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Health & Fitness

Report: What's the Matter with Milton Township?

Employees are fleecing taxpayers; Township Exposed to Big Liabilities; Township Attorney/Supervisor Admit to Lack of Basic Management Controls

Hinsdale, IL-   Investigating Milton Township, Adam Andrzejewski, Chairman of For the Good of Illinois PAC, has uncovered thousands in tax dollars spent on travel junkets and fine dining; thousands spent on gas purchases without receipts, mileage or travel logs; good evidence of township credit for personal use; and solid evidence that township cell phone and email were used for politics in the last couple of election cycles. 

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Then, Andrzejewski uncovered the potentially large township liabilities: 

Was a “secret surveillance” program installed?  Without legal opinion or board approval, the non-transparent process to install township building surveillance was so sloppy that it resulted in a price quote “…to record audio at the assessor’s desk”- unbeknownst to the assessor.

After surveillance was installed, were citizens secretly taped without notice?  Weeks after the cameras were live, Andrzejewski documents no notice or posting of surveillance.

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Did township employees drink and drive in township vehicles?  The story is corroborated on township email. Where is the accountability and rules changes?

Lack of basic employee management control:  Mary Dickson of Bond-Dickson- the township attorney, and Township Supervisor Chris Heidorn admitted that Hinkle was a man without a time card, job activity report, or job description for the first eight years of his employment.

Mr. Ralph Hinkle was first hired by Milton Township in 2004 as a part-time employee making $16 thousand dollars a year. Since 2004, Hinkle has “morphed” into a full-time employee costing taxpayer's $304 thousand dollars over the last seven years.

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