WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.770 All right, let's get started with the meeting of the ministry of the legal affairs committee, Wednesday, March 11th, 2026 at 5 p.m. 00:00:12.650 --> 00:00:14.630 I think we'll be good for it, please. Thank you. 00:00:14.810 --> 00:00:24.330 Heavenly Father, we just thank you for another opportunity to come together and handle the county's business work, which is really to give us the wisdom and the guidance to do that to the best of our abilities. 00:00:24.670 --> 00:00:25.730 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:26.090 --> 00:00:26.670 Thank you. 00:00:27.590 --> 00:00:29.510 All right, 3.0, approval of the agenda. 00:00:30.550 --> 00:00:31.010 Move approval. 00:00:31.010 --> 00:00:32.010 Second. 00:00:32.010 --> 00:00:33.010 Second. 00:00:33.010 --> 00:00:34.010 All those in favor say aye. 00:00:34.010 --> 00:00:35.010 All right. 00:00:35.010 --> 00:00:36.010 So moved. 00:00:36.010 --> 00:00:37.010 All right. 00:00:37.010 --> 00:00:40.010 4.0 approval of meeting minutes from February 11th. 00:00:40.010 --> 00:00:45.010 Move approval. 00:00:45.010 --> 00:00:46.010 Second. 00:00:46.010 --> 00:00:47.010 Okay. 00:00:47.010 --> 00:00:48.010 All those in favor say aye. 00:00:48.010 --> 00:00:49.010 Aye. 00:00:49.010 --> 00:00:51.010 Let's see if we can get into the same pattern here. 00:00:51.010 --> 00:00:52.010 All right. 00:00:52.010 --> 00:00:54.010 5.0 approval of claims. 00:00:54.010 --> 00:00:59.090 I have a total of $71,737.68. 00:01:00.530 --> 00:01:02.010 I'll move to the prison house. 00:01:02.430 --> 00:01:02.630 Second. 00:01:02.850 --> 00:01:03.030 Okay. 00:01:03.270 --> 00:01:03.530 Okay. 00:01:03.650 --> 00:01:04.570 Well, pardon you over. 00:01:04.770 --> 00:01:05.570 I guess I didn't know. 00:01:05.570 --> 00:01:06.670 All of you in favor say aye. 00:01:08.860 --> 00:01:09.200 Thank you. 00:01:09.820 --> 00:01:11.640 6.0 public comments. 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:13.120 Okay. 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:18.240 And let's start out with 7.1 common preserver. 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:19.620 Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 00:01:19.740 --> 00:01:20.020 Yes. 00:01:20.580 --> 00:01:23.320 So I want to just mention my portion of the claims. 00:01:23.320 --> 00:01:46.580 It's a larger portion than normally and that total amount actually is larger than what this committee sees. Excuse me. Excuse me. My total $3,520. More than half of that was for the outsourced 1099s. I'm sorry. Excuse me. 00:01:46.580 --> 00:02:14.120 The rest of it was to actually reimburse me for conference expenses, so maybe expenses and membership dues. Financial reports, I assume you all had a chance to review this. The link was set March 5th. If you notice the front page sales and income tax receipts remain steady. Thanks to the increased sales taxes from October, November, part of holiday sales. 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:21.680 those taxes were made high into March because March receipts are December spending so then they should 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:27.740 probably drop off but after that sales and income tax receipts were up for the first two months of the 00:02:27.740 --> 00:02:34.920 year by over 224,000 compared to the same time period last year so that's encouraging given that 00:02:34.920 --> 00:02:39.900 some of the things are happening at the state level happy to have that now because I don't know if you 00:02:39.900 --> 00:02:44.820 that the governor is looking to raise a distributed fund by at least $60 million. 00:02:45.340 --> 00:02:49.960 So we don't know how that will affect us yet, but it's not been passed, but that's part of 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:50.360 his budget. 00:02:50.580 --> 00:02:53.600 So anytime we can see an uptick elsewhere, that's going to happen. 00:02:55.740 --> 00:03:03.220 Total county funds down only 1.58%, about $416,000 compared to January's month end. 00:03:05.380 --> 00:03:08.500 Any questions about those pieces of information so far? 00:03:08.500 --> 00:03:35.020 It was a pretty quiet month. January was a little larger hit, and that was primarily that transfer over to the nursing home for those checks, anticipation. Dollars. No investments matured in February. I think I mentioned that in my message to you. So no paid interest earnings to report, but investments, of course, continue to accrue interest, but no maturities, no were actually paid out. 00:03:35.020 --> 00:03:58.080 As of the end of February, there were 18 investments in place across 10 different county funds maturity days between March and October. Last week, I did place some additional short-term investments that will mature in May, about $2.9 million in maturity value, and $2.7 million actually matured last week. Any questions about that report? 