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Kankakee County Board Meeting 04/12/2022 9:00am

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uh Good morning would like to call the uh kankakee county full board meeting for april 12th to order uh today's invocation is from tinker parker.

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We thank you for this beautiful morning and by bringing this board together, we ask for your blessings for those who attend. You have blessed us with supportive people who seek to build their of our county. May we lead through humility and love. We pray that you guide us always strengthen us as we make tough decisions, enable us to think and strategize in ways that will achieve great results.

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Give us clarity to effectively tackle each part of today's agenda, reveal problem areas and show us the best solutions that will apply. We pray today for all the leaders, nations, states, townships and counties watch over all those who protect and serve our community keep them safe from harm. Lord. We continue to pray for the people of ukraine and ask that you give them strength and courage.

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During this holy week, lord make us people whose word can be trusted and who are faithful in love to you. Our families and our neighbors in christ's name, amen, amen.

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Amen, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance.

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All right, we can get a roll call. Please.

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Mr hess, mr thalin, mrs polk president, mr snipes, mr siroi present mr lear, mrs weber, president, mrs peters, mr payton president, mrs parker, mr fairfield, mr carrico, mr eckhoff president, mr swanson, mr featherling president, mr donnell, president, mr miller. Mr long president, mr kirkstra, mr hunter is brian, mr collins, ms hudson president, mr smith, president, mr alexander hildebrand, president mr gowler, mr raymond president, mr wheeler president.

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We have a quorum. uh We have uh no request for public comment today, um no presentations or vacancy appointments uh proclamation. uh If we could uh it's pretty brief, I would imagine yeah. Let's read that one in the record, if we could.

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Proclamation declaring april 2022 is child abuse prevention month, whereas preventing child abuse and neglect is a community problem that depends on involvement among people throughout the community, whereas we all have a responsibility as individuals, neighbors, community members and citizens of the county of kankakee, and whereas safe and healthy childhoods produce, confident and successful adults, and whereas child abuse and neglect often occurs when people find themselves in stressful situations without community resources and don't know how to cope.

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And whereas the majority of child abuse cases stem from situations and conditions that are preventable in an engaged and supportive community and whereas child abuse and neglect can be reduced by making sure each family has the support they need in raising their children in a safe, nurturing environment and whereas effective child abuse prevention program succeed because of partnerships created among social service agencies, schools, faith communities, civic organizations, law enforcement agencies and the business community.

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Now, therefore, I andrew h, wheeler by virtue of the authority vested in me as county board, chairman of kankakee county illinois, to hereby proclaim april as child abuse prevention month and call upon all citizens. Community agencies, faith groups, medical facilities and businesses to increase their participation in our efforts to support families, thereby preventing child abuse and strengthening the communities in which we live.

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Thank you, sir, and uh thanks to carol frankie for sending this in and making this request she spot on with this every year, and we appreciate it. uh Is there a motion to approve and adopt mr long miss polk with a second uh all, those in favor, say aye aye. Those opposed same sign motion carries. Thank you uh moving on uh certificates of appreciation.

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Looking around, I don't see anybody here, uh chris civilly from the state's attorney's office, 10 years, ernest richardson in the courts 20 years, katie cantrell in the circuit clerk's office, 20 years and marla coxy in the courts 25 years. Thank you all so much for your service um minutes of last meeting march, 8th 2022. Is there a motion to approve there with ms hudson, mr smith, with a second all those in favor, say aye aye. Those opposed same sign motion carries uh under claims committee reports.

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Chairman and members of the county board, your committee on county claims would beg leave to report they've examined the following claims presented and recommend payment. The clerk is hereby authorized and directed to issue orders to the several claimants total claims of five million seven hundred seventy four thousand seven hundred and sixty nine dollars and fourteen cents.

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All righty uh is there a motion to approve there? uh Mr lear? Oh a second, mr donald. All those uh actually be a roll call vote, apologize.

