Kankakee County Board, IL Finance Committee Meetings, 25 Sep 2019

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Finance Committee Meeting 9/25/2019 9:00 AM

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Cause order the Finance Committee meeting for fifth: can we have a roll call? Please.

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Mr. leer mr. Lee Jess mr. Washington mr. alte mr. Hess mr. Bern, miss Weber mr. Payton rose Miss Parker mr. Kinzinger mr. Zen's miss Haase mr. Swanson mr. Kaul Oh, mr. dennell mr. Beiler may have a quorum.

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We have no requests for public comment. Is there anyone wishing to make public comment seeing no one wishing to we have no presentations move for approval of the minutes for August 28th mr. Bern. First second from mr. altough any discussion, if not all in favor, say aye opposed, nay motion carries you move to the finance department. Mr. McCarty, you have the reports in your packet, starting with the various miscellaneous financial reports,.

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Good morning,.

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The first section dad looked over as earlier said, financial reports. We had dip in the sales tax this month for some reason, so we'll continue to watch that, as you can see, on the backside of the sales tax. When we break out the countywide in the.

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In the unincorporated.

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Area you know compared to a year ago, that amount is is about half in the unincorporated area. So, but if you look at some of the other trends from the other years, the unincorporated trends are not necessarily consistent. So we'll keep an eye on that. You know and see if other months, your remaining you know pick that up or not so so we're watching that real close.

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The other items continue to trend in a positive way at this point, so I won't take too much time and also there's any questions on those reports. I.

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See no questions we'll move on then to cash flow update. Please.

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On the cash flow update, going through not only the end of the year but into 2020 here is we're lining up things that are coming to light here for fiscal year, 2020 and I just wanted to mention a few things that we had the same discussion with movies week or so ago.

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You know in a little perspective of our cash flow, our estimated and in cash flow for November of nineteen. If you compare it to where we ended up November of eighteen we're now at three million higher on estimate I'm flow, then we were at eighteen and it's six and a half million higher than where we ended in FY 17.

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It is over November 30 of those seventeen, so a very positive trend, and again that trend is what I'm keeping in mind as I head into FY twenty and whether or not you know we need to do a tax anticipation warrant or not. So we're we're still looking at that watching that, but we're you know well ahead of you know: we've been borrowing two and a half million dollars last couple of years.

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You know where three million, where estimated to be three million higher here as we get to the end of fiscal year nineteen had and into you know the drier months. If you will, in the springtime you know of twenty, so just a little perspective on that as we go forward and I include FY 18 as well.

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For you just for comparison- and you know analysis for those that like to look at things like that, so just wanted to bring that up to you know and identify that we were sitting right at ten million dollars in the bank as of today before this payroll goes out. So that's a really nice feeling. It's able to I give my able to sleep right now, so Chris.

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Charles talk Thank.

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You chairman, when do we get our reading from woody.

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Well, I expected to have that for you this morning because they were gonna communicate with us yesterday, but then yesterday we got the email and they wanted to. They put it off until this afternoon. So I will. We should know what this afternoon like. We can distribute that as chairman wheeler, you.

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Instead of waiting a month, we can share that with you. It's just I thought we'd have it for today, but I. Don't.

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Any other questions in regard to cash flow or the Moody no yeah.

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The update at Moody's yeah, unfortunately, so we don't have it I, don't know chairman looking want to share anything about the the call or not anything we share with the committee. It.

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Was it wasn't an awful call? It was one that we've been wanting to have for a couple years now, so they didn't rate us. They didn't look at us last year. They wanted to see a trend and I think they've seen that so we don't, we did discuss that. It falls a lot quicker than it goes back up and so I wouldn't expect us to be back up to you know the a range right away, but I think we should see some improvement. I wouldn't see any reason.

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Why not we've had I, don't know tremendous improvement. It's that's an understatement, but so these guys are very they're the Masters of understatement. They don't really get emotional about it, even though we try to get them excited about it. So is that pretty much a common theme Steve they they just want the facts and we're drilling down into you know you know what happens if and and then they want to know. You know if things change, are you able to change and that that's part of the the rating increased you know, that's why we fell.

