The mayor's wording on his appointments is "with the advice and consent" of the trustees, but we as a group are rarely consulted before his appointment is presented to the board for approval.
Our police submit nothing, publish nothing, and crime statistics for the area are unavailable online any more recently than 2007-8. Requests go acknowledged, and ignored.
No requests from the trustees can be "forced", as the mayor has all the say.
Yes, I, too, got an official Pontoon Beach "trustee" badge (after many requests, months after being elected)--those elected earlier have their name on theirs--mine has an "expiration date" !!!