Kankakee County Board, IL Highways & Buildings Committee Meetings, 15 Aug 2019

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Highways & Buildings Committee Meeting 8/15/2019 9:00 AM

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I'd like to call the August 15th highway and Building Committee meeting to order roll call. Please.

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Washington Brendan.

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Kinzinger mr. Altaf mr. has mr. Tholl on misspoke mr. Snipes, miss Peters mr. Ritter mr. Zen's, miss Hoffs mr. carico Rosen mr. Cobb mr. feather Ling mr. Smith mr. Donnell mr. wheeler.

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Have a quorum thank.

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You I have nothing here for public comments. Are there any public comments? I have one. It's a matter of public record that mr. Washington said he intends to be back in this seat for the next meeting and I'd like to make that a matter of public record.

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Would like to entertain a motion to amend the agenda Marquez or a motor fuel tax and other fee increase item he'd like to discuss and while he's setting up here, we'd just like to do it. Is there a motion Aaron, second, mr. old top, all those in favor aye? Thank you minutes for July 11, 2009, teen. You've all received those motion by mr. feather Ling second by mr. Dunhill, all those in favor signify by aye aye opposed Ares. Mr. Rogers, we have I need a motion to open bids that we have mr.

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Eckhoff and miss Peters. Second, all those in favor of opening all those in favor of opening those bids signified by aye aye opposed now. It's your turn.

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Right, the proposals we have this morning are to replace the fuel tank dispensing system at the gas station at 801, South Skylar. We have two bids this morning. First one is from crown tank of Streamwood Illinois.

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Contains bid is eighty, eight thousand seven hundred $3.00 eighty eight thousand 703 zero zero.

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And the next one is pemko from Gilman Illinois pemko is bid, is 70 thousand three hundred twenty eight dollars, fifty two cents: seventy thousand three hundred twenty eight dollars, 52 cents, so parent low bidder is pemko for 70 thousand three 2852 do.

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I have a motion to accept those bits. Miss Peters seconded by the lady.

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The motion to accept those bids would be contingent upon the review by the engineering staff that they're in conformity is that agreeable with you very good. That would be a voice vote.

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Mr. Washington mr. Kinzinger mr. Altaf mr. Hess, miss Pope mr. Snipes, miss Peters, miss house, mr. Carrick Oh, mr. akov mr. feather Ling mr. Smith mr. dennell mr. wheeler motion carries thank.

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Right next is the County engineer's pay estimates I have quite a few this morning. The first one is for our County maintenance, 419 2019. This is an on MFT job. This is a final pay. Us McCain Valley construction. This is for the roads that were in relation to the Kelley Creek phase, and that amount is fifty thousand two hundred fourteen dollars, forty five cents.

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This is for the county's general maintenance supplement one. This is payable to Decker supply. This is for signposts and fasteners, and that amount is eleven thousand five hundred $6.75.

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Next is for our county general maintenance for 2019 supplement. This is payment to grasso construction company. This is for oil and chip work being done in the county, and that amount is three hundred eighty five thousand three hundred forty seven dollars: 83 cents.

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Next is for our county general maintenance for 2019 payola, kin-kee, bailey construction. This is for hot mix picked up at the plant with our trucks, and that amount is two hundred and sixty dollars.

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This is for our County general maintenance for 2019 payable to prayer material sales. This is for ships picked up at the quarry with our trucks, and that amount is $165 84 cents.

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Next is for our county general maintenance for 2019 supplement one. This is payable to Scanlan, excavating and concrete. This is for polarization and area base repair on county highway 32, and that amount is one hundred thirty thousand nine hundred eighty dollars. Thirty seven cents next is for our county general maintenance for 2019 payable to Vulcan Materials. This is for chips and road mix picked up and at the quarry with our trucks and that amount of six thousand three hundred ninety dollars 71 cents next is a Roman Road district for their 2019 general maintenance.

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This is payable to AC payment striping. This is for oil and ship work done in the township, and that amount is 50 thousand nine hundred eighty five dollars eighteen cents next is for Janiero district for their 2019 general maintenance payable to AC pavement striping for oil and ship work done engineer Township, and that amount is thirty-nine thousand one hundred sixty six dollars six cents.

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Next is Pembroke Road district for their 2019 general maintenance payable to AC payment striping for oil and ship work done in the township, and that amount is 32 thousand two hundred forty four dollars. 52 cents next is for Rockville Road district for their 2019 general maintenance payable to AC payment striping for oil and ship work done in Rockville Township, and that amount is forty, seven thousand forty three dollars. Fourteen cents next is for Saint Anne Road district for their 2019 general maintenance, pay able to AC payment striping.

