I don't think it's cold enough long enough for this year to chill as much off.

That's it. Right there. I truly believe in that. It's got to be cold.

Okay, here we go. Call this meeting to order. The meeting of the Court Services Committee, Wednesday, March 11th, 2026.

Welcome to everybody. Thanks for coming. We'll start off at 1.0 or 2.0. I'll take care of that.

Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to get together tonight. Please guide us and give us courage to do the right thing for the County of Stevenson. And we thank you, Lord, for guiding us. In Jesus' name, amen.

Thank you. 3.0 approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion?

So moved. Second.

Okay. Motion by Busker, second by Hadley. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Those opposed, same sign. Motion passes.

Net 4.0 review and approval of the meeting minutes from February 11th, 2026 meetings.

I would entertain a motion.

I'll make a motion to approve.

Motion by Ms. Williams.

Second.

Second by Mr. Busker.

Any discussion?

Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, same sign.

Okay, moving on 5.0.

Approval of claims, I would entertain a motion for that.

Motion.

Motion by Mr. Meester.

Second.

seconded by Mr. Hadley.

The claims are $167,8,29.

Do we have any discussion?

Seeing none, all those in favor, say aye, aye.

Those opposed, same sign, motion passes.

I will just sign this quickly and pass it along so I don't forget it again.

Only comment? All right. We see none. Reports to committee. Judge is absent. Travis is absent. But Dr. McGee is right here where we need her.

Good evening. So I just wanted to report that thanks to Chanel's tech rat, we were able to get two standing kiosks in the office.

so we now have an electronic probation check-in system so when the probation client comes in they put in their name, address, phone number, who they're here to see and what they're here for so that has made the process a lot more efficient and it also helps us because now all the staff can see who's actually in the office because sometimes you don't know and sometimes we think we're all clear but we're not. So, so far it's working out really great. So, and it wasn't that expensive. It's like a couple thousand for that and then we'll pay the first year membership is free and then after that it'll be making around $400. But we're trying to bring ourself up to par with something that at my last meeting, Chief Judge's meeting, we share, we go around table and Lee County had adopted probation check-in system, so I went down and checked it out, so we were able to get that integrated pretty quickly, so, and the clients seem to be doing pretty well with it. Downfall, it's not Spanish-speaking, but if need be, they can come up to the front, check in, we can do a manual check-in, and we do have InterpreNet and we do also have, fortunately, one officer who is bilingual if we need to utilize her.

So I just wanted to say, happy, something good to report and trying to bring us up to the times.

Nice. That's good. Yeah. That's a good question. Yes, absolutely.

How often do you have to utilize the bilingual employee?

You know, it seems to be like a certain couple of certain days of the week where we have our intakes come down for their first time. So she'll help out periodically with that. Most of the officers actually do use the InterpreNet, but because I didn't want it to be where we hired her and then it's like, okay, just go to her because that's not her first priority or job duties, but just utilize her as needed.

so we do have a couple officers that just like to say hey come help which is fine so I would say mostly when we get new clients down after they're sentenced to probation that's where she's utilized the most and I know a couple other departments have asked her to help out from time to time so she's definitely available and willing to help we just try not to take advantage of them that makes sense yes I've noticed in the budget, looking at the budget, and we spend a lot of money on, in the car services, obviously, you all know that, in interpretation, or in interpreting expenses.

Thank you very much. Anybody have any questions?

Seeing that, we'll move on to Mr. Larson, State's Attorney.

Thank you.

Good evening, everyone.

Good evening.

I'm happy to report that we are down just one attorney.

We've got our previous victim and witness coordinator, Caden Goodman, has gotten her temporary license.

That's called a 7-Eleven license.

It now allows her to practice law under supervision of an attorney while she finishes law school.

So we're pretty happy about that.

We haven't been this fully staffed in probably more than a year.

So, it's a relief.

She's currently taking on juvenile abuse, neglect, delinquency, and some PTRs.

We're looking forward to the county's walking challenge, and I think we're going to have high enrollment in the insurance health screening coming up this next month.

Like many other places, sickness has hit our office.

we've had Shiva Lynn and Rios is at the office when I left and she was she was in their coffin.

Our new victim and witness coordinator has been out for a couple of days and I think our office manager was under the weather for a while also but we are persisting.

The post new year trial season is starting to cool off.

