URBANA — Champaign County Board members spent another two-plus hours discussing the controversial Olympian Drive proposal Tuesday night and arrived right back where they stared: with no consensus.

The board couldn’t even agree on whether to conduct a straw poll on the $30 million road project north of Urbana. A motion to do so failed.

The only hint of progress came late in the meeting when board Chair C. Pius Weibel said he’d be willing to appoint a five-member subcommittee of board members to meet with officials with the cities of Champaign and Urbana. The subcommittee, he said, "would bring something back to the board that would give a sense of direction that everyone could agree with."

The discussion of Olympian Drive was so prolonged that it required exhausted and frustrated county board members to defer action Tuesday night on a number of zoning issues and at least two scheduled executive sessions. Some of those matters will be taken up next week; others were put off until October.

In other action the board gave preliminary approval to hosting a "Lincoln in Illinois" photo exhibit at the courthouse from March 4 to May 31, 2011.

It also approved a new lease with Niemann Foods to provide 50 parking spaces for county employees in a lot at 220 N. Broadway Ave., U.

Final action on those items will be taken at the board’s Oct. 23 meeting.

Five of the 27 board members were absent from the meeting, including Republicans Ron Bensyl, Chris Doenitz and Brad Jones, and Democrats Tom Betz and Sam Smucker.