On Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025.

Uh County Board Rules and the Open Meeting Act.

Attended by remote mean mean is permitted for qualified reason as long as the majority of the committee members are physical present.

And we have uh my Altonberg and Sarah Kinesia is on remote.

And okay.

It's on a promote so we can see them.

Okay.

And a remind the members that attend remote, please ensure your camera is on at all times.

Thank you.

Okay.

May we stand for the pledge, please.

My pledge, please to the flag of the United States of the mayor.

And to the new fellow.

Oh, which is one nation on the guy.

Amen.

Okay.

You're gonna go to roll call, right?

Yes, Chair.

Um, member Altenburg.

Here Chair Cunningham.

Here.

Member Danforth.

Member Knishnik.

You muted uh she muted.

I do, I do see she is present.

I know what I mean.

And it does look like she's having a little bit of a connection issue, but she is present.

Uh member Kyle.

Member Peterson and Vice Chair Roberts.

And Member Kenishnik is here.

Okay.

Thank you.

There's an addend to the gender.

There is no public comments.

There is no public comment.

Chair remarks.

Chair don't have no remarks today.

There's unfinished business.

There is not.

New business.

I need a motion for 8.18.4 for the minutes.

Motion by Vice Chair Roberts.

Second by Chair Danford.

Okay.

All right.

You want to put a voice vote on that one?

Yeah.

Okay.

All in favor.

Aye.

Thank you.

Motion been approved.

None opposed.

Okay.

Regular agenda 8.5.

And this is 19th edition circuit court.

And this is a joint resolution authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $50,000 in funding from the Illinois Department of Health Care and Family Service and the approval of the renewal of inter-government agreement for the 19th edition of access and visitation for state official yeah.

And this is a renewal that they do get every year.

And I need a motion.

Motion by Vice Chair Robert.

Second by uh member Peterson.

Good morning, Carl Waldorf, Executive Director of the 19th.

Good morning, Lisa Wolf, Director of Finance for the 19th.

Now, this uh the access and visitation, this is a renewal of a program that provides services that help separated or unmarried parents resolve custody and visitation disputes in ways that supports the child's well-being.

Um funded activities include mediation, parent education, development of her parenting programs, and supervised visitation.

Um during the state fiscal year 25.

We served 67 separate cases.

Uh parents as opposed to you know parents that may be red.

Separate programs.

There, this is a specific grant for this one program, but we do do mediation in a lot of other cases as well.

No, I okay.

So so we do provide, I know we provide mediation services, but normally they're paid for, these would be unpaid for services.

No, uh, these are still uh we're paying for the mediators in these cases to the extent until the funding runs out.

So okay, and we have a similar program for merry parents.

We do as well.

We do all the gate, we do a lot of mediation, yeah, in family cases.

Right, thank you.

And that's a great program for the unwedded, you know, an unwedded.

Any more questions?

All in favor, I seven and opposed, eyes have it, no opposed.

Thank you.

Okay, and this is a joint resolution except in the Illinois Department of Human Service, redeployed Illinois grant and approving an emergency appropriation in the amount of 297,000 dollars, and I need a motion.

Motion by vice chair, second by member cow.

Um, just as with the access and visitation, this is also our annual renewal of a grant that provides local programs for youth and to keep them out of state correctional facilities.

Um, instead of sending them away, we we focus on community-based services like mentoring, counseling, education.

Um this way it helps hold the youth accountable while addressing the issues.

This is great.

And the question.

This is a great this is great too.

Program all in favor, aye, non-opposed.

Motion been approved.

Thank you.

And 8.7, and this is the giant resolution authorized in emergency appropriation with offsetting revenue in the amount of 369,590 to implement add the redeploy Illinois program for the 19th judicious circuit court.

And I need a motion.

Motion by Member Dan for us, second by Member Peterson.

The adult redeploy program is also an annual renewal.

It provides uh community-based alternatives to prison instead of prison for nonviolent offenders.

It also expands local services such as treatment, case management, and supervision that um also addresses the root causes of criminal behavior in fiscal year 25.

We saw 122 participants with 43 new enrollments to the program.

Question.

Yeah, that's great.

All right, I'm carrying the motion.

All in favor?

Aye, none opposed.

Motion been approved.

Thank you.

Okay.

Okay, that's oh, got one motion.

Did it judicial gotta?

This is nice.

This is very nice.

Uh this is the joint resolution authorizing emergency appropriation with the offset in revenue in the amount of eight thousand and five hundred dollars to support the 19 judicious circuit court self-representative litigate program.

And I need a motion.

Motion by Vice Chair Rabbas, second by Mel Mad final item um is a renewal of our access to just justice improvement grant.

Apologize, my allergies are horrible today.

