Illinois Women In
Government Conference

The 12th Annual Illinois Women in Government Conference will be held March 30-31 at the Hilton Hotel, 7th and Adams Streets, in Springfield.

This year's theme, "Women, Power, and Ethics," features Michael Josephson, nationally prominent ethicist and president of the Josephson Institute of Ethics. He will conduct plenary and workshop sessions on "Public Service, Decision-Making and Ethics." Josephson will use interactive panels and audience discussions to guide conferees in an exploration of ethical decisionmaking in the governmental workplace.

Other major sessions focus on the changing employment needs of working families and will feature family benefit specialists from both the public and private sector. Sessions on enhancing negotiation skills, facilitating more productive meetings, and achieving goals through effective planning will also be presented.

Texan journalist, humorist, author and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Molly Ivins, will speak on "Politics and Other Bizarre Happenings."

The conference fee will be $95 until March 15 and $105 thereafter. To obtain a registration form or further information, please call Kathleen Hazelwood at 217/ 782-6924.

Between the 1st and 10th of April of each year, the city collector shall file with the clerk a statement of all the money collected by him or her during the year, the particular warrant, special assessment, or account on which collected, the balance of the money uncollected on all warrants in the collector's possession and the balance remaining uncollected at the time of the return on all warrants that the collector returned to the clerk during the preceding fiscal year. Within 10 days, the clerk shall publish the statement at least once. (65 ILCS 5/3.1-35-125).

Unless otherwise provided by ordinance, the municipal fiscal year begins on election day. (65 ILCS 5/1-1-2). (The fiscal year for municipalities with 500,000 or more inhabitants begins January 1.)

In commission form municipalities, councils must meet and appoint officers and assign departments at the first meeting after their election or as soon as practicable thereafter, except where candidates for commissioner are required to run for a specific office. (65 ILCS 5/4-5-3, 4-5-4).

Elections for members of boards of trustees of the police pension funds in all municipalities between 5,000 and 500,000 in population, shall be held biennially on the third Monday in April. (40 ILCS 5/3-103, 3-128).

Members of the board of trustees of firemen's pension funds (all municipalities between 5,000 and 500,000 population) are to be chosen the third Monday in April in each applicable year. (40 ILCS 5/4-103, 4-121).

The quarterly report by the board of inspectors of the house of corrections must be made and filed with the corporate authorities. (65 ILCS 5/11-4-5).

A person subject to the filing requirements of the Governmental Ethics Act must file a statement on or before May 1st of each year; unless he has already filed a statement in relation to the same unit of government in that calendar year. (5 ILCS 420/4A-106).

Every public officer who receives or disburses money and who does not file a report with the board or council shall within six months after the expiration of the fiscal year, cause to be published an account of all money received and spent and shall file the same with the county clerk. (30 ILCS 15/1, 2).

March 1995 / Illinois Municipal Review / Page 23