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.
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 a motion to approve.
Second.
Second by Mr. Busker.
Any questions?
All in favor?
Opposed?
Review and approval of meeting minutes for March 10th.
Motion to approve.
So Mr. Busker, second.
Second by Mr. Newton.
Any questions?
All in favor?
Aye.
Okay.
Approval of plans.
I'm taking that everyone has a chance to look at.
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 no reports in committee, chair of the department.
Thank you very much.
Good morning 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 the last three weeks.
So that's a good sign.
We have two at school that graduated 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 ones.
It's not good ones, but it turned out to be good.
We had a catastrophic failure with the HVAC system at the courthouse, 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 and running and it's no cost.
It was already in the contract.
I think you forgot to do it.
Oh, there, I gave you some good news for it.
You don't have to share it with us.
It is, led with the casket.
I was reading this process question and you got us 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.
Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Hayes.
I'll be short also, we had a special meeting with Regent Buwaima of 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 companies can work together to share resources and so 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 for the county, which do be submitted to IUNI and FEMA for approval.
Will be due this time next year.
It's a big document, you know, it takes us a while to 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 in 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, uh, events that happen here, whether it be music on Chicago, the County Fair, it's the Alina Felt Festival, just to name a few examples, uh, because Davenport has such a small region, uh, 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 Chicago and it don't happen Allen, Mike, and 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, I'll just 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 to 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 going to throw out there that's come and do was the County Hazard Mitigation Plan.
And the reason I'm going to 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, any issues that they want added to that plan.
I don't expect it to be as expensive as it was five years ago in 2021.
I think when we did the last, uh, we, we had a grant at that point, it was a $15,000 grant.
So that's a sizable amount of money for, for, for assistance to help us put that together.
Um, I'm going to try to get that little 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 Materials Safety Month, and that's all I've got.
Any questions?
You do this every month.
Every month.
I try.
Any questions?
Okay.
Our county coroner, welcome.
Thank you.
Welcome, Stephen.
Evening.
We responded to a total of 57 deaths in the county in March.
We went to eight of the scenes, 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 to report.
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, that would be helpful.
We haven't had that for a number of years.
I know how quickly your budget can get depleted.
So you might just give us updated information on that.
And George, I can probably work with you on that.
I'll show you where we do the monthly totals and things with that report.
Frank, glad to have you on board.
Thank you.
And speaking of that, could you guys kind of introduce yourself to, I can't even pronounce your name.
I was going to say your first question.
Tom's fine.
You kind of introduce yourself to Tom and Tom, could you give them some of your, your background?
My name is Tom Padeci.
I previously was a security guard for the hospital up in Monroe.
And Monroe.
And then before that, the hospital here in Freeport, and I'm a reserved deputy under Scoville 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, County Board District B, if that makes sense.
I'm District C. Patrick, Busker, I'm also the County C 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 go to you.
Thanks Steve.
Oh, I'm supposed to tell him about the site.
All right.
Okay, welcome.
Welcome.
Thank you.
Welcome.
All right, let's move on.
Old business is not, new business is not, a combination of committee members is not.
Yep, it is.
Almost, almost.
And the only reason I got that is because I was listening.
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 were 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.
Certainly data centers and legislation you might want to know about as you go forward.
And I know as administrator, 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 okay for the information.
Sure.
I can forward it to you.
Thank you.
And what is this?
That's down at the legislative conference on 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.
I got, I was going to say, I got your hotel reminder today.
I was going to forward it to you later.
It is.
So, so far, I think he wanted that meeting.
I had something to come up personally.
So I will not.
And I usually attend that one for a year, but that gets us shared.
How about Baker?
I don't, she's not registered.
Okay I can chat with her I know she usually tries to go to that one too send out the fourth email tomorrow I just hope that somebody can go because I'm gonna be tired of what I see I'm empty because we cancelled two or three meetings this year because of weather and so I got a lot of catch-up we're in good hands with Mr. Bush it used to be in there so okay let's move on No doubt, let me know what I have to do, is it nothing else?
I'm moving forward to them.
I make the motion to return, to adjourn.
I move by Ms. Hayes, second by Ms. Portman, all in favor?
I move.
All in favor?
Ayes.
That's great.
I know, right?
That's lovely.
I know, right?
That's lovely.