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Kankakee County Board Meeting 2/9/2021 9:00 AM

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Good morning like to call the uh keiki county full board meeting to order for february 9 2021. Today's invocation is from steve.

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Our prayer to you at a time when our nation faces many prices, we ask that you give strength and human to all who have.

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Become ill by this virus that ravages our land give peace to those who are stressed or fearful because of the troubles that plague our nation.

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May your protection cover those first responders and health care workers who fight this virus. May your protection cover those in law enforcement who serve serves our shields against racist, behavior, destruction of private property and anti-democratic violence?

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May your presence and blessing be felt by all who work in ken key county government. Finally, we ask you to give wisdom to the members of this board as we seek to represent all people of kankakee county amen,.

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Thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance.

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All righty, uh if we can get a roll call, mr hendrickson, thank you.

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Mr hess, mr thalin, mrs polk.

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Snipes president, mr sirois president, mr lear, president, mrs weber,.

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Mrs peters president, mr payton, mrs parker president, mr kenzinger president, mr fairfield president, mr carrico.

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Mr carrico president, mr eckhoff.

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Mr smith, from celina.

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They basically saw that there was an increase in percentage.

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Mr hunter, miss brian.

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Mr collins, miss hudson.

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Mr smith, from bourbon a president, mr wheeler president,.

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If we could ask who is uh on the call, last digits 533 of the phone number.

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This is heather.

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Okay, ready we'll get. You noted that you're in the meeting we're gonna rename you real, quick just on zoom, not in real life. Did you switch. This is.

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We're just checking to see if the link for the meeting was sent out to.

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When it went to the usual group that.

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Send to all county board members.

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And is that a board member? That's no.

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I don't think the department heads are on the.

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List they're not usually on the link to participate unless they're on the agenda.

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Do you want to find out, it went.

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To all board members.

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Can we send it to department heads real quick, so they can get on.

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Just a moment, please we're gonna make sure we get the zoom invite out to department heads.

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No got it: okay, all righty yeah we're good.

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Okay. Moving on, we have uh public commentary. I have one call to make it uh it's uh john.

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Hello- this is john, uh yes, you're on public comment.

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um Yes, thank you.

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um I am thank you for uh calling me chairman wheeler. I apologize for not being uh immediately ready, but uh thank you for following through okay, um I was calling to uh bring to the board a recent declaration um from a detainee at jerome combs, who is being held on behalf of ice there.

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Mr florian kroenig had put out a declaration that um introduced a number of concerns to me and several other members of our community.

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um Mr kramek was the first, I believe, uh ice detainee in jerome combs to be infected with covid19, and it was quite difficult for him to be to for that to be identified as covet 19 and for that to be, and for him to receive appropriate treatment for his circumstances.

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In his declaration that it took from a few days before christmas and until december, 29th of 2020 for him to receive any test for covid19.

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Despite him having a number of symptoms that clearly indicated that he likely had the disease, so it's curious to me why it took a full week for jerome combs staff to administer a test, given the significant health risk he would have posed to both other inmates, as well as the prison staff.

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He finally did get that test it. The results told to him uh were a appear to have been a false negative. Despite having the same symptoms a week later and eventually testing positive. He was first told that he did not have covet 19..

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So I'm curious about how accurate those initial test results were, especially because, as a result of that incorrect results, he was allowed to expose multiple other inmates to the coronavirus and again also jerome comes staff.

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Once a test did correctly identify that he had covet 19, he was placed in a locked down cell that he declared was effectively solitary confinement. So I'd also like to ask the members of the board whether that is standard treatment, protocol for isolating inmates who have inmates who have tested positive for coronavirus and.

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My my final concern is not related to coronavirus but related to the duration of mr kroenick's. Stay there.

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um He in his declaration, he stated that he has been there since january 30th of 2020, which is now over a year, and my understanding is that ice regulations state that detainees are to have access to regular outside recreation time and that if a facility does not have those outdoor recreation facilities, they should only be held there for 30 days.

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However, mr kroenig has been detained there for over a full year, more than 12 times the permitted length and has been deprived of sunlight the entire time, and my understanding is that mr kraenig is not an unusual case. There are multiple inmates there who have been detained at your own combs for even longer than he has so. I would like to know from the members of the county board what their stance is on people being detained far in excess of what isis regulations permit.

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So thank you for your time and attention to this matter. I hope that our county can be a place where human rights are recognized and honored. Thank you very much.

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No more public comment commentary has been submitted today, uh vacancy appointments moving on proclamations dan. If you would like to read the proclamation, would that be okay? Absolutely! Thank you, sir.

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Proclamation of the county board of king key county illinois in recognition of first responders in february, first 2021 incident at vulcan materials company, whereas on sunday february, 20 february, 1st 2021 at approximately 12 25 a.m.

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Limestone fire protection, district and salina fire were dispatched to vulcan materials company located at 1277 county highway, 28 lee high road kankakee illinois to rescue two people and whereas responding firefighters found two female subjects: trapped on an approximately 80-foot ledge on the side of a 200 foot, pile of aggregate unstable stone and whereas limestone township fire chief mike whalen stated. The victims were both terrified and hypothermic, and whereas mutual aid with other supporting communities and agencies was deployed and the unified team led by lieutenant nate boyce from the king key fire department.

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And whereas a rescue plan was immediately developed and executed, which accounted for enhanced, enhanced cold weather, heavy snow and the rough terrain. It included developing a complex rope system to lower kinky fire, lieutenant dave weech and to the victims, and whereas the rescue took nearly four hours from the dispatch to the successful conclusion and the following. Responding entities all contributed to the successful implementation, including limestone fire protection, district salina, fire protection, district aroma, fire protection, district bourbon, a fire protection district, kankakee fire department.

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Riverside ambulance can key county technical rescue team, maybas, 19 mutual aid box alarm system 19 can keep county highway. Plowing snow for access can key county sheriff's police can come kinky county communications center can key river valley, metro for warming, buses, scanline excavation carved a path through the stone, whereas our well-trained certified first responders and the volunteers that came forward for this, and other events like this need to be recognized for their heroism and their efforts, especially in an era where their contribution to our community and society in general is being maligned.

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Both in media coverage and legislative actions such as house bill, 3653 and whereas the kanke county board celebrates our first responders and appreciates the dedication it takes to train for and respond to situations that put their own safety at risk and whereas county board members, craig long of limestone and carol weber of hirscher, represent the area of where the incident occurred and the jurisdictions of the initial responders and together they bring this resolution forward for consideration.

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Now, therefore, be it proclaimed that the county board salutes the above named entities and all others that ensured a successful resolution to this event and be it furthermore proclaimed that the kaneki county board reaffirms our support and appreciation of first responders all over the nation, and that we continue to reject any initiative that defunds or put those at risk. That's publicly honorably to serve the public honorably at risk.

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Is there a motion to approve I'll go with mr snipes, mr lear, with a second uh any other comment, uh mr long, miss weber. Do you have anything to add.

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I would love to add all right. Mr long go ahead and I go next.

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Sorry carol, we can't really hear you. I apologize.

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I'm sorry, I just wanted to make sure that we recognize those first responders and uh they they persevered through all of the conditions and their training took over and we had a successful rescue of local residents that absolutely apply.

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Well, thank you, then. I guess with that. Is there any other comments from the rest of the board.

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Whoever would like to add that if anybody's ever been near that large pile of limestone, they know how dangerous that really was and what efforts had to go into the safety of that.

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Thank you miss barbara, the I I I just I had those are great pictures. I want to put the one up there, especially from the look in the top of the pile and then how far down those people were on the pile. um I I you know. I obviously I don't know. If I don't know, if people understand that's, that's not a stable pile, it's very unstable and you could see the the the calving that occurred right below where they had to rescue people.

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So uh I wouldn't say that it was the best idea to try to go sledding that night, um but in because you, those people put those first responders at risk along with themselves, so we appreciate their service. Is there any other comments without that uh roll call vote, please.

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Mr hess, mrs polk.

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Snipes aye aye mr siroid aye, mr lear aye, mrs weber, aye, mrs peters aye, mr payton aye, mrs parker aye, mr kensinger aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico.

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Eckhoff aye mr smith, from celina aye mr swanson aye, mr featherling hi, mr dunhill hi, mr miller aye, mr long hi, mr kirkstra.

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Mr hunter aye, ms brian.

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Mr collins aye, mr smith, from bourbon a.

