Whiteside County, Illinois
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Whiteside County is one of 102 counties in Illinois.
[edit] Website evaluation
- Main Article: Evaluation of Illinois county websites
[edit] The good
- Meeting dates and times are posted on the calendar.[1] Meeting minutes and agenda are available.[2]
- County board members are listed with contact information.[3]
- Building and zoning documents are online.[4]
- Local tax information is posted.[5]
- Form to make a public records request is available, also where to direct any requests.[6]
[edit] The bad
- Budget is not published.
- County audits and contracts are not online.
- Does not disclose if belongs to taxpayer-funded lobbying associations.
[edit] Lobbying
- Main article: Illinois taxpayer-funded lobbying
Whiteside County does not have contracts with lobbyists. It has paid 46 taxpayer-funded lobbying associations a total of $57,505.11 spent on memberships to lobbying groups since 2005. [7] [8]
[edit] FOIA response
Sunshine Review sent Freedom of Information Act requests to all of the counties in Illinois. Notably, Whiteside is the only county to have sent data in a workable format (XLS) as I requested. All other counties sent PDFs or Outlook files. The county also a summary of expenditures as well as the actual invoices, another element of FOIA response unique to the county. [9]
[edit] External links
- Whiteside County official website
- Whiteside County on Epodunk
- Whiteside County Free Public Records Directory
[edit] References
- ↑ Calendar
- ↑ Whiteside County Approved Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- ↑ County Board Members
- ↑ Planning and Zoning
- ↑ Taxes
- ↑ FOIA Request
- ↑ Whiteside County dues - Summary
- ↑ "Local counties not among those paying big bucks for lobbyists", Quad-Cities Online, September 9, 2010
- ↑ Whiteside County FOIA response to Sunshine Review, March 5, 2010
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