Bianchi, Shepley React to 155’s Bleacher Appeal

One of the owners of a home backing up the Crystal Lake South High School bleachers, Lou Bianchi, and Crystal Lake Mayor Aaron Shepley commented upon District 155’s appeal of the Appellate Court’s decision that city government had the ability to exercise its zoning and storm water ordinances.

Lou Bianchi

Lou Bianchi

Bianchi first:

This was not surprising, but still a very disappointing decision.

Both the district and appellate courts definitely ruled that the school district must go through the zoning process.

Both the city and the neighbors have tried to work with the district, but without any comparable good will from the school district.

No one, individual, corporation, unit of government, or school district is above the law.

Aaron Shepley

Aaron Shepley

Here’s Shepley’s reaction:

In my opinion, the members of the District 155 school board are in denial.

I consider their decision to seek leave to appeal to be a disgusting waste of the taxpayer’s precious resources and I consider the communication sent to parents of children in the district to be misleading when taken in its best light and at worst an outright misrepresentation.

No matter how one chooses to characterize that communication, however, their conduct in this matter is plainly wrong.

They have deprived the neighbors and arguably others of their constitutional rights and that should be tolerated by no one in a free society such as ours.


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Bianchi, Shepley React to 155’s Bleacher Appeal — 8 Comments

  1. More taxpayer dollars for attorneys!!

    This is another reason why we need Prim and not the other guy.

    Attorneys are really good at ‘milking’ the taxpayer trough!!

  2. 155 does not know how to be a good neighbor.

    What are they teaching our young people with this behavior?

    Disgraceful!

  3. WOW! And, we put our kids in their care…

    This is so shameful, and so disrespectful of the residents and the community that have to tolerate this nonsense.

    Thank you Lou Bianchi and Aaron Shepley for standing by the people on this one.

    Your’e the kind of people we want in office.

  4. Why is the City trying to change the way all schools in Illinois went about building permits.

    If as District 155 stated this would make all existing schools need new inspections to see if they were up to code this means taxpayers will be stuck renovating or building new schools.

    McHenry County already has high property taxes which mostly go to schools.

    These two entities need to respect each other, but citizens who buy homes next to schools or vacant farmlands or empty land cannot expect things will always remain the same.

    When these people built homes they already changed the landscape.

  5. “karma” You have some really ridiculous ideas.

    People who buy homes next to schools should expect that things will always remain the same.

  6. Jeff and I thought we would throw our two cents in here:

    We are extremely disappointed with D155’s decision to appeal and to not follow the law and Judge Chmiel’s and the Appellate court rulings. They have been breaking the law for well over a year now. We are saddened by the fact that these elected board members are in charge of our children’s education. They are teaching them that it’s okay to ignore the law and teaching them how to be the biggest bully in the playground. We thought this was finally coming to an end and had hopes that everything could be settled and worked out. D155 board members and their lawyers are doing their best to make sure our homes are worth absolutely nothing along with every home located next to a school in our county and state. Board president Ted Wagner wanted to build a monument and the other elected board members Oberg, Nelson, Secrest, Slusin, Somers and Whitman followed along like little sheep. Why can’t they be independent thinkers and stand up to protect the community? Please do not vote for them in the upcoming 2015 election. Wagner pushed this monstrosity through without zoning or storm water approval or permits from the city of Crystal Lake hoping that there wouldn’t be a big stink over it. Let’s be honest here, it’s a place to sit on, it is not a vital part of our children’s education. Now they are trying to mislead the taxpayers and parents of the district and Crystal Lake with this email that was sent out.
    It’s a disgrace and a misuse of power.
    Shame on you D155 board members.

  7. Kim and I thought we would throw our 2 cents in here as well:

    Jeff and I thought we would throw our two cents in here:

    We are extremely disappointed with D155’s decision to appeal and to not follow the law and Judge Chmiel’s and the Appellate court rulings.

    They have been breaking the law for well over a year now.

    We are saddened by the fact that these elected board members are in charge of our children’s education.

    They are teaching them that it’s okay to ignore the law and teaching them how to be the biggest bully in the playground.

    We thought this was finally coming to an end and had hopes that everything could be settled and worked out.

    D155 board members and their lawyers are doing their best to make sure our homes are worth absolutely nothing along with every home located next to a school in our county and state.

    Board president Ted Wagner wanted to build a monument and the other elected board members Oberg, Nelson, Secrest, Slusin, Somers and Whitman followed along like little sheep.

    Why can’t they be independent thinkers and stand up to protect the community?

    Please do not vote for them in the upcoming 2015 election.

    Wagner pushed this monstrosity through without zoning or storm water approval or permits from the city of Crystal Lake hoping that there wouldn’t be a big stink over it.

    Let’s be honest here, it’s a place to sit on, it is not a vital part of our children’s education.

    Now they are trying to mislead the taxpayers and parents of the district and Crystal Lake with this email that was sent out.

    It’s a disgrace and a misuse of power.

    Shame on you D155 board members.

  8. karma, they operated in the shadows.

    That’s the main concern of people.

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