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Executive Committee Meeting 1/24/2023 9:30am
A
Good
morning
morning
would
like
to
call
the
executive
committee
meeting
to
order
for
Tuesday
January
24th
2023.
If
we
first
of
all
could
get
a
motion
to
admit,
Miss,
Parker,
she's
working,
and
so
she
needs
to
be
remote,
Mr
long
honor,
all
those
in
favor,
say
aye.
Those
opposed
same
sign
motion
carries
I,
guess
we're
ready
for
roll
call.
Please
Mr.
A
C
Thank
you,
Mr
chairman
I
had
the
opportunity
to
attend
the
historic
ribbon,
cutting
for
the
gas
line
and
Pembroke
all
of
the
legislative
leaders.
Were
there
Community
leaders
were
there
as
well
too.
It
was
really
emotionally
moving
for
a
lot
of
the
attendees
who
were
there.
Even
the
president
of
nikor
was
there
and
all
the
others.
Many
stakeholders
were
there
as
well
too,
and
what
I
really
appreciated
was
that
they
they
acknowledge
our
own
County
board
chairman
Andy
wheeler,
who
was
one
of
the
driving
forces
for
that
particular
project.
C
It
has
taken
some
period
of
time
decades
to
achieve
that
particular
goal.
I
can
remember
on
a
Super
Bowl
Sunday
attending
a
driver
down
with
Jesse
Jackson
and
John
Dyson,
the
mayor
of
Pembroke
or
Hopkins
Park,
then,
along
with
Phil
Novak,
the
state
representative,
and
we
toured
different
areas
of
Pembroke
and
people
were
burning.
Wood
people
were
using
car
batteries
as
as
heat
and
and
refuse
or
feces
coming
out
of
the
trailers
and
so
forth.
C
I
I
think
what
transpired
yesterday
is
is
a
positive
initiative
and
I
know
that
our
board
member
Rosemary
Foster
was
on
the
board
during
that
time.
The
village
board
during
the
discussions,
but
it
was
amazing
and
I,
don't
know
if
I
have
enough
descriptive,
adjectives
to
describe
what
transpired,
because
all
of
the
legislative
leaders
were
there.
They
highlighted
congresswoman
Kelly
as
as
well
as
Senator
Joyce
in
our
own
representative,
Jackie
Haas.
There
were
any
number
of
brief
comments
made
by
those
legislative
leaders
and
nikor.
C
In
terms
of
that
particular
event,
yesterday
and
I
mentioned
to
Andy,
when
we
walked
into
the
gymnasium
when
they
had
it
all
decorated,
and
they
had
refreshments
and
and
so
forth
that
it
was
a
pleasure
to
work
with
him
in
that
regard.
There
was
never
really
a
hassle
or
a
problem,
and
and
chairman
wheeler
expedited
the
the
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
dollars
for
those
underserved
individuals
out
in
in
Pembroke
Della
was
there
Ben?
A
A
You
have
to
start
talking
about
it
before
you
can
do
something
about
it
and
acknowledge
what
the
problems
were
and
I
think
it
probably
helped
that
our
state
representative
was
on
the
County
board
at
the
time
when
we
started
really
emphasizing
what
we
wanted
to
do
and
she's
from
moments
and
Senator
Joyce,
and
they
both
were
very
committed
to
that
area.
Economically,
it
was
the
the
weakest
link.
If
you
will,
and
unless
you
you
have
that
that
economy,
it's
county-wide,
then
you
can
only
be
as
strong
as
that.
A
Weakest
link
and
I
think
we
all
realize
that
we
have
to
address
that
and
we
are
and
I
appreciate
the
kind
words.
So
that
being
said,
the
approval
of
the
minutes-
December
20th
2022.-
is
there
a
motion:
Dr
Polk,
Mrs
Weber,
all
those
in
favor
say
aye
aye.
Those
opposed
same
sign
motion
carries
I,
just
have
a
couple
things
under
legislative
and
obviously,
if
people
have
anything
else,
they
would
like
to
talk
about.
They
can
the
Senate.
A
A
It's
a
separate
fee
altogether.
They
just
approved
Kendall
County
being
added
to
that
last
session
and
the
the
senator
and
our
representative
Haas
are
going
to
carry
it
this
time
in
their
respective
Chambers.
I
will
say
that
the
last
time
on
April
9th
it
passed
72
to
17
with
six
present
and
third
and
that's
obviously,
the
house
34
to
10
in
the
Senate.
A
So
there
was
a
lot
a
lot
of
support
for
this
and
it's
it's
basically
on
the
the
finding
of
guilty,
a
fee
which
is
determined
by
the
chief
judge,
the
amount,
usually
it's
around
20
bucks,
I
think
Will
County
was
30.,
that's
what
they
used
to
build
their
new
courthouse.
