McHenry
County Board’s Temporary Rules Committee, organized by the Board’s first
popularly elected Chairman, Jack Franks, has voted to recommend reducing the
number of Board committees from 11 to 7, and to cut the meeting schedule from
two voting meetings per month to one. In ongoing efforts to improve Board
efficiency, the TRC also recommends permitting substitution of board members
for absent committee members, making it easier to assure attendance of a quorum
at committee meetings. Lack of quorum has created delays in Board action on
agenda items on multiple occasions in the recent past.
