WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.120 All right, it's six o'clock, we're going to get started. Go here, can there anybody? 00:00:08.920 --> 00:00:10.080 I can do that. Thank you. 00:00:11.180 --> 00:00:16.520 Father, we thank you for this beautiful time of year. We thank you for each one of our members that 00:00:16.520 --> 00:00:21.800 are here this evening and for the staff that's here. We ask that you provide us with the correct 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:25.580 words and the correct knowledge that we can make decisions for our county going forward. 00:00:26.200 --> 00:00:28.620 Thank you for each one of these members. In Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:29.180 Amen. 00:00:29.180 --> 00:00:59.160 3.0. Approval of tonight's agenda. Do I have a motion to approve? Motion. By Mr. Diddens. Do I have a second? Sure. By Mr. Jogers. Any discussion on tonight's agenda? Seeing none. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Motion carries. 4.0. Review and approval of meeting minutes from June 15, 2026. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. By Mr. Grant. Second by Cindy. Any discussion on meeting minutes? Seeing none. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? 00:00:59.180 --> 00:01:15.840 Supposed. Motion carries. All right. Approval of claims telling an account the amount of cash requirements and manuals 1,003,278 cents. Oh, that is for finance class. Do I have a motion to approve? 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:17.880 So long. 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:22.680 Mr. Dennis, seconds by Larry. Any discussion on the finance claim? 00:01:23.300 --> 00:01:25.780 It's $2,000. Is that the right amount? 00:01:25.780 --> 00:01:55.420 three dollars one million three three thousand three thousand two dollars and eighty seventy eight cents all right let's still make a motion all those in favor say aye aye opposed motion carries all right the health department totaling in the amount of cash requirements and manuals seventy two thousand dollars four hundred nine dollars and thirty cents and I probably went for that one too 00:01:55.780 --> 00:01:56.460 Thanks. 00:01:57.280 --> 00:01:59.960 $22,409.30. 00:02:00.800 --> 00:02:01.800 Do I have a motion to approve? 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:03.560 Sure. 00:02:03.780 --> 00:02:04.980 Mr. DeNins, do I have a second? 00:02:05.220 --> 00:02:05.460 What? 00:02:05.700 --> 00:02:06.540 That's the right above? 00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:08.040 That's the right above. 00:02:09.620 --> 00:02:10.140 Claims? 00:02:10.380 --> 00:02:11.300 Yes. 00:02:11.480 --> 00:02:12.620 For the health department. 00:02:13.460 --> 00:02:16.800 You missed finance claims? 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:18.900 That still seems low for the health department. 00:02:18.900 --> 00:02:20.060 No, I don't have a health department. 00:02:21.020 --> 00:02:21.500 Yes. 00:02:22.780 --> 00:02:23.420 Thank you. 00:02:23.660 --> 00:02:23.880 Yep. 00:02:23.880 --> 00:02:27.680 I already forgot who didn't 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:29.480 You need a second still, I interrupted you 00:02:29.480 --> 00:02:29.880 Larry 00:02:29.880 --> 00:02:30.680 Sure 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:33.340 Okay, need a discussion 00:02:33.340 --> 00:02:36.640 Seeing none, all those in favor say aye 00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:37.080 Aye 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:37.880 Opposed 00:02:37.880 --> 00:02:39.080 Motion carried 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:42.460 6.0 public comment 00:02:42.460 --> 00:02:44.280 No public comment 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:46.240 7.0 reports to committee 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:48.460 7.1 Diamond Brothers 00:02:48.460 --> 00:02:50.860 Is there a link for them? 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:52.440 There's not a report 00:02:52.440 --> 00:03:02.040 this month from them. I did talk to Carrie, and she's hoping to have numbers for renewals, probably within six to eight weeks. 00:03:03.140 --> 00:03:05.640 7.2, 10 new ministries. 00:03:06.320 --> 00:03:14.440 8. I was going to say, just kind of an update. I did attend the land bank meeting on Friday. 