Oh that's about the thing in here.

I just want to do the boys.

Give me all the give me all the cheap give me all the gossip from the remote.

How are you?

So five for nine five four and letters.

I'm making my roll off sheets and right now you said, Oh, there's not gonna be a remote.

And if I stop making them right now, guess what?

There's gonna be remote.

Yeah, but you have a direct.

Also I want your shoes.

I got you.

I thought it is not a good wait.

It is almost nine o'clock.

How would you like to find it?

It was awesome.

Well, it was alright.

It was a I had a lot of things going on over there.

Um morning over here.

And there's another one at all.

Um hard presentation.

I know you probably know how to make it.

I think about this.

I wonder how are you?

Oh no, then we just have to have all sides.

I forget I'm not supposed to do my time to join the right thing.

No, I think that's someone could have been trying to find a stuff.

Um go down there and worse on the board.

Um we do it's more my native.

Oh yeah, my husband I took him down there.

Hello, Claire.

Good, how are you?

I don't know what the I hear that we don't know if there's an appeal.

I don't know.

Thank you.

How are you?

Good.

I'd like to work.

Yeah, yeah.

You look so much.

Oh, there we go.

I you know what?

I always think I'm going to bring like a luggage full of chips.

I never do because I find it like a typical.

It's a woman.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

One hundred percent.

Yeah, oh, we've got a hand.

But it's not a five, so I feel like they would include it.

Yeah.

Okay.

And then they got me keeping up before my god.

Oh, you never have to get nine.

So I think it doesn't work.

I am going to go.

I think you'll make it to a swing for everyone.

Yes, that's how I checked that.

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

One point and customer.

Yeah.

And then actually, I think we take the eight.

Like this point.

Right.

Good morning, Karen.

How are you?

Well, that's what it's like.

It's okay.

It looks like it's a quiet short.

Yeah, don't imagine myself.

Morning.

Board of Commissioners will come to order.

Will this clerk please call the roll?

Commissioner Aguilar.

Commissioner Aguilar absent.

Commissioner Anaya and I are present.

Commissioner Britton here.

Commissioner Daly.

Commissioner Dagnan.

Commissioner Gainer.

Present.

Commissioner Lowry.

Present.

Commissioner McCaskill.

Commissioner Miller.

Commissioner Miller.

Commissioner Miller, absent.

Commissioner Moore.

Commissioner Moore, absent.

Commissioner Marita.

Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Commissioner Kevin Morrison absent.

Commissioner Sean Morrison.

Morrison present.

Commissioner Scott.

Present.

Commissioner Stamps.

Commissioner Stamps, absent.

Commissioner Trevor.

Trevor here.

Commissioner Vasquez.

Madam President, you have a quorum.

Thank you very much.

The clerk is informing that there is a quorum present.

I'm sorry.

We add Commissioner Aguilar to the role.

We move.

Pardon me.

Move for remote participation.

Yes, Chair Daly.

I move that we uh allow remote participation.

Second.

Motion's made and seconded.

Roll call, please.

Commissioner Aguilar.

Aye.

Commissioner Naya.

Aye.

Commissioner Britton.

Aye.

Commissioner Daly.

Aye.

Commissioner Degnan.

Aye.

Commissioner Gaynor.

Yes.

Commissioner Lowry.

Aye.

Commissioner McCaskill.

Commissioner Miller.

Commissioner Miller absent.

Commissioner Moore.

Commissioner Moore absent.

Commissioner Marita.

Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Commissioner Kevin Morrison, absent.

Commissioner Sean Morrison.

Sean Morrison Aye.

Commissioner Scott.

Aye.

Commissioner Stamps.

Commissioner Stamps absent.

Commissioner Trevor.

Trevor I.

Commissioner Trevor.

I.

Commissioner Vasquez.

Aye.

Madam President, you have 13 yes and four absent.

Thank you.

All right.

Remote participation will be allowed.

Commissioner Aguilar.

Pledge of allegiance.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

Liberty and justice for all.

Commissioner Aguilar.

I'm sorry.

Commissioner Scott.

Cook County resides on lands that have been home to indigenous people for thousands of years.

The Pottawatomi, the Ojibwa, the Ottawa, and dozens of nations that were custodians and tear cake tear cake caretakers of this land for centuries before European colonization.

The truth and acknowledgement are critical to building understanding, mutual respect across cultures, tradition, and heritages.

By reading this statement, Cook County recognizes the past wrongdoings as well as the presence harm upon people, tribal lands, and governments.

We honor it the indigenous people, the past, the present, and pause to remember the acts of violence, displacement, collectively and removal of the original inhabitants of this land.

With this land acknowledgement, Cook County commits to learning more about and doing better to support the county's native indigenous residents as we work towards a more equitable Cook County for all.

Thank you.

Public speakers.

Thank you, Madam President.

Members of the public who wish to testify have up until 24 hours before the schedule start of the meeting.

Speakers will have three minutes to address the body and will be alerted when they have one minute remaining, 30 seconds remains, and when time is expired.

Translation services are available for this meeting.

If you need assistance, please put forth a request in the teams chat or see a staff member in the boardroom.

Persons authorized to provide public testimony shall not use vulgar abusive, discriminatory, profane, or otherwise inappropriate language when addressing the board.

Written only comments provided prior to the start of the meeting will be made part of the meeting record.

Our first speaker, Madam President, is Mayor Frank Popanick from Village of Posen.

Mayor.

Good morning.

Good morning, President Preckwinkle, members of the Cook County Board, Commissioners and staff.

For those of you that don't know me, my name is Frank Padonia, and I serve as the mayor of the village of Polsen.

I'm here today because Polsen is a community that does a lot with a little.

But we have reached a point where we need county assistance and partnership to ensure safety of our residents and our first responders.

First, dispatch transition and regional burden.

First time requesting assistance from the county to help us cover our transitional costs for our police and fire dispatch from Calcom that we've been with for the last 10, 11 years to the Cook County Sheriff's Dispatch Center.

The main reason is is because of the live dispatch.

In quick terms, live dispatches as the call is coming out to dispatch, whether it be the county or Calcom.

Our officers are monitoring the radio.

They're already in per on their way to that call, which cuts down two to three minutes of time for response.

Poleson's in a low to modern income community.

Yet we act as a vital regional anchor for emergency services.

We support our neighbors.

We provide fire services for the village of Dixmore.

This is June will be the start of our third year.

We have yet to raise their rates because we know that they struggle like we do.

We choose to absorb those costs because public safety shouldn't have a price tag between neighbors.

We respond to Dixmore approximately 20 times a month.

Then we have the I-57 factor.

In the last 14 months, we've been on Interstate 57 350 times.

We've had numerous numerous fire apparatus damaged up there, and each time it's with a DUI driver with no insurance.

We absorb the costs, which in which affects our renewal every year with our insurance.

We assist Harvey.

We've been to Harvey approximately 50 times in the last 14 months.

We're happy to help our neighbors, but Pols and can't continue to subsidize regional safety on a local budget.

Transitioning to the Sheriff's Department Dispatch Center will streamline our operations, but we need some financial assistance if it's possible in any way to help us.

Second, I want to address a critical safety issue that we have on Kedsee Avenue between 145 and 146th Street.

We've had a few fatalities there over the last several years.

Two years ago there was a fatality where we have two apartment units at 145-13, 145-21 Kedzy.

Each one has 18 residents, 18 units per building.

That's 36 buildings.

We're concerned about another death on Kedzie.

I've talked to Siskillion and we understand that we have to get county permits that are required to try to expedite that as quick as possible.

With our TIFF funds through the village, we can afford to do at least 250 feet north, 250 feet south on Kedzy Avenue, which will save a life.

So we're going to expedite that work with Ciskillion's highway department and try to get that as quick as possible.

I was going to ask for a memorandum of understanding with that, but CIS understands what we want.

