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player ready...Two steno pads filled with notes taken by a recording secretary as well as a packet of information are missing from a Plan Commission meeting on the proposed shopping mall development Main Place, said Chairwoman Shirley Fazio.
Fazio made the statement at Tuesday’s Plan Commission meeting in explaining why the minutes from the May 9 meeting, when approximately 75 residents came to voice their objections to the development, have not been approved.
“Two steno books and a packet were picked up and not returned. That is why our comments are not in the packet of minutes,” Fazio said.
She said she did not know who might have taken the materials.
“I don’t know who took it. This belongs to the village of Orland Park and the person should return it. … The trustees don’t have all our closing comments on the development,” Fazio said.
Fazio said that most of the minutes are complete, but comments made by some of the commissioners and especially her closing comments were omitted.
Although each meeting is recorded on tape, the machine was not working that night, said Teri Dougherty, Plan Commission recording secretary.
“I got up for one of the two recesses. In one of the bathrooms a faucet handle was screwed off and turned on and water was overflowing, so I fixed that. When I came back, I started a new book. It wasn’t until I came home that night that I found I was missing two steno pads and a packet of information,” Dougherty said.
Tom Mulvey, co-chair of the Concerned Citizens for Orland Park, a group formed in opposition to the new mall, said he did not know the notes were missing until reporters informed him Tuesday. He would also like to see them returned.
“There is no reason for me to see those things disappear. I want that public record. I do find it interesting because that was proof that we were denied our due process,” Mulvey said.
He said his group was not allowed to speak on certain issues and was given a set amount of time to speak while the developer’s representatives were able to speak on all the issues and given as much time as they wanted.
“I want that to be in the record and to remain there,” Mulvey said.