They
were
able
to
bond
against
that
so
as
we
go
into
our
building
and
grounds
stuff
that
we're
doing
this
is
another
funding
mechanism
that
is
not
coming
from
property
taxes
or
anything
else.
A
Yeah
and
it's
it's
it's
problematic,
there
is
no
local
control,
it
usurps
drainage,
districts
really
Eco
cat
I
mean
there's
so
many
conflicts
that
there
has
to
be
some
more
work
on
this
Delbert
I'd
say
what
15
to
20
specific
issues.
Would
you
say
yeah,
it's
it's
pretty
close
and
it's
things
that
are
you
know
how
do
you
move
forward
when
it's
in
direct
conflict
with
another
part
of
state
law?
A
You
know
and
that's
that's
where
we
sent
that
list
to
our
legislators
and
hopefully
they'll,
allow
us
to
work
through
it
with
them
to
help
make
this
awful
thing
better,
but
the
residents
in
the
county
should
know
you've
lost
really
your
representation
and
and
I'll
put
it
like
this.
If
the
County
Board,
the
County
Board,
cannot
have
any
criteria,
that's
stricter
than
what
the
state
is
allowing
okay.
So
if
you
don't
approve
it
and
meets
their
criteria,
it's
approved.
A
Does
that
make
sense?
And
that's
it's
it
really
it
really.
It's
not.
Why
we're
here
and
I?
Don't
like
this
I,
don't
think
many
people
do
like
it
and
I
think
it's
a
reaction
of
of
some
counties
saying
quarter
mile
set
back
on
a
solar
farm.
Well,
that
makes
it
impossible
to
build
it
or
outlawing
solar
altogether.
It's
it's
a
reaction
to
those
types
of
things
that
the
state
has
stepped
up
and
done
this,
which
I
think
it
also.
A
A
C
A
I
I
would
love
Dell
to
do
that.
He's
a
subject
matter
expert,
but
before
it
even
passed,
we
sent
the
problems
to
our
legislators
because
we
had
identified
those
issues
and
said
whatever
happens
here.
The
this
is
going
to
have
to
be
fixed
either
before
during
or
after
this
bill
would
go
through
because
it.
How
do
you
tell
a
drainage
District
that
they
no
longer
have
authority,
then
why
do
we
have
drainage
districts
really.
A
A
E
The
approval
of
the
case
or
the
hearing
of
the
case
from
the
date
of
application
not
from
a
completed
application
or
or
any
review
of
the
application.
45
days
from
the
day
it's
filed,
we
must
have
a
public
hearing
30
days
from
the
public
hearing.
The
County
Board
must
make
its
decision
not
have
a
meeting
make
its
decision.
A
E
A
A
E
Ahead
decommissioning
plan
must
mirror
the
same
decommissioning
plan,
that's
required
by
the
agricultural
impact
mitigation
agreement
or
the
AIM.
We
can
be
no,
no
more
stricter
than
that.
The
bond
needs
to
match.
The
decommissioning
plan
needs
to
match
and
frankly,
they
are
a
lot
weaker
than
what
we
normally
require.
D
So
excuse
me
again
so
if
the
neighbor
lives
next
door
to
where
they're
going
to
build
one
of
these
things,
we
don't
even
give
they
don't
even
have
time
to
react
or
anything
to
it
within
30.
If
you've
got
to
be
done,
you
know
through
how
are
you
going
to
send
mailings
to
everybody
and
wait
for
the
cards
to
come
back
and
do
all
that
stuff?
And
you
can't
have
a
meeting
unless
you
got
all
your
mailings
and
you're
going
to
just
skip
the
mailings
or
how
are
you
going
to
do
that
I
mean
I?
E
D
E
A
E
D
E
D
F
A
That's
what
I
think
we're
upset
about
yeah
in
the
conflicts
of
those
people
in
the
drainage
districts
whose
job
it
is
is
to
keep
the
water
moving
off
the
fields
into
the
laterals
and
all
those
types
of
things.
Well,
you
know
their
rights
have
been
severely
diminished
by
this,
because
you
can
destroy
the
tiles
and
there
is
specific
language
in
there.
But
how
that's
addressed
is
iview
is
unacceptable,
yeah
and
if
I
was
the
landowner,
I'd
feel
it
was
unacceptable.
They
don't
live
down
here
or
the
person
living
next
door
to
the
landowner.
A
A
Else
on
that
one
though
pretty
accurate,
yeah,
okay,
that's
pretty
much
it
that's
pretty
much
it
yeah
all
right
just
so.
We
know
it's
a
bigger
issue
than
just
this
committee.
It'll
leak
into
a
lot
of
different
things
and
actually
a
lot
into
other
jurisdictions,
townships,
drainage,
districts,
the
whole
deal
Road
districts.
A
A
E
C
A
A
A
D
A
H
And
I
parked
the
click
here.
It's
as
you
know
all
you've
been
here,
except
for
a
couple
of
you
for
several
years.
