeing seldom used postage stamp sized township cemeteries that went out of vogue over 100 years ago with the arrival of private cemeteries. Virtually no one is buried in them these days and usually landscape companies are hired to mow the grass. That’s it.
(2) Serving as “treasurer” for the Road District. Today this involves merely signing payroll checks for Road District employees twice per month that are generated by outisde payroll service companies.
(3) Preparing the agenda for and serving as Chair for monthly township board meetings. The format for the agenda is computer generated and meetings seldom last more than a half an hour (unless you are in Algonquin Township now or were in Nunda Township during the Nelson years).
Everything else is make work that was dreamed up to justify the job, building, salaries and benefits. Do we really need chair yoga, food pantries, or victory gardens at the townships?
It appears Science and Bob have to do all the thinking around here.
Funny article.
Townships are obsolete, and have been since the federal welfare state.
How many Township Supervisors’ kin, cronies and political parasites are collecting fat checks?
Some counties in Illinois ditched townships long ago. Almost 17% of Illinois counties got rid of parasitic townships!
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2022/08/31/countieas-without-townships/
Bob and Cal should have already written up legislation to give to our State Senator Wilcox, allowing voting to eliminate General-Assistance.
By township, county, or statewide, do something or than whine to the choir here.
Tic toc, ya’ll are running out of life.
Is the nob outing himself as also being the poster, Angel?
Mob, are you part of the crooked Bob Miller township crime clan?
Nice touch about Cal and Anderson’s age, but they are not demented like your adult diaper wearing, basement campaigner, libtard liar Sleepy Joe!
Nob is Bob Miller or his daughter.
No, he is not.
“Angel” was just another school teaching weakling, it’s “the nob” who has shown the rabid resiliency to defend the fraud of being paid, for driving a dump truck around Algonquin.
Kudos Sir!
I support elimination of general-assistance, also Townships, and Road districts, if a plan is made before elimination that will not eliminate or degrade the present services related to roads and ROWs we now receive.
Reduced services to roads and ROWs to save 10% of practically nothing in taxation isn’t an option.
County has no room for the Assessment people or a increased McDOT force, besides moving them to Woodstock may actually increase costs.
Bob and Cal should stop whining, make a plan that actually saves on taxation, and then lets vote on it.
Make Wilcox earn his pay, start the process by writing the legislation for him, move on.
Last thing I perused purchasing I don’t recall having to give the salesman a pitch, on why I did/didn’t need their product.