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Residents criticize proposed severance packages and ask board for clearer spending details
3426265 · May 21, 2025
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Summary
During public comment at the May 19 Manteno meeting, speakers urged the board to stop what they described as large severance payouts and to present full bills and expenditures rather than only totals.
Bob Forsyth and Francine Fatima used the public comment period to challenge the village board on severance payments and transparency in expenditures.
Forsyth asked whether any of the board members who own businesses had employee contracts or had paid severance. He told the board, “If you do that tonight, that just shows how you're going back to old games again and we're trying…
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