Kankakee County Board, IL Highways & Buildings Committee Meetings, 16 Aug 2018

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Highways & Buildings Committee Meeting 8/16/2018 9:00 AM

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Here we go good morning, we'll call the highway and build a committee meeting for Thursday August 16 2008 teen to order need a roll call. Please.

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Mr. McConnell mr. Trippe mr. Lodge s, mr. Vickery mr. old ha misspoke, mr. mohei hee mr. Hildebrand mr. Enfield, miss Weber, miss Evans, miss Peters, Miss Parker mr. Ritter mr. Kinzinger mr. wheeler. Mr. leer. We have a quorum.

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I see no public comments, I have received, none you've been distributed. The minutes of July 12 2008 Eenie a motion to accept anybody. Nobody, mr. just second, okay, mr. okay, go on a favor, say: aye opposed motion carried okay mark; okay, we have bid letting and stop so. We need a motion for mr. Rogers to open the bids. Mr. Lowe Jess and Miss Parker, all in favor, say aye toes same time. Okay,.

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This is officer from the garage sale.

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Right good morning, this is for our public sale of our surplus equipment that was surplus here two months ago. So first bidder is st. Anne Township.

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And st. Anne Township is bidding on item number five and his bid is $1,500.

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Next is Rockville Township.

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Rockville is bidding on item number one and Rockville's bid is $22,900 $22,900.

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Next is Erin Galloway.

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Mr. Galloway is bidding on item number six.

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$218 he's bidding on item number, seven $139 and I Tamar $129.

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Next bidder is been runnin, ru, ttin.

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He's bidding on item number, 7, $60 item number, 8, $60 and item number 9 or yes, item number 9.

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Two eights there yeah should be item number nine in there correction at $10, mountable, light stand.

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Next bidder is Mike harness k, our NES.

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He's bidding on item number six.

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Next is Eric Glen g lae e n ng, l en n.

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And he's bidding on item number 8, $125 $125.

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Next is uh looks like Jason Provost.

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Item number one bless you $17,500.

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And last is uh Rob. Would.

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Bidding on an item number seven.

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$5 and item number eight $5.

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All right so low bidder looks like st. Anne township got the item. Number high bidder; I'm, sorry habit, high bidder, seen in township item number five Rockville Township item number one.

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Let's see item number six: the paint striper Mike Karns.

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The both chainsaws went to air in Galloway and the modern will light stand been Rutan.

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Okay, you've got those. We need a motion to accept the highest bidder upon review. Mr. tripped and favor say aye, this opposed motion carries okay. Thank you.

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Okay, next business is a pea Smith's. We've got almost $600,000 and Bill's here to pay this month. First, one is for our County 2018 general maintenance supplement one. This is payable to Ennis Flint incorporated. This is for the traffic paint that we needed to paint our stripe our roads this summer and that amount of seventy four thousand nine hundred $7.80 nexus for our county general maintenance payable to Gallagher asphalt corporation. This is for hot mix. Asphalt picked up at their plant. That amount is three thousand twenty eight dollars: twenty eight cents.

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Next is our county. General maintenance supplement to payable to grow so construction company. This is for oil and ship work, that's continuing in the county, and that amount is sixty-two thousand $18.33 excess for our county general maintenance for 2018, hey old, hanky valley, construction company. This is for hot mix picked up at their plant. That amount is 585 dollars.

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Nice is for our county general maintenance for 2018 payable to prayer material sales. This is for road mix picked up at the quarry with our trucks that in four hundred sixty seven dollars, twenty four cents next is for our county general maintenance for 2018 payable to Vulcan Materials. This is for chips, and road mix picked up at the quarry. With our trucks, that amount was four thousand seven hundred twenty one dollars eleven cents.

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Next is 4k hero, district section, 17-0, five 122, zero, zero SS. This is payable the growth testing corporation. This is for soil borings in anticipation for a storm sewer design for the road district, and that amount is two thousand four hundred dollars.

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Next is Essex Road district for their 2018 general maintenance, payload, aggressive construction company for oil and ship work done in the township, and that amount is eighty six thousand six hundred seventy one dollars and eighty two cents next is for Auto Road district for their 2018 general maintenance supplement one pail, DeGrasso construction, company, royal and ship work in the township. That amount is sixty nine thousand four hundred seven dollars thirty cents.

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Next is Pilot Road district for their 2018 general maintenance payable to grass a construction company for oil and ship work done in the township, and that amount is ninety, seven thousand two hundred twenty dollars 81 cents next is Salina Road district for their 2018 general maintenance payable to grass a construction company for oil and ship work done in the township, and that amount is fifty eight thousand eight hundred ninety three dollars: forty nine cents.

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Next is Sumner Road district for their 2018 general maintenance, payload, a grass of construction company for oil and ship work done in the township, and that amount is 30 1945 dollars, fifty nine cents.

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Next is a final paceman for a roma township for their 2018 general maintenance supplement. One payable, kin-kee bell a construction company: this is for overlay in the township, and that amount is twenty-six thousand seven hundred eighty dollars sixty cents.