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Mr hess hi mrs polk aye, mr snipes aye, mr siroy aye, mr lear aye, mrs weber, hi, mrs peters, mr payton aye, mrs parker aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico, mr eckhoff aye, mr fatherling aye, mr donnell aye, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr hunter aye, ms hudson aye, mr smith, aye, mr alexander aye, mr galler aye, mr raymond aye, mr wheeler.

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Aye motion carries uh under department reports.

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Please county collector's monthly report for february 2022 total cash and bank investments 1 forty 854 dollars and eighteen cents, county treasurer's monthly report for february two thousand twenty two total cash investments, one million eight hundred fifty four thousand forty nine dollars and eighteen cents, foreigners monthly report for february 2022 total calls 103 coroner's cases, 18 autopsies, 11, toxicology, 12., hospice, 42 referral, 43, cremations, 59, x-rays, 3 outside autopsies, 2 outside x-rays, 1, covet 19, 7, 12, pending coroner's income, summary report for february 2022, total of 5284.29.

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Circuit clerk cash book for month, ending february 20, 2022 total disbursed of 215 468.63.

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Recorders monthly report for february 2022 disbursement fees paid to the county, treasurer of 143 493.96.

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County clerk's monthly report for february 2022, total of 32 five dollars and fifty two cents monthly building division report for february is total permits of thirty four total fees of ten thousand eight hundred and sixty one dollars.

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Animal control monthly report for february 2022, total fees of 5 117 in the iptip building fund, 46.19, total animals handled 54 and the monthly resolution list for april 2022 total to the county of 1071.

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And the uh quarterly quarterly report for the illinois, iroquois kangaki regional superintendent of schools office, is on file.

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All righty is there a motion to combine and approve that uh this is parker, mrs pope, uh with a second, um let's roll or excuse me voice vote. All those in favor, say aye.

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Those opposed same sign motion carries. Thank you uh under uh the consent agenda. uh Is there anything to be removed and considered separately from this first consent agenda.

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Second time.

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Then we need a motion to combine and approve mr ekkoff, a second on that, mr miller. If we can get those read the record, please the.

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Reappointment of jordan lee to the moment's fire protection district, the reappointment of dave horn to the emergency telephone system board, etsb 911, the reappointment of robert dennis to the farmland assessment review committee, the reappointment of peter bial to the farmland assessment review committee and the appointment of joey baud to the moments fire protection district.

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uh Roll call vote on that. Please, mr.

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Hess aye mrs polk, hey mr snipes aye, mr c roy aye, mr lear aye, mrs weber, aye, mrs peters aye, mr payton aye, mrs parker aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico aye, mr eckhoff aye, mr fatherling aye, mr donail, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr hunter aye, ms hudson aye, mr smith, aye, mr alexander aye, mr gowler aye, mr raymond aye, mr wheeler hi, commercial,.

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Motion carries um the next item. Is the concurring resolution 57 if we could just get that subtitle read please.

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Resolution awarding the contracts for highway projects that were opened at the bid, letting on march 10 2022 to the lowest responsible bidder.

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Is there a motion to approve to the lowest responsible bidder we'll go with mr carrico? Second, mr payton, um any questions about that roll call vote. Please.

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Mr house, mrs polk, hey.

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I said I okay, mr snipes all right, mr sirois aye, mr lear aye, mrs weber, aye, mrs peters aye, mr peyton aye, mrs parker aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico aye, mr eckhoff aye, mr fatherling aye, mr donnell aye, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr hunter aye, ms hudson aye, mr smith, aye, mr alexander aye, mr gowler aye, mr raymond, mr wheeler. All right.

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Motion carries uh the next item 58. If we get that red title record resolution.

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Of the county board of kanke county illinois appropriating county bridge funds to construct a bridge on the will kankakee county line.

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uh So, let's start off with a motion to approve there. uh Mr carrico, mr donald with a second um pretty standard fare. We just sent it to the full board for approval, no questions. We can roll call about that, one as well.

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Mr hess, mrs polk aye, mr snipes aye, mr c roy aye, mr lear aye, mrs weber, mrs peters, mr payton aye, mrs parker aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico, mr eckhoff, mr fatherling, mr donnell, mr miller, mr long aye, mr hunter aye, ms hudson aye, mr smith, aye, mr alexander aye, mr galler aye, mr raymond aye, mr wheeler aye,.

