Five candidates are vying for four seats in McHenry County Board District 1, which represents the far southeastern tip of McHenry County.

Republican Yvonne Barnes is a board incumbent who previously served as trustee in the village of Cary. She owns her own technical consulting business. She does not support using a taxpayer-funded lobbyist against the interests of taxpayers, and does not support an increase in McHenry County’s tax levy.

Barnes, like many County Board candidates, said she does not support the current referendum to change the county’s government to an executive form. However, Barnes said she fully supports asking voters whether they’d prefer that the board chairman be popularly elected as opposed to chosen by fellow board members.