Every year McHenry County posts compensation information about employees.
Here’s the first cut, those who receive over $150,000 in salary and benefits:
- Austin, Peter ** County Administrator – $264,455.88
- Kenneally, Patrick, States Attorney – $203,936.51
- Korpalski, Joseph, County Engineer Director of Trans – $222,658.35
- Cook, Mark, Public Defender – $207,252.14
- Sullivan, Thomas, Director of Info Technology – $193,873.97
- Tadelman, Robb, Sheriff – $197,269.68
- Wallis, James, Trial Court Administrator – $189,593.36
- Adamson, Melissa, Public Health Administrator – $183,123.99
- Bucci, John, Under Sheriff – $186,216.24
- Hartman, Scott, Deputy County Administrator – $175,934.53
- Schrader-Chukwu, Cheryl, Director of Human Resources – $175,934.53
- Annarella, Thomas, Nursing Home Administrator – $175,178.24
- Popovits, James, Chief of Operations – $172,322.54
- Freese, Randi ,First Assistant State’s Attorney – $169,654.22
- Ross, Robert, Chief County Assessments Officer – $167,377.95
- Muraski, Michael Chief of Operations – $164,825.18
- Sciame, Ryan, Chief of Administration – $164,434.24
- Kuntz, Darrell, Assistant County Engineer – $160,970.26
- Vinton, Norman, Chief Civil Division – $160,970.26
- Gattuso, Nicole, Director of GIS – $157,166.58
- Gattuso, Nicole Director of GIS – $157,166.58
- Letendre, Adam, Director of Procurement and Spec – $154,765.53
- Rogers, Sandra, Deputy Sheriff LT – $152,747.78
- Rizzi, Leonetta, Executive Director Mental Health – $150,149.91
- Urgo, Michael, Deputy Sheriff LT – $151,946.66
- Salgado, Sandra, Sheriff’s Business Manager – $157,166.58
As one looks at these numbers, remember they include the salary, but also fringe benefits.
The salaries range from $127,607 for Salgado to $239,562.92 for Austin.
Details about fringe benefits can be found here.
The tax thief hypocrite feels it necessary to post salaries of public employees as if he’s doing an expose. ole cal steals in excess of 150,000 per year with a 3% compounded increase each year for his weak ass service for a very few years.
Yet claims to be a tax-fighter aka hypocrite.
Good fo me not good for anyone else.
Such a thief loser that he has become tone-deaf to other’s issues.
Using his “thank you”…I didn’t vote for the 3% increase bullshit he thinks he’s all good.
What tax increases have you fought?
Kenneally couldn’t make $20K in private practice and grossly overpaid by $200K in my opinion.
Interestingly, those Republicans who, during the last election, ran on “lowering taxes” and just passed a budget with tax increases.
Not one had the balls to suggest a hiring freeze nor a 10% reduction acroos the board in these ludicrous salaries, or perhaps layoffs.
Further, what is needed is a county-wide audit on government jobs.
Not performance, rather if many of the water cooler jobs are even needed.
Nope.
In fact they cry we need MORE government workers and higher wages.
Bob Anderson, where are you?!?
Bloated government must be downsized and/or abolished if this state is to survive.
Public sector unions must be abolished, which thanks to a DEMOCRAT, (JFK) have robbed the taxpayer blind.
Want a tissue triggered abe?
Thornton Township Supervisor, Tiffiny Henyard, township compensation $277,000 and also another $46,500 as the Mayor of Dalton!!!
Two pensions!
Welp, once again I have to remind Tom, the only blog stipulation is, that he not get his head stuck in the bowling ball return chute.
Shalom Ya’All —
Clearly these people made better career choices than those of you complaining. Your bad decisions are not their problem.
Stay Ignorant My Friends.
The Most Interesting Jew in the World
P.S. Pat Kenneally is likely underpaid. In the private sector he is worth significantly more.
EXCEED.
Lol. Ken figured out one of Monk’s many handles.