It's
that
season
it's
January
to
March.
This
is
when
the
malware
for
your
specific
accounts,
you'll,
you,
you
tend
to
have
it
sent
to
you
between
January
and
March
I.
Warn
you!
Every
year
you
have
publicly
facing
email
accounts,
so
you
get
it
heavier
than
other
people.
Please
be
careful.
I
see
the
anti-spam
is
catching
a
lot
of
it,
but
it's
never
going
to
catch
all
of
it.
We're
protected
here.
H
We've
got
layers
on
it,
but
this
is
at
your
own
home.
So
I'm
asking
to
be
very
careful
as
I
tell
you
before
is.
If
you
have
any
question
just
delete
it,
nothing
confidential
is
going
to
be
sent
from
that.
It's
all
public
records.
So
if
you
got
any
question,
Do
not
pass
it
on
to
somebody
else,
don't
just
delete
it
and
if
you
got
a
question,
somebody
send
an
email
to
that
person
that
doesn't
reply
to
that.
H
Asking
that
or
most
of
you
guys
if
it's
important,
you
already
know
that
person
just
call
them.
That's
the
simplest
thing
you
won't
get
yourself
infected
and
most
important
do
not
pass
something
on
from
your
county
one,
because
you
could
get
us
blacklisted
on
the
internet.
We
have
millions
of
dollars
that
rely
on
our
finance
and
administration
department,
Sheriff's,
Department,
being
able
to
email
with
other
entities.
We
can't
have
people
Blacklist
us
because
it
can
take
days
to
get
off
of
that.
H
So
if
you
have
any
question
just
delete
it,
anything
that
you
would
be
receiving
those
accounts
are
public
records,
so
it's
probably
already
posted
on
the
website
or
again
they'll.
Just
it's
a
split
second
to
resend
it
to
you.
So
it's
not
that
crucial,
protect
your
own
systems,
protect
the
county.
At
that
point,.
H
H
The
next
thing
is
I
previously
at
the
last
meeting
I
talked
about.
We
were
for
the
last
couple
of
months
where
we're
going
to
upgrade
the
network
based
in
anticipation
of
the
new
court
system
and
some
things
going
on
as
apartment
we've
completed,
that
we're
ahead
of
schedule
for
that
I
I'm,
happy
that
that
went
extremely
well
now
that
doesn't
I,
don't
want
to
call
it
phase
one
because
it'll
never
stop.
H
If
there's
something
the
new
software
needs,
we
will
go
out
and
do
it
to
make
sure
from
invest
in
millions
of
dollars
is
something
we
don't
want
a
thousand
dollar
this
thing
stopping
it
from
where
we
will
adapt
to
whatever
it's
needed,
but
we're
head
of
the
system
for
there.
We've
got
a
couple.
Other
projects
that'll
work
for
the
chairman
to
decide
whether
or
not
when
it's
time
for
that,
but
that
wasn't.
That
was
to
give
them
options
to
do
other
things
in
there
and
that's
been
accomplished.
H
So,
but
it's
an
update
on
what
I
just
spoke
about
the
last
couple
meetings
on
another
issue:
States
Attorney
had
they're
doing
a
they're,
not
only
going
along
with
the
court
system
they're
going
to
do
their
own
system
inside
their
office.
We
had
a
request
and
a
couple
weeks
ago
for
specifically
upgrade
Wi-Fi
for
in
a
couple
courtrooms,
so
they
could
do
what
they
need
to
do
and
their
Department
to
deal
with
their
software.
H
Well,
it
happened
to
coincide
what
we
were
already
going
to
do
for
the
court
system
software,
so
what
I
did
is,
instead
of
doing
it.
A
month
later,
we
just
moved
it
up
that
worked
out
perfectly.
We
went
back
to
them.
They
said
everything
they
have
worked
perfectly.
It
improved
what
they
wanted
it
to
do
and
give
you
an
update,
I
believe.
H
In
the
last
meeting,
we
discussed
the
fact
that,
from
my
department,
Jason's
going
to
be
assigned
as
the
product
or
has
been
assigned
as
a
project
manager,
on
that
an
update
on
that
he's
already
met
with
the
probation
department,
I
believe,
is,
as
Andy
and
I
said,
that
the
department
that's
going
first
is
Probation
Department
I
sent
over
Jason
he's.
He
discussed
the
matter.
H
What
the
department
head
and
Randy
who's,
the
one
in
charge
of
I.T
for
their
stuff
I
had
Randy
familiarize
Jason
with
their
existing
software,
so
he's
got
a
big,
a
good
handle
on
what
what
their
existing
software
can
do.
What
it
looks
like
what
parts
are
in
that
they
then
went
together
on
the
demo
of
the
new
software.
There's
a
demo
out
there,
so
they
were
both.
They
sat
next
to
you,
so
they
can
compare.