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:27.940 Okay. Moving to the collector side, because we're about to ramp that part up. My colleagues, the clerk and the assessor and I, we're meeting tomorrow to kind of plot out the public side planning calendar for the quickly approaching that season. At this point, I do still anticipate a mental late May tax bill mailing date. We are switching companies, so I'm hoping to pick up a couple of days, faster turnaround time to get those out and give them what the U.S. 00:04:27.940 --> 00:04:34.260 Postal Service has been doing and telling us we're going to need jobs. Extra days. And I literally on 00:04:34.260 --> 00:04:41.200 Saturday, as an aside, had a tax bill returned that we mailed last May. Oh, my. It's never been delivered. 00:04:42.340 --> 00:04:49.640 So that's why we need all the time and debt because things like that. I do anticipate that the due dates 00:04:49.640 --> 00:04:56.560 will probably still be end of June, early September, subject to change, of course, given the November 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:13.180 for election and the things that the clerk has going on in August, I'm going to probably push our tax sale maybe to the second week in November. She has the joyful legal responsibility of having to be present at the sales. She's got a lot going on in early November, so we're going to push that out. 00:05:13.180 --> 00:05:17.980 A couple of other things I wanted to mention to you. 00:05:18.620 --> 00:05:26.180 We did receive notice from the Illinois Gaming Board last week that they are going to recoup 00:05:26.180 --> 00:05:36.040 something that they believe was overpaid to us last year, $3,996.08, that they believe you should not have. 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:43.580 they said that it was the results of a state accounting system programming error. 00:05:44.960 --> 00:05:50.620 So basically, instead though of them asking me to remit it or refund it or reimburse it, 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:53.520 they're simply going to just claw that amount back. 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:57.260 I think it will probably be our April payment. 00:05:57.400 --> 00:05:59.180 Yeah, the March payment was already in place. 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:01.340 So it's not a huge amount. 00:06:01.520 --> 00:06:05.180 Our total budget for video gaming tax, last year, this year, it was $140,000. 00:06:05.180 --> 00:06:09.920 and we had 143 last year, so hopefully this won't really have much of an impact. 00:06:11.780 --> 00:06:17.340 And I did attend my third NACO annual legislative conference at the end of February, but out quite 00:06:17.340 --> 00:06:20.460 a bit, so I haven't had a chance to put together a report that I wanted to share to you with 00:06:20.460 --> 00:06:23.040 you, so I will include that because we'll connect some of them. 00:06:24.260 --> 00:06:27.980 Since you're reimbursing some of my costs, I think you should come and know what I did. 00:06:28.400 --> 00:06:29.020 I was there. 00:06:29.660 --> 00:06:31.660 Always a productive event. 00:06:31.660 --> 00:06:35.040 and Russ, do you have any questions on the phone? 00:06:35.620 --> 00:06:40.620 Just to clarify, the gaming commission, that was about the video gaming processing? 00:06:41.420 --> 00:06:44.160 It's the tax part of it. 00:06:44.160 --> 00:07:01.600 So they said, actually, the notice reads, you know, whenever there's a programming error, I question it, but it said, the overpayment was resolved in a county system program error related to the implementation of Public Act 1030592, which increased the 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:27.920 state video gaming tax by 1% in July of 24. So I'm thinking it was the very last two because video game payments are two months behind. So I'm thinking something happened at the end of 24 that nobody caught in all 25. So luckily, it's not that much. We typically get between 10 and 13,000 a month. So it's not a big hit. But next time, if you see if you follow that Adrian's report, you'll see that. 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:36.960 Very good. Let's move on to 7.2, county clerk. Thank you, Chairman. Yep. 00:07:38.140 --> 00:07:58.880 Fizzy in election time with the election taking place on Tuesday. We are seeing an uptick in early voting. We had 80 early voters today. That puts us at a total of 985 early voters and 783 vote by mail. And then cost us successfully. So just over 6% voter turnout so far. 00:07:58.880 --> 00:08:18.060 Tomorrow, we will be preparing the appointment that will be going out to the polling locations for the moving company to deliver that. On Saturday, we will be open for early voting from 9 until noon, Monday, 830 to 430, and then election day, 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. 