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This is for oil and ship work done in the township, and that amount is $33,988. Forty five cents.

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Is a Essex Road district for their 2019 general maintenance payable DeGrasso construction company? This is for oil and ship work done in the township, and that amount is sixty five thousand under $54 70 cents.

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Next is for a momentous road district for their 2019 general maintenance payable dat, Grasso construction company for oil, & chip worked under the Township, and that amount is sixty. Six thousand three hundred ninety nine dollars. Forty nine cents next is for Auto Road district for their 2019 general maintenance, payable, DeGrasso construction company for oil and ship worked under the township, and that amount is forty, two thousand eight dollars. Twenty four cents.

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Next is Salina Road district for their 2019 general maintenance payable to Grosso construction company for oil and ship work done to the township and an amount of sixty-five thousand one hundred twenty three dollars and fifty six cents.

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Next is Sumner Road district for their 2019 general maintenance payable to Grasso construction company for oil and ship work done in the township. That amount is eighty, seven thousand seven hundred eighty four dollars. Fifty five cents next is Rockville Road district for their 2019 general maintenance payable to career materials. This is for road mix picked up at the at the quarry with their trucks. That amount is four thousand six hundred sixty-six dollars. Forty one cents next is Auto Road district, section, 19, ten 101 73 zero one, a s. This is payable to Toby's construction.

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This is for pulverization an a or a base repair, and that amount is 119 thousand eight hundred sixty dollars. Ninety eight cents next is Pilot Road district, section, 19-12, 102 201 a s is the final payment, Toby's construction and cartage for pulverization and Agri based repair in the township, and that amount is 4200 $13.30.

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Next is a final payment for Pilot Road district, further 2019 general maintenance supplement payable to Toby's construction and cartage, and that amount is for this is for pulverization egg-based repaired. The amount is three thousand six hundred sixty six dollars eleven cents.

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Next is our road district for their 2019 gentlemen. A supplement to this is payable to Vulcan Materials. This is for road mix picked up at the quarry in the amount of seven hundred twenty-five dollars and four cents, and last is Pembroke Road district for their 2019 general maintenance payable to Vulcan Materials. This is for road mix picked up at the quarry with their trucks. Four thousand one hundred thirty-five dollars, sixty nine cents. Mr.

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Rogers I see the first invoice you rather payable. You.

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Didn't have it okay, Michelle.

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Might not have put it in there because it wasn't paid under more motor fuel tax. This is just the final payment for the that we paid out county highway. Usually the county highway bills go before the claims committee, but I wanted to let you know that that work was completed it just that it was being final made.

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Fifty thousand two hundred fourteen dollars, forty five cents.

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Everything agreeable with everybody I'll have a motion to approve. The payables is smooth mr. Olaf. Miss Pope will second, if that's all right with Miss Pope. Thank you. That would be a roll call.

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Mr. Washington hi.

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Kinsey er mr. relative mr. Hess, miss Pope mr. Snipes, miss Peters, miss Hoffs mr. carico, on mr. echo, mr. feather lien mr. Smith mr. Donnell mr. wheeler motion carries thank you. Okay,.

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The next thing I have is a resolution declaration of Highway Department equipment as surplus property.

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Okay, this is our resolution. We usually have one or two a year, but this is for our equipment that we declared surplus for this year, and it includes several items here. First is a 2008 International with a wing plow that has ninety eight thousand one hundred twelve miles on it. I don't know if everybody can see that right there next is a 2010 flink, snow, plow.

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Next is a 1998, Swenson salt spreader next is a 1999 chassis, four ton hotbox. This is where we put asphalt in and do some patching, it's it's quite old, having trouble getting parts for it.

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Next is a 2007 ford, crew cab, pickup truck. It has a hundred eighteen thousand five hundred forty six miles on it. Next is a 2001 dodge, 4x4 pickup. It has a hundred seventeen thousand nine hundred miles on it.

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Next is a 2002 GMC 4x4 pickup, which includes a 2000 boss, t3 plow. It has a hundred thirty three thousand seven hundred twenty-five miles on it and there's the plow.

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Next is a 1999 John, Deere 609 mower deck.

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Next is a steel water tank; it holds about a thousand gallons.

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Next is a shot back.

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We have a impact wrench, we have a floor buffer, we have a die grinder, we have a 12-volt shot back back. This does not work at all. If an automatic surveying level it is, it is broken, does not work. It's not repairable jackhammers, a tester, Electrical, tester radios, handhelds, don't work and an assortment of obsolete parts.

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Are there any questions? I'll entertain a motion to approve the resolution, as you have in front your desk mr. Hess and mr. Beverly John that will be a roll. Oh yeah be a roll call vote. We have a motion to approve the resolution that you have on your down.

