April 20, 2020

Courthouse District Courtroom

April 20, 2020

Bert Lowery, John Bertram, Ronald Freeman, Kristi Cooper, Chay Howard, Kerri Ulrich, Jay Schmidt, Matt Christenson and Grant Neuhold attended the meeting.

Consent agenda included: Agenda, PR reports, AP reports and Commissioner minutes of 04/06.

After the pledge of allegiance. Ron opened the meeting at 9:00. Bert moved to approve the consent agenda as presented and John seconded, motion carried 3-0.
Kerri Ulrich came forward for the Board of Health (BOH). Ron adjourned the regular meeting and called the BOH meeting to order. Kerri gave updates which included; COVID-19 updates, medical supplies shortages, working on grants to fund to aid in COVID-19 expenses, Vaccines for Children (VFC) audit working on QI improvements, school nursing bills, stay at home ordered extended until May 3rd per Governor Kelly and county plan moving forward. Ron adorned the BOH meeting and called the regular meeting to order. John moved to permit supervisors at their discretion to bring back employees on a rotated schedule, but to keep supervisors with deputies to work separate schedule and if they need to work together that they use PPE as needed and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0.

Jay Schmidt came to give updates for the public works departments which included; culvert replaces South of Belvidere, rotated work schedule for his crew, preparing bids for asphalt, chip seals and sand sealing work this year and utility easement. After some discussion it was by consensus to move forward with accepting bids for road projects for this year.

Matt Christenson came to present a contract from Electronic Contracting Company for a Telguard cellular dialer and EST SIGA-CT1 monitor module for fire alarms at the Commons building in the amount of $966. Ron moved to accept the contract and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0.

Kristi Cooper presented an appointment letter from the library board for June Mcfadden to fill the term of 2020-2024. John moved to approve the appointment and Bert seconded, motion carried 3-0.

During Commissioner discussion Chay informed them that he would need to know if they would like to move the sale of the Belvidere school house or keep it on schedule. After some discussion it was by consensus to keep moving forward with the sale on May 7th and look into the cost of having Browns Auction do a live bid sale during our sale.

Meeting adjourned at 9:53

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