00:08:18.060 --> 00:08:33.940 Stewart Center is a full-on location on election day, so if you know someone that needs to register to vote or if they have complications because the registration is not updated, they can do that at Stewart Center at 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. on election night. 00:08:33.940 --> 00:08:51.580 We will canvass the results on April 1st at 8.30 a.m. March 31st is the last day that we can receive the vote by mail ballots back to our office by statute. So the next morning we will certify the results in our canvass. 00:08:51.580 --> 00:09:21.560 on the tax side. We had great news today. We received the final multiplier of one. We haven't had one for the last two years. And last year, we got the final multiplier on April 15th. So once the assessment rolls over the numbers to me next week, I can continue moving forward with tax extension. This will allow the taxing districts going to have a little bit more time. 00:09:21.580 --> 00:09:27.440 to review their tax computation reports, and it will allow me to roll to the treasurer and much bigger. 00:09:28.920 --> 00:09:34.380 So next month will be quite busy in my office, but I'm afraid to reach me. 00:09:34.460 --> 00:09:36.620 It just might be a little bit of a delay compared to usual. 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:40.260 Any questions? 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:43.320 Thank you. 00:09:43.400 --> 00:09:43.720 Thank you. 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:44.980 All right. 00:09:45.100 --> 00:09:47.320 7.3, Supervisor of Assessments. 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:49.780 Like Jasmine said, but nothing good news today. 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:51.520 I was two weeks early, so. 00:09:51.580 --> 00:10:00.000 I'm just very happy because the sooner I can get it off my desk, the sooner the rest I can do so next Wednesday is when 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.260 next Wednesday is when I'm going to roll the system so then we can start the process all over again. 00:10:04.260 --> 00:10:19.380 And this year will be a little different. So C.D. Davis was doing some of the townships for gathering data and things like that. 00:10:19.380 --> 00:10:46.660 A few weeks ago, she contacted me, and she is having some health issues, so she cannot continue to do it for the townships that she had for this year, so our office now has that in order to do them, so we will have seven of them this year, so about 15,000 notices will go out 00:10:46.660 --> 00:11:19.460 with those seven townships so I needed the extra time to get 2026 started so that is what I will be doing busy and stuff like that because like I said the last time we did this rotation Sandy had four of the seven townships so now we have we'll have all seven of them so we'll go do the data value send notices from a busy so yes of course 00:11:19.460 --> 00:11:25.260 but it might not, you will know the answer, but how often does the city reassess, I just 00:11:25.260 --> 00:11:32.260 ran into a property that was sold in foreclosure in 2012, they wish they could keep paying those 00:11:32.260 --> 00:11:33.780 taxes when I sell that property. 00:11:35.060 --> 00:11:39.880 They're supposed to be done, they're supposed to be done every four years, so their last 00:11:39.880 --> 00:11:44.720 for quadrennial year was 23. 00:11:46.260 --> 00:11:50.160 And this was way before that, but it's just interesting. 00:11:51.300 --> 00:11:54.900 Almost $400,000 house. 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:56.940 I would love to pay taxes there. 00:11:57.580 --> 00:12:03.740 Sometimes it takes us a little bit of time to catch up with some things. 00:12:04.980 --> 00:12:08.520 It'll get caught up when it gets sold. 00:12:09.880 --> 00:12:26.700 They are trying to, I don't know, speaking of that, there is a statute that is out there just so everybody is aware that somebody is trying to push to redo the assessing part of it. 00:12:26.700 --> 00:12:36.660 So what the proposal is is if you would sell it, okay, then like in California, they go directly to their sale price, okay? 00:12:36.660 --> 00:12:58.340 Okay, so that's what they'll do is go directly to your sale price. And then as long as you own it, if you're a senior, your assessment can only go up 1%. And if you're not a senior, that your assessment can go only 3% in one year. So it's a proposal that's out there. 00:12:58.340 --> 00:13:12.640 and I just it's going to mess up the uniformity of things to try to balance but I just I learned 00:13:12.640 --> 00:13:15.460 of it a couple weeks ago and I just wanted to pass it along. 