With a population of 44,888 that works out to $5.47 per person just to cover one employee salary. But that salary figure may not include the employers tax contributions or health and pension benefits. So the actual cost of his position to taxpayer's maybe significantly higher.
Chicago has a population of 2,874,312 and Mayor Rahm Emanuels salary is less at $216,210.00 or approximately .08 cents per person.
Does that mean Todd Hileman is overpaid? Or did Rahm Emanuel make a poor choice of employers?

According to an article in Journal-Topics, Mr. Hileman was issued a home loan by the village, forgiven at $10,000 per year. As well as his then salary of $267,000
He got a home loan through the village, but wouldn't help anyone in Sunset Village. Nice.

At the end of the day, all public worker salaries must be benchmarked against similar jobs in the private sector. Public sector jobs should never pay more (salary/benefits) then their private sector comparables. I don't know if Mr. Heilman is overpaid, but until we start comparing the costs with the private sector we won't know. In addition, taxpayers must insist that, on a going forward basis, all public sector workers be enrolled in 401k plans instead of defined benefit pensions. An overwhelming majority of citizens do not want to be on the hook for these guarantees, and we can no longer afford to take that kind of risk with taxpayer funds -- not to mention the kind of fraud/corruption that goes along with pensions - just ask former Mayor Daley.

If I recall correctly, he also got a nice expensive car as well. Ridiculous! I'm glad to see that people are taking notice that our Glenview managers are spending without abandon. The police station, library and adding astro turf to our high school fields come to mind here. We need to elect some people that will stop the madness.

Brad, I failed to mention above that I am running for State Senate (9th District) this fall. After watching this kind of spending at the Federal, State and Local level the last several years, I could no longer stay on the sidelines. If I get elected, I will be working on fixing the State's spending habits, but will not be able to affect our local spending. More people like you, Chris and I need to start attending school board and village meetings, as their does not seem to be much resistance to the increased spending (and raising of property taxes). I started attending Dist. 34 school board meetings about a year ago, and was shocked to see barely anyone in the crowd. If you want to change this culture, you (and the rest of Glenview residents) need to get actively involved. Without pressure and oversight, the spending will sadly continue.

Dear Future Senator Farkas,

We are politically active and vote every election (as evidenced by constant jury duty summons)
The ambivalence of the people is why we have so many of these problems. I wish you luck, but since we are the "dregs" of Glenview here at Sunset Village, we are being forced out to make way for more McMansions. Having lived with no hydrants, few street lights, irradiated water and raw sewage running down our pothole riddled streets for $2000 a month, our parting gift will be homelessness and bankruptcy. Thanks mostly to crooked politicians. So we probably won't be around to vote for you.

Chris, I read a couple of articles pertaining to your situation at Sunset Village and I can't understand how things devolved into the chaos that is now your life. I know that the crash of the real estate market contributed to the failure of Sunset Village, but I don't have all the info about the developer/owner who went bankrupt. Who tried to assist your community w/i the Glenview gov't? Did my opponent who is now the State Rep for your District, Dan Biss, do anything to try and remedy the situation?

There was a time in our history when these Tammany Hall types of corruption would have brought a federal or at least a state investigation. But we have a renegade DOJ, a state legislature dependant on local patronage workers, etc. So people like Daley are out in a cushy private sector job peddling influence instead of doing a perp walk. And the kind of deliberate ignorance that decimated so many lives as went on here at Sunset Village will continue unabated. If history is any indication, my best guess is that we are getting pretty close to a violent uprising amongst people who have played by the rules only to be victimized far too long. If I had the means, I think I would be looking to relocate offshore. If I had money, I certainly wouldn't be advertising it.

I'll tell you what happened at Sunset Village. One class of snotty rich people started ignoring the needs of and looking down on a class of people that they deemed to be inferior to them. The problem then snowballed, and got worse.

All the ways this once proud village could have helped these people, and did anyone lift a finger? Sorry, but as someone who once lived there, there need to be more people with the courage to call it like it is.

It's the same way that many in the community looked down on the people who lived on the old Navy base as if they were inferior, and it olive branched into some of (but not all) of the local schools, with this terrible "we're better than everyone" attitude those with more money had at times. Again, this doesn't to apply to everyone, but it went on then, and still is today, clear as day.

What did the government do? They GIFTED all that land to the village, and they in turn used it to overdevelop right next to a huge landfill all in the name of those with a lot of money already making more. The traffic in the area on Willow Rd. in the evening is SICKENING. The village could've done so much better.

You'd think they'd learn from their mistakes and do everything the can to help those people at Sunset Village, the same way local schools like Westbrook or District 34 do everything they can to accomodate and help those who are underprivleged.