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Mr. Washington aye.

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Kinzinger mr. Altaf mr. Hess misspoke mr. Snipes, miss Peters, miss Haas mr. Caraco on mr. rakov mr. feather lien mr. Smith mr. dennell mr. wheeler motion carries thank you.

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The amazing else was drugs.

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Well, I do have a presentation that I wanted to give. Last month someone asked you about the the the capital bill and what that means for the county, so I kind of put together a little presentation here for everyone to see.

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Just wanted to do a little review. Motor fuel tax is a tax imposed on the privilege of operating motor vehicles upon the public highways and recreational type watercraft upon the waters of the state of Illinois. That's in the statutes motor fuel includes all volatile and and in flammable liquids, produced, blended or compounded for the purpose of which are suitable for practical for operating motor vehicles. So there is a everybody: pays: a tax on more fuel tax on the board of fuel I'm. Sorry, more de fuels started back in 1929.

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It was a three cents per gallon and I just wanted to give you a timeline of the rate increases since 1929 you can see about it was about about 20 22 years. It went up a penny and then six months later it looks like it went up another penny to five cents and then in 1967, and went up to six cents 1969 and went to seven and a half cents.

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August 1st of 83 went up to 11 cents, 84 went up to 12 cents, 85 went up to 13 cents August of 1989 and when it was a 16 cents and then in January 1st of 1990 at 1 to 19 cents, it's been at 19 cents since 1990, which is 29 years. So on July 1st it went up to 38 cents with the rate. Oops. Sorry is your question. Yeah there's a question. Mr. ol top.

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It could have been.

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But along with that, you know, just you know, collecting the three cents or the two cents or the 19 cents, there's always distribution, so this slide shows the distribution so back in 1929, two cents of that three cents went to the state. One cent went to the counties in 1933. They added the municipalities to the list without increasing the motor fuel tax. So a penny went to the state. A penny went to the counties. A penny went to the municipalities in 1952 when they raised it to five cents. That's when the percentages started.

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So thirty, five percent went to the state thirty two percent to municipalities, 11 percent, to cook County, twelve percent to the rest of the counties and 10 percent to the townships in 1959 $50,000 a month started going to the grade crossing Protection Fund in 1976, 12 million per year started going to the township bridge program. Now I will clarify the township bridge program doesn't come directly out of the local share that comes out of the state's Road Fund that increased in 1979 to 15 million in 1983.

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When the motor fuel tax went up again, the state took seventy percent and then the 30 percent went to locals, and that was when the two and a half percent diesel differential was introduced to his half cents and the state took all of the two and a half cents, so they got 70 percent plus they got the two and a half cent of the diesel differential in 1985. They started the vehicle emissions inspection fund.

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They get so much per month to operate the vehicle emissions inspection fund in 1989, when the gas tax went up to 16 cents, 75 percent went to the state 25 percent went to locals, but the state offered a hundred and fifteen million to two local program. Local programs are like Nene, Township County consolidated high-growth cities, but they they threw that on the table and started giving the locals 115 million dollars, but took five percent of the MFT off the top 1990 the next year.

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When the gas tax went up to 19 cents, the state took 58.4% the county, the locals got 41 point six percent, but the Greg Rossi Protection Fund increased to one and a half million per month in 1999 in the new in the capital bill that came out, there was no increase in the motor fuel tax, but the state took forty five point: six percent.

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Fifty four fifty four point four went to the locals and of course they raised registration and title fees that went to the road fund with they increase those local programs at 325 million.

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This might be a little difficult to read, but this is the kind of the flowchart how everything gets got processed before July 1st of this year. So the 19th cent and a half cents came in. If you can see on the left, the two and a half cents, diesel differential goes right to the state construction account. So then the 19 cents goes down the middle so on the left.

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Side of the middle are all the deductions that are taken off the top, as well as the right side, so the state boating act fund gets about 400 million per year per month. The grade crossing protection that should be four hundred thousand per month. The great car scene protection fund back when it was started, got 2.25 million a month. Now it's three point: two five million per month, but all those things taken off the top include the what I just described the four hundred twenty thousand to the state boating act.

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The three point: two five million to the great crossing protection, but then there's an administrative cost that the Department of Revenue to charges MFT to administer the MFT, their supervisory cost, which is I dot to oversee the MFT and make sure it's been processed properly.

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There's refunds, which are part of the international fuel tax agreement, refunds for fuel; that's not used on the roadways! There's the vehicle inspection fund quarter claims and the IFTA payments that are due to the jurisdictions. So all that comes off the top at 40 even gets to our split.

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Sure mr. ol top are.