00:13:15.460 --> 00:13:22.100 NEW SPEAKER 1 All right. Thank you. Let's move on to the company administrator. 00:13:22.100 --> 00:13:27.300 NEW SPEAKER 1 I'm going to be brief because I don't have a lawyer who has a voice. 00:13:27.300 --> 00:13:57.060 But my next group with our partnership meeting is March 25th Since the last time we met, Beth Williams and I sat down with the friends of the PAC and went over their agreement that was getting close to expiring and that was presented Monday night And approved And approved Okay, good, I thought it had, so that'll be heading on to the board for approval there It was a good meeting, I think 00:13:57.060 --> 00:14:11.080 are definitely trying to do some recruiting and get some new people in there and help, but it was nice to sit down with them and, you know, make sure they understood the liability concerns we had and the property taxes and stuff like that. 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:22.840 That's great. We have continued to see the foyer rate bus coming through, which, you know, 00:14:22.880 --> 00:14:26.680 we're involved in the compiling method and stuff, but I feel like that's going to be every 00:14:26.680 --> 00:14:36.020 three months. But I've been working with animal control, helped with the RFPs that will be put 00:14:36.020 --> 00:14:44.440 I'm looking forward to you tomorrow night and her contract to reach the move and the building and things. 00:14:45.940 --> 00:14:53.780 This morning at the department head meeting, we discussed the wellness screenings that are scheduled for April 2nd, May 9th. 00:14:54.140 --> 00:15:01.600 We start pushing out the reminders again and more frequently to get as many people involved and sign up as possible. 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:09.620 and then we're also doing the step program. The county board will also get them information about that. 00:15:10.280 --> 00:15:18.500 We decided this morning, thanks to a brainstorming session and a little help, that Step Up Stevenson County is what it's going to be called. 00:15:18.500 --> 00:15:24.160 So there'll be a little virtual map of your steps around the county. 00:15:24.160 --> 00:15:31.540 So, we talked about audit things that government should be working on, making sure they're getting 00:15:31.540 --> 00:15:37.020 their capitalized listings updated, checking for emails and the portal and keeping up to date 00:15:37.020 --> 00:15:39.900 with that, getting their year-end totals to our office. 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:48.020 We had a really good conversation, I felt, about the Cross Blue Shield app and reaching 00:15:48.020 --> 00:15:54.020 out to Carrie McBride for more support guidance on that to hopefully get more information 00:15:54.020 --> 00:16:21.420 or interaction for users on the app to fully utilize the benefits which will hopefully then in turn help with the renewals and things as well. The new shredding service has received all of our information and can be setting up their start dates shortly. They summed off after the department meeting today and they said they would be in touch. So we also talked 00:16:24.020 --> 00:16:42.000 The department had meeting about RxMapper and reaching out to get new totals to see how many people had been screened and we had a conversation about if there was a smaller video than what was said to everyone because it was pretty much being translated. 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:52.440 Maybe they could show at their intern department meeting to try to open up the employees. 00:16:52.440 --> 00:17:02.060 Interest, a little more, but that's all I'm capable of, thank you. 00:17:02.060 --> 00:17:11.020 All right, so 0.5, IT manager, it's like, I can't find it off, it's almost, it's 15. 00:17:11.380 --> 00:17:18.540 Got a lot going on, finished up the jail today with the phone installation. 00:17:18.540 --> 00:17:40.620 I do believe we're at like 98% done in the county there might be a few areas that I need to check in on that I hope I didn't overlook. We got some phones down in the election room that I am not touching. They didn't operate and they need phones during this time so I just left them be until early voting is done and then I'll go finish those up. 00:17:40.620 --> 00:18:07.560 So the phones are rolled out, they're in every office across the county, so we're completely over to the new, not only do we get new phones, we got a new phone system, so everything's switched over, I'll have more control of that internally, so that'll help call our ID changes and routing, and I think I've redone a few call trees already, so that's just helpful for us, 00:18:07.560 --> 00:18:11.360 and we don't have to wait on the other company to get things done when we get them done. 00:18:11.560 --> 00:18:18.440 So tomorrow is the county recycling event for all the Stevenson County locations. 