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DeKalb County, Illinois |
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The
Executive Committee of the DeKalb County Board met on Tuesday, April 10, 2001 @
7:00 p.m. at the Administration Building=s
Conference Room East. Chairman
Robert Pritchard called the meeting to order.
Members present were Robert Hutcheson, Sue Leifheit, John Morreale, Roger
Steimel, Pat LaVigne (as Vice-Chairman of the Public Policy Committee) and John
Wilson. Ruth Anne Tobias was absent. Others
present were Ray Bockman, Gary Hanson, Margaret Whitwell, Dr. Conway, Dennis
Sands and Diane Strand.
APPROVAL
OF MINUTES
Moved
by Mr. Wilson, seconded by Mr. Hutcheson, and it was carried unanimously to
accept the minutes of the last meeting as amended.
APPROVAL
OF AGENDA
Chairman Pritchard removed the executive session item from the agenda and added Amendment to the VAC Grant and Redistricting Update. Moved by Mr. Wilson, seconded by Ms. Leifheit, and it was carried unanimously to approve the amended agenda.
APPOINTMENTS
Chairman
Pritchard recommended the following appointments:
Board
of Review: Mr.
Gerald Wahlstrom
Mr. Marlin Chaplin
Both reappointments for a term of 2 years,
Until April 30, 2003.
Moved
by Mr. Hutcheson, seconded by Mr. Steimel, and it was carried unanimously to
approve the appointments as presented by Chairman Pritchard, and to forward them
onto the full board for approval.
Mr. Ray Bockman, County
Administrator, explained to the committee that in 1996 the County applied for
and received a grant that we passed through the funding to the Voluntary Action
Center. The initial award was in
the amount of $101,750.00 and this grant was made available by the Illinois
Department of Transportation through their small Caps Program.
In December of 1997 we asked for a modification of the grant to change
the expiration date and in April of 1999 the board again acted upon this grant
to reallocate some $9,000.00 within the existing line items.
Now, the grant is basically over and they’ve done what they have
intended to do with it. Some of the
items that were purchased came in below the anticipated bid level and it has
resulted in some $18,069.00 that has not been spent.
Under the IDOT guidelines there is a procedure for this whereby they ask
that we first move to reduce the amount of the grant for the amount of funds
actually spent and then they will close it out.
Mr. Bockman also said that VAC concurs with this action.
Moved by Ms. Leifheit, seconded by Mr. Hutcheson, and it was recommended
to reduce the original VAC Grant by $18,069.00 and to forward this
recommendation onto the full board for approval.
Mr. Bockman passed out some maps and
redistricting figures on all precincts that the IMO office is working on
currently (on file in the IMO office). The
first task that they took on was to take the block level census data and plug it
into the existing county board districts. Then they will prepare for you
comparisons to show you what has happened to the various districts. Having gotten this far the next step is for them to meet with
Ms. Sharon Holmes, DeKalb County Clerk, who needs to modify precinct boundaries.
They are meeting this Thursday afternoon to try and get the precinct
boundaries “nailed” down. The
next thing step is that he has asked them for an estimate of the average
precinct population. Mr. Bockman
said that the third part of the exercise is going to be to change our district
boundaries in the least disruptive manner possible.
He hopes to have a proposed draft map available for the committee at next
month’s meeting. Mr. Bockman also
stated that if anyone has any suggestions to put them in writing and get them to
him.
APPROVAL
OF THE COUNTY BOARD AGENDA REVIEW
Mr.
Ray Bockman, County Administrator, reviewed the Board Agenda for the April 18,
2001 meeting. Moved by Mr. Wilson,
seconded by Mr. Morreale, and it was carried unanimously to accept the county
board agenda as presented by Mr. Bockman.
GENERAL
DISCUSSION
Mr.
Morreale, Chairman of the Forest Preserve Committee, stated that they are
working on the Somonauk Creek Project with the Lake Holiday area.
He also stated that since the Genoa School District Referendum passed
that the temporary arrangements that we have now with them would be changing.
He understands that site plans are now available and we should be seeing
those soon. He also said that he
feels that this will be coming up quickly and that some 450 homes could be
developed on the west side of the Kishwaukee River.
Ms.
Leifheit, Chairman of the Public Services Committee, stated that they held the
annual senior services tax levy hearings. She
said that the meeting went very well and that the committee members were
superbly prepared. She said that
the agencies did a great job on their presentations also.
She said that what they decided upon was to keep the allocations the same
as last year for the same agencies that were awarded last year and that the some
$10,000.00 left went to two new agencies that the committee thought their
services were needed for the seniors.
Mr.
Steimel, Chairman of the Administrative Committee, stated that at their last
meeting developed a recommendation for increase the pay for election judges.
He believed that the base pay was raised to $90.00 and that $20.00 would
be paid extra to the each judge if they attend a training session.
Mr.
Wilson, Chairman of the Public Infrastructure and Development Committee, stated
that they discussed several items and that he wanted to draw their attention to
item (a.) which is an extension of the agreement that we passed some time back
on a portion of road from Highway 38 to Maple Park.
The other one is item (f.), which is the installation of a traffic signal
on Route 38 and Malta Road. Today
they hosted the township road commissioners at the new highway building and they
viewed a video that speaks about vandalism and destruction of highway signs.
They will be showing them to high school students to deter it.
In the video it mentions that some people have gotten thirty years in
prison for vandalism charges. Chairman
Pritchard stated that he has asked Sheriff Roger Scott to take a look to see if
there are any educational type of programs that he felt would be appropriate for
his office to engage in to refresh people’s minds about how to drive more
defensively and safe distances to pull out in front of people.
Mr.
Hutcheson, Chairman of the Planning & Regulations Committee, stated that
item (b.) the Ebel Interim Special Use was referred back to the hearing officer
and it came back with the same results as before.
A couple of things are left on the punch list for the highway department
building and the construction on the new legislative building will hopefully
begin this week.
Ms.
LaVigne, Vice-Chairman of the Public Policy Committee, passed out a booklet from
Chairman Tobias that will be offered on our website for kids during county
government week in April.
Mr.
Steimel reminded everyone about the budget training classes being offered for
the next four months with Mr. Hanson teaching them.
They will begin at 6:30p.m.on the evening of the county board meeting and
will be held in the county courthouse. Chairman
Pritchard said to invite all department heads also to attend.
Chairman
Pritchard informed everyone that over the last several months he has been
negotiating with Kane County on their Workforce Investment Act Consortium to use
Kishwaukee College as our service provider.
This is for displaced people who have been let go by the company or
people that are just unemployed and there are also programs for youths. Chairman Pritchard also said that the monies allocated to the
three different counties involved in the consortium (Kane, Kendall and DeKalb)
are by population numbers. He said
that we receive about 27% of roughly $320,000.00.
The agreement will have the monies going to Kishwaukee College to be used
in our county. It looks like it
will happen in July of 2002 that this change will take place.
ADJOURNMENT
Moved
by Mr. Wilson, seconded by Ms. Leifheit, and it was voted unanimously to adjourn
the meeting.
Respectfully
submitted,
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Robert W. Pritchard, Chairman
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Mary C. Supple, Secretary
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