Dear LakeCountyEye,
Being a good GOP footsoldier who carried water for the elephant all his life, it was time to ask Where's Mine? So the Governor appoints me to a State Commission. It's called the Illinois Advisory Commission Review Panel Task Force. Or something like that. And that's OK -- until I find out I'm not paid anything except expenses.
Expenses? I did not think indentured servitude was still legal. Do I have to attend these meetings or should I resign now?
No Representation Without Compensation
Dear Non Compos,Being a good GOP footsoldier who carried water for the elephant all his life, it was time to ask Where's Mine? So the Governor appoints me to a State Commission. It's called the Illinois Advisory Commission Review Panel Task Force. Or something like that. And that's OK -- until I find out I'm not paid anything except expenses.
Expenses? I did not think indentured servitude was still legal. Do I have to attend these meetings or should I resign now?
No Representation Without Compensation
The bad news is that while some IL Commission members are paid quite well, most only get expenses. The Governor's office told your LakeCountyEye that unpaid Commission seats are harder to fill than a Kanye West concert in McHenry County.
The good news is you get reimbursed for your expenses. So just follow the lead of those unpaid public officials who have raised the art of padding an expense account to a science: the Community College Trustee.
One nearby Community College is an industry leader when it comes to remuneratory overreach. Your LakeCountyEye refers not to the College of DuPage -- who are pikers when compared to some of the creative expense reporting that has come out of the College of Lake County.
Just for instance ...
As should be abundantly clear, life hasn't given you lemons. Life has given you limos. You just have to know how to expense them.
- CLC Trustee Barbara Oilschlager recouped ...
$1,198.73 in mileage and toll reimbursements for driving from Chicago to a national conference in Boston and back in 2012. Oilschlager's trip began Oct. 2, although the conference didn't start until Oct. 10, according to the Association of Community College Trustees' website. Even though the conference concluded Oct. 13, Oilschlager didn't leave Boston until Oct. 16, according to the I-PASS records she submitted. She returned to the Chicago area the next day.
College of Lake County board spent $110,000 on travel, food over two years
Oilschlager also ...
charged taxpayers for six hotel nights in Boston costing $1,847 on that trip. She also spent $283 in the past two years on tips to hotel maids, bellmen, valets and airport porters, according to her expense reports. None of those expenses were documented with receipts.
College of Lake County board spent $110,000 on travel, food over two years- CLC Trustee Richard Anderson was reimbursed for an ...
"appetizers" receipt from the Coq d'Or at Chicago's Drake Hotel at 10:15 p.m. June 7, 2013, on Anderson's wife's credit card
College of Lake County board spent $110,000 on travel, food over two years- CLC Trustee Bill Griffin got ...
$600 in airfare to fly Trustee Bill Griffin to Springfield twice
College of Lake County board spent $110,000 on travel, food over two years
Take that golden expense account and party on like it's still 1999.
If you are an elected official, or a previously elected official, or just a private citizen under indictment, send your political questions to Q the Eye c/o ... LakeCountyEye@gMail.com
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