We've looked at that project together.

We've put in for CDBG grant to try to finish all that work, but we at least want to do 250 feet north and south on Kedzy because it'll streamline the safety of all these residents at the apartments that go to our strip mall.

Well, I got it out real quick, folks.

So I was a nervous wreck coming down here.

It was coming from Poles and we're on the foul south south suburbs, which most of you know how far south that is.

And um I appreciate your time today.

Any financial consideration that we can please get from the board to help us with this transition, which is going to streamline health and safety.

And we all hear about these constant break-ins and burglaries to these businesses, gaming businesses especially.

We've had three or four break-ins already.

And we just passed an ordinance on Tuesday at our board meeting that each gaming establishment is going to have to have these hundred dollar bills in each of their machines that throws off a location, a GPS location of where those boxes are taken, because it's happening so frequently.

So that's going to assist us with that.

But please, if there's anything that this board would do, the county's been fantastic with Polesen.

Thank you so much.

Madam President, thank you for everything you do for poles and God bless you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Reverend Alison Farnham.

Followed by Revan Allison is Mika Clark Moody, followed by Charles Pomper.

And if you're in the room, please make your way to the public speaking mic.

Reverend.

Good morning.

My name is Reverend Allison Farna.

My pronouns are she, her, hers.

I am lucky to serve as the director and minister of the Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois.

Our little organization is part of a larger network and a coalition called the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice.

I want to say thank you to the commissioners and to our president, Tony Preckwinkle and the staff for giving time and space for sharing thoughts today.

I also want to thank you for your leadership this year in inviting more bold and decisive uh work in the future ahead.

Uh and imagining yourselves as the leaders that you are and thinking about what brought you into service and imagining that world that we dream of.

And that world is created through the moral document that is the Cook County budget.

Yes.

So Cook County has seen a dramatic reduction in crime due in part to a $350 million investment in violence prevention in county, city, and state since 2020.

Even though the need for prosecutions has significantly decreased, the budget for the state's attorney's office has continued to increase.

Increasing funding for this office is inconsistent with the county's focus on proactive and preventative rather than reactive and punitive approaches to harm and violence in our communities.

And since Cook County began reducing the use of money bond, followed by our state abolishing its use in the pretrial fairness act, the number of people incarcerated in Cook County jail has gone down by 40%.

In addition, the sheriff's electronic monitoring program has been discontinued.

And rather than reappropriating money no longer needed to warehouse people who couldn't afford to purchase their freedom while awaiting trial, the sheriff continues to receive more money.

So we know that people in Cook County are already hurting as federal assistance has been slashed due to the current administration's cruelty, which we have to endure for a few more years.

One minute.

So the question becomes what does budget allocation say about your leadership?

I want to invite you to be leaders who are bold, who have not given up the dream of building a world where people feel safe, secure, and free from economic violence.

Cook Countyans will have access to mental, imagine them having free access to mental and physical health care, food, housing, job development, and the education I need.

This, my dear ones, is what community safety really looks like.

So it's time for bold leadership that moves us in a new and needed direction, and I have faith that all of you can do it.

It's time to shift funds that are not needed at the state's attorney's office and the sheriff's department and invest those funds in preventing harm reduction.

We cut those, so let's reinvest it where we need it.

And I just want you to imagine that your decisions that you make are a prayer, a prayer and action for the world we dream of.

May it be so.

Amen.

Thank you.

Next in the room, Mika, Charles Pomper, found by Tanya Lee.

Please make your way to the public speaking mic if you're here.

You may begin.

Good morning, the president and the board.

My name is Micah Clark Moody.

And first I want to say something is myself, which is that I strongly support the remarks of the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice, and strongly support moving money from the state's attorney's office and the Cook County Sheriff's Office budget to investments in community and violence interruption, which I know you'll be voting on today.

But really, my purpose for being here is to read testimony word for word from someone who's been incarcerated in Cook County jail for more than three years.

He says, Informations not just upon request from staff.

Now they'll tell you, particularly, write the library and request a FOIA, freedom of information form.

And then you have to ask that to Dart's office and say that you'd like to have a copy of the policies, the jail policy here.

And they'll write back and say, well, you need to tell us what specifically you're looking for in the policy.

We don't just give it out, you know, unilaterally or broadly.

So if you want something regarding clothing or grooming policy, then you put that in your FOIA request.

I asked, send me the policy under Title 20 on grooming.

How often am I entitled to get haircuts?

How often am I entitled to take a shower?

You know, entitled to toiletries.

They want you to be very detailed.

Now, this is what's amazing about seeking policy information.

How could you ask someone to give you detailed information of a policy that was never shared with them?

So we've got we've got no idea.

So many of the guys come and ask me, hey, what's in the policy?

And I say, well, you need a glossary and index or table of contents.

Let's try to write them and ask for that.

Now I asked for a table of contents, and they said, you have to ask for something specifically in the table of contents.

And I said, why is it called a cable of contents if you give me something specifically out of that?

I don't know what's in there.

So they make this process extremely difficult to the point that I feel they're trying to discourage individuals who have never seen it.

That's how it is with the policies.

That's how it is with the law library as well.

People in jail aren't told the jail policies.

They used to be able to go in person to use the law library, interacting with physical books and teaching themselves about the legal process that decides the course of their lives, particularly for people in the jail who haven't been convicted of any crime in most cases and are actively fighting their case.

The sheriff's office hasn't reopened the law library since COVID, leaving people unable to research their cases or learn a lot of the law bond, the burdensome process.

As this person says, they're trying to figure out what the policies are so they can advocate for themselves and the haircuts, showers, and toiletries that they by policy are entitled to have.

And this person feels quote they're trying to discourage individuals who have never seen the law, never seen the policy.

Thank you so much for your time.

And we ask that you keep the testimony of people and the lives and experiences of people in Cook County Jail at the center of your thinking when you vote on such important laws that change their lives.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Charles Pomper, are you in the room?

Followed by Tanya Lee.

Hello.

Good morning.

Good morning.

My name is Charles Pomper, and I'll also be reading testimony word for word from an insider in Cook County jail.

This person has been incarcerated in the jail for more than 13 years.

Here's the direct quote.

When I kept fighting, they put me in the cell with no working water, no plumbing.

So now I'm in the cell, fresh mace on me, shirt ripped up.

I ain't got nothing on me but but probably my socks, my socks.

So I had nothing to do, nothing to do in there.

And the longer I spent in there, like the more kind of stir crazy I got.

I ended up, I ended up sticking my head in the toilet, rinsing all the mace and stuff off because the sink, the buttons on the sink wasn't working.

So I got all the mace out of my eyes with a dirty toilet.

Then I finally opened my eyes and realized that the toilet was so dirty and nasty.

I cleaned the toilet with the ripped up shirt, which also had mace on it.

But I ended up flushing that, then flushing the toilet until everything went down, all the dirt and stuff, and then clean the toilet again with my sock.

After I cleaned the toilet again with my sock, every officer that went past me was like, yeah, you're gonna learn today.

And they was trying to feed me this shit that they was calling neutral loaf back in the day, which was like rice, beans, bread, lettuce, and the cake from the dinner tray, all mixed up in the blender and then piled on top of each other like some ground beef.

And then after a lock up and dry up and get real hard, they give it to you and try to make you eat it.

End quote.

In Cook County jail, quote unquote, special management units have replaced solitary confinement in name only.

People incarcerated in these units are only allowed out of their cells for five hours a day, and they have to be blue boxed, which is when your arms are forced to your stomach like this.

They only get one 15-minute call per day.

Many will accumulate months of time spent in these units.

Even though the limit is 29 days, the loophole is that they'll be released on the 29th day and then sent back.

Thank you for listening, and please keep this testimony in your considerations today.

Thank you.

Tanya Lee, are you in the room?

