WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:08.080 Let us pray. 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:13.439 Dear gracious, eternal father, we thank you for another day's journey and we ask that you 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:19.839 continue to touch our law enforcement, touch the bereavement of the soldiers who were lost 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:27.640 in war, touch all around our city, all of the officers that serve so gallantly and bravely 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:29.839 to do the duty they do every day. 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:33.119 And we ask this and many more blessings in Jesus' name. 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:33.960 Amen. 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:35.079 Amen. 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:38.520 I'll take a motion for approval of tonight's agenda. 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:39.600 So moved. 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:41.780 Moved by Mr. Busker. 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:43.719 Second. 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:45.979 Seconded by Mr. Newton. 00:00:45.979 --> 00:00:46.820 Any questions? 00:00:46.820 --> 00:00:48.159 All in favor? 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:49.000 All right. 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:49.820 All opposed? 00:00:49.820 --> 00:00:52.439 Okay, we're gonna approve of any minutes 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:56.060 for February 10th, 2026. 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:05.640 So we'll be moved by Mr. Busker, seconded by Mr. Moon. All in favor? All opposed? 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:16.640 Approval of claims. Have you guys seen the claims? Public safety, $195,362.05. 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:23.430 and the public property, 53,465 that they want to assess. 00:01:29.989 --> 00:01:31.469 Moved to approve for a second. 00:01:31.469 --> 00:01:33.670 Moved by Mixed News, seconded by Mr. Busker, 00:01:33.670 --> 00:01:34.510 all in favor? 00:01:34.510 --> 00:01:35.349 All in favor? 00:01:35.349 --> 00:01:36.170 All opposed? 00:01:36.170 --> 00:01:38.109 All in that form of comment. 00:01:38.109 --> 00:01:40.909 That's report to committee, Sheriff's Department. 00:01:40.909 --> 00:01:43.069 Thank you, Mr. Bush. 00:01:44.030 --> 00:01:46.629 Right now we have four in the FTO program still. 00:01:46.629 --> 00:01:49.510 we still have two at school, they'll be graduating in April. 00:01:49.510 --> 00:01:51.870 We held a merit commission interview last night. 00:01:51.870 --> 00:01:54.390 We had seven corrections officers that interviewed, 00:01:54.390 --> 00:01:56.109 all looked to be good candidates. 00:01:56.109 --> 00:01:57.870 They're all going for one position. 00:01:59.790 --> 00:02:02.549 Prime suppression unit stats, I believe were sent out. 00:02:02.549 --> 00:02:04.109 We had a pretty good month. 00:02:07.750 --> 00:02:11.310 New business, what do we got here now? 00:02:12.310 --> 00:02:13.430 Well, that's all I have. 00:02:13.430 --> 00:02:17.569 and of course, okay. 00:02:17.569 --> 00:02:19.310 Mersey Manning. 00:02:19.310 --> 00:02:20.990 Thank you, Mr. Bush. 00:02:20.990 --> 00:02:22.870 So my report is quite lengthy. 00:02:22.870 --> 00:02:23.710 I'm not going to read it to you guys. 00:02:23.710 --> 00:02:25.389 I'm going to cover a few of things 00:02:25.389 --> 00:02:27.189 as I've had it recorded. 00:02:27.189 --> 00:02:28.990 Deputy Director Moorswine attended 00:02:28.990 --> 00:02:31.550 the Illinois Fire Service Institute 00:02:31.550 --> 00:02:33.830 and Pritzker Police Dept. 00:02:33.830 --> 00:02:37.150 posted an active shooter incident command 00:02:37.150 --> 00:02:38.909 and school safety violent event 00:02:38.909 --> 00:02:41.909 incident training on February 12th and 13th, 00:02:41.909 --> 00:02:43.689 two days out of Highland. 00:02:43.689 --> 00:02:44.789 It was two fold. 00:02:44.789 --> 00:02:46.889 The first day was your court law enforcement. 00:02:46.889 --> 00:02:49.189 Second day was church, or it was a school system 00:02:49.189 --> 00:02:50.030 then school. 00:02:52.990 --> 00:02:54.789 He was a supervisor. 00:02:54.789 --> 00:02:55.949 He worked out really well. 00:02:55.949 --> 00:02:56.990 The training was excellent. 