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Kankakee County Board Meeting 5/14/2019 9:00am

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Good morning like to call the May 14th keiki County Board meeting to order today's invocation is from Ron Kinzinger.

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Right, Heavenly Father we're back I'm standing in your presence, perhaps more appropriately, which the otter faces, give us wisdom this day and for this meeting nothing more or might with our heads, and we think what greater than we really are. We thank you Lord for George Washington and was not present here today. We asked you guys and directed continue to be living he's our friend my friend in my mentor guide him direct him and they we do the County business this morning in a manner that will be honoring community. In your name. We pray.

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You please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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If I could please get a roll call.

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Mr. Washington mr. lazette mr. altough mr. house, mr. Thelen, mrs. Paul.

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Snipes mr. Bern mr. C Roy president mr. leader, mrs. Weber, mrs.

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Peters present.

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Paden, mrs. Parker, there's Dunbar present.

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Rooter present mr. Kinzinger mr. Fairfield mr. Zen's miss Hoffs mr. Caraco mr. Hoff mr. Smith mr. Swanson mr. cool Oh. Mr. feather link present mr. Donnell mr. wheeler present.

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Quorum under public commentary, we have a few. Today we live 15 minutes, so please I, guess, use your time wisely. The first one is from Barbara. Is it Prather or Prather? Regarding motorcycle awareness right back here at the microphone.

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Alright, my name is Barbara Prather I'm with the GW RRA I'm, the illinois' assistant district map coordinator, which map stands for motorist awareness program a little bit about us.

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Gw Ari started in 1977 and came to be the world's largest touring motorcycle Association.

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There is, and we have over 80,000 members through the states and 53 countries, and their motto is friends for fun, safety and knowledge, and that's what I'm here to talk about its safety and knowledge regarding motorist awareness, May is Ben motorcycle Awareness Month for some time now, and thanks to abate, they got that going for us and I'm, just hoping that you'll sign the proclamation and help promote motorist awareness and just I won't just want to tell you some of the stats that I have found.

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I didn't get anything for 19 or 18, but I did see for the county of Kankakee. For 2014 there was 41 accidents with motorcycles, three fatal in 2015, there's 32 accidents, one fatal 2016. There is 28 accidents and one fatal. That's through the eye dog of and in total this county I mean in total of the state, is 3383 accidents and 22 fatalities and that's all vehicles and that's under normal conditions. No drugs, no sleepiness, no alcohol, just regular normal incidents.

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If he could tell the County has been going down since 2014 to 2016 of motorcycle accidents. Most of those accidents are either from people crossing in front of us because they can't determine how fast we're going or how. If we get stopped or- and sometimes they say they don't see us and others will be back ended, they you know, run right into us when we're at the stoplight or try and make a turn or something, though, literally run into us matter of fact.

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I just heard on the news coming here that somebody died from that and that's that's senseless I mean that could have been preventable if they were just more aware to stop I mean this is bicycles too. It's not just motorcycles.

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Bicyclists pedestrians I can't believe how many people walk across the street or just walking or getting killed, I'm trying to promote motorist awareness for everybody that shares the road, not just as motorcyclists, but people that are driving ATVs golf carts. Imagine that and if you're gonna see a lot more motorcycles coming up, because if they raise the prices of license plates, you know people can't afford all that they want to travel and the gas prices there up and down. But it's a lot cheaper with the tanks that we ride.

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Then you know the citizen eight-cylinder vehicles, even the four cylinders, it's just it's very I, don't know how much more twigs for us that grass clippings it's like ice. We can't go around it. You know slow enough or on it's slow enough. Our tires get it. It gets on the tires and it could be on our tires for some time down the road we have to take extra precautions, our GW RA organization or Association. I'm. Sorry is a not-for-profit and we're non religious and non politics.

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I mean we deal with safety, knowledge, friends and fun, and we try to improve our skills through the whole members. That's what it's about with you know. Safety and education I mean every rally we go to. They always have seminars classes to teach us a little bit more about how we can be defensive, driving how and what we can do to avoid an accident animals they ride with us. That's our pets, I mean they do come with us.

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We got a little Pomeranian, that's a little mascot for one of our chapters he's so cute and I see people in cars. They hold them in their lap where they're driving sticking out the window, they don't have a harness on them. Dogs are, in you, know, cats, whatever they're in jeopardy as well, and that's part of your family. You know you got to think of.

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We want to come home to our family, we're not just gangs, clubs, whatever we're moms, dads and uncles brothers, sisters, daughters, sons, we want to come home alive, we like to enjoy our freedom, but we want to come home alive, we're trying to if you see motorcycles, what lights louder, pipes, we're just trying to make people aware of us- and you know I, can't express it enough that you know it is deadly serious for motorcycles to be known out there and for everybody to share the road with us, and we do free presentations for communities for driver, ed classes.

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If you need us, we are around. Like I said we got over 80,000 members, the whole country, including the other countries, 53 out of state and Illinois. You know I love our chapter. This is my new family and I like to write with them, we're very skilled. We have road captain's. We talked to each other on our helmets and microphones. We make sure we let them know. What's in the road, what's not what's theirs, big pothole, to avoid it roadkill we have to avoid every little thing: littles, pebbles, gravel.

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You can't imagine how much attention we as writers on motorcycles are trying to pay attention to you besides, the car in front of us are behind us and that's not including on the side of us. You have blind spots in the car. Do you realize all you have to do is turn your head a little bit and see if something's there, just like a big truck. There is a lot of dead spots. I mean blind spots that he cannot see.

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If you don't see that guy in the mirror, he don't see you so that's the same thing with cars. If you don't see somebody they're just double take it doesn't take, but a second just a double take you know, look twice, save a life and I always tell some of my friends. You know, put a yard sign up. You know in your front yard, just tell somebody that you know it might be your life that you're saving not just ours, but yours but motorcycles, there's no. Basically, injuries I would say it's fatal injuries.

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You know people are dying and they we want to come home to our family. You know I mean I, don't have much left, but my family now is my Goldwing group and we don't have just gold wings. We have everything out there from slingshots. If you know what they are, so that's as much as I can tell you. Thank.

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We have Rosalie REE rygel from Evanston.

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Good morning, I'm, Rosalie, regal and I come here because my faith community, in my faith, community I, know so many people who have been in detention and so I come here to object to the unnecessary detention of immigrants. My friend, Margaret Clark, will speak about a report about alternative programs.

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Today, I'm just gonna tell you a little story about Izzy, an asylum someone who was granted asylum after spending three and a half months in prison. He says I, remember being on the way to the United States. He had endured death threats and beatings in his home country of Nigeria.

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He says: I thought I was coming to a place where you could be free and live your life. In truth, I thought the environment was welcoming. What I encountered was the opposite. When is he left the plane? He entered the visa line. He was pulled out, put into a room held without anybody, saying anything for six hours, then shackled and handcuffed and taken in a band with no windows to a detention center. He was there for three and a half months and he says.

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What I learned in jail is that it doesn't matter how lost strong your case is how strong you are you're going to be changed irrevocably just the same. When we were in jail, we would sit together and share our stories and the guards would say they would threaten us with solitary confinement for spending too much time talking to each other, but sure changed your changed. Physically, your changed mentally. He says you get to a point where you have no memories of a time. There was no when there was no suffering in your life.

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Now, when Izzy was released, when he was granted asylum, he went to the Marie Joseph Detention Center in Chicago a place where I'm very intimately connected and from there he was given the help that he needed to rejoin society to again pursue his medical degrees.

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But he said the injury left by immigration. Jail is in my heart and he still gets panicky dance. What would it mean if there were another way if, instead of putting asylum and seeking and immigrants in jail, if they instead went to community support centers a path that would lead them to good citizenship, it would be more cost-effective, it would be more efficient and ice. Has some programs in place like that that are not detention, where they're in homes where they get supportive in government environments?

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If there was another way, it could change everything, please do not increase detention in Jerome County. Thank you.

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Thank you. We have two minutes left for public comment: Margaret fight, Clark, Wyatt Clark from Skokie. It's next.

