2012 Special Annual Grafton Township Meeting Agenda – Part 2

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"As a result, the electors deem to be in the best interest and conductive to both the Road District and Township that:
  
 A. The Road District, within ten (10) days, deliver warranty deed to the property located at 10109 Vine Street, Huntley, Illinois to Grafton Township and legally described in resolution 2010 ATM 1. In lieu of any balance remaining on the sale price provided by the electors at the 2010 annual meeting owed by Grafton Township, the Grafton Township Road District shall pay no rent to Grafton township for the term of the lease between Grafton Township as landlord and Grafton Township Road District as tenant for the garage portion of the premises, other than provided in elector resolution 2010 ATM 1, for a period of twenty (20) years. The electors specifically do not authorize any additional leases of any real property between Grafton Township and Grafton Township Road District except a twenty year lease of the garage portion of 10109 Vine Street to the Grafton Township Road District under the terms provided herein and in resolution 2010 ATM 1. To the extent that any other leases have been executed outside of this authority, Grafton Township Road District and Grafton Township are directed to take all steps necessary to cancel said agreements, including the Intergovernmental Agreement dated February 10, 2011. Pursuant to this authority, the electors require that any debts incurred as a result of, incident to, or for the purpose of effectuating the transfer, at any time by any entity, of 10109 Vine Street be extinguished, defeased, or repaid to the greatest extent permitted by law within ten (10) days."

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     * The electors have no authority over this. If this item passes, it will, more than likely, result in another law suit costing taxpayers thousands more. Fees have already exceeded $600k.

"B. A resolution of the electors to direct the Township Supervisor to engage the services of a Realtor, for a fee not to exceed six percent (6%) of the sales price, to auction or otherwise sell the property on Haligus Road under the authority and conditions contained in Resolution No. 2010 ATM 8."

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·        * The supervisor cannot act on her own as the township board consists of the Supervisor AND the trustees. The wording of this resolution will need to be changed to include the entire board.

     * Furthermore, the trustees are elected officials. It would be improper to eliminate them from the decision making process of the township.

"Further, the resolution shall censure the Town Board for failing to accept an offer of $100,000 for the township property at 9260 Haligus Road pursuant to the Resolution No. 2010 ATM 8, of the electors at the April 2010 Annual Meeting of the electors filed by the township clerk April 19th, 2010."

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          * The Special Meeting Minutes for September 22, 2011 says the board UNANIMOUSLY agreed to counter the offer on the Haligus Road property for $120k, plus expenses. First Electric Newspaper reported that Supervisor Moore and the trustees refused to reveal the price offered, however, it is rumored that the amount was below the $100k threshold.

·        * Since this resolution is requesting that we vote to censure the "Town Board", we would be censuring the ENTIRE town board, which includes Linda. Also, Linda Moore’s name appears on the petition for the 2012 Special Meeting…so in a sense, she is requesting to censure herself.

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2012 Special Annual Grafton Township Meeting Agenda – Part 1

 

"Pursuant to 60 ILCS 1/30-10, The objects of the meeting, which are relevant to the powers granted to the electors under the Illinois Township Code, are as follows: The electors, having had their authority ignored and contravened by the Township Trustees and Road Commissioner, make the following direction regarding the property commonly known as 10109 Vine Street, Huntley, Illinois, pursuant to the authority of the electors, 60 ILCS 1-30-50, to make all orders for the sale, purchase or conveyance of Township corporate property (including the direct sale of single township road district property). The electors specifically find that the deed to the property has not been transferred as required by resolution 2010 ATM 1 and that the actions taken in the Intergovernmental Agreement dated February 10, 2011 were not authorized by the electors. The electors find these actions to be willful violations of the direction of the electors. "

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      * The deed to the property has not been transferred because the payments have not been completed. The township still owes $300k on that property. It was decided by the electors at the 2011 Special Annual meeting that a lump sum payment would not be made because the audits had not been completed.

A little History:

After 2010’s annual meeting the trustees immediately went to work on coming up with a financially responsible way to pay back the Road District Loan. Please review the meeting minutes beginning May 13th, 2010 – the first board meeting after the annual meeting.

During the June 14th meeting the trustees expressed concern over not knowing the financial standing of the Township and suggested making payments to the Road District until a special audit can be performed. Scroll down to agenda item 5-A. Also notice that the SUPERVISOR, herself, voted against making payments to the Road District.

At the 2011 annual meeting we voted to allow the intergovernmental agreement until ALL the audits were completed. Why is Linda trying to circumvent your directive?  The audits are still not complete and the 2011 audit will be due soon.

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Linda gets caught trying to ignore your directive:

You may also be interested to know that after we voted NOT to pay the lump sum payment, Linda Moore attempted to push this payment through anyway at the general meeting held in April 14th.

Order of events:

03/10/2011 Regular Meeting, item 9C: Board approves to pay $200k as per the intergovernmental agreement (Linda Moore did not make this payment)

 04/12/2011(Special)Annual Meeting: Electors vote to approve the payment plan per the intergovernmental agreement until all the audits are complete.

04/14/2011 Regular Meeting, item 5A: Supervisor Moore attempts to make a $700k payment without regard to how the electors voted just 2 days prior. Trustees catch this and have the line item changed from $700k to $200k. Linda presents the $200k payment to the Road and Bridge. 

I'd also like to point out item 8D: "Discussion and potential action to pay the Road District $200,000, plus rent as per the Intergovernmental Agreement with the Road District, approved on February 10, 2011 and payment as approved at the March 10, 2011 Regular Township Board Meeting. Discussion: Supervisor Moore recommended to strike this item from the agenda since this subject has been resolved."

05/12/2011 Regular Meeting, 5A: Supervisor Moore makes an attempt to pay $300k to the Road and Bridge, again disregarding the directive of the electors. The supervisor explained that this was the balance of the loan. When asked why it wasn’t $500k, she explained that an additional $200k has already been paid: $200k from the 2010-2011 budget and $200k from the 2011-2012 budget and that the trustees approved both. 

As you can see from the timeline, two payments were not approved as the trustees were under the impression they were re-stating their original approval dated 3/10/11. Linda had acknowledged this on 4/14 when saying the issue was resolved and striking the item from the agenda.

Question #1:  Why didn’t Linda pay the $200k when it was originally approved? 

Question #2:  If her claim is sincere, that both payments were approved, why would she attempt to pay $700k on 4/14 instead of $500k which would have been the new total?

Supervisor Moore presented this bill again on June 9, August 11, September 8, and October 13. 2012 meeting minutes are not yet available.  A blatant disregard for the electors wishes.

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