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Executive Committee approves amended Dec. 12 minutes, enterprise zone expansion and raffle-bond waiver; several items carried unanimously
Summary
The Executive Committee approved corrections to minutes and several policy and procedural items, including an enterprise-zone boundary expansion and a raffle-bond waiver, and advanced a county board agenda as amended.
The Will County Board Executive Committee on Thursday approved several procedural and policy items including an amendment and final approval of December 12 executive-committee minutes, a raffle-bond waiver for Ingalls Park AC, expansion of the Des Plaines River Valley Enterprise Zone and its intergovernmental agreement, and a state-legislation support letter. Committee members also approved the county board agenda as amended.
Votes at a glance
- Amendment and approval of the Dec. 12, 2024 Executive Committee minutes — Motion to amend and then approve carried (motion to approve made by Member Freeman; second by Member Hickey). The committee voted to correct transposed text between agenda items 20 and 21 and then approved the minutes as amended.
- Ingalls Park Athletic Club raffle-bond waiver — Motion carried (mover: Member Newquist; second: Member Hickey). Committee authorized the executive office to waive the bond requirement for this regular raffle partner; staff noted raffle-bond fees typically range from $100 to $300.
- Designating ordinance for the Des Plaines River Valley Enterprise Zone (boundary amendment) — Motion carried; Member Ortiz recorded as opposed. The committee approved adding newly acquired parcels in the Rock Run (I-80 & I-55) area to the zone; other municipalities in the zone had previously approved the change.
- Intergovernmental agreement (IGA) for the Des Plaines River Valley Enterprise Zone — Motion carried; Member Ortiz recorded as opposed. The IGA implements the boundary changes agreed by partner municipalities and the enterprise-zone board.
- Letter of support and resolution for pending state legislation (Senate Bill 1397 and House Bill 1398) — Motion carried (unanimous among present members). Committee leadership had already sent a time-sensitive letter to the countydelegation and the committee voted to place a resolution on the board agenda.
- Approval of the county board agenda as amended — Motion carried (motion by Chair Ortiz; second by Member Hickey). The committee added a monthly finance report-to-file item and an ad hoc committee report to the full board agenda.
No items were defeated at the meeting. Several votes used a voice roll call recorded in the meeting transcript; individual tallies beyond recorded opposed votes for the enterprise-zone items were not read into the transcript.
