Words Of Wisdom

"A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts."
--James Madison

Government At Work

TUESDAY JANUARY 28—

7:30 a.m. – Crystal Lake Economic Development Committee—

Meeting in the City Council Chamber Conference Room, City Hall, 100 West Woodstock Street, Crystal Lake.

8:30 a.m. – McHenry County Board Finance and Audit Committee—

Meeting in the County Board Conference Room, County Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock.

Seven resolutions are to be considered by the Committee including:

Approval of an engineering services agreement and appropriating funds for the Randall Road project

Authorization for acceptance of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Grant

Authorization of a five-year postage Meter and Equipment Lease with Pitney Bowes with a line item transfer in the 2014 budget for the lease

Budget Line Item transfer in FY 2014 Budget between General Fund Department and Non-Departmental and Purchasing.

Authorizing a two-year preventative maintenance agreement with Alpha Controls

Accepting a $5,000 Children’s Early Intervention Oral Health Education Grant from Delta Dental and emergency appropriation to the Dental Care Clinic’s FY2014 Budget

Approving entering into a joint funding agreement with the United States Geologic Survey for the Purpose of Continuing the Continuous Monitoring of 41 Groundwater wells and two Streamflow Gages.

Authorization of an emergency appropriation to the Non-Departmental FY 2014 Budget and Budget Line Item Transfer between General Fund Departments – Information Technology and Non Departmental to Account for the Multi-function peripheral Lease with Stan’s Office Technologies as a capital leas

Other matters for consideration include a discussion regarding IMRF and the 2014 Goals of Finance and Audit Committee.

9:30 a,m.—McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals—

Conducting a zoning hearing in the County Board Conference Room, County Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock.

A hearing is slated regarding Powell Gravel & Excavating, Inc. Chemung Township, regarding an amended petition for a conditional use permit to allow a surface mining operation, including, but not limited to the extraction, processing, crushing, storing, washing, screening and trucking of sand, gravel, aggregate and other earth materials and storage of materials mined offsite.

6:00 p.m. – McHenry County Mental Health Board –

The regular meeting of the Board is being held in the Main Conference Room of the Mental Health Board facility, 620 Dakota Street, Crystal Lake.

A wide variety of matters related to the operation of the facility are being presented for the board consideration.

Words Of Wisdom

"It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn."

 --George Washington, letter to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, 1789