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Palatine Township Area Transparency Results, Only District 211 Passes

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7/28/2010
by Brian Costin

An audit of the Palatine Township area in Northwestern Cook County revealed only 1 of 12 local government agencies graded received a passing grade on basic online transparency guidelines.

The “Local Transparency Project”, a project of the non-partisan Illinois Policy Institute, consists of two separate transparency audits 6 weeks apart on 10 different online transparency categories including elected & administrative official contacts, meetings, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), budgets, financial audits, expenditures, employee’s salary & benefits, contracts, lobbying, and taxes & fees information.

Overall Transparency rankings for the Palatine Township area are listed below. Full details attached in excel.

Palatine Township Scoring	1st Audit	2nd Audit	Change
District 211	27.2	82.35	+55.15
Village of Palatine	42.5	*75.87	+33.37
Consolidated School District 15	39.5	54.625	+15.125
Rolling Meadows Park District	1.25	47.525	+46.275
Palatine Park District	14	45.625	+31.625
Rolling Meadows	21.9	29.75	+7.85
Harper College	23.6	29.475	+5.875
Palatine Public Library	26.5	28.025	+1.525
Inverness	26	27	+1
Rolling Meadows Library	8.5	25.25	+16.75
Salt Creek Rural Park District	15.5	15.5	0
Inverness Park District	10	10	0

Average Score	21.37	36.8	+15.43

Scores as of July 8th.

*The Village of Palatine originally scored a 46.5 on the second audit but requested a re-score after making additional improvements.

Thanks to Eric Di Silvestro, long-time resident of Palatine, for his work on this project.

User Comments

I attended the meeting on 1/22/11 and I was very impressed on what you are doing. I am not that good on the computer and struggle with EXCEL can do WINDOWS and have an APPLE which is even more difficult for me. So I don't know what I could do to help. I live in Palatine.

Posted by John Nehrbass on 2/18/2011 9:18:49 AM