00:03:14.440 --> 00:03:39.980 Okay. There is a new member, and then I just, McKenry, is that what I told you? Yeah, McKenry County joined. I am working with Mr. Larson to have a small claims case brought against our former nursing home administrator who has defaulted on his repayment plan to the county. 00:03:39.980 --> 00:03:49.940 have been working with SickAge and the nursing home and Adrian has been working with them. 00:03:50.780 --> 00:03:54.980 We believe all of the information is now from the nursing home to SickAge. 00:03:55.180 --> 00:04:04.720 They've reviewed a lot of it and I did confirm with Lindsay that she feels within the time frame of the extension she should be able to have at the report to us. 00:04:05.480 --> 00:04:06.140 Thank you for joining. 00:04:06.140 --> 00:04:36.120 Yeah. The Grand Prix Partnership Meeting for June was hosted at Highland. It was Chris Kversky's last meeting and I introduced the new president at the college. They also took us on a tour to show us kind of their plan of what the remodel, the proposed remodel will look like once the Y and Highland kind of part ways. 00:04:36.140 --> 00:04:44.380 So I'd seen, you know, all the plans for the Y, but it was kind of interesting to see how the college is planning to use the space 00:04:44.380 --> 00:04:49.080 There is no greater free port partnership meeting this month 00:04:49.080 --> 00:05:00.240 And animal control is, I think, mostly moved, not all the animals yet, right, into their new facility 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:06.200 So, they're operating out of it, but not all the else, yeah. 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:09.640 Any questions for this newcomer? 00:05:12.080 --> 00:05:14.520 All right, 7.3, finance start. 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:22.860 Okay, I think you got the entire revenue and expense report, 144 pages. 00:05:22.860 --> 00:05:30.160 So, the summary, we're halfway through the year, so things should be about 50% unless those funds receive tax dollars. 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:32.540 those revenues will still look low. 00:05:33.540 --> 00:05:35.760 Does anybody have any questions on anything that they've received? 00:05:39.060 --> 00:05:44.860 Is there a way to start that report so we can see the lines? 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:49.540 It's only 144 pages long. 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:50.480 Right, right. 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:53.380 I can do individual funds. 00:05:55.620 --> 00:05:57.740 There's really no sorting mechanism. 00:05:58.240 --> 00:05:58.580 You're welcome. 00:05:58.840 --> 00:05:59.700 Yeah, unfortunately. 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:04.040 If you want something that's just kind of targeted to your committee, I can do that for you. 00:06:04.740 --> 00:06:06.640 That's where my eyes typically go. 00:06:06.780 --> 00:06:06.980 Yeah. 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:16.880 I was just wondering, in general, if there was a way to spot something that was maybe an attention center. 00:06:16.960 --> 00:06:18.660 Right, right. Not that I'm aware of. 00:06:18.740 --> 00:06:23.400 Okay. They'll see us be exported or anything. 00:06:23.400 --> 00:06:36.960 Well, we could do that, but the problem with CIC, with our financial software, is it doesn't convert really well, so you can't sort, and so it would basically be the same thing, and you'd have to sort through it, line by line anyway 00:06:36.960 --> 00:06:38.080 Okay, thank you 00:06:38.080 --> 00:06:38.360 Yeah 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:52.700 Just to piggyback on what Georgia said, the nursing center has been really responsive, I think we finally got in contact with the right person, so we hope things will be wrapped up as far as the audit goes 00:06:52.700 --> 00:06:57.460 so the auditors can finalize the financial statements and begin their review process. 00:06:58.340 --> 00:07:03.780 As far as the budget, department heads were able to access the budget on Teams on June 24th, 00:07:03.780 --> 00:07:08.820 and some departments have already started entering their budget requests, so that's great. 