WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.000 Let us pray. 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:16.000 Dear Gracious Eternal Father, we thank you for another day's journey and we ask that you continue to touch our law enforcement. 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:21.000 Touch the bereavement of the soldiers who were lost in war. 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:29.000 Touch all around our city all of the officers that serve so gallantly and bravely do the duty they do every day. 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:33.799 Day, and we ask this and many more blessings in Jesus name, amen. 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:45.799 I take a motion for approval of tonight's agenda, so moved by Mr. Busker, seconded by Mr. Newton. 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:52.840 Any questions? All in favor? All opposed? Okay, the general approval of any minutes for 00:00:52.840 --> 00:01:22.840 for a February 10th, 2026, so they move on Mr. Busker, seconded by Mr. Moon. All in favor? All opposed? Approval of claims. Have you guys seen the claims? Public safety, $195,362.05 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:27.840 State, 53,465 to 81 cents. 00:01:30.020 --> 00:01:31.120 Moved to the first. 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:31.960 Second. 00:01:31.960 --> 00:01:34.560 Moved by Mixed News, second by Busker, all in favor? 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:35.400 All in favor. 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:36.219 All opposed? 00:01:36.219 --> 00:01:38.120 All in that form of comment. 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:40.960 And that's report to committee, Sheriff's Department. 00:01:40.960 --> 00:01:43.120 Thank you, Mr. Bush. 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:46.680 Right now we have four in the FTO program still. 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:47.800 We still have two at school. 00:01:47.800 --> 00:01:49.560 They'll be graduating in April. 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:51.900 We held a Merit Commission interview last night. 00:01:51.900 --> 00:01:54.420 We had seven corrections officers that interviewed, 00:01:54.420 --> 00:01:56.140 all looked to be good candidates. 00:01:56.140 --> 00:01:57.900 They're all going for one position. 00:01:59.820 --> 00:02:02.620 Crime Suppression Unit, Stats, I believe were sent out. 00:02:02.620 --> 00:02:04.140 We had a pretty good month. 00:02:07.780 --> 00:02:09.860 New business. 00:02:09.860 --> 00:02:11.340 What have we got here now? 00:02:12.379 --> 00:02:13.460 Well, that's all I have. 00:02:13.460 --> 00:02:14.300 Okay. 00:02:15.460 --> 00:02:16.780 Any questions? 00:02:16.780 --> 00:02:17.620 Okay. 00:02:17.620 --> 00:02:19.300 Mersey Mayne. 00:02:19.300 --> 00:02:20.780 Thank you, Mr. Bush. 00:02:20.780 --> 00:02:26.780 So my report is quite lengthy, I'm not going to read it if you guys, I'm going to cover a few of things that I think are kind of important. 00:02:26.780 --> 00:02:41.780 Deputy Director's Boardwine attended the Illinois Fire Service Institute and Ripley Police Department's hosting an Active Shooter Incident Command and School Safety Violent Event Incident Training on February 12th and 13th. 00:02:41.780 --> 00:03:01.780 It was two-fold. The first day was year 4-1, of course the second day was the school system, then school supervisors. It worked out really well. The training was excellent. Robin was very impressed with that time's well spent. 00:03:01.780 --> 00:03:09.780 I think we're going to try to do more of that in the future, trying to do it for Steve's County ERT team and so forth and so on. 00:03:09.780 --> 00:03:17.780 Another training that we attended was obviously the annual re-atter. 00:03:17.780 --> 00:03:25.780 It was a mass casualty table top drill held at FHN Mercy and Health, put on by Nightpark. 00:03:25.780 --> 00:03:29.780 That was on February 25th. That was a bus accident with fatalities. 00:03:29.780 --> 00:03:35.780 Table top drill included Sheriff's Office, our office, police department, hospital, 00:03:35.780 --> 00:03:39.860 Bill, Clyer, other local agencies too. 00:03:39.860 --> 00:03:42.219 So we've been busy with doing these drills here lately. 00:03:42.219 --> 00:03:43.640 That's a good thing for us. 00:03:44.500 --> 00:03:45.979 We have our upcoming training, 00:03:45.979 --> 00:03:48.219 which is the Homeland Security and Exercise 00:03:48.219 --> 00:03:50.860 Evaluation Program training on April 1st and 2nd 00:03:50.860 --> 00:03:52.139 at the County Courthouse. 00:03:53.020 --> 00:03:56.000 That is still on schedule, on track to happen. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:59.580 We are still working on trying to get a date 00:03:59.580 --> 00:04:03.460 for the senior officials and appointed officials 00:04:03.460 --> 00:04:05.240 NIMS training. 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:07.400 This will happen before May 16th. 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:08.600 It'll be on a Saturday morning. 