Trustees should accept low bids

I’m not sure what the four village trustees were thinking Tuesday night when they voted against a low bid for the police maintenance contract.

As a Round Lake resident, I am angry to see a low bid contract not accepted. Especially when that contract is worth tens of thousands of dollars worth of savings to the village.

Is this day and age, we all are looking for the best savings we can find and the village should be operating on the same basic principle. Why even bother with the farce of using a bidding process?

This is not the first time A-Tire County Service has had a questionable relationship with the village and I’m sure it won’t be the last.

Trustee Greg Clements’ comments about not straying from a business that sits across the street from the village hall is a joke. If he wants to give a local company business with his own money, he is free to do that.

The four trustees that voted against the low bid contract, Donald Newby, Susan Triphahn, Dawn Simoncelli and Greg Clements are using my money, and everyone else’s who lives in Round Lake, on this bid. The bid process was in place for a reason.

They are counting on voters to be too stupid or forgetful to catch them on stunts like this. My thanks to Trustees Sonia Sandoval and Vickie Wicinski for showing fiscal responsibility in their vote against this nonsense.

Debbie Jones

Round Lake