Kane County Board member Mark Davoust will seek a second term

Kane County Board member Mark Davoust will seek a second term, the St. Charles Township Republican announced Wednesday.

Seeing through to completion the Randall Road/Route 64 intersection reconstruction and the county jail relocation are among the 48-year-old businessman's goals for his next 4-year term. Both projects are located in the 14th District.

"I like the direction the county has taken in the last four years," Davoust said. "We've done a lot of good things."

Vice president of Batavia-based Brasel Products Inc., a manufacturing company, Davoust was elected to represent the 14th District in 2004 after Karen McConnaughay vacated the seat to run for county board chairman. The district includes parts of St. Charles and Geneva townships.

He is vice chairman of the board's judicial/public safety committee and also sits on the transportation committee, liquor control commission, and the forest preserve commission's enterprise and utilization committees.

A married father of one and grandfather of three, Davoust lived in Batavia for about 18 years and ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Batavia city council in the mid-1980s.

He is the third county board member to announce re-election plans, following McConnaughay and Elburn Republican Jan Carlson of the 26th District.

Other county board accomplishments Davoust cited Wednesday include the creation of the county's first long-term strategic plan and the first phase of construction of a Fox River bridge at Stearns Road. The bridge is scheduled to open to traffic in October 2010.

A campaign kickoff fund-raiser is scheduled at 2 p.m. Sunday at Salerno's On the Fox, 320 N. Second St., St. Charles. Tickets are $20 each and include pizza and beverages. Children younger than 10 are free. Jimmy Buffet tribute band Margarita Island is scheduled to perform.