Village Responds to Transparency Audit, Plans Website Information Updates
In the next month the Village of Glen Ellyn plans to add information on salaries and payments to its website in the hopes of raising its rating with the Illinois Policy Institute.
The Village of Glen Ellyn responded Tuesday to a recent audit, which gave the village a failing grade for online transparency. Last week, the Illinois Policy Institute released the results of its audit, which among a number of criteria, looked at how much information was readily available on municipal entities websites. The village was one of the communities given a failing grade. Glenbard District 87 was another local entity to receive a failing grade. Dubbed “The Local Transparency Project,” the grades were based on the availability to the public of vital community information such as public meeting schedules, government employee salaries and tax rates. Since the institute launched the project in February 2010, more than 160 government …
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