Here's,
the
old
software,
here's
the
new
software
and
they
both
can
have
some
ideas
Mark.
H
What
about
this
is
Jason
was
already
said.
No
I
think
this
would
go
here.
This
would
go
there.
This
go
here
and
it
seemed
to
go
extremely
smoothly.
One
thing
I
can
say
with
the
probation
department:
they've
been
Forward
Thinking
here,
because
they,
unlike
circuit
clerk's
office,
they
were
happy
with
their
software.
H
They
like
tracker,
this
is
newer,
provides
additional
benefits.
It's
in
the
cloud.
They
can
do
things
if
the
pandemic
or
anything
happened.
Their
people
can
do
something
out
there.
They
don't
have
to
be
in
in
here
to
be
able
to
do
it,
they
can
monitor
better
and
it
hooks
into
the
state
and
local
systems
which
our
vendor
actually
are
in
charge
of
there.
So
it's
just
a
smoother
operation,
but
would
you
agree
with
that.
A
A
You
know,
Commodore
vic-20,
you
know,
or
whatever
those
old
computers
were
tracker
worked,
but
if,
if
you
can
imagine
those
systems,
Court
view
was
the
mainframe
system,
so
everybody
that
probation
would
see
would
come
out
of
court
view
as
like
this
like
a
piece
of
paper,
then
somebody's
typing
it
in
with
them
being
on
the
same
system.
That
eliminates
really
the
need
to
have
anybody
typing
any
information,
because
it
goes
right
from
one
into
the
other.
H
You
know,
instead
of
doing
it
that
way,
this
was
meant
to
do
it.
That
way,
that's
a
duplicate
he's
already
seen
a
couple
issues
where
he
says:
well,
that's
kind
of
duplicate.
You
don't
really
need
to
do
that.
Look
at
it
differently!
Well,
that's
important
because,
if
nobody's
there
during
this
process,
they'll
just
duplicate
the
same
kind
of
not
wasteful,
but
you
know
what
I
mean,
as,
as
you
said,
you
really
just
can't
afford
it
going
forward
to
do
something
to
duplicate.
We.
A
Have
processes
that
were
with
our
anachronisms,
things
things
that
shouldn't
exist
in
the
time
that
we
live
in
you're
like
watching
old
western,
and
you
see
an
air
jet
fly
in
the
background,
it's
kind
of
like
that.
You
know
what
I
mean
it's
like,
we
shouldn't
be
doing
these
things
hand
and
paper
to
each
other
that
ended
10
years
ago,
but
our
system
we
were
still
paying
for
it.
That's
why
we're
going
to
pay
it
all
off
next
year
and
Abate
all
those
bonds,
so
the
taxpayers
don't
have
to
pay
for
it.
A
H
This
comes
in
and
he
will
be
reporting
back
to
the
department
head
and
actually
myself,
but
mainly
a
lot
of
this
is
the
Chairman's
project.
So
you,
you
specifically
said
you
had
some
concerns,
so
we
put
that
in
there
for
Jason
to
look
for
those
things
again.
He
doesn't
run
that
department
can't
tell
Personnel,
but
he
can
make
it
clear
that
it's
coming
back
to
report
whether
or
not
you're
doing
it
the
way
that
this
was
meant
to
be
implemented.
I
know
some
of
you
have
had
that
concern.
H
A
So
we're
clear
I
want
to
make
sure
it's.
It's
we're
trying
to
be
advocates
for
those
departments
in
the
court
systems
when
we're
over
there
we're
not
trying
to
tell
them
what
to
do
we're
trying
to
be
Advocates,
because
we
we're
just
not
going
to
have
the
budgets
to
pay
for
extra
people,
and
so
it's
really
that's.
Why
we're
getting
buy-in!
They
realize
that
the
systems
have
to
become
more
modern
in
order
to
keep
up
with
the
caseload
that
they
have
so.
H
I,
don't
anticipate
that
being
probably
what
basically,
what
it's
coming
from.
Is
you
don't
know
what
you
don't
know
so
sometimes
you
need
somebody
out
that
you
trust
that
says.
Well,
yeah
I
know
you
think
it's
that
way,
but
you
could
do
it
this
way.
Oh
and
they
usually
say.
Oh,
that's
what
it
was
meant
to
be,
because
sometimes
you're
afraid
to
ask
that
question
so
and
actually
that
was
Andy
who
asked
for
that
to
be
there.
So
I
I
think
that's
going
to
work
out
pretty
well.
G
Good
morning,
I
can
be
brief.
I
gave
you
my
report
yesterday.
You
should
see
that
I
won't
insult
your
intelligence
by
reading
the
numbers
they're
looking
really
good
here
in
our
community,
really,
the
only
thing
I
would
want
to
say
then
for
today,
just
as
a
a
bit
of
news
on
January
17th
of
this
year
last
week,
the
health
department
fully
reopened
up
our
our
programs
for
the
women,
infants
and
children,
the
WIC
program,
the
family
case
management
and
our
high
risk
infants
programs
for
the
last
two
and
a
half
years.
