The County under the guidance of a Democrat Board and former Administrator Patrick Urich and County Board Chairman Andrew Rand, listened to Former State legislator Dave Leitch and shrewd and sly groups of consultants that left the taxpayers with a hangman's noose tightening daily.
Leitch was the cheerleader for $5 million or more County/City in taxpayer investment in FireFly where not any investment money is left. Leitch was also the cheerleader for the convincing Peoria County to take the Hanna City Correctional Center dilapidated site off State hands and put it into Peoria County taxpayer hands. Now the County is baffled as to what to do with it as it is hanstrung on what to do with Heddiington Oaks.
I have long been blogging about the $20 million of taxpayer money already lost on the terrible decision to build Heddington Oaks hemorrhaging about 2 1/2 to 3 million dollars a year. I will never be given credit for the research I did to be the only creditable source as a Board member to oppose it's building to replace BelWood County Nursing Home.
The County also paid approximately $1 1/4 million to raze BelWood when credible sources say the County refused a $500,000 offer to buy from a local businessman who would spend $17 million to convert BelWood into a different type of business. Rand was the key man in refusing this offer because he had told the community the building had no value. We need real investigating reporters in this financially struggling community.
We desperately need a leadership that .... and I stop here because this community will NEVER get the type of leadership. Time has run out and more fees and taxes to an overtaxed community are HERE NOW with more on the horizon. (While home valuses appear to be shrinking)
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