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Next is a final payment for Auto Road district for their 2018 general maintenance payable to Hammond Wagner excavating. This is for a Gert repair and pulverization, and that amount is two thousand six hundred thirty one dollar 73 cents.

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Next is a final payment. Final payment for Pilot Road district, section, 18-12, 108, oh one, a s- this is payable to Hammond Wagner for pulverization Agri based repair and that amount of three thousand six hundred seventy two dollars and 53 cents next is for Yellowhead Road district for their 2018 general maintenance. This is a final payment to Hyman whitener excavating for pulverization Agri based repair in that amount is eight thousand eight hundred eighty nine dollars and seventy five cents.

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Next is a kinky road district for section 17, 0-5, 122, 0, 0 SS. This is the same section, as was for the the borings that Groff pay were paid for. This is payable to mg a for preliminary engineering for that project and that amount is 1330. $5.00.

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Next is a Pembroke Road district for their 2018 general maintenance payable to Vulcan Materials. This is for Road mix picked up at the quarry with their trucks, and that amount is thirteen thousand two hundred seventy three dollars: 95 cents.

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Next is our county general maintenance, 9m ft for 2018, and that amount that contractor is Grasso construction company. This is for the oil and chip work that was done on county highway 30, and that amount is one hundred forty two thousand three hundred sixty dollars eleven cents.

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Next is a final payment to Hammond Wagner for our 2018 general maintenance. Nine MFT this is for was for the AG base, repair and pulverization on county highway 30, and that amount is 108 thousand forty, three dollars and 84 cents.

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Next is section 13, a 0 0 1 1 5 0, 5 RS. This is payable to the treasurer of the state of Illinois I know it says, can't give alley there, but kinky Valley was paid by the state. We have to pay the state back, but this is for our federal overlay on county highway 37, and that amount is forty, four thousand nine hundred thirty seven dollars and fifty eight cents.

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Next is our county general maintenance payable and engineering resources so shi'ites. This is for our national bridge. Inspection for the bridge. Inspections on the county structures, then amounts $3500 and last is section 17200, 175, 0, 2, BR, 9 m ft this payable to Toby's construction cartridge. This is for some bridge deck patching and that amount was ten thousand five hundred sixty nine dollars. Fifty five cents.

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Mcconnell mr. CREB aye mr. Burgess mr. Vickery mr. old ha this pole system, ok-hee Miss Webber.

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Peters Miss Parker mr. Kinzinger mr. wheeler.

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I have four resolutions this morning, they're all for the same project. The state of Illinois is going to replace the bridge over I-57 on st. George Road. The state pays a hundred percent for the bridge structure itself and then the locals have to pay for the approaches. So there's this. The first resolution is authorizing the County Board Chairman, to sign the agreement, the joint agreement between the state and the county and base. Basically it goes through how the funds are split. If you go to page one page, four of the agreement, you can see the.

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How the funds are being split? Basically, our portion they say is going to be around eighty seven thousand dollars and I. Think the total cost for the bridge is six point three million dollars, so we are going to use our federal funds to pay 80 percent of our share so locally. It's only going to cost us around. Eighty seven thousand I want to appropriate around a hundred thousand just in case there's any overages or anything like that.

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It's gonna be four lanes with a four foot median and a multi-use path on the south side.

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Bridge is being widened to four lane, but the row is only two in yes.

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On to make it four that.

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We're planning for the future there west of the bridge by Cigna, we've already widened that area to four lane, and then it goes to two as it goes over the bridge. But yes, in the future, we'll probably be widening that to four lanes.

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When did as construction start, when.

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It's not going to be led until November. This is all we have to have all this in order, so they can get the final approval from the state.

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Second, they're ready to roll call because we're spending money: okay, one of those people back there, they all raised their hands the same time, a roll call. Please.

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Mr. McConnell mr. trib mr. Lowe Jess mr. Vickery mr. Olaf misspoke mister ma ke is Weber, miss Peters, Miss Parker mr. Kinzinger, mr. wheeler.

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The next resolution in front of you is a intergovernmental agreement with the village of bourbon, a the village of bourbon a and the county can't get key, are gonna split, the hundred thousand, so we will be paying the state and the village of bourbon a will be reimbursing us. Also in the agreement it spells out. Who is responsible for maintaining the lighting which the village of bourbon a will be, maintaining the lighting.

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We will be maintaining the hot mix asphalt, pavement and the village will be maintaining the curb gutter, storm sewer, sidewalks, anything outside of the traveled roadway.

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This is how the Grimaud set up when we did the joint agreement with Cigna, when we did st. George Road from Route 45 to the end of the Cigna improvement. It mirrors it mirrors all that the village is in agreement, we'll get our agreement executed and they will execute the agreement. Also.

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That's correct.

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I've not seen that bridge on the program, yet that would be we'd have to contact the state. Did you want me to inquire with the state.

