FOX LAKE – A four-year dispute between the village of Fox Lake and one of its condominium associations has ended with an agreement that the association will pay $180,000 – nearly two years’ worth of trash collection provided by the village.

“Let’s just say we got the best deal we could,” Village President Ed Bender said. “This has been going on for several years. If we kept going, we would just be spending more in attorney fees, chasing good money after bad money.”

The Vacation Village Condominium Association stopped paying the village for trash collection after the village board voted to raise its rates, according to the civil complaint filed by the village in March 2011.