Kankakee Times

Kankakee County Executive Committee met July 29.

Here is the agenda provided by the committee:

1. Call to Order

• Roll Call

2. Public Comment*

3. Presentations

▪ Illinois State Association of Counties – Joe McCoy

4. Approval of Minutes : June 24, 2020

5. Legislative

6. Resolution Supporting the Full Funding of Kankakee County Public Safety Departments, Supporting Legal Immigration, Reaffirming our Commitment to Social Equity, Increased Mental Health Funding, and a Policy of the Kankakee County Board to Support National Immigration Reform

7. Information Services

8. Health Department – John Bevis

• COVID-19 Update

9. Schools – Dr. Greg Murphy

10. Veterans Assistance Commission – Karen Smietanski

• Monthly Report – June 2020

11. County Administrator’s Report – Anita Speckman

• Staffing Report

• IL Department of Revenue Public Defender Salary Adjustment

• Affirmative Action Resolution of 2007

12. Administrative Issues

➢ Appointments/Reappointments/Resignations

• Appointment of Larry Kerkstra to the Kankakee County GIS Committee

• Appointment of Robert Dennis to the Farmland Review Assessment Committee

• Reappointment of Joseph Swanson to the University of Illinois Extension

• Reappointment of Dennis Schwark to the Pilot Township Fire Protection District

• Reappointment of Duane Meier to the St. Anne Fire Protection District

• Reappointment of Michael Quigley to the Kankakee River Valley Forest Preserve District

• Reappointment of Jim Johanek to the Kankakee County Board of Health

• Reappointment of Jim Byrne to the Kankakee County Board of Health

• Reappointment of Rodney W. Gastafson to the Kankakee County Board of Health

• Appointment of Dr. Jeffrey D. Long to the Kankakee County Board of Health

• Appointment of Neelie Panozzo to the Kankakee County Board of Health

• Appointment of Timothy Nugent to the Will Kan Regional Development Authority, exp 2021

• Appointment of Christopher Curtis to the Will Kan Regional Development Authority, exp 2022

• Appointment of Michael O’Brien to the Will Kan Regional Development Authority, exp 2023

➢ Openings:

✓ One Opening on the Manteno No. 9 Drainage District

✓ Three Openings on the Kankakee County Regional Planning Commission

✓ Two Openings on the Zoning Board of Appeals

✓ One Opening on the Essex Township Fire Protection District

✓ One Opening on the Kankakee Township Fire Protection District

13. New Business

14. Old Business

15. Other Business

16. Adjournment

http://www.co.kankakee.il.us/files/committees/agenda_72920.pdf