McHenry County Board To Cut Committees, Meeting Schedule

McHenry County Board’s Temporary Rules Committee, organized by the Board’s first popularly elected Chairman, Jack Franks, has voted to recommend reducing the number of Board committees from 11 to 7, and to cut the meeting schedule from two voting meetings per month to one. In ongoing efforts to improve Board efficiency, the TRC also recommends permitting substitution of board members for absent committee members, making it easier to assure attendance of a quorum at committee meetings. Lack of quorum has created delays in Board action on agenda items on multiple occasions in the recent past.