The meeting of the Lakewood Village Board started at 5;30 Friday evening at RedTail Golf Club.
I wrote about it here:
Four minutes after 5:30 the Board meeting was adjourned.
Some of that time taken up by my warning that once the population exceeded 5,000 (now at 4,700), the village would be forced by state law to create a local Police Pension Fund.
Now Lakewood Police are in the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund.
I suggested a local Police Pension Fund could be avoided by having the Sheriff’s Department assume law enforcement duties. (I didn’t mention it, but current officers could be sworn in as Sheriff Deputies and continue to be under IMRF.)
None of the owners of the properties being forcibly annexed attended the meeting, the legal notice of which was published on Labor Day.
