“Super Mayor” Tiffany Henyard has certainly been controversial. From dressing up as Nino Brown and demanding that residents “pay me what you owe me” to lavish first class junkets to Las Vegas, Henyard has turned board meetings into angry episodes as residents are paying the price for her antics but not happy about it.
Frustrated residents are demanding answers about village spending. Interruptions, disorganization and shouting are par for the course during meetings in the south suburb, and it didn’t take long for tensions to escalate on Monday evening.
Henyard declared three citizens expressing displeasure about the spending as out of order and had police officers remove them. Henyard then made everyone in attendance get up out of their chairs and pass through a metal detector.
A motion was made by Trustee Kiana Belcher to sell “unapproved purchases” – three Chevrolet Tahoe SUVs and one Ford Expedition. Belcher said during the meeting that if the vehicles are kept, it will cost the village upwards of $700,000 by the end of their five-year leases. The motion will be taken up by the committee of the whole.
Trustees passed a credit card spending freeze measure which will allow only the Director of Administrative Services to use the village’s credit card on ‘board-approved purchases.’ They say there will also be a cap of $5,000 on any given transaction.
“Watching as this village is being run into the ground by this woman is pissing me off,” one longtime resident said during public comment.
“People who say things about me, I want you to prove it, because like I said, fact versus fiction,” said Henyard.