FYI: Bob Shipley successfully managed to have his only opposition kicked off the ballot.
So...Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, Mr. Shipley now sits unopposed! He remains the Granite City Township Supervisor!
Another term, another year with more than a million dollars (per year) of taxpayer's dollars at his disposal to hand feed to handpicked associates and their friends and families.
Imagine how far that money would go to force slumlords to improve their properties via court filing fees, and to pursue them through completion.
The assessor's duties could be absorbed at the county level.
There is no town clerk or road department at the GC Township, so where does all that money go? How in the world do they require FORTY SEVEN EMPLOYEES? What do those employees do? Seriously, what do they do?
Another chunk of money, over four million dollars, over the course of this next term. I say let's abolish the township and put that money into legally forced clean up of the privately owned dilapidated properties in this city and adding additional police patrols.
But that doesn't make much sense, does it?
SMDH, it's pretty damn pathetic that we screw our taxpayers even worse than E. St. Louis screws theirs.