Kankakee Times

Kankakee County Board met April 8.

Here is the agenda provided by the board:

INVOCATION: Aaron Dunnill, County Board Member

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

ROLL CALL: Dan Hendrickson

PUBLIC COMMENTARY

VACANCY APPOINTMENTS/RESIGNATIONS

PRESENTATION

CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION

Highway Department 

10 Yrs. 

Gary Beggs 

Michael O’Connor

Robert Wood

Assessor’s Office

15 Yrs.

Kimberly Scanlan

PROCLAMATION

• Proclamation in Support of National Safe Boating Week (3)

MINUTES OF LAST MEETING: March 11, 2025

CLAIMS COMMITTEE REPORTS: February 2025

DEPARTMENT REPORTS:

1. Recorder’s Monthly Reports for February 2025

2. County Clerk’s Monthly Report for February 2025

3. Coroner’s Monthly Reports for January & February 2025

4. Coroner’s Monthly Receipts for January & February 2025

5. Circuit Clerk’s Monthly Reports for January 2025

6. Animal Control’s Monthly Reports for January & February 2025

7. Monthly Building Report for February 2025

8. Monthly Resolution List March 2025

COMMITTEE PRESENTATIONS AND RESOLUTIONS:

• Consent Agenda

• Appointment of Aaron Dunnill to the Kankakee County Public Building Commission (32)

• Appointment of Cecil Loggins to the Kankakee County Housing Authority (33) 

• Appointment of Dawn Broers to the Kankakee County Housing Authority (34)

• Appointment of Miya Petitgoue to the Kankakee County Housing Authority (35)

• Reappointment of Tomika Talley-West to the Kankakee County Housing Authority (36)

• Reappointment of Douglas Gray to the Kankakee County Farmland Assessment Review Committee (37)

• Reappointment of Andy Pallissard as Trustee to the Bloom’s Grove Cemetery Association (38)

• Reappointment of Robin Batka as Trustee to the Bloom’s Grove Cemetery Association (39)

• Reappointment of Donna Nelson as Trustee to the Bloom’s Grove Cemetery Association (40)

• Reappointment of Jon Whitten as Trustee to the Bloom’s Grove Cemetery Association (41)

• Appointment of Dean Ferris to the McGillivray Special Drainage District (42)

• Amending Section 22, Article III of the Kankakee County Code Related to Food Sanitation (43)

Executive Session – Purchase/Sale of Real Estate – 55 ILCS 5/5-1005

Executive Session – Collective Bargaining – 55 ILCS 120/C (c) (2)

• Finance

• Authorizing the County Board Chairman to Sign a Collective Bargaining Agreement Between the County of Kankakee & Illinois Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Labor Council on Behalf of Kankakee County Corrections Officers’ Bargaining Unit (44)

• Amending the Predictable Fee Schedule for the Kankakee County Recorder’s Office (45)

• Resolutioin Authorizing the Kankakee County Board Chairman to Sign an Agreement with Docufree for Digitization Services (46)

• Amendments to the Annual Budget & Appropriation Ordinance for Kankakee County, Illinois 2023-2024 Fiscal Year (47)

• PZA

• ZBA Case#24-14; rezoning from A1-Agricultural District to I1-Light Industrial District in Section 26 of Manteno Township (48)

• ZBA Case#25-01; rezoning from A1-Agricultural District / RE-Rural Estate District to RE Rural Estate District and Variance to Section 121-281.c (Setback for Horses) in Section 02 of Otto Township (49)

• ZBA Case#25-02; rezoning from I1-Light Industrial to RE-Rural Estate in Section 35 of Otto Township (50)

• ZBA Case#25-03; rezoning from A1-Agriculture to RE-Rural Estate and Variance to Section 121-281 (Accessory Structures) in Section 25 of Ganeer Township (51)

• Resolution Authorizing Execution & Amendment of Section 5311 Grant Agreement FY2026 (52)

• Purchase of Service Agreement with SHOWBUS to Operate the County’s Rural General Public Transportation Service – State FY2025 (53)

• Resolution Authorizing Execution & Amendment of Downstate Operating Assistance Grant Agreement FY2026 (54)

• Highways, Waterways, & Buildings

• Resolution Authorizing the County Board Chairman to Sign the Reimbursement Agreement with Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America for the Required Casing Extension on the Buried Pipeline Under County Highway 9 (9000 n road) Between US Route 45/52 and Spruce Street Near Manteno (55)

• Executive

• Authorizing the County Board Chairman to Sign an Agreement for the Sale of Real Estate (56)

• Resolution Authorizing the County Board Chairman to Sign an Agreement with Nugent Curtis Real Estate, LLC for Broker Services (57)

Openings

• One Opening on the Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (Shelter Community Representative)

• Five Openings on Historic Preservation Commission (one for a Historian)

• Six Openings on the Regional Planning Commission

• One Opening on the Kankakee County Board of Health (dentist)

• Two Openings on the Will-Kankakee Regional Development Authority

• Three Openings on the Kankakee Regional Land Bank

• One Opening on the I-KAN Joint Education Committee

• One Opening on the Kankakee Valley Airport Authority

• Two Openings on the Cabery Area Fire Protection District

• Two Openings on the Pilot Township Fire Protection District

• One Opening on the Bourbonnais Fire Protecion District

• One Opening on the Grant Park Fire Protection District

• One Opening on the Greater Momence Fire Protection District

• Two Openings on the Kankakee Township Fire Protection District

• One Opening on the Limestone Township Fire Protection District

• One Opening on the Manteno Fire Protection District

• One Opening on the Otto Township Fire Protection District

• One Opening on the St. Anne Fire Protection District

• One Opening on the Momence-Pembroke Union Drainage District #1

• One Opening on the Grinnel Special Drainage District

• Two Openings on the Manteno Drainage District No. 9

• Three Openings on the Manteno Drainage District #6

• One Opening on the Union Drainage District #2

• One Opening on tne Joe Benes Drainage District

• One Opening on the Spring Creek Drainage District

• One Opening on the B.M. Lewis Drainage District

• One Opening on the Claussen Park Drainage District

• One Opening on the Kankakee River Valley Forest Preserve District

• Two Openings on the Board of Review

OLD BUSINESS

NEW BUSINESS

ADJOURNMENT

https://www.k3county.net/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2178