MCC Board Stepping Out of Comfort Zone Again

Here is what McHenry County’s junior College says it will be doing Wednesday night:

February 20, 2008
Special Board Meeting
7:30 p.m.

Crystal Lake City Hall
One Municipal Complex
Crystal Lake, IL 60014


AGENDA

  1. CALL TO ORDER

  2. ROLL CALL

  3. HEARING ON THE COLLEGE’S PETITION BEFORE THE CRYSTAL LAKE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION

  4. ALL MATTERS RELATED TO THE HEARING, THE PETITION, AND PURCHASE OR LEASE OF REAL ESTATE IN CRYSTAL LAKE, AND DECISIONS ON SAME

  5. CLOSED SESSION CONCERNING THE PURCHASE OR LEASE OF REAL PROPERTY

  6. ADJOURNMENT

George Lowe
Chair

Maybe you will go and watch as MCC tries to get the Crystal Lake Planning and Zoning Commission to allow it to build on 50% of the property it owns, plus the 57 acres it wants to buy.

Maybe we shall be treated to another flight into fantasy from Lowe about how he and his board majority can find a more suitable location to expand somewhere else in McHenry County.

You know, the

“I’ll take my ball and go home,
if you don’t play by my rules”

pitch.

I’ve given some thought to Lowe’s continuing threat to relocate the junior college and I cannot think of another site within walking distance of a current or potential train station on the main Metra line that is even vacant besides the one between the college campus and Ridgefield Road.

Of course, if he thinks college students have lots of money and will always find it cheapest and most convenient to drive to class, maybe my reasoning is irrelevant.


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