Mchenry Township Assessor Appalled At Talk Of Consolidation, Elimination

Mary Mahady has a lot of questions about the effect of township consolidation, but she isn’t getting any answers. The McHenry Township assessor is running for the 32nd District Senate seat soon to be vacated by McHenry native state Sen. Pamela Althoff. In the lead-up to the November election, the Democrat has been sitting front row for a volatile campaign to consolidate the township’s highway department and ultimately collapse townships under the county government umbrella. That campaign has included trustees approving a binding referendum for voters in November asking whether the highway department should be eliminated. That same board – led by Trustee Bob Anderson and a slate of candidates who ran on a platform of “tax revolt” – voted this month to slash the salaries of elected officials in half. At meetings, Anderson has skirted questions about his motives.