00:18:18.900 --> 00:18:20.660 We have four drop sites. 00:18:20.760 --> 00:18:25.580 We have the highway departments, the courthouse, the steward center and the health department. 00:18:26.940 --> 00:18:31.460 I feel like I bring in this type of weather every time I schedule it because it was nice 00:18:31.460 --> 00:18:36.640 and I'm not looking forward to being outside tomorrow or getting all this stuff collected. 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:52.080 But that'll be tomorrow. So I'll be starting out at the highway department meeting them. We start off south of town and then head north because they're out of Milwaukee or somewhere in that area. So I try to make it easier for them that they're not backtracking. 00:18:52.080 --> 00:19:04.600 I'm currently working with Revise, who is our website vendor, to do checks on our website to make sure that we are ADA compliant for the 2027 federal deadline. 00:19:05.280 --> 00:19:07.160 So we're working towards that. 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:15.320 This includes reviewing current content, accessibility features, and planning for updates to ensure the website remains accessible for all users. 00:19:16.040 --> 00:19:18.620 So we've been running some audits. 00:19:18.800 --> 00:19:21.440 I've got to go through some reports and see where we're at. 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:46.080 I do know that they have like an ADA bot that we can add to the website that kind of helps when they ask questions or different things that kind of help ease that. So I have to look into that as well with my free time. So we'll figure out. The nice thing is, is we do have some time. I am not leaving it to the last minute, but we do have a little bit of time there. 00:19:46.080 --> 00:19:57.800 so. Lastly, we have SD Coil 1. We have a new server up and ready to go for the offices here at the Steward Center. We are waiting. 00:19:57.800 --> 00:20:25.440 at the Steward Center. We are waiting. Actually, I don't know when is a good time now because I think we go right from the primary right into taxes. So I really don't want taxes. So the problem that I'm going to have with that is that there's four terabytes of data that has to be moved and we can do a weekend. I just don't know that I can guarantee that it will be done by Monday's opening of business. 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:30.460 So we may have to schedule that and know that there may be some downtime on a Monday. 00:20:30.580 --> 00:20:41.360 I was trying to pick a three-day weekend that would give us a little extra of a buffer because there's a lot of information to move and to get on that new server and to verify and make sure everything's up in a 4K. 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:54.700 So we're trying to figure out when we can get that scheduled or what we can do. 00:20:54.700 --> 00:20:58.020 and Texas, Irwin. 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:08.120 We need to have, yeah, I don't know how I can move it up for extension, but DevNet is incredibly painfully slow, and we cannot have that. 00:21:08.120 --> 00:21:13.600 I think we both experienced a report that you should be seeing most times with a couple of minutes. 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:20.200 I don't have any deadlines, so I'll reach it. 00:21:20.200 --> 00:21:50.080 I understand. It's been a pain for a while. It's just trying to fit it in. And now with the amount of data that's on it, we just have to make sure I didn't want business to be affected. So we may have to sit down and talk when we come up with a plan. I'm going to meet with Mike in the next week or so, you know, because we have to see what all the vendors need to do as far as the moving goes. So that is on the horizon. And we do have the new one up and ready. We just got to obviously we have to take all the data from a certain 00:21:50.080 --> 00:22:10.460 point, move it over, and then make sure everything works. It's just that data transition. That's going to be the most difficult. And it doesn't matter. Starting it after hours, you know, on a Friday, we still may not be done by Monday. So there's really no good schedule at this point. So we may just have to, I don't know what we do. We'll discuss that and go from there. 00:22:10.460 --> 00:22:18.260 It's worth the sacrifice of being down, even if it's during a little day, before tax season happens, Bob, in my opinion. 