Letter to the Editor: County Board E-Mails, Raises and the Upcoming Election

The “Election Season” is now upon us.  Candidates for Kendall County Board and other County elected offices are now circulating nominating petitions for the upcoming March 20, 2012 Primary.  We even  for the job of Recorder of Deeds, a job already being performed by the Kendall County Clerk.  This candidate, who has proclaimed himself as the founder of the Kendall County TEA Party, now wants you to sign off on his new government check, his new government benefits and is hoping for you to start funding his government pension.   This seems a little ironic, dare I say it, “Do as I say, not as I do.”  Apparently “Small Government” is only for naive suckers who are required to pay their tax bills.

That sucking sound is not the wind, it is the vacuum where all of your county tax dollars go, then are redistributed by the Kendall County Board.  Only (last) week did the collective seal on this vacuum of power decide that the KCB needed some outside air, and listed each Kendall County Board member’s email address on the County website.  Now we peasants can finally communicate directly with each one of them.  Only now, when these 10 KCB members are up for reelection, has it become a useful thing to post and publish each KCB member’s individual email address.  These 10 tenants of office who act as cloistered landlords now think you taxpaying citizens should have some access.  After all, it is time to renew that lease with the citizenry.  It is funny how things occur when all 10 KCB members are up for re-election at the same time.  

Our “cloistered” KCB landlords will be looking to renew their four-year lease on life so they can continue to make “important decisions” for ALL of US.  County “municipal” residents in Yorkville, Oswego and Plano, please take note, as you are now “SPECIAL” city/village taxing subjects and will be paying more for your 911 service because your KCB landlords forced that 911-KenCom-deal down your elected municipal alderman/trustee throats.  Please keep swallowing, as your KCB landlords have found something else where you can pay your “fair share” with no input.  Their latest idea is that every non-union W-2 payroll person working for our County government must have a raise. The only question our “cloistered” KCB members are debating is, should it be a 2 percent or 3.42 percent raise? 

It’s time we citizens must decide, are we willing to re-up the lease and trust this bunch to govern for another four years? Can we afford them?  Please tell me when you last got an across-the-board, non-merit-based raise from your employer, assuming you are a lucky enough person to have a real full-time job.  Merit and experience must be considered and rewarded, but please treat government employees like the rest of us who still earn a living and are still paying the freight to run our local government.

Todd Milliron
Yorkville area resident