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Resident alleges trustee added unpermitted additions while voting to raise levy; board records no immediate response
Summary
At the June 3 meeting resident Rebecca Tay alleged a trustee made additions to his home without obtaining building permits and yet voted in December to increase the tax levy; she said county records and aerial imagery support her claim and offered copies to the board; the transcript records no formal board rebuttal in that moment.
During public comment on June 3, resident Rebecca Tay told the Caseyville board she reviewed county permit records and aerial imagery and found no building permits for additions to a board trustee’s home, even though that trustee previously voted in favor of a tax-levy increase.
Tay said she attended a recent meeting with staff and trustees, then reviewed county diagrams and online aerial imagery that she says show discrepancies with the property’s recorded footprint and the site plan filed when solar panels were installed. She told the board she has copies of the county documents and expects the same rules to apply to trustees as to other homeowners.
The resident framed the issue as noncompliance with permitting requirements and suggested the discrepancy could amount to reduced property tax payments for the trustee compared with accurate valuations. The transcript records repeated public comment urging the board to treat the matter seriously and to investigate.
The meeting record does not contain a named trustee response or an official staff finding during public comment; no board member is recorded in the transcript as providing a substantive reply to or refuting the allegation during the public-comment timeframe. The resident said she would continue to investigate and offered to provide the county documents to the board.
What happens next: the transcript shows the matter raised in public comment; the board did not document an on-the-record investigation or an immediate staff directive in the discussion captured by the audio. Any formal inquiry, if initiated, would be an administrative follow-up not recorded in this meeting’s public comments.
