May Merit Commission meeting - already canceled

Every month the Merit Commission of the McHenry County Sheriff's Department is scheduled to meet on the second Wednesday at 10:30AM. So it would meet on May 11th. But, if you look at the May calendar, that meeting has already been canceled!!!

One of the important items to be considered by the Commission is any recommendation by the Sheriff to fire a deputy. Right now there is a deputy who has been taken off active duty and who recently had his pay terminated, but this deputy has never been fired. Who's the deputy? Scott Milliman.

So, will someone please explain how can the sheriff effectively "fire" a deputy but not fire him? What was the basis for removing Milliman from duty and paying him while he was on administrative leave? What was the basis for cutting off his pay?

The Merit Commission is considered by some as just another rubber stamp in the sheriff's desk drawer. Can they meet on their own? The approval of a recommendation for appointment to the Commission is a County Board action. Would they dare meet on their own? Are these five members accountable only to the Sheriff or are they accountable to the County Board? On whose order was the May meeting canceled?

Who sticks up for a deputy who is being abused financially by the sheriff's department? In six months the sheriff has not gone to the Merit Commission about Milliman. The sheriff doesn't even attend the Commission meetings, so his absence from the County isn't all that important.

Is anyone else sick of it?