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Motion carries moving right along warp speed. Sorry, um I thought I'd throw that out there. um It was yesterday, it's not today, um moving on to uh 59. If we get that title read the record resolution, the.

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County board of kenke county illinois authorizing the county board chairman to sign an agreement with white and company for kankakee county building projects.

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uh To start off with a motion to approve uh we'll go with mr featherling and for someone else, uh mr fairfield, with a second, um I hope everybody had a chance to watch the the meeting where we went through this in detail, uh but it's a listing of all the projects that you have sent basically to the to the full board saying: yes, we want to explore this.

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We want to figure out what this costs and then budget from that point on what we can afford to do, uh with a combination of grant funds and uh arpa funds and any residual funds that are needed out of whether it's animal control on a vip tip or whatever else. So these are necessary steps. uh It's the key part is to mention that we don't spend money until we need to spend money, so we're going doing these in tasks of phases.

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So in order to build a building, you first have to know how much it costs to see if it fits in the funds envelope, as evidenced by animal control, that we're able to to spend on that. And then, if we can't, then we don't move on to phase two. If it's a five million dollar building, then we we have to decide whether we can afford that which we already determined. We can't because we don't have the bonding capacity to do that.

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So um it's just one of those things where it's very measured and it's it's staged in various projects that are happening kind of at the same time. So all this is not waiting on one to be done, they're all moving at the same time, and so at different points.

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We'll get information back on what those costs are comes back here to the board, and then we move on to uh phase two which would in the case of animal control, would be going through all the funding mechanisms, the bonds that we would put out if it fits in the envelope and things like that, other projects have different timelines and different maneuvers that we have to do. Does that make sense, I still want the public to think that we're just moving forward on everything. First, we're making sure we can afford what that solution is.

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But in order to get to that point we have to spend a little money to get those engineered drawings. So uh any other questions about this. It's pretty detailed within the proposal, but I just want to make sure we are answering anything that you need to to release the hounds, as they say.

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Alrighty, well, we have a motion in a second then I guess we could roll call vote. This agreement.

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Mr hess aye mrs polk hi, mr snipes, mr c, roy aye, mr lear aye, mrs weber, aye, mrs peters aye, mr payton aye, mrs parker aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carrico aye, mr ackoff aye, mr fatherling aye, mr donnell aye, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr hotter.

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Hudson aye mr smith, aye mr alexander aye, mr gowler aye, mr raymond aye.

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Mr wheeler aye motion carries thank you um 74. If we can get that title read please.

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Resolution authorizing the county board chairman to sign a consolidated vehicle procurement, application.

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uh We'll start, uh maybe someone out of pga that went through that. Is there a motion to approve? uh Let's go with mr uh featherfield. How about that motion in a second?

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They were both part of it. uh We'll go with uh fairfield with the motion featherling with a second. So um it's like benefir. I got a new name here. I think that we can run with. um So that's basically ben can you know elaborate, but it's a vehicle purchase program, that's with uh uh federal funds. So if just a quick ben's notes version uh cliff.

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Notes yeah, thank you, mr chairman, so this is we're requesting one replacement vehicle. uh It's a medium duty. We have in the fleet, which uh has exceeded the the mileage capacity for for that vehicle type, so we're asking for one new vehicle to replace some of our rolling stock. It's uh the state just uh rolled out, and- and I do uh thank you for uh allowing us to move this through finance- uh we, we didn't quite get the application in time for the the regular meeting schedule.

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uh So we were able to get to talk about this at finance and um replace that one vehicle we need to replace.

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Any other questions there: roll cabo, please.

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Mr hess, mrs polk aye, mr snipes, all right, mr sirois aye, mr lear aye, mrs weber, aye, mrs peters aye aye, mr payton aye, mrs parker aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico, mr eckhoff aye, mr fatherling aye, mr donnell aye, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr hunter.

