Ideas for Du Page Township to cut expenses

Du Page township Supervisor Bill Mayer would like to cut one position to lower expenses.  That one position is Shirley V. who is the first NON Clarrite to get elected to office in a long while.  She is not even a typical Republican elected official in Bolingbrook, being one of the first Democrats to represent the huge Democratic population of the community, which is largely Democrat.

However, cutting her position is only being done out of spite and to get a DDemocrat off the board.  We have another better solution.

Anthony Morelli, the youth director that makes over $30K in his position annually within Du Page Township is clearly more expendable.  The son of Trustee Morelli, his job is to book approx. 7 events each year for over $30K.  These events include:
1.  Learn to Skate - which means he sets up a time with Rocket Ice for August where people can go and ice skate. (Approx time to complete, 30 min.)

2.  Castaway Fishing - Setting up a two week fishing excursion (Approx. time to complete 30 min.)

3.  Dinner and Movie night (Approx. time to complete 30 min.)

4.  Take me out to the ball game - (Approx. time to complete 30 min.)

5.  Tee it Up for kids - (Approx. time to complete 30 min.)

We called a local park district to ask how long these events would take for them to set up.  Each one takes approx. 30 minutes to coordinate, make contact calls, and type up a flyer or advertisement.  Each event runs approx. 2 hours long.  Given that fact, it would take 2.5 hours of set up for the events, 10 hours of attending the events plus 5 hours to set up at the events.  We will even give extra time for prep work, marketing, etc. of these events of 12 hours. 

Total time to do these events equates to roughly one 40 hour work week at $30K per year for events that Park Districts already book and put in place. 

Matter of fact, the ice arena does their own marketing and advertising for events.  So does the golf course.  So what exactly are we paying this man for?  Is it a job given to someone for being politically connected?  Matter of fact, it has been many months since an event has happened.  Has he been collecting checks during this entire time?  

The tax payers of Bolingbrook need to be aware that Du Page Township might do some wonderful things for the residents, but they also are responsible for blowing a great deal of money, while hiding under the guise of not being the largest taxing body in town.  Just last year your tax dollars went to support a plaque honoring Roger Claar.  Now most people would say that a plaque is not much money and at least it is not a statue.  However, Du Page Township did not think just a plaque was enough and built a $22K garden area around it, now called the Roger Claar garden.  (It really looks like a memorial site). 

When we inquired last year to the lavish monument area set up to worship Mr. Claar on tax payers dollars, we were told it is a wonderful garden that people can go to for meditation. 

I am glad that Du Page Township spent our $22K on a place I can go to meditate about Roger Claar, and worship him.  However, I thought that religion and government are not suppose to mix? 

Furthermore, Du Page Township offers free rent to pet not for profit organizations, housing CSC for free.  This costs the tax payers as well.

It is time to tell Du Page Township that our tax money matters to us and we no longer need a Township taxing body.  The food pantry can run under its own purposes and the cemeteries can all go back to Will County.  The local tax assessor can work for the county and we can eliminate a whole taxing body out of Bolingbrook, saving tax payers a great deal of money.  It is time to take a stand and say NO to elected officials that serve their own purposes.