McHenry Township sues voter who moved to reinstate officials higher salaries at special meeting
Updated 4/14/2021 1:43 PM
In a move meant to prohibit incoming McHenry Township trustees elected last week from reversing pay cuts for public officials, the township s outgoing board members on Monday filed a lawsuit against a voter who tried to circumvent the salary decreases.
The litigation names Robert Beltran, the voter, as a defendant. It seeks to have a McHenry County judge declare the resolution Beltran wrote and received ample support for during a township special meeting last month as inapplicable and void.
The resolution, which was approved by 31 out of 36 township voters present at last month s special meeting, is aimed at overriding the significant slashes to compensation of the township s elected officials made last year by a majority of the current board of trustees, whose terms end next month.
The McHenry County clerk releases new, corrected election results McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio fills a secure blue bin with recounted paper ballots inside the voting tabulation room at the McHenry County Administrative Building on Thursday in Woodstock. Matthew Apgar/Shaw Media
Updated 4/9/2021 4:42 PM
The McHenry County clerk s office has released new, corrected results for Tuesday s local consolidated election.
After a technical error with the office s ballot tabulation devices led to a full recount of votes Thursday, the new results were posted to the county s election results webpage just before 12:50 p.m. Friday.
These results are still unofficial and will not be finalized and certified until two weeks after Tuesday s election, according to Illinois state statute. Late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots and provisionally cast ballots could still be counted.
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National Guard coming to McHenry County Wednesday to boost vaccination effort Two teams of Illinois National Guard members are being deployed to McHenry County to help with COVID-19 vaccinations. Matthew Apgar/Shaw Media
Updated 3/17/2021 11:13 AM
Two teams of Illinois National Guard members will be deployed to McHenry County a mobile unit arriving Wednesday will be used, in part, to vaccinate local manufacturing employees, and a stationary unit arriving at the end of the month will staff clinics supervised by the county health department.
In providing this support, the state requires the health department run vaccine clinics six days a week including weekends, meaning clinics will be offered Tuesday through Sunday for the duration of the National Guard s six-to-eight-week stay, Public Health Nursing Director Susan Karras said in an interview Tuesday.
District 47 board candidate disregarded contact tracing order, records show Crystal Lake Elementary District 47 school board candidate Cascia Talbert
Updated 3/16/2021 8:51 AM
A social media post by a Crystal Lake Elementary School District 47 board candidate last month suggesting she would ignore the district s request for her to quarantine her kids led to concerned parents and residents reaching out to the district, the McHenry County Department of Health and the Crystal Lake Police Department, records show.
Cascia Talbert, who currently is not a member of the school board but is running for a spot in the upcoming election, posted an email from a school nurse saying a person who rode on a district bus tested positive for COVID-19, according to screenshots of the Facebook post sent into the Northwest Herald. According to the email, Talbert should quarantine her children if they were on the bus that day.