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. just thank you for providing safety for them and in all things we give you 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 for Mr. Busker, second by Mr. Newton, any questions? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. Approval of Plans, I'm taking that everyone had 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 Ms. New, seconded by Ms. Hayes. Any questions? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Aye. Opposed? Opposed? Opposed? See none. Report through committee chair of department. Thank you very much. Good news, 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 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 ones. It's not good news, 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 the contract, and you just never got to do it. Well, there, I gave you some good information. It is led with the casket. I was reading this process question, you know, because you guys are pretty busy. Very busy. They're out there doing very well. Okay. Has anyone got a chance to look at me? Yes, take a look, take a look, take a look, emergency management agency, Mr. Hey everybody, I'll be short also, we had a special meeting with Regent Bu, Iyema, Office Homeland Security on March 9th down in the West End, 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 so forth. That's kind of a 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 IENA and FEMA for approval. It'll be due this time next year. It's a big document, if you know it, to 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 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 events that happen here, whether it be Music Country Channel, the county fair, 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 evacuation 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 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'll be about a two to three hour class. What else? Another plan I'm just going to throw out there that's coming due is a 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 had 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 they want added to that plan. I don't expect it to be as expensive as it was five years ago when 2021, I think it was when we did last. We had a grant at that point. It was a $15,000 grant. So that took 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 be busy every month every month I try I try any questions Okay. Our county coroner is welcome. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. 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 there. 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 for a number of years. I know how quickly your budget can get depleted. So if you really mind just giving us updated information on that, and Georgia can probably work with you on that. I'll show you where we do the monthly totals of things with that report. Okay. 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 the first question. Tom's fine. You've got to introduce yourself to Tom. Tom, could you give them some of your background? My name is Tom Patschke. I previously was a security guard for the hospital up in Monroe, and then before that, the hospital here in Freeport. I'm a reserve deputy under Stolvo for the State and Splendid Sheriff's Department. Very cool. I'm Lou Ann Hayes, Lou Hayes, as I'm known in my political, yes, Samuel Newton, County Board, District B, if that makes sense, District C, Patrick Busker, I'm also the County C, 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. the only reason I got that is because I was listening. The only reason I got that is because I was listening to the county court meeting last night, and while it's on my mind, you'll be talking about data centers and training. There's the legislative conference on Tuesday the 14th. For three hours, there'll be data center training 101. 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. 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. What is this? That's down at the legislative conference on the 14th of April. Two days, we're there. I don't know, Scott, is there 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 was going to go, but I had some things come up personally, so I don't know And I usually attend that one for a year, but I guess I share something 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. Nope. I'm going to be tired of what I see. I'm empty because we canceled two or three meetings this year because of weather, and so I got a lot to catch up on. We're in good hands with Mr. Bush at least being there. Okay, let's move on. No doubt. Let me know what I have to do. Is it nothing else? I'm looking for a return. I make a motion to return? To adjourn? Remove my Ms. Hayes. Second by Ms. Parker. All in favor? All in favor? Hayes. I know, right? That's lovely.