How idiots (Some with Degrees) confuse success with education.

I know. It's hard to imagine. But it still holds true today. There are people out there with degrees...double degrees, and various industry accolades, yet they are completely inept for the jobs they were "Educated" for.

I like to call it the Lamborghini theory. You can have a Lamborghini parked in your driveway, but if you don't know how to start it, shift its gears, or maintain it, you might as well throw $208,571 dollars into your fireplace. Then there's the people that THINK they can drive it, but drive with two feet, overheat the brakes, and end up crashing into the side of a Mountain.

And yes, I realize the other adage - "If you think a professional is expensive, wait until you see what an amateur will cost you" applies in most circumstances, it still doesn't mean that a person's education is the end all, be all to their ability to perform the jobs they were hired to do. Or even, ELECTED to do! So for fun, let's take a look at some well known "Drop-Outs" and people that didn't finish pursuing their education. But as you will see, education does not always make the person nor does it make the person necessarily qualified to do the job.

1.) Bill Gates - Dropped out of Harvard University to start a little software company out of the garage of Paul Allen, bought portions of CP/M and wrote Microsoft DOS Or Disk Operating System. His $92.5 BILLION DOLLAR net worth still comes from Microsoft.

2.) Mark Zuckerberg - Dropped out of Harvard University to ultimately write the Blog front end which became Facebook. I mean, he's no Bill Gates, but a $74.4 BILLION DOLLAR net worth isn't anything to sneeze at.

3.) Larry Ellison - Dropped out of University of Chicago and University of Illinois to start the database giant Oracle. At $54.2 BILLION DOLLARS of net worth, he also owns one of the world's largest yachts.

4.) Sheldon Adelson - Las Vegas Sands Casinos. Adelson dropped out of City College of New York to start this Casino Chain. Today, he's worth $42.3 BILLION DOLLARS.

5.) Francois Pinault - Dropped out of High School to work in his family's portion of the Kering line of luxury goods. Net worth $32.8 BILLION DOLLARS.

6.) Li Ka Shing - Dropped out of High School to start CK Hutchinson Holdings. The port investor / operator / developer with a presence in 5 of the world's largest and busiest 10 container shipping ports of call. Net worth is $32.4 BILLION DOLLARS.

7.) Michael Dell - DUDE! YOU BOUGHT A DELL! And Michael Dell Thanks you! After all, Dell dropped out of the University of Texas at Austin to start the Dell Computer Company. And some speculated he was the stoner in the commercials he's not doing too bad with a net worth of $23.6 BILLION DOLLARS.

Well MOST of these guys went to HIGH SCHOOL at least, right? Well what about the high school drop-outs. The ones without so much as even a high school diploma. I mean, they couldn't have gone too far, right? WRONG!

Richard Branson - Virgin Air, Virgin Mobile, and about 498 other companies he's overseen, with his brand on about 200-300 of them. Branson dropped out of high school at age 15 and his current net worth is $4.9 BILLION DOLLARS.

David Karp - Another 15 year old that dropped out of an elite Bronx High School of Science and developed Tumblr, the blog-hosting and social network company, in 2007 in the "back bedroom of his mother's modest Manhattan apartment." Karp sold Tumblr to Yahoo for $1.1 BILLION DOLLARS and his net worth is about $200 Million. Karp is still the company CEO.

Nicole Kidman dropped out of high school at 17 to be a massage therapist.

Aretha Franklin - Dropped out of high school at 15 to care for her first born child.

Joe Lewis - Dropped out of high school at age 15 to run his father's catering business. Joe's net worth is $5.2 BILLION DOLLARS due to the success of his father's start-up Tavistock Banqueting. He mostly works from his Yacht, holds interests in numerous sports teams and restaurants, and has an impressive art collection with Picasso, Matisse, Lucian Freud, and Francis Bacon pieces in his collection.

Philip Emeagwali - Called an "unsung hero of the internet," the supercomputer scientist dropped out of high-school in Nigeria due to war conditions and lack of tuition money. According to Time, he was considered a math prodigy and continued to study on his own, earning an equivalency diploma and later a scholarship to Oregon College of Education in the US. He earned the IEEE Gordon Bell prize in 1989 and is considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the Internet.

Some Hollywood and music elite even dropped out of high school. Some eventually went on to get a GED, but not all. Those famous Hollywood personas include;

Quentin Tarentino
Seth Rogan
Hillary Swank
George Foreman
Eminem
Drake
Whoopi Goldberg
Damon Wayans
Rihanna
Chris Rock
Jay-Z
Tracy Morgan
50 Cent
NAS.

