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PROPOSED AGREEMENT
Department(s): Cook County Medical Examiner
Other Part(ies): Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of Chicago, Hillside, Illinois
Request: Authorization to enter into an interagency agreement
Good(s) or Service(s): dignified burials of the unclaimed, unknown, and unborn children.
Agreement period: December 1, 2019 through October 31, 2025
Fiscal Impact: FY 2019 $16,000.00; FY 2020 $24,500.00; FY 2021 $26,500.00; FY 2022 $28,000.00; FY 2023 $35,000.00; FY 2024 $38,000.00; FY 2025 $41,000.00
Accounts: 11100.1259.17140.520470
Agreement Number(s): N/A
Summary/Notes: This is a continuing agreement, a renewal of previously approved 20-1484, which allows the dignified burials of the unclaimed decedents, unknown decedents and unborn children of Cook County that arrive at the Medical Examiner’s (ME) Office. Catholic Cemeteries will arrange through a third- party funeral director for the pickup and delivery of human remains from the ME to the Interment Location; provided that those remains must be placed in a burial shell by the ME prior to time of pickup.
Upon the release of decedents from the ME for burial, an administrator or investigator under the control of ME shall: (a) accompany the vehicle transporting such decedents from the location of pickup of such decedents to the Interment Location; (b) oversee the burial process in its entirety; (c) retain all death records of each burial.
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