Better priorities needed in Mundelein

Just a note to our Mundelein village trustees: Quit wasting our tax money.

We, the taxpaying residents of Mundelein, are tired of you spending our money on things that the village doesn’t really need. We don’t need some outside firm telling us what we need, because from what I read in Wednesday’s Herald, Farr & Associates don’t have a clue.

Here’s what the village really needs. Street repair needs to continue. If you don’t know where to start, try driving on McKinley from Rouse to Brice, then when that’s done, drive down Shaddle from McKinley to Orchard. You might want to make sure that the shocks on your vehicles are looked at first though, because it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

Then drive Hawley eastbound from Midlothian to Rt. 176. That street doesn’t need flower pots. It does need the potholes filled. It does need the sidewalks and curbs fixed. Also Hawley needs signs and lane markers that will show the drivers that Hawley, east and west bound, is a one-lane street.

I don’t want to hear your argument that Hawley is a county road, just fix it. When every street in Mundelein is fixed, then worry about flower pots.

Here is something else for our trustees to think about, bringing businesses into Mundelein. How many decades is the old Walgreens, in the strip mall at Hawley & Rt. 45 on the northwest corner, going to remain empty? So far that building has been empty for about 12 years.

If our village trustees think more of themselves than they do about the taxpaying, property-owning legitimate residents, quit and let someone who really cares do the job correctly, because Mundelein really does matter.

Gregory S. Jacobs

Mundelein