Please come to the mic.

Following Tanya will be Joseph McArthur.

All right.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning, Madam President and Commissioners.

Good morning.

My name is Tanya Lee, and I am the executive director for bridging the gap communal living.

I am in support of the bill.

261190.

I help.

I help.

I'm sorry.

I help families prepare for financial literacy and stability.

And one of the most important tools in this work is financial literacy.

Understanding the basics of budgeting, managing your household, and making your money work for you and your family.

Financial literacy really matters in our communities.

It helps people understand how to manage their money, save, invest, and plan for important things like retirement, education, and elderly care.

When people have the knowledge, they can build more stable lives themselves and for their families.

I am also certified in financial literacy with Department of Children and Family Services.

I help youth, as they call it, youth and care to age out, so they can know how to manage their household because one day they will be adults.

This type of education can also help reduce risk factors such as homes and homelessness and financial instability while strengthening households and building stronger communities.

If we start teaching these skills earlier, we can give young people the tools they need to make better decisions, build a stronger future that that's how they grow to support our communities one generation at a time.

And thank you guys for listening.

Thank you.

Joseph?

Followed by Joseph is Mark Armstrong.

Mark is connected remotely.

Thank you.

Madam President, I'm Joseph McArthur.

I live at Lot 20 of the Highland Meadows Subdivision, Ward 1 of Rolling Meadows.

Commissioner Scott Britton of District 14, or District 1, District 14, sorry, is my Cook County Commissioner.

I've been trying to resolve Cook County's encroachments onto my private property under federal jurisdiction within MWRD's court ordered permanent flood control easement that I'm the direct successor entitled to.

Case number 77L 22309.

I'm the author of the master and a governmental agreement.

There is an ongoing investigation with the United States Army Corps of Engineers doing surveying.

Talking about flooding.

I have been trying to contact Commissioner Scott Britton for 20 months.

I just met him today for my very first time.

He said I've never attempted to reach him.

Reed Odison and the village of Palatine have an intergovernmental agreement that is subordinate to final judgment, which is the supreme document that governs my land.

It overrides any Cook County memo, any home rule ordinance.

There's a Euclid bike path on my private property that Cook County expanded the right-of-way and permitted a uh a bike path August 15th, 2006 with Palatine Park District, and underneath the bike path is flooding court ordered permanent flood control easement directly affecting my private property.

On top of that, there are public safety issues.

I have 288 feet of frontage along Euclid Avenue.

100 feet of it is court-ordered permanent flood control easement.

On the east portion of my private property, there's 188 feet.

That has nothing to do with MWRD's permanent easement.

There was no due process.

Yesterday, the Rolling Meadows Police indicated that I do not have the right to report trespassing on my private property.

I would appreciate any leadership that Cook County can offer because flood resilience takes all of us, and public safety requires leadership.

Thank you.

Our next speakers in this row, if you would please come to the public mic, Jessica Jackson, Bola Delano, and then George DePlickmore.

I'm sorry.

Mark, Mark is going to come first, though.

Mark, are you ready?

Everyone else, please stand at the public speaking mic.

Mark, you ready?

You're muted, Mark.

Yeah, sorry.

Please.

Okay.

So before I start my three minutes, I'd like to share my condolences with the family of Dennis Deere and all others close to him.

Um that incident along with the recent one in Virginia with the lieutenant governor and his wife only show that even the best of families could use therapy and trauma recovery.

So recently, U.S.

Representative Janelle Bynum, a Democrat from Oregon, used the um politically uh incorrect uh Premilla General Paul hated term of illegal aliens to suggest that um sta uh that uh members of Congress standing up for citizens first before illegal aliens and um potential immigrants was racist.

She was part of the do nothing members of the members of the do nothing uh congressional black caucus back five months ago that were shaking their heads in the Amen corner when um Premilla Gerald Paul jumped on us for using uh the uh term illegal aliens in deflection of a question to Mayor Brandon and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson about uh a report uh he was supposed to get to the feds about the number of illegal aliens and potential immigrants in CHA housing.

So it appears that um there's politically correct rules for she and um not for and uh for uh we rather and uh and none for she on further research um I argue that the opposite uh the the uh racist and nasty time uh for illegal aliens and um potential immigrants action would be barbarian, which dates back to uh ancient Greece and ancient Rome, which originally meant stranger, but now has come to mean somewhat uncouth, uncivilized, savage and otherwise.

Uh on further research, we've also found that uh illegal alien was used in the landmark 1890.

Thirty seconds one our uh Tim Arc decision um that um established birthright citizenship.

So I would say that instead of um policing that language that uh statutory language that people need to concentrate less on trying to police that language and more on fighting for uh citizens and especially uh reparations for uh descendants of US channel slaves as much as they fight for illegal aliens and uh citizen and um illegal aliens and potential immigrants.

Thank you.

Okay, pardon me, Rushing Jessica.

You are next, followed by Bola Delano and then George Blake Moore.

So public speakers got up here this morning, and a lot of them are part of you know these 501c3s and nonprofits, so they have this, you know, scripted narrative that you hear over and over again.

Um that stuck out was when the uh pastor lady with the collar when she used the term economic violence, and I'm sitting here thinking how can a person stand here and thank Tony Preckwickle or Cook County about anything if you want to talk about economic violence.

It's economically violent for our tax dollars to go to us an election that we know was rigged.

You did not get 400,000 votes, Tony Preckwickle.

That's economic violence.

It's economic violence for Governor J.B.

Pristner to appoint and reappoint public administrators that he knows is engaging in real estate theft.

That's economic violence.

It's economic violence for commissioners to sit in this room that know about this case, know that I'm sure you knew before today that my name is on this deed.

And for my mother's estate to be tagged up for 10 years in probate because Scott Britain won't get it out of litigation because the inspector generals won't do their job, that's economic violence.

For Michael Scott, Bill Laurie to give seminars about how they how to protect your property from theft after death, knowing that you all know what the Cook County and City officials are doing to steal real estate.

That's economic violence.

But Donna Miller to go and promote no ID voting so that we can have a bunch of illegal immigrants living in this country to take our tax dollars to pay for them and target the South Side and West Side property taxes up to 133% to accommodate all this by natural downfall from illegal immigrants.

Now that's economic violence.

And it's coming from Cook County, not Pennsylvania Avenue.

Not Donald Trump.

It's coming from here.

Here, lying!

Ma'am, your time is expired.

Bola Delino is next.

Bola, please come to the mic.

Following Bola, George Blakemore, then Taiwan Sims.

Good morning, everyone.

Madam President, Board of Commissioners, and everybody else in the room.

My name is Bola Delano, and I'm from the Illinois Office of the Controller.

I manage a program called Bancorn, Illinois.

I'm here to support Cook County Commissioner McCasco's resolution to identify the month of April as a financial literacy awareness month.

To start off with, um, the Bangkon um program is a statewide financial empowerment program.

It's um a commission, um uh coalition, which comprises of states and city elected officials, financial institutions, and community organizations, and basically we all work together to improve the financial stability of unbanked and underbanked residents in Illinois.

We are the third largest program in the nation.

Um to date, we have opened over 475,317 accounts in Cook County.

The main premise of this program is to promote financial literacy and education and also support um residents that we consider our unbanked.

Um, to date, we've shown that um despite the fact that financial literacy and education is an ongoing effort, there is a need for us to help build the knowledge of finance, which will then deter people from going into predatory lending practices, not knowing how to save, not knowing how to invest, and how to build generational wealth.

It's important to note that this is a cradle to grave issue, and we do a lot of outreach out of the states.

I work with all the banks and credit unions within the state of Illinois.

Um we um to conclude.

Um, I just want to say that depending on your zip code, high school kids do not get financial education, which is appropriate.

One minute.

Um, and so with that being said, um, it's on in conclusion, financial literacy and financial empowerment is of great importance, and it is essential that we continue to implement this program and to support um the bill, which is 26-1190.

