Thank You!
My sincere Thank You to the Village of Carpentersville for allowing me the honor to serve this community for the past four years.
It has been a wonderful opportunity for me to learn some important things about local government and to meet and work with some wonderful people.
This has been a time in my life that I will not soon forget. Being elected President of Carpentersville would have been one of the last things I would have expected would happen to me.
I lived the majority of my life in Elgin, having moved to Carpentersville just 9 years before being elected President. It was not something I would have predicted when making the move to this Village.
When I won in 2005, my plans were to only serve one term. Well that plan seems to have been a good one. I’m very comfortable with the results of the April 7th election. I do have some concerns for the future of Carpentersville. As I leave office I can say that I have made a difference in a positive way in this Village. I have given it my all and now it’s time to move on with my life and do something else that will be equally challenging and rewarding.
Carpentersville is not an easy place to govern. There are some strong willed individuals who have a difficult time with change. Some I would say are stuck in the 1950′s. They refuse to move into the new millennium. Some are short sighted and stubborn and will never accept the changes that have come to the Village over the past 30 years.
My real optimism for this Village comes from the youth. While I have been the Village President I have visited most of the schools. What I have seen is some real hope for the future in the faces of those young students. They are the future of this Village and in seeing them I am confident that the future will be bright for Carpentersville. Good things are on their way. A Village that is currently known for its backward thinking and prejudice will bloom into a Village of acceptance and understanding. Our youngsters hold the key to that transition to a better place.
So, with that I say best wishes to the new board and to the people of Carpentersville.
