Kankakee Times

Kankakee County Board met May 13.

Here is the agenda provided by the board:

INVOCATION: Carol Webber, County Board Member

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

ROLL CALL: County Clerk Dan Hendrickson

PUBLIC COMMENTARY

VACANCY APPOINTMENTS/RESIGNATIONS

PRESENTATION

• Aroma Park Trail & Parking Area ARPA Improvements

CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION

Finance Department 15 Yrs.

Chris Koerner

Circuit Clerk’s Office 20 Yrs.

Alice Hartman

Sheriff’s Department 20 Yrs.

Justin LeSage

Manuel Villafuerte

Scott Owens

Robert Bartucci

Loy White

PROCLAMATION

MINUTES OF LAST MEETING: April 8, 2025

CLAIMS COMMITTEE REPORTS: None

DEPARTMENT REPORTS:

1. Recorder’s Monthly Reports for March 2025

2. County Clerk’s Monthly Report for March 2025

3. Coroner’s Monthly Reports for March 2025

4. Coroner’s Monthly Receipts for March 2025

5. Circuit Clerk’s Monthly Reports for February & March 2025

6. Animal Control’s Monthly Reports for March 2025

7. Monthly Building Report for March 2025

COMMITTEE PRESENTATIONS AND RESOLUTIONS:

• Consent Agenda

• Resolution in Support of Agriculture in Kankakee County (58)

• Appointment of Peter Dvorak to the Kankakee River Valley Forest Preserve District Board (59)

• Appointment of Brian Meyer to the Manteno Drainage District #9 (60)

• Reappointment of Troy Coffman to the Joe Benes Drainage District (61)

• Reappointment of Mark Kaner to the Kankakee County Board of Review (62)

• Reappointment of Scotty O’Connor to the Kankakee Township Fire Protection District (63)

• Reappointment of Patrick Pahl to the Grant Park Fire Protection District (64)

• Reappointment of David Wulff to the Kankakee Township Fire Protection District (65)

• Reappointment of Steve Schultz to the Limestone Township Fire Protection District (66)

• Reappointment of Robert Casino to the Bourbonnais Fire Protection District (67)

• Reappointment of Brian Stauffenberg to the Manteno Community Fire Protection District (68)

• Reappointment of Jordan Lee to the Greater Momence Fire Protection District (69)

• Reappointment of William Suprenant to the Otto Township Fire Protection District (70)

• Amending Resolution Number 2024-03-12-27 – Authorizing the County Board Chairman or His Designee to Sign a Collective Bargaining Agreement with the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Labor Council on Behalf of Kankakee County Lieutenants (71)

• Ordinance Amendment to the Kankakee County Code for Modifying the Members of the Kankakee County Waterways Advisory Subcommittee (72)

• Finance

• Authorizing the Amendment of Resolution Number 2024-03-12-26 (73)

• PZA

• ZBA Case#24-10; Variance 121-99.(e) (Lot Width) in Section 11 of Pembroke Township (74)

• Kankakee County Zoning Map Amendments- 2025 (75)

• Motor Vehicle Lease with SHOWBUS to Provide Transportation for Kankakee County (76)

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 Grant Park 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

• One Opening 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 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 Board of Review

OLD BUSINESS

NEW BUSINESS

• Resolution Authorizing the County Board Chairman to Sign the Essex Substation Road Use Agreement with Illinois Generation, LLC for Roadway Improvements Associated with the Construction of the ComEd substation in Essex Township. (77)

• Executive Session - Pending Litigation – 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(11)

ADJOURNMENT

https://www.k3county.net/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2189