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My name is Margaret fight Clark from Skokie Illinois we're about 42% of my neighbors are foreign-born, and so that's why I'm motivated to get up early and get down here to comment this morning, I'm here to object to the unnecessary detention at Jerome, combs Detention Center I'd like to call your attention to the report that Rosalie alluded to that was issued by the National immigrant justice center.

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This report highlights the trauma and pain that detention inflicts on immigrants and describes several successful, successful alternatives to detention, including one in Chicago that Rosalie mentioned the Marie Joseph house. Studies have shown conclusively that detention is shown to cause trauma among the traumas that people endure is poor, health and poor nutrition. A young Honduran man that I met recently who'd been arrested in Texas and moved to five different detention centers, the last being he was held here at Jerome combs.

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He reported that the amount of food he received here was less than at any other detention center. The ni JC report outlines the work of the Marie Joseph house operated by the Interfaith community for detained immigrants. This program provides food and shelter for immigrants and asylum seekers; it directs them to services to help them with their experience of torture and trauma it accompanies them to court and to ice check-ins. It is a cheaper kinder in a more effective way of supporting asylum seekers and immigrants, while ensuring that they comply with immigration laws.

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In the concluding remarks of this report, NIJ see reports that a national assessment of the u.s. mass immigration of immigrants shows this approach to be radically anti-immigrant and wasteful I'd like to share the rest of this report with you by email. Thank you for your time. Thank.

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You Julien Macdonald from Kankakee.

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Thank you, I'll, try to be quick. I am I've done, one that put the booklets on your desk. I hope everybody got one. If you it looks like I missed your I'll, get you guys. So this is a booklet that is the project of connect, Kankakee and I'm. Here speaking on behalf of that group, today we come every month, so you pretty much know who we are, and we've been involved in immigrant rights advocacy around here and at higher levels of government as well.

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We had an immigration symposium in April and this booklet was handed out or distributed there. Chairman wheeler was there Sheriff Donnie was there, it was very nice too I was not there. I was out of town, but we had some other speakers and then the Daily Journal did a little article. So I thought I'd follow up on that and just read a few of the things that were said at the symposium and I do want to preface this by saying that I appreciate, sheriff Downey and I appreciate the work that of local law enforcement.

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I do think that there should be a criminal justice system just because I speak out against ice tactics doesn't mean that I think we should jettison the criminal justice system.

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One thing that was that sheriff Downey said: let's see at the symposium was he acknowledged. This is a national issue. He said quote. This is a national issue that needs to be handled in Washington, DC and I'm willing to work to get that to happen. It's a local issue, but it's a local issue because it's a national issue, but it takes more than the sheriff of Kankakee County or the chairman of the County Board.

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To make that happen is that an accurate quote sheriff just making sure okay, this I'm just reading from the article in the paper, so I I, know I, know I, know. There's some there's been some issues with that, but I'm reading from this and I just wanted to address that. We know that as well. Like our group is, you know we're not just showing up here every month without the knowledge that this is something that happens at many different levels of government.

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We actually have met with the head of the in the house, the Homeland Security Oversight Committee Bennie Tom, who comes out of representative Benny Thompson, who comes out of Mississippi we've met with him. We've discussed things with with him and Robin Kelly roundtable discussions. We have a conference call with her office today. I mean we're really trying at that national level as well. We're not just thinking it's gonna happen down here.

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We also are involved at the state level and there's a slew of legislation that has that is going through the the how the house in the Senate as we speak, so we're also involved at the state level, but I do think that at a local level here we have a little more control than what is being acknowledged.

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So another quote.

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I'm, sorry, you have to address the board. You can't question okay.

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Sorry, that's okay,.

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And we are over, so is there anybody wants to make a motion I'd.

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Mr. Fairfield motion to extend for how long five minutes is there a second to that? Well with mr. wood, just he looks like he's engaged.

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All those in favor, please say aye those opposed. Thank you. I will go to 29:26. Okay,.

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Thank you so sheriff again could the quote that I'm reading from The Daily Journal quote the ice inmates are not here because we put them there. It was a nice decision, I'm following the law, so I just wanted to address that I do think that we have more control, we're not just following the law as far as our involvement with holding people at the Jerome combs Detention Center, that was a choice that the sheriff made he made that choice to hold the detainees.

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Here, it's not it's not something that came down from above him and I, don't know if he discussed that with the board I think it should be a discussion with which everyone here so I mean I, guess I, just I just feel like this has been.

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It keeps getting kind of shoved away like this is not something weak do at this level and I disagree. I really feel like small government has a lot of control. We have a lot of influence, even at a national level.

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Another quick thing that came up at the symposium was the issue of public trust, and this again goes back to my appreciation of local law enforcement and that if and even Jim bro second did this despite many of the protective policies in place in Illinois, families continue to be afraid to seek police protection. We already have a difficult time getting witnesses to come forward for violent crimes in this county, so just layering. On top of that, the idea that our immigrant population is feeling marginalized and fearful.

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Please look into something called a 287g agreement and talk to your sheriff about his feelings on that. This is not to get too complicated, but there is something that can be done at a local level that deputizes local law enforcement to become ice agents, and our group connect. Kankakee is fearful that that will happen here in this county and we don't want that to happen. So please do your research on on what that would mean not only talking to your Sheriff but looking into what the 287g agreements would be.

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And lastly, thank you for reading through my little booklet here on the last page. The question is acknowledging the fact that revenue is an issue but is taking money from ice. The best plan for Kankakee long term to encourage long-term growth advocacy for immigration policy reform is at a tight.

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This will affect the federal budget for ice and it's expensive mass detention agenda so ask our sheriff and County chairmen to account for the costs of holding detainees for ice, hold them accountable for real answers to the question of what happens when we no longer have undocumented immigrants to in prison. Thank you. Thank.

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You Deb baron from scenic Riverview, Kankakee.

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Some of us would maintain the prettiest part of Kankakee County I.

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Would agree I'm.

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Here this morning to talk to you about project Sun, its Mental, Health, Awareness, Month and so I wanted to let you know a little bit about one of our newest initiatives. Sun stands for strengthening and unifying our network, we're about promoting the behavioral health and well-being of the children of our county.

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We are a new initiative funded through the Illinois Children's Health Care Foundation to the Illinois to the Kankakee, the Community Foundation of Kankakee River Valley, and what we are dealing with are over a thousand children in our County who have been assessed for mental health services and receive services from at least two providers to help make sure those services are connected and Clutton not coordinated, but we also find that there are a lot more children in the county who have not been assessed for mental health services that need them, and there are three main reasons.

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Why not one is that often the family does not know the resources that are available in the county and we're trying to address that through improving the can I help information network. It's an online information system that I hope you all are familiar with if you've used it before I hope you found it useful, but it will be even better when the improvements are made in it that we hope will be done by the end of this month, if not the end of June.

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Another reason is that parents can't afford the services that are available and we will be working not necessarily through new grants to to provide those services but helping to ensure that all of the service providers in the county, the private and the public are bringing in all of the third-party payments that they can helping the individual counselors keep current with all of the insurance changes that are going on, as well as whatever other resources we can bring in and a third reason that people can't access the children's mental health services that we need is the workforce.

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There aren't enough people out there. Part of that is that pay is low for the training and everything that they have to do. We have one pediatric psychiatrist to serve the entire county, and so another part of our initiative is to promote people going into the behavioral health services, as well as to try and see that the compensation is there for them after they've made the investment to be in that profession, a real shortage that we have is with counselors of color, as well as spanish-speaking counselors.

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So those are some things that we will be promoting. We also will be having a community summit at the end of this month, May 28th. We will have an evening session from 5:30 to 8 o'clock and all-day session on Wednesday May, 29th, Jackie Haas we'll be sending you information about that if she hasn't gotten it out yet we hope that somebody, some of you, will be able to attend either the evening session or the day long session, to learn more about the system of care that we want to put in place.

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What is a little bit different about it than what we have currently is that it is intended to be family and youth driven so that the the families who are receiving services really are in the driver's seat sitting with the providers and planning that care for their families. So I look forward to seeing you on may 28th or 29th and I appreciate the fact that you will be considering a resolution today to support Mental Health Awareness Month. Thank you. Thank.

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You we're overs are an extension for another three minutes. We have one more. We have one more person extend for three minutes, this track officer snipes, all those in favor those opposed all right noted.