So remember. Just because someone has a degree, it doesn't mean that they know what they're doing at their chosen job or profession. Inasmuch as someone without a degree or even a high school diploma can and do many times excel in their jobs really well. 

Village quietly settles numerous FOIA Violations Lawsuits caused by Fanatical 5 Actions

 

WHAT DOES REVENGE LOOK LIKE IN SAUK VILLAGE? Concealing the TRUTH, and failing residents, while racking up over $238,000 in Legal Fees in 2019 alone, and causing lawsuits against the Village and its Taxpaying residents.

By: Joachim Mahommes

In October, 2019 when Christopher Williams, the Fanatical Five’s court-appointed Village Administrator assumed his duty of FOIA Clerk.  This Wrecking Crew, newly elected Trustees Gary Bell, Sherry Jasinski and Ringleader Debbie Williams, aligned themselves with Trustees Linda Todd and Bernice Brewer began systematically dismantling the professional and highly competent team Mayor Burgess had assembled after his election in 2017.  Mayor Burgess and his administration had already begun making significant strides in improving the operations of the Village.  The Wrecking Crew led by Ringleader Debbie Williams decided that in order to return the Village to the “good ole days”, they needed to strip the Elected Mayor of his powers and instead hire their handpicked Village Administrator to run Sauk Village. In comes, Christopher Williams, with only 5 months of Municipal experience in that position in Hazel Crest, backed by the full faith and recommendation of Village Counsel and given a “reduced” salary of $90,000 a year full time. Well, with this great pick, the Wrecking Crew included FOIA Clerk as one of his duties.

Ringleader Trustee Debbie ‘Wanna Be Mayor’ Williams didn’t even bother to transfer existing FOIA requests emails to her newly hired Village Administrator.  As a result, several FOIA requests went unanswered. This immediately resulted in the filing of costly lawsuits to the Village. One FOIA, in particular, requested "Legal bills for the month of October, 2019".

Not only was that FOIA request never responded to which resulted in the filing of a lawsuit for a default denial, but once the Fanatical 5 discovered they never followed through with the email transfers, it was too late. The Illinois FOIA Statutes were simply denied which resulted in numerous lawsuits being filed.

Once that suit was filed, the Fanatical 5 Wrecking Crew through the Taxpayers’ legal counsel, attempted to cover up their own miscues by over-redaction of the legal bills so that the requester could not see what services were being paid for. Much like going to the grocery store, and having most every line of your receipt blackened out so you don't know if you paid $3.99 for a gallon of milk, or a roll of toilet paper! It made absolutely no sense. But once the bill was unredacted, it shows that Trustees and the Village Administrator were relying on Counsel at an additional price tag of $165 an hour to hide their dubious schemes and perform the Village Administrator’s duties.

What WAS CLEAR was that the Fanatical 5 Wrecking Crew knowingly and willingly conspired to conceal how they were using Village Counsel and what for, while carelessly racking up a legal bill totaling over $20,000 for just the month of October, 2019 ALONE! 

What a difference a LAWSUIT MAKES!

With just a mere 48 hours before going to court before a Judge, the Village decided instead of being found in violation of FOIA, AND CONCEALING INFORMATION, they better settle the suit, but not before it cost taxpayers THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to do so! You can see the complete REDACTED versions and UNREDACTED versions clicking on these two links provided.

Under FOIA, a Public Body MAY REDACT certain information such as personal information, named subjects in a legal action or pending litigation, or any person being called to testify as a witness. The Village's Counsel attempted to explain that this was attorney / client private communication describe on a BILL FOR LEGAL SERVICES RENDERED. So they quickly provided the allowable versions of redactions before going to trial to avoid from going in front of a Judge and this being seen by a circuit court Judge.

What is completely clear, is that the Fanatical 5 Wrecking Crew Trustees instructed Taxpayers’ Counsel to conceal as much of the legal bills possible, to avoid being discovered in their planned scheme to undermine Mayor Burgess and undoing what was being accomplished by his administration.  They used the Taxpayers’ Counsel to systematically remove employees, cater to their whims to exact revenge against the Mayor, his administration and the Village residents that elected him.

ANOTHER CAMPAIGN FACT CHECKED

We were provided FACT CHECK on campaign material that Linda Todd, a Trustee Candidate had put out in the Village.  We are providing this information to you so you can be sure to make a FULLY INFORMED DECISION on the candidates in the April 6th Election.