Um with this grant, we're going to be continuing our live chat platform as well as adding mobile standing desks in our our law library, as well as implementing the gimlet track.

I'm sorry, Gimlet desk tracking system that'll help with statistical reporting.

Um, also with these funds, we will be purchasing the translate live devices so that way we can better serve our self-represented litigants.

Um, in 2024, we saw over 10,000 patrons served.

Great.

That's great.

Any questions?

Motion can get carried.

All in favor.

I say having not opposed.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Great programs.

Okay.

Down to the chef.

And this is the joint.

This is a joint loose authorized in agreement with private private dispatch co op of Salt Lake City, Utah, for pushing off a back back end back end database as a share service host by the Lake County emergency telephone system board.

And for the Lake County Sheriff Office.

And the amount of 100,000 281 dollars and nine passes.

And I need a motion.

Motion by member Dan for second by Member Cow.

Good morning, Jim Cherwick, business manager, Lake County Sheriff's Office.

Good morning, Sharice Nichols, 911 director for the sheriff's office.

We are here asking to have the funding to implement the emergency medical dispatching, which is already in place for other agencies throughout the county.

It is currently a state mandate to have all 911 dispatchers be certified in EMD and their protocols.

We are currently on a waiver through the state because we did not provide those services.

We don't know how long that waiver is going to last.

So we're trying to move forward and make sure that everybody is up to date.

Question.

Thank you.

And thanks so much for answering my questions.

Sorry, I wasn't able to be here for the um the meeting on Friday.

So you said four other dispatch dispatch agencies use this company?

A minimum throughout the county, most of them that are currently ETSB agencies use this.

It's already built into the CAD.

Okay.

And so those ETSB agencies have gone into LATECOM.

Is that right?

Correct.

So then LATECOM will be using priority dispatch corporation?

That's correct.

Okay.

Okay.

Um so since the sheriff's office isn't a member of LACOM, we need to pay for it again, essentially.

The ETSB is actually putting up 74,000.

And then our portion, I believe, for this year was just over 25.

And then it's maintenance and um QAQI for each year for five years.

Right.

But if if the sheriff's office was a member of LATECOM, it would all be already be provided through LACOM, obviously.

I believe so.

I'm not okay.

Thank you.

And so you have this um waiver.

You guys have been on a waiver from the EMD requirement, but you haven't been told that the waiver is going to end.

Not yet, no.

Okay.

And how long has that waiver been in place?

At least three years.

Three years.

So can you help me understand the indication that you've been given that the waiver will expire?

Because it is a mandate.

And if once latecom goes live, if they decide that they want to change it or start enforcing it, we just want to make sure that we're up to speed, as well as if there is an issue and phones go down and come to us, we can provide these services in the event of an outage.

Which phones would go?

Which ones would go out?

If if any of the surrounding agencies, if LateCom went down, if Waukegan went down, if we were taking backup calls, which has happened before, where we end up taking calls for other agencies, we can then perform provide the EMD instructions while the help is on the way.

Got it.

So can you help me understand?

Thank you, Chair.

Uh, can you help me understand what happens say since you you have this waiver in place?

Yes.

Um a call comes in, and then what happens?

Because you guys have a waiver in place, and and it turns out to be an EMD call.

Well, it gets transferred to the responsible fire department agency.

Okay.

So and and that so that waiver was in place.

So now what would happen if we moved forward with this?

My dispatchers would be able to provide emergency medical dispatch instructions to callers firsthand and ask questions to essentially kind of triage and see where the call needs to go and get agency started.

Okay.

So if this was denied, not saying that it would be, just trying to understand.

Sure.

Then what would happen?

You you let's say the waiver continues.

We didn't need to spend the money.

The waiver continues.

The calls would then come in, they just get transferred out.

Got it.

So this would stop the use of a transfer.

It could stop the use of transfers, yes.

Okay.

And then my follow-up question was the last bullet says the sheriff's office did not budget for this in fiscal year 2025, but has freed up the funds.

Where are those funds coming from?

We had um software that we came to you uh regarding flock cameras, and there's been delay with the implementation of the flock camera.

So we're gonna use the funding for that to pay for this.

Okay.

And so the the flock cameras, um, would that probably go into the 2026 then?

You would budget it for 20.

We have well, we've requested it.

I guess that's true.

Yeah, you've requested it, and our committee would need to approve it.

Okay.

Um, you know, I I think this board has always been really cautious with uh the dollars that we've spent, and we want to make sure that there's an efficient way for us to be uh partnering.

It's you know unfortunate, I think it I mean, at this point, you don't even know if a waiver is is going to be approved or not.

And I know you're only asking for the 25,000 and not the full 100,000, but the hundred thousand dollars is coming from taxpayer dollars, regardless of what pocket it's coming out of.