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The last person is Ron Hansen from bourbon a.

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Good morning, all and I promise to say a lot more in a lot less time. My subject today is the legal legalization of high potency marijuana.

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Realizing this board isn't going to be voting on it, but realizing you're, all public officials, you all have access to the press to just more publicity than every citizen can get I'm here to encourage you to speak out against the legalization of it and I wish. I had made copies for everybody, but I have 10 reasons in a article from the Illinois Family Institute, which have backed up scientifically.

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If you go to their website, you can see the ten reasons you can get a lot more back up to what I'm going to give you, but this is important. It's going to affect Illinois, not just in the short term, but in the long term we think alcohol causes problems. Alcohol is a food based product. It goes into the system or goes out rather rapidly.

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Thc is not a food based product. It goes into the system, it stays much longer. It causes much more damage, and this is something that needs to be considered. Do we know what we're doing and why we're doing it reason number one increased THC levels: this isn't the marijuana that most of us grew up with and I've never tasted it so I wouldn't know, and it's going to go into other products. Oil wax dab and shatter whatever that is at much higher concentrations. The marijuana being grown now is about 15%, more potent or 15 times.

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I should say number two increased risk of psychosis and even more alarming is youth suicide and again this is all backed up number three increased increased marijuana, related hospitalizations and poison control center calls number four increased: marijuana related exposures and children zero to five years old, zero to five years old number. Five increased violent crime in legalized, States well backed up well documented number, six increased and potential serious brain alteration: I, don't know about you, but I'm.

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Still using my brain I'm 78 years old I intend to use it for a lot longer and everybody should be concerned about this number: seven increased heroin and opioid deaths and Illinois after medical marijuana number. Eight premature aging of the blame number. Nine increased marijuana related traffic fatalities. You know we have trouble with alcohol. How about something that may stay in the system? Five, six, seven, eight nine ten days longer increased social and economic cost, outweigh tax revenue by four dollars and fifty cents to every one dollar and as they're experiencing in Colorado.

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The illegal growers move in and take over the legal production. So that's all I have to say I hope you take it seriously and I hope. You all consider speaking out letters to the editor calls to the governor calls to our state representative, calls to the state senator you know: Illinois doesn't have a revenue problem where we need to bring on an addictive drug. Ellen:Oh has a spending problem and that's what you guys need to be addressing. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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Communications presentations, we have a proclamation declaring may as motorcycle Awareness Month. If we could, could we read that into the record? Please.

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Proclamation of the County Board of Kankakee County Illinois, declaring May, is motorcycle. Awareness Month, whereas motorcycle enthusiasts organizations continually promote motorcycle safety, education and awareness programs to the general public and to the motorist community of Illinois and whereas motorcycle riding is a popular form of recreation and transportation for thousands of people across the state and nation, and whereas it is crucial that the citizens of our city and state be aware of motorcycles on the roadways and recognize the importance of motorcycle safety.

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And whereas State and motorcycle organizations across this country will be conducting a variety of activities to promote motorist awareness and safely, sharing the road with motorcycles and we'll be reminding riders to be more visible to others. And whereas the motorcyclists of Illinois have contributed countless volunteer hours to their communities and therefore Kankakee County does hereby proclaim. May 2019 as motorcycle Awareness Month, and encourage motorcycle awareness and safe motoring for all. Thank.

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You can I get a motion to approve that mr. sands would be a second for misspoke.

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Does anyone have any comment on this before we vote on it? I know that you had something I think mr. zaimes deformity.

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Thank you. Mr. chairman I appreciated Yahweh's comments earlier regarding motorcycle Awareness, Month I, guess, I! Guess what I wanna say it's just. Basically, we I start giving more cyclists space and time giving us a space and time these are people's family. Like she mentioned last week, a at the end of the week, a 17 year old young man lost his life in Northwest Indiana, while pulling in his motorcycle into his driveway. The driver that hit him stayed. He didn't see him.

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My condolences go out to Clayton's parents who are from the Kankakee County area, as well as to the many family and friends as well as friends of ours, the Pattin odds and barton's. So I encourage everybody to vote aye for this. Thank you thank.

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You Parker Thank.

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You mr. chairman I know that may is dedicated to safety awareness for motorcycles, but I hope the community take it further and make it all the time instead of just one month. Thank.

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You what else we have motion in a second all those in favor, say aye, it was opposed. Same sign motion carries miss Parker. We have a kind of a ceremonial if you want to give it to your constituent, we'll give it to your after you don't have to come up and get it we'll just set it off to the side. So you had a constituent and put this forward that wanted us to do this and with you moving on, we have a proclamation and recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month.

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We could read that one to the record. Please occupation.

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Of the County Board of pinkey, County Illinois and recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, whereas the mental health of every citizen is essential to the emotional and economic prosperity of our families, communities and businesses, and whereas mental health is a key component of every individual's overall physical health and emotional well-being. And whereas mental health, mental illness affects people of all ages, races, ethnicities and income levels in our communities. And whereas suicide is the 11th leading cause of death overall in Illinois, and whereas mental health conditions are not only common, they are treatable and early.

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An effective intervention can save lives and change. The trajectories of people living with mental illness and whereas only 50% of individuals with the serious form of mental illness, seek treatment and whereas feelings of personal, shame and fears of social stigma and discrimination prevent many living with mental illness from seeking help and whereas stigma leads to fear mistrust and violence against people with mental illness. Who are significantly more likely to be victims that, rather than perpetrators of violent crimes and whereas stigma can be reduced by increasing the awareness and education of mental illness and available resources.

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For those suffering from mental health conditions and whereas we strive to create communities to support mental wellness by increasing access to treatment, educating ourselves in our communities about mental well while and mental illness and supporting our citizens as they seek to improve their mental health and whereas greater public awareness about mental wellness can positively transform attitudes about and towards people with mental illness, making it easier for our citizens to seek help. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Kankakee County Board that it recognizes the struggle.

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Many County residents have with mental illness and recognize the month of May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Thank.

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You is there a motion to approve this mister Carrico. Second, mr. weir any comments about this Proclamation.

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All those in favor, please say aye. Those opposed same sign motion carries we'll save that for Jackie baby, all righty moving on I have a presentation from Carol Weber, County Board Member turn on your mic. I thank.

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You mr. wheeler I, like our executive coordinator, pleased to stand up miss Kelly.

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Kelly, thank you for preparing our support materials for our County Board and our committee meetings and emailing them to us with the agendas Thank You Kelly for your orderly arrangement of papers and signature pages at our meetings, Thank You Kelly for the efficient preparation of the minutes and presenting to them to us so quickly. You are kind and helpful and talented and, on my behalf, I'm giving you these flowers.

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Just just to show you how efficient she is, she filled in our answer pages today and when we are here so what I'd like to do is the last comment? Please, if you have any thank you for Kelly I, am a thank you card for your assignment row and be sign thanks to Kelly.

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Mr. Giuliani County didn't pay for those.

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Clearly, state what needed to be said.

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No, we do appreciate it. We get minutes of the day after the meetings and that's that's remarkable. I have a another presentation. This is something that I had asked anita and steve to kind of get together because of the the way that they're handling IRF. Now a lot of people don't really know what's coming in the future. If you don't really pay attention closely to the details and we had I saw a situation, I couldn't quantify the situation, what it meant to Kankakee County.

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So we basically, what do you guys in it spending about a month and a half on this working on these numbers to kind of show the impact of all of these changes and what it means to our county and in terms of power IRF, and that includes slap echo. You know all the tears and you know the regular iMRS so yeah, please, you guys have the floor. Let me turn your mics on here.

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All right, you should be good, so.

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Over the last month to six weeks, Steve and I have been working together on this, and we actually last week, went to on Monday, went and listened to I MRF discuss, there's really three different things. It's last year's performance is having a dramatic impact on us.

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The next year's rates and those estimated rates, and then a change in assumption by I MRF or their investment returns, has a dramatic impact on us. So we're going to talk about essentially those three things as we walk through it, one on an overall level, what what's coming from I MRF, but then specifically how it impacts us.

