Surprise Surprise An Expected Contribution

Most of you have probably seen this picture of what is the Scott Harl campaign contributions as required by law to be sent to the state of Illinois.

Significance is this is typical Pay to Play.  The month before that the McAnarney contract was not sent to the Peru City Council for approval or disapproval but was instead listed in disbursements as a monthly expenditure in the Administrative section. Sadly to see it looks like it was at the same time that our Lobbyist gave a $300.00 donation to the Scott Harl political campaign fund.

I never expected this from Scott Harl when he ran for Mayor of Peru and again I was one of many who supported him and now feels so much regret. Political gain has taken over what we thought was a sincere desire for this city to progress and improve. Crickets at City Hall because of politics.

More Details China Ottawa Web Times

http://www.mywebtimes.com/news/local/business CHINA TRIP

Here Is the Answer That Peru Did Not Give to its Residents.

http://www.mywebtimes.com/news/local/ottawa-streator-officials-to-pitch-region-in-china/article_fe456474-474f-58ff-ab05-97bdb9df4725.html

Peru Mall wants a 42 percent cut in taxes

Peru Mall wants a 42 percent cut in taxes



We all would like to large percentage of our property taxes cut also and with the continual increases more people will move on to states and cities where this does not happen and business is doing well.

Read Between the Lines on This Discussion

Just a few weeks ago a comment by me, that at one time Peru wanted very much to have a City Engineer to be the Public Works Director which would eliminate any differences between having both a City Engineer and Public Works Director working on some of the same projects in this small city as seems to show up in this news article. Maybe there is too big of an overlap in some areas of the job description. And along the same lines, I see that someone from Chamlin engineering still attends city council meetings and sits at the table with other Department Heads. Now that Peoria Street resurfacing is finished and the sewer project is completed. Does Public Works need more people for city maintenance and fewer being paid at the top?  Asking this not as a blog writer but simply as a resident of this city

.http://www.newstrib.com/free/peru-committee-puts-the-freeze-on-baker-lake-disc-golf/article_8e03ee24-c3d1-11e7-a8c3-f7e2a912067d.html#tncms-source=article-nav-next