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Mr wheeler, all right.

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All right emotion carries um the I'm sorry.

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Oh, mr snipes, yes, I just want.

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To know since this incident has occurred and thank god that there was a safety, have they put up any signs restricting individuals from coming into that area since this incident has occurred, do we know of.

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I believe that's no trespassing is all over that facility. There used to be a customer of mine and you you can't walk 10 feet without seeing some kind of oh share a warning or do not enter, don't be a knucklehead. You know thank you. Watch your safety, so yeah you've been out there.

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I was just going to comment working in a quarries uh in in various areas. uh There is a no trespassing and their public is not invited inside. They are very dangerous areas and unstable, so in any kind of activity like that is, is, is strictly prohibited. Yeah. So.

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Did you have something yeah, mr.

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Sheriff downey, I just advised mr snipes. Those individuals were arrested for criminal trespass.

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uh I guess moving on the next item, please, if we can get that one ready.

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Proclamation of the county board of kankakee, county illinois and recognition of the kankakee eastside bulldogs, a youth football program that advanced and won the national championship in gatlinburg tennessee, whereas the kanke eastside bulldogs, is a youth football program that advanced to the national championship in gatlinburg tennessee.

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They won the 14u division, thanksgiving bowl championship game on november 28, 2020 and whereas the kinky county board congratulates the kankakee eastside bulldogs youth football program. As for advancing to the national championship on november 28, 2020 for title and winning, and whereas the east side bulldogs for the past 55 years, have provided the community with youth sports.

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Despite living through a global pandemic, they have opted to continue to provide the youth recreational sports during the fall and whereas the eastside bulldogs did not waste a single opportunity, as they went on to finish 14-2-1 overall winning two of the four tournament championships along the way, including an additional second place finish, whereas the eastside bulldogs, through all the obstacles with health safety and following guidelines had a successful season.

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Coach david hetherington said he believes. This year's season was a success. Thanks to the aid of jesse gathering, jr kankakee eastside bulldogs football league president. In the end, I think it turned out well. Hetherington said the kids enjoyed themselves and we were able to add a few more kids, whereas the kinky county board recognizes the outstanding achievement, excellence, tradition and leadership and congratulates the entire team on their amazing season.

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Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the kinky county board that it recognizes the east side bulldogs for their outstanding athletic achievement in bringing recognition to the kinky county community with pride, sportsmanship and dignity, and we congratulate them on their championship. Win after advancing to the national championship in gatlinburg tennessee on november 28, 2020.

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Great job uh is there a motion on that, mr hunter, mr chairman,.

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I I would ask that we defer action on this on this particular matter. Until we have uh jess gathering theodore space and coach heatherington here physically to receive uh the proclamation signed by you, uh I asked uh if indeed they were contacted. I don't know if these guys are in zone meetings.

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I tried to call both of them, so I I would having been a former board member way back when, uh when I had hair- and I was about 180 pounds- uh I was on the board then, but let me just say for the record: let me thank you, um as as a county board chairman uh vice chairman siroi, uh as well as uh county board member sam payton sheriff mike downey uh jim roh, uh jackie haas board board member.

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um Let's see who else uh the treasurer uh nick africano uh jerry suddith um bob gessner, uh I think dan. I think you even gave us a check as well too. You know there was wide range of support. um You know from this body as well as department heads too, because it costs money to feed and transport, all those kids uh to gatlinburg uh no problems whatsoever.

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um I was proud to solicit a lot of you guys, oh steve lear as well too donated as well too, but so I'm gonna ask that we hold this up and and have uh uh jess and and theodos and uh the quotes there. Do anybody have any objections? Well,.

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Let me ask you this: would it be, would it be okay if we voted on it, so we could read it and present it to them. Then we don't have to vote when.

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They come that's.

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Fine because believe it or not, that's the longest part of the process. These.

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Days is that roll call? No problem is that.

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Acceptable yeah.

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We'll go ahead and vote.

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On it, yeah back in okay.

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I'm probably calling that so there's.

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This is there a second, uh mr payton, um so yeah, that's uh we'll we'll go ahead, and if there's anybody who has anything else to say uh about this eastside bulldogs supposed to say, eastside, someone else is supposed to say bulldogs, but that's how that works coming from the east side, but uh no, it was.

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It was a great season for them and we're very happy for them, and I wish it was one of those times where in the past we've had you know, 10 members of the team come in too, but those days aren't these days uh so hopefully that we sometime soon down the road. We can get this room full again: okay, um but yeah we'll do that we'll call them in for the next one or whatever they have time. uh Roll call vote please. Mr.

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House, mrs polk.

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Mr snipes aye mr sirois aye, mr lear aye, mrs weber; oh mrs peters aye, mr peyton aye, mrs parker aye, mr kenzinger aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico aye, mr eckoff aye, mr smith, from celina mr swanson aye, mr featherling aye, mr donnell aye, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr kirkstra.

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Aye, mr hotter, I hope I didn't mention coroner bob gessner, including two of the dog. Okay, I'll, go to.

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Mr collins aye, mr smith, from bourbon and aye.

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Mr wheeler aye motion carries uh moving on minutes of the last meeting january 12 2021. Is there a motion to approve parker, uh miss parker and I heard miss pope um yeah. Let me see here.

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I got you I'm just trying to figure out if I can combine any of this stuff, but I don't I can't we have to do them one at a time. I apologize I'll need a roll call vote on the minutes. Please.

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Mr hess 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 kenzinger, all mr fairfield aye, mr carico aye, mr eckhoff hi, mr smith, from celina mr swanson aye, mr featherling hi, mr dunnell aye, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr kirkstra aye, mr hunter aye, ms bryan, mr collins, aye aye, mr smith, from bourbon a aye mr wheeler hi,.

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All right motion carries uh claims committee reports.

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Your committee on county claims would beg leave to report. They have examined the following claims presented and recommend payment. The clerk is hereby authorized and directed to issue orders to the several claimants total claims: seven million three hundred ninety eight thousand three hundred seventy seven dollars and seventy seven cents.

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All righty um is there a motion on the claims, uh mr hess. Second, mr lee got mr lear with the second sorry miss pope. He beat you to it. um Okay, next time. uh Let's roll call vote, please. Mr.

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Hess mrs polk.

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Mr snipes aye, mr siroy aye, mr lear aye, mrs webber.

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Mrs peters aye, mr peyton aye, mrs parker aye, mr kenzinger aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico aye, mr eckhoff.

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Smith from celina aye, mr swanson aye, mr featherling aye, mr dunhill aye, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr kirkstra.

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Mr hotter aye, ms bryan aye, mr collins aye, mr smith, from bourbon a aye.

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Mr wheeler aye motion carries uh under department of reports.

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County collectors report for uh month ending december 2020.. Yes, sir.

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uh Commissioner, kim hudson stated that I am on the meeting through the phone, but they are not calling my name do. We have her.

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Phone number ending in.

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282, let me see real quick.

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Well, she's, uh not on mute um who's on 282 phone number asked mute and if you are on the phone and your phone number's 282 you'll have to unmute.

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Can I ask who's on the phone number ending in 282? Please.

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And you're muted, if you're trying to answer we're going to have to bounce that out of the uh meeting, because there's no authorized numbers on the meeting. So if that person is not going to respond, we have to see it as yeah booted from the meeting.

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Yes, hello, okay, hello good morning, yeah.

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They couldn't hear you hi this.

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Is kimberly? Okay,.

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This is kimberly.

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All righty from now on, you'll be called and roll call. We didn't know you were in the meeting yeah.

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Thank you, sir.

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Yeah! Sorry about that, thank you. We're.

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Set uh okay: okay, continue! Thank you, sir.

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County collectors monthly report month ending december 2020 total cash and banking investments, 391 928 dollars and 70 cents, county treasurer's monthly report month, ending december 2020, 391, 928 dollars and 70 cents for total cash and investments.

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Coroner's monthly report for december 2020 total calls 154 coroner's cases, 24 autopsies, 15, toxicology, 16, 1, fetal, 75, hospice, 54 referrals, 107 cremations, two x-ray, two x-rays: two outside autopsies: six, pending coroner's income report for december two thousand twenty total of six thousand two hundred and nineteen dollars circuit clerk cash book for month, ending december 2020, total disbursed, 246 865 dollars and six cents recorders monthly report for december 2020 disbursement fees paid to the county treasurer of two hundred forty four thousand thirteen dollars and four cents county clerk's monthly report for month, ending december 2020, total fees, 29 and 25 animal control.

