Leadership change is overdue in township

It is amazing what happens with local government without fiscal transparency. Although several recent Freedom of Information Act requests of Milton Township government did not readily reveal large-scale budget incompetence, it did reveal a massive lack of fiscal transparency combined with the absence of any reasonable taxpayer-benefitting checks and balances. Here are just a few examples from the past two years of “our” Republican-led township’s penchant to waste taxpayer dollars on avoidable legal and other expenses:

· A taxpayer-funded $50,000 employment-defamation lawsuit settlement.

· A taxpayer-supported “outside” snow removal contract for $29,000 for Township Office property. (Curious, since the township has its own snow removal capacity.)

· Taxpayer-funded legal expenses exceeding $12,000 objecting to challenging a fellow Republican’s petitions to appear on the 2025 Consolidated Election ballot.

· Taxpayer-funded legal expenses of $9,500 defending a fellow Republican’s objection to missing the official filing deadline for the entire slate.

Clearly these documented taxpayer-subsidized expenditures suggest there is much, much more to reveal about how unaccountable this multi-decade Republican Township regime has been. Surely, transparency and a change in leadership is long overdue.

Dennis Terdy

Glen Ellyn