MINORITY REPORT FROM DISTRICT 6 REPRESENTATIVES

BE PROUD OF YOUR DISTRICT SIX REPRESENTATIVES!
NOW THEY NEED OUR HELP TO GET THE AMENDMENTS PASSED.

If you live in District 6, you can be proud of your County Board Representatives: Mary McCann, Dan Ryan, Randy Donley and Ersel Schuster. On Thursday at the Committee of the Whole Meeting for the County Board, the District 6 Representatives stood united and presented a MINORITY REPORT in their objection to the proposed McHenry County Land Use Plan as is and introduced five amendments that effectively FIX most of the problems. In an impressive show of representative unity, they jointly spoke for their constituents on the issues of farmland preservation, water recharge protection and compact, contiguous development.

Among other things the amendments require that the Sensitive Aquifer Recharge Areas map be used in future rezoning decisions (Fourth Amendment) and that the productivity of farmland be determined by use of the entire LESA assessment tool rather than just by the LE score of the soils (Third Amendment). The Fifth Amendment offers a much more reasonable map for Future Land Use than the currently recommended one in the Plan.

THESE PEOPLE NEED OUR SUPPORT NOW. Not all the other members of the County Board were thrilled with these amendments. In fact, some are downright opposed and working to prevent them from even reaching the floor.

IT IS TIME TO CALL ALL COUNTY BOARD MEMBERS AND TELL THEM YOU WANT THE AMENDMENTS TO PASS IN THEIR ENTIRETY! Call District 6 members to thank them. Call the others to tell them you support District 6 amendments. Go to the ALAW web site for the Minority Report and list of County Board members contact information. https://sites.google.com/site/landagricultureandwater/

TINA'S APRIL FOOLS JOKE

Comments are posted on the 2030 web site at http://www.mchenrycounty2030plan.com/news/index.htm

At their March 18 meeting, Planning And Development committee did NOT review any of over 300 public comments, indicating that they had heard it all before, and weren't interested. Chair, Tina Hill had said she planned to revisit some technical comments at the next meeting at the April 1 meeting. APRIL FOOLS! NO DISCUSSION OF COMMENTS, THE JOKE'S ON US. WONDER HOW MUCH TAX $$ WENT INTO THOSE WASTED PUBLIC MEETINGS THAT WE ALL DILIGENTLY ATTENDED? Time to call your "other" county board members. They will vote at the County Board Meeting on April 20. Click here to find the list on the ALAW web site.
The following County Board members are on the P&D Committee: Lynn Orphal, (815) 455-0303; Mary Donner, (815) 459-5954; Tina Hill (Chair), (815) 347-4222; Marc Munaretto, (815) 385-5590; Sue Draffkorn (815)653-6057; Randy Donley, (815) 790-9435; Ersel Schuster, (815) 338-2207.