00:07:09.580 --> 00:07:14.440 So during this month, they have the option to meet with me if there's anything that's concerning them 00:07:14.440 --> 00:07:25.420 or their big budget change is coming for 2027. I think the only meeting that I have on the books right now is the EMA. 00:07:26.740 --> 00:07:41.700 So like I said, that's optional for department heads. And also please keep in mind that they should be reaching out to you to have meetings prior to the August committee meetings when they will be bringing their budgets in front of the committee for the first time. 00:07:41.700 --> 00:07:48.740 So that's on the budget calendar that they should be meeting with you so you're aware of any changes that's coming up. 00:07:49.740 --> 00:07:52.040 So and that's really all I have. 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:55.020 Any questions for Adrienne? 00:07:57.100 --> 00:07:59.210 All right. 00:07:59.550 --> 00:08:01.510 7.4, President's Report. 00:08:01.930 --> 00:08:03.890 Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. 00:08:04.290 --> 00:08:04.870 Is that right? 00:08:06.510 --> 00:08:11.810 So I'm hoping everybody has had a chance to review the June financial report. 00:08:11.810 --> 00:08:40.130 I sent that link out on July 5th. Specific to the cover page, which has sales of income tax, you see that total number was down as a monthly report cover indicates, but it was mostly due to a drop in a particular income tax payment. So month over month, it looks like there was a dramatic change. There really wasn't because May's was really high. June's was a little low. 00:08:40.130 --> 00:09:09.790 So if you're averaging out, it's fine. So sales and income taxes received those through June are at 4.7 million of last year. So nothing to be concerned about. As of the end of June, total county funds were down just 71 one hundredths of a percent, which is 173,000 and change compared to the end of May. 00:09:10.130 --> 00:09:40.010 It's an almost negligible increase. It's so minimal. Just like the preceding several months, certainly well below what we would expect when there are no property tax distributions. On the yellow page, the page with all the yellow with all the investments, we had eight that matured in June, a little over $37,000 in paid interest earnings. At the end of the month, they had 15 investments in place, across nine funds, maturing as far out as April 27. 00:09:40.130 --> 00:09:43.270 I am placing additional investments this week. 00:09:43.650 --> 00:09:53.550 I want to take a little more time to review some anticipated cash flow needs now that property taxes hit the accounts today. 00:09:53.950 --> 00:09:59.350 So I didn't have a chance to dig as far into that today as I could, as I wanted to before I came to you. 00:09:59.350 --> 00:10:04.540 talked to you before I came to you. So no news, good news, I guess. If there are any questions 00:10:04.540 --> 00:10:08.880 about the report specifically, I'd be happy to answer them. Otherwise, I'm going to get into 00:10:08.880 --> 00:10:19.300 the property gap side. Great. Okay. So sorry again for the repetition, Mr. Jogerst, Mr. Brick. 00:10:19.300 --> 00:10:25.480 So we were incredibly busy, obviously, as we closed out that first installment due date, 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:31.560 as you can imagine. We keep getting great feedback on our tax bill redesign, so I'm thinking that's 00:10:31.560 --> 00:10:38.100 going to be here to stay. One of the things I did talk about in admin, we're seeing something 00:10:38.100 --> 00:10:46.120 this year, an increase I'm a little surprised by of NSF checks and rejected EFT payments. 00:10:47.140 --> 00:10:51.960 When I mentioned it on Wednesday, we were at $135,000, which doesn't seem like a lot, and 00:10:51.960 --> 00:11:20.280 and now today it's $142,000. So we've had some more. It's not something we normally see this much of this early. It's more of a end of the tax season sort of what you kind of expect sort of a desperation situation. But we're getting made whole. It's just it's that's a lot of work to undo. We have to avoid payments, send letters, collect extra fees, redo the payments. So just not something we were expecting to do a lot. 00:11:20.280 --> 00:11:44.260 So I'm keeping an eye on it because it is an anomaly. So the big news is today was first property tax distribution date. So of the $94.19 million that the clerk extended, distributed $53.7 million of that today. So 57% is in the hands of the taxi districts, including us. 00:11:44.260 --> 00:11:49.580 So the county received about $6.09 million across all 13 funds. 00:11:49.580 --> 00:11:53.440 I do recall, though, that three of those funds are not really county dollars. 