Thank you, Commissioner Moore.

Uh is the minimum on this bank practice.

Oh, no charges whatsoever, nothing.

And then we provide um training for education, um, financial education, and um everything else that comes with it.

But the banks actually uh are working quite closely with us on that.

It's in the controller's office, yes.

Thank you.

George Blake Moore is our next speaker, followed by Taiwan Sims.

Uh, we will be done with public testimony after I can't read.

Mr.

Blakemore can't write.

Mr.

Blake Moore can't speak.

Mr.

Blake Moore can hear.

What did he hear that young man say in uh about 13 years at the county, Cook County jail, but but that's a prison.

They don't send them down, but but that's not a jail, that's a prison.

It's a difference between a prison and a jail.

And what else did you hear the white lad say that curse word?

F H I did she say anything?

Did she say if it had been me?

I gotta say SHI, I can't put that other letter.

Did she say anything about bugger language?

No, nothing.

White life matter.

White life matter.

Now, Mr.

Blake Moore, get to the point.

The Tyler, that contract.

Uh-huh.

Came under Madame Pretwinkle.

That taxation.

Yesterday I attended the meeting.

Nobody was here from Tyler.

But what are they doing?

They're taxing poor black people in the dead hoes.

To get their revenue.

This is a corrupt system here.

It's a corrupt system here.

And to say indigenous look, that young lad reading about indigenous, talking about native Indian.

What about the black people that was enslaved in America?

And bought to America.

But did we get our party acres in the meal?

Are we free?

Racism is alive.

Today, right here.

Even though you have black faces, and this mill are you.

But that pack you won.

That pack came from white people.

All that money that got you elected.

It didn't come from the black community.

So your leader is to that pack.

And not to us back.

And again, Mr.

Blake Moore.

Who broke this mess here?

This man.

This man.

But he had no idea.

During the time he was elected, black, they had black business.

The black was sponsored him.

30 seconds.

So this has turned into a nightmare.

This was right here.

But he had no intention of in power with these people.

He didn't know that that the black community have no banks.

Have no business.

Consumers.

That was another era, Mr.

Blake Moore.

Now the black people have gotten low.

Very low.

He had no intention of Jasper Fly.

He had no in keeping up there.

And time is expired.

So Victor Capan.

Taiwan Sims is next.

You was a flat air flat in the white vote.

And put me out.

I'm not usually put it out.

Good morning, Commission.

Good morning.

Good morning, Madam President.

Congratulations, Madam President.

What do we have to look forward to?

I came, so once again, I'm here to speak about the false arrest that took place over at 121 North LaSalle in this building.

Cases 25120 458-301 25-120-869201.

I brought documents in.

Well, inventory slips that showed the inconsistencies that was taking place in the case.

With just a little investigation, I don't think I would be at this podium right now, Madam President.

And I came to this commission expressively.

17 people that had the power to investigate and to look into it.

And so here I am right now once again at this podium asking, how did this take place?

I went to every oversight committee that would be BIA, that would be COPA.

I stood in front of the CCPSA and expressed to them about this case.

Yesterday I received a transcript that I've been waiting for for more than two months.

The transcript expressed exactly the contradictions in the case.

Not forced.

Or at the heel of every inaction, what whether it be through law enforcement where I was jailed.

I had warrants put out for a case that had been dissolved.

One minute.

And I gotta ask the commission, all 17 of y'all, and the madam president.

How?

But also I would like for you all to look into this immediately today, so that you all can just have this stricken off of my name.

And this is the third time I'm talking to y'all about it.

Yesterday I spoke, but I was waiting for you, Madam President.

You the mean auntie that we don't need.

30 seconds.

The person that don't love us for real.

Because you heard me, this young man talking about his child, auntie.

Now look at me.

You heard me, and you done heard me come up here over and over again.

You think it's personal, but I've come to you, Auntie.

Somebody who should be looking towards me, somebody that should be taking care of me.

And yet you let them abuse me.

Ma'am, that concludes our list of speakers for this meeting.

Thank you.

This has been a hard week for all of us.

Talk to some of you over the last several days.

Dennis Deere was a colleague and a friend to almost everybody in the room.

Some new commissioners may not have served with him.

His wife Barbara was his companion and compatriot in the good work that they did in the your family did in the community.

Many of you are aware, of course, of Dennis's work on second chances.

His work for supporting mental health, behavioral health.

And of course, um his sponsorship of the resolution that led to the celebration of Juneteenth as a county holiday.

And Barbara, of course, was intimately involved in all of that work.

So her tragic death and the death of her son this week, I know has been hard on everybody.

And I just want to acknowledge both the tragedy and uh celebrate both Dennis and Barbara's life.

Um we're proud to have them as Cook County residents, and deeply regret the events of the last week.

So let's take a moment of silence.

All right.

Commissioner Lowry.

Madam President, on pages two through nine.

I make the following motions on items in the President, Justice Advisory Council, and Office of the County Auditor categories.

I move to approve item two six-0488.

Proposed reappointment of Judith Arvey to the Mission Brooks Sanitary District Board.

Item 26-1124 proposed reappointment of William S.

McClinton to the Cook County Land Bank Authority.

Item 26-1129 proposed reappointment of Mayor Katrina Thompson to the Cook County Land Bank Authority.

Item 26-1130 proposed reappointment of Joy Arrogate to the Cook County Land Bank Authority.

I also move to refer to legislation in intergovernmental relations, item 26-1188 proposed appointment of Olive Brown to the Housing Authority of Cook County.

The proposed resolution for reallocations for safe and thriving communities, gun violence prevention and reduction initiative, amending subrecipient agreements with the following.

Hope Center Foundation, Lawrence Hall, Metropolitan Family Services, New Mom's Inc., Roseland Ceasefire Project Inc., Sinai Community Institute, West Side Health Authority, Dr.

Pedro, Albizu, Campos, Puerto Rican High School, and Organizing Neighborhoods for Equality.

I move to approve item 26-115, proposed transfer of funds for the Office of the County Auditor for Salaries, Wages, and Professional Services.

And I move to refer to audit item 26-1134.

A report titled American Rescue Plan Act, Investing in Families and Youth.

Review reporting period, November 1st, 2022 through November 30th, 2024.

Madam President, we're going to continue the meeting with voice votes until Commissioner Gaynor rejoins us.

Thank you.

Britain second.

Is there any discussion of these items?

Yes.

Leave.

All right.

Remind our listeners what that is.

I'm sorry.

I said remind our listeners what that is.

Sure.

This is the reallocations of the Safe and Thriving Communities Gun Violence Prevention and Reduction Initiative.

As many of you are aware, we have to spend all this money by the end of this year.

And we had to allocate it into particular categories some time ago.

If money is not spent, it goes back to the Federal Government.

So we want to give ourselves the flexibility to make reallocation so that all the money gets utilized.

Thank you, Commissioner Nyle.

And if we can add those commissioners to the road now, ma'am.

Okay.

Commissioner Miller, Commissioner Stamps, Commissioner Kevin Morrison, Commissioner Stan Moore.

Thank you.

All in favor signify by saying aye.

Opposed opinion of the chair of the ayes have it.

Go ahead.

Madam President.

Madam President, on pages 9 through 16, I make the following motions for items under the Bureau of Finance and Cook County Health and Hospital System.

Receive and file item number two six one zero seven seven, the COVID 19 financial report from January 1st to March 13th, 2026.

Approve 261046, the transfer of funds to continue supporting the Cook County Health Substance Use and Recovery Support Program in the amount of 435,000.

Receive and file 261141 fiscal year 2026, the first care first quarter capital improvement and report from 1212 through uh through uh February 28, 2026.

Approved 261149, a proposed transfer of funds between ARPA at policy pillars and the amount of two mil in the amount of two million million.