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Desirable than st. George wrote, we can do that. Okay,.

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Thank You mr. chairman, going back to what mr. just raised a 4-lane of there. There's some construction work being going right now, I, don't know whether it's are you familiar with that. The.

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Work that you see going on now is the utilities are moving their utilities out of the way for construction.

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Money mentioned in the resolution in the in the agreement.

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Mr. McConnell right mr. Trippe I miss College as mr. Vickery mr. Olaf.

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Mr. ma ke miss Weber, miss Peters Miss Parker mr. Kinzinger mr. wheeler.

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You thank you, mr. chairman mark, when I use that intersection the West eastbound at the light on 45. Okay, they need a turn lane there. Okay, okay, I mean, can you mention it? The Bourbon a.

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That's the state's intersection, so I'll have to contact the state that.

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Way I know it's: gonna require property and all that, but yeah off in a future. Sometimes they gotta make of what they got to make that wider.

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The next resolution, as part of the agreement that the state is requiring that we restrict parking in the curb sections on st. George Road. We already have this parking restriction on st. George row from route 45 to 1,300 feet ease, which was the Signet improvement, we're just extending that to the other side of the touchdown point on the east side of the bridge on st. George Road. So the it will be enforced by the village of Bourbon, any that's in the agreement and the move. The village Berman a will collect the the fines.

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Just need a voice note on this one favor say: aye opposed and.

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The last resolution I have is resolution and ordinance for the extension of an altered, speed zone on county highway. Eight east of us routes, 45 52 member renee.thompson,.

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Reducing the speed, currently it's 45 miles an hour up to just probably just west of the bridge, and then it's 55 miles an hour down to just west of belsen Road and we're going to make all the way from route 50 to route 45 45 miles an hour. The state requested that we do that with the barrier curb that's going to be constructed on the bridge and our our study concluded that it needs to be 45 miles an hour.

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On this one favor say: aye opposed motion.

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Next I just wanted to give a state line. Bridge update chairman, wheeler and I were attended. Meeting via conference call to Lake County Lake County had their officials there, the Federal Highway Administration was there fish and wildlife Indiana historical landmarks. It was all the players from the memory memorandum of agreement for the replacement of the bridge, Indiana the commissioners and the county engineer. There gave the case that they they had estimated this bridge repair or enhancement to cost around 1.8 million. It came in at about 7.5 million and, of course the VIS were rejected.

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So letters were written back and forth trying to determine what to do with this. There were three options one was to they were going to rillette, but they decided they didn't have the funds to do that. They might real, add there or it was to disassemble the bridge inventory and save it to go someplace else or scrap it. Just tear it down. Just scrap the bridge that wasn't met favorably by a few people at the meeting. In fact, I don't know that they really were concerned about the cost to rehab it.

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They just said you sign the agreement, you have to do it so I asked well who who makes the final decision, and it is the feds and so no decision was made at that meeting. They want everyone to look at the specs. Look at the bridge plans to see if there's any cost that can be cut and were to make comments by the end of business on August, 20th I believe I think did I miss anything.

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Oh yeah, the UM there was representation from the county in from the conservation district, their other the group. That's a taxing district out of moments that clears logs out of the river and things like that.

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There, their concern was, is that now, if there is no bridge there, there's nothing to basically act as a cowcatcher for all the logs come in town from Indiana, so a bridge is acting as a as a dam. If you will and they're sand building up around the dam and the bridges, the the water level is to the point where it's just below that bridge on a good day. So when it floods it floods, the whole area so I.

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As far as this committee goes, you know, there's a lot of people who they should know that there's a lot of folks that want to see historic bridge preserved, and you know we talked about that- that there is a historical nature to that, but the cost that has been bid getting cranes in there. It's almost like people are bidding or the one bidder did not want the job. You can't you know you.

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We don't have a mind-reading device, but to bid that much means you don't know if you can actually get in there and what's gonna happen, how you're gonna float something in there and to get it out. So there was talk from other people to say: can they make it a pedestrian bridge? And you know people go out there and ride four-wheelers and motorcycles and everything down it or whatever? And you know, hey, there's, there's a value to that. You know people want to turn it into a recreation area. I think it's so Sal.

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Is that what it's called right across it's right on the Illinois State Line, that's actually only ten percent in Illinois and ninety percent in Indiana I believe we've entered that out. Just basically the railing on the Westside is in Illinois, but to let it back out. Even if this bridge was rehabbed, it wouldn't be able to support anything of substance. I, don't think you can even get an emergency vehicle down and I.

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Reviewed the plans that looks like it was gonna be 12 ton. Okay, they'd have to be posted at 12 ton. That's.

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B at 12, so it's very restrictive on what you can get down the road anyway, even if it was rehabbed brought back so yeah, so we have to. Basically we have to. We had to make a decision. You know at the time was: is you know, do we scrap it or, and then the historical people came back and said it's not a historical designation, but the fact that it's eligible means that it's historical. So it's it's we're in this situation of okay. Well, I! Guess you can't strap scrap it.

