The Lake County Council held its regular meeting on January 13, 2026, beginning at 10:00 AM. The meeting included presentations, discussions on a bond ordinance, approval of a collective bargaining agreement, adoption of a mileage rate, deferral of economic incentive ordinances, and numerous citizen appointments to various boards and committees.
Numerous appointments were made to boards and committees:
The meeting adjourned following public comments.
Um providers weekly to do a presentation to the participants and go on a walk with them. So really kind of bringing the community together for that path of wellness, and we have a testimonial from one of the parts of the wonderful event. And then this is just to show a heat map of where our presence has been over the last year and a half. One big focus of ours is maternal child health, and that is to work on the infant mortality rates that we face here in Lake County. So through our partners, we have been able to do 114 prenatal referrals, affecting over 2,000 families with 25 services. Hi, I'm Melka. I just want to thank you to everyone behind Hope Alliance. They have a lot of referrals for food and diapers and a lot of other help. So thank you. Hey there, I'm Kate. Thank you to everyone who have support and get resources. I just want to really thank you guys. It's always great to see that you nice. One of them we had a post-stroke patient who was having repeated calls to 911 because they were having falls, and their caregiver could not move them. So our partners went in and put in lift stations and assists and supports for them, and since that time we have not had any more calls to that home for falls. Another time we had an urgent call for a post nail mother who needed response pretty quickly, and within 24 hours, we were able to provide her with housing and food assistance. And of course, we have to build our infrastructure internally in order to make all of this possible. So we found some key areas to focus on for process improvement, and that is creating new online scheduling systems for our nursing department, accepting credit cards and online payments, digitizing our records for better service speed, and also freeing up space within our department, and utilizing a new lab to process our water samples. Those efforts have reduced wait times, improved customer satisfaction, and significant savings annually. We're seeing a lot more five-star reviews on our Google rating, which we're so proud, and we're hearing things like this comment here. I receives excellent customer service. That's so hard to find these days. We're building up teamwork within our department in collaboration. We've also received several awards and recognitions and grants in the last year. One of those is the outstanding partner organization from the Tobacco Coalition, the Clubhouse Hero through the Boys and Girls Club. And we received three grants the Autism Allotment Prevention Grant, Overdose Lifeline, and STI grants. And we do hope to work on getting more grants. Looking ahead, we're going to focus on enhancing our data systems, more outreach, increasing our school partnerships and educations, and just continuing to strengthen what we have built. And Lake County Health Department is built on access, innovation, and collaboration. Thank you guys so much for your time. Any questions? No. Nice presentation. Very nice. Some of these programs you've established through HFI as funding changes, obviously. Looks like some of those are capital investments in kind of the infrastructure of what you do, but some of it might not be able to be sustained. You and I had a great meeting on Zoom about you know kind of the sustainability looking out. But I just want to kind of edify you and the work that you've done and your team. Fantastic people, good work. Thank you so much. Yes, very good. Spending those dollars wisely for sure. And making a difference. That's what it's about. Thank you so much. There you go. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Shu. Okay, next on the agenda, uh, Lake County Commissioners.