Trustee Mary Holzkopf has resigned from the village board after McHenry County officials said she didn’t turn in a mandatory form outlining her economic interests. In statements at a village board meeting and on Facebook, Holzkopf said her departure was “not by choice” but was “forced by the State’s Attorney’s office due to an accidental and unintentional issue with the submittal of my statement of economic interest form.” “While I have done absolutely everything in my power to rectify the situation and resubmit the form, I have been told that the only option I have is to resign,” she said.
Officials in the state’s attorney and county clerk’s office said Holzkopf missed the May deadline for submitting the economic interest form, which virtually all governmental elected officials in Illinois are required to fill out as part of the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. The document has about a half-dozen questions about an office holder’s financial assets. Holzkopf announced at the end of Thursday’s Village Board meeting that she was resigning effective 12:01 a.
m. Friday. Holzkopf said she didn’t want to allow “a false narrative to be formed about my resignation.
” Holzkopf told the Northwest Herald Monday that she thought she had properly submitted this year’s form but that officials came back and said she had not. State’s Attorney and the head of his office’s civil division, Norman Vinton, said Holzkopf was notified 11 times that the document�.