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All right, miss hudson aye, mr smith, aye, mr alexander aye, mr gowler aye, mr raymond aye, mr wheeler aye,.

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Motion carries all righty, so this next consent agenda is all of our arpa uh requests that have gone through finance, and so is there any of those that need to be removed and considered separately.

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Just like our other consent agenda, it's the same process. uh Mr hess, did you have something.

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Yes, I I don't want anything removed, but on number 67 it says amending resolution. What are we amending on that resolution?

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That's for bishop mack. We approved it at the.

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Finance committee right: it's the the fun that it's coming out of- okay um and steve. If you could, please explain that, but I and I wanna- I don't wanna miss misspeak, but they change the rules, that of what fun things can come from, and so we adjust we're adjusting that one to come from the correct fund, which is the best use of it here locally. Okay, I hope that makes sense. They they, the the final rule, was different than the interim rules and then there's more rules that are changing.

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So I don't know when the final final final rules are going to be, but I'm sure we'll find that out if they send us a letter, but.

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It's still the 10 000 words. It's.

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Still the same amount, it's just the fund, it's coming from correct, steve, okay, all right, of course! Oh yes, sir.

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So that's going to be the same for like grace or any other ones. Is it just a pacific for parochial, or is it just? It was.

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For the type of use of the money, the.

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Needs yeah, it was.

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I think it was for air uh quality right, but uh I don't know if, if the the the or was it the tiles at the other facility is that air quality? That's mold remediation. You know it's it's it's it's very general and loose, but we're trying to be specific.

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Steve yeah in the interim uh air conditioning or things like that, we're not allowed, um but in the final rule those have now come into play as as applicable, so um we're going to direct darpa funds instead of the lost revenue funds um and then we're also at the next finance, bringing back one application that went through that. We denied because of the interim final rule, that we now have information, we're bringing back uh for uh writing and we're also talking.

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To you, I can't hear you steve: could you and mike sorry.

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My voice is not getting picked up. Okay, um you have to get. Is this on yeah? It's not. It is on okay, um so we're bringing up two applications. Previous applications that didn't qualify that qualify now after the final rule was uh uh released about a month ago. Okay,.

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So they're kind of like allowing havoc to have that I guess yeah part of it is coming in okay, it's good for.

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Approve that that type of approval.

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Because, originally I don't think it uh it had to be air purification systems, not just air quality and their handling and they've loosened that up a little bit. We still have same issues in churches because the you know the united states supreme court says you can't spend money for the the preaching part of churches, but you can, if it's a ancillary use of the facility. So that's we still got that same issue. uh Mr lear.

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uh Changing topics a little for the members of the board and also the public in terms of the process. Here, of course, uh the applications are submitted and reviewed by a committee that you, as chairman, have set up, and then it goes to the finance committee with recommendations from that group.

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uh I I don't think that I was aware until I sat in with the group that you said up that if someone in the committee that presents recommendations to finance uh feels that they should be able to receive funds, and the the review committee that you originally set up had was not going to recommend it, uh the person could request that their application be submitted to the finance committee, uh so that they're and the information that I have is that no one has asked to go on to finance committee after that review committee suggested it doesn't meet the guidelines.

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So there is a step in there that allows uh the applicants to go to directly to finance if they wish.

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There is and we're going to have one at finance this month. I believe and the the the person that filed it. Their business is located out of indiana, but they have local locations here.

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They have to file that in indiana, because that's where their tax return, it's not up to us to to structure their business, so ours is for kankakee county residents and businesses if that makes sense. um So if it's just because they have a location here, it kind of stinks a little bit. I see where they're going, but they chose to set up their business that way so we're going to make that decision in finance. They can still go forward. We advise them of that and they still want to push forward on it.

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So it's there we just try not to to make people come in and then knowing the answer is no because it doesn't meet the requirement. So that's that's always there thanks for saying that. Don't clarify that yeah.

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I think that's important for everyone to know so.

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That's good about the process. So let's talk about consent agenda first. Is there anything else that needs to come off and if not, can we get a motion to combine and approve and then we can read them in the record good, miss poke in a second with mr payton. So if we could run through those, please.

