SAUK VILLAGE | The Village Hall was closed yesterday for Labor Day and will be closed tomorrow because, well the Village Hall is always closed on Wednesday to the public.
With a truncated week due to the holiday, you would have thought someone would have asked that the Village Hall, for this week should remain open on Wednesday. After all, they could be working to facilitate the numerous Freedom of Information Act requests that the Village receives.
Now, I have made it no secret that since January 1, 2013 I have made about 23 FOIA requests since information about crimes, and financial reports are not available on the Village's website. You would think that the 110 FOIA requests recieved or the 13.75 requests made on average per month that this couldn't possibly bog down the Village's staff? Maybe Debbie Williams can roll up her sleaves and get to work on getting timely and updated information out on the taxpayer paid website instead of her personal trips she's taken.
Let's review. Out of the 13.75 FOIA requests (on average) the Village recieves each month the staff could handle those on Wednesday's only. This would mean that they could spend 32 hours each month answering 13.75 FOIA requests? I do not think that these take that much "staff" time to warrant the Village Hall closing do you?
Now perhaps it is catching up on balancing the Village's 59 accounts? No Mohan Rao has that all under control. Well maybe they need time to process all those water bill payments? Well if they were processing them, then why would they close and not allow people to pay their bills? No that can't be it.
Anytime I have gone into Village Hall during the week there have been one or two people or many times none at all, yet they are closed on Wednesday to allow the staff time to catch up on their work? Now I'm sure they have "busy" times and I know that they do their job, when the Village Hall is open! Don't mistake my message, I do NOT blame the employees, I blame the task masters! If everything is running just fine, what is it that they need to catch up on?
By the way, did you ever call Village Hall during the day and get a recording? Ok the fact you get a recording is not the surprise. Guess who's voice you hear on it? The former Chief of Police Thomas Lachetta who hasn't been with the Village for over 3 years now! I wonder if Tommy is getting royalties every time they play his recorded voice, if he did he'd be a millionare!
Perhaps we could work on getting Village Hall open on Wednesdays, update the voice greeting and work on solving the $46 million dollar debt the Village faces instead of worrying about how many FOIA requests that some have made.
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