Bob. Unbelievable that these crooks make over 300k annually in this state. What service do we get for that 300k?
If folks want lower taxes, then please assist me, because my personal situation spiraled out of control a long time ago, and is significantly contributing to taxpayer burden and government bureaucracy.
When citizens ignore problems and look the other way or stick their heads in the sand when a person requests help, problems balloon and spiral out of control.
Your liberty & freedom to ignore the existence of a problem and look the other way or stick your head in the sand, may very well cost you your liberty & freedom, in the long run.
The laws of physics apply everywhere.
Entropy is a thing.
Nope. Although I’m sure you’ll believe whatever you want.
Exceed Monk.
If you recall Kenneally was the Prosecutor on the Mario Casciaro homicide case which Kenneally tried a total of THREE TIMES getting a conviction of Felony Murder by Intimidation in 2013.
This was the only time a individual had ever been charged in the history of the Country with this.
Kenneally was looking like Barney Fife after the conviction patting himself on the back.
It was overturned unanimously by the Second District Appellate Court of Illinois in 2015.
The MCSAO settled a Civil Rights violation with Mr.Casciaro in 2017.
Kenneally doesn’t say crap about it today and reason I shake my head wondering what he’s F’ing up with each day in my opinion.
Kenneally should have been made to pay the settlement out of his own pocket.
Austin a human leech, with a bad resume of past wrecks.
As Franks’ prized pigeon , he’s still untouchable because of the incompetence, sloth and ignorance of Buehler.
Norm Vinton, another grifter, a fellow who couldn’t make it in private practice has found a forgiving home for low IQ attys with a long string of embarrassing losses.
Look at how many county civil matters are farmed out yo outside counsel bc pretty boy Vinton can’t handle anything beyond prosecuting leaf burning cases and loose dogs.
He’s locked himself out of his car many, many times.
I like Peter Austin and Scott Hartman.
Both are respectful, well-mannered gentlemen.
They are respectful of women, and persons with injuries, disabilities and physical limitations, and the elderly.
They work hard and put in a lot of heart & dedication, and a lot of hours, often early in the morning and late at night.
I appreciate their efforts to improve the experience of public meetings via information technology upgrades, mobility-accessible spaces and ergonomics.
For comparison, if you have ever tried to attend a city council meeting in Harvard in January, in a power wheelchair, with that building’s impassable disjointed pavement, difficult doors, impossible stairs, out-of-service elevator and uncomfortable seating, you will know what I mean when I say that the difference is like night and day in attending a county board meeting.
It is regrettable that much of the good that they do to improve the nuts and bolts of the functioning of county administration and the transparency of McHenry County government, and their efforts toward efficiency and good stewardship of taxpayer-provided resources, in order to attract quality businesses, educational institutions and families here,…
…are often undermined by our habitual cranks, naysayers, bad boys, entrenched ignorance and intolerant attitudes, and penny-pinching, pound-foolish general allergic reactions and hostility towards improving McHenry County quality of life and culture.
Peter Austin and Scott Hartman earn their salaries and deserve a county of better cats to herd.
Pedigreed, well-trained, good-natured, show-quality champion Norwegian Forest Cats,…
…not misbehaving, bad-tempered domestic shorthair mixed tabby alley cats and barn cats, who cough fur balls out all over the carpet; leave half-eaten rat carcasses on the door step; forget to wipe their muddy paws on the door mat before coming in; swipe, rake & sink their long, sharp cat claws across your legs, face and back during the local cat fights; and occasionally miss the litter box.
We need a nice, respectable college of liberal arts & sciences and high-quality school of engineering here so that McHenry County becomes a county of well-educated, well-mannered problem solvers, not problem makers.
With high culture and good education available to all, rather than play “cops & robbers”, chasing bad guys, and breaking up bar fights all the time, the Sheriff and his deputies, could, like the officers do over in Lake Forest (home of Lake Forest College), instead engage in more enjoyable public services, like assisting little old ladies to get in and out of their Mercedes-Benz, BMW or Tesla when they’ve forgotten their keys or door keypad combination and locked themselves out, or help fish kids’ stuck cats out of trees.
