If Mrs. Purcell's temporary replacement, Mr. Prochaska, worked 20 hours per week, why are we paying her to work 40 hours a week. This goes to my postings that show that the Coroner's Office is spending way to much money on employment expenses. Go to the DelKalb County Coroner's Budget to see how it's done. Same population (within a few thousand people), more ground to cover in DeKalb, 2 Hospitals in DeKalb County, and almost 2 1/2 times more deaths/year that involve the DeKalb Coroner's Office.

HI Tim,

Where is Todd Milliron's name printed on the check that is paying for the audit? Where is Todd Milliron's name on the written request to perform the audit?
If his name is not on both of these documents, who's name is on each document?
I believe you will find that Jill Ferko's name is on the check, and Eric Weis' name on the request. If I'm wrong, please correct me, and provide me with the names on these documents. If you can't, that's ok. Remember, any complaints that are filed with the State's Attorney do not automatically require actions of this magnitude. It was the option of Mr. Weis to conduct this audit, as he stated so at the County Board meeting that I attended. We're you there?

@Tim
Maybe you should read today’s Kendall County Record/Oswego Ledger Sentinel Editorial, here it is = http://yorkvilleinsider.org/Purcell/kcredkcmeals.pdf

It appears more than a few people are listening. Others are now starting to pay attention. More and more voters, day by day are getting the message: We are tired of it, We refuse to be abused, We will not take anymore and WE WILL VOTE in Nov.

Todd, that is an editorial. It is not news.

The expenses to maintain an exurb are astronomical. It is a basic fact of resource allocation. This was a warning that was issued long before any of you even moved there.

But Stephen 'was there' at the board meeting, so he understands everything. Just like he can write down the schematic of the computer he is using, because he is sitting in front of it.

Has it ever occurred to either of you that the SA is setting you up for failure? Sometimes, people think more than 3 seconds ahead. Like I already said, when one of you offers to have your street plowed 20% less, or offers to put the fire department on a schedule of 1 day off a week, it's all just grandstanding. You have no idea what the costs required to provide the services you take for granted are, which is obvious when you are harping on $48 meals, or purchases of water for personal use as justification for cutting 20% of every taxing body.

I guess you think the highway department is over funded too, since only one bridge collapsed along a secondary artery.

You would be worried about the details of the makeup on a womans face, who just got shot in the chest with a large caliber weapon.

This is a false and libelous charge. I know that Toftoy buys his parade water out of campaign funds.

not making a charge here. i just that i heard that he bought quite a few cases of nestles bottled water at an ace hardware store. weeks later, he was throwing cold bottles of water to the public as he was walking in the parades, along with the gopers. if he didnt buy it, who did? if he didnt throw it, who did? if he did buy it, and did not use it in the parade, why are into the hundreds of bottles of water necessary for the coroner office

Ken Toftoy went to Ace Hardware to purchase cases of bottled water? That wouldn't be the Ace Hardware in Yorkville or Oswego that is owned by Kendall County Board Chairman John Purcell (and husband of Deputy Coroner Jacquie Purcell), now would it? He surely wouldn't be engaging in cronyism by funneling campaign fund dollars to one of his buddies, would he? Why buy water at Ace Hardware when it surely is cheaper elsewhere? Maybe Mr. Purcell gave him the water for free or "at cost" as a campaign donation?

my source told me that the coroner office has a charge account set up at the ace hardware in yorkville. my source also quipped while toftoy was throwing the bottles out, where did he get them from

I confirmed with Ken Toftoy that he buys his parade water from Menard's with campaign funds. The water he purchased for the office is for the mini-fridge there that he and Jackie keep for the families of the deceased who come in for meetings.
I would say the water is a "dead issue" but that would be a bad joke. And it is not funny when anonymous attackers falsely accuse honest public officials with misconduct.

she's got a county credit card to buy her own water with. why should he be buying the water. that is a lot of water for him, and her to drink, unless it was bought for a different reason

Greg, a real reformer is Chris Lauzen. Todd Milliron is an opportunist who has achieved nothing in government and politics. He is trying desperately to earn elected office and failing at every turn. His enemies list changes as frequently as a baby's diaper. if you encourage him and take his help, like the former Mayor of Yorkville, Democrat Valerie Burd, you are an ally of his. If you oppose him for County Board because he formerly ran as a Green Party radical, then he tries to smear you.

