Friends and fellow Lakewood residents: I waited until after January 1st to send you this latest village board meeting update. Due to the holidays there was only one meeting and it occurred on December 14th. Several key issues were on … Continue reading
When the Upper Illinois River Valley Development Authority was meeting somewhere near I-80 was meeting to approve the bonds for the McHenry County SportsPlex in Lakewood, it didn’t seem like it was worth the time to drive down to see … Continue reading
Yesterday, we saw the first part of Lakewood Village Trustee Ken Sankowski’s report on the November 9th village board meeting. He covered the tax levy and the dam in Turnberry. In today’s installment, he covers the SportsPlex and stimulus bonds. … Continue reading
Concerned Citizens Against Irresponsible Government Spending, the folks who are opposing the McHenry County SprotsPlex in Lakewood report that WGN-TV is going to run a story on it tonight at 9 PM. Lakewood Village President Erin Smith was interviewed for … Continue reading
Lakewood Village Trustee Ken Santowski writes up his thoughts on village board meetings and shares them with constituents who are interested. His thoughts on the last village board meeting follow: Board update from November 9th, 2010 The meeting this week … Continue reading
A second anti-SportsPlex post card arrived at my Lakewood mailbox today. It warns residents of higher taxes if the McHenry County SportsPlex is built. It mentions the village’s golf course, saying it cost residents $500 in property taxes. Make that … Continue reading
Imagine my surprise when I opened up Sunday’s Northwest Herald and found a political ad on page 3. It was from the folks opposing the construction of the McHenry County SportsPlex in their neighborhood west of the southern intersection of … Continue reading
In reply to the post card you see here, an article about which you can find here, Lakewood Village President Erin Smith wrote the following letter to her constituents: October 21, 2010 Dear Resident: Several days ago, many of you … Continue reading
Look at the post card I received from the rural opponents of the McHenry County SportsPlex a lot of whom tried to convince the McHenry County Board not to extend its Federal Stimulus Package bonding authority to the end of … Continue reading
The headline of this TribLocal article about Libertyville’s sportsplex caught my eye. Some might be interested in the story, including the relationship of its new $96,000 a year manager Connie Kowal to Village Clerk Sally Kowal. The article points out … Continue reading
Finance Committee Chairman Marc Munaretto began the debate over whether to provide the developers of the McHenry County SportsPlex three more months to round up people to loan them money. Mary McCann took up the cause of those living off … Continue reading
Led by Finance Committee Chairman Marc Munaretto, the deadline to have borrowed the money allocated by the McHenry County Board under the subsidized Federal Stimulus Program was extended until the end of December for three projects previously approved: $15 million … Continue reading
Below is the emailed letter that Lakewood Village Trustee Ken Santowski sent concerning Tuesday’s meeting which resulted in the approval of annexation of additional property to the village, plus economic incentives to the McHenry County SportsPlex. The SportsPlex is probably … Continue reading
The Lakewood village board unanimously approved economic incentive and annexation ordinances that allow the $40 million, 165 acre McHenry County SportsPlex to proceed. The result is three happy guys, Lou Tenor, EnRico Heirman and Jack Porter, plus a plethora of … Continue reading
The unveiling of the the McHenry County SportsPlex details will start at Lakewood’s Red Tail Golf Course Club House at six Tuesday night. Before the night is over, I’d give odds the deal, complete with so far unrevealed “development incentives,” … Continue reading
In case you haven’t noticed the forces grouped behind McHenry County Sheriff are at war with the forces behind McHenry County State’s Attorney. I have no clue when the war started, but it was manifested in Sheriff Keith Nygren‘s not … Continue reading
Pete Gonigam’s First Electric Newspaper reported it first, but he didn’t have the map you see below. What you see in orange is the new area within McHenry County designated by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Development as … Continue reading
Read this article on The First Electric Newspaper about the unsavory background of one of the McHenry County SportsPlex’ consultants. The publication reports SportsPlex supporters introduced “Terry Gaouette, Vice President of Administration and Business Consulting Services for H&K Sports Fields, … Continue reading
I was reading the blog of Merle Widmer, the Vice Chairman of the Peoria County Board. In writing about how local unions want construction started on a museum for which money is not in the bank, retired businessman Widmer writes, … Continue reading
Yesterday, McHenry County Blog showed you the letter from the Chicagoland Foreign Investment Group saying that it would raise $27 million “for construction and operation of the (McHenry County SportsPlex” sports facility complex to be constructed in McHenry County.” That … Continue reading
