Cathy Ward
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BOONE COUNTY BOARD NEWS - By a 7-4 vote tonight, the county board approved the recommendations of Chair Karl Johnson to appoint former board chair Bob Walberg and former board member Brad Fidder to the Boone County Zoning Board of Appeals. Board members Denny Ellingson, Sherry Giesecke, Marshall Newhouse, Jeff Carlisle, Bernard O'Malley, Carl Larson and Karl voted to approve the appointments. Those opposed were Jessica Muellner, Sherry Branson, Brad Stark and me. Jessica noted it would have been a good time to bring new people to these positions and I noted that of the 5 members of the ZBA, four reside in District 1, (the northeast part of the county) and there is no representation on this board in District 3. Also, although well more than half of the people who live in the county live in and around Belvidere, we have only one person to represent us. Walberg and Fidder replace Brian Van Lar and Mark Rhode who resigned recently. County Board members did not get the names of the proposed appointees until late Wednesday afternoon or evening to suggest any concerns. Your thoughts?
Cathy Ward In my opinion, not only board members, but those we represent should also be informed of who the chair is recommending in time for them to react. Getting names just minutes before the vote is not time enough to react for anyone, citizens or board members. ZBA is an extremely important board. Wind farms, solar farms, progress or change of many kinds are reviewed here.
Jay Fundy When chairman, Bob Walberg invited the dirty train to come through our county which would have destroyed some 6,700 acres of farm land! Today, any solar farm applications has a hard time getting an approval! Seems like clean industry isn't wanted here. What is the future of any growth?
Jay Fundy Would Boone County ever see a company like Ingersoll Machine Tool make application to build here? Probably not. Word is out, the county is anti-growth. So why apply? There is no employment here that's why our young people leave.
For these two appointments there may have been no need to make an application as required by the legal notice of the opening.
Mr. Fidder made no application
Here is Mr. Walberg, note the date of the email/application.
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