WOODSTOCK – The president of the McHenry County Mental Health Board was not nominated for reappointment by the McHenry County Board committee in charge of filling vacant seats.

After two days and 12 candidate interviews, the Public Health and Human Services Committee voted, 6-0, Friday to recommend newcomers for three vacant four-year seats on the Mental Health Board, and not President Lee Ellis, who reapplied for his expired term.

But committee members deadlocked, 3-3, on whether to give an unexpired one-year term to the other incumbent or the County Board’s former liaison to the Mental Health Board. So that decision will be made when the committee’s seventh member, John Hammerand, comes back from his annual winter vacation to cast the tie-breaking vote.