Please add a high-quality College of Economics, Entrepreneurship, Business Management and Finance to my wish list.
Mmmm, on a scale of 1 to huffing ammonia, how much cat pee aroma, do you suppose is in the Science Lady’s house?
Dawn knows nothing beyond her insatiable desire to gluttonize and overeat
Anybody who supports Austin is a fouche democrat or lgbtq
Austin owns 7 cats
Austin should have been fired immediately when he facilitated the hiring of Jacko’s two patronage workers behind the Board’s back.
He forgot who he worked for.
Also please add an Institute for Agronomy, Horticulture, Forestry & Animal Husbandry, within a College of Advanced Agricultural Engineering & Engineering Technology, with an allied School of Botanical and Veterinary Medicine, as well as a School of Wildlife Preservation and Natural Habitat Restoration.
We are too dependent upon farming corm & soybeans, and need to diversify.
We also would do well to launch an Institute for Lunar Soil, Rock & Atmosphere Studies and Extraterrestrial Agriculture & Food Sciences.
(launch pun intended)
Here are websites of a sample handful of institutions to get folks thinking:
https://www.lakeforest.edu/
https://www.grinnell.edu/
https://www.westminster.edu/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_College_(Pennsylvania)
https://www.wheaton.edu/
https://www.cals.iastate.edu/
https://vetmed.iastate.edu/
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/
https://lasp.colorado.edu/
https://erau.edu/
https://clasp.engin.umich.edu/
https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr
https://lfgsm.edu/
There is no reason why we should not have educational & cultural institutions & resources like these, here in McHenry County.
Our highly-skilled farm families could open up and expand their operations, turn their farms into schools & training centers, which would generate new learning & invention incubators & business opportunities, and hopefully extra income.
Put the former Motorola campus up in Harvard to good use, so that Harvard starts to resemble its namesake in reputation, but also gives a nod to MIT, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Princeton and Rutgers. And produces real, serious, nose-to-the-grindstone, character-building practical results, without the leftist political & social nuttiness found on many college campuses today.
Add a military school / war college with a national security institute and strong national defense ethic, and R.O.T.C. program, with contributions from Air Force Academy, Space Force, Naval War College, and West Point, so that we develop leadership capabilities and military officers, and also build our military reserves capacity by employing our veterans to teach the next generation of guardians.
Also build a nice, architecturally-attractive, beautiful, ivy-draped and functional college campus down in Riley Township, easily accessible via the tollway, that people worldwide will want to come to.
Make the schools a hybrid of commuter & residential, and no-nonsense, so that young adults can live near their classes, if their homes are too far away to drive to, or if they do not own cars.
The western half of the McHenry County needs fresh opportunities and a mission for improvement.
McHenry County College has no provision to house students nearby anywhere, so is inaccesdible and therefore useless to many who live in the western half of the county, since Crystal Lake has not been inclined to develop nearby off-campus housing for students, and MCC has no dormitory or apartment student housing.
There is so much we need to be doing in McHenry County, in order to improve ourselves and our people, and our future opportunities, and make our cities & villages more vibrant and attractive, and our rural areas more vibrant, charming & productive.
Don’t get rid of the townships.
Put the townships to work for our people, with fresh mandates: each Township *must* supply quality post-secondary education opportunities for its residents.
A local high school education, stopping at age 18, is simply insufficient in this day and age.
It should not be necessary to leave McHenry County to get a high-quality, 4-yr-plus education & career training.
And, we need to be able to retain high-quality, well-educated, high-skilled, innovative & ambitious residents.
Not push us high-perforance residents out, so that the riff-raff take over and the mediocrity rules, and so are not obliged to improve their work ethic, attitudes and outlook on life.
That is why we need to pay salaries sufficient to retain quality administration, and keep up with the times.
