Now make um a motion to recall the environment and sustainability committee, please.

Madam Chair.

Yes, sir.

Would it be okay if I call a couple committees?

Yes, of course.

We are not going to uh recall environment and sustainability.

What we're going to do is allow Commissioner Morrison to call his committee.

Should we call all committees?

Yes.

So if you give me a minute, please.

We're going to call all of those that uh time has elapsed.

And so environmental is holding for a second.

It is.

We're going to go to workers' comp, please.

Yes.

Thank you, madam secretary.

The hour having reached and passed 11 30 a.m.

I'd like to call to order the Cook County Finance Subcommittee on Workers' Compensation.

Madam Secretary, please take a call.

Thank you.

Commissioner McCaskill.

Commissioner Marita.

Morita present.

Commissioner Rita is present participating remotely.

Commissioner Trevor.

Here.

Commissioner Vasquez.

And Chairman is present.

Chairman, you do have a quorum.

When we return, uh you will need remote participation.

All right, very good.

Uh we will recess a meeting to call the chair.

Human relations, one o'clock.

With the time of one o'clock having come and gone, I would like to call the human relations committee to order.

Thank you.

Commissioner Naya.

Present?

Yes, thank you.

Commissioner McCaskill is present.

Thank you.

Commissioner Miller.

Thank you.

Commissioner Stamps.

Commissioner Trevor.

Uh-huh.

Commissioner Vasquez.

Present.

And Mr.

Chairman is present.

You do have a quorum.

All members are present.

Thank you.

We do have a quorum.

Should I call for remote participation now or hold?

We don't need any at this moment, sir.

Okay.

Uh the human relations committee uh will stand in recess till the call of the chair.

With that, uh and the time of 110 having come and gone.

I would like to call the technology and innovation committee to order.

Will the secretary please call the role?

Thank you.

Commissioner Aguilar?

Here.

Commissioner Degnan.

Present.

Commissioner McCasco.

Commissioner Miller.

Commissioner Vice Chair Morrison.

Sean Morrison.

Thank you.

Commissioner Scott.

Is technology?

Commissioner Scott is present.

Yes, thank you.

Commissioner Trevor.

Commissioner Vasquez.

Mr.

Chairman is present.

You do have a quorum, sir.

All members are present for technology.

All members are present.

Uh the technology and innovation committee will stand in recess till the call of the chair.

Thank you.

Asset management 130.

Thank you, Madam Secretary.

The hour of 130 having a right.

I'd like to call the Cook County Asset Management Committee meeting the order.

Can you call the please take the roll?

Thank you.

Commissioner Aguilar?

Here.

Commissioner Naya.

Commissioner Britton.

Commissioner Dagnan.

Commissioner Dagnan is present.

Thank you.

Commissioner McCasco.

Commissioner Moore is absent.

Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Commissioner Sean Morrison.

And Madam Chair is present.

You do have a quorum.

All members present with the exception of an absence for Commissioner Moore.

Thank you.

Are we assessed to the call of the chair?

The hour of one thirty.

Should I call contract compliance?

Yes, let's go ahead.

The hour of 135 having a ride.

I'd like to call the Cook County Contract Compliance Committee meeting order.

Can you please take the roll?

Commissioner Aguilar.

Commissioner Naya is absent.

We'll add her when she returns.

Commissioner Degna.

Commissioner Laurie.

Add him when he returns.

Commissioner McCasco.

Commissioner Moore is absent.

Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Thank you.

Commissioner Scott.

Commissioner Stamps.

Present.

Commissioner Vasquez.

Present.

Thank you.

Madam Chair is present.

Present.

You do have a quorum following members did not respond.

Commissioner Naya.

Commissioner Laurie and Commissioner Moore is absent.

Thank you.

We're recessed to the call to the chair.

Back to Environment.

Yes, we are.

Okay.

Thank you.

Okay.

I would like to call the Cook County Environment and Sustainability Committee back to order.

Madam Secretary, we still have a quorum.

You do have a quorum.

At your recess meeting, all members were present.

We had an absence for Commissioner Miller.

She will be added to the role.

You have a remote participant.

Okay.

Do we have any public speakers or changes to the agenda?

You do have environment.

Speakers that were registered in this order.

Uh and remember the rules for public speaking.

They are let's see.

George Blakemore.

Jessica Jackson is not present.

Taiwan Sims is not present, and Zoe Lee.

So George and Zoe, in that order, please.

And remember you will be timed for three minutes to address the body.

Good afternoon.

Your environment is very important.

Who you associate with.

You can judge a person by the covenant they keep.

Environment.

A toxic environment.

And these ghettos.

All the waste go and go there.

But all the fraud and abuse also go there.

To these poor ghettos.

Toxic environment is toxic here.

Environment here is toxic.

It's a one party system.

All Democrats.

