Correction on City Council Vote

In last week's article "Grace Hall - TWI weighs in" (Friday, May 8), I erred in reporting the vote by the City Council on the Landmark recommendation item on the Agenda. In that article I wrote that the vote by the City Council to table the Landmark recommendation was 7-0.

It was not.

The correct vote was 5-2 to table it. City Council members Dick Ahrens and Maureen Larson voted against the Motion to table the issue.

Four City Council members voted with the Mayor to table it. They were Ralph Webster, RB Thompson, Julie Dillon and Mike Turner.

If you believe that the Landmark recommendation should not sit in a dusty drawer until "time indefinite" and that it should escape from that drawer and make its way back to the very next City Council meeting, then contact those City Council members. You'll find their email addresses on the City's website at www.woodstockil.gov Click on "City Council" on the left sidebar.

All it will take is four votes to designate Grace Hall as a Landmark. It meets 15 of 17 points on the list of criteria.

Clearly, the Mayor is opposed to the Landmark designation.

Wouldn't it be wonderful for six City Council members to vote for Landmark designation? If even four did, it will be great for Woodstock. Five is better; six is even better. And it would be even better if the Mayor would step up and vote for Landmark Designation! And then devote his efforts and influence to work on (errrr, "with") WCLS to find a solution in their interests which, to quote from Ordinance 08-O-62, "would preserve Grace Hall."