Evergreen Park Village Hall

While renewing my auto registration, the clerk became annoyed because I overpaid. She dropped the extra dollar in my hand with disdain saying, «Here. I don’t want your McDonald’s money.»
Sporadic congeniality is one thing, but her mean-​spiritedness prompted me to write the village mailbox. The response from Cathy Aparo, Village Clerk, was «I did not hear any offensive remarks from either side of our counter.» Worse, Ms. Asparo condoned the insult by adding «We all know that a dollar won’t go far now a days and McDonald’s is about the only place you could actually get an item for one dollar.»
Is there a culture in the EP village office that supports viewing some residents as poor? Making bad food choices? Are there more stereotypes? My biggest disappointment is that the clerks are comfortable verbalizing such hurtful views to the very residents they are hired to assist. Meanwhile, I’ll just mail in my renewals, water bill payments, etc.