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Monthly report for december 2020, total submitted to the county, treasurer 36, 403 and 21 cents in the iptip building fund. 20.93 total animals handled 89.

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the monthly building division report for december 2020 total permits, 56 total fees, 19 689 dollars and the monthly resolution list for february. 2021 total to the county is six thousand thirteen dollars and twenty cents.

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All righty is there a motion to combine and approve that mr dunhill second uh miss polk uh roll call vote. Please.

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Mr hess, mrs polk aye, mr snipes aye, mr aye, mr lear aye, mrs weber,.

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Mrs peters aye mr peyton hi, mrs parker hi, mr kinzinger aye, mr fairfield, mr carco aye, mr eckhoff aye, mr smith, from celina aye, mr swanson aye, mr featherling hi, mr donnell aye, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr kirkstra.

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Hunter aye, ms brian aye, mr collins aye, ms.

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Mr smith, from bourbon egg hi, mr wheeler.

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Aye motion carries um on the consent agenda before if anybody has anything to be uh be removed. Let me know just want to mention that the appointment of james nichols to the kinky township fire protection district is a little bit out of the ordinary, because normally it goes to executive committee, they had a passing of a voting board member mo's arsenal and, uh by the way, my condolences, personal condolences go out to the family for that loss. He was.

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He served the community in the fire protection district honorably for years, but uh um so they got to get somebody on that board right away and they came forward through their legal representative and had somebody so we put it on the full board instead of executive going through it, because this is the only nomination.

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So I just want to mention that so is there anything that needs to come off the uh consent combined motion to combine and approve a second from mr hunter. If we could read those in the record, please.

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The appointment of tom forberger to the moments yellowhead drainage, district, the appointment of keith zelhart to the snake, creek drainage district, the appointment of donald h, zach to the kankakee river conservancy district, the re-appointment of janine wolfe to the cankee county etsb, the reappointment of doug jones to the cankee county housing authority.

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The appointment of james nichols to the kanke township fire protection district, declaring a surplus sheriff's equipment.

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All righty, um I guess we need a roll call vote. Please.

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Mr hess, mrs polk aye, mr snipes aye, mr c roy aye, mr lear aye, mrs weber, carl mrs peters aye, mr payton aye, mrs parker.

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Mr kenzinger aye mr fairfield aye, mr carico aye, mr eckhoff.

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Mr smith, from celina aye mr swanson aye, mr featherling aye, mr dunhill aye, mr miller hi, mr long hi, mr kirkstra aye, mr hunter aye, ms brian aye, mr collins aye, ms hudson.

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Mr smith, from bourbon a hi mr wheeler hi.

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Ocean carries um moving on to 172 title if we can get the title red.

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Resolution of the county board of candy county illinois appropriating county bridge funds to construct a bridge on the ford key county line is.

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There a motion to approve this.

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It's all moved, uh mr kinzinger. I believe yes, um second, mr long, um I did, I believe, just for an update. I believe that the cost came in mr rogers was that it went down a little bit. Is this the one we were talking about on the phone or I want to make sure?

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Yes, it is okay, and so what was it originally and what did it go down to all right? uh The.

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Original was the poor county and kaneki county were going to share the entire cost and greg grenson. The county engineer in ford county was notified that that was moved to the federal program, so the feds are going to pay 80 percent. So instead of the county of kankakee, paying 375 000 we're only going to pay 80 000.

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I hate it when that happens, um so no that's good. I just want to make sure the committee knew that especially highways and uh buildings who was on that and heard that original uh discussion. So uh thank you for that. uh We had a motion in a second, I believe, correct.

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Okay, uh roll call! Unless there's any questions, roll call vote. Oh mr hess.

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That will be reflected in the resolution that signed now.

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Yes, yep we're going to make the adjustment I was just looking through here.

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It says 425 in our resolution.

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County will appropriate 80 000 of county bridge funds. Is that accurate, yeah 80 000.? It's it says 80 in mine, and maybe I don't know if you didn't get an updated copy once this was done. Yeah, sorry about that, but it is 80 and it's in the resolution fixed roll cavo. Please.

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Mr hess aye, mrs polk.

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Snipes aye mr siroi aye, mr lear aye mrs webber, hello, mrs peters aye, mr payton aye, mrs parker aye, mr kenzinger aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico aye, mr eckhoff aye, mr smith, from celina aye, mr swanson aye, mr featherling aye, mr donnell hi, mr miller hi, mr long hi, mr kirkstra aye, mr hunter aye, ms brian aye, mr collins, aye. Ms hudson.

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Mr smith, from bourbon a.

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Wheeler aye motion carries uh moving on a uh now. We have the concurring, resolute resolution which is basically paying the bills for highway department. uh Is there a motion there to approve uh we'll go with mr kirkster? Is there someone on zoom for a second parker um I'll go with mr ekoff uh heard him interject there any questions about that? Otherwise, we'll do a roll call vote.

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Please mr hess aye mrs polk aye mr snipes aye, mr siroi aye, mr leer hi, mrs weber,.

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Mrs peters.

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Mr payton hi mrs parker hi mr kenzinger hi mr fairfield aye, mr carico aye, mr eckhoff aye, mr smith, from celina aye, mr swanson aye, mr featherling hi, mr donnell hi, mr miller hi, mr long hi, mr kirkstra.

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Mr hunter, miss brian aye, mr collins, aye, ms hudson, mr smith, from bourbon a aye mr wheeler hi,.

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So motion carries.

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Moving on to uh 174, if we can get the uh the title read in we'll get some motions and then go into questions resolution.

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Of the county board of kanke county illinois regarding zba case 20-06, variance to section 121-286.c.1 driveway intervals in the a1 agriculture district in section 14 of limestone township. Is there a motion to approve.

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On this one donald, mr and featherling, with a second um dell, do you have any uh anything to comment on or uh do? Would you like us to you want to share the screen and show the voice.

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I can I I can run you through it if you like.

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Would the board like to have this run through for everybody? I think it's a good idea, at least to show the public what we consider as well.

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All right, let me share my screen here, hang on here, that one right there, okay on your screen, is a and the uh outlined in red is the subject property. Mr norton owns both uh parcel 034 and 009, which is right to the west of it there he, which is where 009 is where they he gathers his uh his access to the property. Currently, these are two separate lots and he would like to sell o34.

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Separately from 009, which means it needs its own, its own access. Unfortunately, it does not have the required 330 feet of access that is required in the a1 district. This is a very old lot that was created back in the 1950s.

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Zoning board uh unanimously recommended that it be approved and planning, and zoning committee uh concurred with that.

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All right any questions for dell general, just it's the variance on the you know.

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It's on driveway spacing only allowed.

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Driveway for 330 feet of frontage.

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People, people that live in the municipalities may not realize that the county acts in this role for all the rural areas, so they they have their own planning departments or their own police force, and things like that with their municipalities, we do it um in the rural areas for people, so it enters into another discussion. When we talk about some things, we have on tap for next year, so all righty well roll call vote. Then.

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Mr hess hey mrs polk hi mr snipes aye, mr siroi aye, mr leer aye, mrs weber, earl, mrs peters aye, mr peyton hi, mrs parker aye, mr kenzinger aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico aye, mr eckhoff aye, mr smith, from celina, mr smith, hi, mr swanson hi, mr featherling aye, mr dunhill.

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Mr miller hi, mr long listen, mr long.

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Aye mr kirkstra aye, mr hunter, miss brian aye, mr collins aye, ms hudson.

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Mr smith, from bourbon a aye, mr wheeler, all right.

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Quotient carries um moving on to 175. Please.

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Resolution of the county board of kenke county illinois regarding zba case 20-07 variants to section 121-99.e lot with and section 121-286.c.1 driveway intervals in the a1 agriculture district of in section four of aroma, township.

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All righty a motion to approve from mr siroi a second another.

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All right we're gonna try how about do this again. Second anotherly, sorry, I had three. At the same time, I heard featherling the first time this time. Sorry, you got to be quick on the draw um alrighty. uh If we uh dell do you have anything on this one. Please.

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uh This one's actually a request for two variances uh share screen.

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The mann family own 130 acres out in southern aroma township.

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They would like to if you look at the uh red outlined area, that's part of the 130 acres and the green area right to the uh west. Of that little finger up. There is actually part of the 130 acres.

