WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:30.130 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. 00:00:30.130 --> 00:00:40.290 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. 00:00:42.090 --> 00:00:47.210 Okay, approval of tonight's agenda. I make motion to approve. 00:00:47.210 --> 00:00:55.250 Move my motion. Second. Second by Mr. Busker. Any questions? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? 00:00:55.250 --> 00:01:12.750 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. 00:01:12.750 --> 00:01:20.470 Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. Approval of Plans, I'm taking that everyone had a chance to look at it. 00:01:20.470 --> 00:01:42.080 Public Property is $65,176.76. Public Safety is $142,102.03. 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:46.040 So moved to approve. Second. 00:01:46.300 --> 00:01:52.240 Moved by Ms. New, seconded by Ms. Hayes. Any questions? All in favor? Aye. 00:01:52.240 --> 00:01:53.240 Aye. 00:01:53.240 --> 00:01:54.240 Opposed? 00:01:54.240 --> 00:01:55.240 Aye. 00:01:55.240 --> 00:01:56.240 Aye. 00:01:56.240 --> 00:01:57.240 Opposed? 00:01:57.240 --> 00:01:58.240 Aye. 00:01:58.240 --> 00:01:59.240 Opposed? 00:01:59.240 --> 00:02:00.240 Opposed? 00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:01.240 Opposed? 00:02:01.240 --> 00:02:02.240 See none. 00:02:02.240 --> 00:02:03.240 Report through committee chair of department. 00:02:03.240 --> 00:02:04.240 Thank you very much. 00:02:04.240 --> 00:02:05.240 Good news, everyone. 00:02:05.240 --> 00:02:06.240 I've got an hiring process. 00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:08.240 We have four still in the FTO program. 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:11.240 They're in their last month and actually they're in the last three weeks. 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:12.240 So that's a good sign. 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:16.240 We have two at school that graduate April 23rd and that'll be our last two. 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:21.240 Other than that, I have nothing else at this time, but I do have some good ones. 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:46.280 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. 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:48.720 They gave us a temporary fix. 00:02:48.940 --> 00:02:50.960 The courthouse was up and running, and it's no cost. 00:02:51.020 --> 00:02:53.340 It was already the contract, and you just never got to do it. 00:02:53.940 --> 00:02:55.840 Well, there, I gave you some good information. 00:02:56.100 --> 00:02:58.140 It is led with the casket. 00:03:01.340 --> 00:03:05.320 I was reading this process question, you know, because you guys are pretty busy. 00:03:05.620 --> 00:03:06.380 Very busy. 00:03:06.920 --> 00:03:09.220 They're out there doing very well. 00:03:09.220 --> 00:03:09.740 Okay. 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:14.680 Has anyone got a chance to look at me? 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:24.120 Yes, take a look, take a look, take a look, emergency management agency, Mr. 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:44.660 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 00:03:44.660 --> 00:04:02.640 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. 00:04:02.640 --> 00:04:26.960 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. 00:04:26.960 --> 00:04:56.940 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, 00:04:56.960 --> 00:05:23.960 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. 00:05:23.960 --> 00:05:33.400 We just completed the Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation School at the County EOP Training Room. 00:05:33.780 --> 00:05:35.600 We had that April 1st and 2nd. 00:05:35.940 --> 00:05:47.220 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. 00:05:47.340 --> 00:05:49.720 The instructor was very impressed and the class was a success. 00:05:49.880 --> 00:05:51.020 I'm real happy to do that. 00:05:51.400 --> 00:05:52.420 We're going to do that again. 00:05:52.420 --> 00:05:59.940 Some bad news I have is the same instructor wants to give the G402, the NIMS overview for elected officials. 00:06:00.460 --> 00:06:07.240 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. 00:06:07.300 --> 00:06:09.060 That'll be about a two to three hour class. 00:06:10.640 --> 00:06:11.380 What else? 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:20.960 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 00:06:20.960 --> 00:06:23.840 in order for us to get through all of that planning. 