The Village has released recordings from the December 8th Plan Commission meeting. The link to the topical recording segments from the meeting can be accessed here.
During last Monday evening’s meeting, the Plan Commission discussed the Anderson horse boarding text amendment approved by the Zoning Board and voted to ask the Village Board if the commission members could review the Anderson amendment as it relates to the Village Comprehensive Plan at their January meeting.
The chair asked Mr. Kosin when our Village Board was scheduled to vote on Anderson’s amendment, but Kosin couldn’t or wouldn’t answer, even though Trustees Fritz Gohl and Karen Selman had purportedly requested that a special meeting of the Village Board be convened on December 15th earlier that very same day. (Their letters can be viewed here).
A commissioner then asked what would happen if the Village Board scheduled a vote on the amendment before their January meeting, and the chair replied, “We would ask the board to delay their vote.” The link to that exchange can be found here.
Trustee Gohl attended this entire meeting. As a matter of fact he testified during the public hearing (click here to listen).
If he had submitted his letter earlier that day requesting a special board meeting to vote on the Anderson amendment, then why did he withhold that information and not speak up to inform the Plan Commission members when the vote would take place? Had he done so, the chair could have possibly motioned for a special meeting of the Plan Commission later last week to review the Anderson amendment prior to the clearly accelerated vote tomorrow night by the Village Board.
We find this to be very troubling, and we believe residents should too. Were Gohl and Selman’s letters actually submitted on December 8, or were they backdated to reflect their intentions to submit them that day?
We’ll leave it to readers to decide.
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