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They would like to use our farmstead exemption to remove that home from the farm so that it can be sold separately uh by doing that, uh the farmland will need its own driveway, which does not meet driveway interval spacing and the property does not have the required 330 feet of frontage uh once this division occurs, that is required in the a1 district, so they're asking for two different variances one for driveway interval to add another driveway in there to access the farmland and for a lot with variance on the farmland itself.

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Both zba and planning and zoning recommend the approval.

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Ready any questions about this one: roll calvo, please.

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Mr hess hi, mrs polk.

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Snipes aye mr c roy aye, mr lear aye, mrs webber, hello, mrs peters aye, mr peyton, mrs parker aye, mr kinzinger aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico.

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Mr eckhoff aye, mr smith, from celina aye mr swanson aye, mr featherling aye, mr donnell.

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Mr miller hi mr long aye, mr kirkstra, mr hunter, miss brian.

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Mr collins aye, ms hudson.

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Mr smith, from bourbon a aye mr wheeler.

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Aye all righty motion carries moving on to the next item: the property tax abatement for tax year 2020.. um Sorry, I just took your job. Could you please read the title of the record.

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Resolution of the county board of can key county illinois regarding property tax abatement for tax year 2020 payable 2021 to be abated in its entirety. All right. Here's.

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The official title there we go is there a motion to approve on this one.

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I second kimberly.

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Miss hudson uh so the for explanation point: uh this is something we obey every year. It's a necessity, so the health department is eligible for their larger grants. Well, all their grants really. So it's a I'd asked at one point. I thought it was around 25 000. We had bait, which the taxpayers don't have to pay uh in order to get roughly 500 000 that that's what we talked about. What is that six years ago, when we asked the question, so it's roughly that amount, so uh roll call vote, please.

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Snipes all right, mr siroi, mr lear hi mrs webber; oh mrs peters hi, mr payton, mrs parker, mr kenzinger, mr fairfield hi, mr carrico hi, mr eckhoff aye, mr smith, from celina aye, mr swanson aye, mr featherling aye, mr dunhill aye, mr miller hi, mr long hi, mr kirkstra.

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Hunter miss brian.

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Mr collins aye miss hudson.

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Smith from bourbon a aye.

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Mr wheeler aye motion carries um moving on the next item. 177.

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Resolution of the county board of kenky county county illinois authorizing the chairman of the kinky county board to sign a collective bargaining agreement between kinky county and the fraternal order of police lieutenant's contract tentatively agreed january 24, 22 2021.

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Thank you. Could I get a motion from somebody on the negotiating team? uh Mr lear, a second from someone on that team as well.

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uh Mr hunter, uh the reason I ask for that is is so the board could see that this was a an agreement that was uh faithfully negotiated between our team and theirs, and these agreements come recommended from your negotiating team. So um with that, uh is there any questions about the agreement?

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It's really just to limit those questions. There's no changes to the to the work environment. If you will it's just uh pay related.

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Any questions uh yes, sir, mr hunter.

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You know just to the fellow board members uh this particular process uh was rather, I don't know easy as the word to describe the process amicable.

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As the chairman has indicated, the only thing we had to really contend with are the numbers, as opposed to work environment, any other other issues. Hopefully that's a precedent for the future uh negotiations regarding the the balance of the workforce.

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um You know I would participate in this process and it was a bipartisan uh composition of the negotiating team. um Ms speckman uh provided us with all the specificities and the chairman uh was available to answer any and all questions regarding this. uh It was a viable uh proposal which was presented and we agreed in its entirety, so uh good job.

A

Thank you good job by the negotiating team. I'd say that roughly four years ago the our relationship with labor changed and we became partners because we both realized. There was mutual destruction if we were not partners.

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So I would appreciate I appreciate the lieutenants and really everybody else that has current contracts or we're coming up. We got a lot of four and five-year deals from those bargaining units before so we're going to be working on those starting later this year for next year. So it's nice things are a lot different so and it's appreciated anything else from anybody else.

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Roll call vote please. Mr.

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House this is polk hi, mr snipes all right, mr c, roy aye, mr lear aye, mrs webber.

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Mrs peters hi, mr payton aye, mrs parker aye, mr kenzinger aye, mr fairfield aye, mr kierkov aye, mr eckhoff.

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Mr smith, from celina.

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Mr swanson aye mr featherling aye, mr donnell aye, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr kirkstra.

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Mr hunter aye, ms brian.

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Mr collins hi miss hudson aye, mr smith, from bourbon a aye mr wheeler.

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Aye motion carries elena's eye too. All righty did you get that daryl.

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All righty, thank you for that. uh Moving on the l. Excuse me what 178.

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Resolution of the county board of kanke county illinois uh awarding the bid to the lowest responsible bidder to provide elever elevator maintenance at 189 east court street king key illinois to provide maintenance services.

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All righty can I get a motion on this one. First, uh mr hess. Second, maybe zoom poke uh miss polk uh just for informational sake. uh It was the actual bid page with the amount on it is in your packet. It was added this morning. It was in one of those emails. We had left it out, and so we brought it down it's the last page, um it's or one of the last pages. Should I say it's got blue on. It looks like this, so just so everybody knows in the room.

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Yes, we added that, so you can see the amount and also to remind everybody. uh This is paid for by the insurance company. So this isn't even our money. We're bidding out things that the insurance companies should pay, because that's what we're supposed to do so any other questions about that. These. This was the lowest bidder, lowest responsible bidder should I say, um and they also had the lowest price you want to.

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State that amount.

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There, yes, sir uh mr hunter asked for the amount to be stated: uh 27 958 dollars, and so this is not for the elevator. This is for all the other stuff around the elevator, whether it's drainage support structures, things that aren't of the elevator proper. That was the other bid that we did before so uh yes, mr kinzinger.

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um I just want everybody to be aware that there is a potential for an extra I'm, not certain, why they left out traffic control when two cranes are required, but just to make everybody aware.

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Yeah, I believe our highway department's going to handle that for us. Okay, I believe that's what that agreement was. If it's not in there. I know we were talking about it. So yeah.

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No change, orders, no change orders and who knows I mean what we may have to prove a change order, but it will be approved um it'll, it won't just be to come through west and it will have to it's substantial, then we'll bring it back, um but again it's insurance.

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So any other questions all right. Roll call. Please.

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Mr hess, all right, this is poke.

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Snipes all right, mr sirois aye, mr lear, you're gonna, operate to the correct.

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Mrs weber,.

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Hello, mrs peters aye, mr payton aye, mrs parker aye, mr kenzinger aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico aye, mr reckoff, mr smith, from celina aye, mr swanson.

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Mr featherling aye, mr donnell.

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Long hi, mr kirkstra.

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Hunter aye, ms brian.

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Mr collins hi miss hudson.

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Did you meet her miss.

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Mr smith, from bourbon a aye mr wheeler.

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Aye motion carries all righty go through other business: real, quick, three openings, uh mantino number, nine drainage, district; three openings on moments, pembroke units drainage number, one uh one, opening raymond drainage district, one opening spring creek drainage; one opening union drainage district number; two one: opening on yellowhead washington, union drainage, district number; two, eight openings on the kenke county, regional planning, commission, one opening on the essex township fire protection; district; four openings on gis committee, one opening on the kanke county river, conservancy district. I have uh an application.

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Actually I have two applications in uh for that and a third is coming so um seems competitive on that one uh I want to verify something: did west leave? Okay, I was gonna, ask him about the highway department, doing traffic signals um I'll catch up and I'll get back with the board on that ron. That was the plan, and so, if there's anything different I'll, let the board know. Okay, I'm doing the traffic signals out when they're doing the work uh next item 179, you can get that title written record.

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Resolution of the county board of kinky county illinois regarding authorization of the kinky county board to enter into an agreement with belson steel center of bradley to provide an e-waste, recycling, location and services.

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All righty ben's on correct there is, I see him. um Is there a motion to approve this one to start off with mr dono? Second heather featherling, mr featherling, with a second, so I'm gonna go ahead and let ben uh talk about the genesis of this and what the agreement is, and um you know basically answer any questions.

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Thank you, mr chairman. I guess how far back do we want to go well, let's.

A

Just basically bring it to the last couple of weeks and doing this contract and uh and how that amount is arrived at or accounted for with the current structure and who's partners. In this.