FACT CHECK PROVIDED BY Concerned Residents of Sauk Village

FACT:  Linda Todd has served on the Village Board since 2017, during that time she has been
condescending, indignant and disrespectful to the current Mayor and certain residents. In fact, in 2019 she joined forces with the four other Trustees to become the “Fanatical Five” Trustees who have put Politics over Progress to shut down everything that Mayor Burgess has worked toward since taking office in 2017.  She receives an “F” for the time she has spent on the Village Board because she is does not represent ALL of the people only a select few.  ONLY ONE who VOTED AGAINST the Village’s Strategic Plan (Source: November 28, 2017 Village Board Minutes)

1700 Block of Jeffrey Avenue in Sauk Village

FACT:   RACISM!  Alive and well isn’t that right Linda Todd? She has served on committees, however, there has been no meaningful piece of legislation sponsored by this Trustee to help heal the division or bring racial equity to the Village.  In Fact, she sat on the Human Relations Commission while her neighbor put out racist signs flying a Racist Rebel Flag over an upside down American Flag on their front lawn on Jeffrey Avenue and she has said NOTHING ABOUT IT for 4 years! 

FACT:  Linda Todd wants to talk about “Unity” when in fact she has done NOTHING to bring UNITY when it comes to working with Mayor Burgess or the majority of the residents of the Village over the last 4 years.   She talks about “working” together but her actions speak otherwise.  She is a DIVIDER not a UNITER!

FACT:  Linda Todd talks about the “steady decline” in the Village… but she has done nothing for 4 years on the Village Board to bring in new business.  In fact she initially opposed and VOTED “NO” on the Gas-N-Wash Deal!  Voted NO for the Village to make $1.3 million!

 

 

BREWER ILLEGAL TAX BREAK FOLLOWING MONEY INTO HER POCKET

Bernice Brewer

SAUK VILLAGE OFFICIAL ILLEGAL TAX BREAK

by Joachim Mahomes

Here we go again Sauk Village!  As Sauk Village residents struggle with a pandemic and staggering property taxes, another politically connected official is caught with an illegal tax break.  Remember back in September, 2012 when a certain ex-mayor fraudulently claimed a homeowner’s property tax exemption for his homes here in Sauk Village and his other home in Chicago? He was suspended from his job at the time with the Cook County Assessor and ultimately resigned as Mayor.   At that time the now ex-mayor returned the $4,100 in property taxes he owed.  Now we find another Village official ran for mayor herself in 2013 now wants you to vote her back in as a Trustee.  Could this person suffer the same fate or at least the resident of Sauk Village can turn her away at the polls in April?  How can residents "trust" her?

 

Controversial Trustee Bernice Brewer, seems to habitually take on several bad traits of former disgraced elected officials.  Brewer lied about her sworn support of a fellow candidate after they were successfully elected and sworn in in 2019.  This Trustee joined their alliance with the deposed ex-mayor’s “friends” and are now known collectively called the Fanatical Five Trustees.  Our investigative efforts have sadly hit the jackpot once again, and we will see if the supporters of this Trustee who railed on the disgraced ex-Mayor are going to rail on Brewer this time for the same exact thing.  The shame is now on Brewer for violating the law and her fate is up to the people of Sauk Village.   

 

In 2015, Bernice Brewer, then referring to herself as Bernice Brewer-Houston, was facing apparent “financial” hardship and allowed her mortgage to become $55,361.76 delinquent on her home at 910 Laura Lane in Sauk Village according to public records.  The lender generously modified the terms of the agreement to a modest 40 year mortgage totaling $129,177.44!  This elected official then apparently leased out or rented her property and relocated to a double-wide trailer at 187 Blue Jay in Weatherstone’s Mobile Home Park according to a March 27, 2017 Sauk Talk article and according to nomination papers filed with the Village Clerk.  However further investigation revealed that the trailer home sold on June 16, 2015 for $28,500 MLS ID: #08599986.  Public records also show that Brewer has been claiming her homeowner’s exemption on their non-owner occupied property for the past 4 years while owning and living at another location resulting in reduced property taxes in the amount of $6,100 and about $1500 owed to Sauk Village directly based on calculations.  Sound familiar yet?  

 

Sauk Village’s Attorney Burt Odelson was quoted in a recent news article about another crooked politician “You see that from time to time with politicians,” Odelson said. “They vote out of one, and they have a fake home, and they get caught taking a homestead exemption, which is a crime.”  Brewer is registered to vote at her address on Blue Jay and not a property she rents out in Sauk Village.  

