Reply #10: Kane clerk scolded for buying voting machines

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Kane clerk scolded for buying voting machines
County panel unhappy $201,880 was spent when it wasn’t in the budget

By Lisa Smith
Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007



Despite discussing the issue at two back-to-back meetings Tuesday morning, Kane County officials are no closer to patching a $200,000 hole in the clerk’s budget.

In a special joint meeting of the county board’s public service and finance committees, finance committee chairman John Noverini blasted County Clerk Jack Cunningham for purchasing $201,880 in election equipment without seeking board approval. The expenditure was not included in the board-authorized 2007 budget.

“We’re trying to build a $57 million jail and things are tight,” said Noverini, a Carpentersville Republican. “Where is this money going to come from?”

A miscalculation by Cunningham’s office led him to believe the department was $187,000 in the black when actually it was $40,000 in the red.

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