Posted in Agendas, ePacket Agendas, Roads & Bridges Committee, Special Use Permits, VBHPD, Village Board, Village Clerk, Village Code, Village Engineer, Village President, Village Treasurer, Zoning Board on October 25, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The Village Board of Trustees will be conducting their regular monthly meeting this evening at 6:30 PM. Topics on the agenda include:
A copy of the agenda can be viewed and downloaded here.
Posted in Politics, Springfield, Transparency, Village Board, Village Government on October 18, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Illinois lawmakers plan to take up a measure allowing municipalities to hold remote meetings at any time – pandemic or not – during the fall veto session this week.
Currently, the governor or the state health department must issue an emergency proclamation before a city can conduct any business remotely.
The Illinois Municipal League (IML) wants to change that through Senate Bill 482 and allow cities and towns to conduct business remotely whenever they choose.
“We would like to have the elected officials locally to be able to have that authority going forward if the disaster proclamations end at some point which I’m sure they will,” said IML Executive Director Brad Cole.
Cole said the remote meetings allow more people to become involved with local government.
“A lot of communities are seeing more public engagement,” Cole said. “More people are on the Zoom calls than were attending in person.”
The bill includes a provision that a city’s presiding officer must state why an in-person meeting is not practical.
Read more here.
Posted in Conflict of interest, Deception, ePacket Agendas, Financial Reports, Intergovernmental agreements (IGA), Land Use, Politics, Roads & Bridges Committee, VBHPD, Village Attorney, Village Board, Village Clerk, Village Code, Village Engineer, Village Government, Village President, Zoning Board on September 27, 2021| 13 Comments »
The Village Board of Trustees will be conducting their regular monthly meeting this evening at 6:30 PM. Some of the topics on their agenda include:
A copy of the agenda can be viewed and downloaded here.
Posted in Barrington Hills Country Club, Building Department, Equestrian Commission, Ethics, Plan Commission, Police Pension Board, Riding Club Commission, Roads & Bridges Committee, VBHPD, Village Attorney, Village Board, Village Code, Village Engineer, Village Government, Village President, Village Treasurer on August 23, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The Village Board of Trustees will be conducting their regular monthly meeting this evening at 6:30 PM. Some of the topics on their agenda include:
A copy of the agenda can be viewed and downloaded here.
Related: “Barrington Hills Country Club Celebrates Its Centennial”
Posted in Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, Village Board on August 21, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The federal government is handing Illinois schools and local government a “boatload” of money for COVID-19 relief, and Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the money should go to property tax relief.
“This is a great year for local communities to consider freezing or lowering their property taxes,” Pritzker said Aug. 17. “Why is this a good year to do that? Schools received not only increased funding from the state of Illinois but received a boatload of support from the federal government as well. And they also received a lot of support for local infrastructure … Those are things that take local properties taxes, typically, to pay for them.”
Federal relief funds include about $5 billion for the state’s schools. Schools account for about two-thirds of the average property tax bill. Local governments will receive about $5.9 billion and public transit, including airports, will see nearly $1.9 billion.
The state is getting $8.1 billion, some of which Pritzker intended to use to pay off the short-term loan Illinois obtained from the Federal Reserve – the only state to use the emergency lending. When federal regulators said the pandemic money could not be used for debt, Pritzker switched almost exactly the debt amount to infrastructure spending, which freed other state funds to repay the Fed.
Republicans blasted the infrastructure plan as riddled with pork projects.
Illinoisans pay the nation’s second-highest property taxes, according to a 2021 ranking by WalletHub. In 2021, Illinois homeowners averaged $4,942 in property taxes for the U.S. median valued home of $217,500, double the national average property tax bill.
Read more here.
Related: “Several suburbs get millions in COVID-19 relief grants”
Posted in 2021 Elections, Building Department, Conflict of interest, Deception, FPDCC, Personnel Committee, Politics, Property Taxes, Riding Club Commission, Roads & Bridges Committee, Topics Of Interest, Transparency, VBHPD, Village Attorney, Village Board, Village Clerk, Village Code, Village Engineer, Village Government on July 24, 2021| 1 Comment »
The Village Board of Trustees will be conducting their monthly meeting Monday evening at 6:30 PM. Some of the topics on their agenda include:
A copy of the disappointing agenda can be viewed and downloaded here.
Why disappointing you may ask? Because for the third month in a row this administration has failed to step up publicly to address a clear conflict of interest existing at our Village Hall. Matter of fact, there isn’t even a place on the agenda to report what was discussed at the specifically nonspecific Personal Committee meeting held Monday.
Residents deserve better.
Posted in Appointments, Conflict of interest, Ethics, Personnel Committee, Property Taxes, Village Government, Village Treasurer on July 19, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The Village Personnel Committee meets this afternoon at 5:00 PM. Topics on their agenda include:
“Transition of Treasurer,” likely means the current Village Treasurer, Peggy Hirsch, will be leaving, and that would be a tremendous loss if that’s the case.
“As Presented,” is an item we’ve only seen recently used on the Equestrian Commission agendas. As near as we can tell, it means, “undecided as of agenda posting deadline,” “none of your damn business” or it’s, “anything can happen Monday.”
A copy of the agenda can be found here.
Posted in 2021 Elections, Barrington Hills Park District, Illinois State Board of Elections, Politics, Village Board, Village Government, Village President on July 16, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The Village campaign committees have reported their second quarter 2021 finances to the Illinois State Board of Elections. Click on any link to view their reports:
Once again, it’s interesting reading in some cases, especially when it comes to itemized campaign donations refunded.
Posted in Building Department, Conflict of interest, Ethics, Financial Statements, FOIA, Insurance Committee, OMA, Pension Funding, Police Reports, Public Safety, Transparency, VBHPD, Village Attorney, Village Board, Village Clerk, Village Code, Village Director of Administration, Village Engineer, Village Government, Village President, Village Treasurer, Zoning Board on June 28, 2021| 1 Comment »
The Village Board of Trustees will be conducting their monthly meeting this evening at 6:30 PM. Some of the topics on their agenda include:
A copy of the agenda can be viewed and downloaded here.
Posted in Agendas, Building Department, Conflict of interest, ePacket Agendas, Equestrian Commission, Ethics, Financial Reports, Land Use, Longmeadow Parkway, Minutes, Plan Commission, Police Pension Board, Property Taxes, Public Safety, Real Estate, Riding Club Commission, Roads & Bridges Committee, VBHPD, Village Attorney, Village Board, Zoning Board on May 24, 2021| 4 Comments »
The Village Board of Trustees will be conducting their monthly meeting this evening at 6:30 PM. Some of the topics on their agenda include:
A copy of the agenda can be viewed and downloaded here. The meeting is open to those wishing to attend or readers can listen in by calling 508-924-1464.
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