The most recent village board meeting I attended on Monday night was what I would call your typical meeting - approval for St. Catherine's Irish Fest, approval of previous meeting minutes, approval of the daily liquor permit request for Heritage Fest, approvals of new zoning ordinances and discussions about traffic signal upgrades.
One item of interest happened during the "miscellaneous" discussion at the end of the meeting. Trustee Gillam brought up a concern about the meeting minutes not being informative enough; only showing what decisions had been made and not including anything related to the discussions about that topic. She asked whether the minutes could be more informative. The general consensus from what I could ascertain was that the minutes only needed to include the final decision and that if people wanted more information they should attend board meetings. Trustee Voss even mentioned that one of her neighbors was asking her similar questions about how a certain decision had been made. Trustee Voss then told her neighbor that she should come to a meeting to stay informed.
Well Julie, how many meetings did you attend before you decided to run for the position you currently hold? While we're at it, didn't you say while you were running that you wanted to "be a voice for the people"? Well here's your chance to step up and become that voice. We have busy lives and the residents of this village expect the board to keep us informed and not just through your completely uninformative meeting minutes or by having the entire town show up at a board meeting. Get out there and talk to us. Continue to improve the utilization of the village wide e-mail alert system. Have those neighborhood meetings at resident’s houses (you know the only campaign promise you didn't steal from other candidates). Be a voice for your people Julie.
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