00:04:08.600 --> 00:04:09.879 I just don't have the date yet. 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:12.040 As soon as I get the date confirmed, 00:04:12.040 --> 00:04:15.159 I want to get that out to you guys as soon as possible. 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:18.000 We had some issues with the instructor being able to attend. 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:23.079 Received an email. 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:26.000 This is the situation for us. 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:28.639 Our dispatchers in the CAD system, 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:33.040 Public PSAP, Public Safety Answering Point system, 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:34.639 911 centers, both for the county 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:40.879 for the City. The National Weather Service has reached out and we're kind of in a bad area as 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:48.159 far as radar goes here in Northwest Illinois. They have sometimes not been able to get competent 00:04:48.159 --> 00:04:53.839 weather instances and emergencies reported to them. So we're working on a system that will be able to 00:04:53.839 --> 00:05:00.159 automatically send our weather incidents to the National Weather Service in Davenport as soon as 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:30.160 of Dispatch arrives and types it into their system and automatically email that will let them know. Hypothetically, if we have flash flooding, if we have a tornado on the ground, if we have snow excess, whatever report comes in, and it becomes a report via police or fire, it will go down to the National Water Service. This is in the process of happening, but I think that's going to go. A couple of other upcoming trainings. CNA Railroad, my experience with them has been nothing but professional in my years in the fire service. They're a great organization. 00:05:30.160 --> 00:06:00.160 Association. Unfortunately, they did have a derailment up in Norah here this couple months ago. Every year they reach out and they have trainings. There's a couple coming up. Freeport Fire and the Division Hazmat Team is going to be training on a volley charge in Freeport on Thursday, on Tuesday, the 14th of April. And then in the ethanol plant in Lena, they have actually three dates set up for the rural fire departments to attend. It's just basically 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:04.100 and, uh, incident response training and car familiarization. 00:06:04.220 --> 00:06:07.380 So if they roll upon what they did in aural, it'll be more layer. 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:10.700 And this is really not like a reactive type training. 00:06:11.140 --> 00:06:13.060 They offer this every year. 00:06:13.260 --> 00:06:16.200 Um, so it's something that CN is very good about. 00:06:16.200 --> 00:06:19.900 And I'm glad that they are the only railroad going through our area. 00:06:21.180 --> 00:06:27.640 Uh, another thing talking about the EMPG grant and that supplies my, uh, my budget. 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:35.639 I received all of the money back that we've applied for, for fiscal year 2024, 2025. 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:43.639 I received a check in February that capped our total at $22,344, which is what we applied for. 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:50.639 Right now, the federal government, for that part, is shut down, so there will be no more monies being allocated. 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:53.639 So, Stevenson County, we're fortunate to get ours. 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:59.159 There are a lot of counties out there that are not being fully funded at this point and 00:06:59.159 --> 00:07:03.959 we're still waiting for fiscal year 2025 grant to come through. 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:04.959 They're optimistic. 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:05.959 I don't know. 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:09.560 We'll have to wait and see. 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:15.360 And I think that's, oh, two other things. 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:20.319 Two organizations in the state of Illinois, one is IISMA, it's Illinois Emergency Services 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:21.319 Management Association. 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:26.920 This is a long-standing organization that's been in the emergency management business for many years. 