That county-board-created program began looking for ways to improve efficiency, reduce duplication and encourage resource sharing across the county in 2012 in response to a 2011 board examination of government services.Ĭlearly there are lessons here for the reform-minded Henry County board members who last week tried unsuccessfully to keep the government review effort alive in their county. I was interviewed by the publisher and editorial board of The Dispatch/Argus and Quad-City Times two weeks ago. We don’t pretend to know all that went into the successful and ongoing changes in this large suburban Chicago county, but it’s clear who led the charge: DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin spearheaded the DuPage ACT Initiative. There has been one major exception: DuPage County leaders have managed to find the secret sauce necessary to make significant good-government reforms a reality. Lawrence Scott Obituary (1954 - 2022) - Silvis, IL - The Rock Island Dispatch Argus Lawrence Fred 'Larry' Scott 1954 - 2022 Send Flowers BORN 1954 DIED 2022 FUNERAL HOME Schroder Mortuary - Silvis.
DeWitt native Sarah Watson, a University of.
If there was a surprise in its quick demise, it was how swiftly and easily elected officials whose jobs would be examined were able to kill, at least for now, the effort to take a closer look at more collaborative ways of doing things with taxpayer dollars…īut reform advocates have been shouting to an empty room for years as evidenced by the minuscule progress which has been made in efforts to right-size Illinois government. MOLINE Three reporters and summer interns have joined the staff at the Moline Dispatch and Rock Island Argus. The recent Henry County experiment with government right-sizing went as we feared it would, but fervently hoped it wouldn’t.
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