G
Because
of
covid
those
are
federal
programs.
We
had
been
told
to
have
those
appointments,
they
were
still
being
done,
but
they
were
being
serviced
by
phone
calls.
Only
so
we
weren't
able
to
actually
interact
with
those
individuals
face
to
face,
or
or
with
you
know,
the
pregnant
mothers,
the
women
and
their
children.
It
was
all
by
phone
call
and
and
going
by
how
they
answered
the
question.
G
So
obviously,
it's
not
conducive
to
being
able
to
recognize
or
anticipate
maybe
some
of
their
concerns
or
needs
in
regards
to
things
that
we
normally
would
have
done
if
we'd
have
seen
them
face
to
face
so
throughout
the
state.
Many
Health
departments,
including
our
own,
had
concerns
that
Health
situations
that
were
occurring
because
of
covid
at
home,
for
so
long
were
being
missed,
such
as
high
blood
pressure,
postpartum,
depression
issues
with
the
kids
and
they're
learning
because
they
weren't
at
school.
G
Those
types
of
things,
so
we
are
excited,
have
slowly
begun
to
integrate
that
a
number
of
our
Frontline
staff
have
actually
been
hired
since
covid
began
and
as
a
result
of
that,
many
of
them
hadn't
actually
ever
interacted
with
people
face
to
face.
So
it's
a
learning
experience
it's
getting
the
the
clients
back
into
the
health
department,
because
they're
used
to
being
at
home
and
it's
in
getting
our
staff
used
to
interacting
with
them
face
to
face.
So
it's
it's
going
really.
G
C
Thank
you
very
much.
Mr
chairman
John
and
I
don't
mean
to
bring
Rosemary
in
this,
but
we
had
a
conversation
with
Mr
Taylor
a
senior
yesterday
and
he
articulated
the
subject
matter
of
publicity
on
the
services
provided
by
your
office.
I
don't
mean
to
ask
for
a
specificity,
but
with
respect
to
allocation
of
funds
of
the
journal
versus
the
city.
News
I
assume,
that's,
probably
a
disparity
in
terms
of
readership.
C
G
Being
taken
care
of
Mr,
Mr,
Taylor's
publication,
as
well
as
the
journal
and
all
the
radio
stations,
the
media,
we
do
reach
out
to
them.
We
we
don't
necessarily
just
decide
today
we're
going
to
to
put
an
ad
in
the
paper,
for
example,
and
exclude
one
over
another.
It's
it's
grant
money
that
dictates
certain
Services,
whether
it's
a
billboard
or
a
publication,
but
he
is
part
of
that
and
and
I
have
communicated
with
that.
There
have
been
some
issues
in
the
past
and
he
and
I
have
communicated
on
improving
that
relationship.
G
C
G
A
You
call
them
schools,
Frank,
Pat,
Kunis,
the
regional
superintendent.
We
have
a
do.
You
have
the
quarter
of
the
report,
I
believe
on
your
iPads,
correct,
okay,
and
so
because
we
didn't
print
it
all
out
because
it's,
but
is
there
a
motion
to
approve
I'm,
putting
on
well
not
approved,
put
on
file
Mr,
Fairfield
and
Mr
carico
I
believe
with
the
the
second,
all
those
in
favor
say:
aye
aye.
Those
are
the
same.
Signs
motion
carries
Morgan
good.
I
Morning
just
wanted
to
stop
by
just
to
let
you
know
just
a
few
things,
nothing
major
my
schedule
actually
allowed
for
me
to
be
here
today,
so
I
thought
I'd
stop
by.
We
had
our
joint
Ed
meeting
last
week,
so
I
updated
that
committee
on
everything
and
that's
where
that
report
came
from
first
semester
is
completed
for
schools.
So
the
years
half
a
little
more
than
halfway
over
things
are
going
well
with
schools
in
the
region,
nothing
major
our
activity
in
our
office.
I
I
We
will
get
those
reports
out
no
major
issues
with
any
of
our
buildings,
as
a
matter
of
fact
met
with
the
State
Fire
Marshal
yesterday,
because
they
walked
through
some
of
the
buildings
as
well,
and
they
commented
that
our
schools
do
a
nice
job,
which
we
kind
of
know
that
anyway,
but
even
walking
through
buildings
like
LCC
old
buildings,
like
that
how
impressive
they
are
kept
up.
So
our
districts
do
a
very
nice
job
with
what
we
have,
even
though
some
of
our
stuff
is,
is
pretty
old.
I
So
there's
various
building
projects
still
continuing
in
the
region
more
to
come.
School
maintenance
grants
came
out
from
the
state,
so
a
lot
of
our
districts
took
advantage
of
those.