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The first slide we wanted to share with you came directly from my MRF in that meeting in point of clarification, really I think there is confusion a lot of times when we talk about changes, as this slide identifies the member reserve on the left by statute. I'm ref has to keep that one hundred percent funded. So that's our employee reserve and on the right, 100% funded Stannis annuitant is the retirees so that stays.

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So when we're talking about any changes with IMR F changes, the Kankakee County, it's the middle fund, they keep all these funds separate and they call that when the employer reserves. So that's the county's reserve that we are discussing today. As far as the change.

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So this is our 2018 employer reserve statement here you can see the top, but I just lumped each one of those three plans has several different funds underneath it in the past, we've had some early retirements. Those numbers are kept separate, both under regular and slep and underslept. There were some enhancements to the slept plan back in the early 90s, and so the cost of that is kept separate, but for simplicity, sake, I lumped all three of them into just the three plans, so regular echo and slep.

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So the interest on opening balance- and that is one of the assumptions that IMR F makes- is there seven and a half percent interest income? So you can see that as a credit, if you're opening balance, it's always on your opening balance from the prior year. So what we pay during the year doesn't matter it's January 1st is where we were, earn our interest or a charge. So look at echo how that's a negative balance. That's an interest charge, so you get charged seven and a half percent.

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The next line is employer contributions. In total we made 4.2 million dollars last year. In 2018 in payments, either, as for echo or first regular, and slept it's as a percentage of payroll dollars and for echo, because we have no current employees on there, so nope Averill dollars to tax, so to speak, it's actually a flat amount. Every month about thirty to thirty three thousand dollars a month, the residual investment income is huge. So last year I MRF lost, like their loss on investment.

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Income was 4.25 percent, we're going to get to actual dollars in a little bit, but they take that number, plus the cost of that seven and a half percent line, and then they distribute it out now. The way that's calculated is you add, all our accounts balances up the 34 million, the negative four and the eight million dollars, and that, as a percentage of all 3,000 employers in the state, it's all allocated proportionately, based on how big our reserves are compared to the investment total to the total balances they have miscellaneous Corrections tend to happen.

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If there's, maybe an error in a in a wage report. Most often it comes like when we have a late payout to a retiree like 60 days later, when we pay sick leave or whatever it creates an adjustment. That's what those are they're member annuities. Now this is where Steve talked about the annuity fund, so at the end of the year, that's there were 20 retirees in 2018.

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So by plan what the what I MRF does is says at the day you retire what they estimate the cost of your retirement to be they charge this fund and put it into that annuitant fund. So that's what that charges for and you can see our ending balances at the end now bottom line. My concern is especially with slept.

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If you look at that slep employer reserve, we went from a funded balance or a fund balance of 7.8 million down to one point: four: the issue becomes, if that flips negative, instead of a seven and a half percent interest charge or income on that first line, it's going to be a charge, and then what you see happening is what you see happening with echo. It really is hard to come back out of that hole, so.

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If this is like drinking from a firehose, please, it is you'll, be able to see someone as you follow through this. The numbers start to become more clear as they start to step through this. This is like the full blast in the next few. Slides, though they'll make it more clear, so.

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The graph here directly from I am RF identifies what their actual rate of return has been since 1982 through 2018.

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The 2018 number is probably pretty small, for those of you to see was the negative four point: two five percent investment return, the dotted line going through there as they're assumed rate of return, so back in the 80s they're assumed rate of return was seven percent.

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Ninety three it changed to 7.5% and then that were part of what we're talking about right now, that'll affect our 2020, is they're, dropping it from 7.5% to seven point two: five percent, so the that adjustment for the assumed rate of return, as well as the investment loss combined, is what's affecting us for 2020, so they took their explanation of the change was the taking. The averages of you know the times that they exceed the rate of return in the and all the times that that it falls below so the last few years.

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You can see that they've had a number of years at or below the rate of return. The the other important note that we've been dealing with since 2008 when that was a twentieth. Nearly a twenty five percent lost the largest loss. This is the single largest that we have had to absorb since 2008.

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The county voted to take a five-year phase-in repayment plan for that loss that year, as some of you may remember, that, on that discussion and you'll, see as we as we continue some of the impact you know that that year had on us not only the economic impact at all. You know that also affected I morale.

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So the two pieces that 4.25 overall I MRF, that was a 1.6 billion dollar loss, was their loss on investment. They had a fund balance. Total funds of may be close to forty to forty four forty to forty two billion, so 1.6 billion was the charge for the interest loss, their their investment loss. In addition, that seven and a half percent credit costs another two point: six, eight billion, so a total of four point. Four billion dollars in charges were allocated across to all the employers.

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So while I MRF will tell you well, it was only a four and a half percent loss. That's really just a portion of the story.

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This is a lot, but what I kind of wanted to show here is really the total interest and by the way, I had these numbers. When we went to the meeting last week and I talked to the I MRF CFO after the meeting and I said, am I looking at this correctly. I don't want to misconstrue and he went through with the numbers and says yes you're, absolutely correct. So you get the seven and a half the annuitant reserve.

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The employer reserve that total of 75 million on the top line there that's what that distribution of a loss of 15.5, for that was our share of that allocated to all our funds was so that's a total of you know: I, don't know how many in total interest in charges, if you add those two columns together, the seven and a half percent plus the residual distribution. That's a cost of sixteen point, one four million dollars to us.

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So the the interest and charges on the regular plan 12.2% on slep fourteen point, one seven and on echo twenty five percent.

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There's a summary slide that I'm showing the drop in the assumed rate of return is the top number going from seven and a half percent. The seven point, two five percent, which in turn then they again these are, I'm- are up averages their employer contribution rate average in 2019 was just over nine percent and just dropping the assumed rate of return change. The average contribution rate from nine percent to almost eleven percent is the bottom draft are depicting that so yeah. What we did we dropped in our rates and as compared to the IMF rates.

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The averages- and you can see that starting in 2013, that our rates on average are became higher than the average I'm afraid, because.

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Stars on there so I can.

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Tell them what the stars mean, so they can.

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The stars are actually our rates compared to the other rates, the actual bars, that's the average I MRF employer rate. So what Steve's talking about is that five-year phase-in? Look what happened in 2013 when that phase-in ended, that number one that can be one issue, then we went above the average. The other thing is, as we add, layoffs, em and lowered our salary dollars. Remember this is a percentage of salary dollars. So if you're you have to pay the piper, so if the salaries you're paying on are less, your percentage goes up.

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So what we did, then was took a look at what the increase is. Those at the top show the increase in the rates there's a almost 9% increase in our regular rate, there's a twenty point: six percent in our slep rate for next year year over year. So there's some theory at the bottom here.

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What I did was take the reportable earnings for 2018 and then I, don't have obviously 2019 reportable wages yet because we just were halfway through the year right, so I took 2008 by two and a half percent on average for slep I included an extra two for there. Steps to try and get to 2019, then that 2019 level took it up an extra two and a half percent for 2020 to say that 2020 estimated over portable inning earnings would be like twenty four million for regular four million for slep.

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So then, if you take the reportable earnings times the 2019 and 2020 rate, it tells you what the difference is just based on the rate increase, so that increase just on the rate increase will cost us estimated about four hundred. Seventy five thousand dollars- and I MRF did tell us again: 75 percent of the increase is due to their rate, assumed rate of return reduction. So if you take seventy five percent of it, 355,000 of it is due to dropped from seven and a half to seven and a quarter percent.

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All right we're switching off here, a little bit my question why it was a rate setting the AV history, part of this discussion and with the tax caps. The pension fund is our locally funded. Our fund that we use to pay the IMF the employer portion on the IMF. So the connection here because of the tax cap, the rate setting AV, is probably one of the most important factors to the tax cap and our ability to absorb changes like this, and you can see.

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What's happened, not only was the bad investment, but the economic change, as we all know, to be ABS took place. Now. If we go to the next slide, you'll see a direct correlation. Our pension fund you're in balance, history is following that almost identically and it's related to the tax tax cap issue, so we currently have available about five hundred eighty thousand dollars as of the end of 2018, is what that number indicates to utilize and to help absorb.

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As the previous fund balance, you know helped up us absorb the changes now on the a B, but also the rate changes, as you saw the spike that went up in a previous for our employer rates going forward. So the the other important note some say well. Can we just raise the tax levy just to cover this, and the answer to that is not exactly, and we listed all the funds that are within the tax cap that compete, if you will for the same for the total dollars.

