Tuesday Committee meetings
Cook County Board of CommissionersRemote
This is a remote assignment. The Cook County Board typically holds most of its committee meetings back-to-back on the Tuesday/Wednesday, to discuss and make recommendations on proposed items before they go to a full board vote on Thursday. For this assignment you will document the following meetings currently scheduled for 2/8/2022:
- 11:05 a.m.: Finance Subcommittee on Litigation
- 11:30 a.m.: Finance Subcommittee on Workers’ Compensation
- 12 p.m.: Veterans Committee
- 1:30 p.m.: Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee
You can watch the meetings live-stream at https://www.cookcountyil.gov/service/watch-live-board-proceedings. We do not expect you to prepare in-depth for each meeting but it is a good idea to be familiar with each committee’s responsibilities and 1-2 key agenda items.
Note: Sometimes the meeting schedule changes so it’s a good idea to double check the schedule the morning of at https://cook-county.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx. Also note that Cook County Board members will be meeting earlier in the morning on Forest Preserves matters (on the same live-stream link) and sometimes that meeting runs long. If that happens, you are not expected to document preserves-related matters (we have another set of Documenters assigned to cover them), but we will count that time toward your total assignment hours.
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Reporting
Edited and summarized by the Chicago - IL Documenters Team
Appointment of Lynne Turner as board secretary, Process for selecting an independent inspector general
Appointment of Lynne Turner as board secretary, Process for selecting an independent inspector general
11:04 AM Feb 8, 2022 CST
Currently, the Forest Preserve District meeting is running long. I'll start tweeting when they begin to meet for county board committee meetings.
They're giving a report of the forest preserve committee on Racial Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.
fpdcc.com/about/racial-e…
This brings to mind a controversy with the Forest Preserve police several years ago.
news.wttw.com/2018/07/12/coo…
A number of events are coming up, such as a Superb Owl party Sunday.
fpdcc.com/events/
They're doing this procedural thing of calling county board committee meetings to order at the scheduled time and then recessing them while they continue the forest preserve meeting.
They're moving on to the litigation committee, but it's still the Forest Preserve, not the county board litigation committee scheduled for 11:05.
cook-county.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx
They approve all remaining agenda items without further discussion, then adjourn the committee.
Adriann Murawski speaks in favor of a potential appointee to the county land bank authority, Maurice Hampton. But the appointments are postponed until the next meeting.
"I'm very excited and very honored to sit before you today."
Appointments for other positions are quickly introduced.
The county board is done for the day and that concludes my live tweeting for Chicago Documenters.
Agency Information
Cook County Board of Commissioners
County Commissioners are elected officials who oversee county activities and work to ensure that citizen concerns are met, federal and state requirements are fulfilled, and county operations run smoothly. The Cook County Board of Commissioners is the governing board and legislative body of the county. It is comprised of 17 Commissioners, each serving a four-year term and is elected from single member districts. Each district represents approximately 300,000 residents. The Board also operates approximately 40 committees and subcommittees chaired by members of Board of Commissioners.
Remote meetings of the Cook County Board of Commissioners are live-streamed at https://www.cookcountyil.gov/service/watch-live-board-proceedings
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