"This thing smells and I don t like it at all," said Lake County Democratic Chairman Jim Wieser. "Their explanations are so fanciful that it makes no sense."
Three Democratic Lake County Councilmen are accused of ensuring that they would avoid a GOP opponent in the general election by throwing their support for the First District State Senate seat behind fellow councilman and Lake County GOP chair Dan Dernulc instead of incumbent Democratic State Sen. Michael Griffin.
The seven Lake County Council members are eyeing Infrastructure improvement projects and assistance to some nonprofits as they move to spend about $1.4 million each in American Rescue Plan Act funds in their districts at their discretion.
The Lake County Council is expected Tuesday to direct additional federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to designated water and sewer projects in several communities.
Lake County’s 2023 approximate $205 million budget will head to second reading Tuesday balanced after a compromise on a last-minute request for pay adjustments from juvenile justice.