Kane board must do better with ethics ordinance
June 26, 2012 10:20PM
Updated: July 28, 2012 6:16AM
Kane board must do better with ethics ordinance
Last December and again this June, I sat through over an hour’s deliberation by the Kane County Board on its ethics ordinance.
This deliberation by the county board began about two years ago when the state’s attorney for the county advised that the ethics ordinance was “un-enforceable.” In December 2011, they came to a tie vote on the new ethics ordinance and the county chair sent it back to committee.
At the June 2012 meeting of the board, the chair advised that the ethics ordinance had proceeded through committee, executive committee and the committee of the whole with three proposed amendments for consideration. After passing two amendments with the third failing, the ethics ordinance came to a vote. It was defeated.
After discussion on the vote and the possible alternatives, the board agreed to let the current ethics ordinance stand. In talking to the current state’s attorney, I was advised there are some portions of the document that might not be enforceable and other portions that may be enforceable.
We have got to do better than that!
Bob Getz
Kane County Board candidate District 22
Elgin
Corvette parade was way too fast through village
It’s a shame that a beautiful drive in the country, and a chance for a parade, turned into another day of distress and insult on Saturday afternoon.
To the Bloomington Gold Corvette Drivers who came through Kaneville again this year: Thank you to those drivers who respected our small-town way of life by driving within the 30 mph speed limit. As with most years, the first 20 minutes of the “parade” featured drivers of cars with mufflers and who were driving the speed limit. Thank you to those considerate guests in my town. They would be welcome here again. But after the first half-hour, it deteriorated into a road race of roaring automobiles doing 60-70 miles per hour within our 30 mph town borders. Every year, there are a couple hundred drivers (out of the 700 projected participants) who spoil the magic for everyone. To these very rude drivers going twice the speed limit past my home inside the village, I say “Good riddance.”
To the organizers of this event — who have ignored my written protestations and phone calls for the past four years — let me explain. I welcomed them the first time they came to town, until the high-speed inconsiderate drivers treated my calls to “slow down” with utter disrespect. You would be welcome in my quiet little town if you were courteous. After getting the one-fingered salute from several speeding drivers roaring past my front yard, please listen to me when I say that guests like these are not welcome.
On the Bloomingtongold.com website, the acknowledged organizers of the event include the Kane County sheriff, the St. Charles Police Department and the St. Charles CVB. So, Kane County sheriff, what am I to think when I watch you next week stopping speeders going 45-50 in Kaneville, while this past weekend you allowed these scofflaws with their expensive toys to invade my Saturday afternoon at 70 mph with tires squealing and mufflers roaring? As sponsors of the event, I expect that passing riders should have understood that “30 mph means 30 mph.”
I hear that this event will move to Champaign next year. I hope they treat their downstate hosts with more courtesy.
Joann Murdock
Kaneville