00:02:56.990 --> 00:03:01.229 Robin was very impressed with that time's loss path. 00:03:03.069 --> 00:03:05.310 I think we're going to try to do more of that in the future. 00:03:05.310 --> 00:03:08.430 Trying to boot up our Stevenson County ERT team 00:03:08.430 --> 00:03:10.030 and so forth and so on. 00:03:10.030 --> 00:03:17.469 Uh, another training that we attended was obviously the annual, uh, we had here. 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:24.759 It was a mass casualty tabletop drill held at FHN Mercy Health, put on by 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:28.080 Nightpark, uh, that was on February 25th. 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:32.020 That was a bus accident with fatalities, uh, tabletop drill that included 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:36.840 sheriff's office, our office, police department, hospital, fire, 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:39.319 uh, other local agencies too. 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.240 So we've been busy with doing these drills here lately. 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:44.520 That's a good thing for us. 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:46.000 We have our upcoming training, 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:48.800 which is the Homeland Security and Exercise Evaluation 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:50.919 Program training on April 1st and 2nd 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:53.039 at the County Courthouse. 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:56.039 That is still on schedule, on track to happen. 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:59.599 We are still working on trying to get a date 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:03.479 for the senior officials and appointed officials 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:05.280 NIMS training. 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:07.439 This will happen before May 16th. 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:08.639 It'll be on a Saturday morning. 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:09.900 I just don't have the date yet. 00:04:09.900 --> 00:04:12.080 As soon as I get the date confirmed, 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:15.180 I want to get that out to you guys as soon as possible. 00:04:15.180 --> 00:04:17.879 We had some issues with the instructor meeting on 2010. 00:04:22.060 --> 00:04:26.040 Received an email, this is the situation for us. 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:28.680 Our dispatchers in the CAD system, 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:33.079 public PSAP, Public Safety Answering Point system, 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:36.540 911 centers, both for the county and for the city. 00:04:36.540 --> 00:04:38.819 The National Weather Service has reached out 00:04:38.819 --> 00:04:42.899 and we're kind of in a bad area, as far as radar goes here in Northwest 00:04:42.899 --> 00:04:49.680 Illinois, they have sometimes not been able to get competent weather instances 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:51.120 and emergency reported to them. 00:04:51.660 --> 00:04:56.379 So we're working on a system that we'll be able to automatically send our 00:04:56.459 --> 00:05:00.379 weather incidents to the national weather service in Davenport as soon as the 00:05:00.379 --> 00:05:03.879 dispatch arrives and types it into their system, it'll automatically email 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:07.339 that and let them know, hypothetically, if we have flash flooding, if we have 00:05:07.339 --> 00:05:12.139 Tornado on the ground, if we have snow in excess, whatever report comes in. 00:05:12.500 --> 00:05:16.660 And it becomes a report via police or fire and what on the National Water 00:05:16.660 --> 00:05:19.579 Service, this is in the process of happening, but I think that's going to go. 00:05:21.019 --> 00:05:25.259 A couple of other upcoming trainings, uh, see in the railroad, my experience 00:05:25.259 --> 00:05:27.939 with them has been nothing but professional in my years at the fire 00:05:27.939 --> 00:05:30.379 service, uh, they're a great organization. 00:05:30.740 --> 00:05:33.220 Uh, unfortunately they didn't have a derailment up in Nora here 00:05:33.220 --> 00:05:34.540 this couple months ago. 00:05:34.540 --> 00:05:38.259 Uh, every year they're, they reach out and they have trainings. 