Audio recordings from the November 17th meeting of the Board of Trustees are available on the Village website. To access the menu of recordings, click here.
The meeting began with a public hearing regarding some minor adjustments to the 2016 Annual Appropriation Ordinance related to telephone equipment leases. No one from the public spoke, and the board later approved the changes.
Three residents made remarks during public comment encouraging the board to continue their efforts in opposing the Longmeadow Parkway Project.
The preliminary budget for 2017 was discussed during the finance reports, and expenses are once again forecasted to be down for the third year in a row. The recording of that discussion can be heard here.
The Building and Zoning report revealed that a run-down home on Steeplechase Road that has been the subject of board discussions dating back for many years has finally been demolished.
With regard to other ZBA matters, it was explained that the reason the board was not taking up the November 9th recommendation of the Zoning Board of Appeals regarding boarding codes was that the transcript and “finding of facts” report provided by counsel had not been prepared yet. Since that time, a special meeting of the Village Board has been scheduled for December 7th for this purpose.
The discussion then turned to an agenda topic titled, “Unincorporated & Boundary Properties Discussion,” and the subject became clear once Trustee Konicek began to provide background on why it was included.
It seems “rumors and fear-mongering” are being spread through the community regarding a developer’s plans to build a facility for HARPS in unincorporated McHenry County adjacent to Barrington Hills. Apparently, people are being told the Village Board had taken an opposing stance towards the facility being built or that permits have been denied.
None of this is true, of course, but apparently these rumors and more stemmed from, among other communications, a recent letter sent to the Village by the developer. Konicek asked Trustee Cecola, Dan Strahan and Bob Kosin, all of whom have met with the developer, to join in the discussion to set the record straight, as can be heard here.
We’ll see about obtaining a copy of the letter, but it’s senseless how this pettiness continues to obstruct the forward momentum for our community our Village officials have strived to generate.
The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Trustees is scheduled for December 19th.
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