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Resident urges forensic audit after sexual-harassment settlement; residents question $1M museum allocation
Summary
At the Dec. 15 West Chicago City Council meeting, Kim Santiago urged a forensic audit after a reported taxpayer-funded sexual-harassment settlement and called for transparency; another resident criticized a proposed $1 million City Museum allocation and urged fiscal restraint.
Kim Santiago urged the West Chicago City Council to order a forensic audit after she said she read about a taxpayer-funded sexual-harassment settlement involving an employee named Michael Guttman.
"Please do a forensic audit because where there's smoke, there's usually fire," Santiago said during public comment, asserting the settlement had cost taxpayers "hundreds of thousands of dollars" and questioning oversight of city spending.
The comment came during the public-comment period, when resident…
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