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There any funds left in those funds at the end of the year and if there are are they swept that.

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I do not know about I actually on some of those that are because they vary, except for the the straight four hundred twenty thousand three point: two five million, all those other ones are just build. So it's actual for those because those change year to year this slide I, don't know it's probably very difficult to read up there, especially for you guys in the front, but the in 2017 December 1st 2017 through November 30th of 2018. There was about 1.3 billion taken in motor fuel tax.

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That was up 1.4 9 percent from the previous year, but then there's all the the things that get cut off the top and they vary like I said the the the 3 that don't vary. Are the state boating Act, the great cross special fund of the vehicle inspection fund, but the all the other ones vary so about 227 million dollars was taken off the top before it got down to us. So what that left?

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Us was just a point: zero one percent increase in motor fuel tax, even though there was a one and a half increase in revenue from from that. Okay.

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So that's so it gets down. After that's taken off the top. The state gets their forty five percent, the local program. We serve forty fifty four percent, and then it goes down into the to the distribution on the local side. Municipalities get their share. The counties, the counties over a million which Robbie's Cook County gets sixteen percent the counties under a million which is the rest of the hundred counties. Split eighteen point: two: seven percent the road districts get sixteen percent.

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The municipalities is split by population, so we take the total population state and whatever it's just a percentage of the total population. The county gets their motor fuel tax based off of registered motor vehicles in the county and the road users get theirs off a total mileage. So, whatever mileage they have.

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And I always wonder this: that's it.

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Coming to avoid route 80, you know just a repetitive truck use through the township in the county roads. Yes,.

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We don't receive any reimbursement based on the number of trucks that are coming through our area. It's based on the number of vehicles that are licensed, yeah.

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It's based on license. We do not get any of the diesel differential, the extra two and a half cents that the diesel, the truckers pay. We do not get any of that, and that's that's where the most damage is coming from. Thank you.

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I've been told, I'm curious Lee. Is there a difference that the townships or the local villages get based on state routes running through their jurisdiction? No.

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It's just total miles and total.

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Pop of its population, for them is tallies, total miles for the townships.

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Mr. Rogers, it seems that they noticed a lot of the places. You see a lot of trucks running on the actual gas and is a percentage per dollar or was it? Is that matters? If we're gallant? How do you know I'm a great dad.

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I I am not aware of how that is distributed well, because.

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Rumor had it to me that they don't I.

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Will check the bill and see if there's a change in.

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That and then grade crossings. Why don't we pay in to protect grade crossing shouldn't the rare we'll be paying for that? Well,.

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It's it's a safety issue, so there was.

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Railroad when, when you use great, crushing protection funds, the railroad does does pay a portion, they have a stake in it, they do pay some, but they don't pay.

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The railroad was their first and that's how they look at themselves.

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Okay, so state bill, 1939 turned to Public, Act, 101 desert or three two. It took effect July. First, it increased the MFT to thirty-eight cents per gallon and in the bill that will increase annually. According to the CPI, there was some word down to Springfield that this 19 cents back in 1990. If it had been indexed by the CPI, it would be about 38 cents. Today is what somebody did a calculation. So basically it's it's just keeping up with the CPI it is.

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It increased the diesel differential to 7 a half cents from two and a half cents. It created the transportation renewal fund. It gave cook leg in will counties the authority for a local M of T tax. It increased license title and registration fees and it's going to incrementally repurpose the state sales tax on fuel, so the motor fuel tax increase, the original 19 cents is still going to go through, and the two and a half cent diesel differential is going to still go through the original formula.

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So the night, the two and a half cents is going to go straight to the to the account the first 19 cents is going to go just how it did before July. First, the additional 19 cents and the additional five cent diesel differential is going to be deposited in the transportation of renewal fund. So the and, like I, said that the entire 38 cents is now going to be indexed annually based on the CPI.

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So this is the flow chart for the new transportation renewal fund. As you can see, the.

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The different diesel differential, the five cents, goes off there to the left, a half a cent of that five cents is going to the lost fund that leaking underground storage tank fund. Two and a half cents is going to the road fund and two sentences going to the state construction account.

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The 19 cents goes in, 20 percent is taken off the top for transit and of that 20 cents, 20 cents, or that 20 percent nineteen. Ninety percent is going to the RTA. Ten percent is going down state for transit.

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The 80 percent is getting split. Forty sixty sixty percent is going to the state construction account. Forty percent is going to the locals, and the how it gets split is the same way it got split but before July. First, it's all based on those percentages and population mileage and and the register motor vehicles.