Refer to finance two six one zero three two, approved contract for the office of the controller and our MS for professional auditing in the in the amount of six million nine hundred and fifty-four thousand.

Refer receive and file two six one zero five three, the controller report for pillars and claims from February 17th through uh March uh 30 23, 2026.

Refer to contract compliance 260815, the Office of the Chief Procurement Fiscal the Annual Report for Diversity Report.

Refer to Finance 261021, the proposed resolution with nationwide uh retirement solutions and refer to health and hospitals, Cook County Health, uh semi-annual uh report utilization report from October of 25 through March of 26, and approve 260817, a proposed grant award for the Department of Public Health for the Ellor Tobacco Free uh communities.

Motion is made in a second.

Is there any discussion?

Michael Scott.

Uh thank you, Madam President.

Uh, want to talk a little bit about 26 uh-1149, and I want to thank you and uh our comptroller um Tanya Anthony.

Uh it's not our title.

Uh, but I want to thank Tanya Anthony, CFO, I'm sorry, CFO, Tanya Anthony, and Sochi Flores for all of their work making sure that um we meet the moment right now.

There is so much um in terms of affordability that we needed in our county, specifically around home ownership.

Uh and we had um some folks from Reclaiming come to uh us a little while ago talking about all the homes that they're building around Cook County.

Uh and you know, with the help of Commissioner Gaynor uh in your office and and all those four mentioned, we were able to transfer this two million dollars to our down payment assistance.

And I just wanted to thank you and thank all the parties that are uh involved in this to make sure that we meet this moment in terms of affordability for uh the residents of Cook County.

Thank you, Madam President.

I believe that David Doig is here.

He is here somewhere, yeah.

He is here um David has been lobbying for this for a long time.

He has and this is uh an effort to promote home ownership in Cook County by a coalition, a broad coalition of organizations, uh, some of whom actually are engaged in uh affordable housing development.

Uh some of whom actually are engaged in um affordable housing development.

And we have a person who would like to make a comment.

Is that right?

Yes.

Normally we um normally we ask folks to make their comments during the public speakers period, but we'll give you some grace today.

Michael, is that your request?

Yes, if uh uh leave of the body to to allow him to speak.

All right, Commissioner Scott asked that the body give this good gentleman an opportunity to say a few words.

Good morning.

Good morning, madam president.

Yes, uh thank you for the grace I I definitely need it.

Uh uh so um my name is my name is Fred Wetherspool.

I am I work for Press's Blood Administrative Reconciliation.

Uh and I'm here to ask the county to to uh to reallocate over two million dollars from the ARPA fund towards our what we call down payment assistance program.

Uh let me offer some statistics and fact of how how much this assistance is needed.

Uh in 20 in 2023 in 2023, approximately 3.9.5 percent of borrowers use down payment assistance in the U in the U.S.

in the past five years, more than 34,000 Illinois home buyers uh utilize IDH for down payments assistance.

Were first time home buyers.

Uh the good county down payments assistance program in 2004 helped over 700 families buy homes.

Uh and in 2025, uh Cook County invested 8.6 million for down payment assistance funds were allocated.

And within 24 hours, those funds were used.

So the deed is great and obvious.

So uh again, thank the county for doing those things back then and hopefully we can continue as we move forward.

Thank you, sir.

Um thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We're very grateful for your presence this morning.

As I said, let me remind our guests that we have a public speakers section in our agenda.

Uh but Commissioner Scott uh clearly expected perhaps an opportunity for this good gentleman to say a few words.

So I appreciate it, Madam President.

Thank you.

All right, thank you very much.

Yes, Commissioner Naia.

Thank you, Madam President.

And just a follow-up on that question.

Not sure if there's anyone um the our budget director that can uh kind of walk us through.

There were some accounts on here where the money was moved.

I I know it's because of ARPA and we need to meet our our criteria.

Just wanted to see um if we have the information regarding the rollout um of this program, because I I do believe it's a very valuable program.

Um and then if we can also get just a synopsis of whether this is or reassurance, I would say that this is not gonna impact any of our other operations in regards to things like behavioral health or the municipality preparedness uh planning, etc.

All right, budget director.

Good morning.

Good morning, Commissioner.

Thank you so much for the question.

Uh we identified the seven initiatives to reduce the allocation, and that was just on the memo and an agenda items.

And those were identified based on that current spending.

And there is a uh we do not be there is any material impact to the uh delivery of the services.

Some agency have a concrete project or or um they have identified other funding to use, um, therefore there has no impact.

When it's coming to the role of the um down payment assistance program, I think I would like to defer that to uh Bureau Chief uh Sochi Flores, but it is my understanding that the ones the transfer is approved and the um excuse me uh contract amendment is executed, they are able to proceed immediately.

But I would defy that to you, um Bureau Chief Sochi, if she's available.

Or did I miss the question?

No, you uh no thank you.

Thank you, Canako.

And and I can definitely follow up with uh with the Bureau, but I just wanted for the record.

I know that sometimes there's misconceptions that we're reducing in certain programs, so I wanted it for the record that we're not gonna be reducing any of the other um accounts here, but it's it's more of reallocation because the money is not going to be utilized within the time frame in which we need to ensure that ARPA is used.

That is correct, as Madame President mentioned earlier that we'd like to make sure that every penny is spent uh and that's our strategy.

Thank you so much, Canacle.

And I'll follow up with uh Bureau Chief uh Flores.

Um Madam President, I had another question on another item, if I may.

Surely um so the previous item um before this item is 26-1141.

The report period stated 2026, uh December 2026 through February.

I just wanted uh I think that's a typo, and I just wasn't sure if that needed to be um if that had needed to be done maybe on the floor.

I just wanted to, I think that's a typo, and I just wasn't sure if that needed to be um if that it needed to be done maybe on the floor so it reflects the correct uh reporting period.

Uh so it should have been December of 2025 to February of 2026.

Is that what you're I'm assuming that that's a typo?

Um Commissioner, would you give us the item number again so we can do that?

Sure, it's on page 41.

Yeah, it's on page 11 of the agenda, the top 26, 11 uh 41.

It says December 1, 2026 to February 28, 2026.

Thank you.

Is that 2025?

It's that push to be December 1, 2025.

Okay, so far score date 2026.

Okay, that's our title.

Thank you.

All right, is the typo reflected in our agenda or in the documents?

Uh in the agenda item that I'm present.

Okay.

I don't know if we need to.

Uh yes, let's amend this on its face.

So moved, madam president.

All right, so it will be December 1st 2025 to February 28th.

2026.

Okay.

All right, all in favor signify saying aye.

Aye.

Opposed opinion of the chair of the ayes have it.

Okay, so we've amended or on its face.

Go ahead.

Anything else, Commissioner Nyah?

No, all right.

There's further no further discussion.

All in favor, signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Opposed opinion of the chair of the ayes have it.

Commissioner Moore.

Thank you, madam president.

Items, Bureau of Administration.

Madam President, on pages 17 through 23, I'd like to make the following motions on the items in the Bureau of Administration.

I'd like to move for approval 260637.

This is a proposed contract amendment for emergency management and regional security and 26 county agencies with W.

W.

Granger of Lake Forest, Illinois for maintenance and repair and operations for MRO supplies, parts, materials, service original contract period is 5.1 of 2023 through April 30th of 2026, with two one-year renewal options.

Renewal and increase proposed contract period for 5.1 of 2026 through April 30th of 2027.

Total contract amount 10 million.

Like to move for approval 261015.

This is a proposed grant award amendment with emergency management and regional security grantee.

Emergency management and regional security office of Homeland Security, IMA and OHS.

This is a formal request to increase the appropriation in FY26 for program 54214 by 353,000 for a total grant amount of 20 million three hundred and seventy-five three oh five ninety-nine.

