Villa Park finance director finds months of unpaid benefit invoices, board warned of budget shortfalls

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New finance director told the Village Board that multiple months of employee benefit invoices were not paid under prior administration, leaving nearly $900,000 owed for health, vision and dental and additional overdue liabilities; staff said police-pension contribution was not budgeted and bank reconciliations lagged.

The Village of Villa Park's new finance director said the village was behind on recurring benefit and insurance payments when she took the job this summer, prompting emergency payments and questions from trustees about the town's budget and recordkeeping.

"It was a little over $900,000," the finance director, Susie (first name given in the meeting), told the board, describing three months of unpaid Blue Cross Blue Shield, VSP and dental invoices that she said staff immediately paid to avoid claim denials. She said additional unpaid liability-insurer (IRMA) invoices were larger and that IRMA had not received an annual report the village owed.

The finance director said she found invoices for health insurance that had not been paid for three months, and that staff made online emergency payments to avoid service interruption. She told the…

Villa Park finance director finds months of unpaid benefit invoices, board warned of budget shortfalls

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