00:22:18.260 --> 00:22:31.060 So, yeah, I just have people, once people have those bills in their hands, our phones will not stop, and they have to be able to pull it off, and right now, as they're screaming at us, the sooner the better, yes. 00:22:33.180 --> 00:22:42.440 So, we will work together to figure out when that is going to be, and then, obviously, that'll be a full weekend of making sure we get that to her. 00:22:43.240 --> 00:22:44.000 We'll bring you through. 00:22:44.000 --> 00:23:10.120 I mean, you know, a lot of this stuff is probably be done remotely and just watch it. But the problem is, is that we just have to make sure that it stays going and that everything goes like it should. And then we have to verify, you know, and that'll require probably you guys, because I won't know what I'm looking at, Gianna. So we'll get that figured out and get that scheduled up and go from there. 00:23:10.120 --> 00:23:16.380 One thing you all love about IT is everything's an emergency. 00:23:19.220 --> 00:23:25.280 Recycling event, county offices and county equipment only, correct, and not open to the public? 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:25.880 Correct. 00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:29.840 Just a lot of people showing up for the video. 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:30.200 Yeah. 00:23:30.700 --> 00:23:31.960 No, that's, yeah. 00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:32.380 Yeah. 00:23:32.800 --> 00:23:34.720 So, good question. 00:23:34.900 --> 00:23:35.060 Yeah. 00:23:35.300 --> 00:23:35.820 Thank you. 00:23:36.580 --> 00:23:37.240 All right. 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:39.620 Let's go to the 8.1. 00:23:39.620 --> 00:23:47.360 probably not ready for that one yet. I actually checked in. This is not a delay on our end. IPMG and 00:23:47.360 --> 00:23:52.520 Mark Bell, there's some agency we're supposed to go through that's coordinated with them. It's still 00:23:52.520 --> 00:23:57.560 not figured out. So he asked if we get expedited and go around the process and we still haven't heard 00:23:57.560 --> 00:24:04.440 back from that. So we don't have to table it until we get some clarification. That's the AI news policy 00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:33.960 that was online. So is it online somewhere? Okay. I don't know. There was a copy. Yeah, there was a copy that we had. I would send it back out. It's just been tabled for a few months. So nothing's been altered on it since then. We're just been waiting for a review to see what changes we need to make, if any. So yeah, Mark will apologize profusely, but he's like, I'm going to try to get this in because it has to go through somebody else. 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:46.680 So, at this point, hopefully, I mean, my last correspondence was probably Monday-ish, so hopefully we'll hear something by the end of the week, maybe, and if not, I'll ping them again and see what we need to do. 00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:51.620 Like we said last month, I think it's better to do this slowly and correctly. 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:53.040 I agree. Absolutely. 00:24:53.520 --> 00:24:59.660 Have you gotten any guidance from some other counties? I know we talked, and everyone's kind of just stepping up. 00:24:59.660 --> 00:25:14.120 Yeah, I think we're probably a little bit further ahead than what some have been, but yeah, we'll definitely do that. Usually you share secrets between what works and what doesn't. 00:25:14.120 --> 00:25:36.180 So, it's on the February agenda, I didn't have any updated to attach it, the link, and this was helping me out when I was in here, but it was on February, it's on February, thank you. 00:25:36.180 --> 00:25:42.660 Okay, let's move to new business 9.1, approval of ordinance, amending chapter 29 of the Stevenson 00:25:42.660 --> 00:25:43.660 County code. 00:25:43.660 --> 00:25:55.900 If y'all had a chance to take a look at that, I'm going to see, that's a good deal. 00:25:55.900 --> 00:26:19.540 So, I'm going to make a motion to approve it, and then we can talk about it, maybe, give me a second. 00:26:19.540 --> 00:26:26.250 I can second it for discussion. 00:26:26.250 --> 00:26:50.410 Okay. All right. So this would be limited, let's see, I've got to get to page two. This would close out at the end of first meeting, first regular meeting of the county board in December 2026. This would revert back to old policy. 00:26:50.410 --> 00:27:20.390 as chairman was talking to me about it and kind of discussing it since Tim was leaving off the board and he's the current finance chair trying to understand who the best person or who would be the best qualified to be the finance chair and being how Scott had been finance chair for four years previously. 