In the Office of Bureau of Administration, Department of Transportation and Highways, I'd like to move for approval 260903, a proposed contract with Builders Asphalt of Hillside, Illinois for by Tuninous M we call Hot Patch and Prime Cope Materials, Cook County for the Department of Transportation, maintenance district one out of Schomburg and District 2 out of displays.

I'd like to move for approval 260904, a proposed contract with Dindler Inc.

of Joliet, Illinois for construction services, payment preservation, crack ceiling, 03 location, countywide and for various locations.

Like to receive and file item 260951.

This item is to receive and file the quarterly engineering status report for the quarter ending February 28, 2026.

I'd like to also receive and file 261031.

This item is to receive and file the construction status report for the month of February 2026.

And I'd like to refer to transportation item 261044.

This item refers to a committee request for approval of a single pavement tonight engineering for completion of the contracted professional engineering services for Plainfield Road from County Line Road to East Avenue.

I'd like to refer to transportation item 26, 1045.

This item refers to the committee, a request for approval of three payments totaling 287,257 to meet electric for completion of the contract and maintenance services for the county's electrical and mechanical assets such as traffic signals, roadway lighting, and storm water pumping stations.

Thank you, Madam President.

All right.

Commissioner Naya seconds the motion.

Yeah.

Is there any discussion of these items?

Hearing none, all in favor, signify by saying aye.

Madam President.

If I could be recorded present on one item.

And which item is that?

26-05.

I'm sorry, 1015.

2615.

Yeah, 1015.

Okay, which is the second item.

Yes, thank you.

All right.

Um is anyone else wish to be noted as present?

All right.

Notwithstanding the division, the motion carries.

Commissioner Miller.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam President.

On pages 24 through 37, I make the following motions on items in the Bureau of Asset Management, Economic Development, Human Resources, and Human Rights and Ethics categories.

Refer to asset management 26-1114.

That's a report of the 2025 Build Up Cook Program during fiscal year 2025.

In uh Bureau of Asset Management, also in capital planning, refer to asset management 26-1057, proposed contract for the authorization of the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute a contract with A.

Epstein and Sons International in Chicago, Illinois.

Approved 26-0794, proposed contract amendment for the authorization of the Chief Procurement Officer to increase the contract for convergent technologies, LLC and Hoffman States, Illinois.

Approved 26-1078, the proposed license agreement with the American National Red Cross, located at 701 South Levitt Street, Chicago, Illinois.

Approved 26 1079, proposed license agreement with Energy Systems Group, LLC located at 701 Levit Street, Illinois, Chicago.

26 1152 proposed resolution for the acceptance of a donation of office furniture from the Builders and Owners Management Managers Association of Cook County.

In the Bureau of this is referred to business and economic development.

26-1089 proposed resolution for a 6B property tax incentive request for Common Market Philadelphia Incorporated, located at 7424 South Lockwood Avenue in Bedford, Illinois.

Move to approve 26-118 proposed intergovernment agreement authorizing the Bureau of Economic Development to conduct research, analyze, and report on the redesign of Cook County's industrial and commercial property tax incentives between Cook County Bureau of Economic Development and the Chicago Metropolitan Agency of Planning, which is CNAP.

In the Bureau of Human Resources, refer to workforce housing and community development 26-1029, the report for the Bureau Human Resources Hiring Training Timeline during the first quarter of fiscal year 2026.

Receive and file 26-1030 report of human resources bi-weekly activity reports during the following pay periods.

Pay period two from December 28th through January 20, December 28th, 2025 through January 10th, 2026.

Pay period 3 period of January 11th through 2026 through January 24th, 2026, and pay period for January 25th, 2026 through February 7, 2026.

In human rights and ethics, refer to human relations 26-1113, the report for the Department of Human Rights and Ethics, Q1 2026 report to the Human Relations Committee.

Britain seconds.

Motion is made in second.

Is there any discussion?

Hearing not all in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

All right, Commissioner Britton.

Thank you, Madam President, members of the board.

On pages 37 through 48, I make the following motions on the items of the Office of the Assessor, Chief Judge and Sheriff Categories.

And the Office of the Assessor to approve 26076.

Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to increase a contract with SEBIS Direct for printing of evaluation of forms and related services.

Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute a contract with the Chicago Bar Association for Legal Services.

260987, approval of court ordered payment to the Center for Conflict Resolution for Dispute Resolution Services.

261012, authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to renew increase in a contract with the network advocating against domestic violence and support for after hours domestic violence pilot program in the office of the sheriff.

Item 260868.

Excuse me.

An intergovernmental agreement between the Cook County Sheriff's Office and the Village of Posen for 911's dispatch systems and services 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the village of Posen.

261038, intergovernmental agreement between the Cook County Sheriff's Office and the Village of Stone Park for 911 system dispatch 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

261041 and intergovernmental agreement with the Inverness Police Department to allow uh sheriff's computerized criminal apprehensive and booking system in the countywide or WAN network.

Refer to criminal justice 261043, authorization for the chief procurement officer to enter into and execute a contract with insight public sector for automated license plant readers.

Approve item 261087, authorization for the chief procurement officer to enter into and execute a contract with enterprise fleet management for vehicle leasing and maintenance.

And finally, refer to finance 261014.

Authorization for the chief recurrence officer to enter into and execute a contract with industrial organizational solutions for law enforcement entry level and promotional testing services.

Second.

Motion is made and second.

Is there any discussion on any of these items?

Madam President, yes.

Um just wanted to see if I could be added to two items as co-sponsors.

Um first, the Chief Judge's Chicago Bar Foundation for Legal Services.

That's item 26-0927, and then item 26-uh 1012, which is uh contract amendment for the network.

All right.

Yes, Commissioner Miller.

Madam President, is there someone from the Chief Judge's office?

I had a question about representative of the Chief Judge here.

Good morning, Madam President.

This is Brinski Coleman with the office of the chief judge joining remotely.

Hello, yes.

I wanted to ask about 26-0927.

The lawyers that would be appointed to help with the uh that's what's outlined in the contract to seek guardianship for the minors in the courts probate division.

Can you explain just a little bit about how you're going to coordinate with the volunteer lawyers and where they're becoming from the uh yes, ma'am, Commissioner uh Miller, and with lead with a body, we actually have a representative from the Chicago Bar Foundation on the call.

Uh if they could join, I would uh they can give specifics on that.

Sure.

I'm I'm here.

I'm Melanie McBride.

I'm from the Chicago Bar Foundation.

I'm our chief grants and operations officer.

Um Commissioner, the way that the guardianship desk works is that there are actually court and employees who provide sort of initial help for um unrepresented litigants who are interested in getting guardianship, and they coordinate with CBLS, Chicago Volunteer Legal Services, with the staff there, um regarding questions that they have and additional legal support, as obviously they're not lawyers and they can't provide legal advice to those litigants, so they work in tandem with CVLS.

When the um the desk has cases that require additional um services beyond sort of brief advice, they can be connected to um volunteer lawyers through Chicago Volunteer Legal Services, which is sort of the largest legal aid in Cook County working with volunteer attorneys, if that makes sense.

It does.

Thank you.

Nothing else.

I'd also like to be added as a co-sponsor.

To excuse me, 0927 or 01012.

0927.

All right, leave to add all.

All right.

With the exception of those who are not on the floor, all will be at it.

All right, any further questions?

All in favor signify by saying aye.

Opposed opinion of the chair of the ayes have it.

Committee actions requiring committee items requiring board action.

Commissioner Naya.

Yes, Madam President.

I'd like to uh concur with the recommendations of the business and economic development committee to approve item 26-0914 is the proposed resolution six speed property tax incentive for uh Shan Lee uh pump and equipment.

Item 26-0915, proposed resolution six speed property tax incentive for uh 1090 Prad LLC.

