The highly regarded Buffalo Grove Village Board of Trustees did a lot of things right, Monday night. They listened to the concerns about flaws in their proposed Recall ordinance expressed by about a dozen speakers, including me, from the audience of close to 200 residents, and took those concerns very seriously. Village President Elliott Hartstein persuaded the Board to postpone the effective date of the proposed ordinance to no earlier than January 1st, so that there would not be an immediate rush to try to get a referendum to recall an elected official on the February, 2010, Primary Election ballot, since referendum questions need to be placed on the ballot 65 days before an election. Village Attorney William Raysa directed the Board to delete from the proposed ordinance the provision that would ban recalled officials from holding public office in the village for four years, which addressed the concern that I raised to the Board that it's unconstitutional to have an election in which the community is allowed to vote to cancel a person's civil rights, without cause. Most importantly, Trustee Beverly Sussman succeeded in persuading the rest of the Village Board that, in any recall, a reason for the recall needs to be stated on the Notice of Recall and the Recall Petitions. This addressed the other main concern that I raised with the Board, which was that, without a reason, Recall referendum questions could be placed on the ballot without cause -- purely for the politcal purpose of reversing the results of an election to get rid of a political opponent -- thus resulting in defensive Recall campaigns to get three other elected officials on the recall ballot before they got you on the ballot, since the Illinois Election Code law on Submitting Public Questions limits to three the number of referendum questions that can appear on the ballot in any one election.