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Authorizing expend expenditure from fiscal year, 2022 fund 95 american rescue plan fund for the following grace christian academy: jesse bell lane memorial park, chabanz recreation, kankakee valley, park, district locavore farms, fast signs, vita nails, kanke, county maintenance department, duct cleaning, bishop mcnamara and for fund 0.98 lost revenue for the kanke county assessor's office for matt printer and to the village of union hill.

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Alrighty then we would need a roll call vote. Please.

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Mr huss hi mrs polk aye, mr snipes, all right, mr siroi aye, mr lear aye, mrs weber, aye, mrs peters aye, mr peyton aye, mrs parker aye, mr fairfield aye, mr caricom, aye, mr eckhoff, mr featherling aye, mr dunhill aye, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr hunter aye, ms hudson aye, mr smith, aye, mr alexander aye, mr gowler aye, mr raymond aye, mr wheeler hi,.

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Motion carries thank you and uh if there is more discussion necessary, we do have you know old business. At the end, we can go into process and other things um if we could maybe get mentioned of the opening.

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Certainly, one opening on the clawson park, drainage district, one opening on the x-line creek drainage district, one opening on the mcgilvray special drainage district, one opening on the emergency telephone system board, one opening on the kinky county border review, one opening on the metro board, one opening on the kankee valley airport authority, one opening on the kaneki county housing authority, one opening on the bourbon, a fire protection district, one opening on the cabery fire protection district, one opening on the grant park, fire protection district, one opening on the limestone fire protection district, one opening on the mantino fire protection district, one opening on the pilot township fire protection district, one opening on the saint anne fire protection district, one opening on the sheriff merit commission for a republican one, opening on the kaneki county, public building commission an expired term, two openings on the canada van drainage district and two openings on the mantino number: nine drainage district.

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At this point, we uh need a motion to uh enter executive session for a few different things: uh purchase real estate, 5i lcs, 120, slash, 2c5, an appointment of legal counsel for the public body; 5ilcs120, slash 2 c1. uh So is there a motion uh two-winner executive session, mr carrico, uh mr donnell? Let's go with mr alexander hildebrand on the second.

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Before we go in, I need what was on the county housing authority that.

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We that's open, I'm not sure who's there right now. Sorry, I know that it has to be two people from the city of kankakee. Okay, so I'd have to have to check.

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um Sorry, the uh uh roll call vote to go into executive session. Mr.

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Hass aye mrs polk aye, mr stipes, all right, mr c, roy aye, mr lear aye, mrs weber, aye, mrs peters aye, mr peyton aye, mr parker aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico aye, mr eckhoff aye, mr featherling aye, mr donnell, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr hunter aye, ms hudson aye, mr smith, aye, mr alexander aye, mr dowler, mr raymond aye, mr wheeler.

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Hi motion carries.

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Be just a minute to change over. Thank you.

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Thank you. We are back. We are back from executive session, looks like all board members still present uh starting off under new business. Is there um number 70 if we can get that title right in the record? Please resolution.

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Of the county board of kenke county illinois authorizing the county board chairman to sign an agreement for the purchase of real estate.

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All righty is there a motion on this one here, uh mr eckoff and we'll go with mr. uh Let's go with miss polk to start with on this one here, first, um so again, those dates as far as the on the contract will be altered as we talked about. It won't necessarily take effect on that date. There's still more things to line up, but it's agreeing on the um the purchase price is basically what you're allowing me to move forward on on that property. So uh and then, mr snipes, did you have something I'm.

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Just saying can we uh is, is the motion stated okay, we meant the motion to include the environmental study.

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The motion in the second does that include environmental study on the property. We good, I'm sorry who was the yes I'll, miss poke okay. That was right. Okay, yeah we'll make that in the motion. Thank you, sir.

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uh So there may be an extra cost on that and that will just get paid through the claims just want to make sure you know that normal claims process will be it'll just a bill that comes in. It's not going to be I'm assuming how about this. If it's more than two thousand dollars, then I'll bring it back before the finance committee- fair enough?