T

Okay sure um so at the uh the last board meeting um the approval uh came through for um the intergovernmental agreements for the remaining communities. So as we look at um the intergovernmental agreement between yankee county uh and the member communities of of the county, so we've got karma. uh Making up uh the big four. uh The village of mantino is a separate agreement which is passed by the county board, and then we have these subsequent igas going around for jurisdictions, and some of them are already coming back in.

T

So the way we put this program together was to look at our current costs through the programs that are falling off. Put aside enough funds, uh chairman adele and anita and john and- and I have talked about this quite a bit- you know how do we fund this? How do we leave an appropriate amount of funding in there to get program off the ground? But how do we create a critical mass with a third-party vendor to collect the waste?

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Currently, no vendor is collecting e-waste uh because it's it's hard to get rid of it's hard to recycle um and so there's not even a scenario in cankee county where you could pay 20 a tv and somebody would get it. So how do we make that happen where we could uh meet with a partner, talk to them about our waste stream uh and then get this off the ground?

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So, in the initial conversations uh dell- and I worked around all of our current providers- who's taking e-waste- uh we ended up talking quite a bit with belson's about what it would look like to get the program off ground, and this document is the the culmination of those talks so wheeler and I have an extension of extensive discussions with uh with belson's team uh dell's been involved.

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Obviously, we had john very involved in drafting an intergovernmental agreement and when we went through the bidding process for this through the art, while through the rfp, we took a lot of that language and that's incorporated so the the considerations are that you know we're running that six days a week. We're making sure that they're collecting the appropriate amount of e-waste we're making sure that it's safe, uh but then we had to really tie the bows on what happens if somebody drops it at the gate. uh Well, how would that be considered?

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uh And from our standpoint we want to make sure that, if they're collecting e-waste and we're paying them as a county and our jurisdictions are paying them that that they're, offering it to those users free of charge and that they're not taking a ton of out of county where really any out of county waste. This is a thing for the residents of kentucky county. This is residential uh e-waste, so we wanted to make sure our agreement encapsulated that so it's a relatively straightforward agreement.

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As we see it, uh we believe in now our discussions with the team at belson's that they have the sufficient protections on their end. uh We have. We are certain. We have sufficient protections on our end. um You know it's got mutual indemnification mutual uh opt out, uh but making sure that we can utilize them as a central collection point to collect that waste and then get it on to our third-party sarah vendor truck. um So it's you know, you show your id.

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um Let me let me back up it's not up and running yet, but it's gonna be up and running very soon. I know when the article ran last time. We wanted to make sure this abundantly clears if anybody's listening press, it's not open running yet, but it will be soon uh we'll do an announcement for that. But you show up with your id uh you're able to get the information. They verify that you're in one of our jurisdictions, that's uh participating in this and then at the end of the quarter.

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They've collected all of that information turned it back over to the county, so we can satisfy our iepa partner, our third party vendor, to make sure that we're meeting our needs from the sarah program. We thought that that was one of the only ways. This makes sense.

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It can't be a dump facility where we go once a week and we don't know who's dumping from where we wanted it to be this, and so there there's an associated cost with that, uh and we wanted to make sure to kind of lock that price we've already collected enough funds in our partnership with karma and mantino. uh Obviously the county we've got a I've got a contract on my dr, an iga on my desk from hersher uh that the chairman can sign.

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So all of those funds are in place to make sure we can afford this, and then any additional funds that we continue to collect will go to continual marketing of that program. So we're we're in a good place on the dollar figure, we're in a good place on the contract and we're just ready for the chairman's authorization to sign it.

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um I I don't want to get too far, and I know john, and I think I saw john and nancy on what we'd like today is for the authorization for the chairman to sign either this exact agreement or an agreement not materially different from this agreement. If belson's attorney came back and said, change a couple of words in it, but doesn't materially change, it we'd, like the chairman to be able to still be authorized to sign it. uh You know, pending that final approval from the state's attorney's office.

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So it's important a couple things ben said is important uh that we, this agreement, forbids out of county waste. um You know to knowingly accept out of county waste and from those municipalities who don't become part of the program.

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uh So um you know there's been one, that's opted out already um and I don't see very many of those, but there's one that chose not to um chabants. I will just say they have their own already, so they you can put, I believe, one electronic waste item out in the alley or in your garbage or but near your garbage. You can't be in it, um but I know their exact terms, but that's once a year, so they chose not to participate, uh which is you know, fine, that's their prerogative.

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So if you go to belson with this is agreed and you show your id and it says shabans, then they will either not be allowed uh to do that or they could be charged. uh You know a small, not a just a fee up to belson's determining um you know the fee they could charge. Belson could charge uh because we just didn't want it to be a back door in for people to it's, only a dollar what 60 per resident roughly, um you know.

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For these communities per year.

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And- and so we didn't want to have a situation where you can come in and you know get it cheaper. If you will, um this is all hands on deck, so we wanted to protect the program and encourage people to opt in. um So that's I I'm trying to think we that we had the rfp. It was open to everybody to bid on this and then belson's came back and we're just finally working out uh the details.

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um Mr ekhoff, did you have something.

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Yeah, thank you, mr chairman, so if shaban, so since they have their own program, is that just the municipality of chibanz or even on a corporate area of shabam.

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It depends it's just a municipality if you live in the boundary, so if you're outside of it um there's going to be some, you know reckoning. Do you live in town, because I again some of these communities like if it says kankakee you could live in limestone, um but limestone opted out that was the one community decide not to participate.

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um So I guess you know that that question will come up if they show their license and it says limestone um or it says, kankakee uh they're gonna know that between these thousand road, north and west, you know we have to take a closer look to see if they're in that's a management. So on belts inside not ours, that's.

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Why we're hiring them yeah for the for the board? That's where it's important, where we're going to be receiving quarterly information about users, so we're going to be doing. Unit counts with the individual addresses so dell, and I will receive on a quarterly basis that certain users bringing a a lot of tv or a lot of units. We can kind of start to look at that. If there are areas where we're working on our side, we can populate based on our gis information. We can populate a list and transfer it over to bell.

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Since every jurisdiction participates, we give them a do, participate list and we're hoping that, with their system and working with their team that you know you come in, you plug in your address and the system would say thumbs up or thumbs down, based on whether or not you're, you know participating in this uh this program, and then it would be.

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um You know this idea of you know kind of uh making sure that the jurisdictions that are paying and have decided to participate that their residents are reaping that benefit and then, if the jurisdictions happen to not participate, which, as the chairman said, we don't expect that to be too very many of them that you know potentially there's a cost passed on to that individual user uh and and then they can go we're hoping they go back to their village and say, hey why?

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Why did I have to pay when no one else seems to have to pay, because, ideally for our county, if everyone is involved in this, it makes the most sense for everyone, so we're trying to structure it to encourage those communities to participate. We think it's a very reasonable cost on a per user standpoint, and then um it will get into the three years three through seven or three through six, where, ideally, we could get that down to somewhere around a dollar.

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You know going from about 40 to a dollar where it just it um lessens the burden on the local tax base. uh We get the program up and running with the marketing cash, and then we hope that we have that continual marketing need where everybody will know in two years. If you've got e-waste, go to bell sales.

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And so you know this this program. The goal was to cut at least in half what the karma communities were paying and that that worked, because originally they had a grant, so they said sure we'll we'll do the we'll do the e-waste we'll have drop-off sites, because the hallway is where the cost is. uh You got to pay for it. If you don't have a free place to go well that went away and then karma was saddled with that amount of money. So we figured out a way to do it.

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I came up with a kind of a structure and then we went forward with it. So this is something that not only is is good for today, like ben was saying, but we think it's good for another seven years, but after two years we're going to come back and we're going to take a look at okay, well, we'd like it to be a dollar per resident per municipality or the county per resident.

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um Well, where's the big users coming from you know, so people can justify that back to their own boards back within their municipalities, whether they want to stay in or opt out. So I'm trying to think if there was anything else.

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Oh, I believe, there's an opportunity for people to be bringing e-waste in that they could actually get paid for they're, giving they're not only going to give it for free, but they can receive renumeration back if it has some type of a precious metal in it or something so belson's there is that opportunity, uh but I'm not enough of a subject matter, expert to tell you what kind of tv or whatever it is. Is that.