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Is it and most people know we didn't change quick enough and that's how we dug the hole so in the future? I think this committee is committed to not having that happen again. So.

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The industry have heard that you know they're they're fast to drop but slow to raise so we'll see, I believe that will go up, but you know if we might be a little disappointed how much until you know a few more years down the road. That's the only thing so.

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Mr. kidnoh thank.

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You what's our present rating b13 yeah.

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Be and the the small case upper case means something with them. I think its capital beast to smaller than the small ann3.

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I can give you that perspective as far as where we were at where, where they move us to, when I send it out of them. Mr.

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Yeah, the basically that's the lowest step you can be in and be an investment grade and then, if you go below into that, it's a non recommendation for investment. So even though we're not going gonna be buying anything anytime soon, you know that we require a bond, I, don't see, but we were as low as it could go before. People would just say we're not doing business with you at all. So.

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And you have questions there.

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As per the protocol of the auditor's office, he did have a conference that he attended with expenses involved. So there is a claim that he's presented to the Finance Committee I would need a motion to approve that mr. kuhmo mr. Bern any discussion on the claim recommended for approval hearing, not hearing no discussion, a roll call vote. Please.

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Washington, mr. alta mr. Hess mr. Bern mr. Weber aye mr. Peyton Oh, Miss Parker mr. Kinzinger, this house, mr. sponson mr. Cole Oh aye mr. wheeler motion carries.

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Are there any other claims for approval or recommendation I have no other? We moved to the fiscal year, 20 interfund, borrowing resolution you have a copy of the resolution in your packet yeah.

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This is the the actual resolution format by 19 for my 19 network running on I. Just grabbed it and it'll be updated to reflect the dates for fiscal year 20, so we're being proactive and put it in place. We will still have some in if I'm borrowing at this point, so it's nice to be able to talk about NOTW, but we're not at a point to be able to say no barring whatsoever yet so so this is to put in place for fiscal year 20.

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So this resolution will just work with State's Attorney's Office and get it updated to go forward to the full board.

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Motion to approve mr. house is there a second Miss Parker aye discussion, ginger? Yes,.

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So what I'm looking at is what was done in 2004 2019, and the new motion will be the same except we'll change the resolution number and the days yes.

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Mr. wheeler thank.

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You just for perspective. The board was notified of this before, but we've gone from, I think the high-water mark was around six million interfund and now we're down to just over two and at the end of next year, it'll probably be at least half of that. So well. We're making substantial strides in that as well.

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Any other discussion: let's do a roll call on this one too, please.

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Washington mr. Altaf mr. Hess mr. Bern all right mr. Weber aye mr. Paden Miss Parker mr. Kinzinger, miss Hoffs mr. sponson mr. Kaul Oh aye. Mr. wheeler motion carries.

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The general fund financial trend, discussion, yeah.

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In your packet, we've got some graphs for you, some done some trending to fiscal year through fiscal year 24. Basically it took revenue. You know known. The revenue trends also took and did the same with expense trends. The compounding and to take a look at you know what roadmap are we on?

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If you will and there's a lot of positives as we you know, I've been discussing and and some cautionary as well on the on the graph, you see a little bit of a dip there on the graph when we get between 23 and 24 and I got some information here, so we just wanted to I like that. But at the same time you know, if you look I recommended fund balance from GF away, we would be about.

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20 percent is what they recommend per your revenue, so that would put us around 6 million, so we're right on the doorstep of the recommended. You know fund balance being able to get back to that recommended fund balance, which is great news. You know, and if you look at trends from the bottom until you know where we're at right now, that's a movement 6.2 million dollars. If you look through estimated 19 and then the entire trend change from the bottom to the top is ten point: three million dollars what that means.

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So that's a substantial change and you know something that we shared with Moody's and you know I've been sharing in but also wanted to just discuss. You know that there's a little bit of a warning light if you will a cautionary tale to this, that we have to keep in mind and we can do that going forward, so so I also put together the revenue, expense trends for the general fund. The next slide, so I broke up between a late and 2016 and, as you can see, that was looks like chaos and it was.

