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Iroquois County Board met Aug. 11.

Here is the minutes provided by the board:

The Iroquois County Board met in Recessed Session at 9:00 A.M. The meeting was conducted in person and electronically, via conference call, under Phase 4 of the Governor’s Plan to reopen the State of Illinois and Executive Order 2020-48. The phased opening and executive order were issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, they require social distancing measures to be taken to stop the spread of the highly contagious virus and also suspend certain provisions of the Illinois Open Meetings Act to allow for public bodies to continue their course of business during the public health emergency. Chairman Shure called the meeting to order and asked County Clerk Lisa Fancher to call the roll.

STATE OF ILLINOIS

IROQUOIS COUNTY

Roll call and votes in Iroquois County

Recessed Session, August 11, 2020

Chairman Shure

On motion to call the roll

Aye: Alt, Bard, Behrends, Bowers, Coughenour, Crow, Curtis, Duby, Ducat, Huse, Johnson, McGinnis, McTaggart, Offill, Shure, Stichnoth, Whitlow, Young, Zumwalt

Absent: Bohlmann

PRAYER & PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

Mr. McGinnis gave the opening prayer after which the Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.

AGENDA

It was moved by Mr. Huse and seconded to approve the agenda. The motion carried by a roll call vote.

STATE OF ILLINOIS

IROQUOIS COUNTY

Roll call and votes in Iroquois County

Recessed Session, August 11, 2020

Chairman Shure

On motion to approve the agenda

Aye: Alt, Bard, Behrends, Bowers, Coughenour, Crow, Curtis, Duby, Ducat, Huse, Johnson, McGinnis, McTaggart, Offill, Shure, Stichnoth, Whitlow, Young, Zumwalt

Absent: Bohlmann

MINUTES

It was moved by Mr. Bowers and seconded to approve the minutes from the July 14, 2020 Recessed Session County Board meeting. The motion carried by a roll call vote.

STATE OF ILLINOIS

IROQUOIS COUNTY

Roll call and votes in Iroquois County

Recessed Session, August 11, 2020

Chairman Shure

On motion to approve the minutes from the July 14, 2020 Recessed Session County Board meeting

Aye: Alt, Bard, Behrends, Bowers, Coughenour, Crow, Curtis, Duby, Ducat, Huse, Johnson, McGinnis, McTaggart, Offill, Shure, Stichnoth, Whitlow, Young, Zumwalt

Absent: Bohlmann

PAYROLL

It was moved by Mr. Young and seconded to approve the July payroll. The motion carried by a roll call vote.

STATE OF ILLINOIS

IROQUOIS COUNTY

Roll call and votes in Iroquois County

Recessed Session, August 11, 2020

Chairman Shure

On motion to approve the July payroll

Aye: Alt, Bard, Behrends, Bowers, Coughenour, Crow, Curtis, Duby, Ducat, Huse, Johnson, McGinnis, McTaggart, Offill, Shure, Stichnoth, Whitlow, Young, Zumwalt

Absent: Bohlmann

COUNTY BOARD SERVICES

Charles Alt (3 months)...$752.50

Roger Bard...$105.00

Lyle Behrends...$680.16

Paul Bowers...$232.50

Kevin Coughenour (2 months)...$140.00

Donna Crow...$145.02

Paul Ducat...$260.60

Ernest Curtis...$261.25

Leanne Duby...$99.90

Steve Huse...$126.75

Sherry Johnson...$315.00

Chad McGinnis...$135.28

Barbara Offill...$158.58

John Shure...$774.71

Marvin Stichnoth (2 months)...$459.32

Jed Whitlow...$261.25

Joe Young...$257.25

John Zumwalt...$136.05

PUBLIC COMMENTS

There were no public comments.

CHAIRMAN COMMENTS

Chairman Shure informed the Board that he will be attending a meeting on Thursday, in Rensselaer, IN regarding flood mitigation. He said Indiana is actively working on flood mitigation and clean up of the Iroquois River which will in turn cause quite a bit of water to come more rapidly to the Iroquois River here in Illinois.

TAX/PLANNING & ZONING,

ORDINANCE NO. 2020-2

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE IROQUOIS COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE REZONING FROM A1 TO RURAL HOMESTEAD FOR LOSCHEN, PARCEL #08-10-

200-005, MILKS GROVE TOWNSHIP

RESOLUTION NO. R2020-14

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF A DEED OF CONVEYANCE

PARCEL #29-26-330-011, CERTIFICATE 2012-008

(Ordinance No. 2020-2 and Resolution No. R2020-14 have been recorded and placed on file in the County Clerk’s Office.)

Mr. Stichnoth, Chairman of the Tax/Planning & Zoning Committee, gave the report of his committee. At this time, it was moved by Mr. Coughenour and seconded to remove from the report, the paragraph that refers to the Conditional Use Request for Troy and Dawn Gullquist. The motion carried by a roll call vote.

