Kankakee County Board met Nov. 10

Andrew Wheeler, Chairman of the Board | Kankakee County Website

By Kristine Gonzales-Abella

Nov 10, 2025

Kankakee County Board met Nov. 10.

Here is the agenda provided by the board:

INVOCATION: Roger Hess, County Board Member

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

ROLL CALL: County Clerk Dan Hendrickson

PUBLIC COMMENTARY

VACANCY APPOINTMENTS/RESIGNATIONS

• Appointment of Steven Taden to Fill the Unexpired Term of Peggy Sue Munday for District #21 of the Kankakee County Board

PRESENTATION

CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION

Michelle Sirois 10 yrs. Highway Department

Megan Peters 10 yrs. Animal Control Department

Jeanna Cross 20 yrs. Circuit Clerk’s Office

PROCLAMATIONS

• Honoring St George Elementary School’s 6th-8th Grade Cross Country Team (06)

MINUTES OF LAST MEETING: October 14, 2025

CLAIMS COMMITTEE REPORTS: September 2025

DEPARTMENT REPORTS:

1. County Treasurer’s Report – September 2025

2. County Collector’s Report – September 2025

3. Recorder’s Monthly Reports for September 2025

4. County Clerk’s Monthly Report for September 2025

5. Coroner’s Monthly Reports for September 2025

6. Coroner’s Monthly Receipts for September 2025

7. Circuit Clerk’s Monthly Reports for September 2025

8. Animal Control’s Monthly Reports for September 2025

9. Monthly Resolutions – October 2025

10. Building Reports – August & September 2025

COMMITTEE PRESENTATIONS AND RESOLUTIONS:

• Consent Agenda

• Appointment of Jim Schopf Jr. to the Kankakee Waterways Advisory Subcommittee as an at Large Member (191)

• Resignation of Matthew Olszewski as Member of the Kankakee Regional Land Bank Authority (192)

• Resignation of Brian Porter as Member of the Zoning Board of Appeals (193)

• Declaration and Disposal of Surplus and Unwanted Equipment for the Kankakee County Information Systems Department (194)

• Declaration and Disposal of Surplus and Unwanted Equipment for the Kankakee County Animal Control Department (195)

• Executive Committee

• Amendment to County Code, Health Department Food Service Establishment Licenses and Fees, Sections 18-1

• Finance Committee

• Authorizing the County Board Chairman or his Designee to Sign a Renewal Agreement with Alliant Insurance for Liability, Auto, Inland Marine, Cyber Insurance, and Worker’s Compensation Services for the County of Kankakee (197)

• Health Spending Account (HSA) Contributions (198)

• Authorization to Hire the Accounting Firm of Smith, Koelling, Dykstra and Ohm, P.C. to Audit Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Financial Statements (199)

• Combined Annual Budget and Appropriation Ordinance for Kankakee County, Illinois 2025-2026 Fiscal Year (200)

• Planning, Zoning & Agriculture Committee

• A Resolution Accepting Use of the Illinois Housing Development Authority’s Strong Communities Program Round 2 for Acquisition, Rehabilitation and/or Demolition of Fifteen Potential LandBank Properties (201)

• Openings

• One Opening on the Regional Planning Commission

• Five Openings on the Geographic Information System (GIS) Committee

• One Opening on the Will-Kankakee Regional Development Authority

• One Opening on the Emergency Telephone System Board

• One Opening on the Kankakee County Housing Authority (Tenant)

• One Opening on the Kankakee Regional Land Bank Authority

• One Opening on the Zoning Board of Appeals

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

• One Opening on the Claussen Park Drainage District

• One Opening on the Manteno Drainage District #3

• Two Openings on the Momence-Pembroke Union Drainage District #1