And you have all women and no men and no children and no community, no hiney's and mamas and aunties and grandmas.

Not a family.

This is toxic.

Very I'm putting myself in harm's way.

Now care chairman.

Chairman, you have a public speaker.

Forget about that attorney.

You supposed to be caring on this committee with the us.

Turn around here.

Turn around here.

I accept your apology.

Thank you.

I accept your apology.

You are the chairman.

Yes.

And you must act like the chairman.

Why would I have to reach out and how?

Stop it.

Oh, but you talk to that attorney over here.

That's not your business.

That's not time for you all to dialogue with each other.

You now have a member from the public here.

And you're over this committee.

You you didn't set a very good example while I was talking about it.

One minute.

Why would you do this?

You don't respect me or you don't respect your position.

Which one?

Maybe both.

Maybe both.

Environmental toxic.

I had to holler loud.

I say, miss, turn around.

But what you've been doing talking to that law you over there.

30 seconds interrupting you.

The whole environment is toxic.

They'll get your chef to throw me out like I'm a criminal.

You all are conquered here.

Truly toxic.

Next speaker, Zoe Lee.

Damn.

Nothing wrong with me.

Yeah, the uh the whole environment is toxic.

This whole Cook County environment is toxic.

The hypocrisy is out of control.

The hypocrisy in this room is hilarious.

Like it's it's honestly like I would I graduated from the second city.

Like I could do a whole script on how incompetent y'all are.

She just called me ignorant right here.

She just called me.

It's on my fans.

See it.

She just called me ignorant.

She went to the Chicago Tribune.

But she was on a video, October 17th, and said, them flip red people.

No, I'm beautiful.

I'm beautiful.

Tell Trump we don't need him here.

Send him, send us the money.

Why?

So y'all can continue to steal it.

Because that's all y'all do.

So far as looking like the West Side cares nothing about the South Side.

That's why she's gonna ride to the dark with an idiot of a mayor that we have.

First amendment.

I guess I gotta keep saying first amendment.

Because y'all clearly don't know what the first amendment.

I'm not threatening nobody.

I'm not harming anybody.

I can speak as long as I want to.

When it comes to my first amendment, I already have a lawsuit against million dollar Tony The City of Chicago for violating my open public, the open public meetings act.

Also, the Monell claim went through of the retaliation between the good county, the city.

So the attorney over there understands that there's nothing that she can do unless I am physically hurting her or threatening her in any type of way, and I'm not.

I'm telling her the uncomfortable truth about herself.

One minute.

And she started it.

She started it.

Just like Samantha Steele, whatever her name is, said what she said to that police officer.

And she still, and she just found out guilty because y'all went and found somebody that was retired, put them back on the stand, gave them a couple of dollars.

I don't go, I don't care about the law.

It's how much money somebody got.

I don't care about the U.S.

Constitution.

Y'all don't care about the oath.

Y'all don't care about the Bible.

30 seconds.

I don't care about y'all, yeah.

I don't care about going to hell.

Y'all don't care about the people.

Y'all don't care about anybody but yourself.

On my first amendment.

That's why I'm gonna make sure.

Y'all either resign or go to jail, take the window, take the stairs, but y'all getting up out of office.

Ain't no way.

This isn't 40 years old.

We ain't doing politics another 60 years, like yeah, I did hell no.

Chairman, that concludes your list of speakers.

Thank you, Madam Secretary.

Uh Commissioner Britton, will you please move approval of the minutes?

I move approval of the minutes from the January 14th, 2026 meeting.

Item 261425.

Thank you.

Move by Commissioner Britton, seconded by Commissioner Trevor.

Any discuss that discussion?

If not, all those in favor signify by saying aye.

Oppose nay, and the opinion of the chair.

The ayes have it.

Uh Commissioner Miller, will you please motion for the next item?

Mike, I'd like to move item number 26-1239, a proposed resolution to advance the Chicago Area Waterway System Ecological Health.

Thank you.

Move by uh Commissioner Miller, seconded by Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Um the item is a proposed resolution titled Resolution to Advanced Chicago Area Waterway System Ecological Health.

Um, Commissioner Marida, are you online?

And would you like to discuss this item?

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair.

Um I had the pleasure of serving as a metropolitan water relationship uh water reclamation district commissioner uh for six years prior to joining the board and um have worked with uh a lot of my fellow uh colleagues at MWRD, including Commissioner Cam Davis, to bring some of these items and integrate them into what we're doing at the county.

Um I had the pleasure of I was trying to join him.

I try to join him at the future as well.

Um had the pleasure of the pleasure of being back at MWRT just recently to recognize the appointment of uh Commissioner Marina Commissioner Marina executive director, John Murray.

Um, and it kind of revived some conversation about um what what more we can be doing between the county and MWRD.