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This the sales tax on fuel, beginning in fiscal year 2022 the state will begin to increment Lee repurpose, the six and a quarter percent tax on fuel from the general fund to the road fund. So starting in fiscal year, 2022 they'll begin a 1% to the road fund, followed by a 1% increase each year till school year, 2026, when the 5% will be going to the road fund that one in a quarter percent sales tax will still go to the locals. So it shouldn't affect a local sales tax.

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Registration fees, vehicle registrations, increased $50, 49 cents goes to the road fund, one dollar to Secretary of State. We get nothing from any registration fees. The electronic, the electric vehicle registrations originally was $35 every two years. Now they are gonna pay the same thing: 148 dollars annually, plus $100 fee in lieu of paying motor fuel tax.

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Next, the commercial vehicles all categories in creased by $100.

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$99.95 but my first question is, you said: you're getting think of the registration fees, but they go into a roll fine. The.

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Road fund is that is idot's road fund. That has two funds. They got the idot Road fund and they got the state construction fund, so this construction can only be used for construction. The road fund is what the department uses to operate so.

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That will indirectly do that indirectly benefit us in that the state roads are going to be improved through our our County. We.

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Sure hope so, yes.

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Okay, yes and then I'm looking at so there is an increase into your budget for the roads to be done. Countywide and citywide only.

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The MFT we we don't get anything from any of these registration fees. We don't get anything from the diesel differential. We only get that increase from the.

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1970S so that 90% giving a projected.

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Income I mean a projected revenue. Will this begin to beautify our robes you're.

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Stealing my thunder okay I've got a slide. That kind of tells.

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The other part of the bill gave local enmity. The bill allows Cook County to add an additional three cents per gallon on MFT. The bill also allows Lake, County and Will County to add a minimum of four cents per gallon up to a maximum of eight cents, a gallon, the local programs, the ones I was talking about the needy, Township high growth cities, County consolidated Senate bill 262, was passed by the General Assembly, which contained cuts to those local programs.

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So needy Township went from 10.0 1/4 million to 2.5 million a 75% cut county consolidated, went from 20 1.8 million to 5.45 million, which was a 75% cut and state match went from 4 million to zero county consolidated. The county receives we probably get around 270 thousand dollars a year from county consolidated. So you can see a 75 percent cut is significant for us.

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It's very significant for downstate counties and needy townships in downstate, because even with this motor fuel tax I'm hearing that if they cut these local programs, they're going to lose money- and this whole thing, even though the tax increased.

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However, secretary husband has been in touch with iace the Illinois sociation County engineer's and said that they plan to restore those funds to make those those funds whole again, but they did not indicate that there was going to be an increase in those funds. We haven't seen anything in writing about that. I think that those cuts were made because they were unsure of what was it happened in the capital bill and they were afraid they were gonna have to cut operations, and that was just a cut that they made so for Kankakee County.

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If the county consolidated is not restored, as indicated, Kankakee could see an increase of about 46% MFT or an additional $800,000.

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If the county consolidate is restored, we could see an increase of about fifty fifty seven percent in MFT money, which would be about a nine hundred. Ninety thousand dollar increase, and these are just protecting projections or not actuals.

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That's all I got quick.

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Question that presentation can it be placed on the website.

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Can give a copy to anybody.

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Yeah I'm thinking about putting it on the website in.

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Photo what he's going to the general.

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Money from the sale, the state sales tax on gasoline has been going to the general fund, so in 2022 they're going to start. 1 percent of that is going to go to the road fund and set it to the general fund and then in 2026 after a 1% increase that 5% will all be going to the road fund. Instead of to the general fund.

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So that's gonna be enough to kind of beautified some. Our.

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Roads that is going to be let us catch up with the maintenance that it's been required and after we get caught up with maintenance, hopefully we'll be able to do some other construction projects, but right now, we've fallen behind the maintenance.

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We're only doing maybe 20 miles a year in oil and chip, and you know maybe 3 or 4 miles of overlays I'm, hoping to increase that to 8 to 10 miles of overlay and maybe 30 miles of oil in Shapira to get caught up, but our maintenance has and, of course, the damage being done to roads. The all roads were considered an 80,000 pound truck route without any additional funding, edges are falling apart, I mean it's we're we're seeing major damage and- and it has affected our maintenance and construction, which.

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Brings it to my next question: I know that they want two semi trucks want to kind of prevent going to the route 84 the tolls and everything else, but I'm wondering if there is there any legislation of race or where the county can protect or have the authority to regulate and protect our roads to say no trucks over a certain amount is allowed because of the damage that can occur and the cost that is occurring being that we don't get that diesel part of the monies as a result.

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But we're getting the I mean we're getting the our maintenance will be increasing because of their usage of our road and when.