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Some historical people said well we'll take the bridge, which means they hadn't really thought about. Where they're gonna put it so who's gonna pay to disassemble it are we eligible for federal highway money to have it disassembled for preservation? You know, there's all these questions out there, because there is three counties that are involved, but then Lake County pay for the initial engineering on this. They objected who's gonna pay for the engineering to for the next phase. If it's not to be used as a bridge and just the walking pedestrian thing, you know.

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It's legitimate, then the question comes: can you use federal highway funds for a pedestrian bridge yeah.

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One answered that question.

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Any other questions.

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Thank You, mr. chairman last time, I was down there. The road to the bridge is a problem. Yes, especially when the waterside it.

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Is right now you can't get to the bridge from either side if the water is up yeah.

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So I I, don't I, mean.

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To get that to it through the approach or to the bridge, so there.

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I just wanted to add one thing: it did come out in the meeting for people that had history. It's the bridge was structure deemed structurally unsound, not because of the low down on the bridge.

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It was because of the lateral load because of everything pushing up against it so and- and that was came from the meetings and was mentioned, I can't remember who said it that's my concern is if and that's Lake County is concerned if it does go in if we do have log jams and more sand and everything and it pushes it over into the river, that's all in Illinois at that point, how do we get that out of there and how much does that cost?

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So that's I mean there's not just me saying scrap, but it's thinking a little bit ahead.

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You chairman, what is the historical significance of it.

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The it's it's eligible for historical significance because of its engineering significance. It's not its location because it was the the bridge came from I think it crossed the kin-kee River, their Bible mounts. Yes, that's it! So it's not its location because it came from another location is because of its engineering sort of significance.

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Other questions. Thank you all right. Thank.

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Okay, here we go.

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All right morning, everyone start with a facility dude report. For the month of July, we had a hundred and seventy six work. Orders, which is quite a bit July was July, was very busy both on the work order, side and the expense side which will jump to now. The expenses I called out went through a little bit effort here to simplify this, so you could follow along the maintenance expenses that I want to call your attention to you can see.

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For the month of July, we were at forty three thousand two hundred sixty dollars and forty cents, which is she's a pretty big number. So I went through the financial reports here and I called your attention to seven I, guess, expenses and number one you'll see for connais elevator. That is five thousand five hundred sixty two dollars and what that is is that's our quarterly maintenance agreement with connais, where they go to the admin, building, the annex, courthouse, Public, Safety and the old jail, and they perform maintenance on the elevators. So that's that expense.

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Then the second expense you'll see I called out as number two and highlighted their four years.

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Twelve thousand four, fifty that's for precision piping, and that was for a compressor that was down for the chiller unit at the old jail, and we discussed all this previously, but they all many of these came through in the month of July number three was for commercial glazing, two thousand five hundred sixty dollars and what that's for is that's for the glass for the inmate sells out at Jerome, combs, it's bulletproof glass and somehow the inmates find a way to break them. Yeah.

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Those run we ordered leave. We ordered five, four of those four or five I, don't remember exactly, but they run about five to six hundred dollars, apiece so anytime, anything! Yes, sir. Thank you who.

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Is the bulletproof protecting.

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It's just the manner of the glass. That's it's for detention purposes! That's the grade of glass that we have to put on those.

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Know that they just don't want them breaking them to get out. You know as crazy as it sounds. They manage a way to break them. Counterfeiters number four, that is, for a new workstation in the nurse's office out of Jerome combs. That department continues to grow and they needed more room for additional workstations they had to, and they wanted three to streamline things a little bit out there at in the nurse's station there. So that's what number four is for then you'll see five and six. We discussed both of these at last month's meeting.

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Those are expenses for Western detention, related to locks, lock, cylinders and cell motors for the jails they're at the old jail and then Roger supplied number seven, twelve hundred eighty nine dollars. That is for free on that. We use mainly here at the mainland here at this facility.

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Back to Cooney, yes, sir: what's involved in the 5560 two dollars maintenance degree? What do they do on the maintenance agreement? They go.

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Through the elevators in detail, they oil them, they grease some. They know they.

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Don't know that it's necessarily a requirement. I guess I would say that it's probably just good practice to make to be sure that the.

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What they did for this money? Well, we got to do the state licensing, sir okay, okay,.

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You mr. chairman I'm that coning I understand that they're doing preventive maintenance for that five grand, but is that also cover parts and labor Beyonce? A main component goes out. Is that covered as well I? Don't leave so no okay! Thank you.

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Thank you. Mr. jereth, dr the countertop work at JC DC was that on a maintenance budget was.

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It included in.

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The maintenance budget, or is that, does that expense charged to to Corrections I. Remember.

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I was going to keep it in the maintenance budget. All.

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Right we'll talk, I'll talk to the sheriff okay.

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Any other questions on the financial side of things.

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Thank You mr. chairman yeah was the you mentioned that the the countertop work was due to expansion mm-hmm. That Department is expanding there. The medical department is that do dice, I.

