McHenry County Blog

The Lake in the Hills village board put a question on the ballot asking whether the village clerk should be appointed in the future. Almost 60% of the people voted, “No.”

The vote was 1164 –1731.

What does that mean?

Village President Ed Plaza would have made the appointment after current clerk Denise Wasserman’s term ran out.

“She doesn’t keep regular office hours,” her deputy told me.

Village administrator Jerry Sagona told McHenry County Blog,

It’s purely an administrative position and doesn’t deal with policy-related matters.

There was a unanimous vote of the village board to put the question on the ballot.

Asked why it failed, he said,

I have no idea.

Maybe this was just an indication that citizens like to elect their officials, even if they don’t know them.

Or, maybe, it was for the same reason that the Home Rule referendums in Lakewood and Harvard failed--people don't trust their local officials as much as the local officials would want to beleive.