County Board To Be Sworn In Monday

From McHenry County:

McHenry County Board to Be Sworn in Dec. 5

WOODSTOCK, Ill. – The newly elected McHenry County Board will be sworn in at a special meeting on Monday, Dec. 5.

Effective with the seating of the new County Board, its size will shrink from 24 members to 18, who will represent nine districts of two members each. This represents the most significant change to the County Board’s structure in half a century.

The new district map, which was approved last year following post-Census reapportionment, can be found by clicking here.

McHenry County Board district map for 2022-32.

After the swearing-in ceremony, the County Board will elect a vice chairperson, and will appoint one member from each district to serve on the temporary body that determines the makeup of the board’s seven standing committees after each election.

The meeting begins at 9 a.m. at the County Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock. Besides attending in person, the public can watch the meeting streamed live on the county’s Meeting Portal at www.mchenrycountyil.gov, or on McHenry County’s meeting page on YouTube, which you can find by clicking here.


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County Board To Be Sworn In Monday — 9 Comments

  1. “shrink from 24 to 18″….I’ve warned everyone here about America’s dangerously overstressed dildo supply chain infrastructure and how we needed to fund a dildo supply pipeline.

  2. Look for Board Members to increase their compensation because they now have “more work to do” with only two members per district instead of 4.

  3. Because Science, that can’t be done until early 2024 at the latest, and the supermajority Republicans won’t let that happen.

    Many of the Republican old bulls lost on Nov 8 (Thorsen, Doherty, Nowak, Wilbeck).

    Since McHenry County Board members do not double as forest preserve commissioners like their counterparts in Kane, Lake or Boone counties, the evidence isn’t there to justify a pay raise for McHenry County Board members who will be up for election in 2024.

  4. So if I understand, McHenry County Board members do not have jurisdiction over the forests etc, we get stuck with the MCCD and real estate company, buying property removing it from the tax role, slapping up “no Trespass Signs” Some how it doesn’t seems like a good deal.

  5. I agree John that there will be no additional work to do with two member districts vs 4 member districts.

    With four members, constituents had to call four different people when they had a problem.

    Now they have to call two.

    Why not further reduce the districts to single member so they only have to call one, and give them all two year terms?

  6. @Because so you want to eliminate competition!

    Lower and shrinking districts only eliminates competition!

    Single member districts will only help Democrats!

    Lake county a perfect example!

    You shrink the area from the pool of people that will run!

    That is why they should have kept 6 member districts instead of 9.

    It becomes harder to fill the positions when the term limit is up!

    Republicans shot themselves in the foot by shrinking the areas to pull candidates from!

  7. Disagree with your last line, BS.

    I like multi-member districts & wish we had it for the state legislature and congress too!

    IL used to have that until the early 80’s.

    But I agree with you that they don’t deserve more money.

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