 

The Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s office has a whistleblowing online program.  “When someone gets an undeserved break on taxes, you pay more than fair share.  If you know that a property is improperly receiving an exemption, tell us”. Their website is:  http://whistleblowing.cookcountyassessor.com/

 

How ironic it is that Bernice Brewer repeatedly proclaims at every board meeting, “a Trustee’s job is to follow the money”.  Well that was not a hard job for her, as we can see her watching the money fall right into her own pockets for the past 4 years four years now, the entire time they have been in elected office.  A violation of the Public Trust worthy of demands for her resignation as many did against the ex-Mayor from 2010 to 2012.    

 

This is the same elected official who advocated that a forensic audit be performed on the Village finances in hopes of embarrassing the current Mayor of Sauk Village the results of which showed no wrong doing but cost the taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars; the very same elected official that continuously requests legal advice from the taxpayer paid law firm that made the quote above; the same elected official who has formally announced their bid to re-run for office and is now circulating her political pack of lies.  Many long-time residents do not support this person’s bid for re-election.  “If they are always falsely accusing another elected official of fraud while cheating the residents out of our money, why would anyone vote for them?”

Mayor Derrick Burgess Looking Forward To The Future; Lists Documented Accomplishments

Published by:

Taylor Media February 12, 2021 

SAUK VILLAGE | Mayor Derrick Burgess announced last October he was seeking re-election to a second term as Sauk Village’s Mayor.  Burgess took office in 2017 and was handed an administration and a community which routinely found itself with over $1 million in unpaid bills, severely mismanaged human resources that resulted in numerous employees suing the village, a mismanaged finance department with repeated and severe audit findings, unbalanced, irresponsible and unprofessionally prepared budgets.  Basically, when Burgess assumed the position of Mayor, on day one he inherited an absolute mess.  But Burgess was well aware of the difficulties he faced as he had been a Trustee for the past 11 years and three administrations.

What Burgess did not do when he took office was fire everyone immediately.  Instead, he chose to work with current personnel to assess their performance and contributions in wake of the new policies, procedures and mandates he set.  Personnel changes came later as he learned the source of the mismanagement.   

Burgess also grappled with the fact that there was no new commercial development in Sauk Village in over twenty years which became Mayor Burgess’ immediate goal to change.  Mayor Burgess and his newly formed administrative team were successful in landing a $13 million commercial development on the Northwest Corner of Sauk Trail and Illinois 394 within the first two years of his administration.  This would-be Gas-N-Wash’s largest facility built to date as of April 2019.  The Gas-N-Wash development is a 32.9-acre Truck Stop, housing a convenience store, Pops Roast Beef, Dunkin Donuts and Little Mexico Restaurant.  The Village realized a $1.3 million profit from the sale of the land and impact fees.  This resulted in the Village establishing its first ever reserve fund.

Simultaneously, Burgess and his team worked at reducing the Village’s bills with all its vendors including legal bills from 2017 to 2019; realizing a savings of over $440,000 during that period.  With this newly found surplus of funds, Burgess immediately began paying off the Village’s backlog of $1.1 million in unpaid bills while not having to tap into its water fund, a practice that had become the norm with previous administrations.  Burgess’ administration adopted the sound financial practice of operating within the Village’s current means.  Following this practice, Burgess was also able to reduce the Village’s property tax levy while being able to increase revenue to the grossly underfunded Police Pension Fund.  Burgess worked hard at getting the Village’s Finances back in order by addressing years of repeated audit findings.  Burgess hired a professional Finance Director who immediately began implementing industry best practices and for the first time in over a decade, this professional was able to prepare a balanced and responsible budget; earning the Village a Distinguished Budget Award in 2018 from the Government Finance Officers Association.

 
With the promise of improved financial management, Burgess was able to save the Village significant monies by refinancing its higher interest rate bonds to a lower rate and secure $2.5 million in proceeds that would fund and complete long over-due road and water improvements at no cost to Sauk Village taxpayers. “Because we worked hard at putting together a good team who were well versed in multiple fields including Finances, we were able in 2018 to make significant strides toward re-obtaining a bond rating.  My plan is to re-initiate that hard work after the 2021 election,” Burgess said. 

For decades before and since the housing collapse in 2008, the Village has been plagued with vacant and abandoned homes which had driven down real estate values allowing many investors to gobble up cheap homes to make quick profits.  Burgess continues to work to raise the housing standards and home values in Sauk Village by tightening its housing code and holding investors responsible for their properties.   Even though Burgess has met severe opposition for this, he continues to seek ways to make needed improvements and will continue to do so after the 2021 election.

