Cook County Board of Commissioners - Committee Meetings
December 16, 2020 Zoning and Building Committee:
Rules Committee:
Finance Committee:
Health and Hospitals Committee: The 3rd and 4th quarter reports were presented by the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH).
Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee:
Follow Up Items:
Observer: Karin Hribar Meeting(s) length total: 5 1/2 hours
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Cook County Board & Finance Committee Meetings
November 24, 2020 The Board
The Board met immediately after the Finance Committee, which passed 19 amendments unanimously to amend the budget. Many of these amendments were “technical” in that they simply made budget neutral changes to reflect either corrections to the Executive Budget or to reflect new information since the Executive Budget was presented in mid-October. The following changes were the most substantive:
Following the budget passage at the Board meeting, some of the comments included:
Observer: Priscilla MIms Cook County Board of Commissioners - November 19, 2020
Virtual Meeting 10am-1pm Public Speakers - Statements read by the Secretary of the Board
Commissioners and President Toni Preckwinkle honored former Commissioner and current Recorder of Deeds, Ed Moody who is retiring in December. Observer: Nancy Marcus Cook County Board Committee Meetings - November 18, 2020
9:30 am to 1:15 pm Items of interest: Transportation Committee RTA, CTA, Metra, and Pace presented their annual budgets for fiscal year 2021 to the Cook County Board of Commissioners. RTA and the three service Boards CTA, Metra, and Pace presented their budgets as required per statue. (20-4646).
Rules Committee:
Technology Committee:
Cook County Board Receives Final Report on Merger of Offices of Recorder of Deeds and County Clerk10/23/2020 Cook County Board Committee Meetings
October 21, 2020 - Committee Meetings were held from 9:30am-2:30pm Items of Interest: Health & Hospital Committee:
Agenda Item 20-4191 - Final Report on Merger of Recorder of Deeds Office with the Office of the County Clerk
Cook County Board Of Commissioners Meeting October 22, 2020 Meeting Length - 3 hours 15 minutes Key Items Addressed by the Board: Agenda Item 20-4204 Mr. Israel Rocha, candidate for the Cook County Hospital’s CEO position, received the blessing of the Cook County Board on October 22, 2020. His offer package included a base salary of $650,000 plus a 10% performance- based annual bonus opportunity. The industry’s standard severance package of one year was reduced to 20 weeks. CCH Board President officially intro- duced Mr. Rocha, though he had met most of the 17 Commissioners prior to this meeting. While taking longer than the expected six months to identify and vet the final candidate, it appears that the Cook County Board and the Hospital Board are in strong agreement that they have found the right person. Mr. Rocha has experience in all of the responsibility areas he will assume as CEO, including: Public Health, A Managed Health Care Plan, Forensic Medi- cine and an Ambulatory Care Network. In his remarks, Mr. Rocha said that he wants to create a leading model of care for Cook County. He offered the following six goals toward that end: 1. Operate a safe and clinically sound system of care 2. Responsive to patients’ needs 3. Take bold steps by breaking barriers to achieve equity and inclusion 4. Ensure fiscal and financial resilience 5. Be known as the employer of choice and the provider of choice 6. Be known as a leader in the advancement of medicine as a human right. Agenda Item 20-3562 The Board voted a substitute for the Proposed Landlord Tenant Ordinance and then discharged it from the Finance Committee and referred it to the Zoning & Building Committee. This ordinance is meant to establish the same rights for all renters and tenants throughout suburban Cook County as those currently enjoyed by citizens of Chicago, Evanston, and Mt. Prospect. Agenda Item 20-4872 A resolution was passed stating the Clerk of the Court should collect $150 on all mortgage foreclosure filings to be used to support a plan to save residents from eviction and mortgage foreclosures. The Illinois Supreme Court authorized the collection. Passed unanimously. Agenda Item 20-4814 The Board unanimously passed a resolution to forgive loans made by the County under the program established to deal with Covid. The County can use CARES money from the federal government as long as it is done before the end of December. Agenda Item 20-3431 The Board approved appointment of Joseph M. Harrington to the CCH Board. Agenda Item 20-4202 The Board passed an ordinance by President Preckwinkle to establish a Property Assessed Clean Energy Program & Area. It is to finance the acqui- sition, construction, installation or modification of energy projects. Agenda Item 20-4684 The Cook County Board honored Dorothy Brown on her retirement from 20years of service as the Clerk of the Circuit Court. Commissioners praised the Coronavirus report (9-30-20) as a great resource. The distribution of funds was broken down into four areas: 1) direct costs, 2) workplace redesign, 3) economic development and 4) grants to local governments (due by October 31). Observers: Georgia Gebhardt and Diane Edmundson Cook County Board of Commissioners Meeting - Sept. 24, 2020
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Observer: Carolyn Cosentino Length of Meeting 3 hr 32 min |
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