Peter Austin & Scott Hartman do a great job.
What they need, is more active citizen support and energy.
Now if the citizenry would put their guns down, put the historic local pettiness & crankiness behind and get organized behind Peter Austin & Scott Hartman and the county engineers & planners, and let them shine & flourish, everyone in the county could “Heave ho!” push forward together, and McHenry County life would significantly improve for all.
Dawn, does the orderly know you left your room to blog at 3 am.
Townshps do not provide education.
Instead of attacking people that work a full year, why not list the exorbitant salaries of the CL high school and other schools where they get extended “breaks” for Thanksgiving, Christmas ( oh my, Winter break) then another three months off for summer.
I think the point has been lost here by a few.
It’s not so much the ingenuity of the individual to obtain such a position but rather the raping of taxpayers who willingly pay these sinful salaries.
I would offer, to anyone of these gubment workers, to try and get those types of monies in the private sector.
And please, do not suggest the “pressures” of these positions are warranted as such.
These positions and the salaries they extort bemoan eventual cronyism and loyalty to the party that hires them.
Democrats.
Dare I suggest any of these people to get that salary in the private sector.
If you disagree, then please circle which one you belong to:
Teacher, Gubment worker, illegal, union member, victim and entitled, on entitlements, nuclear family member of the person receiving the salary.
Township leaders can be given new mandates by voter referendum, to initiate working groups to develop new institutions within the boundaries of the townships, or jointly with adjacent townships, to stimulate cultural and economic development, and to solve problems.
My matrilineal colonial & frontier pioneer ancestors & relatives launched and spawned all sorts of new churches, educational institutions, counties, townships, towns & cities, agricultural ventures & amenities and supporting industries, and militias, with vibrant results.
They were do-ers and movers and shakers.
We started the divinity schools and colleges of Harvard, Yale, Rutgers & Princeton; many new settlements; libraries; craftsman & industrial sites with apprenticeship opportunities; and other cultural centers & public forums.
We didn’t win the American Revolutionary War, then just sit around smoking pot and resting on our libertine laurels, watching the grass grow.
We forged a new nation, and proceeded immediately to identify & address needs & problems, and build the necessary collaborations & institutions needed to get stuff done.
Many individuals and families are trapped in poverty and stuck in lack of opportunities and progress, in McHenry County.
When I grew up in Coral Township, the Hennings and other prominent farmers wanted progress and the best for our families. That is why the Riley School board hired a good math teacher and a good science teacher.
Somewhere along the line, a stick-in-the-mud, ultra-conservative reactionary mindset set in, in order to oppose Cook County aggression & incursion, and communities & hamlets of Harvard, Marengo, Union, Coral, etc., lost momentum, and the culture stagnated, beginning with the economic downturn in the 1970’s.
Unfortunately, some folks became comfortable, or at least tolerant, of the stagnation & subsequent halted growth and deterioration, and brain drain.
They incorrectly thought that if everyone just stood still and didn’t spend any money for upkeep and making improvements, that this would reduce and keep taxes low, thus stimulating businesses.
Instead, these communities stagnated & lost ground, with the Marengo downtown looking like a derelict ghost town, of empty shop fronts and drunks stumbling out of the bars.
Hardly any of my better-quality 1984 Marengo High School classmates stuck around. Many seem to have moved to other counties or out of state to attend college, find jobs, start businesses and start families.
Of those classmates not able to leave, for whatever reason, sometimes fell prey to alcoholism & drug use.
This needs to be reversed.
In the late 1800s, an effort was made to start a Prebyterian collegiate school in Marengo.
My understanding, from what little historical matter is available, that it unfortunately suffered a fire, soon after it was built.
This may have discouraged attempts to start over and rebuild.
It’s time to get up off the ground, dust off the ashes, and try again.
The boards & councils of all governments in McHenry County, as well as church leaders, farm bureaus and other community stalwarts & boosters, should take several road trips / field trips over to Lake Forest, Libertyville, Ravinia, Glencoe, Winnetka, Evanston, etc., and examine why those North Shore communities are so vibrant and attractive.