I know we've paid a lot of attention um, you know, to the issues around the Great Lakes that hold 90% of the U.S.

water supply, uh 20% of the world's fresh surface water, um, and wanted to highlight also um the importance of the Chicago area waterways, also known as the Cause.

I'm so excited to have my former colleague Cameron Davis uh from MWRD to talk further about this resolution um here at the board today.

Thank you.

I would like to request leave of this body to allow for MWRD, Commissioner Cam Davis to speak to this item.

Leave granted, leave us granted.

Uh Commissioner Davis is joining us remotely.

Welcome, Commissioner, and thank you for joining us today.

Um, please speak on this item.

Thank you very much, uh, Commissioner Dagnan, and thanks to um my former colleague at MWRD, Commissioner Marita, for your interest in this, and thanks to all of you, uh, my friends in that room.

I do plan to join you tomorrow morning in person.

Um, and instead of just giving comments like I will tomorrow, I wanted to give you uh not a formal presentation, but just a little bit of history behind this resolution and why it's so important to our entire county, our entire metro region.

Um, as many of you know, the Chicago River system has had leg what we call legacy pollutants in it for generations and generations and generations that are pollutants that have been that were discharged long ago, decades ago, uh, and have fallen down to the bottom of our river system called the Chicago area waterway system, the CAWS or cause, where those pollutants have essentially sat and sat for decades, if not generations.

Uh the problem with many of these pollutants is that they don't just stay there out of sight, out of mind, out of reality.

Uh they tend to recycle themselves through the food chain and especially impact uh subsistence anglers who rely on fishing as an inexpensive food source for themselves and their families.

So even though these pollutants have been uh were discharged generations ago, uh they still make themselves known, they still make themselves present, and they still present uh tremendous uh public health threat to the entire metro region.

The great thing is that uh the one of the federal agencies, actually, two federal agencies are proposing to take the lead in identifying where these toxic hotspots are and uh coming up with plans to address them at long long last.

Uh the U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers and the US EPA.

And they propose to start this process with uh 100% federal funded lead.

One of the things that's really important is that we show our support to these federal agencies, especially at this time when we're seeing federal cutbacks in our environmental programs, our budgets, and our staffing, and show that uh we as what are called non-federal sponsors are concerned about this.

We want to partner with our federal agency friends, and we want to stop kicking these ecological threats, if not economic threats, recreation threats, and so on down the road.

So, one of the things that I did with my team is we crafted a resolution, and uh I'm much appreciative of my colleagues on the board who passed this resolution unanimously last year, and uh that is very much mirrored in the resolution you see now that's intended to document to show support for the cleanup of the Chicago River.

Now, I know uh many of you have districts that encompass parts of the Chicago area waterway system that can be the North Branch or the North Shore Channel, the main stem that uh flows uh that connects the Lake Michigan through uh the locks by Navy Pier, the South Branch, uh the Illinois, the Chicago Sanitarian Ship Canal, the Cal Sag Channel, the list goes on, and each one of those stretches of waterway have smaller pieces such as Bubly Creek, the collateral channel, places around Goose Island, and so on, that are iconic places in your district.

Even if you don't have a district that encompasses part of the Chicago area waterway system, when we have a clean, healthy Chicago area waterway system, those benefits accrue to everybody, every single resident of Cook County.

That's why we offered the resolution that passed unanimously at MWRD.

We worked with the City of Chicago to pass a similar resolution earlier this year, and that's why it's really been a privilege to work with you all, uh, especially Commissioner Marita to come up with this resolution for your consideration.

So why don't I leave it at that?

And uh I'm also happy to answer questions if there are any.

Thank you, Commissioner Davis.

Seeing no questions by our board, I want to thank you so much for joining us today and for your work on the health of Chicago's waterways and keeping them clean.

Um that will bring us to the motion on the floor is to approve this.

All in favor.

Oh no, do we have a roll call?

Roll call, please, Lynn.

This is roll call for item number 1239, moved by Commissioner Miller, second by Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Commissioner Britton, your vote, sir.

Aye.

Commissioner Brittany is aye.

Commissioner Miller.

Aye, Commissioner Miller is that Commissioner Moore uh Marita.

Commissioner Morris.

Thank you, Kim.

Thank you.

Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Commissioner Kevin Morrison, not in the room.

We'll be absent.

Commissioner Trevor.

Pardon.

Commissioner Trevor's I.

Commissioner Vasquez.

Commissioner Vasquez is aye.

Madam Chair.

Hi.

Madam Chair, you are I.

There's six ayes, one absent vote for Commissioner Kevin Morrison.

Thank you.

And the opinion of the Chair of the Ayes Have It.

We'll now entertain a motion to adjourn by Commissioner Vasquez, seconded by Commissioner Trevor.

All in favor, signify by saying aye.

Aye, uh nays in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it.

Thank you.

We are adjourned.