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Today's post is brought to you by the letter "I" -- Yes, "I" is the letter we use for the first-person singular.
You would not, boys and girls, find the letter I in the word "team" -- a word that gives the connotation of a group working together.
Well, boys and girls, do know where you find the letter I? On the Buffalo Grove Village Board. Even though it's suppose to be a team, some people think team is spell with an I and that the best team revolves around them -- and only them.
It seems, as Yogi Berra would say, to be deja vu all over again. Refried beans.
While area municipalities (Naperville and Schaumburg to name a few) are dealing with huge budget crunches, Buffalo Grove has approved a tight, but workable budget for the 2010 Fiscal Year.
The conversation among trustees was what you would thought it would be -- questions for staff regarding procedures and methodology behind why aspects of the budget were made.
It seems, however, that certain trustees continue to use village board meetings as a platform for their own issues or vindictive comments.
As I said, it's Deju Vu all over again.
Enter Ms. Quixote, a.k.a., Lisa Stone. I was mystified as to why she keeps voting no on the minutes and why at subsequent meetings does she want already approved minutes amended.
It doesn't take much to figure this out. Read the minutes. Miz Stone wants her name bantered around as much as possible.
This is the same Lisa Stone who during discussions about the Ethics Commission wants to know if it has impact on election campaigns. No doubt there was some bad campaigning, but Lisa -- get a life -- the elections are over. You won a spot on the board -- stop saying "I" was the target of nasty campaigning and that "I" want to get even with those who were nasty.
News flash -- campaigns are nasty and no doubt you are saying "I" ran a perfect campaign, there are those who would take exception with you -- welcome to campaigns and welcome to life in the public eye. I'm not saying tacky, nasty campaigning is acceptable, because it's not, but as the great philosopher, Mike Ditka, has said -- there are only two kinds of people who live in the past -- losers and cowards.
Miz Quixote continue to wave the "I" flag, however. Lately it has been another "I" crusade -- this one regarding an idea for a stop sign on Bernard at White Pine. Stoney has done her job in responding to a request from a homeowner. But when village staff -- not her colleagues on the Board -- said they did not think it was warranted, Liza said they were wrong and "I" am right.
So let's see, the village's Traffic Management Committee, engineers and police officials are all wrong and "I" am right. For the record, there has been such an outpouring of pleas for a stop sign that there has been, lemme count, one request since 1999.
Miz Stone, of course is concerned about the blind spot because of curves. Maybe she should check other streets in the village -- like, say Fremont Drive, which is a one-mile circle -- tons of blinds spots, but no stop signs. plenty of yield signs and caution signs -- just like the caution signs in place on Bernard -- but Lisa doesn't mention that because "I" didn't place them there.
It's nearly three years to the next election. Most campaigning begins within a reasonable time frame to the election dates. More than 36 months before is not reasonable. Neither is the personal flag waving and campaigning being done by Ms. Quixote.
There are, and will be, a lot of issues the Board -- as a whole -- will need to address.
This includes Ms. Stone who not only needs to take the welfare of the entire village to heart -- but who also needs to learn the other 25 letters of the alphabet.
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