Wonder Lake on county agenda today

As it is officially unnecessary to notify the residents of the unincorporated area and village of Wonder Lake of the impending special service area for the dredging of the lake, resulting in a tax increase on your real estate tax bill, I feel compelled to write this letter so that residents are aware of the situation.

The resolution for a special service area has been passed by the county board planning and development committee and will be on the agenda of the 7 p.m. McHenry County Board meeting for immediate and final action today. The meeting is on the second floor in the county board meeting room at the Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock (east of Seminary on the north side of the road).

If you sign up, you will be given time to speak, but it is not the practice of the county board to answer questions, only to accept testimony. As it only takes one person to request an SSA, there will be no individual notification.

That will come later in the process, when 51 percent of the owners and 51 percent of the registered voters can object to the process through a petition.

I feel the process is unfair.

Whether you are for or against the project, there should be a more extended hearing time before you are saddled with an additional tax. The special service area resolution will be posted at www.hammerand.com

John D. Hammerand McHenry County Board

District 4