I see some of comments left at the Daily Chronicle website express puzzlement that Mac McIntyre hasn’t yet filed suit in the case of the DeKalb Public Library Board’s violations of the Open Meetings Act. Today the Northern Star sheds some light: Mac McIntyre, member of the Finance Advisory Committee, said the DeKalb Public Library…
Tag: DeKalb Public Library
DC Hits It Out of the Park
“Schaumburg: Open meetings agreement disappoints”. The settlement – filed and approved in court this week and amounting to little more than a slap on the wrist – shows us that the DeKalb Library Board still has no credibility and that state laws in place to enforce and protect open and transparent government are viewed as…
Conflicts of Interest & the Tip of the Iceberg
Council’s affirmation of the mayor’s removal of John Guio from the Plan Commission for reasons of ethics comes as no surprise. I wonder, however, if any of the aldermen get that wife Sue Guio’s former position with the city presented more in the way of potential conflicts of interest than her place on the board…
CAFR & Component Units
This is a follow up to previous posts about DeKalb Public Library (DKPL), here and here, in which I posed questions about audits of DKPL and whether the failure to estimate six types of revenues in its budget for several years ever sent up red flags for the auditor of the City of DeKalb’s Comprehensive…
Library Timeline & Pertinent Expenditures
The DeKalb Library (DKPL) board passed a resolution at the beginning of 2007 to expand and improve Library facilities. This indeed has happened; since its passage, the Library started a fund for a new boiler, accepted TIF money for window and other improvements, and remodeled the Youth Services department and the lounge. Almost immediately, however,…
Fun with CAFR & the Liberry
The DeKalb Public Library has a current annual budget of $1.9 million, yet apparently has enough funds on hand to buy property valued at $1.8 million. That’s quite a reserve! Normally for slush I’d call for a refund (about $40 per resident) but perhaps we should ask DKPL to help the city save for the…
The Library Fund
The DeKalb Public Library’s annual budget is part of the City of DeKalb’s budget and has to be approved by City Council. In Fiscal Year 2008, which began July 1, 2007, a significant change was made in DPL’s budget that went unremarked. That year and each year since, the Library has not been projecting/budgeting all…
Taj Mah-Library
[Updated 7/18 with links to more coverage, at bottom.] Dimensions, features and amenities planned for the new DeKalb Public Library have been lifted from “A Building Program for the DeKalb Public Library,” September 19, 2009. The plan is to build an 89,000 square foot facility that serves 70,000 people, based on projections of 2% growth…