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 Present: Chuck Ruben-Chairman; Andy Anderson; David Blankenship;
Jan Schumacher; Bob Farmer; Rick Aylesworth; Dave Hepler
Absent:
Guests: Mike Brettl; Tyler Gee; Dale Smith; Gaspare Gallina; Joe
Malek; Denise Martinek; Caroline Higgins; Russ Taylor; Martha
Neitzel; Clay Johnson; Kathy Horn; Ken Greenslate; Keith Snyder;
Derek Hurley; Teena Feldman; Bret Aukamp
Mr. Ruben called the meeting to order at 5:30 pm.
A motion was made by Mr. Anderson, seconded by Mr. Aylesworth, to
approve the minutes of the November 10, 2014 meeting as printed.
Motion passed.
Old Business:
Open Copier Proposals:
Mr. Ruben opened the proposals submitted by Rkdixon; Tom Day
Business Machines; Watts Copy Systems and DCS Digital Copy Systems.
The committee decided to form a subcommittee to review the proposals
at a later date. Mrs. Schumacher, Mr. Bateman, Mrs. Martinek and Mr.
Aukamp will form the subcommittee. The subcommittee will bring back
a recommendation to the Finance committee in January.
Safety Complex Lease- Mayor Keith Snyder:
The committee and Mayor talked about the lease agreement at the
Safety Complex. Mr. Ruben pointed out that any changes in the lease
amount would require approval of 2/3 of the board, since it would
require a budget amendment. Mr. Ruben reported City was under a
month to month contract per Mayor’s request. Mrs. Meagher sent a
letter to Mayor in March of 2013 informing him that Logan County
Board approved the changes the city requested to the Safety Complex
lease. She attached a lease for Mayor to sign and return to the
County Board for them to sign. Mrs. Meagher never received the
signed lease back from Mayor. The Mayor offered to sign the lease he
received previously at the meeting; however, the committee wanted to
review old minutes to confirm whether a signed lease already
existed. Mr. Ruben informed Mayor if the County board did approve
the signed lease in a County Board meeting the County Board would
honor the contract. If the county board approved the signed lease
they will retro-actively adjust the CPI.
New Business:
SSA Budget Amendment$5,600 from Major Criminal Case:
A motion was made by Mr. Aylesworth, seconded by Mrs. Schumacher,
to approve a budget amendment for States Attorney’s office for new
office furniture. Motion passed. Mr. Ruben will bring forward the
motion Thursday night.
EM-COM truck paid out of Major Criminal Case: A motion was
made by Mr. Anderson, seconded by Mr. Farmer, to approve EM-COM
truck paid out of Major Criminal Cases. Motion passed. The truck
will be paid for out of Major Criminal Cases but will be reimbursed
by a grant.
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Mrs. Schumacher mentioned Mr. Bateman was able to get a bid
for the fence around the elevator controls. The bid came in at
$2,000. Mr. Bateman also had a bid for a fence around the phone
equipment and the elevator controls for the outside elevator at
$1,800. Mr. Bateman had Janice from Frontier give him a bid for
making the existing Animal Control phone line work on the new
Mitel system. The total cost will be $240.00. Mr. Ruben informed
the committee the money can come out of Animal Control
Maintenance line item.
End of New Business
Mr. Anderson reviewed expenses. Mr. Anderson reported
juvenile support is under budget for the year.
Mr. Aylesworth reviewed revenues. Mr. Aylesworth reported
fees for County Clerk and Circuit clerk are both down for what we
budget for.
Communications:
Denise Martinek reported a person can appeal their assessment to
the Board of Review. If they don’t agree, they can appeal to the
Property Tax Appeal Board (PTAB) in Springfield.
Sysco filed an appeal with PTAB for assessment years 2011 and 2012.
The county lost by default as we did not present any evidence. Mrs.
Martinek was contacted by PTAB and told that they were ready to
issue their ruling and would be siding with Sysco. The total amount
of lost assessment was $1,000,000.
Vicki Dugan found a resolution between West Lincoln Broadwell and
Sysco agreeing to abate their taxes between 2005 and 2015. However,
there was a stipulation that Sysco could not contest their
assessment.
A copy of it was emailed to their attorney in Chicago last week and
Mrs. Martinek has not heard anything back. Mrs. Martinek will keep
the committee updated. No action was taken at this time.
A motion was made by Mr. Anderson, seconded by Mr. Aylesworth, to
approve the bills. Motion passed.
A motion was made by Mr. Farmer, seconded by Mr. Anderson, to
adjourn the meeting. Motion passed. Meeting ended at 6:35 pm.
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