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Budget overage

 I have been working to get some transparency in out Village finances. The emails below show my inquiries into money that is unaccounted for.   I recently got a reply, but not all questions were answered, and the answers that I got are completely different from what the Village Administrator told the Board. Also, the new explanations still leave thousands of dollars unaccounted for. The ongoing vagueness and inconsistencies in this area raises red flags for me.       Granted, the current treasurer after almost 4 months is still sorting out the mess left by the previous treasurer, but we need a better accounting of taxpayer money than what we are getting. The Village Board is supposed to review the entire financial report once a month, but our financial situation has basically gone black since September of 2021, with no information at all coming forth until very recently, and the report that finally came out is still not accurate.      Th...
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July 13 Village Board meeting

  The Kronenwetter Village Board is ONCE AGAIN going into closed session on July 13 for the purpose, Joling claims, of "final further redactions" related to an open records request for a report on a special investigation initially into Administrator James Davel's alleged questionable conduct. They just did "final redactions" on June 22. Now it's "final further redactions"? What next - "final further redactions Part 3, the Sequel?"     Joling, Coyle, Stowell, and I believe Davel, have made public statements starting in March, about how this report is going to justify their accusations about how Trustee Sorensen "caused this whole investigation", and then "interfered" with it, and anything else they came up with. It all looked like dirty politics and false accusations to me, but now, when it comes to "put up or shut up" with an actual report that says what they said it says, they create delay after del...
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The Investigation Part 2.5 - Open Records Antics

  Be sure to check out my other recent posts!  A4 I have a few questions about the latest (June 22) Village Board meeting. They have to do with my observations of: Another apparently illegal closed session meeting among a list of others. Extraordinary commandeering by the Village Board of the Village Clerk's duties as records custodian for questionable purposes. The Board's redaction of records without providing a legal reason. Joling's history of opposition to Open Records and Open Meetings. The Village Board firing an employee in almost the most inept, lawsuit-inviting manner possible. More incompetence, more lawlessness, more weak, failed leadership (all alleged). It looks to me, like the Village Board led by President Dan Joling has conducted yet another illegal closed session to conduct business that has not been properly disclosed to the public. It appears to me that this habit of his has been going on consistently ever since he has been appointed president, which...
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The Investigation Part 2 update, A dive into how these "third-party, outside investigations work."

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1/q   Be sure to check out my other posts!             The "Investigation" Part 2 In the previous post on this site "The 'Investigation' Part 1" we looked at some introductory information regarding facts and events relating to President Joling's "third-party investigation", such as: The current $40,000 "third-party investigation" had no apparent legitimate basis. There was no "complaint" involved at all, other than some kind of phantom, fictionalized one apparently imagined by President Joling. Joling  appears to have initiated the process of an investigation into a non-existent "complaint" without informing or consulting the Village Board, as required by Village Policy. To the extent of addressing Administrator Davel's behavior, Joling apparently ignored the policy of procedures directed in the Employee Handbook and Village Policy HR-009, intended to quickly resolve such matters. Dan Joling seems to have ...
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