Government entities such as townships, cities and villages are required to submit financial reports to the state comptroller every year.

In 2011, four of the 44 townships in Whiteside and Lee counties failed to submit those reports, according to the state comptroller’s website.

In Whiteside County, Rock Falls-based Coloma and Morrison-based Mount Pleasant townships – the county’s second- and third-largest – failed to comply. Coloma last submitted one in 2009 and Mount Pleasant in 2008, comptroller records show.