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The bill was passed back in 2010 to make every Road a 80,000 pound truck route. The iace Illinois Association County engineer's were lobbying for hey. You know you did that, but you didn't give us anything to maintain those roads and, and nothing ever came of it there. We do issue permits for oversize, overweight trucks that are over the 80,000, so we can regulate those and tell them that they either give them a permit or deny the permit. We do charge for those permits it.

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You know it's something, but it's it really doesn't you know we we collect, maybe about thirty thousand dollars a year in permit fees. You know, and that doesn't go very far, but we're doing the best we can with it I.

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Don't know we can post roads but they'll be posting for everybody, farmers, everybody that lives on that road everything. So we haven't done that because you know cost money to maintain, make the signs maintain the signs and.

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Know we're trying to do the best we can knows.

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Any country in terms of efforts to go back to the state and say, hey, listen. We are suffering because these individuals are so can we have the ability to at least at the county.

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Regulate that was part of our discussion, tfic, the traffic for Illinois Coalition and the ISEE Illinois Association of County engineer's. When the Capitol bill was being discussed, we were lobbying for a 60/40 split, 60% state 40%, locals on any all new money.

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Diesel differential, license fees, title fees all that we got 6040 on only the motor fuel tax. We didn't get the 60/40 that we wanted. So we were lobbying for that with those arguments. In fact, we had I had submitted some maps and numbers about what it's cost us in 15 years to maintain these roads and how the costs have gone up and our revenues going down. But this is what we got.

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Mr. wheeler Thank.

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You telegram for that I'm pretty sure. That's probably why I will County and Lake County were able to they had something inserted, so they could take care of this general mobile facilities. Things like that, pretty sure. That's probably why they got special treatment. Yeah.

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Are there any other questions.

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Thank You mr. chairman, very good presentation mark, so the three counties Lake will and whatever the other county was that in four cents to eight cents does that go to the voters or that goes the their County Board I.

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Think that it there's legislation and the legislation might say, I didn't read the full bill. I just did a synopsis and tried I mean the thing was yeah I was trying to get bits and pieces out of it. I knew it didn't affect us, but I think for the other counties that were in the previous legislation. I think it gave them authority to do it and.

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Then bottom line did this double, because this doubled the gas tax, the double for us, or did we actually receive velocity at.

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The end of the day, they're projecting we might see a 57% increase. Okay.

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There any other questions, so my recommendation is: we make certain aesthetic uptick as well as board members, if we can do that on a website very good. Thank you. Thank you.

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Just Randers buildings report.

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All right, good morning, first item on the agenda is facility. Do report. For the month of July, we had 155 work orders in the system, so we continue to be very busy. Moving on to financial report, you have the financial summary there in front of you. You can see current year total twenty four thousand six 74-61 compared to the previous year, total of forty three thousand two 6040 I'll call out a couple of expenditures.

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Five thousand of that twenty four thousand find it here was under service contracts.

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Yeah five thousand five sixty two and that's a quarterly payment to connais elevator, who maintains all of our elevators and all the county buildings. So you take that off you're down to nineteen, and then there were a few others that I'll call out. We had another cell motor that we talked about. It seems like every other meeting for replacement at the old jail, which was twenty one. Seventy air handler repair out at JC DC, which was thirteen thirty, so overall, pretty typical month from that aspect, are there any questions on the monthly totals.

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Okay, there's no questions on the monthly totals also included there in your in your packet. Is the year-to-date numbers as well, so you can see your to date: fiscal 18, 551, 734 68, compared to year-to-date fiscal nineteen, 538 568 17, so we're under at this point where we were last year.

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Any questions on that.

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Okay, moving on to a building report, first item we'll cover on the building report, is I'm all I'm, usually always very organized til I get up here and then I can't find.

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Your packet, there you've got some aerial photos.

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Thank you get some aerial photos there in the courthouse or the first item is the courthouse now I'm in the process working with chairman wheeler on signage at all the buildings, every county building will have signage placed at the entrances to that building and then for the county employees we have designated myself and chairman wheeler working together have designated these areas as the County smoking areas, and you can kind of take a look at the courthouse. You can see that's to the south of the courthouse.

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There's a bench out there I'm sure everyone's, probably familiar with that area. The next photo is the county jail, / annex area, that's going to be between the two buildings between the old jail and the annex at Jerome. Combs, that's going to be outside the rear of the Public Safety Building off the cafeteria, and then here at 189, we've designated an area north and west of the building and the treasurer's parking lot.

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Andy. Is there anything else you want to elaborate on that? There's a pretty well-covered, no.