00:27:20.410 --> 00:27:29.850 lead, and probably currently had the most experience in that position, just made sense to change 00:27:29.850 --> 00:27:35.710 this policy and allow him to do that, otherwise we had to move a bunch of committee people and 00:27:35.710 --> 00:27:41.390 chairs around, and we probably got pretty nasty, I think, by the time we moved people around 00:27:41.390 --> 00:27:43.410 to get so many indirect things. 00:27:44.290 --> 00:27:50.390 Was that completely realigned the entire committee organization, I guess, to lack of a 00:27:50.390 --> 00:27:53.170 their term to make this work. 00:27:53.170 --> 00:27:57.950 And again, this is not something I'm looking to have put in place permanently. 00:27:57.950 --> 00:28:02.910 The reorganization meeting for the county will be in December of this year. 00:28:02.910 --> 00:28:07.530 There is possibility of new board members coming on. 00:28:07.530 --> 00:28:13.530 There'll be a new vote or another vote for chairman and vice chairman of the board. 00:28:14.930 --> 00:28:17.950 At that point, whoever the chairman is, 00:28:17.950 --> 00:28:23.790 and realign communities however they see fit. 00:28:23.790 --> 00:28:30.470 This is the path of least resistance, in my opinion, to get us through the 2027 budget process. 00:28:30.470 --> 00:28:40.130 Do we have a Vice-Chair? Vice-Chair of the Board of Finance or the Board of Both? 00:28:40.130 --> 00:28:45.450 We have currently the Vice-Chair of Finance. 00:28:45.450 --> 00:28:47.310 is still vice chair of the board. 00:28:47.410 --> 00:28:55.830 His resignation is not effective until the end of March, at which point we will, what's the term, 00:28:56.290 --> 00:28:58.930 declare a vacancy for his seat. 00:28:59.930 --> 00:29:03.530 And at that point, we'll have a new election for vice chair in April. 00:29:04.430 --> 00:29:06.490 So we'll open it up to nominations. 00:29:08.070 --> 00:29:12.530 Any board members have the opportunity to make nominations and vote for vice chair of the board? 00:29:15.450 --> 00:29:25.040 and see what else is in here. 00:29:25.040 --> 00:29:30.980 So it doesn't change the current structure of the finance committee, the finance chair would 00:29:30.980 --> 00:29:36.060 still only have one vote on that committee. 00:29:36.060 --> 00:29:51.910 So it's less pain here, I think, so that's why we're proposing this. 00:29:51.910 --> 00:29:56.010 I understand trying to streamline that. 00:29:56.010 --> 00:30:23.240 trying to streamline things. I understand this gets messy if we don't. You've got a lot of people to balance, a lot of issues to balance. However temporary, the consolidation of this kind of responsibility makes me nervous. I don't, just on gut, I don't like having that much responsibility with one person, however much of an emergency as it is. 00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:37.040 and part of me always resists a move to make us do less work. As tempting as that is, that's part of our job. That's part of our job is representation. 00:30:38.620 --> 00:30:45.680 And just because it would make less work for us, I don't know that that inherently makes up the right decision. 00:30:45.680 --> 00:31:09.400 I understand the temptation, again, I get the temporary nature of it and all that, I just, this, this makes me twitchy, yeah, I'm not sure I understand the Westbrook phrase, but to the point of, to avoid the restructuring, oh, this is all I'm getting at, okay. 00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:28.340 Well, if I can, I can hear it, but brief examine, planning and development, Mr. Curtis, Chair of that committee, so I put Steve in finance, and I didn't ask you because you pick corn and beans during the budget process most of the time. 00:31:28.340 --> 00:31:53.640 Your vice chair is Nicole, who's also chair of nursing. You have Brian Brandt, who is chair of public works. And you have Dale Devens, who is chair of court services. Can't just plug in the vice chair into chair of P&D without then revamping nursing home. His vice chair right now is Nicole Baker. 00:31:53.640 --> 00:32:09.240 and again, if I put Brian Brandt, which he can't, because he also picks Gorman in fall during the budget process, if I did that, then I have to have a new chair for Public Works and move somebody else onto that committee. 00:32:10.700 --> 00:32:15.920 So it's been, same with this committee, it's not secure too. 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:40.440 I had a long conversation with Adrian because I want to make sure she was comfortable more than anyone else with the process. She gave her blessings. She had no issues. I've worked very extensively on it. And as far as, I guess, consolidating or changing the power of it, nothing comes out of finance that doesn't ultimately end up at the board level to be approved. 