Letter: Chris Stevens is my candidate for County Board

To the Editor:Chris Stevens is our candidate for McHenry County Board District 8.She is uniquely qualified to be our advocate.Chris spent her career as an e-business consultant working with “top 500” companies, implementing cost effective solutions that minimized risk and maximized revenues.She has experience in retail and commercial banking, manufacturing, real estate, and has built custom homes in McHenry County. Additionally she’s started two not-for-profits, one benefiting at-risk kids and the other managing a lake ecosystem.This experience has taught her that listening to stakeholders is always the best path to innovative strategies, and solutions that help guarantee success.Chris’s focus is on sustainable economic development, affordable housing for working families, commonsense land management and lowering of real estate taxes through diversification.Chris will bring transparency back to county government as she works to: • control property taxes• improve our water quality • pre