Let us pray.
Father God, we thank you for another day's journey, and we just ask that you will continue to touch those families who are maybe in bereavement, keep our men and women safe, who are in harm's way all around the world and throughout our country, even in our state and community, Lord.
Country, even in our state and community, Lord, just thank you for providing safety for them and all things we give you honor and we give you glory in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Okay, approval of tonight's agenda.
I make motion to approve.
Move my motion.
Second.
Second by Mr. Busker.
Any questions?
All in favor?
Aye.
Opposed?
Review and Approval of Meeting Minutes for March 10th.
Motion to approve.
Mr. Busker, second by Mr. Newton.
Any questions?
All in favor?
Aye.
Okay.
Approval of Plan.
I'm taking that everyone has a chance to look at it.
Public property is $65,176.76, public safety is $142,102.03.
So moved to approve.
Second.
Moved by Mr. Newton, second by Ms. Hayes.
Are there any questions?
All in favor?
Aye.
All opposed?
Aye.
Public comment.
Seeing none.
Report to committee, Chair, Department.
Thank you very much.
Movers everyone, I've got an hiring process.
We have four still in the FTO program.
They're in their last month and actually they're in their last three weeks.
So that's a good sign.
We have two at school that graduate April 23rd, and that'll be our last two.
Other than that, I have nothing else at this time, but I do have some good moves.
It's not good moves, but it turned out to be good.
We had a catastrophic failure with the HVAC system at the sport house, but it's not going to cost us any money.
They found out what had happened and they did not replace one part that was pretty expensive, and so I called Helm Group and they said, totally our fault.
That was the piece that connected.
We didn't do anything in the middle.
So they're taking care of it.
They gave us a temporary fix.
The courthouse was up in the morning and it's no cost.
It was already in the contract.
They just forgot to do it.
Oh, there I gave you some good news, Richie, I've got to share this with you.
It is, led with the casket.
I was reading this process press and you know, you guys are pretty busy, huh?
Very busy.
They're out there doing very well.
Okay.
Has anyone got a chance to look at it?
Yes.
Take a look, take a look, take a look.
Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Aiden.
I'm signaling everybody, I'll be short on it.
So, we had a special meeting with Regent Bu, Emma, Ops Homeland Security on March 9th, and we discussed our lack of funding coming from the federal government and trying to come up with some mutual aid agreements where counties can work together to share resources and sort of that's kind of the work in progress.
It's a good idea.
Logistically, it's going to be challenged because of the distance between counties.
And I think we do a pretty good job up here in Northwest Illinois already, but because of lack of funding, they're looking at ways of trying to overcome that for the coming year or two.
Our office is still working on our credentialing process.
And the Emergency Operations Plans in the County, which is due to be submitted to IUNI and FEMA.
For approval, it'll be due this time next year.
It's a big document, if you know it, just go through it.
But that process is on schedule at this time.
We attended a National Weather Service event, Weather Planning and Monitoring Seminar, March 31st over Winnebago County, ESDA.
We've been involved with this program with National Weather Service, I believe, for three going on four years.
We use it quite well and quite extensively here in the county for a number of different events that happen here, whether it be music on Chicago, the County Fair, the Alina Felt Festival, just to name a few examples.
Because Davenport has such a small region, I think we get excellent care.
I mean, they'll call my phone literally and Tell me, Hey, you guys got a storm coming in about two hours.
That doesn't happen in Chicagoland.
It don't happen down in Lincoln.
So I'm real happy with that.
And that program is really good.
It does help the committees and the organizers of these events, you know, to be confident that they will be warned in time for evacuations if it's needed.
We just completed the Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation School at the County EOP Training Room.
We had that April 1st and 2nd.
That went really well.
Thanks to the sheriffs and Robin helped us get the technology portion of that part all up and running for the instructor.
The instructor was very impressed and the class was a success.
I'm real happy to do that.
We're going to do that again.
Some bad news I have is the same instructor wants to give the G402 the NIMS overview for elected officials.
He's not going to be able and we'll do that now until fall.
But we will get that done this year.
So we'll do that on a Saturday morning.
And I'm looking forward to that class.
That would be about two to three hour class.
What else?
Another plan I'm just gonna throw out there that's come and do was the County Hazard Mitigation Plan.
And the reason I'm gonna bring that up is because that takes usually about six to eight months in order for us to get through all of that planning.