00:11:54.020 --> 00:11:56.700 Mental health, extension education, veterans assistance. 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:00.860 So those three total over $600,000 by themselves. 00:12:01.020 --> 00:12:04.000 So that $6.09 is not really all of our money. 00:12:04.420 --> 00:12:06.720 But still, very happy to have that. 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:12.040 Of that total, the general fund got $3.685 million. 00:12:12.040 --> 00:12:41.400 next largest was liability with almost 500,000 mill race since all tax districts 230,000 largest distribution as always three part school districts 16.42 million today. And smallest McConnell Street lighting got 1700 bucks. So that's top to bottom. So as far as I know, everything went smoothly. And again, once I have a chance to review some cash flow, 00:12:41.400 --> 00:12:48.760 So, because of the influx of cash into several large lines, I would be investing some more money first. 00:12:48.920 --> 00:12:50.600 We use out as much interest as I can. 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:51.820 That's good. 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:52.460 Yeah. 00:12:54.920 --> 00:12:56.680 Any questions about any of that? 00:12:57.940 --> 00:12:58.500 Any questions? 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:02.140 Thank you very much. 00:13:03.060 --> 00:13:03.420 Thank you. 00:13:04.420 --> 00:13:06.320 I've set one goofy question. 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:15.420 And as we talk about mill rates crossing, do you still get all the questions about why is this on my tax bill? When is it going to come out? That's great. 00:13:15.420 --> 00:13:35.180 You said it. Because, you know, I think, you know, maybe two questions a year, three at the most. And I think people have been doing, you know, a fairly decent job of explaining that. So, you know, it's not like it's more and more people every year who are affected. 00:13:35.180 --> 00:13:40.140 that's the same property owners. So I think as, you know, as those questions come up, they're 00:13:40.140 --> 00:13:47.120 addressed, and then they're satisfied, you know, they talk to the neighbor. So it's so far good. 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:54.580 Good. Well, we've had all the questions now are about our sealed bid auction, which we received 00:13:54.580 --> 00:14:00.920 catalogs for today. That's the properties that the county is trustees for, which is where it 00:14:00.920 --> 00:14:10.560 needs for the property nobody else wants, so we're trying to dispose of it through a sealed bid auction, and that deadline is August 21st. 00:14:10.700 --> 00:14:12.100 And how do you get that catalogued again? 00:14:12.340 --> 00:14:22.560 You can come down to my office for $8. I will trade it with you, or you can go online to ILTax, which is what we've been suggesting, actually, ILTaxSale.com. 00:14:23.500 --> 00:14:27.080 That's our trustee agent, who is also the agent for 90-plus other counties. 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:33.320 you can see all the counties lists that are available yet. We've been suggesting that people do it 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:38.940 electronically because if you submit your bid online that way you don't have to front the money 00:14:38.940 --> 00:14:43.760 for your bid only if you're the successful bidder then do you have to pay but if you come and do it 00:14:43.760 --> 00:14:51.060 old school bring us an actual sealed bid envelope you have to have your bid funds with that bid so 00:14:51.060 --> 00:14:55.560 your funds are tied up for a little while depending whether or not you're successful. So but 00:14:55.560 --> 00:14:57.480 Isletechsale.com 00:14:57.480 --> 00:14:59.640 Not just us, but everybody 00:14:59.640 --> 00:15:00.380 Good 00:15:00.380 --> 00:15:05.720 Okay, any additional questions? 00:15:05.940 --> 00:15:06.300 Thank you 00:15:06.300 --> 00:15:15.660 8.0, old business, no old business, 9.0, new business, 10.0, adjournment 00:15:15.660 --> 00:15:17.660 I don't listen to adjourn 00:15:17.660 --> 00:15:18.040 So 00:15:18.040 --> 00:15:20.000 Mr. Bush, do I have a second? 00:15:20.380 --> 00:15:21.840 Any discussion? 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:24.180 All those are going to say aye 00:15:24.180 --> 00:15:25.360 Opposed? 00:15:25.620 --> 00:15:26.340 Motion carries 00:15:26.340 --> 00:15:31.180 I remember this in August, September, October.