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I, don't know that it's nested more, they needed to expand their work area. I guess you know, they've got the way it's set up right now. They had only two workstations at the desk where they worked and they had a third nurse that they wanted to be able to put in the middle of these two. So they wanted to expand the workstation that they had there. So that was the thought process. I, don't know if they've technically expanded, so maybe I misspoke.

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At elevator again quarterly and would like to know if that's a government requirement, if that quarterly inspection is due to best practices or if that is something that we're doing and nobody's ever reviewed. Maybe a six-month inspections adequate and we don't have to do all five of them, but those that have continual use has that been reviewed. How we're doing those quarterly inspections now.

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That was something that Brian had gone over with me for he'd left I, mean I'm, happy to review it and see if we can switch to semiannual or.

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Based on usage and see, if we can't pick up a few bucks, there.

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Okay, thank you.

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Anything else good, all right, building reports, we'll start here at the admin building. Obviously everybody can see the roof work. That's going on right now. The contractor estimated 10 working days, I, would say we're about halfway through it. We've lost a couple days due to rain or I should say the threat of rain, because there has.

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Hasn't been much in the way of rain, but they did lose a few days that that's gonna be terrific. When we get done with that, I mean they're gone through. I wasn't involved in you know securing that proposal and but the work they're doing out there they're they're, adding some new walls they're really pushing water to drains. It's gonna be a lot better. A lot of water set on that roof when it.

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That's gonna, be it's really gonna be nice and it's gonna be a lot safer. You know for my staff that have to go out there. You know in the wintertime to address issues or you know Frost in the morning. So that's gonna be nice. They did.

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Like years ago, a couple years ago, I was on this committee too, and we talked about the the gutters and they went down into the drain and it was supposed to go into a storm sewer, but apparently because of work that had been done in Kankakee, like it kind of got chopped off, so the water didn't have anywhere to go, and that was part of our water problem. Did anybody check that out make sure that all this nice water drainage we have isn't gonna like just bubble back, are.

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You talking exterior yes,.

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We had interior.

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Drain issues that have all been addressed.

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Does anybody else remember that conversation I, remember it because I never heard that it got resolved yeah.

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That would be bad. We.

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Were going through all this work and.

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That's an issue I.

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Will look into that.

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All right, let's see, oh, they did come across. The contractor did a drain issue that was not included in the original estimate. However, we did have, if you recall, $5,000 worth of contingency in the proposal. So I talked to Doug bright. He recommended that the work get done. He said it's, it's really in bad shape, one of the drains that were up there right now, so Lange Louis is going to go ahead and handle that and that'll be handled through contingency in the proposal, maintenance then Auditor, move I know.

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We've been here a little bit about that. We're looking at that to finalize that on August 29th, so that'll be done in behind us here by the end of the month, we've got some heat piping on floor number, two that I've called out to get some bids on it's badly corroded and before we fire up the boiler system. For you know, I said it is the safe cold weather. There's gonna be upon us here soon and we're preparing for it.

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So we're looking at getting some of the heat, piping or boiler piping, replaced on number two for number two by the recorders office.

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Weatherbug camera agreements finalized we'll be moving forward on that and then one thing that you know kind of fell to the back of my desk as I've. You know been trying to acclimate myself is we had a car versus building here? I guess in February is that anybody remember that is that right, roughly February, all state I've been working on that all state still cannot settle on that. There may be a limit issue with the person that hit the building so I'm working with George, Ryan insurance and Allstate and I PMG.

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Who is our carrier to try to get everything sorted out, but to update you on that? That's still I'm, going from February courthouse, we'll jump to the courthouse. The the roof is obviously done. I think we touched on that last time. I did walk it the other day with Doug bright. We we had a couple issues that we want the contractor to look at and possibly address and button up, but really looks good met.

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With judge Kramer and Doug bright on some ata issues that we are working through at the courthouse- and you want me to give an update on that as to the when we met with judge crane, we've been working on a couple of ideas with regards to accessibility at the courthouse you know: Brian had gone through some considerable effort to does have a ramp, designed on the front of the courthouse through some conversations with Doug bright.

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We believe and I think Andy's on the same page as we just met on this the other day that the the best course of action might be to modify the existing ramp. That's in the back. You know it's gonna, be you know significantly less in the way of expense, their sensors already there for the door. When you go down there, the door opens. You know the grade is actually good. The issue there is the landing when you come up and you make a change of direction. You've got to have a five foot landing.

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We don't have that I think we're off by four inches in one direction and an inch in another direction yeah. But when you start looking at expenses, though versus redoing that versus the ramp on the front or possibly cutting into the courthouse, you know those are major issues and I. Think if we can get this done, I believe it's going to be the way to go so and then.

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This committee next month will see the drawings and we're going to submit those to the AG's office. That's our goal: we're pushing to get something drawn up and sent off to the AG that will also bring those here at the same time, so people can see what the drawings are for that and then he's going to get into the courtroom, probably as well. No yeah.

