ISLAND LAKE – About 40 residents crowded into the village hall meeting room Thursday night, the first meeting of trustees since a weekend petition drive calling for a referendum on building a new village hall.

The petition garnered 340 signatures, enough to put an advisory referendum on the November ballot. The petition cited a “multimillion-dollar obligation to construct a combined public safety facility.”

Discussions about a new village hall at Water Tower Park, on Route 176 near Newport Court, have been brewing discontent over the summer.