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PIC selectsAnnerinoas directorBy MYRA GlINDONThe Will County Private Industry Council has a new man at the helm.Will County Republican Party chairman and County Board member John Annerino was named director of the private, not-for-profit agency by a five-member selection committee last weekThe three-year appointment will pay him $45,000 annually.I would say I am happy he (Annerino) is on board, and at this time he is the right person to get PIC back on track,” said Joseph Mikan. chairman of the PIC board.PIC has lacked leadership,” he said, since September, when Tom Wittmuss left the agency after an outside audit determined $6,000 was missing Wittmuss is alleged to have spent the money inappropriately.“He (Wittmuss) is in the process of working out a repayment plan with the Federal Department of Labor and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, Mikan continued.Mikan refused to confirm reports that he did not support Annerino's candidacy for the director’s position.“What was important to us was appointing someone who has a working understanding of what happens at PIC,” he said.' John was County Board chairman when PIC was organized.Although the agency is private, all appointments and grants must be approved at the county government level, he said. Federal funding is handed down as part of the 1983 Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), Mikan explained.PIC administers, on a local level, the JTPA money for employment training.Currently, PIC subcontracts some 18 programs that must apply for grant renewals each year. Annerino will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the operation, Mikan saidThe agency was the center of controversy more than two years ago when the U S Internal Revenue Service subpoenaed its records More than half of the records, however, were destroyed in a fire four days later.The records were in the PIC building when the fire struck. The building, authorities later learned, was in a blind trust. The prime beneficiary of the trust was Robert Tezak, former Will County coroner and Republican Party supporter.The controversy and Annerino’s association with Tezak, some say, may have cost him the county executive post in the 1988 election, which he lost to Chuck Adelman.
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Park Forest Star
Park Forest, Illinois, US
Sun, Apr 22, 1990
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