Dan Weaver’s battles with Stookey Township leaders on how to spend the district’s money have not stopped with his election as a township board trustee in April.
In 2015, former Township Supervisor David Bone banned Weaver from speaking during the public participation section of a couple of meetings.
And this month, newly elected Township Supervisor Mark Bagby and the board formally censured Weaver for “official misconduct.” The measure was spurred by comments Weaver posted on Facebook about township spending for Stookey Township Park off South 74th Street and for road maintenance in the township.
The board’s vote on the two-page resolution on Nov. 1 was 4-1, with Weaver casting the lone “no” vote, according to documents and an audio recording of the meeting released under an Illinois Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Belleville News-Democrat.
Bagby along with trustees Jim Lougeay, Allen Scharf and Ryan Stookey voted for the resolution to censure Weaver.
“There have been a number of comments posted online that were false and untrue,” Bagby told the board as he kicked off the discussion about the censure resolution.
Board members were following their attorney’s advice to introduce the censure resolution, Baby said. While the resolution is the formal way in which the board can collectively declare its opinion, it does not include any penalties for Weaver, who remains on the board.
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