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Yes, okay! So it's not to exceed two thousand and then, if it huh it's going to be a lot, that's more than that! Oh does anybody have any idea what environment environmental study costs mostly a little bit more.

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Than 2 000, so all right, let's try.

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A lot of money.

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All right is it: is there like remediation kind of stuff or what.

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uh I think it's probably soil borings, I'm not the the real real estate. People aren't here right now, but uh and we're talking just on the property next door. Are we talking on both properties? I.

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Should be practicing both so all right.

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It's not cheap.

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Mr chairman, yes, mr right, thank you, mr chairman, with the area being industrial, there might be local environmental studies already available from other uh surrounding areas that we could review, possibly.

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Because I don't want to get hung up for another month here in an environmental study.

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I just got to think how this lines up, because if it's more than that, we're still going to have to come back, and I have no idea what the cost is.

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I tell you what let's table this one for just a moment, go through some other business while we are go through the rest of these, we'll come back to it as the next item. Does that make sense, we'll temporarily set this one aside, we'll run through the other items, we're getting some information. So is there a motion to put set it on the table uh and then we'll pick it up here in a second, uh mr gallard. Mr long, mr, is that a roll call, I don't think it's a roll call.

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All those in favor say aye, please, those opposed same sign. Okay, we'll pick that back up in just a moment. Please we'll move on to the next. One um should be pretty simple: authorizer 71. If you would read that in the record.

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Resolution, the county board of kinky county illinois authorizing the county board chairman to execute an agreement with nugent curtis real estate for broker services.

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All right move, mr hunter with the motion, a second, mr payton. Any questions about that roll call vote. Please. Mr hass.

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No, that's just on the offer. That's on the the because it's basically agreement, it's what we paid the broker on commission and what we're going to offer for the property.

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Mr snipes aye c roy aye, mr lear aye mrs weber, aye, mrs peters aye, mr payton aye, mrs parker aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico, mr eckhoff aye, mr fatherling aye, mr dunhill aye, mr miller, aye, mr long all right, mr hotter aye, ms hudson aye, mr smith, all right, mr alexander aye, mr galler aye, mr raymond aye, mr.

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Wheeler aye motion carries so if we can go back and can I get a motion to do, we have any answers on that. Terry, just curious story. Should I bring it back up or.

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I'm still waiting, okay.

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Thank you give me the signal when it's time next item 72, please resolution.

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Of the county board of kanke county illinois authorizing the county board chairman to sign a fee letter for legal representation related to labor agreements and issues.

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Is there a motion on this one? Mr hess, a second uh with mr fairfield? uh Any questions, comments, roll call vote, please. Mr hess.

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Mrs polk aye, mr snipes all right, mr c, roy aye, mr lear hi, mrs weber, hi, mrs peters, mr payton, mrs parker, mr fairfield, mr carrico, mr eckhoff, mr fatherling, mr donnell, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr hunter aye, ms hudson aye, mr smith, aye, mr alexander aye, mr gowler, all right, mr raymond aye, mr wheeler hi,.

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Motion carries uh let's move on to 73. If we could.

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Resolution of the county board of kanke county illinois authorizing the chairman of the kanke county board to sign a collective bargaining agreement between kankakee county and the fraternal order of police patrol and command contract for december 1st 2021 through the november 30th 2023.

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All right uh start off with a motion to approve on this contract. uh Miss miss polk was the the motion. Can we get someone from the negotiating team with a second? uh Mr long? uh Any discussion on that item.

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All right, I just wanted to to thank the bargaining unit uh from uh patrol uh for their work on this.

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uh We ended up with something that was beneficial to all of us and got us in line and able to support long-term viability uh with with supporting that at that unit, uh getting them paid with the comps, but also them realizing that the county just took it on the chin, from the state of illinois last year and every year going forward with a loss of five and a half million dollars in revenue um for really no reason all marketing nothing to do with solving a problem.

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Alrighty uh roll call vote. Please then, mr house aye.

