McLean County Justice Committee met Dec. 7.
Here are the minutes provided by the committee:
The Justice Committee of the McLean County Board met at 4:30 p.m. in Room 400 of the Government Center, 115 E. Washington Street, Bloomington, Illinois.
Members Present: Chairman Erickson, Members Randall L. Martin, Benjamin Webb, Susan Schafer, Sharon Chung and Hannah Beer
Members Absent: Member George Wendt
Other County Board Members Present None
Staff Present: Cassy Taylor, Interim County Administrator; Cathy Dreyer, Assistant County Administrator; Julie Morlock, Recording Secretary; Christopher Spanos, First Assistant State’s Attorney – Civil Division Department Heads/Elected Officials Present: Michael Donovan, Court Services Director; Molly Evans, Children’s Advocacy Center Director; Kathy Yoder, Coroner; Don Everhart, Circuit Clerk; Donald Knapp, State’s Attorney
Others Present: None
Chairman Erickson called the meeting to order at 4:30 p.m. and declared a quorum.
Chairman Erickson presented the minutes of the October 14, 2021 special meeting and November 3, 2021 regular meeting for approval.
Motion by Chung/Schafer to approve the minutes from the October 14, 2021 special Committee meeting and November 3, 2021 regular meeting.
Motion Carried.
Chairman Erickson confirmed with Cassy Taylor there were no members of the public or employees to appear.
Chairman Erickson presented on behalf of Jon Sandage, Sheriff a request to approve an Intergovernmental Agreement between the County of McLean and the City of Bloomington for booking services. Mr. Sandage indicated this and next two items were annual contracts.
Motion by Schafer/Martin to recommend approval of an Intergovernmental Agreement between the County of McLean and the City of Bloomington for booking services
Motion Carried.
Chairman Erickson presented on behalf of Mr. Sandage a request to approve an Intergovernmental Agreement between the County of McLean and Illinois State University for booking services and an Intergovernmental Agreement between the County of McLean and the Town of Normal for booking services.
Motion by Martin/Chung to recommend approval of an Intergovernmental Agreement between the County of McLean and Illinois State University and an Intergovernmental Agreement for booking services between County of Mclean and Town of Normal for booking services.
Motion Carried. Member Webb abstained.
Chairman Erickson presented on behalf of Mr. Sandage a request to approve an Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Bloomington for Use of the Bloomington Shooting Range.
Motion by Webb/Martin to recommend approval of an Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Bloomington for Use of the Bloomington Shooting Range
Motion Carried.
Chairman Erickson presented on behalf of Mr. Sandage a request to approve an Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Bloomington, Town of Normal and the County of McLean for the 2021 Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program Award.
Motion by Martin/Web to recommend approval of an Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Bloomington, Town of Normal and the County of McLean for the 2021 Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program Award.
Motion Carried.
Chairman Erickson presented on behalf of Mr. Sandage a request to approve an Emergency Appropriation Ordinance Amending the McLean County Fiscal Year 2021 Combined Annual Appropriation and Budget Ordinance. Mr. Sandage indicated this would allow them to get the body camera program started.
Motion by Schafer/Martin to recommend approval of an Emergency Appropriation Ordinance Amending the McLean County Fiscal Year 2021 Combined Annual Appropriation and Budget Ordinance
Motion Carried.
Mr. Sandage presented his monthly report. Chairman Erickson asked if there were any questions, hearing none, he thanked him.
Kathy Yoder, County Coroner presented her monthly reports. Chairman Erickson asked if there were any questions for the Coroner; hearing none, he thanked her.
Ms. Beer joined the meeting at 4:41 p.m.
Don Knapp, McLean County State’s Attorney presented his monthly reports to the Committee. Mr. Knapp stated the Illinois Supreme Court had changed record keeping. He explained the differences and indicated that would cause their reports to look different next year. Mr. Webb asked if item on table for sheriff could be pulled. Mr. Knapp stated if they pulled item, item went through process, was approved, and sent to IC, then IC solutions would probably reject as the Sheriff had executed a stand-alone agreement. Ms. Schafer asked how meaningful their report would be with the changes in record keeping. Mr. Knapp stated they would still try to record all charges but noted one case file may have felony, misdemeanor and civil charges in that file. Chairman Erickson asked if there were any further questions regarding Mr. Knapp’s reports; hearing none, he thanked him.