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In that ben, you are chairman, and I think it's important to remember- that by having a partner like belson's, that does have the capacity to dismantle the waste stream. This is that takes a portion of our waste stream, which is going into um you know kind of no man's land from a recycling standpoint into a usable piece of the waste stream. So this potentially uses a portion of that to become a tangible, tangible product. It's not going to be the crts.

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It's not going to be the big tube tvs, but it will be potentially portions of the waste stream that we pull out and the way the current system is structured if you're just dropping it off at a location. Everything's going on that truck nobody's, got an opportunity to create a commodity out of this and get it out of that waste stream. So we thought that was an important part of this system. Sure.

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Any other comments or questions I got there.

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Was someone on zoom first and then we'll come in.

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Mr featherline.

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um Ben, what are the target dates for the actual beginning of this uh process?.

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So um we're targeting um pro pro rata is next week, so we uh you see on page two and the pro rata agreement um and uh because again because belson's already is taking waste uh once we can get this executed, they can be up and running. They do have a a little bit of review left on their end, but as of friday, we we were. We were all very comfortable. Everybody in the room was very comfortable with the agreement, um so they're they're expecting to be able to sign it uh talking with chase.

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They could sign it potentially this week and we could be up and running very soon.

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Okay, are you gonna have a promotion available to let people know exactly what you can bring there? I mean, I know you can't bring microwaves and things, but I mean people don't know that. So I hate to see somebody put something up and take it all the way there and then not be able to get rid of it.

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Yeah so we'll be creating some marketing collateral based on the program. There's some existing collateral out there we're working as a team right now to this to see what we can create. That's I'm going to call it free marketing, so um you know maybe local utility bills, um facebook pages things like that, um but, as said in previous meetings, if we get enough money set aside, you know magnets mailers things like that are ideal. I mean, I think, the magnet on your fridge.

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You know with the phone number or the you know: here's what you can bring is an ideal thing, but short of that which you know might have a significantly larger cost than maybe doing uh a quick mailer to the the water users to the sewer users. So we're going to be working with those jurisdictions as the bill goes out. Hey here's a reminder: here's what you could take and but we'll be putting collateral together, sharing it on our social. Obviously, we've got some community partners who are willing to share that as well.

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Okay, thank you, sir.

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And mr featherweight, so you know we and the good example would be mantino they're, currently collecting uh curbside and that's not going to change for their residents. What they're going to do on a monthly basis or every other month or quarterly. However, they determine they're going to bring all that to belson. So.

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We can be up and running by the 15th by dent of mantino, but we're shooting for march 1st to have the rollout that you're talking about.

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Because that'll give.

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Us some time, I'm working on a brand name for this somehow to incorporate the the unique nature nature of this regional partnership and that's what it really is. It's a regional partnership with up to 17 municipalities uh in the county and karma and everybody together so yeah. We just need a little bit of time to get that created and out there, but um on the short, throw it will be up and running by the 15th by dent of mantino.

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Okay, mr claire.

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Yes, mr chairman, I was looking at the agreement and I noticed it mentioned in the event. E-Waste is illegally dumped at bilson's, waste will be considered. Waste of the county will belsons have some way to do some surveillance to identify people that may be doing illegal dumpling.

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um I can't say for sure, but I would venture to guess they have some cameras on their facility, um so I can uh I'll ask them about that. Question.

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That was written that way and yeah they'll be they'll, be surveilling, um but the reason that's written. That way is uh how do you know like so as our vendor as our partner? You know, I'm saying you can't collect anything, that's not county waste and then they say well, okay, somebody comes at and I'm not, I said illegally dumped in the language um because that's what it is, but this idea, if you show up at five o'clock, you thought they were until five they're only open.

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You know until 3 30 and you set your tv out by the gate. They just wanted some mechanism where we would not not say okay belson's, because we don't know where that's coming from now. You have a tv you can't get rid of um from our system and talking to dave dillon and his team they're going to create like a county user. So in the event that happens, which I'm not encouraging that, but in the event that happens, that'll just be under that and we will consider that to be part of our waste stream.

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I I do sincerely doubt very many individuals from out of the county will be driving to the heart of kankakee county to illegally dump things at their uh uh at their gate, uh but it is. It was just a way for them to be protected to make sure that, in the event, something like that does happen that we're not uh making them keep that waste. Okay,.

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All right, uh mr hunter.

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uh Minority outreach uh in terms of media- I would hope, been from your comments and your presentation here today and uh comments that I've had with the chairman.

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I mean it's really a win for the participants, especially karma, and it will diffuse, I would think some of the responsibilities of the waste haulers uh republican, all those other folks, their respective public works departments. You know because they they're inundated with that kind of stuff too, but one of the uh comments or benefits, I would say, would would be environmental in terms of hopefully.

P

Hopefully it will dissipate some of the dumping in some of the rural areas as well too. So hopefully, that'll have some positive impact uh on that situation.

A

Yeah me too, knowing that that folks may get paid for that instead of it's broken, but they still may get money out of it may encourage them to when they're going shopping on that side of the uh the community. Maybe they'll stop at belson and drop it off instead of the ditch, but I think the townships will be very appreciated. Appreciative of that for sure. So any other questions thoughts. Mr.

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Hess, thank you chairman. I just want to make sure we're going to sign the corrected agreement. The date is wrong in our packet. I talked to kelly yesterday. It should be the 21st okay february of 2021.

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All right, nobody, you got that any well, we'll change.

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It the new one was given to dan this morning. Stan that's.

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One of them.

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Okay, that's corrected. We've got the corrected one here.

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Mr chairman, mr long had his hand up. Oh.

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Yes, just a point of clarity: the village of limestone opted out, and the township is still in is that correct, yeah.

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Everybody that doesn't live within the municipality can still participate in the program for free yep, it's just not knowing every community and what's on their driver's license. I know that if you're kankakee that's a big area around, it could be almost it's rural outside of the city. um So it's we're. Gonna have target areas of you know, like I said, between thousand north and thousands east and west and south and whatever to help target who's.

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Not there another good one would be uh like salmons point: they don't have a property tax levy, so they don't have money to pay for this. So if I don't know, what's on your your your driver's license, if you live in salmon's point, it may say kankakee but that'll be carved out uh within the uh the the map. If you will so any others this pope, do you have something?

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No, no! Okay! I'm sorry you're you! The little light around your box uh lit up there, your your zoom box, so sound like you.

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Thank you all right. Well, I guess we're ready for roll call roll call vote. Please.

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Mr hess aye mrs polk hi hi mr snipes aye, mr siroi aye, mr lear aye, mrs weber, aye, mrs peters aye, mr peyton aye, mrs parker aye, mr kenzinger aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carrico aye, mr eckhoff aye, mr smith, from celina aye, mr swanson aye, mr featherling aye, mr dunhill aye, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr kirkstra aye, mr hunter aye, ms brian.

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Tonight, ms hudson.

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Mr smith, from bourbon a aye mr wheeler.

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Aye motion carries uh the 180 is very similar. It's attached to this, but if you could read the title of the record resolution.

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Of the county board of kanke county illinois authorizing the county board chairman or his designee to enter into intergovernmental agreements, with municipalities in kaneki county illinois to conduct electronics, recycling programs.

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uh Is there a motion on this one.

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Mr kirkster, a second carol, mr carrico uh pretty much the same drill. This just allows me as those agreements come in, I can sign them and we don't have to come back here every time, so nothing changes as far as the the amounts go. So roll call vote.

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Mr hess hi, this is poke hi mr snipes aye, mr siroi, mr lear hi, mrs weber, hi, mrs peters aye, mr payton hi, mrs parker hi, mr kenzinger.

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Kensinger mr fairfield aye mr carrico aye mr eckhoff aye, mr smith, from celina aye, mr swanson aye, mr featherling aye, mr dunhill aye, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr kirkstra aye, mr hunter aye, ms brian.

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Mr collins hi miss hudson.

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Mr smith and I, but for some reason things are not coming through.

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It's muted on her side, yeah, that's what I just told her yeah.

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Mr smith, from bourbon a aye mr wheeler aye motion.

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Carries this chairman? Yes, mr kinser, has hand.

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Raised, oh mr kissinger, I'm sorry that's.

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My vote is I on that motion.

A

Okay, thank you um just a personal note. I wanted to thank uh mayor nugent uh all the karma mayors, especially kankakee, uh for everybody coming through on this uh with the representation they have on karma.

