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Special Roads & Bridges Committee meeting today

Posted in Agenda, Audio Recordings, Big Red, Conflict of interest, Cuba Township Road District, Ethics, Goat Rodeo, Mac's Property Management, New Normal?, One Barrington Hills, Politics, Property Taxes, Real Estate, Roads & Bridges Committee, TMI, Traffic, Transparency, Trotter & Associates, Unions, Village Director of Administration, Village Engineer, Village President on November 13, 2023| 1 Comment »

11.13.23 RB

11.13.23 Zoom

The Village Roads & Bridges Committee meets this afternoon at 3 PM. The topics on the agenda include:

  • [Vote] Minutes – September 20, 2023 Special Meeting
  • [Vote] Minutes – November 8, 2022 Special Meeting (tabled from May 9, 2023 Special Meeting)
  • Road Program: 2024 Planning

A copy of the agenda can be viewed here.

The Committee did not meet in October.  Perhaps this was intentional to allow a cooling off period after the Chair seemingly lost her composure during the September meeting. The recording of that meeting can be found here.

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Special Roads & Bridges Committee meeting today

Posted in Agenda, Clown Car, Cuba Rd Bridge, Cuba Township Road District, Deception, Ethics, Mad Cows, One Barrington Hills, Politics, Property Taxes, Road construction, Roads & Bridges Committee, Traffic, Transparency, WTF on September 20, 2023| 1 Comment »

VBH Roads 2023

This Summer the entire length of Oak Knoll Road was resurfaced due to Trustee Laura Eckstrom’s objection to the appearance of a perfectly sound patching job (which ironically was performed to EXTEND the life of the roadway). It is worth reminding taxpayers Eckstrom happens to LIVE on Oak Knoll Road.

The Village Roads & Bridges Committee meets this afternoon for the first time in five months at 4 PM. The topics on the agenda are:

  • Road Program: 2023 Recap, and
  • Road Program: 2024 Planning

A copy of the agenda can be viewed here.

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Special Roads & Bridges Committee meeting today

Posted in Agenda, Clown Car, Cuba Township Road District, Mac's Property Management, Mad Cows, Property Taxes, Road construction, Roads & Bridges Committee, TMI, Village Director of Administration on April 21, 2023| 1 Comment »

April 23 RB

The Village Roads & Bridges Committee meets this morning at 11 AM to review bids received for the 2023 Roads Program.  A copy of the agenda can be viewed here.

Those planning to attend today should know the last three R&BC meetings have needlessly lasted an average of over an hour and a half due primarily to the lack of preparation and constant interruptions by the current Committee Chair.

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Roads & Bridges Committee meets today

Posted in Agenda, Audio Recordings, Cuba Rd Bridge, Cuba Township Road District, Ethics, FUBAR, Mac's Property Management, Property Taxes, Real Estate, Roads & Bridges Committee, TMI, Transparency, Village Director of Administration, Village Engineer, Village Government, Village President on March 16, 2023| Leave a Comment »

3.23 RB

The Roads & Bridges Committee meets today at 4:00 PM at Village Hall. This will be the first time the Committee has met November 8 (See, “Special Election Day Roads & Bridges meeting today”).

A copy of their agenda can be viewed here.

Related: “Some perspectives on the proposed 2023 Appropriations Ordinance”

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Special Roads & Bridges Committee meeting cancelled

Posted in Agenda, Cuba Rd Bridge, FUBAR, Road construction, Roads & Bridges Committee, TMI on March 2, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Spec 3.2 R&B

A Special Roads & Bridges Committee meeting scheduled for 1:15 PM today has been cancelled (again).  A copy of the agenda to have been covered can be found here.

The next regularly scheduled committee meeting is March 16th.  The last time the committee met was November 8th, 2002.

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Special Election Day Roads & Bridges meeting today

Posted in Agenda, Audio Recordings, Clown Car, Elections, FUBAR, Mac's Property Management, Mad Cows, Property Taxes, Public Safety, Road construction, Roads & Bridges Committee, Traffic, Village Government on November 8, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Common Sense

No, that’s not a typo. It’s not a practical joke either.