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Mrs polk aye mr snipes aye, mr siroi aye, mr leer, mrs weber, mrs peters, mr payton, mrs parker, mr fairfield, mr carico aye, mr eckhoff, mr fatherling aye, mr donnell aye, mr miller. Mr long all right, mr hunter aye, ms hudson aye, mr smith, aye, mr alexander aye, mr galler aye, mr raymond aye, mr wheeler.

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Aye motion carries all righty. Is there a motion to remove 70 from the table, uh bring it back, mr snipes uh second, to bring back into discussion. Mrs miss hudson, um all those in favor say aye. Those opposed same sign all right back into discussion on 70..

A

So I guess the issue I have is is I can't I don't know what an environmental study will be cost wise, so we almost have to bring that back as a second item. In my my mind, uh would you agree um at this point it's too nebulous of for us to move forward um in my opinion now, unless we get some kind of information here in just a moment, um yes, miss gowdy.

A

The recommendation, oh excuse me just a moment, go ahead. Please.

J

Recommendation from the broker is that you do it on the parcel that has the building only and that you do a phase one study which he thinks would be between fifteen hundred and two thousand dollars. um I'm looking at.

J

I want to check one thing in the contract, because my suggestion would be is that you make the purchase contract contingent on the inspection um and ask that the seller pay for it.

I

Okay, I like that.

H

Sounds good to me.

A

I would say yes, I mean because that that typically seller would pay for something like that right, yeah um and it's not a whole lot of money, so correct we're basically approving the same amount of money with those language changes in the contract.

J

It would be adding um just adding to the contract to the one clause which we can tweak in here. Okay, the.

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J

Issue is going to be is if something comes up: you're going to have to move to a phase, 2 study, which will be a little bit more pricey but again contingent on the contract or you back out of the contract. Sure.

A

Sure the good thing is phase. One is not tremendously debilitating for the seller. um You know cash flow wise, so I would we probably would have a positive conversation about that. So is the motion amended to include what was just stated on the record and who, who made those motions? I apologize uh mr ekhoff and ms polk, mr eckhart from miss polk. We good with that.

A

Yes, okay, for me all right, any other discussion on this. I think it's a good day that we're we're committing to animal control and moving forward, and we know what our plan is. We just got a few dominoes to fall.

A

Roll calvo, please, mr hess.

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Mrs poke aye mr snipes, mr siroi aye mr lear, mrs webber, mrs peters, mr payton, mrs parker aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico aye, mr eckhoff aye, mr featherling aye, mr dunhill aye, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr hunter aye, ms hudson aye, mr smith, aye, mr alexander aye, mr galler aye, mr raymond aye, mr wheeler aye,.

A

Motion carries thank you. uh Just as a one item of old business, I received an email. We had a bunch of appropriations that came out of the budget, I'll just stick with the ones that the board are involved when there's evolved in there's a lot for other townships and villages and park districts in there. uh But uh um the state's attorney's office got a nice million-dollar grant uh for um and he'll be talking more about that, but for youth development, violence prevention- I was could not be happier on that.

A

The seven million dollars is reappropriated to the kanke county uh for the us by the way is managing that uh with the capital improvements along the kenky river I mentioned, the hundred thousand dollars is reappropriated for general infrastructure and we're marking towards animal control. uh 25 000 is reappropriated for a grant to the stairs uh construction that we already completed um so they're actually going to allow us to get the money they promised us, which is yay. um They just never appropriate it. They said sure you can have it, but they didn't appropriate it.

A

They just released that 400 grand for the basement that was reappropriated, we're already underway on that and should be announcing the full plan shortly and then another million for the associated with uh river dredging uh for and that's for, the aroma park boat launch so you're going to see a lot happening with that this summer and into the fall so that we've got to get our rescue boats in the water over there in aroma park. And that's that's the it is the impediment you gotta go somewhere else to get it in.

A

uh So those that's really good news. That's a lot of money for kanke county so uh and we're working on detailing exactly where it's going to go, because it's project specific all right. Any other old business and new business.

A

So it feels like it's 11.. It's only 10 o'clock motion to adjourn. Mr.

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A

Miss peters all those in favor, say aye. Those opposed same side have a.