McHenry mayor asks for alderwoman’s emails to residents to discern if they’re ‘factual’

McHenry Mayor Wayne Jett says he plans to work with the city’s lawyer to review newsletter emails 4th Ward Alderwoman Chris Bassi has been sending to her constituents.Jett said he has requested through the Freedom of Information Act “all emails that have been sent out from Alderwoman Bassi’s personal email ... to respond to each individual comment that has been made to make sure that the residents are getting factual information,” Jett said near the end of a recent McHenry City Council meeting.He said he’d received several calls from constituents before the meeting regarding an email from Bassi “in regards to what was really going on and why are we not giving information.”Screenshot portions of that email were posted by a group member on a McHenry-centric Facebook page. In that email, which was read at the Council meeting, Bassi wrote that the downtown McHenry Tax Increment Financing District “has a major overspending problem, with spending on TIF projects significantly outpacing the r