Roads & Bridges Chair Laura Ekstrom chose the absolute busiest day of the year at Village Hall to have her own special Roads & Bridges meeting consisting of one (1) agenda item today.  And, her special meeting is scheduled at 3 PM, a time when many people vote since they leave their workplaces early.

Turnout for early voting this year has been brisk.  The parking lots have frequently been seen nearly full, and yesterday lines were forming to vote, thus increasing frustrations.

Common sense would dictate alternative dates be chosen by Ekstrom, or short of that, a Zoom meeting be scheduled if there was no alternative.  Clearly, this escaped her.

A copy of her agenda can be viewed here, and if you find yourselves trying to vote this afternoon but unable to park, we know who you have to thank.

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Roads & Bridges Committee meets this afternoon

Posted in 220, Accidents, Agenda, Conflict of interest, Cuba Township Road District, District 220 referendum, Ethics, Mac's Property Management, Politics, Property Taxes, Public Safety, Road construction, Roads & Bridges Committee, School Districts, Topics Of Interest, VBHPD, Village Engineer, Village Government, Village President on August 11, 2022| 1 Comment »

Aug R&B Meet

The Village Roads & Bridges Committee meets for the first time in four (4) months this afternoon at 4 PM.  The two topics on their agenda are:

  • 2022 Road Program Update, and
  • Detour Traffic

A copy of the agenda can be viewed and downloaded here.

Related: “Roads & Bridges Committee meeting canceled (again),” “County Line Road work to begin in Barrington Hills Monday,” “Hart Road in Barrington closing for five months beginning June 2”

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Roads & Bridges Committee meeting canceled (again)

Posted in Agenda, Cuba Township Road District, Mac's Property Management, Property Taxes, Public Safety, Real Estate, Roads & Bridges Committee, Village Government, Village President on July 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Snow Plow

Today’s regular monthly meeting of the Roads & Bridges Committee has been cancelled.  Ordinarily, we would not report this except the Committee has only managed to meet three (3) times in seven (7) months this year, and their last meeting was back in April.

Since the less than stellar snow plowing services Village residents endured this past Winter season still weighs on their minds, one can only hope plans are already underway to assure improved services in 2022-2023.  After all, the next Committee meeting isn’t until August 11th (tick, tick, tick…).

Related: “Learn from your (big) mistake, Laura, Bryan, Dave and Tom”

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Roads & Bridges Committee meets this afternoon

Posted in Agenda, Audio Recordings, Property Taxes, Roads & Bridges Committee, Village Director of Administration, Village Government on April 7, 2022| Leave a Comment »

April R&B

The Roads & Bridges Committee will meet today at 4:00 PM. A copy of their agenda can be viewed here.

Today’s topic of discussion is a proposal to, “Apply CRF to approximately 4,000 SY of selected asphalt pavement.”  Proposed prices are included in the agenda.

Unfortunately, audio recordings from the special March 22 Roads & Bridges meeting are unavailable for review. Eight companies bid for the 2022 roads program at that meeting, and Orange Crush, LLC was awarded the contract.

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Special Roads & Bridges meeting this afternoon

Posted in 2021 Elections, Agenda, Audio Recordings, Conflict of interest, Politics, Public Safety, Roads & Bridges Committee, Village Director of Administration, Village Government, Village President on February 16, 2022| 4 Comments »

Snow Plow

The 2021-2022 Winter Season will be a topic of discussion today at 4 PM at Village Hall.

The Roads & Bridges Committee will meet today at 4:00 PM.  The only two topics on their agenda are:

  • 2021-2022 Winter Season
  • 2022 Road Program

A copy of the agenda can be viewed and downloaded here.

Audio recordings from some previous R&B meetings are now available for review.  The December 13th, 2021, recording can be heard here, and the recording from the October 14th meeting where a resident first voiced concerns over switching snow plow services can be heard here.

Residents who would like to publicly comment on the new snow plowing contractor’s performance this year or other items can do so at the meeting, or they email the committee chair at lekstrom@barringtonhills-il.gov prior to the meeting.

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