With Mount Prospect Trustee Peggy Pissarreck stepping down from the village board next month, Mayor Paul Hoefert faces the task of making his second trustee appointment in just over 12 months on the job.
Mount Prospect officials are taking a closer look at who gets chosen to serve on the village s volunteer commissions and panels, and whether those boards need to be changed or expanded.
Mount Prospect s Community Engagement Committee, created in 2019 to help celebrate the community s diversity, is on a "permanent pause" while the village s newly hired diversity, equity and inclusion consultant conducts its work, Mayor Paul Hoefert said.
The Mount Prospect village board voted 3-1 at a special meeting Sunday to reserve the right to charge a penny-per-push tax on video gambling, leading Mayor Paul Hoefert to declare "So it passes." However, Hoefert and other village leaders soon found out that he had spoken too soon.
Mount Prospect leaders took time out at a recent village board meeting to honor a pair of longtime community volunteers - Thomas Pekras, who served 38 years on the finance commission, and Jill Friedrichs, a 28-year veteran of the special events commission.