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The
Public Policy Committee of the DeKalb County Board met on Monday, July 16, 2001
at 6:30p.m. at the Administration Building’s Conference Room East.
Chairman Ruth Anne Tobias called the meeting to order.
Members present were James Barr, John Dlabal, Pat LaVigne and Jeffery
Metzger. Ed Brown and Eileen
Dubin were absent. Greg Millburg
was also present.
Moved
by Ms. LaVigne, seconded by Mr. Metzger, and it was voted unanimously to accept
the minutes from the June 21, 2001 meeting.
Moved
by Mr. Barr, seconded by Mr. Metzger, and it was voted unanimously that the
agenda be approved.
Chairman Tobias
passed out a small packet of items that various departments had submitted for
the legislative agenda review. Chairman
Tobias directed Ms. Supple, County Coordinator, to compile a list of all the
submittals and to have it ready for the August Meeting. At that time the
committee will prioritize the items, Ms. Tobias said. Mr. Dlabal stated that he felt that at the recent budget
training classes that Mr. Hanson has been holding over the last couple of months
that he has heard a lot of departments talk about how the tax cap issue has
affected their departments. He said that he felt that it was going to be a real
handicap to us in the future and that we need to look at other ways to get
funding. Maybe we could look at
income taxes, the gasoline tax, value added tax, etc.
Chairman
Tobias stated that she has spoken to Michael Haines to help with organizing our
October meeting in Genoa. The
committee also discussed the various department heads that they would like to
invite to it. Chairman Tobias and
the committee thanked Mr. Metzger for organizing our Sandwich Meeting in June.
The
committee felt that the meeting was very good and well attended.
Mr. Metzger mentioned to the committee that one of their aldermen from
Sandwich had recently passed away, a Mr. Duane Dannewitz.
Chairman Tobias said that she would send a sympathy card to his family on
behalf of the committee. Mr.
Metzger also said that he knew that the court computer issue is being worked on
per his conversation Mr. Bockman.
Chairman
Tobias said that the county board district map is not on the website yet.
However, the list that was adopted by the full board in June is on the
website under Hot Topics. She also
stated that if anyone has Netscape that they cannot get the full county board
page up on their computers for some reason.
Chairman
Tobias informed the committee that back in February 2001 at our county board
retreat Mr. Paul Miller, County Planning Director, suggested the formation of a
Regional Planning Commission. We as
a board were asked if we would be interested in forming a shared arrangement
with the cities in DeKalb County regarding regional planning.
We as a board decided, yes, that we would like to do this. Mr. Miller, DeKalb County Planning Director, has held one
workshop in the City of DeKalb and that he thought it went very well. The next
meeting will be held with the City of Sycamore this month. Ms. LaVigne stated
that she felt that we also need to do the smaller towns too.
They may need it more than the bigger cities since they already have
planning departments. She feels
that the smaller towns may really be struggling and that it would be a good
thing to offer it to them.
Before
adjourning, Mr. Metzger, informed the committee members that the U.S. Secretary
of Agriculture would be in Sandwich next Friday, July 27, 2001.
He was wondering if we would like to do a proclamation before the board
meeting welcoming her to DeKalb County. Mr.
Metzger said that he would talk to Chairman Pritchard about it.
Moved
by Mr. Dlabal, seconded by Mr. Barr, and it was carried unanimously to adjourn
the meeting.
Respectively
submitted,
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Chairman Ruth Anne Tobias
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Mary C. Supple, Secretary
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