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Yeah, the the ledger, the the blue is the revenue. The green is expense general fund, so I knew in trying to be yet it the the black is a revenue in the gray like gray, is the is the expense they did. It come out a.

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It's very close the way, though, the.

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Printed out so the way the printers so for the most part in this first graph, the line that is the highest is the expense line. Unfortunately, and you can.

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Other than oh eight and twenty eleven, the expenses were higher until we got to 2016 where they basically matched up at that point. So.

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The you know, as we shared with you, you know and well I, don't know. If we're gonna take a trip down memory lane. We.

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Had to take a trip.

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Down my more like a movie because we had a brand new person, so we had dual explaining what the what the story was. So this this you know, does a lot of explaining and then we go to the next slide and we can interact in these as you want the the bottom line. The orange line is expense and the blue line is revenue.

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So this is what is getting inside of the hole and corresponds to the upward trend that we saw in the fund balance graph, but the the cautionary tale is that the revenues start peaking and become level and what the compound expense crosses over in 2024 at what we know right now. So you know, if nothing changed and we continued on the path they will. Eventually, you know could eventually cross, but if.

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There's additional.

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Revenues that would stretch that out, obviously or you know, and as we can, if we take a look at at this point, you know with expenses.

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You know we got plenty of time to identify this and if we all work together, you know we're dealing with about six hundred and fifty thousand dollars is what we're dealing with and when you take in the account new changes.

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When you look at salaries, health, insurance, utility changes, you're dealing with every year and a general fund between five hundred thousand and seven hundred fifty thousand of new dollars every year with those changes and to put it in perspective for like property tax, that's about a hundred thirty thousand new dollars is all with the property tax caps that we can gain. Out of that, you can't just go fill it.

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You know the gap, whatever gap you need so and then we know that, with the jail being full in the bed rental program that are one of the major sources of that change. Is that will that's why it caps off? Because you know, and until the point if we can and and when we can get another increase, we I just plugged in what we know right now, you know and then it expenses compound the the other items.

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You know: sales tax income, tax property tax that it's not enough to continue to sustain that with the compound growth of expense coming forward, so I just wanted to bring awareness to it and if we all work together, I believe we can figure this out. You know by the time we get there, but we need to know you know what it looked like and I wanted to share that with you. Obviously, new information is going to come up and you know and change, but you know we. We have to be aware that this won't the.

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Current trend, you.

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Know may not last forever and we're going to be aware of that and proactive with that. So that was the main thing, but there's a lot of great information there. You know with building the fund the trends when you build the fund balance you're, also building your cash reserves.

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You know not borrowing from others and in a fund or externally.

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However, we do have to keep in mind that that trend does come back together, potentially at some point in the future here. So that's the that's. What I wanted to share there? So there's a mix of good and cautionary news all at the same time. Here as we look down the road, if you will, if.

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I understand your right. You're saying the three main drivers of expense increase are in terms of health, insurance, salaries and utilities, utilities.

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Yeah there's other drivers within you know built in, but those are the three main ones.

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If I look at that chart between about Oh eighteen and twenty, you have one degree of increase and then after twenty one it did level off a little I was really trying to get a feel for that in terms of the rate of increase.

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Yeah, some of that has to do. We've done three leases this year, we've done early near. We did a squad lease and we did the radio's and then we are currently ready to start in another squad lease.

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So that's part of it, but also you know the other items that we're looking at going forward, and so that's where, if we, you know, we've kind of had things I had to get caught up and then I just kind of projected normal. You know normal process, normal rotation things after that going forward, so that might be why it killed off a little bit more. Mr.

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Kissinger yeah.

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I'm, looking at the revenue side and I'm thinking, I'm piggybacking on the question you asked somewhat I asked her two different way, but between 18 and 20 we show a rate of increase significant and it was a good year and project to be a good year. But everything that I read locally is that we've got more activity. More property increase more revenue sources. How did you account for that? As you, leveled off and and almost deep least, the revenues of 22:24?

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Some of the decrease potentially has to do with grants. Some of the some of our grants do sunset.

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Of them are fairly large, they may get renewed. So we again, we went with what we know right now and if that has.

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This included up to nineteen includes grants, but from nineteen forward there are no grants. No.

