At Tuesday’s McHenry County Board meeting, the Conservation District’s report comprises 196 pages of the Board’s 506-page agenda packet.
That’s almost 39% of the packet.
The purpose sought ia Board approval of the MCCD’s budget for next year.
The documents filed with the County Clerk are at the end of really comprehensive document.
In a law suit, this approach would be designated as “burdensome discovery,” that is, the side providing the discovery tries to hide something by burying it in a pile of irrelevant pages.
The slang term is “document dump.”
It is not that there is not lots of information provided.
I filed seven requests for additional information spurred by what I read and wrote three articles for which I did not need anything additional.