We had three pretty big trials in February and then into the beginning of March, which is, it's a lot of work for everybody, but we've gotten through them and moving forward, we're expecting that the trials will be spread out a little bit more, which makes them much more manageable.

You've got my statistics. I'd be happy to answer any questions anyone may have.

Anyone have any questions?

I just have one. Was there a trial Monday night late? There was a lot of cars around the courthouse when I came to the Monday meeting. I'm just kind of curious. Not this Monday. It was last, a week ago from this Monday was the last big trial we had. Well, something was going on downtown. If it was not a trial, I mean, it was probably a good thing then. Yeah. All right. Thanks. Thanks, Carl. Moving on to Ms. Bardell. Good evening. Good evening.

You should have my report if you have any questions that you know. I also attached our Aleo flyer. It's something new that we're starting, which is Illinois Legal Aid Online. It's a website that has a lot of information for legal questions and forms that they can fill out and also forms that it's kind of like an interview.

they go through and ask a question and depending on how you answer it then it takes you to the to the next session so we're going to work with them we had our first day March 5th unfortunately we did not have any customers for that day but I'm hoping we will get some customers the navigator that is coming lives in Freeport and she's able to do her own work also it's in the law library I had sent the information out to the judicial partners voices the Senior Center, FACC, a few other places to get them out. If you know anybody or any place where we can let people know about that, let me know. Okay, do they have to do it at your office? They can't get into the, let's say from home? Anybody can get on the website. Okay, it's a website that you can access the counties? It is a link on ours or you can just go to their website. Got it. Yeah, I'm an attorney, so we're not giving legal advice, but it's a navigator. Walk them through or show them maybe where they can find answers to their questions.

Okay.

That's all I have to do.

Did we use that?

Wasn't there used to an organization called Prairie State Legal Service that did?

There still is.

They did lawyers in the library in town for a while.

They haven't done that for years because of some funding and shortage of attorneys.

Okay.

We are working with a couple of local attorneys to try to get that back going.

Okay.

It's just taking a while.

They do some stuff, but not a whole lot of stuff, and they are in record, so they don't help Stevenson County as much I haven't heard, I know years ago They'll help with some expungements and maybe some evictions, I've seen them come out here Okay, any other questions? Thank you I'll move on to youth diversion fees, this month, or last month, we have $565.42 added, giving us a total of $10,506.74, so we've got our budget and amount covered, I was going to ask Georgia if we had anyone fill out an application yet, just one, one so far, okay.

They're due by April 1st?

Yes, 1st, yeah.

I'm going to have to make a few calls, maybe.

I don't know.

It would be interesting to know how many people even hear about it.

I've told a few people.

Okay.

In the past, I've reached out to some of the area schools.

Maybe I'll do that again.

Okay.

All right.

There's no old business.

to move on to new business and we'll rely on Chanel to cover this.

It's approval of the Seratica, is that right?

Socrata.

Socrata, okay.

Dashboard contract with Gooden and Associates.

Yes.

Gooden and Associates is our CMS vendor.

So that's our case management system.

We already, or I already do quarterly reports that I report to the AOIC quarterly. This is a dashboard that they are requiring. It'll take all the data and more data than I'm reporting now, and they can get a report at any time. So they don't have to wait for the quarterly reports. And then it'll be, I believe, made public also.

So what this contract is, is just establishing that the state had given us already a grant, I can't remember, this has been going on for a few years.

The state gave us an initial grant of $12,000 to help pay for it, but now there's a yearly fee in the contract to be signed.

That's it, that is. Carl looked at it, thought it looked okay.

And this is the budget expense?

Yeah. I have money and visas and stuff.

How much is it going to cost you?

$2,004. That's probably a year.

Annually?

Yeah.

This gets passed on to the all-county board there.

Yes.

Okay.

Okay, well, I would entertain a motion to pass this.

Motion to approve.

Motion by Mr. Hadley.

Second.

Second by Mr. Meester.

In discussion?

All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, same sign.

Move this right down to 10.0, which is adjournment.

So moved by Mr. Busker, second.

I'll do a second.

Okay.

Second by Ms. Williams.

All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

We'll just vote for the same sign.

Thank you all very much.

Short and sweet.

You can.

Aye.

Why don't you start the budget policy?

First of June, after the April.

May.

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Yeah.

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It has to be around the office.

Yeah.

They can go stop.

And I don't know if I switch to a nice little bit.

Okay.