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Their grants, but some of them we know our Sun setting and on 21 22. You know they may get renewed. You know I mean but I understand, I went with. If no, if it stopped, you know, we have a contract through X date.

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We took a look at you know, and the biggest change on the revenue side is the change in the bed rental program, and then we got the increase from 80 to 90 that started in March of this year, and so, when you take the average number of beds that you know, they've been working with this year, we with our local and then the rented averages and take and plug that number, and that's word and they.

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Finally, you know, does taper off from you know previous numbers, so so that yeah there's a little bit of change in the revenue that you know when I went conservative you know I mean, but with what we know, and if that changed, that's how the trend you know showed up. So at this point, they're.

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All talk, Thank.

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You chairman I was at March increase. Was that a cola or do we have a cola with the bed? Reynolds I.

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Cause we do know, that's a set amount until the next time. It's changed. A three-year.

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Know I, that's a number that obviously the sheriff will will interact in you know and I'm, not saying that this will happen again, but we $80 a day. I believe was here for like ten years, so we hope not to repeat that. That's again, you know I mean looking at what information that we have available. You know that certainly can be worked on and possibly changed, but that's just keep.

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Keep movin he's moving up and you income remains level. Okay,.

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Mister user I just.

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Wanna it's 23 as when it can be renegotiated as it was a five-year deal, yeah it's in 23 and I believe 20 in 24, I think that's when the jail bond is done, I believe that's the year here, 24 or 25 I believe is 24. I. Think the bond for Court view is done right around the same time and we should be through the with the rate of that we're having with the juvenile detention. Remember that's a kiddy of money. That's sitting to the side.

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We were planning on budgeting that, like we'd, have to start paying for that again around that time period, but we're at really low levels. The laws have changed so that may last a little longer, but again things that will impact and they're most of our labor agreements are through 20 and 21. So we'll see you know, that's why Steve's doing this is to let you know that any any any hit to expense beyond what's predicted, will that gap will close?

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That's our fund balance gap between those two lines, both in the previous when we went into the hole, that's how we got into the hole and then now that we're getting out. So if we close those together, then we won't have the fund balances required at the end of that time period. And then what do you do afterwards, because with tax caps, they're good for the tax payers? Obviously, but when you have $600,000 a year increase to your expenses just because of normal whatever. Where does that come from.

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You hit a question discussion.

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Clean gun know.

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You have nothing more. Thank you very much. We'll move on.

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Administration department, respect.

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They have three items from administration department.

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Good morning, good.

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Morning, just a quick update, there's not a whole lot right now, but I just wanted to keep you apprised of where we're at as we head into budgeting and year-end and looking at fiscal 2020 I did include the most updated premium versus claims report that came in from the insurance company Group Health, just towards the end of last week.

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As you can see, July actually went down to 83 percent, which is a good, a good trend there, we're down under 100 percent, which is what we want, and around 80 to 85 percent, is a good number from what we're told so we're at 83 percent. That's good. It won't impact the renewal calculation that was through June so but it does represent a good trend for us and we look at that as as we go through.

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Do talk with them about major differences that are happening.

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It's part of the conversation, but it by the same token, we don't want to go too far into that, because what, if August, is back up again before then, so we are still working on that Andy and I received an email yesterday from our broker.

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He is waiting on a report from United Healthcare to be able to give to Blue Cross Blue Shield, so he's taking it out for a competitive bid, so we'll see what that does to where we're at with our current provider United Healthcare. So if you remember, they initially started at a renewal of let's see 8.5%.

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They brought it down to and a half percent to a flat 6% just based on history, so we'll see if utilizing BlueCross, BlueShield some competitive bid. There can help us a little bit more. The other option on the table currently is moving some of our ancillary products. The life vision dental, would be considered if we move those to United Healthcare from the current providers. Would they be able to give us a discount based on that as well? We want to look at what those prices do compared to what we have right now for our employees.

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Those ancillary products are all paid 100% by the employees, so it doesn't, it doesn't help them to save on one hand if we're just going to increase it on the other, but it is some of the things that we're looking at so that continues to be worked on currently with we have communicated that we need the final numbers here for this committee next month, so we should have a final proposal next month, questions and then the other. The only other thing we are working on I talked last month with the executive committee.

