After 203 Days, Burr Ridge Official Returns

BURR RIDGE, IL – On Monday, Burr Ridge Trustee Joe Snyder showed up in person at a Village Board meeting for the first time in nearly seven months – 203 days to be exact.

His last in-person meeting was Oct. 23.

At various times, Mayor Gary Grasso said Snyder was missing because he was away on business. No one indicated that Snyder was gone for health or family reasons.

Snyder had connected remotely for a few meetings during his time away.

Over the last year, Snyder has missed 40 percent of meetings and has connected remotely another 27 percent of the time.

His absence rate is higher than that of former Trustee Zach Mottl, whom Snyder criticized for missing 26 percent of meetings. He called that a "failing grade."

In 2021, Snyder submitted a piece to Patch focused on Mottl's attendance. It appeared shortly before the village election, which Mottl lost to allies of Grasso and Snyder.

Other trustees also criticized Mottl's attendance.

Snyder is more popular than Mottl with the other trustees, who have been uniformly silent about Snyder's absences.

Snyder owns a home in a gated subdivision south of Fort Myers, Florida. He was in the Sunshine State some of the time over the last seven months.