@Jon Zahm, (= Paid Political Commenter)
Your comment reminds me of the rhetoric spewed by the former Iraqi Information Minister (aka 'Baghdad Bob'). Sir, the Citizens of Kendall County are fed up with business as usual and we are not going to take it anymore.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blsaddamstatue.htm
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/jokes/bljoke-iraqinfominister.htm

Mr. Zahm, you need to get the facts straight with your employer, Ken Toftoy first before commenting.
(See link, http://www.yorkvilleinsider.org/Purcell/purcellfoia.pdf Page 1 of 11) Note Kendall Coroner Stationary dated 4-25-2012, Jim Detzler, (AKA “Boss Hog,” as that is what is printed on his Illinois Vanity License plate) Mr. Toftoy’s drinking buddy is the Chief Deputy Coroner for Kendall County.
Chairman Purcell is not the only one that should have known better, Ken Toftoy is solely responsible for his coroner office employees. He approved these credit card charges for submittal to our County Treasurer for payment. (Chairman Purcell, Mr. Zahm just threw you under the bus), Funny how the blame is now being passed for taxpayer abuse & now we get “religion” after Mr. Toftoy was caught.
Also, Admin. /Deputy Coroner Purcell does get paid by the hour & routinely books big “On-Call” hours,
(See http://www.yorkvilleinsider.org/Purcell/j_purcell_on_call_sheets.pdf ) One of the primary responsibilities of a deputy coroner is to be available and “On Call” to respond to an unforeseen and sudden death. If one cannot be available to respond when that need for a coroner comes to pass, then one should not being drawing a full salary or receiving ghost payroll benefits for not being able to do that job which they were hired to perform. Being “On-Call and Available” is the primary reason we have Deputy Coroners and the primary reason they draw a government check.

if jim detzler is boss hogg, i need to know 2 things, where is the general lee and where is daisy duke?

And who was the treasurer that approved all of these requests, Todd?

You always leave that name out, don't you? But will drop the Purcell name at the drop of a hat, along with any and all nicknames.

You are right about one thing Todd, people are listening. And they have noticed that you are clearly making political attacks on your opponents while giving your allies(Anne Vickery, the treasurer) a free pass.

Anne got booted out with overwhelming decisiveness in the March election, without you even mentioning her name. Those you obviously have a political axe to grind with, easily won their elections. If there is one constant, it is that anyone who gets associated with Todd loses their respective elections, and anyone Todd is against, easily wins theirs. So yes Todd, you are an important source of information, just not the type of information you think.

That's well put. I'm glad someone else has noticed Mr. Milliron's glaring hypocrisy. I could get on board with a true "good government" crusader, but this guy only seems to "crusade" for good government when it suits his political allies of the moment.

Well, I did not vote for Anne Vickery in the primary (and unlike Tim or Jon Zahm, I actually live in Kendall County and can vote for or against Kendall County officials in the upcoming election). I also think Anne shared in the blame in first bringing approving the expenditures and then waiting to bring this to light until the primary was over (presumably because it also reflected poorly on herself). But regardless of the motivations, the facts are what the facts are. Our county government has taken a very casual attitude towards expenditures at all levels and its time to hold ALL of our county officials accountable for the lackadaisical and unnecessary expenditures.

I just visited the links that you (Todd) have posted. Jacquie's "hourly" work that you describe is the on-call hours that she is on duty. The on call Deputy Coroner gets paid $2.00 an hour. That is a bargain for being ready and able to report at any hour of the day or middle of the night. And Ken Toftoy is not my "employer." I am an independent consultant. An employer/employee relationship is much different.

Mike Ellison, you have to understand that Mr. Zahm is just doing his job. I do not think that Mr. Zahm would state a bald faced lie, unless it was told to him by his employer, Mr. Toftoy. I'm not sure if Mr. Zahm has his facts straight. I'm sure that someone will enlighten him, if he has things wrong. I do think that it was less than 28 weeks, however the fact remains that she had not earned the leave time to get paid for the time she took off (salaried, or hourly). Remember, Mr. Toftoy stated that he runs his office as he sees fit. If she doesn't show up for work, he can pay her. It's none of our business. Furthermore, please don't pollute this criticism of Mr. Toftoy's operations blog, and mix his drinking situation with it. He has stated, in the newspapers that he deducts all of the alcohol from his restaurant bills before submitting them to the county. That is very considerate of him, and that has nothing to do with the taxpayers. Of course, all bets are off if the taxpayers are paying for his, or any of his department members alcoholic beverages, or unless anyone has seen him driving the county coroner vehicle just after consuming alcohol.

