The Lake County Public Works and Transportation Committee met on October 8, 2025, at 8:30 AM via Zoom with in-person attendance. The meeting was called to order by Chair Clark, with a quorum present. The committee addressed consent items, the director's report on a lead service line issue, multiple resolutions for speed zone changes, engineering contracts, and a long-range transportation plan update.
All right, good morning, everyone. Today is October 8th, 2025, and I call the Lake County Public Works and Transportation Committee meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. In addition to being able to attend in-person, remote attendance has been made available to the public via Zoom at the link on the agenda. This meeting is being recorded through Zoom. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic or which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Can I get a roll call, please? Member Kasman? Here. Chair Clark. Here. Member Hewitt. Member Hunter. Vice Chair Main. Present. Member Roberts. Member Watson. Thank you. We have a quorum. Is there any addenda to the agenda? There's none. Any public comment? There is not. All right. No chairs remarks or unfinished business. New business is our consent agenda. Item 8.1. Can I get a motion in a second, please? Motion by Robert, second by Kasmin. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. On our regular agenda is item 8.2, which is our director's report for public works. Good morning, Chair. Committee members, Austin McFarlane, uh director for Lake County Public Works. Want to chat with you briefly about an item that is of concern to the department. As you may recall, about a year ago, we did an inventory in all of our water main lines for lead and copper for the agency. And at the end of that inventory, we add one system that had one service, lead service line in place. And so we have been working with the owner of that property to address this issue, but the owner is not anxious or um designed to make any repeats to that lead service line anytime soon. Normally we have uh sampling regimen from the for from the IEPA, which is 10 samples every three years. But with this lead service line in place, the agency has adjusted our monitoring program, and now we're required to do 20 samples every six months. The sampling is done by the residents. They are required to collect samples of first flush in the morning. And so the operators are there first thing in the morning to collect the samples if they're available. If they are not there in the morning before the operators get there, then the operators do return later in the day when they get back from work to retrieve the samples. The increased activity certainly has created some frustration for the owners of the properties back there, and some have requested that their names be removed from the sampling list. Now, again, you know, the operators have to make multiple trips because if they go there in the morning and they're not there, they got a return if they go there in the afternoon, and so the cycle goes on and on. Um are required by the EPA to collaborate with the customers as we've done with this particular individual, but they're also required to have uh a replacement plan in place for these lead service um pipes.