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So you have the general fund, a tort fund, the pension fund, three different highway funds for three different purposes: the Health Department, the U of I extension and the veterans assistance Commission. So all our important activities, you know in functions within the county and all of these have to share a slice of the pie if you will, because of the tax cap. So we just wanted to to remind everybody that you know this, that's why, with all these restrictions and- and you know, everybody coming to the table- it's a very difficult thing to distribute.

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When you get a you know, a large impact like what we're seeing so.

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If something goes up, someone's got to come down. That's the result of that.

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So we know it's a lot of numbers and I I. Don't expect anybody to remember any of them. Steve and I live them every day, so it kind of starts to roll off our tongues.

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But what we want you to get from all of this, so in 2018, the interest charges to the pensions plans were twelve fourteen and twenty five percent, resulting in a ten to fifteen percent reduction in our funded percentage in our plans, and if you pay that assumed payroll percentage every year, what you're assigned from IMR F, it's like paying the minimum balance on your credit card. Yes, yes, you're complying, but are you gonna pay more an interest in the end? Yes, you will.

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Yeah and then just repeating that we have limited options, you know to make the additional payments and to absorb you know a change like this, and so that's that's. What we wanted to share with you, the next year's levy and and and budget, is not done yet, but we'll share that with finance, as we get closer to that timeframe. You know we plug all this information and going forward.

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This was something that I thought was more important than than just talking to finance about it, because it really shapes a lot of policy that the whole board will be dealing with over the next year. Now, I, don't know if there's any more slides around was that the last one I mean if your tax cap would it.

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What are you sitting here, hoping or you you're, hoping that the stock market keeps going up right, because if it doesn't, if it goes down this, it gets worse right yo, because we got we got killed by those investments. You know on this and then that's when it. You made him change the assumption. I'm, assuming there was a correlation between the two well.

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If I could add what they shared at the eating was, it was the fourth quarter of 2018 that actually changed the the investments and.

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Reported that right now they are up about 8%, but as of yesterday, probably change.

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Mr. Kinzinger question: yes,.

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I serve on a private pension board, so it's not public the private pension board and we experienced the same type of revenue loss in 2018, which hopefully was an anomaly for the time period that was chosen, but there's a fluctuation in terms of the funded percentage necessary to have a viable pension fund and I'm, not certain how the public works, but don't if we have an 8% return this year and a 9% return which are possible as a 6% return. How does that impact all these numbers.

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Didn't give you a better example, but you could see all those years we paid more than what the assumption was. We built up a balance, but when EAB drops we're still we're fighting against the the tax cap and all of that situation, because we just can't raise to capture that so I, don't it seemed that's a simplistic answer, but you may be able to get more specific.

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And part of the issue is that seven and a half percent, one of the things I had talked to them in prior years about is, let's say it is only six percent right. They're assumed they're, assumed rate of return is seven and a half and they're gonna credit, everybody, seven and a half percent. Well. If they only make six, that means the residual that residual investment has to get charged another one and a half so anything below there. Seven and a half assumed it kind of compounds, but.

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I heard that very lured at a quarter to seven a quarter which is realistic, yep, it's eight or nine, then.

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What happens is and I've seen this happen in other I'm trying to think back, I think I have 2017 here then that residual you'll see that as long as your employer statement balance is positive, you could get an extra couple points there and it can turn back around. That's.

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Right, thank you. That was my comment about you. Everybody hope the stock market keeps cool.

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That's exactly.

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Right, that's because that's really that's.

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Why we're gloom and doom, but we can look at the negative or we can think positive and do a weekend to improve the situation right. Thank you, but.

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In 2020 we have to make sure we meet those obligations already then it flips, and then we start getting down that eco, where there's nobody paying into eco now and that whole this will keep getting deeper, as those people are in retirement yeah. So anyway, anything else do you I, don't any other questions. Mr. Sykes.

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Even giving this dim view, I am I off to steal the safest and probably one of the most best ran pension funds in the state of illinois. So I has his ups and downs and we hope that for the most part they make some great decisions, but we don't know sometimes how the economy will fluctuate, but for the most part they have made some.

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What I consider be some incredible investments that safeguards the pension plan. So with that being said, or whatever I know, that there's a looks like there's a downside, but the positive side is so they're still in Illinois, one of the most safest pension plans to be in considering the teachers plan and some of the others that out there it.

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Is the best funded? The difference is IMR fu the employers they because of the way that interest charge works, there's no deferring anything, and so they take whatever funded balance you are or what the issue is. They do their actuarial assessment going out 30 years and then the employer starts paying immediately right. So there's no deferrals and you've heard about some of those that happened previously in some of the other pension funds where the payments were made. That's not allowed and I am Aref. My.

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Problem is a seven and a half down to seven and a quarter. I think that was extremely short-sighted by I am a rep and it's really put a hurt on a lot of counties in the state. I've been the conversation with a lot of the chairmen, and that's one of the reasons you know two three months ago, we asked to start on this because it's devastating to those counties that are really large counties with a lot of employees. I mean it just it's amazing, because obviously nobody has enough money to run operations anymore.

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So it's a we're kind of in the middle of the pack and we're feeling it just as we're climbing out of the hole we get smacked down with another five hundred thousand dollars. We got to come up with you know so. Mr. Kinzinger, the.

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County has to respond to IMF. Do we have any way of saying one of the things we look at in tension fund is? How do we affect benefit payments to retirees? Does the county have any input in terms of how we look at the retirement plans of various individuals or where's that run by typically the state? It's state law so no way we can change that it's through state law change right! That's where I'm right.

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The last time that happened was January 1st of 2011 and that's tier two, what's called tier two right and they're less much less lucrative, there's like the the retirement age before you take a reduction, so you can retire early like let's say I think I'm regular. It's 60 I think it went from 50 aged 55 to 60, but you get a reduction of a quarter percent of what you would have gotten for every year below sixty-seven.

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There were a lot of changes in that way, not so much the percentage, but that had to do with deferring and ensuring that people worked longer.

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More to come, I guess on this: once we get the levy and everything worked out and see how that impacts. We may have to shift some things towards the pension and figure out where to pull it away from so that's work. We have to do Artie moving on. Thank you to both very much for that.

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Break from launching certifications of recognition, I have 25 years Brent layered with the Sheriff's Department Sheriff. You want to do all these.

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They're all sitting right in front of you there, yes I, get my notes that we got a lot of them. Don't cut yourself up, they didn't know we'd, be here an hour.

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All right, thank you, everybody for for giving us this opportunity to recognize our employees, because I know that you know. Sometimes they don't get the recognition they deserved. So this is a. This is a good place for us, our first recipient for 25 years.

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The way he looks he started when he was about 12 is Brent Laird Brent Leigh is a corporal currently in charge of security at the courthouse and has done done a number of things throughout his career here, including being one of the initial members of the r/t team, which actually a short, quick thing. He was.

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They have ERT training today, which they don't dress like this normally for ERT training, so he went to ERT training this morning went home changed his clothes got in uniform for this, and then he's gonna go back home, put back his ERT stuff and go back to training, so he actually got an hour reprieve from the from the meeting. So he's also a firearms instructor one of our firearms instructors, as, as you all know, were required to train with firearms mandatory every year he's one of our he's one of our better firearms instructors.

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If he can have patience with me, you know he's he's pretty good, so he's also been involved with key Meg and, as I said, the courthouse supervisor. So we're glad to have him. We hope he sticks around for quite a while, although I've heard rumors but so bright,.

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Yeah next we have for 20 years Edwards. Oh.

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Yeah 20 years seems like four uh no 20 years.

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You know best best story. I can tell you about that. He's off as a deputy. His relationship with our community is what makes us all look good, including you guys he has such an ability to talk to people, as some of you know sometimes too much. But but that's a good thing. He can. You know we have a call for a complaint by the time he's done talking, it's all resolved and the person normally thanks us for doing what we do so we're glad to have had.

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He is recently in January, a chief and actually, since he's been here an hour he's actually assigned to the road today, because we do utilize, our lieutenants and Chiefs as Road deputies when we're short- and he is on the road today. So I do have to get him out of here fairly quickly, but for 20 years and congratulation.

