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
Category Archives: Health Club
A comment from local bond analyst Steve Willson under this article about the decision-making process of the McHenry County College Board might be of interest: Health club dead. Check.Clinic dead. Check. Thank you Tom Wilbeck. Thank you Chris Jenner. Thank … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Tonight I answered a four-question survey about McHenry County College’s proposal to build a health club. It was from an organization I have never heard of and I doubt exists. I heard “McHenry County Better Government Organization.” Maybe I didn’t … Continue reading
McHenry County College has again refused to reveal what’s up with the $50,000 tainted so-called feasibility study by Power Wellness. Take a look at the most recent turn down letter to Jane Collins: … Continue reading
The following was sent by a McHenry County College student: To Whom It May Concern: Go to school they said. Get a degree they said. Like any productive member of society I strived to get ahead in life. I pushed … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
When I heard McHenry College Board member Ron Parrish cite a letter from a constituent that was critical of the College’s hiring of Power Wellness to conduct a feasibility study of whether building a new health club would be a … Continue reading
“Top Secret, Hush, Hush.” That’s the message from $50,000 health club consultant Power Wellness to a request from a citizen for details on the work that McHenry County Taxpayers are financing. It sounds oh so much like the deal with … Continue reading