Posted in Agendas, BCFPD, Crime, Deception, Ethics, Jewel-Osco, Property Taxes, Public Safety on January 23, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Late last week, agendas for meetings conducted by the Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District on December 18th and on December 29th of December were published to the District website along with an agenda for a January 18th, 2024 meeting. Click on any of the meeting dates to view the agendas.
Open Meetings Act guidelines can be found here.
Posted in Agendas, Barbarian Migrants in Busses at the Gate, BCFPD, Board of Health, Building Department, Clown Car, Conflict of interest, Cuba Township Road District, Deception, Dumb and Dumber, ePacket Agendas, Equestrian Commission, Ethics, Financial Reports, Insurance Committee, Intergovernmental agreements (IGA), Land Use, Legal Expenses, Mac's Property Management, Minutes, OMA, OP/Ed, Pension Funding, Plan Commission, Police Pension Board, Politics, Property Taxes, Public Safety, Real Estate, Riding Club Commission, Roads & Bridges Committee, Topics Of Interest, Transparency, Unions, VBHPD, Village Attorney, Village Board, Village Clerk, Village Code, Village Director of Administration, Village Engineer, Village Government, Village President, Village Treasurer, Zoning Board on January 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Our Village Board of Trustees will be conducting their regular monthly meeting this evening beginning at 6:30 PM. Topics on their agenda include:
The fourth item on the list amending the amount(s) of, “General Penalty of the Village Code,” reads:
“Any person convicted of or found liable for a violation of any section of this code shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and not to exceed seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) for any one offense, excepting any specific section of this code wherein the maximum fine is limited to a lesser amount.”
Both amounts are too low, especially the $100.00 amount. By the time all the costs, from start to finish, are aggregated to collect $100.00, the Village will likely lose money (and no doubt has been for many years).
A copy of their agenda can be viewed and downloaded here.
Related: “A matter of trust,” “December Board of Trustees meeting recordings released,” “Change.org petition posted: ‘Why Barrington Hills should not annex Sutton and the Penny Road Properties.’”
Posted in Accidents, Algonquin Rd, BCFPD, Traffic, VBHPD on January 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »
A member of the Barrington-Countryside Fire Protection District was seriously injured in a two-vehicle on Algonquin Road east of Old Sutton Road in Barrington Hills Saturday morning. | Photo: Nick Rusin
By Sam Borcia | Lake & McHenry Count Scanner
A firefighter was seriously injured after a car drove into oncoming traffic and struck a fire department vehicle responding to an emergency in Barrington Hills Saturday morning.
The incident happened around 8:45 a.m. Saturday on Algonquin Road east of Old Sutton Road in Barrington Hills.
Barrington Hills Police Department Press Information Officer William Walsh said a preliminary investigation shows a Honda CR-V was traveling eastbound on Algonquin Road, also known as Route 62.
The Honda crossed the center line and crashed into a Barrington-Countryside Fire Protection District Ford Expedition, Walsh said.
A member of the Barrington-Countryside Fire Protection District was seriously injured in a two-vehicle on Algonquin Road east of Old Sutton Road in Barrington Hills Saturday morning. | Photo: Nick Rusin
The Ford was traveling westbound on Algonquin Road responding to an emergency call.
The emergency lights and siren on the fire department vehicle were activated at the time of the crash, Walsh said.
Ambulances from the Carpentersville and East Dundee fire departments responded to the scene.
The driver of the fire department vehicle, a shift commander and sole occupant of his vehicle, was transported to Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington.
Walsh said the fire department member suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Read more here.
Posted in Accidents, BCFPD, VBHPD on January 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Cardinal News
3:45 PM … Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District firefighters and paramedics working at the scene of a crash with injuries at Brinker Rd and Hills and Dales Rd Barrington Hills. Report of a crash involving a school bus with 5 children on board not reporting any injuries. Paramedics assessing children. Several vehicles in a ditch at the scene of the crash.
Traffic remains backed up on Brinker Road, north and south of Hills and Dales Road at 4:45 PM.
Posted in Accidents, BCFPD, VBHPD on December 24, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Members of the Barrington-Countryside Fire Protection District received awards for their efforts in reviving a woman who went into cardiac arrest and was found unresponsive following a vehicle crash in Barrington Hills. | Provided Photo
By Sam Borcia | Lake &McHenry County Scanner
Firefighters and paramedics who successfully revived an elderly woman after she was found unresponsive following a car crash in Barrington Hills have received awards for their actions.
The Barrington-Countryside Fire Protection District said on Saturday they were proud to recognize several of their members for their “exemplary service.”
Battalion Chief Haller, Captain Christenberry, Lieutenant Callahan, Firefighter-Paramedic Wahlborg, Firefighter-Paramedic Nordmann and Firefighter-Paramedic Warzocha were honored.
The fire crew was recognized for their efforts to save a woman involved in a traffic crash that was the result of a sudden cardiac arrest around 2:55 p.m. on October 13.
The Barrington-Countryside Fire Protection District and Barrington Hills Police Department were called to Brinker Road and Hills and Dales Road for a vehicle crash.
A 911 caller reported a black Volkswagen drove off the roadway and struck a wooden pole, according to fire department radio traffic.
Read more here.
Posted in Agendas, BCFPD, Jewel-Osco, Pension Funding, Property Taxes, Topics Of Interest, VBHPD on November 20, 2023| Leave a Comment »
The Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District (BCFPD) Board of Trustees has two meetings scheduled tonight beginning at 6:00 PM at 22222 N. Pepper Road in Lake Barrington. The first is a special meeting, and a copy of their agenda can be found here.
