ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    August 13,
    1992
    CLYDE R. DACE,
    Complainant,
    V
    D. KOHLHASE and FOX
    RIVER GROVE FIRE
    PROTECTION DISTRICT,
    Respondents.
    )
    PCB 91—153
    (Enforcement)
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    CONCURRING OPINION (by J. Theodore Meyer):
    I concur with the majority’s action in this matter.
    I
    support the majority’s reasoning and conclusions, but concur to
    make an additional point.
    Government acts for the common good of the people, and
    cannot endanger the good of the majority in order to placate a
    minority.
    The siren at issue here serves a number of functions
    which protect the common good——tornado warning, calling
    volunteers to fires and medical emergencies, warning traffic that’
    ‘emergency vehicles will soon be entering the road.
    I cannot see
    how the inconvenience and discomfort apparentl~:suffered by a
    minority of residents, three times a week during daytime hours,
    could ever outweigh the purposes served by the siren.
    We do not
    live in a “zero risk” society.
    Accommodations must sometimes be
    made by a minority to advance the safety and welfare of others.
    Therefore,
    I concur in the majority’s opinion
    J
    Boa d Member
    I,
    Dorothy N.
    Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify t,~t the above concurring opinion was filed
    on the ~V”-day
    of
    _______________,
    1992.
    Illino
    Control Board
    0135-0287

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