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We need we got ev mayor of bradley, uh bourbon, a and aroma park. This is a true partnership and I thank them for their time and efforts on this and heck at saving them half as much as they used to spend. So I think everybody's motivated by the right thing, cost savings and ecology moving on um 181.

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Resolution of the county board of key county illinois establishing a pro property assessed, clean pace program and a pace area to finance and or refinance the acquisition, construction, installation or modification of energy products projects providing for the issuance of not to exceed 500 million dollars. Taxable pace revenue, notes of the county to finance projects pursuant to the county's pace program providing for the payment of said notes authorizing the sale of said nose to the purchaser thereof and other matters related to their two.

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It's some title: is there a motion on that? First, to start with the chairman so moved mr kinzinger second folks uh miss pope uh ben. Did you want to run through this.

T

uh Thank you, mr chairman, so um this was brought to you at the the previous meeting and um in conversations with with the chair, the chairman and mr kinsinger, um miss nicholson, uh anna maria qualique who's on the call with us today, uh their legal team we've kind of been back and forth. So this is a a materially similar document. There's been some some language rewrites in it, but it's a it's an ordinance uh with the companion documents of a subsequent program report.

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um We have a a copy of the services agreement which was executed uh in september between us and the ieca, and then the form of no so the the or this is the ordinance creating the program. We started this process. um I feels like a year ago, probably chairman wheeler, I mean it's been a while we've been talking about this trying to get this off the ground working through the appropriate committees getting a vendor selected, and now we get the document that allows us to um use the program.

T

So if anybody wants to cover what the program is, we're certainly happy to cover it. um I just from the document you had seen previously to this document. um We did. I did a page by page comparison. I know that uh nancy nicholson worked very hard with the team at chapman and cutler uh to talk through this about some of the concerns that we had on on our side at the board level uh and get them addressed in uh in in an appropriate form of this ordinance.

T

uh Again, it's a lot to go through it's 15 pages. I I'm happy to read it for you if you need, but we're we're comfortable. You know at the staff level, with this document we're happy with where it is, and we think it really. um It encapsulates everything we need to encapsulate and working with. Iaca has certainly been a pleasure.

T

They've done this in in so many counties. Now it's it's kind of becoming old hat for them, even though it was very new for us, uh but it's been relatively smooth and seamless. As far as the process.

A

And if ben, could you give maybe a short if you were telling somebody what is see pace and what's why should we care um okay, yeah, give them that real, quick, because there's.

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Guy here that that right.

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Property assessed clean energy allows a borrower uh to borrow up to 25 of the value of improvements as long as those improvements are utilized for energy efficiency. um Once that borrow is made, it becomes, uh you have a primary lender and then a pace lender and sometimes it's the same person. They loan. You money in these two two separate buckets and you're allowed to borrow at a lower interest rate, potentially over a longer period of time, for those improvements and the way those are paid back.

T

Is you enter into a uh an assessment uh agreement and that assessment contract um says that we will add an assessment under your property tax bill at the the treasurer's office, and then those collected funds will be passed through to your lender, uh and so it's a it's a guarantee for the lender, the idea being that property taxes are always paid.

T

I mean we understand that they're not, but that's why things are underwritten, but they're likely to be paid on on these new improvements, and somebody can utilize this to borrow in some cases up to a hundred percent of the value. So it's no cost to the county.

T

uh Any of the the fees that we need to to to manage the program are derived at kind of a closing cost scenario, uh but it's this holy voluntary program, which just allows people to borrow a little more than maybe a conventional lender would allow them for so it's a better tool for us when it comes to doing some of these activities could be an existing building with retrofits.

T

It could be a brand new, build it's popular with hoteliers, uh but I know- and you know I I don't know- I know- anna maria at the last meeting went over a couple of examples of how it can be utilized. You know on that kind of very expensive end and then all the way down to even smaller uh platform, so sure.

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It's it's really. It's just to stress it's commercial and- and the other thing is, is if you're looking at, like redeveloping an old historic building into lofts you're, going to need new hvac you're, going to need new windows and a roof, all that's energy efficiency.

A

So when you're typically doing those projects, your your funding stack falls a lot of times short of what the banks they want to loan 100 to value. So this fills out that gap. It is a very strong, huge economic development tool for this community, huge sorry that was for mr hunter, um but no get getting back at this. It's it's something that when I tell people about it that are doing these projects their eyes get big. They don't really realize it. So we're gonna, we're gonna, spend some time both here and at the economic alliance.

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Getting the word out about this, because there's people doing things right now that could take advantage of this and they're planning things that they can take advantage of. So um I just wanted to tell you. This is an exciting day for me, because it may not seem like a lot. This is kind of a big program for a lot of a lot of people who want to develop in an area as you've seen. Kankakee kankakee county is a place where people are seeing value in investing their money these days.

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So um with that being said, is there anything else that everybody has for ben or for america? If there's, you know you want to get into the weeds on some of this stuff. Let me go with mr kinzinger and then we'll come back to you steve. Yes, sir.

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I personally would like to thank ms nicholson and mr wilson, I had some concerns with the first document and they took the time, went over things with me, and this second document is very readable, good format and I'm very happy. So I express my personal appreciation. I think it's an excellent tool for the county.

A

That worked well going the back and forth uh to make uh the product we needed here. So uh mr hunter yeah.

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You know ron in this message. You just mentioned the uh counselor nancy uh nicholson, uh we're gonna be losing uh an expert that provides counsel to us, but she's, going to put on a robe.

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But anyway, while you were discussing that- and the chairman was talking about this initiative uh ben and the chairman todd, and I were saying that as just another economic development tool in the box that uh developers and business people could use, you know tiffs and special service areas and all those kinds of things which would help people and and their investments in in kanke county. So that's why you kind of overheard us talking about that being a another tool and another incentive yep.

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It's a good one, all right, any other questions comments. Otherwise roll call vote, please. Mr hess hi.

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Mrs polk aye mr snipes aye, mr siroi, mr lear aye mrs hi, mrs peters aye, mr payton aye, mrs parker aye, mr kenzinger aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico aye, mr aye, mr smith, from celina.

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Mr smith, mr swanson aye, mr featherling aye, mr dunhill aye, mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr kirkstra aye, mr hunter aye, ms brian, mr collins, hi, miss hudson.

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Mr smith, from bourbon a aye mr wheeler.

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Aye motion carries uh moving on to 182.

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Resolution of the county board of king key county illinois authorizing the chairman of the kanke county board to sign a conditional commitment letter with the illinois housing development authority's strong communities program.

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Is there a motion on this one? Let's go with mr payton.

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Can we get a unanimous second on this who.

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Wants money? uh No it's uh from uh was that dunhill with a second, yes, okay. um Basically, this is allowing me to sign for the 175 000 grant we got so we have to have board action that allows that uh and it's got to be sent in today.

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Today they extended the deadline, which is odd because we're we were awarded it middle of the month last month, and then we had to have board action that authorized me to sign for it by the first of the month, but we didn't have any board meetings between then and now so we got them too extended. It didn't really make a lot of sense. I almost thought we were gonna have to walk away from it. To be honest. If they would have extended it, we would have lost it. That's it was.

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It was a really strange situation. um They allowed us to to delay a little bit and thanks ben for your help on that um roll call. We'll call vote. Please.

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Hi mrs polk aye, mr snipes all right, mr c, roy aye, mr lear aye mrs webber hi, mrs peters aye, mr payton aye, mrs parker aye, mr kenzinger aye, mr fairfield aye, mr carico aye, mr eckhoff aye, mr smith, from celina.

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Mr swanson aye mr featherling aye, mr dunhill aye mr miller aye, mr long aye, mr kirkstra aye, mr hunter aye, ms brian.

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Mr collins hi miss hudson.

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Mr smith, from bourbon a mr wheeler hi.

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Hi we're good okay uh motion carries uh the next item. uh Mr lear called me. He said he was on a uh a webinar. I let him explain it that had some information about hp, 3653.

C

Thank you, mr chairman. uh Yes friday, I attended a watched, a webinar for from ucci that had a panel before uh different individuals. I could go into details on those individuals, everyone who wants to check with me, but we're talking about hospital 3653 that has already been discussed by the sheriff, I believe both the criminal justice and I know at the executive committee.

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This is a criminal justice reform bill. It's a huge bill over 700 pages, uh major changes, there's some really good parts in it, but there's some things that need to be looked at very closely and from our standpoint I think we need to advocate for some revisions um to accomplish that. Our focus as a board needs to be on the financial aspects of that and we'll be looking at that closely in the executive committee.