At the onset of his administration in 2017, Mayor Burgess presented his Strategic Plan for Progress to the Village Board for adoption. Burgess had begun identifying needed changes in the Village’s nearly 20-year-old outdated Comprehensive Plan back in 2013.  His self-authored Strategic Plan for Progress was the Village’s very first plan in decades and was the springboard for the Comprehensive Plan’s successful update in 2017.   The Plan was adopted by the Village Board and the Village’s Zoning Board of Appeals and will help guide the Village for the next 20 years.

“With all of the changes we implanted, we were able to finally begin saving a modest amount in our Water Fund” Burgess said.  “This has allowed us to begin repairing or replacing broken fire hydrants that have been inoperable for years. This was already identified our 2017 Strategic Plan for Progress and hopefully we can have all inoperable fire hydrants repaired in an efficient and timely manner so that every resident can benefit from it; not just a few” Burgess said.  

“I will also be directing our staff and Engineers to prepare plans to repair and replace all inoperable streetlights, cut down all dead trees on the parkways and public areas, and begin repairing our crumbling streets and have it all done by 2023.  You just don’t go out to fix a few at a time without a realistic plan that addresses the entire problem; that’s irresponsible and a great waste of money.  I stated there are no more excuses for this not getting done.  With a balance of new and professional people on the Board, we can look forward to and will get the job done” Burgess said. 

Also, during 2017-2019, the Board of Trustees and my administration were successful in securing $1.7 million in grants and assistance for Sauk Village which has not been done since.  Additionally, Burgess was able to negotiate an intergovernmental agreement with Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning for a free embedded Planning Staff member who was also instrumental in assisting the Village with completing many projects and facilitating grants from 2019 to 2021.

R to L: Rodrick Grant, Mayor Derrick Burgess,
Larry Sapp and Arnold Coleman

“Look, we know we have many problems that need to be addressed and we know that many of these problems have been ongoing for decades.  My team has always believed we can rectify our problems in a relatively short time we if we have team dedicated to fixing our communities instead of our individual lives.  Residents are ready to see sustainable changes and not hear about the negative antics portrayed by people who are just looking for power and control of their tax dollars.  I am conveying to residents that I as Mayor need a team that can work together towards our stated goals and not be disagreeable on everything at every meeting and nothing gets done.  That is why I am working to get a balanced Board by re-electing Trustee Rodrick Grant, and electing Trustee Candidates Arnold Coleman and Larry Sapp” Burgess said. 

“We have a lot more to do, a lot more ahead of us and we are out aggressively asking for the residents’ support.  My team and I are up for the challenge and look forward to the next four years” Burgess said. 

ROTTEN TO THE CORE WITH NO VALUES - The Inconvenient TRUTH of Debbie Williams

The Inconvenient TRUTH of Debbie Williams- 

By: Ann Mahomes- When it comes to Debbie Williams talking about "core values" she is nothing but lies!  She is rotten to the core.  Apparently this is going to become a series of articles exposing the TRUTH about a PROVEN LIAR.  The comments in black are verbatim copy of her diatribe she posts on social media, she lies about never goin on.    The portions in RED are the response and exposure of the LIES: 

TRUSTEE VOTE 5 to 1 TO SHELL OUT $300,000 TO EX-COP

Courtesy Youtube-

Former Sgt Rebecca Vela-Sailsbery

Former Police Sergeant Rebecca Vela-Sailsbery retired May 7, 2020 after 27 years without ever achieving her goal of becoming Police Chief.  Sailsbery had joined the Sauk Village Police Department in 1993 and rose through the ranks.  She was appointed to Deputy Chief by former Chief Tim Holevis, but following Holevis' ouster on the heels the April, 2015 election ex-Mayor David Hanks took swift action to ensure that Sailsbery would not be the next Police Chief.    