Mr. Zahm,
Are you getting paid by the hour or by the comment you post? Are you on a retainer, cause you may want to ask for more upfront now? I hope Kenny and Boss Hog can continue to pay your bill as those two can run up a Thursday afternoon bar tab in a very short period. We do not want those two going thirsty on Thursdays, so you better get more money upfront now as I assure you, you will be kept busy.

Please explain for your employer, Mr. Toftoy, why Jim Detzler is our Chief Deputy Coroner, and why he is not the second in command, which is what the Chief Deputy Coroner is paid to do in all other counties.

Mrs. Purcell has signed for her copy the Kendall County Handbook on 4-24-2012 after my 4-23-2012 FOIA request, curious thing how a FOIA prompts much needed corrective action. Mr. Toftoy, who now must answer to the voters of this county, declared in a 3-23-2012 Coroner's Office memo that section 6.2 of the Kendall County Handbook is Official Kendall County Coroner Office Employment Policy. It took my FOIA to get it implemented.

I not a voyeur, I regularly attend Kendall County Board meetings and listened to a proud father announce the expected arrival date of his third child. It is also public record, that during an open meeting another KC Board member brought the subject up about no work for full pay and was concerned about ghost pay rolling at the coroner’s office. I chose to researched the subject and now have brought my findings forward for public review.

in this corner, weighing in at 210 pounds, wearing the red trunks, todd. in this corner, weighing in at 210 pounds , wearing the green trunks, jon. gentlemen, shake hands, no sucker punchs, go to your corners, and come out when you hear the bell. KA-CHING!!

Well Daron, 20% is doable, 25% is possible. The "on budget" for all employment expenditures in the Kendall County Coroner's Office (excluding the Coroner) is $51,000 per year. The "off budget" (health insurance for a full time employee, paid by the county, family plan) is $20,000. Total = $71,000. Restructuring the office to mirror the DeKalb County Coroner's Office will reduce the budget/expenditures by 20 to 25 %. How? Change the office to have a Chief Deputy Coroner (part-time), a Deputy Coroner (part-time), and a secretary/clerk (part-time). If the DeKalb County model is followed, the total employment (excluding the Coroner) expenditures will decrease by at least $35,000. Then, when you mirror the office supplies, maintenance, and training expenses that the DeKalb County Corner incurs, you will save another $5,600. This totals out to over $40,000, or more than 25% of the on, and off budget expenses created by the current Kendall County Coroner's Office. Why use DeKalb? They are only a few thousand in population different than Kendall County. DeKalb County has a substantially larger geographic area to cover. They process close to 250% more deaths than Kendall County (yearly), because they have 2 hospitals, where Kendall County has none. Mr. Dabney has agreed to these general guidelines, because he sees the possibilities, as he has had the working experience, in that office, for many years.

Stephen, you were told many times to specifically read the actual law on the Coroner's office to avoid making a fool out of yourself. It's quite clear that you haven't read it yet.

People that die in hospitals usually have no need for a coroner, unless they arrive DOA, or die on an operating table. They don't respond to hospitals unless there is need to investigate the death, and certainly not every death. Dying from a fatal disease would have no involvement of the coroner unless foul play was suspected.

FYI- Kendall already has a total budget for the Coroners office that is almost 50% lower than DeKalb. You understand that switching to a 'DeKalb model' would actually increase your costs, don't you?

http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=005500050HDiv.+3-3&ActID=750&ChapterID=12&SeqStart=16300000&SeqEnd=20800000
The Office of Coroner, by Illinois State Statute, (55 ILCS 5/3-3007), is a law enforcement agency. Each Coroner shall be conservator of the peace in his county, and in the performance of his duties as such, shall have the same powers as the sheriff.

The main functions of this office include:

Respond to and investigate deaths that occur outside of hospital or clinical settings with such investigations including scene analysis, photography, sketching, witness interviews, body examination, and utilization of other forensic tests as indicated.

Not many people would put much faith in what Jillian can 'confirm' after her incident of totally misrepresenting the facts on sewage being dumped on a local farm.

Todd filed the initial complaint with the SA office, or have you missed the thousands of links to his own website that Todd has posted here documenting each step along the way of his reporting this? But back then, it was ONLY against Todds political opponents, not the entire board. He took pictures of the forms, he took pictures of the evidence he submitted, he even took pictures of his own signature to prove it was him initially submitting this information to the SA. The 'action' the SA took was to tell the county to pay for its own audit to determine if these charges made by Todd are even true. Only then, would the SA actually be involved with this. The SA has not even begun an investigation yet and other than professional opinions, has had no binding input on the matter. The county board actually decided the length of time to go back, during a vote just a few short weeks ago, not the SA.

