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Morton board holds appeal hearing after sanitary district revokes sewer contractor license
Summary
At a public hearing, attorney Jim Ratchford asked the Village of Morton to overturn a denial of a sewer contractor license tied to a Greater Peoria Sanitary District revocation; board members signaled a preference to deny but no final vote is recorded in the transcript.
MORTON — The Village of Morton held a public hearing on an appeal of a denied sewer contractor license after the Greater Peoria Sanitary District revoked a contractor's license, attorney Jim Ratchford told trustees.
Ratchford, representing the contractor and identified in the application materials as Walters Water Works LLC and Joe Walters, asked the village to delay or overturn the denial while a pending lawsuit against the sanitary district proceeds. “There has been no ruling by any court at all on this,” Ratchford said, describing the legal challenge to the sanitary district’s decision as “arbitrary and capricious.”
The appeal concerns a denial made under section 8-34.1(c)(6) of the Morton village code, which allows the director of public works to deny a sewer contractor's license if the applicant has had a license suspended, revoked or denied by another municipality in Illinois. Village counsel told the trustees the board’s…
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