Nearly two dozen current and former suburban officials already collecting pay or pensions are among those costing taxpayers more than $1 million a year in salaries or health-care benefits for serving on transit boards.
Aurora Mayor Tom Weisner, who makes $31,426 a year as a tollway director on top of his $111,840 salary as his city's top administrator….Weisner and Naperville Mayor George Pradel receive annual paychecks from the tollway in addition to their mayoral salaries. Weisner's $111,840 elected position is a full-time management post. Pradel makes $28,533 a year as mayor, a job sought by challengers Doug Krause and Kenn Miller in the April election. ….
agencies already reimburse board members for costs associated with traveling to board meetings, if it is requested
Woodstock Democratic state Rep. Jack Franks has drafted two bills to strip pay and benefits from these transit agency boards as well as from the Chicago Transit Authority board of directors.
Transit board seats give elected officials a second public paycheck - DailyHerald.com
Attorney General Madigan had a different concern: that local communities who hire auxiliary police as private contractors are technically allowing them to break state laws regarding the carrying of handguns and impersonation of police officers. She said that auxiliary cops who are fully-trained by a department and then officially appointed as cops are okay, but not those officers hired on a contract basis.
