Cost of China trip sparks online ire for Peru

Cost of China trip sparks online ire for Peru

Ice Skating in the Illinois Valley Locations and Times

Ice Skating in the Illinois Valley

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Merry Christmas From My Home to Yours

Sincerely hope all the people in Peru are having an enjoyable and blessed Christmas, wishing you all the best. That includes everyone even if we disagree on many political decisions taking place currently in Peru. It is freezing cold so keep your eyes open for anyone that might be in distress from the cold. That means neighbors and friends and those who have no home .

Appears We Have A First Class Mayor and Economic Director

While we all wondered why the cost for the Mayor of Peru and Economic Director to take a flight to China to attend an economic conference was so costly at 10 thousand plus dollars, it now appears that it was because they chose to fly First Class on your dollar.


The Mayor of Ottawa and his companion made the trip for a bit over 1 thousand dollars and traveled Coach..

Personally not surprised that our mayor would take advantage of our city for his own personal preferences. What is going to be the response of the Peru City Council who voted 7-1 to approve of this trip? So now we wonder when they knew of the cost of the trip for the two and why they would approve such an outrageous expense.

LaSalle 2017 LBA Christkindlmarket

Not Only Peru, It Is A Statewide Problem with People Leaving and Taking Their Money With Them

http://www.mywebtimes.com/news/editorial/statewise-it-s-illinois-birthday-hey-wait-come-back/article_50e6903a-18ca-5038-b662-ff87b96a5127.html#tncms-source=block-behavioral

Unless something dynamic happens to improve the status of the state of Illinois, the stats are not going to change.  All towns will be affected and more than likely small towns in particular. The young and educated are looking for more than we offer to them and their young families. My point is that cities need to look for ways to make their cities inviting to those very same people. After awhile this sounds like a broken record and that is because nothing is changing.

I expect other cities to release their expenditures on the recent trip to China and will they have had good economic sense in not abusing the expenditures of taxpayer money?

How Much Do You Think a Plane Ticket for Two is For A Trip to China Is?

Gathering the information.

Actual information from the city of Peru web site, disbursements.

From the disbursements on 11/15:
Harl visa fee 965.07

From 11/29:
Airfare to China $10, 704.28
Travel to/from OHare $250.00

From 12/13
Vickrey phone China $1,190.12
Hotel Beijing China $617.10

Taxpayers spend tens of thousands on Illinois municipal conference

Taxpayers spend tens of thousands on Illinois municipal conference This is one of numerous articles by the same source doing some investigation of the needless cost to taxpayers by officials going to the IML yearly. We have been writing this up since the first Harl administration and I am sure you can find comments on previous trips in our archives. This is the first I am adding and will follow with the one about Peru and La Salle.

La Salle IML trips

Peru taxpayers pick up the $3,500 tab for three officials to go to the two-day conference

Peru taxpayers pick up the $3,500 tab for three officials to go to the two-day conference



City of La Salle holds tight on IML expenses

Peru Prancer to Peru Weekend Schedule and Locations

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