Um so it I would just you know remind all of us that if if we were if the sheriff's office was part of the ROC, which the Lake County Board and Lake County government is is part of, and we paid for, we wouldn't have to have this expenditure.

So anyway, thank you.

Okay.

Oh here, member Dan.

Say sure that um I think that in our last technology meeting, this was kind of being sold as a bit of a redundancy uh because of some of the surrounding areas that don't necessarily participate in our 911 program.

Um but you know, we really do need this is all the more reason to look to consolidate it.

And I think part of it, you know, what they were arguing is that uh, well, how about the rock goes down?

Well, if the rock goes down, we got lots of problems because that's the most modern facility we have.

It's hardened.

I mean, it's got all kinds of internal redundancies to it.

So I don't necessarily think that that's a good selling point.

Why that we should continue to fund this.

I think that this is just kind of a unfortunately a workaround from the sheriff's department to to um I continue not to be members of uh the ROC.

And uh I would like to see a more serious discussion about this in our next budgetary cycle, which is coming up.

So um again, I understand um the challenges, but I do agree with Chair Hart that this is an expenditure we probably otherwise shouldn't have.

But just one follow-up, and I I don't sit in on those meetings.

Um, but do you know if a secondary PSAP has been identified, Matt or Ruth Ann?

For the ROC, I mean excuse me, I shouldn't say secondary PSAP, I should say the backup.

There is a backup in Lake Zurich.

Okay.

Uh system backup in Lake Zar.

Okay.

So if the ROC were to go down, and as uh member Dan Ford stated, highly unlikely because there's a lot of redundancies and safeties built in that um that backup is actually in Lake Zurich.

So just as an FYI here.

So thank you.

Okay.

All in favor.

Aye.

I motion carried.

No.

And oppose.

Oh member Peter says no.

Okay, thank you.

Motion approved.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, state's attorney.

And this is a giant revolution at the randy emergency appropriation of $30,000 from the state attorney of a computer for cycle fund to pay software costs through the remaining of the fisher year 2025.

And I need a motion.

Motion by Vice Chair Robert, second by chair cow.

And you are own.

Uh good morning, everybody.

I'm Joe Gravitter, chief uh deputy of the administration in the state's attorney's office.

And uh with me today is also JB Brooks, our cyber lab director, in case anyone has any software questions.

Um so our office has a computer fraud forfeiture fund, which we call our cyber fund, uh, that's controlled by the state's attorney.

Revenue consists of assets seized as a result of forfeiture based on applicable law, as well as from fees that our local police departments uh pay to utilize the cyber lab.

Revenue is then used to fund anything that the cyber lab uses or needs relating to the detection, investigation, or prosecution of all types of crimes.

Um, it used to be limited to just white collar and uh uh cyber crimes, but now it's extended to all types of five uh violent crimes, financial crimes, etc.

Uh so this resolution is to request an additional $30,000 to be emergency appropriated in order to purchase needed software uh for the cyber lab for the remainder of the fiscal year.

These include magnet axiom licenses, a monolith license renewal, and celebrate premium.

Uh, the reason that we are coming to the committee today is uh because for the past few years, our great key software had been paid via a grant.

And as you may remember earlier in the year, um we actually needed to pay for this out of the cyber funds because we were not awarded the grant.

So that being said, there was a little over a $50,000 expenditure that needed to come out of this fiscal year that was not planned.

So because of that, we do have uh additional software costs that uh for uh software that we do need to renew before November 30th, and this $30,000 will um will uh pay for for the rest of those uh renewals.

Um we have currently applied for a grant.

Um I don't believe we're gonna find out if it's awarded until the October, November time frame.

That would pay for about three years worth of all software costs in the cyber fund.

And then um I have also budgeted for gray key within the fiscal year 26 budget, just in case we don't receive a grant.

So to try to avoid having to do this next year.

Thank you.

No question.

Care in the motion.

All in favor?

My shabin.

No non-opposed.

Motion been approved.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

Count administrator report.

Sure, the only report we have is um we have a new Skillbridge intern that's with us, Turk's bias Gowin.

I think I'm saying that right.

I'm sorry about that if I didn't.

Um, but he's here from the Air Force, and we're working and sharing with him with uh facilities to work on a number of projects.

So you may see him around, but we wanted to introduce him this morning.

Great Turk.

Turk Turk.

Welcome to Lake County, the great county.

Moddy Lake.

Yes.

We are too.

First day is today, so thought we'd bring them up.

We are very exciting.

Thank you.

That's all true.

Okay, thank you.

No executive section.

There's not.

Memo remarks.

I would join this meeting, next meeting, October the 7th, 2025.