u/WearyInvestigator158

It's short notice, but at tonight's Skokie village board meeting, they're voting to give village manager John Lockerby a raise. Lockerby already makes over a quarter of a million dollars annually and has been given bonuses regularly. The mayor's stated reasoning for the raise is that other northshore communities pay their managers more.

That's not a good enough reason to give Lockerby a raise. That's just keeping up with the Joneses. In truth, Lockerby would be getting a raise for not doing his job. In her state of the village speech, the mayor noted that Skokie water and sewer had been "cut to the bone." For some reason, the mayor doesn't want to connect the dots between Lockerby's decades of neglect to our water system and the failed response to the Valentine's day water main break that saw Public Works sit idle for 2.5 hours and then spend the next 3 hours watching Skokie's pressure tank drain into family homes.

Lockerby also has failed to finish his work developing a downtown hotel no one asked for. Similar to the flood response, Lockerby defends his failures by noting he's "learning lessons." He has admitted he was unaware of how complicated hospitality development was before beginning the project.

TL;DR: Village manager John Lockerby is about to get a raise which will pay him about as much as the median home price in Skokie. The raise is out of touch with Skokie residents who are facing an affordability crisis at the same time Skokie is raising water rates and raising village hall pay. Call them or come out tonight to stop them from rewarding a guy for being bad at his job.

It's short notice, but at tonight's village board meeting, they're voting to give village manager John Lockerby a raise. Lockerby already makes over a quarter of a million dollars annually and has been given bonuses regularly. The mayor's stated reasoning for the raise is that other northshore communities pay their managers more.

That's not a good enough reason to give Lockerby a raise. That's just keeping up with the Joneses. In truth, Lockerby would be getting a raise for not doing his job. In her state of the village speech, the mayor noted that Skokie water and sewer had been "cut to the bone." For some reason, the mayor doesn't want to connect the dots between Lockerby's decades of neglect to our water system and the failed response to the Valentine's day water main break that saw Public Works sit idle for 2.5 hours and then spend the next 3 hours watching Skokie's pressure tank drain into family homes.

Lockerby also has failed to finish his work developing a downtown hotel no one asked for. Similar to the flood response, Lockerby defends his failures by noting he's "learning lessons." He has admitted he was unaware of how complicated hospitality development was before beginning the project.

TL;DR: Village manager John Lockerby is about to get a raise which will pay him about as much as the median home price in Skokie. The raise is out of touch with Skokie residents who are facing an affordability crisis at the same time Skokie is raising water rates and raising village hall pay. Call them or come out tonight to stop them from rewarding a guy for being bad at his job.