Former longtime Huntley Trustee Harry Leopold due to be reappointed to fill vacancy

Harry Leopold might be returning to the Huntley Village Board.

Trustees are set to vote Thursday on whether to appoint Leopold to replace Mary Holzkopf on the board.

Leopold served on the board for 20 years, from 2003 until 2023, when he decided not to seek reelection.

In his first stint on the board, Leopold was part of many projects, including a new village hall, the widening of Route 47 and Algonquin Road, and a new hospital, he told the Northwest Herald in 2022.

Leopold would serve through the spring of 2025, when the seat is up for election. Leopold said he does not plan to run to retain the seat but agreed to complete the current term after Village President Tim Hoeft reached out about the seat. Leopold said running in 2025 wasn’t a stipulation for the appointment.

Hoeft couldn’t immediately be reached for comment on Tuesday.

Leopold is also a Sun City resident, according to Village documents. If Leopold is appointed, three of the six village trustees would be Sun City residents. Trustees Vito Benigno and Ronda Goldman also live in the Sun City development.

Holzkopf was forced to resign at the end of June because she did not fill out her statement of economic interest form. The form is required for elected officeholders as well as certain government employees.