More Details on the Turnberry Resort

Alan Kanabay, President of the Turnberry Property Owners Association sent out the following email at 8:13 last night to members on Tuesday after the village issued a press release on the massive enlargement of the Turnberry Country Club. It has some … Continue reading

MCC Board Moving Away from Big Health Club Proposal

Health club operator Power Wellness got $50,000 for coming up with an expansion plan for McHenry County College and seemed to be angling to operate the facility. Tuesday night in a Committee of the Whole meeting, the MCC Board pretty … Continue reading

MCC Plan to Build Health Club, Sciences Building Critiqued

An analysis by Steve Willson of McHenry County College’s planned health club-sciences building proposal: Analysis of the Business Plan for the Proposed MCC Health and Sciences Education Building Introduction The McHenry County College Board of Trustees received a document entitled … Continue reading

New MCC $9 per Credit Hour Student Fee Would Pay Bulk of Health Club-Health Sciences Classroom Addition

A meeting at which topics were discussed, but not voted upon, was held by the McHenry County College Board Tuesday night. Consultant Power Wellness made the case for additional classrooms for health sciences and for a much larger health and … Continue reading

McHenry County College to Hear Health Club-Health Sciences Report Tuesday at 6

The driving force behind several successful candidacies for the McHenry County College Board last spring were referred to in shorthand as the “Health Club.” The cost was to be in the neighborhood of $42 million. The general proposal was that … Continue reading

Documents about $42 Million Addition to McHenry County College Show Up on BidClerk Internet Site

Although the McHenry County College Board has taken no action to authorize the solicitation of bids for the $42 million health club, etc., addition that would increase usable space about 90%, look what popped up on the construction “hot tips” … Continue reading

Robo-Call for Chris Jenner and Tom Wilbeck, McHenry County College Candidates

It came from something called “For Our Children’s Future.” The attribution said that it was an independent expenditure and the candidates were not responsible for it or its content. The message mentioned Chris Jenner and Tom Wilbeck’s names twice and … Continue reading

McHenry County College Explains Why Health & Fitness Club Study Is Top Secret, Hush, Hush

Woodstock attorney Jane Collins wondered what backed up the power point presentation (see Part 1 and Part 2) given to the McHenry County College Board about the proposed Health & Fitness Club, plus almost doubling the size of the classroom … Continue reading

MCC Board Candidate Tom Wilbeck Holding Reception

For $35 you can meet and mingle with those who support Lakewood’s Tom Wilbeck for McHenry County College Board. On his invitation, Wilbeck stresses, “Tom is opposed to MCC issuing bonds for expansion without voter approval.” The event will be … Continue reading

Lakewood Red(Ink)Tail Golf Club Alternative Revenue Bond Failure Featured in Chicago Tribune – Part 2

Part 2 of the Chicago Tribune said about Lakewood’s alternative revenue bond purchase of what is not called RedTail Golf Club: Lakewood is featured as one of the villages “where bets backfired on taxpayers…where taxpayers should have been protected form … Continue reading

Lakewood Red(Ink)Tail Golf Club Alternative Revenue Bond Failure Featured in Chicago Tribune – Part 1

On January 6, 2013, right on the top of the Sunday Chicago Tribune, there was an expose that should send warning flares up about the alternative revenue bonds that the majority of the McHenry County College Board seem set to … Continue reading

McSweeney and Franks Send Shot Across McHenry County College’s Bow

Interpret this press release as you wish, but I think the bill is aimed at McHenry County College. It could be aimed at abuses in Lakewood from over twenty years ago when the Village Board sold alternative revenue bonds to … Continue reading

Health Club at Moraine Valley & McHenry County Community Colleges Could Tap Faculty Salaries

I’m looking at the alternative revenue bond statement approved by bond counsel Chapman and Cutler. How does the document say they will be paid off? “…payable from the construction/infrastructure improvement fee imposed upon students of the District (the “Improvement Fee”), … Continue reading

What Do You Think McHenry County College Will Make Public about the Tainted Feasibility Study Results

Pretty clearly the folks doing the so-called “feasibility study” on the $42 million McHenry County College health club and classroom expansion project wanted to get a bigger piece of the action than $50,000 or so for determining that the idea … Continue reading