Um 26-uh nine thirty-six, a proposed uh ordinance amendment uh concerning the Cook County uh real estate uh real property assessment classification ordinance regarding incentive classifications.

Second.

Motion is made in second.

Is there any discussion?

All in favor signify by saying aye.

Opposed opinion of the chair of the ayes have it.

Thank you.

Vice Chair Lolly.

I move to concur with the recommendation of the Health and Hospitals Committee to defer item 23-3815, proposed resolution requesting a meeting for the Cook County Health and Hospitals Committee to receive an update from Cook County Health and Cook County Department of Public Health on their COVID 19 and other diseases of concern, immunization and mitigation plans in suburban Cook County.

Move to defer item 23-0202, proposed resolution requesting a hearing of the Health and Hospitals Committee for report from the senior staff of Cook County Health and Hospital System.

I move to concur with the recommendation of the Health and Hospitals Committee from the special meeting on April 14th, 2026 at 2 p.m.

Relative to item 26-0649 proposed resolution requesting that the Cook County Department of Public Health in conjunction with CCH develop a CTE damage awareness program and help facilitate referrals to concussion clinics for athletes, that the State of Illinois regulate NIL deals and that the Federal Government fund research on how the portal and NIL deals may affect CTE injuries and the mental health of young athletes.

I move.

Sorry, can I ask seconds?

Yes.

You want to vote?

Um we did both help we did help both health and hospital together.

Okay because they're the same subject matter.

Yes.

Okay.

Pardon me.

Yeah, okay.

I'm sorry.

I okay.

All right.

Thank you.

All in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Opposed opinion of the chair of the ISA have it.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

I now move to concur with the recommendation of rules and administration committee to approve item 26-1126.

General Proceedings for the regular meeting held on March 12, 2026, and item 26-1127, Journal of Proceedings for the regular consent calendar meeting held on March 12, 2026.

All right.

Is there any discussion?

Hearing none.

All in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Opposed opinion of the chair of the ayes have it.

Chair Daly.

Move to concur with the recommendation of the Finance Committee.

Uh to concur concur with I'm sorry, item number two six one zero four nine.

The report titled legal expert witnesses fees from February 17th through March 20th, 26, to receive and file that item.

To approve the following items.

Special court uh court cases, proposed settlement letters, 261056.

These are all approval.

Uh report for from worker camps for the period of March the 11th through April 2026.

Another report with worker camp claims period of December 1, 20 202 I'm sorry, February 2026 through the end of February 2028, 2026.

Receive and file also 261102 and other worker camp claims.

These from 401 through the end of uh April 430, 2026.

261067, the quarterly litigation re disbursement from 121 2025 through February 28th, 2026.

261105, a patient arrested claims from 2126 through 228-26.

Um self-insurance claims for the March of month of March and 261066, receive and file the subregation recovery report for the month of March.

I'm sorry, receive and fire 261065, the uh revenue report for the month of February 2026.

Uh McCook County Monthly Health Report of March of 2026.

Approve the following items 260552, a proposed resolution, renewal to increase the subgrade agreement between Cook County JAC and Heartland Human Services for uh for the supporting education and employment development.

Approve is amended in the Rada 260828, a proposed resolution of ARPA behavior health services implemented by the Cook County Health and receive and file 26117, a report titled the revenue expense report for the month of November 2025.

Madam President and Chairman, the item for 261102 should be approved.

Thank you, sir.

10 1102 is to approve.

Thank you.

And Madam President, on these last ones on the approval, this again is an indication of the ARPA dollars that has been spent in communities throughout this county, especially communities is neat.

It is a indication of your dedication and your direction of how improvements can be adjusted can be approved.

And education programs could be brought out into the community.

And it is again a credit to your leadership.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any further comments or questions?

All right.

All in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Opposed, opinion of chair of the ISA transportation.

President, I'd like to be recorded as present on 26052.

260552.

Present, Commissioner Moore.

Thank you.

Madam President, I'd like to concur with the recommendation of the Transportation Committee to approve 260504.

This is a proposed contract for Strand Associates, Inc.

of Madison, Wisconsin, Professional Engineering Services, and Preparation of Phase 1 studies in the village of Deerfield, Northfoot, Northbrook, and Palatine.

I would like to concur with the recommendation of Transportation Committee to approve 260671, which is for R.

W.

Duntiman Company of Addison, Illinois Construction Services, Lake Cook Road, Patching Project, Illinois Rail Route 53 to Arlington Heights Road, Hastings Drive to U.S.

Route 45, and Wilmot Road Intersection in District 14.

I'd like to approve 260702, a proposed contract for hay and associates for Chicago, Illinois for drainage engineering services.

260704, a proposed intergovernmental agreement for the village of Mount Prospect for construction, District 9.

260705, a proposed grant award for the Illinois Department of Transportation.

Improvement of 119th Street between Kedzie Avenue and Western Avenue in Village of Marinette Park and Cities of Chicago and Blue Island.

260706.

This is a proposed grant award from the Illinois Department of Transportation.

Improvement of 171st Street between Ashland Avenue and Halstadt, Cook County Route in the City of Harvey and Village of Hazelcrest.

I'd like to approve 260707, a proposed grant award for the Illinois Department of Transportation, improvement of Burnham Avenue between Steager Road and 223rd Street, a Cook County Route and an unincorporated Bloom Township and Sulk Village.

260708, a proposed grant award for the Illinois Department of Transportation, improvement of the Michigan City Road from 154th Street to State Line Road, a Cook County route in unincorporated Thornton Township and the City of Cayumet City.

Item number 260709, also a proposed grant award for the Illinois Department of Transportation, improvement of the Ridgeland Avenue, Narragansett Avenue, Nagel Avenue between Sulk Trail and Lincoln Highway on U.S.

30.

This is a Cook County route located in unincorporated rich township in the villages of Richston Park and Madison, Illinois.

Item 260710 is a proposed grant award for the Illinois Department of Transportation.

Improvement of the state street between East Joe Or Road to Main Street at Cook County Route located in the City of Chicago Heights, the village of Glenwood, and unincorporated Bloom Township.

260711 is a proposed grant award for the Illinois Department of Transportation to remove replace the Sulk Trail Bridge over Thorn Creek as part of a planned reconstruction of Salt Trail between Western Avenue, Ashland Avenue, Cook County Route located within unincorporated Bloom Township.

260771, a proposed supplemental improvement resolution for motor fuel tax project, Salt Village Multi-Use Path, Village of Sulk Village, District 6.

260800, a proposed intergovernmental agreement for the village of Palatine, Illinois, design engineering, construction, and engineering for the village of Palatine, District 14.

260802, a proposed agreement for the Illinois Department of Transportation for the villages of Palatine, Schomburg, Mattison, and Palos Hills, District 14, 15, 6, and 17.

260813, a proposed supplemental improvement resolution for motor fuel tax project, pavement preservation, crack ceiling countywide.

And lastly, 260820, a proposed improvement resolution for motor fuel tax, City of Palos Hills, Village of Palatine, Village of Schomburg, Village of Tinley Park, District 6, 14, and 15.

Thank you, Madam President.

Motion is made in second.

Is there any discussion?

Hearing not all in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

I'm sorry.

I missed the hand, Commissioner Trevor.

Yes.

Thank you, Madam President.

I just wanted to be edited as a co-sponsor to the 260704.

Trevor.

Leave is granted.

All right, all in favor.

I took the vote you just had.

I missed your hand.

Is that right?

Okay.

All right.

Commissioner Britton.

Thank you, Madam President, members of the board.

I move to concur with the recommendation of the legislation and intergovernment relations committee to approve item 260977, a proposed resolution urging passage of the Climate Change Superfund Act.

260978, a proposed resolution urging members of Congress to reject legal immunity for big oil and fossil fuel companies.

260979, proposed resolution urging the passage of uh SB 1531, the disposable food service container act.

