The Business and Economic Development Committee of Cook County met on June 9, 2026. Chair Gainer presided. Roll call showed all members present except Commissioner Sean Morrison (excused). The committee approved minutes, heard one public comment, and approved three property tax incentive requests.
Soundroom, can you please turn up the mic for Chair Gainer? Ma'am, will you repeat that in your mic? Ma'am, repeat that in your mic. Uh, thank you very much. The hour of 1050 having uh arrived, madam secretary. Would you please call the roll to bring together the business and economic development committee? Thank you, ma'am. Commissioner Naya. Commissioner Britton. Commissioner Laurie. Commissioner Miller. Commissioner Moore. Commissioner Marita. Commissioner Moore is present. Thank you. Commissioner Marido is present. Commissioner Kevin Morrison. Thank you. Commissioner Sean Morrison is excused. Madam Chair is present. Ma'am, you have all members present with the exception of an excused absence for Commissioner Sean Morrison. Thank you very much. First first item, I'd like to entertain a motion to approve item number 26-1676. Ma'am, I do have uh what I think I got. I stand corrected. I thought you had speakers. You don't. Thank you. Okay, thank you very much. For our first item, I'd like to entertain a motion to approve item number. I'm sorry, not at all. We do. Okay, we do. George, let's go forward. George Blakemore is the speaker. Please be reminded of the rules. Yeah, three minutes to address the body. I'll keep time for you. This is business and economic development. And we have one public speaker, uh, Mr. Blake Moore. Mr. Blake Moore, what motivates you to come down here? What motivate the other citizens to not come? And economic development. And one thing black people are not doing, they're not tending to their business. The golden rule is he who has to go rule. And that Chinese man says something. And and and when he said these black people, you can't boycott us because you want what we sell. You want our hair.