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Cook County Board approves consent calendar including multiple honorary and awareness resolutions
Summary
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved its consent calendar, adopting more than a dozen resolutions honoring athletic teams, public safety leaders and awareness months and endorsing regional sustainability and language-access initiatives. The consent calendar was moved and seconded and carried on a voice vote.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners voted to approve its consent calendar, adopting a package of honorary and recognition resolutions and several observances during a regular meeting where commissioners also paused for presentations and public testimony.
The consent calendar was moved by Commissioner Stamps and seconded by Commissioner Britton; the board approved the motion on a voice vote. President Preckwinkle announced there was a quorum at the start of the meeting and later presided over the vote to adopt the consent calendar.
The package included resolutions that honored the Kenwood Academy girls basketball team for winning the Illinois High School Association Class 4A state championship; recognized service and awards for Evanston Police Chief Shanita Stewart; and declared observances such as Week of the Young Child and Second Chance Month. Commissioners also placed on the calendar proclamations and recognitions covering National Therapy Animal Day; National Law Day; Arab American/American Heritage recognitions; Little Palestine Day; Black Maternal Health Week and Minority Health Month; National Autism Awareness Month; Earth Month; Language Access Month; Child Abuse Awareness Month; and other local school and community honors.
Public speakers who addressed items on the consent calendar included representatives from Birth to 5 Illinois, the North Lawndale Employment Network and local reentry and equity advocates who urged continued investment in early childhood services, reentry supports and racial equity. For example, Zalinka Wallace of Birth to 5 Illinois told commissioners, “With over 350,000 young children in Cook County, including 140,000 children living in poverty, we must collaborate on behalf of our children's futures.” Kalyn Todd of the North Lawndale Employment Network described reentry supports as “a catalyst for change.”
Commissioners asked to be added as co-sponsors to several consent items before the vote; President Preckwinkle noted additions requested by Commissioners Morrison and Naya were entered into the record. After the aye vote, the chair declared the consent calendar approved.
The meeting then moved on to the regular agenda.