00:05:38.660 --> 00:05:43.279 There was a couple coming up Freeport fire and a division hazmat team is going to be 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:50.399 training on a volley charge in Freeport on Thursday, uh, on Tuesday, the 14th of 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:56.439 April, and then out in the ethanol plant in Lena, they have actually three dates 00:05:56.439 --> 00:05:58.720 set up for the rural fire departments to attend. 00:05:59.139 --> 00:06:04.120 It's just basically, uh, incident response training and car familiarization. 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:07.300 So if they roll upon what they did in or it'll be more later. 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:10.560 And this is really not like a reactive type training. 00:06:11.060 --> 00:06:12.959 They offer this every year. 00:06:13.699 --> 00:06:16.100 So it's something that CN is very good about. 00:06:16.100 --> 00:06:19.800 And I'm glad that they are the only railroad going through our area. 00:06:21.819 --> 00:06:27.560 Another thing talking about the EMPG grant that supplies my my budget. 00:06:28.500 --> 00:06:34.019 I received all of the money back that we applied for for fiscal year 2024. 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:43.120 here, 2025. I received a check in February that capped our total at $22,344, which is 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:49.199 what we applied for. Right now, federal government for that part is shut down. So there'll be 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:53.959 no more monies being allocated. So, Stevenson County, we're fortunate to get ours. There 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:59.240 are a lot of counties out there that are not being fully funded at this point. And we're 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:03.480 We're still waiting for fiscal year 2025 grant to come through. 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:04.920 They're optimistic. 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:06.199 I don't know. 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:07.399 We'll have to wait and see. 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:13.439 And I think that's, oh, two other things. 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:17.160 Two organizations in the state of Illinois. 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:21.480 One is IISMA, it's Illinois Emergency Services Management Association. 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:26.000 This is a longstanding organization that's been in the emergency management 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:27.160 business for many years. 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:37.160 I'm told, I have not found it yet, but I have not put a lot of time looking into it yet, but I'm told that our county did reach and pass a resolution to be involved. 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:54.160 It's basically a mutual aid agreement, is what this is. It's for county to county, i.e. if I needed something from Winnebago County, if we were part of this and we had a signed agreement, we could exchange mostly material type things, equipment, okay? 00:07:54.160 --> 00:08:07.959 I'm going to research this. There's some pushback on, 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. 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:15.720 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 right now. 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:22.120 and very similar is the Illinois Institute of Management System, which is another organization. 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:23.920 This one's a little different. 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:29.720 This one is a mutual aid agreement for the 13 counties in Northwest Illinois Region 2. 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:35.120 That also includes equipment and also includes like personnel. 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:39.519 So if they needed to have Robin or myself to head down to Bureau County, 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:43.919 because they have a mass tornado go through there and they need some help running their EOC, 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.500 we would send us down there. 00:08:46.500 --> 00:08:49.279 Again, we're still looking at maybe a memorandum 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:52.220 of understanding would be better suited versus resolution. 