STATE OF ILLINOIS

IROQUOIS COUNTY

Roll call and votes in Iroquois County

Recessed Session, August 11, 2020

Chairman Shure

On motion to remove from the report, the paragraph that refers to the Conditional Use request for Troy and Dawn Gullquist

Aye: Alt, Behrends, Bowers, Coughenour, Crow, Curtis, Duby, Ducat, Huse, Johnson, McGinnis, Offill, Shure, Whitlow, Young, Zumwalt

Nay: Bard, Stichnoth

Absent: Bohlmann

MOTION

The Board discussed concerns that were brought up by neighbors of the Gullquists in regards to increased traffic with the events that would be held in their building should the Board approve the Conditional Use request. The Gullquists explained that they remodeled the building and would like to utilize it as a place to hold small events including bridal showers, baby showers, and graduations. The occupancy maximum would be approximately 125 people, but they guessed the average number for the events they would be holding would be around 50 people. They are anticipating on holding around 10 to 12 events per year; however, that number could increase if the business takes off. They would not be applying for a liquor license. The neighbors that raised concerns were invited to the Board meeting to express their concerns to the entire Board; however, they were not in attendance. It was noted that the road to the Gullquists property is a dead end and they have talked to the local road commissioner to possibly post a 15 MPH speed limit.

After further discussion, it was moved by Mr. Coughenour and seconded to proceed with the original approval for the Conditional Use of the event venue for Troy and Dawn Gullquist. The motion carried by a roll call vote.

STATE OF ILLINOI S

IROQUOIS COUNTY

Roll call and votes in Iroquois County

Recessed Session, August 11, 2020

Chairman Shure

On motion to proceed with the original approval for the Conditional Use of the event venue for Troy and Dawn Gullquist

Aye: Alt, Bard, Behrends, Bowers, Coughenour, Crow, Curtis, Duby, Ducat, Huse, Johnson, McGinnis, McTaggart, Offill, Shure, Stichnoth, Whitlow, Young, Zumwalt

Absent: Bohlmann

TAX/PLANNING & ZONING

It was moved by Mr. Stichnoth and seconded to approve the balance of the Tax/Planning & Zoning Committee report. The motion carried by a roll call vote.

STATE OF ILLINOIS

IROQUOIS COUNTY

Roll call and votes in Iroquois County

Recessed Session, August 11, 2020

Chairman Shure

On motion to approve the Tax/Planning & Zoning Committee report

Aye: Alt, Bard, Behrends, Bowers, Coughenour, Crow, Curtis, Duby, Ducat, Huse, Johnson, McGinnis, McTaggart, Offill, Shure, Stichnoth, Whitlow, Young, Zumwalt

Absent: Bohlmann

STATE OF ILLINOIS

IROQUOIS COUNTY

County Board, Recessed Session

August 11, A.D., 2020

Mr. Chairman and Members of the County Board:

Your Committee to whom was referred Tax/Zoning would beg leave to submit the following report on the matters before them:

Your Committee met at the Administrative Center on August 4, 2020 at 10:00 A.M.

Members present were Marvin Stichnoth, Ernie Curtis, Barbara Offill, Roger Bard, Kevin Coughenour and Leanne Duby. Jed Whitlow was absent. Also present County Board Chairman John Shure, Finance Manager Jill Johnson, County Clerk Lisa Fancher, Treasurer Kurt Albers and Supervisor of Assessments Bob Yergler.

The meeting was called to order.

It was moved by Barbara Offill and seconded by Ernie Curtis to approve the agenda.

Motion carried by a voice vote.

The committee reviewed the claims. It was moved by Kevin Coughenour and seconded by Leanne Duby to pay the claims subject to County Board approval. A roll call vote was taken.

Motion carried.

There were no public comments.

The department heads gave their monthly reports:

• County Clerk Lisa Fancher reported some of her staff is participating in a zoom meeting with the state board of elections to help clarify grants that are covering election items due to COVID-19. Applications for a vote by mail ballot went out in the mail.

• Treasurer Kurt Albers reported the first distribution occurred July 24th and the second installment for property taxes is due September 1st.

• The Planning & Zoning report for July was distributed to the committee as follows:

• Building Permits – July 2020

o Agriculture – 4

o Residential – 11

o Wind Towers

• Building Permits – FY2020

o Residential – 60

o Agriculture – 10

o Wind Towers

• Building Inspections – July 2020

o 49

• Supervisor of Assessments Bob Yergler reported there were two Zoning Board of Appeals meetings. The first request was a variance to rezone A-1 to Rural Homestead for a single family dwelling. The tract is a 5 acre out of a 46 acre tract in Milks Grove Township. The ZBA voted 4-2 in favor of the variance. (The following sentence and motion were removed for separate consideration per action taken by the full County Board at their Recessed Session meeting on August 11, 2020.) The second request was for a conditional use for an event venue for 100-150 people in a pole building in Milford Township. The ZBA voted 5-1 in favor of the conditional use request.

It was moved by Offill and seconded by Duby to recommend approval of the conditional use request, pending County Board approval. A roll call vote was taken. Motion carried. It was moved by Roger Bard and seconded by Offill to approve the rezoning from A-1 to RH-1. A roll call vote was taken. Motion carried.

Fancher explained the County’s delinquent tax agent, Joseph Meyer, sold a parcel to the Village of Buckley and approval of the resolution is needed by the committee. It was moved by Coughenour and seconded by Ernie Curtis to approve the resolution for the sale of property acquired through the delinquent tax program. A roll call vote was taken. Motion carried.

There was no old business.

There was no new business.

As there was no further business to come before the committee, it was moved by Offill and seconded by Bard to adjourn the meeting at 10:08 A.M. Motion carried by a voice vote.

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