McLean County Executive Committee approvals: appointments, procurements, ordinances and intergovernmental agreements

The McLean County Executive Committee on Feb. 10 approved a series of routine and substantive items across administrative, technology, finance, justice, property and land-use areas.

Key approvals included a consent agenda, multiple appointments and reappointments to local boards, procurement awards for information-technology services and software, an ordinance amendment to the county code on animals, several intergovernmental agreements and grant and appropriation ordinances. Most motions passed unanimously.

At the start of the meeting, the committee approved the consent agenda by motion (Member Byrne moved; Member Klein seconded). The committee then approved appointments and reappointments for two drainage-district seats, the merit commission, the regional airport and another drainage district (motion by Member Bridal; second by Member Berne). Committee members discussed one reappointment concern involving a nominee, Mr. Crumble, who does not live in the county but owns property in the drainage district; the committee noted difficulty finding willing candidates in that district and confirmed Mr. Crumble agreed to serve. The appointments motion passed unanimously.

Technology and procurement actions approved by the committee included:

- Approval to purchase a security information and event management (SIEM) service through NASPO (motion by Member Friedrich; second by Member Klein). Committee discussion described the tool as a correlate-over-time security tool that sits above existing systems to identify suspicious patterns such as repeated login attempts and to take protective actions.

- Award of an RFP for an antivirus product to GovConnection (motion by Member O'Galle; second by Member Burn). Committee members noted the award covered a one-year licensing term, which was chosen to preserve future flexibility as the threat landscape and vendor offerings change.

- Award of an RFP for file migration…