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:30.720 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, 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:32.840 any issues they want added to that plan. 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:41.580 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. 00:06:42.380 --> 00:06:43.920 We had a grant at that point. 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:45.560 It was a $15,000 grant. 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:50.180 So that took a sizable amount of money for assistance to help us put that together. 00:06:50.180 --> 00:07:15.180 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 00:07:15.180 --> 00:07:22.060 Okay. Our county coroner is welcome. Thank you. 00:07:22.060 --> 00:07:24.060 You're welcome. Thank you. 00:07:24.060 --> 00:07:31.340 Evening. We responded to a total of 57 deaths in the county in March. We went to eight of the scenes. 00:07:32.780 --> 00:07:38.460 Correction. We had a total of 57 deaths. We responded to eight of those. We had no autopsies. 00:07:38.460 --> 00:08:08.240 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 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:10.520 for a number of years. 00:08:11.660 --> 00:08:14.280 I know how quickly your budget can get depleted. 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:18.360 So if you really mind just giving us updated information on that, 00:08:18.840 --> 00:08:20.640 and Georgia can probably work with you on that. 00:08:21.400 --> 00:08:26.180 I'll show you where we do the monthly totals of things with that report. 00:08:27.020 --> 00:08:27.220 Okay. 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:28.680 Thank you. 00:08:29.300 --> 00:08:32.760 And speaking of that, could you guys kind of introduce yourself to, 00:08:33.760 --> 00:08:35.200 I can't even pronounce your name. 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:36.260 I was going to say the first question. 00:08:36.260 --> 00:08:36.960 Tom's fine. 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:40.800 You've got to introduce yourself to Tom. 00:08:40.880 --> 00:08:43.800 Tom, could you give them some of your background? 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:46.360 My name is Tom Patschke. 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:53.880 I previously was a security guard for the hospital up in Monroe, and then before that, the hospital here in Freeport. 00:08:54.340 --> 00:08:58.440 I'm a reserve deputy under Stolvo for the State and Splendid Sheriff's Department. 00:08:59.980 --> 00:09:00.780 Very cool. 00:09:00.780 --> 00:09:30.200 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. 00:09:30.780 --> 00:10:00.080 the only reason I got that is because I was listening. 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:27.980 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. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:37.780 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. 00:10:37.900 --> 00:10:40.280 I'll contact you tomorrow if that's okay for the information. 00:10:40.520 --> 00:10:41.820 Sure, I can forward it to you. 00:10:41.900 --> 00:10:42.160 Thank you. 00:10:42.680 --> 00:10:43.460 What is this? 00:10:43.820 --> 00:10:54.260 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? 00:10:54.260 --> 00:10:57.960 Mr. Bush, you're the only one I think that's signed up so far 00:10:57.960 --> 00:11:02.960 What? I was going to say, I got your hotel reminder today, I was going to forward it to you later 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:04.800 It is 00:11:04.800 --> 00:11:07.780 So, I'm the only one? 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:08.580 So far 00:11:08.580 --> 00:11:14.620 I was going to go, but I had some things come up personally, so I don't know 00:11:14.620 --> 00:11:19.000 And I usually attend that one for a year, but I guess I share something 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:20.060 How about Baker? 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:23.160 I don't, she's not registered 00:11:23.160 --> 00:11:46.180 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. 00:11:46.180 --> 00:11:55.070 No doubt. Let me know what I have to do. Is it nothing else? I'm looking for a return. 00:11:55.510 --> 00:11:58.130 I make a motion to return? To adjourn? 00:11:58.730 --> 00:12:04.070 Remove my Ms. Hayes. Second by Ms. Parker. All in favor? All in favor? 00:12:04.490 --> 00:12:04.910 Hayes. 00:12:05.970 --> 00:12:10.450 I know, right? That's lovely.