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:32.120 I am told, I have not found it yet, but I have not put a lot of time looking into it yet, but I'm told 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:39.319 that our county did reach and pass a resolution to be involved. It's basically a mutual aid agreement 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:44.839 is what this is. It's for county to county, i.e. if I needed something from Winnebago County, 00:07:44.840 --> 00:08:14.840 If we were part of this and we had a signed agreement, we could exchange mostly material type things, equipment. Okay. I'm going to research this. There's some pushback on our region level as to say, as to why we need to have this in resolution form, maybe a memorandum of understanding might be a little easier to do and serve the same purpose. So I'm researching this. I may be back with this next month to take to the council and ask for your approval on, but I'm just not ready to do that. 00:08:14.840 --> 00:08:20.840 to do that right now and very similar is the Illinois Institute of Management System, which 00:08:20.840 --> 00:08:22.800 is another organization. 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:24.960 This one's a little different. 00:08:24.960 --> 00:08:30.480 This one is a mutual aid agreement for the 13 counties in Northwest Illinois Region 2. 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:35.399 That also includes equipment and also includes like personnel. 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:39.800 So if they needed to have Robin or myself to head down to Bureau County because they 00:08:39.800 --> 00:08:44.800 have a mass tornado go through there and they need some help running their EOC, we would 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:46.519 and send us down there. 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:49.279 Again, we're still looking at maybe a memorandum 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:52.079 of understanding would be better suited versus resolution. 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:56.159 But both supplies sample language 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:59.039 could not be deviated from, that's the problem. 00:08:59.919 --> 00:09:01.079 Well, that's a message to Carl. 00:09:01.079 --> 00:09:03.279 Carl may want to make some changes. 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:04.319 I think they really can't be 00:09:04.319 --> 00:09:09.159 because it's a regional agreed upon language. 00:09:10.219 --> 00:09:12.519 I'm going to continue to research this a little bit more 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:18.659 here, next week or two, and I'll make a presentation next month about how to pursue this fluid. 00:09:18.659 --> 00:09:19.659 And that is all I have. 00:09:19.659 --> 00:09:20.659 It's not like you would have been. 00:09:20.659 --> 00:09:21.659 Awesome. 00:09:21.659 --> 00:09:25.480 You know, Robert and I were talking, December, January is kind of slow, nobody wanted to 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:29.679 do anything, and man, February hit, and we've been rolling. 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:30.679 That's good though. 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:31.679 That's good. 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:32.679 Yeah. 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:37.500 Problems with the school, the school shooting training, that done at the school, or do 00:09:37.500 --> 00:09:43.659 School have any kind of drill school shootings or what yes throughout the 00:09:43.659 --> 00:09:48.059 county well the city does for sure but throughout the county there's mandatory 00:09:48.059 --> 00:09:53.580 fire drills in lockdown drills what they what they have and right now I'm doing 00:09:53.580 --> 00:09:59.500 all the training in all of our county schools for them 00:09:59.500 --> 00:10:03.659 Active Shooter type of stuff. 00:10:03.659 --> 00:10:14.700 Yeah, that particular class was kind of instigated, I believe, by the fire chiefs, rural fire chiefs in the county that want to have some kind of training. 00:10:14.700 --> 00:10:18.940 And it was spirited by the City of Freeport Police Department. 00:10:18.940 --> 00:10:21.899 And it was good training, good training. 00:10:21.899 --> 00:10:51.620 Inquests? All right. Then you found a coroner. Coroner's report. February, there were 49 total deaths. There were six call outs to or six deaths on scene. There were one, there was one autopsy. 16 death certificates were signed off by the coroner, 33 by a doctor, 42 were natural causes. 00:10:51.899 --> 00:11:03.899 and six deaths are pending investigation and those stats are all down from January which is amazing. 00:11:03.899 --> 00:11:05.899 They're down in January? 00:11:05.899 --> 00:11:11.899 Yep. Total deaths in January are 59 or 49 in February. 00:11:11.899 --> 00:11:17.899 Okay. Any questions? 00:11:17.899 --> 00:11:32.580 All right, let's move on. Let me go open this. Any new business? If not, any comments from committee members? 00:11:32.580 --> 00:11:41.379 You can probably hear this again, but the upcoming summer NACO's convention is in New Orleans. 