Everyone should drive around & walk around the campuses of Northwestern University, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest School of Business Management, Wheaton College, and the various public school and private day schools, and their churches, libraries, etc., and also definitely the banking & finance institutions and investment houses.
Squirreled away safely in the conservative-looking apartments above all those quaint, charming, vibrant shop fronts, are powerhouse global business & trading ventures, quietly humming away, controlling economically and financially successful empires.
Not impoverished and low-income distressed individuals and families, stuck in unsatisfying, dead-end jobs, or dependent upon state & federal social safety net programs to survive.
They are not smoking pot and drinking rum & Coke and downing shots of Jack Daniels.
Many of our people never even get outside of McHenry County, so never even get a glimpse of other possibilities in life.
So fill up tour buses with our leaders & residents, regularly, and take them on road trips to successful communities.
Let them make connections and learn how successful communities operate, create and take advantage of opportunities and get things done.
If an Illinois Link card the only financial instrument you have ever known, and you have no opportunities, locally, for economic improvement and independence, then it is very possible you are not even aware of how to extricate yourself from State of Illinois flypaper, nor have any connections who can provide some support and knowledge of resources to enable you to do it.
Merely shouting DON’T SPEND ANY MONEY at yourself and at everyone else, and wasting all the minutes of your life neither moving nor breathing nor eating in order to not burn calories and not incur any expenditures, whatsoever, so that you can survive until the next day, only to wash, rinse & repeat, year after year, while the house falls apart around you from lack of maintenance, is not a game plan for individual, family, community or county success.
We could invite successful people, including investment houses, venture capitalists and leaders of associations of thriving universities & colleges, to come out to visit our McHenry County communities & lands, show them around and discuss our problems, dilemmas & needs, so we can stimulate brainstorming, generate ideas, forge business & professional relationships, tap into sources of financing and legal & investment advice, and connect our struggling-but-determined businesses, industries, families, aging citizens, and high school graduates with potentially-helpful, mutually-rewarding relationships and opportunities.
Even learning how to plan, finance, set up, launch & market attractive, productive co-working spaces, could be very helpful to our folks who would like to start businesses but lack access to the start-up incubator infrastructure to enable them to move forward with their dreams & visions, and who would benefit from the networking opportunities that co-working spaces facilitate.
Converting several of our vacant and under-utilized spaces, and/or constructing new, tech-enabled custom spaces, to enable co-working, could help launch new business ventures and create an ecosystem of innovation and progress.
Taking tours of existing co-working facilities along the North Shore and elsewhere in Chicago and the suburbs, could light a fire under our leaders & our own folks to jump-start such incubators here, all around McHenry County.
Examples:
https://www.mylifeworking.com/
https://enclavecoworking.com/
https://teamworking.vc/
https://teamworking.vc/space/
Just about anyone with a decently reliable internet connection can obtain a first-rate education today if he/she possesses enough motivation and self-discipline.
The one big hang-up is science courses – the classroom portions can be taught remotely but the lab portions can be something of a problem. There are technological workarounds to simulate things, but they aren’t really the same.
I can foresee a time when community colleges or even local high schools might offer lab space to remote learners taking some upper level science courses, but it’s a pipe dream to think that whole new brick and mortar universities are going to spring up in places like McHenry County. Remote learning is here to stay, and it’s going to have a much bigger role in the future.
Dacy, name some of those outside counsel civil cases.
I remember the Pack days when Harrison made a lot as outside counsel.
Is there anything comparable going on now, or are you just making up lies?
Just love sitting back in my comfy chair and reading Dawn’s endless thoughts. It’s been a treat.
Vinton. Vinton. Vinton.
Dawn. Dawn. Dawn.
sad cases
Vinton the Sgt Schultz to Kenneally’s Col Klink.
Yes, Dacy. You were lying again.