Those
are
fifty
thousand
dollar
matching
grants,
so
small
grants,
but
allow
for
getting
some
projects
done
so
some
ongoing
projects
that
are
still
hanging
on
due
to
supply
shortages
but
they're
starting
to
get
caught
up.
So
a
lot
of
HVAC
projects
that
started
last
year,
hopefully
they'll
have
their
air
conditioning
ready
to
go
by
this
summer.
I
Still,
a
focus
with
schools
is
social,
emotional
and
Mental
Health
Resources
to
try
to
help
students
so
they're
focusing
really
heavily
on
that,
and
then
our
staff
continues
to
support
students
and
and
Educators
within
the
region
and
partner
with
Community
organizations
to
try
to
support
them
as
much
as
possible.
So
we're
going
strong
and
I
feel
like
our
transition,
went,
smooth
and
I
think
we're
on
our
way.
So
do
I
have
any
questions
for
for
me.
J
I
That
project
is
completed,
and
you
know
it's
hard
to
appreciate
when
somebody
says
boy.
That's
a
very
nice
boiler
room
because
that
LCC
Boiler
Room
was
pretty
scary
for
a
lot
of
years,
because
those
boilers
were
old
and
boy.
You
walk
in
there
now
and
it's
it's
pretty
cool
I
mean
the
state
of
the
art
stuff.
I
That's
in
there
and
they're
running
and
they're
they're,
just
waiting
on
one
approval
from
the
State
Fire
Marshal,
but
everything's
up
and
running
ready
to
go
and
they
actually
added
a
new
Boiler
Room
to
King,
because
King
was
always
fed
by
the
LCC
boilers
from
a
pipe
underground,
which
was
pretty
amazing,
but
by
adding
the
boilers
into
King
that
helps
with
some
efficiencies
as
well.
But
that
was
a
long
process
to
get
that
taken
care
of.
I
I
C
I
So
yeah
the
State
Board
of
Education
there
each
school
has
to
have
a
report
card
and
those
are
those
were
released.
Last
fall
and
they're
available.
The
school
district
has
to
have
a
link
on
their
web
page
to
be
able
to
see
those,
so
those
are
available.
Various
factors
go
into
those
report
cards
and
so
I
like
to
compare
the
state
report
card
to
back
in
the
days
back.
I
In
my
days
of
when
I
was
in
retail
consumer
reports
and
when
people
would
use
consumer
reports
and
they'd
look
at
that
rating
and
that's
all
they
would
go
by
there's
a
lot
more
to
that
story
than
that
rating
or
that
number
or
that
score.
So
if
you
really
want
to
understand
it,
you
want
to
dig
into
that
information
or
call
the
school
or
talk
to
you're.
Welcome
to
talk
to
me,
we
can
get
through
any.
A
A
K
So
this
month
you
actually
get
our
annual
report,
not
our
monthly
report.
This
is
what
we
send
to
the
governor
every
year
and
it
will
go
to
our
board
tonight.
Also
also
attached
this
year
is
the
Illinois
state
report,
so
all
of
the
vacs
that
are
willing
to
collaborate
send
one
person
within
the
state,
the
their
Governor's
reports,
and
then
they
combine
them
and
put
them
together.
K
So
that's
a
little
bit
newer
for
us.
We've
only
been
doing
that.
I
think
this
is
the
third
year.
So
that's
a
great
report
to
look
at
so
a
couple
things
for
our
office.
That's
happened
that
you
don't
have
in
a
report
anywhere
is
David.
Mccleary
has
passed
his
basic
benefits
and
he
is
on
his
way
to
becoming
a
service
officer,
so
there'll
actually
be
three
of
us.
Finally,
we
are
working
at
Amanda
who,
as
our
admin,
will
take
the
next
basic
benefits
course
also
that's
in
April.
K
So
it's
a
long
process
to
become
a
service
officer,
even
though
David's
past
his
basic
benefits,
he
actually
probably
won't
start
doing
paperwork
until
close
to
the
end
of
the
year
by
himself.
So
it's
a
long
process
so
Amanda
if
she
takes
basic
benefits
in
April,
probably
won't
even
start
doing
paperwork
until
next
year.
So
once
we
start
hiring
people
like
that,
it
just
takes
a
long
time
to
be
able
to
do
the
service
officer
work
itself.
K
Call
an
advocate
through
the
app
it's
kind
of
like
calling
an
Uber
or
dialing
up
food
except
they'll,
be
able
to
call
a
veteran
advocate
to
go
out
for
coffee
or
go
on
one
of
our
troops
on
Trails,
canoe,
trips
or
worst
case
scenario
with
the
sheriff's
department
of
a
police
officer
goes
to
a
scene
of
a
PTSD
incident
and
they
find
out
that
the
person
is
a
veteran.
They
can
actually
go
on
the
App
themselves
and
say:
hey:
we
got
a
vet,
that's
in
distress.