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Also for ten years at the Sheriff's Department Amy looky.

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For those of you that don't know Amy I'm trying to be kind when I say this, she is she's like mom with the money. When we go in which were trying to purchase things, we need. Normally we go through Amy and a lot of times. She says: no, we can't do it because we can't afford it so, but she does a great job with our finances. Amy came here ten years ago when it was in. It was obvious that we were generating a lot of revenue and how we got there.

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Revenue I know, works very closely with Steve and the finance department, and she really does a great job for us and we're glad we have her so for 10 years.

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Also have some from Corrections and got grant Jackson yes, one from Corrections is here: okay grant has been with us.

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15 years whoa yeah I'm telling you grant for those of you that probably some of you who've, been on the board for awhile, probably know his father grant. Who was a ed who was a who is a chief deputy for us years ago and if you wouldn't know any different you'd think they were twins. I have to look twice sometimes myself, but so grant grew up. Around law enforcement he's been with us for 15 years and has he rose through the ranks from a corporal to a sergeant?

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He is also one of those guys that is very good with computers and software and as we have evolved into a a technic tech, technological, more of a technological job, with completely doing all of our computer stuff on the correction side and some of the numbers that you guys get in the criminal justice, meaning some of those things are all compiled and because of our computer system that that grant is is very involved in.

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Yeah, you can finish this and then we have to take applause. Oh he.

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He is also registers all these registered sex offenders in Kankakee County as well. So any sex offender that comes into our County, who has to register with us grant takes care of that and make sure that the sex offenders are complying with the rules that are set forth by the court so for 15 years Greene. It doesn't seem that long, but congratulations.

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Who are actually working in the jail that it's easier for them to come off the road than it is come out of the jail, so a guy will make sure they thank.

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You- and that was an amendment for ten years and Robert l'amour for ten years out of Corrections. While we get the stream together.

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Thank you I'd like to call the meeting back to order for May 14th. We had a loss of the television or the iPhone stream. If you will so we're back we're back bowling here, hopefully for the rest of the meeting. I'll just want to make note. Mr. Olaf did leave the premise promises. Elvis has left the building, so we he's the only one that has not returned Artie. We got through the certificates of recognition, so I'm. Moving on to the minutes of the last meeting, can I get a motion to approve the minutes. Mr.

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Geoff, second, mr. Fowler willing all those in favor those opposed same sign motion carries under claims committee reports uh can I get a motion to approve the claims from mr. Ritter, a second from mr. Fairfield. If we could just read those briefly chairman.

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Members of the county board Committee on County plans, would beg leave to report the exam of the following claims presented and recommend payment. The clerk is hereby authorized and directed to issue orders as several claimants payable out of the funds as follows.

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Fund 1 million ninety thousand one hundred twenty four dollars and 30 cents, all other funds, 4 million six hundred, eighty six thousand six hundred forty six dollars and seventy nine cents for a total for the month of March 2019, five million seven hundred seventy six thousand seven hundred seventy one dollars and nine cents for the highway fund.

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Two hundred and twenty one thousand three hundred seventy seven dollars and seventeen cents all other funds, two hundred eighty four thousand: ninety seven dollars and fifty five cents for a total for the month of March 2019, five hundred five thousand four hundred seventy four dollars: 72 cents, all.

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Right, we have a motion in a second that will be a roll call vote. Please.

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Snyder's all right, mr. C Roy hi.

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Leer, mrs. Weber hi, mrs. Peters.

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Pedro this is Parker his Dunbar mr. Ritter aye mr. Kinzinger mr. Fairfield aye mr. Zen's aye mr. kirgo aye mr. echo aye mr. Smith mr. Swanson Kulu ah mr. feather line. I miss wheeler.

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Hi motion carries under department reports if we could get those right into the record. Please hi.

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Collectors report for monthly report for March 2019, total cash and bank and investments, seven hundred eighty-three thousand fourteen dollars and seventy one cents county treasurer's monthly report for March 2019, total cash and investments, seven hundred eighty-three thousand fourteen dollars and seventy one cents.

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Finance department balance sheet total checking accounts in cash; a total of 11 million, sixty-two thousand seven hundred thirty two dollars and nine cents in the general fund deficit, balance of four million one hundred fifty two thousand seven hundred and ten dollars and six cents.

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Coroners monthly report from March of 2019 total calls 130 coroner's cases. Fourteen autopsy, seven toxicology, eight outside autopsies, three, two x-rays, sixty-eight cremations, total fees of four thousand three hundred ninety three dollars and twenty eight cents circuit clerk cash book for March of 2019, total disburse to four hundred and fifty six thousand two hundred forty five dollars and 18 cents, Kankakee County, Recorder's monthly report for March 2019 disbursement fees paid to the County Treasurer.

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Ninety two thousand four hundred and seventy eight dollars and ninety two cents county, clerk's monthly report for March of 2019, total fees of forty seven thousand seven hundred forty three dollars and seventy nine cents.

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The Kankakee County Animal Control report from March of 2019 total of twenty two thousand eight hundred ninety four dollars and twenty five cents in the hip tip building fund, one hundred thousand five hundred twenty seven dollars and four cents total animals handled forty, six, the monthly division, monthly building division report for March 2019 total permits of fifty two fees of one hundred eighty one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven dollars total your fees of two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars for a grand total of one hundred and eighty four thousand five hundred and ninety seven dollars.

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Monthly resolution lists for May of 2019 total of the county of five thousand nine hundred eighty five dollars. Thank.

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You into those department heads mentioned motion to combine and accept these reports as presented for Fairfield. Second, mr. cool Oh, any questions that'll be a voice vote. Do you have a question? Mister we're so.

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Into questions to comment a little bit of a celebration as we read that the building report fees clearly we're seeing the impact of the CSL out bills and in those fees, and so that's a little poor one small portion of the celebration of how our finances are improving. Thank.

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You for that re that we a voice vote all those in favor. Those opposed motion carries under the consent agenda. Is there anything that needs to be removed to be considered separately? Give you moments to look through those? It's not that long. This time mr. Snipes.

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Looking at 73 just only to see if we're gonna update it able to make that's my own concern in the contract, this is April and I. Think we're you just gonna make the defective data up today then I'll have to take it off.

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The settlement agreement is just yeah Victor of April yeah.

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This is the agreement that was sent around other parties. We didn't. We can change that.

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That's not so leave it on yeah there's a little change, big, any others that need to come off. Alrighty, I, guess: I need a you know, motion to combine and accept and accept the consent agenda. Mr. Paden second mrs. Parker. If we could read those into the record, please.

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Resolution naming the sheriff's administration building that Timothy F Bukowski administration building resolution adopting an amended stormwater ordinance if.

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I, could please I'm sorry that there's no Dodd next to that that has been removed from this from this agenda. You have it out here. It says: remove per Dell for next month. I apologize for that I did not make. That note. Is it on your copy of the agenda? Okay, I'm, removing that I apologize, it's on my copy, but it's not ready. Yet we had a couple of changes. We got to go back to PGA, so there is no number on it here.

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Okay, that has been removed, I apologize for that. So do we still have the motion the second to combine and approve.

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I'm just reading what's on the agenda? Yes, the.

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Correctly name is in the paperwork. The corrected name on the the Public Safety Center is in the paperwork. We had a typo on the initial one, so it's the correct one is on the resolution, but again that resolution on stormwater is going back to pza. There's the motion, the second still, okay, all right. Thank you. Thank.

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You sorry good authorizing the County Board Chairman to sign an agreement with India renewable energy appointment of Joseph Swanson to the University of Illinois Extension appointment of Dave Barron to the Kinki County Convention and Visitors Bureau, the appointment of Robert Lee Parkinson to the Kinki Township Fire Protection, District, reappointment of David Sargent to the Kay Bri Area Fire, Protection District, the reappointment of Donald of Donald b for burger to the moment and yellow hip drainage district. The appointment of christy Slaby to the animal welfare advisory committee.

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Motion in the second, that's a roll call. Yes, that's a roll call vote. Please.

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Mr. Lopez aye, mrs. Polk hi.

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Snipes all right see: Roy I.

