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After a lengthy audit and review process, vital Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding has been distributed to WTVP, Peoria’s PBS station.

The insurance company for Peoria’s public television station is suing two former WTVP personnel.

The three Peoria city leaders vying to hold the mayor’s office for the next four years are bringing their messages to residents ahead of the Feb. 25 primary election.

WTVP's independent auditors had flagged concerns about "significant deficiencies" in the station's internal controls for expenditure approvals and reporting for years, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's inspector general found, but the station's governance structure failed to act quickly enough to correct them.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting should require repayments and reduce grant funding to WTVP to the tune of $198,663 after the station overreported its financial support by more than a million dollars.

People who are under age 40 on Dec. 31, 2024 and reside in the 17-county area the Peoria-based PBS station serves are eligible for nomination.

There was enough evidence to charge former WTVP president and CEO Lesley Matuszak with embezzlement of funds and forgery, had she not taken her own life.

Jenn Gordon, a name well-known in Peoria's arts community, will become WTVP's next president and CEO on April 22.

Vice chairman Dr. Andy Chiou said the station will likely skip a year of both magazine production and related events while reorganizing the station and rethinking how to move the publication forward.

WTVP's board of trustees is set to select a new president and CEO for the public television station at a special meeting next week.