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I just want to make sure this committee is aware as well we're looking at EAP providers, our current EAP provider canceled their service to us. So we.

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Are with Employee.

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Assistance Program, so it is a. It is a way most commonly people, think of it as a place for employees to call and maybe get some counseling for a relatively short period of time. Maybe three sessions, the intent, is to help an employee determine if they need assistance long term in how to find that somewhere. Okay, so that's why it's typically like a short three or six sessions depending, but there are a lot of other products they they've branched out.

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Eaps have branched out to provide there types of assistance, so some wellness counseling, perhaps all of the plans that I've we've looked at we've looked at four different providers and there's maybe 10 different plans. They have offered us pricing on.

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They all include HR and supervisor counseling as a part unlimited, so that our supervisors, if they're having an employee issue, could call in and get some assistance like how to approach a certain employee issue. That's going on in their department, so EAPs have changed over time for a while they kind of fell away after mental health. You know started being provided as a part of all health care plans in the olden days. I, you know way back in the 90s.

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It wasn't necessarily so, and so you would guide your employee into an EAP currently with mental health being covered by health insurance. It's not as a critical issue, but it it is a way for employees to kind of maybe step into a counseling session that they're, maybe not comfortable doing on their own. So there's value there. The prices that we've had there per person per head per employee had per month and they range from using 535 employees on average that we have currently the least costly is sixty-eight hundred and the most costly is 12,500.

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So there's a range there. Well, as a percentage is huge, it's about seven thousand dollars different six thousand dollars difference. So it's not a huge difference. We're looking as we're looking to budget for next year. Do we have room to add this as something to help our employees? Mr.

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We have a record of the usage of the program, each.

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Of these would include a utilization report, so, as Andy and I were talking up it, would it make sense to go with the least costly. The first year understand how much it's being utilized and maybe from there make a different determination.

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You thank you, mr. chairman, the UM into that point. The previous provider canceled us because of low or no usage, then we started getting flooded with people wanting to know about our AAP program. It was ironic how that happened.

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When we started looking at.

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Can't give you the number I could probably guess it's a goose egg, but I mean there probably wasn't anybody, that's how they got paid and we didn't have to pay for that service, but we used it than we paid for it probably said. Well, we're done so. You know it was right. I didn't really get that much of an explanation in our breakup letter, but it was, you know there was a. It was. Definitely was us, it wasn't them, so we could go with that.

F

Is that a fair assessment as soon as well as soon as we got that then people started called you exactly.

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It was, it was within 30 days. It was like. Are you kidding me, but I? Think part of it too goes to communication, and each of these include either monthly emails newsletters things like that, so it becomes an education process with our work groups so that they know what services are there and available to them.

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Just your intent to bring that back for next month's finance meeting with yes with this okay, so it's you're looking for kind of a head nod: yeah put it in there. Let's see what it is, the lower level one is that you want to see them all, because there's a lot there's a lot so.

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It appears the consensus of the committee is to bring one more level one okay,.

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Okay, great any.

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Questions for me.

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Well, we'll move to the Vanguard interview. That's.

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Mr. Mike Holmes.

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You have a document in your packet, you can start to look at good morning.

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What do you have for us? Okay,.

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In your packet, you should see some information regarding the recommended recommendation for energy purchases and again I'm with Vanguard energy. We handle the natural gas and electricity for the counties, commercial buildings and accounts.

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What we're looking at based upon current pricing, as opposed to what's available right now for a future for the future term. There's about two months left on the current fixed price that we have in place, which worked out very well for us over the past couple of years. It was a full requirement, fixed price at at some point. During the the first portion of this year, there was some extreme volatility in the market that fixed price protected you from critical days and market volatility.

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So what we're looking to do is pretty much the same thing: it's our job to look at opportunities within the market, where there is good opportunity to lock in a fixed full requirement, fixed-rate for you that will help solidify the budget and protect you against that market volatility and right now, if you take a look at the graphs on the second page, there's two graphs, one is for electricity. One is for the natural gas, and you can see that they're, both very low right now and below the long-term trend line.