00:11:41.379 --> 00:11:48.659 and we bumped up the, I don't know if you got that, we bumped it up $5,000 a county to get extra people 00:11:49.620 --> 00:11:55.460 to go. Sorry, what month is that? It's in July, middle of July, it's like towards the weekend, 00:11:55.460 --> 00:12:03.620 first couple days of the week. Assuming it will be before UCCI. Just before. Yeah, it's like the 00:12:03.620 --> 00:12:11.620 and then later that weekend is that Sunday is when the golf day happens. 00:12:11.620 --> 00:12:13.620 Do you have dates for the UCCI? 00:12:13.620 --> 00:12:14.620 Yeah. 00:12:14.620 --> 00:12:20.059 While he's looking at that, Mr. Bush, did you want to comment at all on the interviews 00:12:20.059 --> 00:12:22.059 or interviews for the coroner? 00:12:22.059 --> 00:12:25.059 You want me to talk? 00:12:25.059 --> 00:12:26.059 Yeah. 00:12:26.059 --> 00:12:32.740 We spoke with Tom Nezhke yesterday, myself, Mr. Bush and Mr. Hadley, we interviewed him. 00:12:32.740 --> 00:12:41.659 I'm not really in depth, just kind of got a feel for, um, his ideas and some of the ideas that the board members, uh, wanted to see done in that office. 00:12:41.980 --> 00:12:52.139 Um, I basically told, uh, everyone in the room that I've been working with Tom since probably November about getting him into this office and, uh, kind of getting his feet wet. 00:12:52.139 --> 00:12:59.100 He has been doing that, but once he takes over, uh, full time, uh, I'll work hand in hand with him with whatever he needs. 00:12:59.100 --> 00:13:03.419 and hopefully everything works out. Our recommendation at the time was 00:13:03.419 --> 00:13:10.139 unanimous that Tom would be put in that position after March 17th with a projection date of around 00:13:10.139 --> 00:13:17.899 April 1st and then he would be in that position as a appointed until November 5th when he would be 00:13:17.899 --> 00:13:28.779 elected and he is on the ballot. Yeah, I was okay with it. I mean he had been in that position 00:13:28.779 --> 00:13:36.220 and Working, and so I guess the only question I had was how serious are you for the position? 00:13:37.819 --> 00:13:42.860 I think a lot of times people want to get into a position, they want to get in there by what it's 00:13:42.860 --> 00:13:52.220 about, then they lose interest. So that was my major concern, you know, was he going to stay? 00:13:52.220 --> 00:14:06.220 I think one of the other questions that us three had without Tom in the room is when is the resolution up that the wages can be discussed? Is that this year? 00:14:06.220 --> 00:14:21.220 No, I don't think so. We're only halfway through the term, I believe. So it'd be 27, the spring of 27. It's 180 days prior to the election. 00:14:21.220 --> 00:14:34.220 because this election cycle ends when we'll be discussing April, May, so not until a year from now. I'm active in 28 January. 00:14:34.220 --> 00:14:44.220 And I think another question came up far as we're dealing with for his deputy. Increase the NAFTA. 00:14:44.220 --> 00:14:48.779 Do you handle that by resolution? 00:14:48.779 --> 00:14:50.779 Deputy Pointers? 00:14:50.779 --> 00:15:03.140 No, when Mr. Welch did it, I believe he presented it through the budget. 00:15:03.140 --> 00:15:08.140 So that's something that, you know, budget gets addressed every year. 00:15:08.140 --> 00:15:09.140 Okay. 00:15:09.139 --> 00:15:20.579 Just a couple of dates, and I mean, just to keep in mind, April 14 and 15, you probably 00:15:20.579 --> 00:15:27.579 already know about that, but just put it out there, it's the UCCI Legislative, and it's 00:15:27.579 --> 00:15:37.180 a dual, a joint bet between the Chicago Association, which is ISECO, and UCCI, and 14 and 15 is 00:15:37.180 --> 00:15:43.980 is going to be packed in state because both the House and Senate are in session. So everybody's 00:15:43.980 --> 00:15:50.860 in town. So if you're going to go make a reservation because hotels are going to be gone. 00:15:50.860 --> 00:15:56.779 I think Mr. Bush, myself, don't know that anybody else has gotten back to us on it. 00:15:56.779 --> 00:15:59.579 Yeah, keep talking about it. 00:15:59.579 --> 00:16:05.660 So that's the only issue is hotels will be challenging if you stay the night. On that 00:16:05.660 --> 00:16:13.019 another piece on in July, we have the annual NACO convention again, that's the 17th through 00:16:13.019 --> 00:16:18.900 the 22nd. So we can also do the same. Yes, again, we've added more money in case somebody 00:16:18.900 --> 00:16:23.500 wants to go. You'll see, you probably get a, if you haven't got an email about how they 00:16:23.500 --> 00:16:34.379 don't do it. So, and then the annual law filing, the annual UCCI event is 26th, 27th, 28th 00:16:34.379 --> 00:16:47.980 of July. Yeah, so that's a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Okay, thank you. So, it's good. So, I like July. It's going to be a busy one. So, that's all I have, I think. Okay. 00:16:49.420 --> 00:17:04.299 One other thing that we may take delegation to Washington, D.C., we're looking at doing that. We have just the Illinois delegation of county board members. So, that if you're, if you're thinking you might want to do that, that'll happen probably. 00:17:04.380 --> 00:17:21.259 There's nothing else. I entertain a motion to move on Mr. Busker, seconded by Mr. Newton. 00:17:34.380 --> 00:17:35.380 Well, go ahead.