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Executive committee approves rule change to ease proclamations for retiring county employees; members debate scope
Summary
The Will County executive committee voted to lower the executive committee threshold for proclamations honoring retiring Will County employees from unanimous to a simple majority to move such items to the full board; members debated language, potential politicization and how "retiring" or "long-term" employees will be defined.
The executive committee considered Resolution 25-39-91 to amend county board rules so that proclamations honoring retiring Will County employees would require a simple majority vote in the executive committee to be placed on the full county board agenda rather than the current unanimous-executive-committee threshold.
County counsel and sponsoring members described the change as a narrow exception limited to retiring county employees. Member Pelkey explained the rule change "maintains the current process ... with the exceptions of proclamations for long-term employees who are retiring, and that would require just a simple majority vote." Several members asked whether…
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