I have noticed that as the deadline draws near for the release of this information, Todds friends are trying to distance Todd from being involved in it. He owns this, and the residents clearly remember the role he has played in it, no matter how much you try to rewrite history.

Class act though, accusing someone of a felony. Fits your group perfectly though.

Tim, now you're cooking with gas; good job. Note the health insurance line items, and FICA items in both budgets. The Kendall County Coroner's budget doesn't have them. Why? Because Kendall County has a different reporting system. They have these line items coming out of a different section of the entire Kendall County budget. If they were added, the Coroner's budget would be just over $200,000 (est.) $40,000 for Mr. Toftoy's and Mrs. Purcell's "county paid" health insurance, and $10,000 FICA, SUTA, FUTA taxes. DeKalb County processed 556 deaths..Kenall, 231..autopsies ($1000 pop) DeKalb about 30 more..do the
math everybody

OK, call Jillian a liar in advance, if so, hold Mr. Koukol to the same standad..your call

I think they ended up deciding to go back 3.5 years. The audit will be from December 2008 to June 1. See this article: http://patch.com/A-vwhH

Kendall County full time employees pay into IMRF, not Social Security(FICA). And it is not paid in addition to salary, like Disctrict 308 does for teachers pensions. It is coming right out of the salary paycheck exactly as listed, as a deduction. Which then shows up as 'revenue' on the receivables side of the budget.

Are you going to cite the sources of any of your information? I would be interested to see how health insurance costs add up to 60K/yr for that one office in Kendall county, while the same office in DeKalb comes in at $17K.

Hi Tim,
The health insurance, and IMRF costs would include both the Coroner, and the full time employee. That is more like the $40000 area, not $60000 as you prove again, your math skills need sharpening. See below where you state that 152000 is almost 50% less than 217000, then you back it off to 45%. Not even close.

Even though these links were already provided to you barely a week ago, it hasn't stopped you from making the claims that you have been. I'd be happy to provide them as many times as you make these silly claims so that people can see that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

http://www.daily-chronicle.com/mobile/article.xml/articles/2012/03/22/r_rheawad4qi67rlhgqjxiq/index.xml
"The (DeKalb)county board recently approved an additional $18,000 on top of the coroner’s $199,070 (2012)budget"

http://www.co.kendall.il.us/county_administration/budgets/KC_FY12_Budget.pdf
pg 42
Total expenditures on Kendall Coroners office - 152,407

DeKalb = $217,000
Kendall = $152,407

Not one single time have I ever said DeKalb is not following the law. What I have said, is that if anything Kendall county is underfunding the office.

Hi Tim, so the readers of this blog can see how you perform basic mathematics...You said the Kendall County Coroner's budget is almost 50% less than the DeKalb County Coroner's budget..DeKalb..$217.000 times 50% is $108,500..so how can anybody say that your $152,000 disclosure of the Kendall County Coroner's budget is "almost 50% less"?

Yes. What I meant to say was that the DeKalb county coroners office is close to 50% more than Kendall countiy(its actually 45%), not Kendall 50% less. It was a phrasing mistake, but it far from negates the larger point, which is that Kendall pays significantly less than DeKalb, with Kendall still having more people.

It also doesn't change the fact that if you adopted a 'DeKalb model' as you suggested, your costs would go up, and not down as you claim.

I do need to correct Todd. I have seen Jim Detzlers Cadillac with the Vanity plate and it reads "JD HOGG" not, boss hog. Same mentality as boss hog. Keep turning over the rocks and keep us informed Todd. Good Job!!!!!!!!!!

DeKalb, and Kendall County populations are within 10% of each other, or around 10,000 difference. Because there are no hospitals in Kendall, there were 231 deaths processed in Kendall, 556 in DeKalb (2 hospitals), almost 250% more. Autopsies alone cost DeKalb more than Kendall by $30,000. So when you do a direct cost per process death, DeKalb is $400/death, Kendall is $800.

My cost reductions for Kendall are primarily (90% of it) by modeling the EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES of DeKalb County's Coroner. NO FULL TIME EMPLOYEES NECESSARY! No healh insurance, or retirement contrbutions have to be paid to full time employees because you have none. 24/7/365 service is maintained with 2 deputies, not 5. The slack is picked up by the kendall County Coroner. This saves the County 20% when it comes to direct Coroner Dept. costs, and off budget employment costs. What part of this math can you not get? I'll be glad to school you, again.