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Leer, this is Weber hi.

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Paden hi, mrs. Parker.

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Ritter I mr. Kinzinger, I mr. Fairfield, bye mister zones, I.

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Cherrick, oh hi, mr. anakov, I.

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Fatherly I just really I.

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Motion carries under executive committee. We could read the title into the record. Please.

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Resolution of the County Board of Kankakee County Illinois authorizing the County Board Chairman to sign an agreement with CSL, barring related to Road usage along Route 50.

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Can I get a motion to approve first mr. zones? Second, mr. Kinzinger is there any questions about this went through a pretty exhaustively financed.

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Okay, I tell you what? Let's do a roll call just to make sure in case that that agreement involves any spend should be minimal. It should just be the electricity for the traffic lights, but I just want to make sure we have a roll call, which is what, when we say, 75 bucks a year, something like that: it's not much a dot. The I's cross, the t's and.

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Mr. lazette all right, mrs. Pope mr. Snipes aye, mister Ciro, mr. leer, mrs. Weber aye.

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Paden, mrs. Parker hi.

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Dunbar hi mr. Ritter aye mr. Kinzinger aye mr. Fairfield, like mr. Zen's aye mr. carico aye mr. Eko hi mr. Smith mr. Swanson aye.

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Cool Oh mr. fatherly hi mr. wheeler.

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Hi motion carries we could get the next item right into the record. Just the title.

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Please resolution of the County Board of Kankakee County Illinois, authorizing the County Board Chairman to sign a letter of understanding with the Illinois Department of Transportation regarding permit application, l, one six, four one: zero Illinois, Route, 50 and CSL bearing slash Lowe's entrance, a motion.

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To approve that one two, mr. echo ops, second to mr. Lodge s, any questions about this one alrighty this one should be a voice vote. There is no fees associated with this, so all those in favor, say aye. Those opposed same sign motion carries under PZ a we have the read the title.

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Resolution of the County Board Kankakee County Illinois regarding the purchase or service agreement with show bus to operate the county's rural general public transportation service state fiscal year. 2020 motion.

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To approve this one, mr. Paden, second, mrs. Peters, any questions about this agreement, it's kind of housekeeping every year. We do that.

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It's just for the permit.

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He went to Notre Dame.

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So let me finish this activity I'm going to circle back to the other one. So do we have a motion and a second on this one? Okay,.

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So we right to the point of roll call, this one correct okay, so this is for the show bus agreement, so roll call vote, please, village.

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S all right: mister, roll top, I'm. Sorry, mrs. Polk. All.

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Is Peter's mr.

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Fait mrs. Parker, miss Dunbar mr. Ritter aye mr. Kinzinger mr. Fairfield aye mr. CERN's hi, mister Perico, aye, mister mr. Smith Swanson.

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Motion carries now circling back to 81. Mr. Quinn, do you want explain on your thoughts on that yeah.

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I'm just erring on the side of caution. Here, it's a permit to do the construction for that entrance. That we've already talked about it good in the worst case scenario, result in spending money so just to say on the side of caution, I think most.

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Of those covenants are under the CSL County agreement, you're.

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Right, you're right.

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It's yeah I'm being overly paranoid, but let's.

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The side of caution.

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Sorry all right, so let's go ahead and do a roll call. I need a motion. I think the original.

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Carries all right moving on to finance, if I could read that into the record, you can read that in the record plant.

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Resolution of the County Board of Kankakee County Illinois authorizing the County Board Chairman and county sheriff to execute a grant from the substance, abuse and mental health services administration for the drug court program. That's good yeah.

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Thank you. So this is basically the Samsa grant that we received. So is there a motion to approve that mr. carraclough mr. leer, with a second any questions about any of that? It's all federal money passed through to us to pay other providers so don't foresee any other expense beyond the staff in the state's attorney's office. So there is other expense that will come, but that's in the form of budgets. So all right roll call vote. Mr.

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Snipes hi mr. C Roy aye mr. leer. This is Webber hi. This is Peter, mrs. Parker, miss Dunbar hi.

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Ritter mr. Kinzinger hi mr. Fairfield zenzai mr. kair Cove aye mr. Eko aye mr. Smith, mr. Swanson aye, there's a cool Oh.

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Featherly aye mr. wheeler aye.

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Motion carries we're on to 84. We could read that so ordinance.

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Of the County Board of Kankakee County Illinois, establishing civil fees and criminal and traffic assessments to be charged by the clerk of the circuit court already.

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A motion to approve that we talked about this in the criminal justice and then again a finance so motion to approve, see if mr. Swanson second mrs. Dunbar. um We it's the state, telling us what we got to do so, no matter how you might be compelled to vote no and that's only on a vote. But then mr. Snipes.

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Mansion Court is only $10. You know Julie even go to a judge, yet 100 150, but that's the max that you cannot allow I mean even 25 are.

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You looking mr. snipe sorry I'm.

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Looking on page 5 performing a marriage in court, you know you would think that's like 25 or maybe because that's kind of like the growing norm now, but it's like 20 is only performing a marriage. Accord $10 that.

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Specific fee I can remember exactly who was in the statute forbade him like that or not, but that's overall, that's exactly what I did I had nod from the.

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Clerk, that was in the statute.

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We will take gifts, though yes,.

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All right any other questions on that one, mr. Arcon, so.

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This is the new state law correct, yes, and.

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June 1st July.

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Will obviously cause us to to I, don't know if we're gonna be able to adjust budgets right off the beginning, we're gonna have to kind of guesstimate what it's going to cost and kind of tie things up later. It's not going to be cheap and it's gonna impact special funds. General fund funds for the circuit clerk's office. Everything is the Sheriff's Office on you know the court security I mean this is far-reaching, yeah public defender say it's turning all them that depend on those fees to be in library.

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So that comes back to us to figure it out. That's why we make the big bucks right, sarcasm. Okay, do we have a motion in a second already a roll call vote. Please.

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Mr. Lajeunesse.

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Sykes hi mr. C Roy mr. leer, mrs. Webber.

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Peters aye.

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Pate, mrs. marker.

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Dunbar mr. Ritter aye mr. Kinzinger mr. Fairfield mr. dunn's, mr. Kirk Oh aye mr. Eyre coffee day, mr. Smith.

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Just wants it. I physical, though.

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Featherly mr. wheeler.

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Regard regrettably, hi moving on to 85, you drew that into the record ordinance.

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To the County Board pinky County Illinois, regarding amendments to the combined annual budget and appropriation ordinance for kinky County Illinois 2018-2019 fiscal year, all.

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Right a motion to approve that please, as an order, mr. leer. Second, mr. Payton, any specific questions about the amendments.

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One give me a minute to look at it.

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So this is cucm. Well, there's not a page marked, but it's right after the ordinance. It's basically for the the wind farm Road project. We got the money in. We have to amend how that it's done on the on the budget. So it's really just housekeeping. At that point already we have a motion. The second roll call please mr.

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Snipes all right, mr. C Roy mr. leer, this is Weber, mrs. peters mr. Paden, mrs. Parker, mrs. Dunbar Hey.

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Rooter aye mr. Kinzinger mr. Fairfield mr. Zen's mr. carico aye mr. Hoff hi, mrs. Smith mr. Swanson aye, mrs. a cool Oh mr. fatherland aye. Mr. wheeler. I motion.

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Carries moving on to the next item: it's the 2017, united healthcare rebate, disbursements.

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We don't have a resolution on this, because this is just something that came out of finance, but we will need the board. It's basically rebaiting back to employees money because of the Affordable Care Act. The health insurance company did not perform up to the ACA standards. As far as you know, employee excuse me, member funding. That's the right way to put it.

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Spent per employee, so we we had to take that money. We figure out how it went. Only current employees get the money and it's a whopping.

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I know at 39 cents it's taxable income, that's going on those employees checks, so, but so it's going to take a motion to approve that in a roll call, vote motion to approve mr. Eickhoff second of with mr. feather willing this time and it's a one-time deal. I, don't know if it happens again, then it'll probably be two years before we can get it back on. We didn't want to cut check so we're just putting another paycheck. So we'll call vote please. Mr.

