Board of Commissioners of Cook County - Meeting of Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee on 1/24/2024 at 2:30 PM

24-1096

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:03:39 GMT

File #: 24-1096
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Type: Committee Minutes
Title: COMMITTEE MINUTES Approval of the minutes from the meeting of 12/13/2023
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24-0407

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:23:54 GMT

File #: 24-0407
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Type: Resolution
Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION APPOINTMENT OF ACTING COMPTROLLER WHEREAS, the Comptroller supervises the fiscal affairs of the County by maintaining the general ledger, accounting records, financial reporting, accounts payable, payroll and garnishments; and WHEREAS, in the case of a vacancy in the position of Comptroller, it is necessary to appoint an Acting or Interim Comptroller to perform the duties of the Comptroller and said Acting or Interim Comptroller shall have the full authority to otherwise execute the duties and responsibilities of the Comptroller until the appointed candidate for Comptroller can be confirmed by the Cook County Board of Commissioners; and WHEREAS, the current Comptroller will vacate the position on December 31, 2023; and WHEREAS, it is imperative to the successful operation of County government that the duties of the Comptroller continue to be carried out in an efficient and transparent manner; and WHEREAS, President Toni Preckwinkle has appointed the Cook County Deputy Comptroller, Syril Thomas, to serve as the Acting Comptroller; and WHEREAS,
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24-0632

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:23:54 GMT

File #: 24-0632
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Type: Appointment
Title: PROPOSED APPOINTMENT Appointee(s): Ciere Boatright Position: Director Department/Board/Commission: Cook County Land Bank Authority Effective date: Immediate Expiration date: Three years from date of approval or until a successor is appointed and qualified.
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23-5802

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:23:54 GMT

File #: 23-5802
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Type: Resolution
Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION AGAINST BOOK BANS WHEREAS, as John Milton laid out in his 1644 treatise, Areopagitica, “he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself”; and WHEREAS, according to PEN America, from July 2022 through June 2023 there were over 3,400 instances of individual books banned, representing a 33 percent increase in bans compared to the prior year; and WHEREAS, according to PEN American, of 1,648 unique book titles banned throughout the 2021-22 school year, 41 percent explicitly addressed LGBTQ+ themes or have protagonists or prominent secondary characters who are LGBTQ+, 40 percent contained protagonists or prominent secondary characters of color, and 21 percent directly addressed issues of race and racism; and WHEREAS, of the overall 2,532 bans in the 2021-2022 school year, 96 percent of them were enacted without following the best practice guidelines for book challenges outlined by the American Library Association, the National Coalition Against Censorship, and the National Council of Teachers of English; and WHEREAS, according to the E
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