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McHenry County Board to consider pay increase for themselves

By Ben Szalinski
Aug 23, 2021 8:44 AM - As McHenry County administrators begin work on the fiscal 2021-22 budget, county board members have been asked to evaluate how much the county spends on their salaries and benefits, including a possible salary increase. The county board is asked consider how much they are paid every 10 years to go with the redrawing of county board districts after the census. This year's budget for board member salaries and benefits comes with an extra twist, however. Beginning with the November 2022 election, the board will be reduced from 24 members to 18, which the board approved in September 2018.
Time for a raise? McHenry County Board considering pay hike for members

By Ben Szalinski
Aug 22, 2021 9:47 PM - With the size of panel shrinking, McHenry County Board members are weighing whether to give themselves their first pay raise in a decade.
McHenry County Board rejects flag policy, adds truancy officer

By Ben Szalinski
Aug 19, 2021 9:41 AM - The McHenry County Board voted Tuesday evening to postpone consideration of a flag policy that many board members and residents saw as an attempt to stop the county from flying the gay pride flag.
McHenry County considers adding truancy investigator

By Ben Szalinski
Aug 10, 2021 10:31 AM - After last school year saw a dramatic increase in truancy cases among McHenry County students, the McHenry County Board is considering adding a truancy investigator to the regional office of education. Currently, just one person handles all the truancy cases throughout McHenry County, which includes about 47,000 students. A new hire would take some of the work away from McHenry County Regional Office of Education truancy officer Tim Dempsey.
McHenry County considers adding memory care unit at Valley Hi Nursing Home

By Ben Szalinski
Aug 6, 2021 7:38 PM - Future additions, including new memory and dementia care units, could be coming to Valley Hi Nursing Home, the Woodstock-based, county-run nursing home.
McHenry County Board chairman postpones vote on new maps

By Emily K. Coleman
Jun 3, 2021 3:49 PM - The McHenry County Board will not vote as planned later this month on new maps divvying up the board's membership, McHenry County Board Chairman Mike Buehler announced Thursday. The move follows votes by the General Assembly Monday to push back the July 1 deadline for counties to submit the new maps, required in the wake of the 2020 Census and meant to ensure county residents are fairly represented on their local county boards.
McHenry County Board to move ahead with public hearing on redistricting proposal

By Megann Horstead
May 24, 2021 12:05 PM - The McHenry County Board last week decided it will move ahead with gathering public input on the redrawing of the county board's map.
McHenry County Board at odds over whether to keep jail contract with ICE

By Megann Horstead
May 14, 2021 8:27 AM - A contract between the McHenry County sheriff's office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house immigration detainees at the McHenry County Jail prompted more than a dozen people to speak at a Thursday meeting in support of canceling the deal.
LITH Sanitary District board vacancy

Daily Herald report
May 12, 2021 2:59 PM - The McHenry County Board is seeking applicants to fill a vacancy on the Lake in the Hills Sanitary District Board of Trustees. The district, governed by the three-member board, provides wastewater treatment for the village of Lake in the Hills, and portions of Crystal Lake and Huntley.
New resolution to cancel McHenry County Jail's contract with ICE voted down in committee

By Kelli Duncan
Apr 28, 2021 2:35 PM - A new resolution to eliminate the McHenry County Jail's agreement to house U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees was voted down by a McHenry County Board committee Tuesday morning in the latest development of a yearlong debate that considered the revenue generated by the contract alongside the moral issue some see with maintaining it.

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