Cook County Voters to Decide on Combining Offices of Recorder of Deeds and County Clerk

Cook County Board of Commissioners Meeting - June 29, 2016

Significant Decisions Made:
The Board  voted (10 to 5) to place a Referendum on the November ballot asking voters to decide whether the Office of Recorder of Deeds should be combined with the Office of County Clerk.  Proponents of the Bill, sponsored by Commissioner John Fritchey, said now begins the period, before the election, when we must educate the public on the necessity of combining the offices.  Fritchey said eight of the largest counties in the United States have combined the offices of the Recorder of Deeds with the County Clerk for financial savings. (Agenda Item 15-6190)

Gun Violence resolutions passed by the Board: 

• An ordinance calling on Congress to repeal the Dickey Amendment that prohibits government funding for research on gun violence. If repealed the Center for Disease Control could move ahead with such research. (Agenda Item 16-3977)
• A resolution, sponsored by Comm. Boykin and Comm. Arroyo, calling on the Illinois General Assembly to enact and the Governor to sign a statewide ban on assault weapons.(Agenda Item 16-4039)
• An ordinance supporting the American Medical Association’s recognition of gun violence as a public health crises. (Agenda Item 16-4072) 

A resolution calling for the creation of Gun Violence Research Consortium as a project of the CCHHS Collaborative Research Unit was referred to the Board’s Health & Hospitals System Committee for review. (Agenda Item 16-4064)

Other Observation:
A proposed ordinance amendment on Performance Based Management was referred to the Finance Committee. (Agenda Item 16-3977)

Observer - Eleanor Prince