C

As I understand, and possibly even in finance committee, we also need to cooperate with the sheriff and the state's attorney in terms of other aspects of the bill that may need to be revised improved so that we can throw whatever influence we have behind the sheriff and the state's attorney on any recommendations they have for improvement.

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So I want to encourage all the board members pay close attention of this and to communicate with their members of the general assembly and the governor as we get down to the details of what changes and improvements should be made in this bill. Thank you. That's basically, all I had for now well.

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I appreciate it and one thing well, two things: actually the board should know we're going to executive committee, which I don't think we've ever done since I've been here- and I don't know if it's happened before this, but the executive committee is the legislative committee. If you will of the board uh to come up with a legislative agenda things that we support want to see change things we want to oppose as a board. Have them come up with that and then have it voted on by the full board.

A

I think that gives our legislators and our lobbyists a clear indication of where we're at on certain issues and that we want them to work for, uh but we shouldn't assume that one or two people can make those decisions that has to be by the executive committee and it has to have input from people like that. Are the professionals in the sheriff's department that are looking at. How does that? Allow them to do their jobs so to speak, and- and so I appreciate your comments about you- know kind of staying in our lane.

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I say the the economics of it or what we're work to worry about, and then we, I think we should partner with our elected officials on what they need to have changed as well. So uh the other thing was- and you talked you said something to me that I didn't know to that was the case it had to do with the mandatory veto powers of the governor. I thought that was important for the board to hear.

C

Thank you, mr chairman. uh I've learned that, because the uh general assembly session, which uh went out of existence that, after the last election, is no longer in session a opportunity for the general assembly to override a governor's veto or an amendatory veto does not exist, and so the the governor's only choice is to either sign the bill or pass it.

C

I'm sorry sign the bill or veto it at which point the general assembly would have no opportunity to override it from a political standpoint. Obviously that would the governor is unlikely to want to irritate the legislature by not giving them a chance to override so.

A

You're saying because it was lame duck that a mandatory veto doesn't exist, it's yes has failed. Yes, okay! I have you heard that uh sheriff downing that so I just I'm not saying you're incorrect. I wanted someone else in the room to validate it. It's there is no mandatory veto on the current bill. The way it stands it's pass fail.

C

That's my understanding: okay, okay, so.

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That for those on zoom that the sheriff that gave me the nod, he agrees with that as well. So at least we understand, if we're going to advocate, advocate for something, let's make sure it's possible, um and I would have loved the mandatory veto on this one uh because they're, like you, said, there's good things in there and then there's some things that are troubling and some things that are financial disaster for the counties. So I would say that yeah. I appreciate that information.

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That's why I asked steve to talk about it here, because it helps frame what we're going to be doing as a board the next month or two, mr snipes. First.

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Unless he's speaking to this, I just have two things up on a new business uh unless you're speaking to this.

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Do you have anything on this, mr hunter.

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Yeah, you know you may recall that uh um we had discussed uh bringing in our team our legislative team, uh senator joyce and representative haas, and we also discuss those things which you just mentioned in terms of what we agree on in terms of legislation. What we disagree on um both uh representative haas and senator joyce have agreed to come before this this body. uh Will you follow up and find out and coordinate their schedules whereby they can come here to to.

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Face us, yes, I will, and it's it's really do. Do we think it's?

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Is it better for us to have this legislative agenda that we can present them with when they come, or it seems logical, but I guess that would be the boards it seems like we would give them something to go back to springfield with at that point,.

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And and hear any other concerns we may have uh that could be presented uh to some of the the the administration. So there may be issues that uh the vice chairman may have and mr payton may have. They need to hear that sure.

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Absolutely absolutely, but uh and that I would hope that would be the next meeting uh it has to do with you know it's the bills are being filed. Some stuff will stick, some stuff will die in committee, so I'm trying to wait for some of that to shake out. um So we have a better idea, what's going to happen at least being going through the process.

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um Anybody else about this issue, mr chair. Yes, mr.

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President is the representative sims included in that meeting I mean he's mantino's uh guy, so I don't understand. You're leaving him out. Is that what you're doing oh.

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No, that was just the only two that we have been talked to so far. So when the time comes, yeah- and you know you have uh representative smith as well over the uh available too so so.

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They dip into the county a little bit so yeah. They would definitely be involved, at least knowing what our our ask is. So.

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Thank you all right, mr snipes.

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Thank you, mr two things. uh First of all, I do wanna uh congratulate uh nancy owner uh transitioning from the uh state assistant states, attorney's office to uh now the uh judgeship uh as one of our uh again history-making uh judges in that she is asian-american and, uh and she graduated from bbcsa.

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She was right here in kent key county, so it's always good to show that uh uh not only good things coming from ken key county, but there are, there are also opportunities uh that are available if you get into certain careers in kangaki county, so again uh kudos to nancy in that area. uh The second issue is uh one of uh modesty, but yet it has to be uh conveyed, and that is I have taken the liberty to have uh written and arranged a song called.

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We shall overcome today in light of a lot of things that happened in this thing, I thought there was a it was time to put uh uh pen to paper and uh notes to music to come up with a very positive, uh energetic song uh that will be released on february 19th through amazon and some of the many of the other things without the itunes or whatever.

L

But uh you can, you can see uh the video it was released at 12 o'clock this morning on the uh my web, which is aaia, dot, usaa.com and uh would love your feedback uh and subscription into the uh uh youtube as we move this positive progression. All the way through so want to uh just kind of inform everyone.

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Wherever there is a positive note- and I thought in this world, we needed some energy and some positiveness, and so uh though I may have lost my singing voice, I have not lost my written voice so uh definitely enjoy and like and such that's all.

A

uh Mr kinzinger did you have something.

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Yes, one of the things that I noticed in this meeting and I think we've set a bad precedent- is we've had a board member who has not voted in most of the things brought before us this morning. I'm not certain how we handle that. I sometimes understand technical problems, but I think it's something we should consider those of us on the zoom how we handle those situations there are times when I wish I hadn't voted.

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uh Thank you, um mr rowe, did you have something.

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I did I um I wanted to echo the sentiments of um member snipes. I can't believe I'm saying that robert I want to thank nancy for her service to the county. She has been amazing.

J

Leading our civil division over the last few years has been an asset to the county, our entire time that she was in the state's attorney's office. I can tell you that she works hard. She cares. She's always been passionate about her work and there were times probably uh more than a few times where maybe myself, others didn't necessarily agree with the answer or the information that came forward, uh but I always trusted her to call the balls and strikes and we're going to miss her tremendously in the state's attorney's office.

J

You know just her wealth of knowledge, kind of the historical knowledge that she brings to the table about things that have occurred in the county. In the past, it's going to leave a big gap, but we're so thankful that she's going to continue in service to kankakee county now in a different role as a judge.

J

But we are going to miss you nancy and, I hope all the members of the board when you see her make sure you congratulate her and most importantly, thank her because she has really had the laboring or over the past couple of years and all the matters that have come before you. So thank you again. Nancy and I know everyone in our office and I'm sure everyone on the board wishes you the best on the bench very.

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Good yep, I would agree and, and uh jim said something that's really important. um I I can't put a number on it, but I would say 25 of the time I didn't agree with nancy, when she first would tell me what she thought her legal interpretation was and usually 25 of the time. I was wrong because she was solid in that aspect. She calls balls and strikes. She wasn't swayed by emotion or personal opinion, whether it didn't matter who she liked and didn't like it didn't matter that didn't even come into the conversation.

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It was all about balls and strikes, and uh that that I will miss is that she she, when she told me something I didn't want to hear. I still heard it. I didn't like it, but I still heard it and so that that that's the best part about the relationship. I think we had um and it was respectful, uh and I appreciate everything you did for us uh chad miller. Did you have something.

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Yes, I do at the uh january 21st kaneki county regional planning, commission meeting, one of our members, ralph pearlberg retired, after nearly two decades of service, on that kinky county regional planning, commission and I'd like to publicly thank mr parlberg for his years of service and dedication to that planning body. Thank you, mr barber.

A

Great thanks- and I you know I I want to keep this going. Does anybody have any other new business? How about a motion? Mr hess?

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Thank you, mr hess. Is there a second for that? Second peter peter's second see you're laughing. You missed it, um there's already a second all, those in favor say aye aye,.