We have to visit every village and talk to their board and talk to get it approved if they have any kind of mitigation issues, and any issues that anyone added to that plan.
I don't expect it to be as expensive as it was five years ago in 2021, I think it was when we did the last, we had a grant at that point and it was a $15,000 grant.
So that's a sizable amount of money for assistance to help us put that together.
I'm going to try to get that whittled down because there's not a whole lot of changes of that plan in my opinion that I've been made aware of.
So I think we'll be able to do that a lot less expensive this time around.
April is Hazard Material Safety Month and that's all I've got.
Any questions?
You'd be busy every month.
Every month.
I try, I try.
Any questions?
Okay, our County Clerk, welcome.
Thank you.
Welcome.
Evening.
We responded to a total of 57, that's in the County in March.
We went to eight of the scenes, I'm sorry, correction.
We had a total of 57 deaths.
We responded to eight of those.
We had no autopsies.
We signed for 19 of those.
The other 38 were done by doctors.
56 Of them were natural.
And I still have one pending for the month of March.
That is all I have for the board.
Any questions?
Yes.
Very nice to meet you, welcome.
Thank you.
Going forward, if you wouldn't mind giving us a budget update, just year to date, where you're at with your numbers.
Okay.
That would be helpful.
We haven't had that for a number of years.
I know how quickly your budget can get depleted.
So yeah, if you didn't mind just giving us updated information on that.
Well, George, I can probably assist with you on that.
Can I have a minute?
I'll show you where we do the monthly totals Thank you.
And speaking of that, could you guys kind of introduce yourself, too?
I can't even pronounce your name.
You kind of introduce yourself, from time to time, could you give them some of your background?
My name is Tom Connachie.
I previously was a security guard for the hospital up in Monroe and then before that Hospital here in Freeport, and I'm a Reserved Deputy under Stovall for the state's County Sheriff's Department.
All right, cool.
I'm Lou Ann Hayes, Lou Hayes, as we're known, as I'm known in my political, yes, Samuel Newton, Copy Board District B, if that makes sense.
I'm District C. Patrick Busker, I'm also the County seat and retired member of the Reserve Unit there.
So I'm glad to see you're serving in that capacity as well.
Nice to meet you.
And I'm Scott Helms, County Board Chairman.
He's the one that has all the money.
Just ask him to come.
Thanks Steve.
I'm supposed to tell him on the side.
Okay, welcome.
Welcome.
Thank you.
Welcome.
All right.
Let's move on.
Old business and now new business and now the comments from committee members and now, yep, it is almost almost the only reason I got that is because I was Almost the only reason I have that is because I was listening to the County Board meeting last night.
And while it's on my mind, you've been talking about data centers and training is the legislative conference on Tuesday the 14th for three hours, there'll be data center training one-on-one.
There's an association, a national association of data centers are going to be there to talk about the myths and all of that concerning data centers and legislation you might want to know about as you go forward.
And I know as administrator of that stuff you were talking about, let you know if it comes up.
So you might want to catch that one if you can.
I'll contact you tomorrow if that's OK for the information.
Sure, I can forward it to you.
Thank you.
And what is this?
That's down at the legislative conference on the 14th of April today.
We're there.
I don't know.
Scott, is anyone going down for the legislative conference?
Mr. Bush, you're the only one I think that's signed up so far.
What?
I was going to say, I got your hotel reminder today.
I was going to forward it to you later.
It is.
So I'm the only one?
So far.
I don't know if you wanted that meeting.
I just wanted to go, but I had something to come up personally, so I will not be interested.
And I usually attend that one for a year, but I guess this year she's not.
How about Baker?
I don't, she's not registered.
Okay.
I can talk with her.
I know she usually tries to go to that one too.
Maybe send out the fourth email tomorrow.
I just want to talk to somebody who goes, because I'm going to be tired of what I see at MT, because we canceled two or three meetings this year because of weather, of Weather, and so I got a lot of kids of them.
We're in good hands with Mr. Bush, if he's in there, so.
Okay, let's move on.
No doubt, let me know what happened.
Nothing else.
I'm moving forward to him.
I make the motion to return.
To adjourn.
Move my Ms. Hayes.
Second by Ms. Portman, all in favor?
Aye.
All in favor?
Aye.
Yes, please.
I know, right?
That's lovely.