Chairman Erickson noted that Mr. Dennis McGuire was present for the Court Services department as Mr. Mike Donovan could not attend. Chairman Erickson presented on behalf of that department a request to approve an Agreement with Center for Youth and Family Solutions for FY 2022 RNR initiative.
Motion by Chung/Beer to recommend approval of an Agreement with Center for Youth and Family Solutions for FY 2022 RNR initiative.
Motion carried
Chairman Erickson presented for the Court Services Department a request to approve an Agreement with Kevin Crutcher for FY 2022 RNR initiative.
Motion by Beer/Webb to recommend approval of an Agreement with Kevin Crutcher for FY 2022 RNR initiative.
Motion carried.
Chairman Erickson presented for the Court Services Department a request to approve an Agreement with the Center for Youth and Family Solutions (CYFS) (CAT Grant).
Motion by Martin/Chung to recommend approval of approve an Agreement with the Center for Youth and Family Solutions (CYFS) (CAT Grant).
Motion carried.
Chairman Erickson asked if there were any questions on the Court Services report; hearing none, he thanked him.
Mr. Don Everhart, McLean County Circuit Clerk presented his monthly reports to the Committee. Mr. Everhart agreed with Mr. Knapp that the workload would not change, but the numbers may not show that. He provided an example of traffic counts being put under other cases. Chairman Erickson asked if there were any questions; hearing none, he thanked him.
Chairman Erickson presented on behalf of Mr. Ron Lewis, Public Defender a request to approve six Special Public Defender contracts between the Public Defender’s office and John J. Bussan, Jeff Brown, Michael Doubet, Jennifer Patton, Craig Queen, and Stephanie Wisner.
Mr. Lewis indicated these contracts were the same as last year with the exception of one new attorney.
Motion by Chung/Beer to recommend approval of six Special Public Defender contracts between the Public Defender’s office and John J. Bussan, Jeff Brown, Michael Doubet, Jennifer Patton, Craig Queen, and Stephanie Wisner.
Motion Carried.
Mr. Lewis presented his monthly report and agreed with Mr. Everhart and Mr. Knapp that it would take time to adjust to the new reporting system and that statistical information would look different. Chairman Erickson asked if there were any questions for Mr. Lewis; hearing none, he thanked him.
Chairman Erickson noted that Molly Evans, Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) was not present, but Mary Pat Frugal-Anderson was present for the department. Chairman Erickson presented on behalf of CAC a request to approve an Emergency Appropriation Ordinance Amending the McLean County Fiscal Year 2021 Combined Annual Appropriation and Budget Ordinance.
Motion by Chung/Martin to recommend approval of an Emergency Appropriation Ordinance Amending the McLean County Fiscal Year 2021 Combined Annual Appropriation and Budget Ordinance.
Motion Carried.
Chairman Erickson asked if there were any questions on the report; hearing none, he thanked Ms. Frugal-Anderson for attending.
Mr. Will Scanlon, Circuit Court presented for action a request to approve two Circuit Court Guardian Ad Litem Contracts for Fiscal Years 2022-2024 with Brenda Tempke and Bruce Zywiec. Mr. Scanlon noted these were continuation contracts that had been in place since 2006. He noted that Mr. Zywiec took the place of Mr. Bernardi last year.
Motion by Chung/Martin to recommend approval of two Circuit Court Guardian Ad Litem Contracts for Fiscal Years 2022-2024 with Brenda Tempke and Bruce Zywiec.
Motion Carried.
Ms. Cassy Taylor, Interim County Administrator indicated she had no items for action or information for this committee.
Under Other Business and Communication. Mr. Erickson asked that members bring up any items not on the agenda under this area. Ms. Chung asked if they had questions of department heads how to handle asking at the end of meeting so that the department head does not leave the meeting. Ms. Taylor suggested bringing questions before the meeting to Administration for a more robust answer but felt that if they wanted to ask a question in a meeting they could ask the department head to stay to the end of the meeting.
Chairman Erickson asked if there were any other comments or questions; hearing none, he moved to the payment of the bills.
Chairman Erickson presented bills for review and approval as transmitted by the County Auditor with a prepaid and fund total of $310,711.75.
Motion by Beer/Chung to approve the Justice Committee bills as presented.
Motion Carried.
Chairman Erickson stated there was no other business for the Justice Committee to consider and adjourned the meeting at 4:58 p.m.
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