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If you I, have a couple of I, also have a couple of savings analysis that you should see in that in the packet as well. I.

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Think keeping me from myself that it's actually that one yet.

A

So you have those in your packet. Why don't? We have a motion to approve the proposal and then we can have further discussion. Mr. Washington moves miss Payton seconds. Do you have anything more before questions that.

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Would be it and in regard to the proposals, you see the the savings on the electricity of the 30 mm Daniel in about seven thousand six thousand five hundred on that. That's what you say. Mr.

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Yeah I just want to make sure everybody knows we. We do aggregation for the county electrical aggregation. This isn't that this is for our buildings. Our usage I just want to make sure, because it confuses me from time to time as well. So I want to make sure the the committee knows that we do the other aggregation later next year. Right.

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The aggregation program is for the residential sector of the county. Mr.

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One of the newer board members- I guess I- have the right to ask the question.

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Thank You mr. Washington.

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There are several companies that provide this type of service as the county check with other companies. Or do we just automatically renew someone who has provided that service in the past, I missed.

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Waiter would you on their dresser.

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This, how do I put it? The service is like a skill, if you will the the being able to look at those markets and make those recommendations, so we're actually going with the recommendations or the people that have done a force in the past, and it's been very good advice, so we, if we shopped it, would almost be. They would be looking for in correct me if I'm wrong, just different suppliers to you know, provide this. This gas or whatever you know, service or electrical service, that we're looking at correct.

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They would go out on the mark and again.

K

We're looking at, we have multiple supply options as well, so you're getting a very competitive bid, not to mention just the sheer volume that Vanguard has behind. It gives us preferential pricing it that we receive from our suppliers as well.

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Did you mr. chair, did you ever.

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Call I'm a contractor, also and I know that you get pricing and then you mark up the pricing to cover your costs and sometimes everybody that I work with gets bids from the contractors to see who can do that work at the most reasonable cost? And that's my point. Okay,.

K

Exactly what I was saying, that's what I'm saying is our supply options, those bit those bids that we get in are being brought in and looked at and we're looking at that lowest possible price to provide for the economy.

G

And then the contractor does a markup to cover his operational costs, fixed cost and many times in a bid. We have this disparity of costs right from low to high, and you say how can that happen? If we're all using the same companies right I'm, just asking what service do you provide other than intellectual service to go out and get bids? Well,.

K

Again, we've been serving as far as your usage and your usage habits and whatnot we've been serving the district for over 15 years. I myself have been serving the district since 2000, or not the district with the county since 2002.

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Any other questions comment.

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We have a motion to approve the proposal. This would involve spending money, so we wouldn't need a roll call vote. Mr.

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Washington mr. Altaf mr. Hess mr. Bern hi miss Weber aye mr. Peyton Miss, Parker hi mr. Kinsey, miss Haas mr. Swanson mr. Kaul Oh. Mr. wheeler motion carries.

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All right that deals with those from the administration department, we'll move to the treasurer's office a moment here. You've got you've, received the treasurer's report. Okay,.

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You've received the treasurer's report in your emails.

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You have part of that in your packet.

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Morning, everyone.

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I just have a few things here. Last week we made our third distribution of tax money, I. Think Steve. You got that right.

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We thought I had nod, yes,.

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Interest I know I've talked about it. We we've been trying to do, make some additional income on our money and because rates had gone up for a little while, as of the 31st of August, we are at 270,000 an interest income, so I'm pretty comfortable, saying that we're gonna be probably 315 for the year somewhere. In there we had a trustee auction, as many people know, on September 10th, at quality in and there's a lot of confusion between the auction and the tax sale.

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The auction is surplus properties that the trustee has d2 and that we try to sell and get back on. The tax rolls. The good news is: it was an incredible tax sale, it's in the Clarion room, I, don't know if you know which room that is it's the biggest room they had. It was there's chairs, you know, rows and rows of chairs. It was standing room only to give you an idea of the size of the in 2015. We did four hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars.

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Sixteen seven twenty seventeen 806 eighteen, eight, fifty six and this year, one point one: four: eight for an average of five thousand four hundred and forty-one dollars per property, I think we sold two hundred and twelve properties.