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The courtroom we're looking at is 204 and we again we met with Doug bright on it, and it looks like that. We need to provide accessibility to the the jury box, the witness stand and then jury deliberate deliberation area. We were concerned about having to provide accessibility to you know the area where the judge sits and possibly the court reporter, and you know that would have been a major major undertaking to try to make the entire courtroom accessible for everyone, including staff.

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So so that was good news on that Doug bright is working through that he's going to I. Think get us a final recommendation after he, you know, speaks to some people. I think Andy was gonna work on that as well, including myself. So, uh let's see Reuter is going to install a remote door lock at the front door of the jail or not the jail. The courthouse. This comes from the staff there. The Sheriff's Department has requested it. If, for any reason, they had an issue in the jail that they needed to tend to quickly.

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They would like the ability to go ahead and lock the front door and they'd like to be able to lock it from the station where they work instead of having to meander through and get over to the front door and lock it that takes them. That takes time so I got it's gonna, be around I. Think was about a thousand bucks to to put that in I. Think it's good idea and I've given I've, give him the go-ahead on that as well.

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The curbs at the courthouse I know. We talked about that a little bit. I've got some photos here that I forgot to pass out.

J

Yeah they're all the same, just pass them around. They can they can take a look Ron's already seen them. So what you'll see there when, when the photos get to, is we talked about it briefly? Last time and instead of having you actually go over there and look at it? I thought it'd be easier. If I could just print up some photos and you can take a look, the the concrete is settled. You know it's pretty bad I mean the the curbs are shot they're crumbling. We got gravel all over the place in some instances.

J

It's three to four inches worth of settling that has occurred. It's quite easy. If you're walking down the sidewalk and you're going to another sidewalk, you got a probably three or four inches to get up there. So I I mean I, obviously, I know I, don't have a blank check here to do whatever I want, but it's something that I think you know we at least need to get on our radar and I. Think it's something that should get addressed. You know when the time's right and we have funds available. So any questions on that.

H

Thank You, mr. chairman this. This was one of those things and I've mentioned it to West that between that and the settling of the pad or the steps coming into the courthouse. We've all been talking about how they've, dipped and I don't even address that at the same time, but the once we get through the courthouse. You know the a DA construction issues.

H

We can look and see where we're at financially and it looks like maybe mid-year next year we might be able to do come back with another proposal for this committee to say this is what it'll take is. Obviously you can't do this work in the winter, so we're probably looking at next budget year anyway to do this, so it was just a thought. You know, and if the committee agrees well, I mean we could fast-track it, but we just definitely don't have the money right now we we're still in the hole so.

J

Well, I mean I I. Do it as my job to bring it to your attention, I mean I'm, happy to acquire bids and look into doing it. I guess it's whatever is the pleasure of committee.

F

Thank You mr. chairman, Wes I did I go over there two weeks ago and walk around the building and because we had discussed this at the last meeting and it is an issue over there. Just a walk. It's difficult, especially with the gravel and people theory falling yeah.

I

Just to comment back a few months ago, the area, the parking lot by Jewell, McDonald's and bourbon a I've never seen a more efficient insulation of paving than I and then that they I would grow up there in the morning and they were grinding it out and it's a pretty big area. The next morning I came in it was. It was marked everything I mean some of these roads. We have around here they're, getting ready to pave him there ground out two weeks ahead of time, and then it takes forever to do it.

I

I was really impressed not only by the how quick they got it done, but the quality of it and I don't know who it is, but I like heavy check that out right, put him on a bait. The bidding list, I've. Never that's the most efficient parking lot, redone that I've ever seen. That's seam line, yeah I'll. Look into that.

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H

You to mr. Vickers point: I, don't see any harm and at least knowing what we're talking about and looking at the you know, I've heard $40 a foot on the run for the curbing and all of that. But maybe we get some numbers and if it's back in time we can put it in next year's budget for when we do have money that makes sense. Yep.

J

Enough, thank you old jail and annex the elevator there. The drilling is done. I, don't remember. If I had this information for last month's meeting or not I, don't think I did the the drilling company went over on their timeline. They I think it was about. Well, it was 44 hours of additional work, but I mean I. Was there every day my staff was there every day there were days, they went 17 inches. They hit bedrock and they're breaking bits and I mean it. It was. It was tough work, so they went over.

J

Their initial bid was thirty-nine thousand three hundred ninety dollars. Additional work amounted to fifteen thousand four hundred for a total drilling of fifty four thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars.

J

When you add the cone, a markup in labor to that, the total drilling cost comes to ninety eight thousand six hundred and sixty seven and that's you know: that's fifteen twenty-five, that's about twenty five thousand dollars more than what was initially bid by the company and connais. So.

L

That extra was consistent with the contract yeah.

J

Yeah, it was just the you know: the unknown I mean they I suppose when you're putting something in the ground, you don't know what you're gonna hit and, of course, the contract address that the contract also addressed the fact that we had to have a member of khones staff on site while they were drilling and I went round and round with connais I told them how I felt about it and at the end of the day it was considered.

