In advance of the meeting, Village Hall staff have now posted a link to background documentation on the subject to the Village website homepage. That link can be accessed here.
There are twelve documents provided for interested residents to review, most of which date back to 2012, under the previous administration, and many of which were prepared by Gewalt Hamilton or subcontractors at the time. While Haegers Bend is the primary subject of the studies, some other Village roads in McHenry County are cited with regard to possible bicycle plans, mainly consisting of signage.
Among the twelve downloadable documents that presumably will be presented to attendees of the hearing, there is also a Haegers Bend Roads questionnaire, and that can be downloaded here for completion and submittal.
Given the time intensive and likely costly detail contained in these study reports, we must question how many tens of thousands of residents’ tax dollars were spent at under the prior adminstration for a proposal that only recently surfaced that most residents who will be directly affected clearly do not want?
More importantly, why didn’t Village officials extend the courtesy of asking Haegers Bend or other residents their opinions back in 2012 before even considering this? These are the questions that should be asked next Wednesday evening.
– The Observer