Some Council Members Want to Hear from Constituents on Baseball Stadium Zoning.

And you don’t have to wait until next Tuesday’s really early 5:30 PM city council meeting.

You will notice a new more or less permanent entry near the top of McHenry County Blog. Call it a “Hot Tip” line. It is a way to make it easier for people to send me messages that they do not want to post as comments.

One such suggestion came in at 11:38 Tuesday night. It was from a reader who has relatives in Crystal Lake who are know a Crystal Lake city council member.

The email read,

” I am hearing from relatives of some of the Crystal Lake City Council members that those Council members Want to hear from the people. They truly are hoping for input from the citizens, and not only from Crystal Lake citizens. Hope you can get that word, in a general way, out to people.”

Since McHenry County College officials

• refuse to allow outsiders to look at the cash flow numbers and the assumptions behind them and
• $10 million (plus interest) of fully taxed bonds are going to be issued and
• we taxpayers are going to have to pay off the $10 million, plus interest, if baseball promoter Pete Heitman’s Limited Liability Corporation can’t make the payments (investors in an LLC can walk away from the deal at any time, as Crystal Lake investment banker Barry Glasgow so ably pointed out to MCC trustees),

I’ll leave this list of Crystal Lake city council members’ phone numbers on top until the city council meeting.

I would imagine that some or maybe most of the city council members have made up their minds on whether to vote for or against zoning the McHenry County College baseball stadium.

Since I don’t know which members are undecided, below you find all of the members phone numbers.

From Mayor Aaron Shepley’s body language at past meetings and effusive comments from the beginning to the Northwest Herald, I would assume calling him would be unlikely to change his mind.

But, who knows?

Maybe he would agree with a majority of the council as he did in September and early October when the political tides didn’t go his way.

The phone numbers follow:

Ellen Brady Mueller (815) 477-4502

Kathy Ferguson (815) 477-7254

David Goss (815) 455-3365

Brett Hopkins (815) 477-7403

Jeff Thorsen (815) 455-5452

Ralph Dawson (815) 459-5983

Aaron Shepley (815) 477-4761