00:08:52.220 --> 00:08:56.600 But both supply sample language 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:59.000 cannot be deviated from, that's the problem. 00:08:59.879 --> 00:09:01.039 Well, that's just for Carl. 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:03.240 Carl may want to make some changes. 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:06.600 They really can't be, because it's a regional 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:09.120 agreed upon language. 00:09:10.179 --> 00:09:12.460 I'm going to continue to research this a little bit more 00:09:12.460 --> 00:09:13.580 here next week or two. 00:09:13.580 --> 00:09:19.340 and I'll make a presentation next month about pursuing this footwear and that is all I have. 00:09:21.659 --> 00:09:25.019 You know, Robert and I were talking and December, January is kind of slow and nobody 00:09:25.019 --> 00:09:30.139 wanted to do anything and man, February hit and we've been rolling. That's good though. 00:09:30.139 --> 00:09:36.700 That's good, yeah. What about the school shooting training and that done at the school or 00:09:36.700 --> 00:09:41.700 or do schools have any kind of drills or shootings or what? 00:09:42.620 --> 00:09:45.639 Yes, throughout the county, well, the city does for sure, 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:49.259 but throughout the county, there's mandatory fire drills 00:09:49.259 --> 00:09:52.740 and lockdown drills, what they have. 00:09:52.740 --> 00:09:54.379 And right now I'm doing all the training 00:09:54.379 --> 00:09:57.580 in all of our county schools for... 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:02.139 Um, active shooter type of stuff. 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:08.840 Yeah, that this particular class was kind of instigated, instigated, I believe, by 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:12.679 the fire chiefs, rural fire chiefs in the county that want to have some kind of 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:17.360 training, uh, and it was spirited by the city of Freeport, uh, police department. 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.320 And it was good training, good training. 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:25.200 All right. 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:33.200 You found a coroner. Coroner's report. February, there were 49 total deaths. There were six 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:43.679 call-outs or six deaths on scene. There was one autopsy. 16 death certificates were signed 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:52.919 off by the coroner, 33 by a doctor, 42 were natural causes, and six deaths are pending 00:10:52.919 --> 00:11:02.539 Investigation. Okay. And those stats are all down from January, which is amazing. 00:11:02.539 --> 00:11:14.460 They're down from January? Yep. Total deaths in January are 59 or 49 in February. Okay. Any 00:11:14.460 --> 00:11:15.460 Any questions? 00:11:15.460 --> 00:11:16.460 Okay. 00:11:16.460 --> 00:11:17.460 Let's move on. 00:11:17.460 --> 00:11:20.409 Let me go. 00:11:20.409 --> 00:11:21.409 Any new business? 00:11:21.409 --> 00:11:22.409 Any comments from committee members? 00:11:22.409 --> 00:11:40.210 You probably hear this again, but the upcoming summer NACO's convention is in New Orleans, 00:11:40.210 --> 00:11:45.990 and we bumped up the, I don't think if you got that, we bumped it up to $5,000 a county 00:11:45.990 --> 00:11:49.430 to get extra people to go, sorry. 00:11:49.430 --> 00:11:50.590 What month is that? 00:11:50.590 --> 00:11:54.069 It's in July, mid-July, towards the weekend, 00:11:54.069 --> 00:11:56.110 first couple days of the week. 00:11:56.110 --> 00:12:00.069 Assuming it will be before the UCCI. 00:12:00.069 --> 00:12:00.909 Just before. 00:12:00.909 --> 00:12:01.750 Conference. 00:12:01.750 --> 00:12:04.830 Yeah, it's like the week before. 00:12:04.830 --> 00:12:06.950 And then later that weekend, 00:12:06.950 --> 00:12:10.110 is that Sunday is when the golf day happens. 00:12:10.110 --> 00:12:12.590 Do you have dates for the UCCI? 00:12:12.590 --> 00:12:13.669 Yeah. 00:12:13.669 --> 00:12:15.350 While he's looking at that, Mr. Bush, 00:12:15.350 --> 00:12:20.470 Did you want to comment at all on the interviews for interview for the quarter? 00:12:22.750 --> 00:12:23.309 You want me to talk? 00:12:23.309 --> 00:12:23.629 Yeah. 00:12:24.190 --> 00:12:29.629 We spoke with Tom Neschke yesterday, myself, Mr. Bush and Mr. Hadley. 