A Special Village Board meeting has been called by Trustees Harrington and Messer for Monday evening, March 9, at 6:30 PM. According to their agenda, topics to be discussed and voted on are:
- [Vote] PSAP Consulting Solutions Proposal (911 Consolidation)
- [Vote] Select Special Counsel to represent B.H in Drury v. B.H. lawsuit
- [Vote] Select Special Counsel to represent B.H. regarding Insurance Coverage for Drury v. B.H. Lawsuit
It should be noted that public comment will be allowed after the business before the Board is concluded according to Harrington and Messer’s agenda, which can be viewed here.
What lawsuit?????
It’s pretty obvious John and I for one am very happy someone is taking five of our trustees and hopefully some on our ZBA to task for their actions in this boarding ordinance train wreck.
All I can say is “what goes around comes around!
It’s time to pay the piper!
I have a feeling that more and more bits of corruption will leak out.
THEY were told that this would be a realistic possibility if THEY pushed ahead with an amendment to fix their LeCompte debacle with more illegalities.
Read the meeting transcripts where these warnings were discussed many times in public and I am sure many more times in closed session.
THEY didn’t listen.
THEY kept on making the hole THEY are in deeper and deeper. THEY still don’t get it!
When are THEY going to realize that this community is tired of their games and it is time to get all of their sordid laundry out into the public. Notice how public comment is on the tail end of this Special meeting? Once again THEY are playing games because they can’t face the truth.
Of all the lawsuits that have plagued this village, many would gladly cough up tax dollars to make sure that THEY are held accountable.
Who are the “THEY”??? THEY are Messer, Selman, Meroni and Harrington. Fritz is knee deep too but his role is to just to go along with whatever he is told to do or say.
What is it that THEY will be held accountable finally for? Come to the meeting to find out the list of corruption that they are being charged with!
OH, and “Thank You” to whoever had the guts to go ahead with this!
Guts or money? And fyi if Fritz just went along with the others isn’t he just as guilty for colluding. Don’t downplay his role. Gohl is as responsible as the rest.
Guts or money???? BOTH
Don’t think Fritz could hide himself at their secret meetings????
Not down playing his role except that his collusion was not as evident. The writing of legal passages and/or massaging text passages is not something that I see as a Fritz forte. He may have led the special meeting for the illegal ratification of this illegal amendment but he could barely do that. He kept loosing his written script.
I repeat:
Dozens of residents warned of legal jeopardy for the Village if it proceeded with a commercial horse boarding ordinance. Meroni, Selman, et al didn’t listen.
In the immortal words of Gomer Pyle, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!”
Can those who failed to heed our legal counsel’s (albeit unpaid) warning be held financially accountable? At least for legal fees for any or all lawsuits that stem from the misconduct of the Abboudites……….past and present
If I recall reading one of their FB pages, with all the out of towner comments btw, they claim we are asleep, we are not paying attention and we won’t do anything. That was an actual quote: what are you guys going to do? I also recall that some have posted on this site in the same manner. They like to taunt. It looks like this is the beginning of many answers to that question.
You need a score card with this BOT. Two months ago, “Save 5 Acres” n/k/a SOS BOT (“SOS BOT”) with Messer at the helm voted to repeal special counsel” provision of VBH code, albeit illegally. On Monday, SOS BOT now want to appoint special counsel under the very same village ordinance 2 months ago SOS BOT voted to repeal, albeit in contravention of IL law.
The Cook County Court Docket Sheet shows a lawsuit has been filed by certain VBH residents against VBH for Declaratory Relief, presumably for the promulgation of Anderson II commercial horse boarding amendment. From the court docket, there is nothing to indicate the complaint in the lawsuit is anything more than certain residents asking the presiding judge whether or not VBH acted appropriately . . . and nothing else.
Why is SOS BOT now hurrying calling a special meeting to appoint special counsel when only VBH is a named defendant? Why is SOS exploring the issue of whether BOT have insurance coverage when BOT are not individualy named in the lawsuit? Again, the response by SOS BOT is disproportionate to the action at hand and it is time VBH residents ask SOS BOT why?
Special counsel was not discussed by former Pres. Abboud and SOS BOT when LeCompte sued VBH challenging ZBA findings that Oakwood Farm commercial boarding operations violated village code with VBH succeeding at both the trial and appellate court level.
Under VBH and IL Law, only VBH President McLaughlin has the legal authority to appoint special counsel; SOS BOT do not. Like Burke-Warren who whipped LeCompte at both the trial and appellate court level under the supervision of Abboud and SOS BOT, VBH counsel Bond-Dickson has no “conflict of interest” in defending VBH in the pending lawsuit. Why should retiring BOT member Messer care one way or the other given he is not personally named in the lawsuit?
The conflict of interest interest pertaining to Anderson II occurred when Messer, Meroni and Selman in the face of specific findings by Il Board of Elections pertaining to 3 secret and illegal campaign donations, unprecendented Schuman Letter and subsequent pending lawsuit inferring these activities between Oakwood Farm and VBH gov. officials constituted “pay for play” politics chose to disregard the advice of village counsel and common sense by particpating in promulgation of Anderson II and voting on it.
Rather than seek to remove Bond-Dickson now; Messer, Meroni and Selman should have elected to remove themselves from the Anderson II process back then. . . . They did not, and now the VBH taxpayers are on the hook to pay for more village litigation due to SOS self-inflicted wounds.
The “highly suspicious ongoings” surrounding commercial boarding at Oakwood Farm continues to simmer at higher and highter temperature where I am afraid now the cauldron has gotten so hot that Messer, Meroni, Harrington and Gohl under the guidance of the invisible hand of Abboud can no longer keep the lid on it. It is about to spill over . . . . and its hot! and . . . . . .
. . . . . their running scared! . . . .
that is except Selman who still does not get it!
You mean they are calling to enact the same special counsel provision that they voted to do away with? Now that’s funny! Looks like they don’t want to share the toy.
This would be very funny if we weren’t paying for it!
I hope we can hold the rogue trustees personaly responsible for their unethical and reckless conduct.
Our errors and omissions insurance will go through the roof next year. We may become uninsurable and have to pay into the high risk pool for years. If it goes to a criminal investigation we will have to become self insured as no reputable carrier will touch us for years to come. We are so screwed!