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Lee Jess hi, mrs. Polk mr. Snipes zero mr. leer hi. This is Weber, mrs. Peters mr. Paignton, mrs. Parker, his Dunbar mr. Ritter aye mr. Kinzinger mr. Fairfield mr. Jones mr. carico mr. Eko mr. Smith mr. Swanson mr. Koo Oh mr. featherly, mr. wheeler.

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I motion carries under highways in buildings the concurring resolution. We could make dan read the whole thing or motion to waive the reading and a Pervez written mr. feather laying a second mr. Paden. All right, I appreciate that very much it's Otis dan roll pop. Oh please.

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Mr. lazette, mrs. Polk.

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Snipes all right mr. serially, mr. leer, mrs. Weber, mrs. Peters mr. Payton hi, mrs. Parker, miss Dunbar hi mr. Ritter mr. Kinzinger mr. Fairfield mr. Zen's aye mr. Kirk, oh I, mr. Eckhardt hi mr. Smith mr. Swanson mr. cool. Oh mr. fender link. I mr. wheeler hi.

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Motion carries all righty if we could just read the title of the next one into resolution.

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In the County Board of paint, key County Illinois authorizing the County Board Chairman to sign local agency agreement for federal participation and appropriating matching text funds for resurfacing county highway 9. All.

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Right motion to approve mr. Akash second, mrs. Peters, any questions about this. One roll call vote. Please.

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Mr. Lowe Jess, mrs. Polk.

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Snipes all right, mr. C Roy mr. leer, mrs. Weber, mrs. Peters mr. Peyton, all right, mrs. Parker, miss Dunbar mr. Ritter aye mr. Kinzinger mr. Fairfield mr. zaimes aye, mr. Carrico, all right mr. Eko hi mr. Smith mr. Swanson, mrs. ikuo mr. featherly. I miss wheeler.

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I motion carries. The next item is a addition to our policy and procedure manual. Get to that real, quick.

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Very bad, okay, so it's not something that is a resolution, but it's something that we went through an executive. You first need a motion to approve that if I could the badge policy, mr. feather lien and this sorry Dunbar I know we are apologizing.

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Behind Steve yeah, so so, basically it's just. We had a policy on the books. It was old, it was kind of outdated, nobody was wearing badges. We discussed this one through department head meetings, so you know it's I, don't know that we need a roll call vote yeah. So I'm gonna go ahead and do we had a motion in a second okay, I'm? Sorry.

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We had it to it, yeah heading.

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To the policy yeah granted to our yep.

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We had it to the policy. Okay.

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It would take that.

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Had in the language here, then, with the identification of badges, this is a procedure we.

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Had shot photos who's supposed to wear them, it's basically for one. Eighty, nine, you know because of, although our swipe cards getting in and out of the building and trying to limit the amount of keys that are floating around here from the building, people leave our employment with losing Keys whatever. So we were bringing that way down it's easier to turn off the card than it is to replace all the locks as.

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Soon, how does that cost I'm? Sorry, it's ten dollars out cost no.

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Ten dollars, the employee cost that they lose their card. No.

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Item of this I cost to have to replace it if they lose it. It's.

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Yeah, that's the number that we're going with and yeah we had to pay for the machine. I'm sure it really goes down over time once everything's paid for, but there's still the cost of a sleeve and the time of the people to do it. Okay, so is definitely we're not gonna we're going to inflate the or fix the budget with ten bucks that it died.

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So any other questions misspoke, yes,.

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Oh yes, yep, and that was gonna, be after we were done with this. I was going to encourage everybody to come, see us upstairs because we're going to take your picture. Yes or you can say the problem is- is that it's part of the policy as of today so the before the next meeting, I would say.

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Please come see us and we just need to take your picture against uh like a white colored wall, so it the resolution is nice or if you want to do that at home, have somebody take a cell phone picture to email it to Anita? That's what we did around everybody can just take their own picture and send it in glamor shots. I know, you've got some mr. Zen.

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We just need to get.

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A decent picture of people with a nice white background, that'll make it show up on advantages and we're taking them today. If you want to come up after this so but.

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Anyway, any other questions.

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All righty boys fold, all those in favor and those opposed motion carries under old business gotcha, one opening on the BM Lewis drainage district, one opening on the Grinnell special drainage district, one opening on the GAR Creek drainage district, two openings on manteno number three drainage, one on manteno number, nine drainage, one on Minnie, Creek drainage; one resident opened on the K key County House of housing authority board when opening on this to the CBA.

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When opening on the Kankakee River Valley Forest Preserve, two openings on the Kankakee County Board of Health, two openings on the Kankakee County Ethics Commission, and that would be it for that. So, let's see here, let's see if there's anything else before we go into executive session, to review close minute closed meeting minutes.

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I'll, just yeah, we'll mention the other stuff that do business, but there's just a couple things to mention. So I need a motion to go into executive session. For the reasons stated, please mrs. Parker. Second, mr. Swanson motion to go in roll call vote please coming out to voice mr.

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Snipes zero mr. leader, mrs. Weber, mrs. peters mr. Paden, mrs. Parker, miss Dunbar mr. Ritter mr. Kinzinger Fairfield mr. sands, mr. carica mr. Eko aye mr. Smith mr. Swanson aye, mr. culo mr. feather length all right, Mitch wheeler. I motion.

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Carries all right stop that will be an executive session in a moment. Please stick around.

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Work from our sponsor yeah.

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We're back from executive session, all members that were in executive session or present for reasons, as advised by counsel where there are no executive session minutes to release at this time. Because of pending.

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Litigation because.

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Of pending litigation, all right so under new business I just had a couple of things that will take it from the board. First of all, I was mentioned about mr. Washington. He had a fall and an injury, so he won't be here for a little while we're gonna try to set him off with video conferencing here over the next day or so so you hope your thoughts. Our prayers are with him. I didn't want to mention to the board that it doesn't look like we're.

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Gonna need an early distribution from our the taxes this year, which is a very good thing. We were hovering around Nick's office in previous treasurer's office, for when they first got their checks in all the time and I think we're gonna be able to make it this time knock out veneer. So when we'll see how that goes, but it looks like we're gonna make it. Steve is a he's, a smiley guy these days, mr.

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McCarty, and then I did want to mention that this is our swan song with Graham Quinn, as our trusted advisor today is his last.

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He is going to work for I'm.

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Going to be attorney general's office in Chicago, working out of the Thompson Center I'm, going to be in their general law, Bureau so similar to what I'm doing now. But without this component right I don't buy any state agency. It would be more of the litigation side of the current role. Thank you.

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So we're gonna miss you just so. You know he's worked very closely with the board since he's been here. He's a very trusted resource, very thorough, committed and I speak for I hope. I speak for the board, saying we value that in the work you did for us and then since you're, going to the litigation side, I hope we never see you again.

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But yeah now is there any other any new business for the rest of the board here, not to bring up old business. Mr. leer, in regard.

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To the policy and badges do we have a timeline on where that's going.

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Friday Thursday I think of this week. That's when the doors will be locked electronically and you'll have to spike to get in in the mornings, and they will be open when I believe seven seven o'clock, seven six seven to six, is when they're going to be open and then the front the locks are being changed on the front door of new keys are being distributed tomorrow on the next day. So it's it's now so.

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When do we pick up our badges.

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Your you guys are okay, because you're, never usually here before seven o'clock, I wouldn't fail, but the policy says you've got to be wearing them, while you're in the building. A lot of that has to do with, like you know, shooter incidents like who's should be here. Who shouldn't be here? That's part of it Annina back there in.

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Talking to Trent, we, the board members, are the only ones left that we have to do the IDS for and he didn't want them piecemeal. He wants them all at once. So I've got six photos so as soon as I get the other 22, then we'll send them all at once. It'll take him a couple days to fill it out. So hopefully the sooner you get them to me and then we can get them passed out. Maybe.

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You can go take them right now, if you guys want she'll, put them on her phone, didn't send them right over there. So mr. Smith.

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On the badges out there, yeah.

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That's true if mr. Smith has a photo on file there, so I think mr. Fairfield does as well.

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It looks like a 20 year old I, almost.

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Made a here copy.

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Any other questions about that old new business motion to adjourn mr. wood, just second Oh choices.

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All those in favor those opposed have a good day.