K
If
you
have
an
advocate,
can
you
send
the
one
so
that
a
veteran
can
talk
to
a
veteran,
and
an
incident
happened
last
Veterans
Day
weekend
where
Kankakee
City
Police
called
Eric,
Peterson
who's,
project,
headspace
and
timing
hospital
called
Eric?
They
had
a
vet
that
was
ready
to
jump
off
the
bridge
and
if
we
had
the
app,
he
probably
could
have
responded
a
little
bit
quicker.
K
on
page
19.
It
covers
the
veterans,
receiving
property,
tax
exemptions
and
I.
Think
that
is
a
big
deal
to
some
people.
I
know
that
the
assessors
have
some
questions
about
how
many
people
really
receive
property
tax
discounts
as
veterans-
and
this
is
something
that
the
State
Association
has
put
together,
so
that
people
asking
questions
have
something
to
refer
to.
K
So
if
anybody
in
your
districts
or
anybody
wants
to
know
anything,
this
is
a
Statewide
number,
not
just
for
our
County
or
whatever,
but
that
is
a
Statewide
number
of
how
many
veterans
actually
receive
a
property.
Just
property
count:
sorry
property,
tax
exemptions
based
on
their
disability.
So
if
you
have
any
questions
about
that
too,
that
would
that's
a
great
number
to
to
know
any
questions.
L
K
There
so
the
only
thing
I
can
tell
you
that
the
last
thing
I
was
told
was
that
they
haven't
closed
on
the
building.
Yet
there
was
a
hold
up,
they
had
to
redo
the
architectural
layout
of
it
and
they
hope
to
close
in
February
and
get
started.
It's
still
going.
There
was
no
squash
in
the
whole
project.
It
was
just
they
had
to
redo
the
architectural
part,
so
but
I
hope
that's
still
a
go
as
far
as
that
goes,
but
it's
close
close
in
February
and
then
get.
F
So
first
looking
at
our
average
number
of
employees
in
2022,
the
average
number
was
471
and
a
half
actually
in
2021
was
485.
so
down,
but
we
are
on
an
uptick,
so
our
December
2022
employment
is
at
477..
So,
a
year
ago
in
December
2021
we
were
at
466..
So
what
happened?
Is
we?
We
lost
a
lot
of
employees.
We
were
seeing
a
big
reduction
in
employees.
Last
year
in
2021
we
had
110
terminations
in
2022.
We
had
80..
So
what
we
see
is
that
we're
retaining
our
employment
base.
So
that's
a
good
thing.
F
C
L
C
F
I
was
just
going
to
get
to
that:
okay,
I,
don't
I,
don't
really
publish
the
amount
of
terminations
as
opposed
to
resignations.
It
will
tell
you
of
the
80
13
or
3
percent
were
retirement,
and
if
you
look
at
the
tenure
of
service,
73
percent
of
our
resignations
are
within
the
first
five
years.
Actually
28
percent,
almost
a
third
or
close
to
30
percent,
is
in
the
first
year.
F
So
once
we're
able
to
retain
employees
for
that
first,
five
years
at
least
get
them
over
that
first
year
they
really
kind
of
settle
in
and
we
can.
We
can
keep
them.
You
know
engaged
for
a
longer
period
of
time
of
the
resignation
16
percent
were
over
20
years.
That's
what
you
see
most
typically
a
retirement,
but
it
also
could
be.
Sometimes
people
will
resign
after
20
years
they
won't
take
their
retirement.
That
they're
entitled
to.
We
Mark
that
as
a
resignation,
the
retirements
when
I
met
gave
you
the
retirement
number
of
13.
A
F
Is
they
have
a
higher?
It's?
Not
a
higher
percentage.
I
will
say
that
actually
the
department
with
the
highest
percentage,
but
it's
a
little
misleading,
was
assessment
because
they
have
five
employees
and
they
lost
three,
so
they're
showing
60
right,
not
really
comparable
to
Corrections.
So
it's
I
look
at
both
numbers
and
percentage
to
try
and
get
a
feel,
but
you're
right
Corrections
does
have
the
highest.
They
also
have
the
highest
number
of
employees.
Oh
right
right.
F
So
moving
on
to
FMLA
in
2022
we
had
42
FMLA
leaves
granted
that
sleeve
Under
The
Family
and
Medical
Leave
Act
in
2021.
We
had
50..
So
what
we're
seeing
is
that
2022
overall
seem
to
be
more
consistent
with
prior
years.
2021
really
was
kind
of
an
outlier
where
there
was
a
lot,
a
lot
of
churn
going
on
with
our
employees
and
our
employment
based
seems
to
be
settling
down.
We
had
41
FMLA
cases
in
2020
and
39
and
2019.