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Just basically, we went around we identified these the reason the one here the administration is moving is because we're the current place is the picnic table. It's where the ramp is so, even though it's 15 feet away. Everybody coming in has to walk past the table of people smoking so and through the cloud so to speak. So that's why we put it over there in that area. None of these have shelters.

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Now we can talk about that as we go forward if we want to start doing those things, but the first thing was to designate the areas and then put the receptacles in case the public is walking in we're gonna, obviously chain them up, so they don't disappear, can't get flipped over, but we're gonna put it. So the public will see the signs that you know. There's no smoking within 15 feet of the building. That's what the law says.

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We have to do and then we'll just need to make sure that the employees know that this is the policy. It is part of the policy and procedure manual for all employees. So that's it. One.

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Of the recommendations I'd like to make when you're talking about shelters is perhaps work with I call it karma, but can't Kyra Valley Metro. They have a shelter it'd, be nice to standardize these shelters across the community.

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Snipes now it's from the courthouse, their usual spot is right outside the doors, correct and then we're moving them to just to the sidewalks, which is down down.

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A place to sit on the bench.

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Right there, my only concern was because I know some univers work in the courthouse and I know we haven't got to Chicago yet, but for the safety of of the employees of we're going that far down the healer Weber was there another area that we possibly could look at? That is not so much trafficking by the by the general public, but you know, but can kind of add some safeguard to the night if going to the maybe to the West with him or the vehicle I mean they're more visible. Mr.

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Snipes we had a committee locate those and I'm certain they took that into consideration and if located this in an area that is probably the best for the whole county, not just a few select I think that would be a fair statement. Well.

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I know, is that a will, but you know- and you also know that dealing with public safety, because if I wasn't there I'm looking at you know, you have a lot of individuals going that route and being Kankakee is somewhat challenging at times. You know I'm, just looking for another area to safeguard. So if they did look at that and say this is the most safest place.

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What I don't want is it to backfire upon us, and then we have to look for another place only in that regard, because of a high traffic area, I was looking at something that's more visible, but to them, maybe more so to the west. Even we had to put a little cheer out there or something.

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Right so moving on building rapport here, 189 overall things have been: we've had our normal repairs, nothing, nothing that I feel that I need to go over right now and nothing out of the ordinary other than the construction over here on Schuyler, Avenue, they're, banging and clanging, and shaking the building over there. But I keep an eye on what's going on. They did create some real minor damage to our building, not even to our building actually under the sidewalk.

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We have some storage area out here and when they were taking up the concrete they made a small hole in our concrete storage area which they're gonna they've they've covered it. We've had issues with it and they're gonna repair it so really, no, nothing! Nothing else to cover there.

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Did you say we're gonna repair it they're.

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Gonna, okay, all right, yeah, good.

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Let's see a courthouse, an update on the grant money or the funds that we've been waiting on for the state. I just spoke yesterday to my contact with the state. They are waiting on their review to complete with the DNR and the State Historical Society I made sure to ask if there was anything they were waiting on for me and the answer was no. He said the review is typically lengthy and when they conclude they will get a letter from those agencies and once that's complete, that should be the final step in the process.

J

So that's where we're at right now a DA update, nothing. We met with the Attorney General I think we covered that at the last meeting. But since then we've made some modifications in one of our courtrooms to our ramps. We were looking at kind of a very large ramp, ramping up to the jury assembly and the witness stand in court room 204. Our County architect was concerned that if that ramp was even off a fraction, it would create a real problem with the attorney general's office.

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Excuse me, the main issue is the step going up to where the jury assembly and the witness stand is: is six and a half inches any ramp? That is six over six inches tall needs a handrail, so we're a half inch out of compliance on that, so our County architect is looking at ways to make up that half inch. Even if it's with you know, maybe some flooring or something to try to make up that half inch where we can just have a conventional ramp without a handrail. So he come up with a plan.

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That's been submitted to the Attorney General they're, reviewing it right now. Everything else that we submitted was satisfactory to the attorney general's office. So we continue to move forward on that we're moving as fast as we possibly can we're at the mercy of the Attorney General on that. So, let's see that concludes the courthouse, the annex in the old jail. You know typical repairs, gate valves which I talked about it just about every meeting shower faucets. You know toilet sinks. You know nothing out of the ordinary at the annex or the old jail Jerome.

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Combs detention, center and sure I'm sure everybody's aware we're getting ready for the building dedication. That's gonna be happening out there. In a couple weeks. I've had my crew, you know diligently working on. You know the landscape, the lawn making sure we get all the weeds pulled and make sure the place looks as presentable as possible. We did have a kitchen cooler go down since our last meeting. The compressor for the kitchen cooler went out. It was original.

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It was original compressor, so it had served its life lifespan so that we had to get that replaced. So that's all I have on the building report.