And I move to defer 260974, a proposed resolution urging the state of Illinois to opt in to the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program.

Emphatically.

I'm sorry, I didn't I didn't hear that.

What?

Second again.

All right, any discussion?

All in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Opposed opinion of the chair of the eyes have it, Commissioner Miller.

Thank you, Madam President.

I'd like to concur with the recommendation of the Veterans Committee to receive and file item 26-1013, the report title VACCC fiscal year 26.

First quarter report for the report period of 121 25 through 228-26.

Commissioner Marita seconds the motion.

All in favor signify by saying aye.

Opposed opinion of the chair of the ayes have it.

Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Thank you, Madam President.

I would like to concur with the recommendation of the Technology and Innovation Committee to receive and file.

From September 25 to oh, that's a duplicate.

Software asset and technology hardware asset inventory report for fiscal year 2026.

And deferred 260816, the SafeWar Inc.

uh contract uh from Lanham uh Maryland for uh video analytics platform all right and the motion is seconded by Sean Morrison.

Is there any discussion?

All in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye opposed opinion of the chair, the ayes have it.

Chairdown, move to spend the rules to take up on to items second.

All in favor of suspending the rules signify by saying aye.

Opposed opinion of the chair, the ayes have it.

All right, these items made it refer to criminal justice uh item number two six one one nine nine, which is a proposed resolution in support of Senate Bill 2801 and House Bill 4471, sponsored by Commissioner Lowry, which deals with responsible manufacturing gun legislation.

Approved 261191, proposed resolution, urging the General Assembly to pass House Bill 4112, Senate Bill 3020, and act of concerning domestic violence sponsored by Commissioner Donna Miller, I'm gonna aye on Commissioner Tagnet.

261120 proposed resolution for ARPA funding.

These are approval, madam president.

Market uh market rate down payment assistance program in the amount of one million dollars of fiscal impact.

26065959, a proposed intergovernment agreement with Kirk County, the sheriff and the village of Dixmore.

Well, the Sheriff's Office will provide 911 dispatching radio monitoring and call taking.

Um the second set referred to legislation uh sponsored by 26 item number two six one one four seven is sponsored by the entire board, urging a resolution asking the Cook County Clerk to appear before the legislation in a government committee to provide an update on the March 17th election and the new election initiatives.

Approved in the third set 26118, the proposed reappointment of Mary Sheila Chambers as director of the Chicago of Cook County Land Bank from 416 2026 to 416 2029.

Refer to finance as amended 26106 for a proposed contract with ISIS Incorporated Consulting Services for Community Development Block Grant of the amount of five million dollars.

Four set referred to finance two six one one five one, a proposed resolution sponsored by Commissioner Anaya and Commissioner Dagnan, updating the recruitment initiative and retention bonuses paid program.

Refer to labor 261249, a proposed resolution sponsored by Commissioner Anaya, Commissioner Tegnan, Commissioner Sam Vasquez, Boris and Lowry Miller requesting a public hearing regarding Cook County's government state of our labor workforce.

Referred to legislation 261230, a proposed resolution calling for a meeting of the legislature and government relations on the disbursement of property tax cut sponsored by Commissioner Brutton.

Refer to environmental and sustainability 261239, a proposed resolution by Commissioner Marita to advance Chicago Area Waterway System of Health.

And that's it, Madam President.

Second.

Any corrections, Lynn?

All right.

And I know I think some of the members might want to address their issues.

On the first set of approvals, the last item is 260859.

On the third set of approvals, it's 261218.

On the fourth set, refer to finance 261251.

Maybe I should get those glasses out.

Sometimes even with glasses.

All right.

Commissioner Trevor.

Thank you.

26.

All right, we'll add all to all items.

How's that?

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yes.

Commissioner Miller.

And then Commissioner Stephens.

Yes.

Yes.

Commissioner Miller.

Thank you, Madam President.

I just wanted to ask for leave to speak to item number 26-1193.

I know this is going for a direct approval, so I want to thank all my colleagues for their support.

But this is really an example of why and how our domestic violence task force things like this have been outlined in the resolution for the domestic violence task force.

Electronic harassment is rapidly an expanding tactic that's employed in domestic violence, and it uses power, it's used to establish power and intimidation over a partner.

And this form of technology is an abuse and it's prevalent, and that's why there's been studies indicating its occurrence in over 90% of gender-based violence cases.

And also I want to thank the General Assembly for uh bringing forth House Bill 4312 and Senate Bill 3020.

Both of these were initiated in amending a code from 1963 and another Illinois domestic violence code from 1986.

So that just shows that we have to continuously re-evaluate what we define with some of the definitions, especially harassment.

These changes include changes to the definition of harassment, and that includes, among other actions, doxing, electronic tracking, and non-consensual creation and dissemination of or threatening the dissemination of electronically generated or digitally auditored content pertaining to the petitioner.

So I think as time goes on, we'll have to continue to evolve our own definitions of what this looks like and update codes accordingly.

We've also seen an increase in the youth as far as how this type of uh is used.

Uh uh violence has been uh in schools and with young people.

And I want to thank this legislation because it creates additional remedies for court to grant in domestic violence and orders of protection.

So thank you.

And I know this is an affirmative vote.

I believe you're next.

Thank you, Madam President.

Just really quickly, I want to thank the board for passing and approving the three environmental resolutions.

I won't go through the comments that I made yesterday, but we are having a press conference today at one o'clock.

You're all invited to come.

We'll have the Sierra Club and a lot of other great environmental advocates there.

So thank you so much, and we're excited to move forward with other environmental issues.

Thank you.

Chair Daly.

Thank you, Madam President.

I know item number 261251 is going to committee.

If there I believe there could be some potential legal issues, and it might be addressed to committee.

So Vice Chair.

Thank you, Madam President.

If with leave, I'd like to just speak to uh an item in the first set that being item 26-1199, which is being referred to criminal justice.

While over the past several days, we've been reminded that gun violence really touches all of us.

Uh here in Cook County, we refuse to accept gun violence as inevitable.

We choose action, we choose common sense, and we choose to stand on the side of public safety.

So I and we urge the Illinois General Assembly to move swiftly in passing uh the two pending state bills, one in the state side, one in the House, because every delay is a risk we simply cannot afford.

Our communities deserve uh to feel safe from gun violence.

Our families deserve peace of mind, and together we have the power and the obligation to make that a reality.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Commissioner Britton.

Uh I just want to thank you, Madam President, for spot helping to sponsor 261230 along with most of my colleagues, I think almost all.

Um this is a in a matter that we had uh substantial input from from our taxing bodies.

Uh we need to do uh everything we can to make sure that they're comfortable with the decisions that are being made, not just by this board, but the other electeds that handle property taxes.

Uh, we will have a robust discussion of that in May, and I want to thank in anticipation all of the separate electors for appearing to answer our questions.

Thank you.

Thank you.

If there are no further comments or questions, all in favor signify by saying aye.

Madam President.

Yes.

Before we adjourn, I know today is Tim Casey's last day.

I know we're going to have a resolution later, but I just want to congratulate at the board.

Yes, at the board meeting.

I just want to congratulate him and wish him the best for his outstanding job to the proposal.

Speech.

Speech, Tim Casey, as a very young man.

I remember him, and needless to say, I was very young as a time.

And I'm still young.

I'm still very young.

But also, Madam President, I know you wanted to remind be reminded and make a statement about the missing person day, which is coming up on um April 18th.

Saturday.

Um Saturday.

So we as commissioners, I would urge us to post this urge uh on our website and get the word out.

And uh we thank the I want to thank uh the medical examiner for uh her outstanding leadership and uh everyone who serves us.

Uh so at this time we will add I would make a motion to adjourn.

All in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Opposed opinion of the chair, the ayes have it.

All right.

Eleven o'clock is consent.

Consent, right?