Yesterday, I wrote,

“I guess I shouldn’t complain that the county board has finally figured out that Crystal Lake is in McHenry County and that every facility doesn’t have to be at the Hebron site in Woodstock. It really seems to make sense that there be some outposts that are more conveniently located for the majority of taxpayers than is the county government center.”

So, why is the health department the only arm of county government with an outpost where most of the people are?

What about the inconveniently located court system?

I have referred to the current courthouse as the “Hebron site” since it was selected.

It is hard to imagine a more inconvenient location in our county seat.

So, why haven’t county board members from Districts 1, 2, 3 and 5 pushed for a closer location for traffic court?

Why hasn’t some village board or city council offered to rent a room to county government?

Maybe it’s just easier for Home Rule units to pass ordinances mimicking state traffic law and avoid county government completely. That, of course, eliminates the fees that county government would otherwise collect.

But, the southeastern McHenry County municipal officials whose police write tickets based on state law, rather than local ordinances, still force motorists to go to Woodstock to have them processed by county government.

Ending this inconvenience certainly should be a plank in any county board candidacy from the southeastern part of McHenry County.

Those living in Algonquin, Cary, Fox River Grove, Barrington Hills, Crystal Lake, Lakewood, Huntley, etc., should not have to drive all the way to Woodstock.

It’s more convenient, if one lives in most of the McHenry area.

Folks ticketed in McHenry, Island Lake, Lakemoor, Port Barrington, Holiday Hills, McCullom Lake, Prairie Grove and Spring Grove only have to drive to McHenry for a branch traffic court. (Inexplicitly, Johnsburg residents still have to go to Woodstock.)