Ex-mayor Hanks relentlessly and misogynistically attacked Sailsbery publicly during open meetings from 2015 until 2017 when he finally left office. (CLICK HERE TO VIEW ACTUAL VIDEO)  Sailsbery filed suit in 2015 in Federal Court against now ex-mayor Hanks and his former Village Administrator JW Fairman alleging among other things gender discrimination and retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

In 2015, Hanks created what one Trustee at the time called a "sham" committee to pick the next Police Chief.  The committee consisted of JW Fairman, ex-Trustee Rosie Williams, the daughter of then Village Clerk and now Trustee Debbie Williams, and the late Cecial Tates a former Trustee.   Tates insisted that the whole committee selection process was a sham even saying that he had never seen Robert Kowalski's credentials, who would be appointed Chief, as part of the selection process.  Hanks moved forward anyhow with his appointment of  Kowalski as Police Chief in August, 2015 without the consent of the Village Board.  As part of Sailsbery's suit she claimed she was passed over for promotion, demoted and worked in a hostile work environment.   Hanks continued his unusual behavior attacking Sailsbery publicly at his "Meet the Mayor" rallies he held at Village Hall which were videoed (CLICK HERE TO VIEW ACTUAL VIDEO). 

This past Tuesday's Board meeting, Village Trustees voted to payout $300,000 to settle the case with Sailsbery.  Trustees voting yes were Debbie Williams, Linda Todd, Bernice Brewer, Gary Bell and Sherry Jasinski.  The only Trustee voting NO was Rodrick Grant. 

Sailsbery was named as a defendant in lawsuit against the Village No.11 C 7956 (N.D.Ill.Apr. 27, 2012) involving a now former Village employee, Susan Dobrzeniecki.  Current Trustee, Sherry Jasinski, was Dobrzeniecki’s supervisor at that time and was a witness against Sailsbery and the other defendants named in the suit including the Village.  During ex-mayor David Hanks' tenure, on January 27, 2015 Village Trustees approved a Settlement with Dobrzeniecki who claimed she was held against her will and her home searched unlawfully on November 8, 2011.  The Settlement, according to village records, was $290,000.  Dobrzeniecki also filed suit against the now shuttered St. James Hospital seeking more damages following the Village’s settlement.  (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-ilnd-1_11-cv-07956/pdf/USCOURTS-ilnd-1_11-cv-07956-3.pdf)

According to public record no disciplinary action was taken against Sailsbery or others involved in the suit as a result of the Dobrzenieck incident in 2011 nor after the settlement of the case in 2015.  What Sailbery did get was attacks upon her from ex mayor David Hanks as you can view in the attached video.       

The settlement payouts to these two employees alone totaled $590,000.  Why Trustees Linda Todd, Bernice Brewer, Debbie Williams, Gary Bell and Sherry Jasinski have you not said a SINGLE WORD?  Taxpayers are footing the bill for a FOOLISH ex-mayor and his antics, and that entire time you sat silent.  You are clearly not watching the Village’s money.  Not a single time from 2011 to 2017 had any of them muster a single word to condemn the actions of ex-Mayor David Hank, but you just shelled out $300,000 without a care in the world.     

Now imagine what $590,000 could have done for the residents:

·         How many broken fire hydrants could the Village Fix?

·         How many broken Street Lights could the Village Fix?

·         How many dead trees could be cut down?

·         How many Police Officers could the Village hire?

·         How many Youth and Seniors programs could the Village implement along with the hiring of a much needed Director?

·         How much closer would the Village be to securing Lake Michigan Water, if not for these payouts?  

EDITORIAL NOTE AND COMMENT:   Sailsbery posted on social media "...I have received NOTHING from Mayor Derrick Burgess.... Hell I didn't even get a cup of coffee, lunch, card, email, or letter.  ABSOLUTELY nothing!!  It was nothing less than being TORTURED in HELL, working 27 years as a Law Enforcement Officer for an with some of the most unqualified, unprofessional, vindictive, racist, unethical, criminals I have ever met, in the most ridiculous and dangerous conditions you could ever imagine. Up to my very last day..." 

No cup of coffee, or free donuts either; But, $300,000 isn't a bad "thank you" don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!  We sincerely hope that the $300,000 you got on your way out is in some small way a token from the taxpayers of Sauk Village for your anguish.  As you suffer so heavily living in Indiana with your bank account and your retirement pension courtesy of the taxpayers of Sauk Village for the rest of your life!  Your anger and bitterness for Sauk Village has been evident for many years, but to blame this current Mayor for all your "WOE" and not getting anything on your way out is disingenuous, and factually NOT TRUE!  We truly wish you well in your retirement, really we do. What the taxpayers of Sauk Village should REALLY be asking, WTF?    Why are we still paying for mistakes from the last failed administration and the ripple effects continue on?    

Oh and P.S.- For all you out there who are going to say "congratulations" to her, remember that when you get your property tax bill for the next 10 years to pay for the increase in your village's liability insurance claims.  BETTER YET, remember the FANATICAL FIVE TRUSTEES at election time!  Don't let this garbage back in again.