BOONE COUNTY – The Boone County Health Department is offering free water testing to residents whose wells may have been affected by flood waters. Residents may pick up sterile bottles to be filled and returned for analysis, and obtain information about disinfecting wells at the Health Department, 1204 Logan Ave., Belvidere. The department is urging residents on private wells to have their water tested after the flood waters have receded.
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AND here was another concern Bill had.
Did the Chairman or other board members attempt to negotiate “fees” from Quality Aggregate behind closed doors?
The action taken April 17 by the Boone County Board, in an 11-0 vote with one abstention, included extended hours of operation within the A-1, agricultural preserving zoning district.
Part of Courier’s memo mentioned tipping fees, which usually are assessed garbage collection companies for the refuse they bring into a governmental landfill. That caused District 1 board member Bill Pysson to ask where the tipping fee matter came from, since it had never been discussed at any of the ZBA or PZB meetings.”
"Outside the process?
“I think someone is going outside the process,” he said, at least partially answering his own question. He said he attended all of the meetings and “didn’t hear any discussion about it.”
Terrinoni said he had no proposal to present concerning tipping fees.
“This happens all the time,” board Chairman Bob Walberg said.
But Pysson countered, “I don’t think it’s appropriate for county board members to bring up something that’s new.”
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Most recently resident Bill Wolf asked about the $1 million the township has in its new budget for the Town Hall Road bridge. He wondered why it continued to be in the budget year after year, with no construction occurring.
“I think you’re kidding yourselves,” he told the board at its April 9 meeting. “I think you should spend that money on something else.”
Township Supervisor Pat Murphy said that money only can be used for the Town Hall Road project. “The city (of Belvidere), Growth Dimensions and the
That prompted District 3 county board member Kenny Freeman. at the end of the county board’s April 17 meeting, to ask what happened to the matter.
That set off debate among the other county board members, with District 1 member Bill Pysson saying the process and agenda issue follows should be determined by the will of the board, not the will of the chairman.
He was referring to board Chairman Bob Walberg, who associate planner Gina DelRose said had told ZBA Chairman Norm Stimes to pull the item.
Walberg said the matter should not have been on the agenda because the ZBA tabled it at the Nov. 27, 2012 meeting. Tabling the matter made it “a dead issue,” he said.
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