The Barrington Hills Observer

The Village of Barrington President and Board of Trustees will have their regular monthly meeting tomorrow evening starting at 7:30 PM. Their agenda includes:

“ORDINANCE #24- : Amending Title 6, “Motor Vehicles and Traffic”, of the Barrington Village Code Regarding the Regulations of Unscheduled Stops and the Unloading of Passengers by Intercity Vehicles Within the Village of Barrington, Illinois (Re: Chapter 3, “Parking Regulations” – New Section 6-3-13, “Regulations of Unscheduled Stops and Unloading of Passengers by Intercity Vehicles”)”

A copy of their agenda can be viewed here.

It makes perfect sense for Barrington officials to address this now, since they have a Metra Station in their village.  However, recent or upcoming meetings of some other nearby communities where there are not train stations (except for one) have included no such amendments to their ordinances.

Here are some examples:

• The Village of Algonquin Village Board met on January 2nd, and they did not have anything related to unscheduled bus drop-offs on their agenda.
• The Village of Lake Barrington Board of Trustees also met on January 2nd, and they included no amendments to their codes addressing bus drop-offs.
• The Village of Fox River Grove Board met more than a week after, ”…a busload of migrants from Texas were dropped off at a Metra station,” on January 2nd.  In spite of this, they did not have any code amendments of this sort on their agenda.

This Tuesday, January 9th, the Village of Inverness Village Board will have their regular monthly, and the topic of migrants or busses is nowhere to be found on their agenda.

Also this Tuesday, the Village of Carpentersville Board of Trustees have their regular monthly meeting. Busses are absent from the agenda.

Clearly these villages are not alarmed by recent news reports and events, and they continue to conduct business as usual.

As we reported, our Board of Trustees called a Special Meeting Wednesday to pass a Ordnance to allow them to fine just about everyone involved in the unscheduled unloading of occupants of busses without Village permission. They can also impound the busses.

Recordings of the meeting can be found here.

Related: “Busload of migrants dropped off in Fox River Grove, falsely told they were in Chicago,” “Special Board of Trustees meeting today,” “Special Board of Trustees meeting agenda updated,” “Palatine police turn away migrant bus at train station”