J

It was consistent with industry standards and they disagreed with my position and I even discussed it with Andy at the time- and you know it's gonna, be it's gonna- be a lot of money to get that hell, fader back in and working.

J

So we estimated about 150, it's gonna be from what I can tell about 178 to get that thing going, but the good news is it'll be done next week, or so they say so, hopefully, by the end of the week next week, we'll have a functioning elevator which which, which is going to be nice.

J

Also at the old jail we've got a roof, our skylight our skylight, and they on the roof that is broken an inmate took some time ago. I mean this has been going on. Since Brian was here, an inmate took a I believe a mop handle of some sort and was jabbing up at the ceiling and actually broke it.

J

So that's something that I met with Corrections staff on about a month ago, where you've got an estimate to fix that I didn't make a note of it here, but I don't want to say for the security type skylight that would need to go in. There would be about five thousand dollars to fix that I'm. Just a lot of good news.

J

Let's see! Oh it's just the old jail I mean yeah the old jail I mean there's an air handler, that's out and master control. It services the nurse's station as well there's gate valves that continue to get stuck. You know so, every time we have a toilet issue, we go to the gate valve. We try to shut the toilet off while surprise the gate valve. Don't close! So then we got a call out a plumber.

J

We got to shut the water off to the building they put in a ball valve, so it just there's just it's always something with regards to the food carts to that facility and then clogged drains. You know that seems to be whether it's for sports or you know, juice boxes or whatever they can put down the drain. They seem they seem to put down the drain, so security station work.

J

We've talked about that a little bit at the annex, I've, given the go-ahead on that to start that process of relocate or locating the security station down below and I think we talked about that at last month's meeting as well. J CDC, Public, Safety, Building we've had protection associates out multiple times this week. We've had sprinkler issues, we've had alarm issues and it all stemmed from a strobe that was in a fire strobe that was in the one of the gymnasiums, the small gyms that are there.

J

Ball must have hit, it broke, broke the device, you couldn't really tell it till you took it off and it was sending false alarms up to the control panel. We had alarms going off, it was it was. It was a big deal this last few days.

J

Radiator replacement is there for the generator on the east side. That is done. They completed that the other day and that's about it. We got some cabinets in booking that are falling apart. That they've asked me to take a look at and try to replace but business as usual. I suppose.

A

G

You, mr. chairman, this, this maintenance in the old jail is due primarily so that we can keep our ice program going so that we get that income. So when we go to looking at cost, we need to build that in I mean that $178,000, it's a lot of money. Yeah.

J

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Into our income, thank you.

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A

Thank you, okay, any old business, any oh.

H

Thank you. The first thing is the committee may remember we had given gave the nod to proceed on a memorial on the courthouse lawn. The Women's Club had wanted to locate a historical marker about the fact there was three Illinois governor's from Kankakee County. This is a crude sketch if you will of what they have come up with. We don't have an architectural drawing it's here on the the wall here. This is going to be presented to Executive Committee.

H

Okay I wanted this committee to know that we've kind of given the nod as far as you agree that that would be where it goes, and all of that executive, I will finally approve. This I can tell you that I've looked back and I can find no memorial, that's ever been approved by the county board. I, don't know if anybody's been here when something has happened.

H

The bench for you know governor Ryan, that bench I couldn't see where there was a ordinance or a motion made to approve that, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to so I'll ask the executive. If this is the way they want to go these, though the Women's Club they they had the what you're gonna see here already made so they've purchased them already, so that is really should not influence, whether they approve it or not.

H

But I can tell you that you know that this is moving forward with the blessing of the executive on County property, so there's also no money being spent by us. That's one of the reasons that it's not going to be in any place where we require excavating to make it flat and level because the county is not investing in this is it's all the Women's Club. That's doing this. So yes,.

D

Thank you. There will be a foundation I assume underneath.

H

That yeah, yeah or then and again that the construction is they they're paying for all of the construction. This way, the only thing I think they're going to do is: is they we're gonna tap in because there's three lights over those pillars? They were gonna tap into the the electricity just to have that lit at night over the top some of the things, but it's minimal I suggested. Why don't they get a solar panel because you know I'm, mister, solar, apparently.

H

I

Be a crazy question, but is it something they can add to.

H

Correct and all these that space in the middle is not open, it's actually they're selling bricks with names on them, so people can buy a brick and that can expand towards court Street- and we talked remember it's over here in the I guess would be the northwest corner of the building you see where the bench is. It doesn't have the kids sitting on it.

L

Thank you, mister. My concern is aesthetics and architectural and historical preservation. All those things roll together is this. This needs to be reviewed by at least Doug bright and look at the whole the whole facility and make certain that we're not when we get done it will work or a patchwork of items on the court, and somebody more qualified in myself needs to be involved and I. Think I'm, not certain who's on the executive committee, but I'd rather have some aesthetic people involved, rather than who I think's on the executive committee make that decision.

