Cook County Board of Commissioners Finance Committee and Board Meeting
May 16, 2018 FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING Public Speaker at the meeting - Mike Belsky, Executive Director Center for Municipal Finance, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, spoke in favor of the ordinance to establish a Consensus Revenue Forecasting Commission for Cook County. Significant Topics Discussed 1. Cook County Health and Hospitals (CCHHS) Quarterly Report was presented and filed.
COOK COUNTY BOARD MEETING Highlights from the meeting: 1. Ordinance Amendment increasing fines for Public Morals Violations - referred to Criminal Justice Committee.
Committee Items Requiring Board Action
Items to Watch for in the Future
Observer: Nancy Marcus Length of meeting - 5 hours with a lunch break
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Cook County Board of Commissioners and Committee Meetings - April 25, 2018
Meeting Length - 4 hours, including breaks. Committee meetings started at 10am. FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING The Finance Committee, which met from 10:09am to 11:40am, spent considerable time grilling the Cook County Health and Hospitals System (CCHHS) CFO about the $174 million in denials in 2016 and 2017 as reported in the Inspector General’s (IG) 4/13/18 quarterly report for 1Q 2018.
ZONING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE MEETING Next the Zoning Committee met from 11:40 am to 12:50 pm. They passed a bunch of recommendations. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MEETING Pres. Preckwinkle called the meeting to order at 11:54 am, then went into recess at 12:26 pm; reconvened at 1:08 pm and adjourned at about 2:08 pm.
Items to Watch for in the Future
Other Comments or Observations
Observer - Peggy Pissarreck Cook County Board of Commissioners Meetings - January 17, 2018
Meeting Length: Board Meeting 1.5 hours Board Committee Meetings embedded within, and preceding from 9:15 ending at 3:15pm Commissioners Absent: Butler Significant Decisions Made: Board Meeting:
Significant Topics Discussed Finance Committee:
Business and Economic Development Committee:
Homeland Security Committee:
Other Observations: There were two public speakers in addition to George Blakemore.
Observer – Amy Little Cook County Board of Commissioners Committees and Board Meeting
December 13, 2017 Meeting Length: Committees—3 hours 40 minutes, Board meeting—1 hour 40 minutes Commissioners Absent: Butler, Schneider, Silvestri Significant Decisions Made:
Significant Topics Discussed and/or referred to committee: Technology reports presented updates and progress on various technology projects.
Health and Hospital System (CCHHS) presentation:
Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) administrator Steve Smith requested another contract extension (Agenda Item 18-0877) to re-hire 30 private security personnel. This is about the 10th extension of this contract since 2008. Concern was expressed by the Board that this was not going out to bid and that late bidding requests came too often. The JTDC has 679 staff which is 2 1/2 staff per juvenile defendant. There are critical staffing issues at JTDC: high absence rate due to almost 40% of staff on FMLA (18% being absent everyday and 21% intermittent absence). Unexpected Votes and Items to watch for in the Future:
Other Observations:
Observer - Karin Hribar Cook County Board of Commissioners Finance Committee - Departmental Budget Hearings
November 7, 2017 Cook County Health and Hospitals System (CCHHS) Commissioners absent for all or most of the meetings: Moody Commissioners present: Arroyo, Boykin, Butler (half the day), Daley, Deer, Fritchey (less than an hour), Gainer, Garcia, Goslin, Moore, Morrison, Schneider, Silvestri, Sims, Suffredin, Tobolski Hospital System CEO Shannon’s letter outlined $12,430,000 in cuts of the $27 million requested (the amount allocated to CCHHS from Sweetened Beverage tax)
Items of Interest at the Hearing:
Observer - Dr. Susan Kern Length of Meeting - 7 hours Public Hearing on Proposed Cook County 2018 Budget
October 31, 2017 - Cook County Board Room Items of interest: There were 42 registered speakers .The hearing began at 9:00 am and ended at 11:15 am. The comments were divided into two main themes.
Laurence Msall from the Civic Federation spoke on ways to cut the budget. They are as follows:
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