00:12:29.909 --> 00:12:30.990 We've interviewed him. 00:12:31.350 --> 00:12:36.669 I'm not really in depth, just kind of got a feel for his ideas and some of the ideas 00:12:36.669 --> 00:12:40.190 that the board members wanted to see done in that office. 00:12:40.870 --> 00:12:44.629 I basically told everyone in the room that I've been working with Tom 00:12:44.629 --> 00:12:50.710 since probably November about getting him into this office and, uh, kind of getting his feet wet. 00:12:50.710 --> 00:12:56.309 He has been doing that, but once he takes over, uh, full time, I'll work hand in hand with him with 00:12:56.309 --> 00:13:01.990 whatever he needs. Um, and hopefully everything works out. Our recommendation at the time was 00:13:01.990 --> 00:13:08.389 unanimous that Tom would be put in that position after March 17th, uh, with a projection date of 00:13:08.389 --> 00:13:15.909 around April 1st and then he would be in that position as a appointed until November 5th 00:13:15.909 --> 00:13:26.629 when he would be elected and he is on the ballot. Yeah, I was okay with it. I mean, he had been in 00:13:26.629 --> 00:13:34.309 that position and working and so I guess the only question I had was how serious are you for the 00:13:34.309 --> 00:13:54.309 I think a lot of times people want to get into a position, they want to get in there by what it's about. Then they lose interest. So that was my major concern, you know, was he going to stay? So, yeah. 00:13:54.309 --> 00:13:58.389 Yeah. And I think one of the other questions that us three had without Tom in the room, 00:13:58.389 --> 00:14:04.309 is when is the resolution up that the wages can be discussed? Is that this year? 00:14:04.870 --> 00:14:11.990 No, I don't think so. We're only halfway through the term, I believe. So it'd be 27, 00:14:13.830 --> 00:14:20.069 the spring of 27. It's 180 days prior to the election, I think. 00:14:20.069 --> 00:14:32.710 So not until a year from now. I'm active in 28 January. 00:14:32.710 --> 00:14:41.910 And I think another question came up far as per Dean for his deputy. Increase the NAFTA. 00:14:41.910 --> 00:15:01.710 did it, I believe he presented. He presented it through the budget. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So 00:15:01.710 --> 00:15:12.589 that's something that, you know, budget gets addressed every year. Okay. Just a couple 00:15:12.589 --> 00:15:41.589 to keep in mind April 14th and 15th, you probably already know about that, but just put it out there. It's the UCCI Legislative, and it's a joint event between the Chicago Association, which is ISECO, and UCCI, and 14th and 15th, it's going to be packed in state because both the House and Senate are in session. 00:15:41.589 --> 00:15:49.589 So, everybody's in town. So, if you're going to go, make a reservation because hotels are going to be gone. 00:15:49.589 --> 00:15:55.589 Now, I think Mr. Bush, myself, don't know that anybody else has gotten back to us on it yet. 00:15:55.589 --> 00:15:57.589 We keep talking about it. 00:15:57.589 --> 00:16:03.589 So, that's the only issue is hotels will be challenging if you stay the night. 00:16:03.589 --> 00:16:23.589 On that other piece, in July, we have the annual NACO convention, again, that's the 17th through the 22nd, so again, we've added more money in case somebody wants to go, you'll see, if you haven't got an email about how they don't do it. 00:16:23.589 --> 00:16:33.589 So, and then the annual golf outing, the annual UCCI event is 26th, 27th, 28th of July. 00:16:33.589 --> 00:16:37.589 Yeah. So, that's a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. 00:16:37.589 --> 00:16:39.589 Okay, thank you. 00:16:39.589 --> 00:16:43.589 So, it's all right. July will be a busy one. 00:16:43.589 --> 00:16:45.589 So, that's all I have. 00:16:45.589 --> 00:16:47.589 Okay. 00:16:47.589 --> 00:17:06.589 One other thing that we may take delegation to Washington DC, we're looking at doing that. We have just an 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, I believe, at all. It'll be in the fall. Yeah, so. 00:17:06.589 --> 00:17:07.589 Thanks, Sam. 00:17:07.589 --> 00:17:10.589 Alright. 00:17:10.589 --> 00:17:13.589 There's nothing else. 00:17:13.589 --> 00:17:19.750 I entertain a motion to move on Mr. Busker, seconded by Mr. Newton. 00:17:19.750 --> 00:17:20.150 Yes, sir. 00:17:25.190 --> 00:17:26.069 All in favor? 00:17:26.069 --> 00:17:26.630 Aye. 00:17:26.630 --> 00:17:27.750 All in favor? 00:17:27.750 --> 00:17:28.789 I say good night.