H

The this has been through the design work has gone, is a professional, it's not them doing it. The women's group, that's doing this so.

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H

Doug was involved with West as far as the placement of it. This is the extent of the design work right here and there's more, there will be official like elevations and all that stuff done. The materials have been chosen. The block everything like that. So as far as the the and I actually understand what you're saying there's no way we can we're not purchasing this. So if we're and we didn't purchase, we didn't I, don't think the flag or any of the other monuments, the police, memorial, those don't necessarily the architecture of the courthouse.

H

So it is somewhat of a patchwork already, but I would like to see what the brick was. Gonna look like as well.

A

There's still our approval to do it or don't good right well,.

H

That it's questionable but I, think you should have the approval to do it or don't it yeah. It.

A

H

Been before but I, don't think that's the correct way to do it. There's.

B

A location about wear that ugly benches. No! That's.

H

The bench that is the bench it's there now, yes, and it would be in front of that. Yes,.

B

Can't they move that somewhere, like governor small or someplace I mean.

M

How many monuments we.

B

Need out there yeah.

H

Though the kind of the committee already agreed to, let it be there.

B

H

Committee and so I move forward, based on the approval of this committee. To get this going and I said, I was gonna, bring back the language to executive but and I'm it doesn't have to happen tomorrow. This could keep going, I mean that's fine, I mean.

A

Meccanica I just.

L

Want the matter record this, the first time this committee has seen the monument that they're trying to build, that we approved a concept, not a plan. I would.

H

Do to have a picture to the committee. We.

A

Didn't have our potential drawings written like that on the final, what would mr. conductors.

L

When and then that.

A

We need to see I'm.

L

Kind of in mr. adjust I have not no problems with this, but there needs to be in our architect is the bright. There needs to be consideration given to okay, this one. What's next and what's next and all of a sudden, we have a busy courthouse that should represent law and order not into the various individual things that we're all trying to highlight. I just want that be considered. I.

A

Think that Executive Committee should be thinking about that yeah.

H

I thought, though, the location, construction and the.

A

H

Would be here and then executive would say the we do it does that make sense yeah.

L

H

We should just want the thought sure so is this committee will go grow through everything else, but is it this committees in the four I guess it can't be in the form of a motion? You can just tell me and I'll. Ask the women's group to because it's not on the agenda. I can actually ask them to send it to Doug bright, please and get some type of a or whoever they choose, because it's their money, so they can send it to somebody else. I.

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L

When it comes to stuff like this, everybody has an opinion, we have chosen Doug bright as an architect responsible for things that we're doing within the jail. Somebody has to be appointed to look at the overall concept, including maybe the judge himself I mean we have to have a qualified group that we say: okay, they know what they're doing, and this is the way we're going to move forward with these types of things. What.

A

We do committees responds then to send it to have mr. wheeler contact the women's group to have them contact mr. white to put his stamp of approval or thoughts on it and then bring it back to the executive committee.

A

Mr. wheeler yeah.

H

Mr. Altos point, if they so choose to use another architect to put that together, we can still add mr. bright look at.

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H

He we pay him, you know we but we're not gonna pay for a rendering to be done. That's not our area because this would say brought to us to say. Can we use the courthouse lawn for this and that's what this group agreed to and so now we're into that next time? So, if that's acceptable, I'll make that phone call today, yeah.

C

H

Yeah, okay, now, if you would Dan, could you flip that back around counterclockwise you.

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H

To the top and hit you.

H

Because I'll show you what the what they look like and we have to adjust there. We go.

H

Bottom right corner the arrow down there: no, the arrow, there's an arrow, no arrow bottom right corner.

D

There you know yeah.

H

Just use your clicker on to, if you hold it down a little scroll.

H

So there's a first one.

H

So if you keep going, please you'll see that you're just elected dates, what they were elected to state's attorney. All of that kind of stuff.

D

H

Similar gap they're all very similar.

A

H

The next one is very similar.

H

So that that's I just wanted to show you what they look like. As far as you know, what the women's group had put together.

D

H

They're rather large, if you will so they told me they cost $15,000 for all three of them so anyway, that's it so Allah talk to them and then talk to Doug right afterwards.

D

Thank you churn. Is there a height on the pillars, yeah.

H

I think there were only about like six feet: tall yeah.

D

H

Were made so people could sit on those spaces between okay.

D

It just looked like a wall with huge pillars at.

H

Me it's all like six feet.

A

H

Not about that.

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H

Today, I received a resignation effective at the end of the month for a board member and so I was I'm, announcing the opening in mr. McConnell's board district. He is, regrettably, resigned from the County Board effective at the end of the month, so I want to say thank you for your service and your guidance on this committee. You you've your your knowledge on your your personal vocations that you are able to contribute has been invaluable.

H

You say the County a lot of money by being able to steer us in some good directions and you'll be missed. Thank you so, and if anybody can stop it and it's not too late.

A

German, no, we did, you didn't see him back there.

A

Oh favor say aye bro same time. We thank you for your time.