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All right, so moving on next item on the agenda is the LED lighting at Jerome. Combs I had that on there and then I guess just got lucky: I got an email from ComEd I tried to stay in contact with them to see what type of service or what type of programs they're offering they just came out with a program for certain communities. You have to qualify for it and I, don't know yet that we qualify but I'm gonna find out. If you switch to LED lights, they have a program where they handle it.

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100% it's free, but you you have to just switch out the bulbs, so you can bypass the ballast. You have to switch out just bulbs, they don't do fixtures and what we of what I had proposed was the fixture replacement. So I want to postpone that until I can talk to comment a little bit more find out a if we qualify and then B. If we do what type of lamps we can put in there to have common head cover, I mean that would I think that would be in the county's best interest.

J

So so we'll postpone that one until I can find out more on that next item on the agenda is chairs at the courthouse. I was approached by the chief judge.

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This past week we have a jury assembly, room off a court room 204, where we need 14 chairs the chairs that are in there right now is your standard metal frame chair with a wooden armrest, they're gray, they've been there for well I haven't been here that long, but they've been here as long as I've been here and if I had a guest, I'd, say they're 15 years plus and they are badly stained.

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Their screws are falling out of them, they're just they're, just in really bad shape, and the chief judge approached me and asked if I could replace those chairs 14 chairs the best like price I can find is about 50 bucks. A chair plus shipping is gonna, be about 800 bucks, so I talked to chairman wheeler. He recommended I, bring it to the committee, so I'd like to I, it should be replaced. The chair should be replaced, they're wobbly, you know, there's we've got, you know, they've reached the end of their life.

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Chairs and we can get the major.

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Mr. Snipes I have no objections to, though, because I've seen those to you talking from green ones, actually.

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These are in the jury, assembly area, they're gray, the.

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Gray, okay, so I have no objections of that. I know that it's gonna have to go to the Finance Committee, so I would make the recommendation that I mean make the motion that we move it on to the Finance Committee. If it's feasible, let's make it make it happen.

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Second, mr. wheeler and.

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Those in favor signify by saying aye, the suppose same sign, motion carried okay.

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The next item and the final item on the agenda is, you have some photos in front of you, so these photos here I printed, hopefully enough out for everybody, if you don't have any, maybe we could share. This is a photo of the the West elevation of the building. It would be to the south of the elevator shaft in discussions with chairman wheeler this week, which we both agreed, that you know this is something that we probably need to take a closer look at the paint is peeling. The facade is cracking the window sills.

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You can see this photo here of all the window. Sills they're, all cracked, so I had a I. Had somebody come out and take a look at it. Basically, the scope of work that needs to happen is painting of the exterior west wall clean and scrape all previous paint off of the wall repair. All the cracks paint two coats protect the roof, and then obviously this would all have to be done and accessed via lift that will be placed on on Skyler Avenue, that's Skyler in court.

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So I would like to ask for funds to do this. I would estimate that number not to exceed $5,000 to get this done, which I think is very reasonable, given the amount of prep work that needs to happen to do this job correctly. So.

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Sounds reasonable? What about a moat mr. Snipes, now.

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This gonna make the motion that we prove it and send it on to Finance.

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That's money there, who's 13! That's you! That's.

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Okay, the motion would be that we, we approve the work and then, when the bill comes in, that's where Finance and the claims get approved so we're okay. This isn't like a big capital expenditure.

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Shiny floor seconded by colton mr. net cough I should say.

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Okay, great yeah, it's something that needs to be done. Okay,.

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Yeah are there any questions regarding that motion, I.

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Do have a question go ahead? Is there any particular color you're favoring? Would you just replace the current color? That's.

J

No, that was my thought, but if there's something you want to look at, we can do it. I don't know. Does.

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Anyone I can barely dress myself so I, don't you know, I can't coordinate anything I'm just wondering if anybody has a miss.

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Bolt you have a comment.

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Something pretty on the wall, I think.

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The Chairman is working on that I.

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Wonder if that could be run by the county architect in terms of, if there's a better color, if, if there's that concern and let him make that decision that sound reasonable least right, mind. Okay, we have a motion on the floor. It's been seconded all those in favor of moving a roll call vote. Okay, a roll call. Mr.

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Washington aye mr. Kinzinger mr. Altaf misspoke aye mr. Snipes, miss Peters this house, mr. Carrick Oh mr. Goff mr. feather Ling mr. Smith mr. dennell mr. wheeler. Our motion carries.

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Do you have anything else, I.

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Thank you. Is there any old business to come before the committee.

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Is there any new business to come before this committee.

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Second by mr. Dunham, all those in favor aye opposed. Thank you.