The second is their regular monthly meeting beginning at 6:30 PM. Topics on their agenda include:
A copy of that agenda can be found here.
Posted in Audio Recordings, BCFPD, Board of Elections, Clown Car, Cuba Township Road District, Dumb and Dumber, FUBAR, Illinois State Board of Elections, Intergovernmental agreements (IGA), Mad Cows, One Barrington Hills, OP/Ed, Politics, Property Taxes, Topics Of Interest, Transparency, Village Board, Village Director of Administration, Village Government, Village President on November 16, 2023| Leave a Comment »
For many years now, residents have voiced their frustration with the poor sound quality of meetings they’ve participated in remotely. Village officials have also complained, now that they’re allowed to participate in meetings remotely, that communication is often problematic.
Back in May of 2022 we wrote, “What message is the Cecola administration sending residents?,” in an effort to make residents aware of the communication frustrations people were experiencing. Since then, what few efforts staff at Village Hall have put forth to correct the problems have fallen short, and lately we’ve found the recordings of meetings we used to rely on for clarification fail to do so.
Case in point, when we questioned why perfectly sound concrete was being torn up at taxpayer’s expense at the fire station adjacent to Village Hall, we looked to the Village Administrator’s explanation in the October 23 recordings. What we heard was a sometimes barely audible but mostly unintelligible explanation.
The last time we can recall when a Village meeting was clearly documented was New Year’s Eve of 2018 when the Village Electoral Board convened. Even though recording equipment in the Board room was available, a much more dependable court reporter was engaged to document the hearing.
As it turned out, this was fortuitous since some alleged perjury took place at that meeting, and if legal action had been taken, the transcript would have been required by the court. Today we have nowhere near that recording quality to rely on, and with more Village officials participating with flawed remote technology, it will no doubt get exponentially worse.
Considering this, and the fact much of the equipment currently in use is beyond its’ intended shelf life, it’s time to purchase new equipment including visual communications hardware. If we have the money to unnecessarily replace perfectly good tile at Village Hall, then we surely have the money to bring our communications technology to levels addressing our current needs.
Posted in 2021 Elections, 220, Appointments, Barrington Education Association, Barrington Hills Park District, BCFPD, Big Red, Board of Education, BOHICA, Building Department, Clown Car, Conflict of interest, District 220 referendum, Dumb and Dumber, Equestrian Commission, Ethics, Horse Boarding, Mac's Property Management, Mad Cows, MOOBS, New Normal?, One Barrington Hills, OP/Ed, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, Riding Center Advisory Committee, Roads & Bridges Committee, School Districts, Springfield, Taxes, Topics Of Interest, Transparency, Village Attorney, Village Board, Village Director of Administration, Village Government, Village President, What the Ficke (Bradford)? on November 10, 2023| Leave a Comment »
By Glenn Minnis | The Center Square contributor
For the fourth year in a row, Chicago ranks as the country’s most corrupt city. Illinois stands as the third-most corrupt state in a University of Illinois at Chicago study.
To arrive at the findings, researchers analyzed 2021 public corruption statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Justice. In all, there were 32 public corruption convictions in the Northern District of Illinois that includes Chicago in 2021, nearly a 33% increase from the 22 convictions that were reported the year before.
State Rep. Dan Ugaste, R-Geneva, isn’t surprised.
“It’s an awful shame, and goes to show you what happens when we have one party controlling everything,” Ugaste told The Center Square. “It gets to people, and they think they can do as they please instead of doing what is required of them under the law and required of them ethically.”
A solution to the long-running problem doesn’t have to be that difficult, Ugaste said.
“We have extremely weak ethics laws,” he added. “If we fixed those within the House and Senate and gave our Legislative Inspector General more authority, I think it would go a long way in helping all of it. On the Republican side, we file bills every year to strengthen the legislative inspector general and the ethics laws but they never get hearings.”
Read more here.
(Very) Related: “Better (decades) late than never”
Posted in Accidents, BCFPD, VBHPD on October 16, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Emergency crews respond to a single-vehicle crash at Brinker Road and Hills and Dales Road in Barrington Hills where a female driver suffered a medical issue that left her unresponsive Friday afternoon. | Photo: Nick Rusin
By Sam Borcia | Lake & McHenry County Scanner
Paramedics performed CPR on an elderly woman who was found not breathing after she crashed her car off of the roadway in Barrington Hills Friday afternoon.
The Barrington-Countryside Fire Protection District and Barrington Hills Police Department responded around 2:55 p.m. Friday to Brinker Road and Hills and Dales Road for a vehicle crash.
A 911 caller reported a black Volkswagen drove off the roadway and struck a wooden pole, according to fire department radio traffic.
The caller reported one person was unconscious in the vehicle.
Fire crews arrived on the scene and confirmed the female driver of the Volkswagen was unconscious and not breathing.
Paramedics began performing lifesaving measures and transported the woman to Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington.
Barrington Hills Police Department Press Information Officer William Walsh said the 75-year-old woman driving the vehicle appeared to have suffered a medical issue that led to the crash.
Read more here.
Posted in Accidents, Agendas, BCFPD, Jewel-Osco, Pension Funding, Property Taxes, Topics Of Interest, VBHPD on October 16, 2023| Leave a Comment »
The Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District (BCFPD) Board of Trustees meets tonight at 6:30 PM at 22222 N. Pepper Road in Lake Barrington. Topics on their agenda include:
A copy of their agenda can be viewed here.
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