J

That was a ton of interest which is really encouraging and I think it speaks to. Maybe what mr. Kinzinger was saying about. You know the area and people having some money. What seemed to me there was a lot of investment in potentially rental property, so that's good because it puts those properties back on their tax rolls, and we like that, and there was a we sold a property so very reasonably, but I think the highest was forty five thousand, which was good, and you know people picked up two flats for $4,000 granted.

J

They need a lot of work, but needing a lot of work means people have to do the work people have to buy. The you know supplies to do the work with so I was very, very happy with the way the auction went this year and the way it's trending up, obviously I think some people have asked me well.

J

Why is it going up, obviously, that there's economic, maybe some more enthusiasm in the market, but we also have been more aggressive in terms of working with the trustee to get property sold, get mobile homes sold so that we're not sitting on these properties or you know on and on and on it's a lot of work and frankly it's it costs us a lot of money.

J

Tax collection through through yesterday, we've collected ninety seven percent or a hundred and eighty seven million.

J

We have roughly seven and a half million outstanding right now now, there's you know we're late right now, but people are still paying and tax sale won't beat November 13, so there's still and we still paid on the 12th or the 11th. So we'll continue to take in tax monies, but 97% is in I wanted to give you a break out.

J

So you can understand that, where that money's, coming in from 81 million dollars of that money has come in through the mail banks have collected, 52 million and out of those banks, I'll just give you the top four Homestar fourteen point: two million Midland nine municipal six people's five I think what jumps out to me is if you combine Home Star in Midland, that's twenty three point: two million they collected and they're combined now, we've taken in forty four million at the counter and were about ten point to online and online is trending.

J

Just like it was last year. It's it's. The growth is flat on it, which was a little disappointing, so hoping that head going up. So just one last note on that one hundred and twenty-five million dollars total terms of mail encounter have been collected by the office here. So it's a tremendous amount of work. That's been done downstairs by Diane, Spade, Angelica, Moore and Shakira Parker and Donna casino and I just want to say thank you to all of them.

J

Lastly, I want to mention that on Sunday I spoke at the Caldwell Chapel AME Zion Church. They had asked me to come and speak. We help them acquire some auction property. We walked them through the process. They wanted to buy some property around the church that was vacant and they want to clean it up and obviously that's a great thing for them great for us, so I went and spoke, and it was. We were very warmly received.

J

We talked about the payment plan, which was everybody seemed to like and I just like to say a thank you to pastor Lori Holmes for the invitation and congratulate her on her 20th anniversary of her pastorship that was going on on Sunday. That's all I have and I'm certainly open to questions.

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Are there any questions at this point? We have a report before us. Could we have a motion to approve combined and repulses treasurer's reports? Mr. house and mr. Payton seconds on favor of approving the report say: aye opposed, nay motion carries questions on the traffic on OHS comments. Seen none don't want to rush you off, but we.

J

Move along good to see you George.

A

All right in your pack that you do have the sheriff's monthly update.

A

Look at that a moment on the screen that was presented to criminal justice and discussed there. Many of the items are the same. The sheriff was very conscious that we continued to have a relatively high number of the local inmates.

A

He also pointed out the discouraging fact that we've had a number of traffic facilities already this year and he is concerned about the role of speed and those traffic facilities. There are fatalities. Excuse me, I.

A

Don't know if there's anything else that we'd want to highlight mr. hesitating or mr. Bern yeah just met Thank.

I

You mr. chairman I'll per the meeting, he did express concern about the amount of people being re-released in back into the community. That was a topic he had brought up from either from Department of Corrections. Okay,.

A

Anything else we would want to highlight for those who can share, if not that was for our information, so we'll move on to the auditor's office. Mr. Lee, you have the commentary for the auditors, reports and you've received an email, the complete reports.

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We have a motion to accept the monthly claims.

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Mr. Swanson, at seven monthly claims, mr. culo any discussion on the monthly claims.

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If there's no discussion, a roll call vote, please. Mr.