00:32:40.440 --> 00:33:03.280 I also have final say on all agenda items as it is right now. Believe me, I understand the appearance of it, but that's why there's 15 other board members. And I am not looking for more to do. 00:33:03.280 --> 00:33:32.300 Well, and that's why I do pick the word responsibility rather than power. Very, very intentional. And we can all have the utmost respect for you and your experience. I'm trying to take the personality out of it and just think of it as a structural thing. Again, even if it's temporary, that's where I struggle. 00:33:33.280 --> 00:33:35.280 and that is why there's sunset to it. 00:33:35.280 --> 00:33:36.280 Sure. 00:33:36.280 --> 00:33:37.280 It's not affirmative. 00:33:37.280 --> 00:33:57.440 And I'm not as eloquent as that, but I'm struggling with it, too, on the parameters that it looks, how it looks to the people we represent. 00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:00.440 I mean, what are we saying to them? 00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:10.280 are we saying, okay, I understand what Chairman Helms is saying too about putting people in positions 00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:19.260 that have other responsibilities. Well, there's 16 board members. I'm just struggling with that 00:34:19.260 --> 00:34:30.080 part of it. And the number of calls I got today, I didn't have any that were very positive on 00:34:30.080 --> 00:34:50.660 on the, so, on this? On this. What calls did you get? Six. I get calls on nothing else. That's impressive, but at least six people are looking at the agenda. But to me, that's a lot when you look at anything else we do. I'm impressed with six. 00:34:50.660 --> 00:34:56.120 We'll set up a still answering calls on my drive here. 00:34:58.860 --> 00:35:20.360 Well, going back to, I guess, my previous comments, I think, not that Scott needs more to do, but looking around the room and who's doing what, he's already done the job, I think he's the most qualified, so it makes sense to get, let's say, the best person in that position. 00:35:20.660 --> 00:35:44.800 for temporary. That's the way I'm looking at this type of thing. Yeah, it does. If we approve this tonight, it still has to get approved by the board on Thursday. And again, the structure at the finance committee doesn't change. We still have the same number of votes. He's only one vote. 00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:54.380 and like I said, we had a review by Carl, we had a review by the auditors and we didn't have any issues with it. 00:35:54.380 --> 00:35:59.340 So I think we've got plenty of oversight with everything that's going on. 00:35:59.420 --> 00:36:01.240 So I'm comfortable with it. 00:36:01.520 --> 00:36:15.060 I think we have elected people as well as appointed people that are more than capable 00:36:15.060 --> 00:36:16.980 to oversee what we do. 00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:17.560 Sure. 00:36:20.520 --> 00:36:21.660 Yeah, that's the intent. 00:36:21.820 --> 00:36:23.880 We don't want to be in like Dixon, Illinois, right? 00:36:23.980 --> 00:36:25.100 We have an issue. 00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:28.700 So that's why we have this oversight and things like that. 00:36:28.700 --> 00:36:32.280 So then let's not have to change. 00:36:40.650 --> 00:36:46.370 I don't have anything for them. 00:36:46.370 --> 00:37:12.740 All right, all those in favor say aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, two opposed, okay, yes, yes, okay, let's come up with another plan, I guess, 00:37:12.740 --> 00:37:19.660 All right, okay, let's move on, 10.0, comments from committee members? 00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:30.640 So, it's a little early, but I did bring this up, I have brought this up at various committees, 00:37:31.100 --> 00:37:37.860 but as we're getting towards nicer weather, as we're getting towards parade season, I'd like to 00:37:37.860 --> 00:38:04.100 to re-voice my opinion. I think the county should have a more diverse and celebratory presence at parades. The sheriff's department always gets out and that's great, but if we can get some of the highway department trucks down the road or whatever else we got, I think the more positive we can put on the county and our presence in the community, the better. So again, this seems like a logical place to start that push. 00:38:04.100 --> 00:38:09.220 Yeah, I think everyone would want to get out there and throw some candy 00:38:09.220 --> 00:38:13.460 I think they are taking things from the bubble 00:38:13.460 --> 00:38:17.480 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so again, everyone 00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:25.020 Okay, hold on, 11.0, adjourn it 00:38:25.020 --> 00:38:29.300 Make a motion, adjourn in a second, all those in favor say aye 00:38:29.300 --> 00:38:31.720 Okay, thanks everybody