The meeting was called to order at 11:20 p.m. by President Toni Preckwinkle. All commissioners with the exception of Schneider, Simms, and Steele were in attendance.
The meeting began with tributes to Hadiya Pendleton made by each board member. She was the young lady tragically gunned down in a Chicago’s Kenwood Park shortly after her attendance at the US presidential inauguration. The board met recently with ten mothers who have also suffered the shooting deaths of children. Discussion followed about Chicago’s increasingly damaged reputation for gun violence. 999 people have died in Chicago since the beginning of 2011 from gun violence.
Special Meeting Friday February 8th
Appointments for the Cook County Land Bank Authority Board of Directors were deferred to a meeting to be held this Friday along with a proposed resolution about feral cat colony management.Probation Monitoring Improvements
Many questions were raised about proposed GPS contracts for monitoring juveniles and radio frequency monitoring for adults in the probation departments. The hope was to find one company that could provide both services; unfortunately that could not be accomplished prior to the end of the current contract. The Board has approved new contracts with Sentinel and 3M saving the county a great deal of money while also providing better services and security for the general population.
Juvenile Probation and Detention
An agreement was approved with Heartland Alliance Inc., which in turn, will subcontract with community and faith based organizations to provide more pro social housing and mentoring for minors in detention.
Collection
of debts
An intergovernmental
agreement has been approved by the State of Illinois Comptrollers office, Clerk
of the Circuit Court, and State's Attorney to collect unpaid debt owed such as:
traffic court debt, fines, and other outstanding financial obligations
from Department of Revenue income taxes.
Those owing governmental agencies will be notified 60 days prior to deductions
being made in their tax return to allow time for disputes to be resolved.
Office
Of The State's Attorney
A grant was accepted from
the Illinois Criminal Justice System for Community Justice Centers. The goals of these centers
are to address life concerns that have an impact on the local communities such
as prostitution, graffiti and drugs.
New
Business Items
All items were referred to
committees other than Item #1, a request from David Orr to enter into a contract
with Dominion Voting for the equipment necessary to hold February and April elections.
Submitted by Pat Lind
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