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CARES money unaccounted for

 I have been working to get some transparency in out Village finances. The emails below show my inquiries, along with Mr. Jaeger's efforts, looking into $102,000 that is not accounted for. This inquiry was sent almost a year ago.   It should have appeared somewhere in the Public Safety fund total, then as a surplus at the end of the year to be rolled over to the following year's budget.  The lack of cooperation and vague answers that I and others have experienced raises red flags for me.     I'd like to see a paper trail for exactly where this money goes, and how these funds are moved around. I plan on continuing to work toward putting a policy or ordinance in place  to assure  transparency in this area.    The "VB packet referred to below can be found here https://www.kronenwetter.org/meeting_repository/village_board.php#    The email format did not exactly translate too well to the blog format, but the information is there.   As usual with email threads, in order to

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.      The situation is sounding so bad, that in my opinio

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