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Beard ah mr. Washington mr. Alta, mr. Hess mr. Bern, all right, miss Weber hi mr. Paden Miss, Parker aye mr. Kinzinger his house, his response on mr. Cole Oh aye. Mr. wheeler. All right motion carries.

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D

Good morning, mr. chairman, good morning, committee, we excuse me didn't have much out of the ordinary. You know the standard issues that we do have that are systemic to the operations of the county. I have communicated so you have that I also wanted to let people know we have had a very good response, as we traveled the county kind of educating folks on the Dixon Illinois situation. As you know, Kelly Pope from DePaul University did a documentary on how some of those issues happened.

D

Where fifty three point, seven million dollars- were stolen over a period of 20 years and we had about 50 people who attended those seminars that we did, and so we're very proud of that, and we hope to do some more and just continue to educate the public on ways in which they can be involved in their government to ensure that those kinds of things don't happen here. So we're very excited about that.

D

We issued the quarter three report for the period ending on 31, August and I did change some things on it presented a couple of dashboards that is in the abbreviated report that you all got emailed to you.

D

If you go to the auditors website, you can see the full report and it shows all of the disaggregated, departmental information fund information and all of that for your reading pleasure, we do have a lot of positive things that have been happening in the county and so far as you know, spending and so forth is concerned, but also economically, insofar as business expansion and economic activity that's taking place, and so so it is a good time, in my opinion, to be in Kankakee County and with that, if there are any specific questions, I will entertain them at this time.

D

Otherwise do thank you for your time. Are.

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There any questions for the author.

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D

Right, you have a good day. Thank you.

A

Under other business, we have a grant agreement that has come before us yarding courthouse.

A

I'm, sorry, we have a grant agreement regarding the courthouse. Mr. chairman, did you want to say anything in regard to that yeah.

F

This is the the culmination this was started way back when with Representative Parkhurst and the the current legislature, governor's office had extended these opportunities. Basically, it's taken us a long time to get all this. The the proper certification is necessary to move forward, but it's it's basically addressing courthouse things that we need to have done that are related to a DA and they don't pay for everything, obviously, and we're still waiting to hear back from the Attorney General on their final stamp of approval on the ad, a courtroom and the ramp.

F

But this would allow us to take a large chunk of that, along with leveling the steps going in and out of the building the curb work that needs to be done because it's unsafe, as you're going through the circle and the circle drive, and things like that. It's basically to make this sure the building is both accessible and safe and so pennies from heaven type stuff. We're fortunate to have this, and unfortunately it's one of those things you got to spend and then they give it back to you.

F

So I would say: let's, if we're going to do it, let's do it before there potentially could be a change in the governor's office. Because that's what happened to us last time, we did it and then we didn't get the reimbursement, because there was a changeover in the office and the new governor said I'm not paying any of those old grants, so we're I think we're. Okay, we've got a few years to do this, so is.

A

There a motion to approve mr. house and mr. Washington segments any discussion on the motion to approve its signing. This agreement. Hearing no discussion, it's involving spending money, we'll need a roll call vote. Please.

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Leer aye mr. Washington aye. Mr. all talk mr. Hess mr. Bern miss Weber aye mr. Peyton Oh Miss Parker aye mr. Kinzinger, miss Haase mr. Swanson mr. Kaul Oh. Mr. wheeler motion carries.

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The old business come before the committee Thank.

F

You mr. chairman I got an email from commerce. Yesterday Department of Commerce regarding the we had to have our 0.75 percent tax, for the municipalities on cannabis, dispensaries and sales certified by the end of the month. They emailed me back, saying, well lost kind of changed.

F

You guys can go up to 3% now, so is that this Committee's intent that they would like to revisit that next month to take a look at that percentage, it would only be for those that are in the municipal areas, but within that ordinance it also has what the county tax would be as well. So right now, it's 3.75 for the created areas and 0.75 for the municipality, so I just want to get to the center of the community to see if they want to bring it back and discuss another number for the decimal number.

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A

Play sure they see some indications yesterday, like that on. Okay, all.

F

Right. Thank you. Any.

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Other old business, any new business, a none motion to adjourn mister all talk will do and mr. Hess a second.

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Of their journey and say I.

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Name motion period.