Forest Preserve District of Cook County June 6 2012

President Preckwinkle called the meeting to order at 10:10 AM.  Roll was called and an invocation was made.

Absent:  Butler, Steel(other commissioners come in after the meeting started) Meeting was suspended for the Finance Committee Meeting

Commissioner Goslin, Finance Committee Chair, called the following for approval:

Disbursements, litigation reports, workman’s compensation subcommittee report, bids for tree removal (some discussion on ability to treat trees with Emerald Ash borer before removal), and revenue report that was received and filed.  There was a roll call vote for approval of the bond issue amendment and the four different bond issuances. General obligation bonds of $11 million, $54 million, $55 million and $70 million. The public hearing period for these bonds has ended and all were passed in the roll call vote. Finance committee meeting was adjourned and Forest Preserved meeting was reconvened.

President Preckwinkle started the agenda and everything moved very quickly.  Item 1 to referred to the Finance Committee.  The following committee reports were approved:  Real Estate, Legislative and Intergovernental Affairs, Rules and Administration, and the Finance committee report of today’s meeting.

The following were approved unanimously:

Item 3 GFOA(Government Finance Officers Association) Certificate of Achievement filed for 2010

Item 4 Bid for IT services (Increase of $120,000 of existing contract)

Item 5 Truck purchase ($400,000)

Item 6 Increase in contract in website development ($20,000)

Item 7 Intergovernmental Contract with Cook County for Print Services, Risk Management and Intergovernmental Relations (question on how to make sure FP is paying fair amount, legislation lobbying) ($240,000 per year)

Item 8 Intergovernmental Agreement with Cook Co. for Sheriff Department for 911 service ($250,000 per year)

Item 9 Proposed intergovernmental agreement with US Army Corp of Engineers to assess condition of dams, water control structures, etc. ($250,000 per year with matching funds from ACOE)

Item 10 Audit Report for Fiscal Year 2011

Item 11 Receive and File Science and Research Symposium Report

Item 12 Amend Previously approved item for paving (no change in fiscal impact but what account it will come out of)

Item 13 List of upcoming Calendar Events

Finance Litigation and Worker’s Compensation Subcommittees were called to order at 11:00 AM.

Forest Preserve meeting was adjourned at 11:05 PM.

Finance Litigation subcommittee convened, approved invoices and then adjourned (3 members in attendance). Litigation Subcommittee (Tobolski, Collins, Gainer) then approved some invoices and went into Executive Session at 11:10 AM.

Respectfully Submitted
Peggy Kell