F
F
We
were
kind
of
waiting
to
see
if
2021
was
really
an
evening
out
of,
but
it
seems
like
we're
in
a
bit
of
an
uptick
in
the
number
of
cases,
but
the
number
of
cases
with
lost
time,
so
an
employee
misses
more
than
three
days
by
Federal
OSHA
require
reporting
requirements.
That
was
three
in
2022.
So,
although
we
have
a
larger
number
of
cases,
they
continue
to
be
quite
minor,
which
speaks
to
our
our
environment
and
the
safety,
and
our
employees,
who
are
you,
know,
take
safety
seriously.
So
we're
really
quite
happy
with
that.
F
In
terms
of
our
the
County's
EAP
program,
we
had
16
total
cases
that
went
employees
that
referred
to
the
EAP
15
was
a
safe
self-referral.
One
was
a
supervisory
referral
that
is
a
utilization
rate
of
12
of
our
Workforce.
The
national
average
is
four
to
six
percent,
so
that's
good
news
that
our
employees
are
reaching
out.
F
We
appreciate
that
the
top
presenting
issues,
depression,
anxiety
and
informational
requests.
So
just
you
know
trying
to
I
I
really
during
our
new
employee
orientation.
I
encourage
our
employees
new
employees
to
call
to
look
at
there's
all
sorts
of
referral
services
for
things
other
than
mental
health
issues
within
our
EAP
could
be
legal
advice
could
be
accounting
budgeting
things
like
that,
so
peop,
our
employees
are
calling
for
some
of
those
other
Referral
Services.
F
Let's
see
63
percent
of
those
employees
that
called
the
EAP
use
the
short-term
counseling
94
of
those
resolve
their
concern
within
the
scope
of
the
EAP.
So
what
that
means?
It's
a
relatively
short
term
concern.
Only
one
client
received
a
referral
for
additional
counseling
through
our
group
health
insurance.
So
that's
all
very
good
news.
Our
plan,
what
we
did
is
purchase
the
plan
that
has
six
sessions.
So
that's
a
good
thing,
so
relatively
short-term
concerns
by
our
employees
that
they're
able
to
resolve
within
the
EAP.
F
Eap
I
think
sense.
It
the
other
things
that
kind
of
working
on
in
administration
is.
We
continue
with
Highway
negotiations
and
finishing
up
open
enrollment,
so
the
new
benefit
plans
all
were
effective
on
January
1st,
so
there
are
January,
is
usually
filled
with
coverage
changes,
ID
cards,
questions
about
that
HSA
funding.
So
there's
a
little
bit
of
cleanup,
we
see
it.
We
see
more
activity
in
January
due
to
questions
and
and
concerns
with
the
plans.
L
I
just
wanted
to
say
that
I
have
my
certificate
for
open
meetings
at
oh
excellent.
Thank
you
and
it
is
you
just
get
in
this
site
and
go
down
and
answer
the
questions
and
I
got
the
one
wrong
and
it
let
me
go
back
and
get
it
right.
So
I
don't
have
thing
that
says
you
only
80,
it
says
100
and
the
other
is
what
I
was
so
pleased
at.
Is
our
organization.
Administration
are
following
the
rules?
That's
what
I
like
best,
you
know,
I
could
say:
oh
yeah,
we
do
that.
We
do
that
good.
F
Sure
so
Ms
Weber
brings
up
an
excellent
point.
You
all
received
an
email
or
should
have
received
an
email
regarding
the
open
meetings
act.
Training.
Let
me
know
if
you
didn't
get
it
I,
just
sent
it
out
to
the
County
Board
list,
that's
in
our
email,
but
you
do
need
to
complete
that
within
90
days
of
your
oath
of
office,
I'd
like
to
try
and
get
those
by
the
February
board
meeting.
If
we
can
so
I'll
need
those
certificates
on
on
file.
For
you.
A
All
right,
thank
you.
We
have
a
few
appointments
and
reappointments
and
resignations
I
guess
so.
I'll
read
through
these.
Maybe
we'll
get
a
motion
to
come
by
and
approve
afterwards
resignation
of
Dennis
schwark
from
the
pilot
Township
Fire
Protection
District,
the
reappointment
of
the
following
Elwood
line
to
the
moments
in
Yellowhead
drainage
number,
one
Scott
O'brien
to
etsb,
which
is
9-1-1
Tinker
Parker
The,
icann,
Joint
education
committee,
Ray
Fairfield
to
icann,
Joint
education
committee
and
the
appointment
of
Jessica
Andrade
to
the
I.
Can
joint
education
committee.
A
A
We
have
a
couple
openings,
one
on
McGillivray,
special
drainage,
district
and
pilot
Township,
Fire
Protection
District,
any
new
business
committee,
anything
to
talk
about
or
old
or
adjournment
anyone,
anyone,
Bueller
Dr,
Polk,
Mrs
Foster,
all
those
in
favor
say:
aye
aye.
Those
opponents
same
sign
motion.