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Meeting Name: Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 6/11/2025 10:45 AM Minutes status: Draft  
Meeting location: Cook County Building, Board Room, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois
Issued on: 6/4/2025
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25-3057 2  Committee MinutesCOMMITTEE MINUTES Approval of the minutes from the meeting of 5/14/2025   Not available Not available
25-1822 1 AN AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE I, SECTION 2-9, GENDER INCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS AND FORMSOrdinance AmendmentPROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT AN AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE I, SECTION 2-9, GENDER INCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS AND FORMS BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Chapter 2 - Administration, Article I, Section 2-9 - Gender Inclusive Documents and Forms, of the Cook County Code is hereby amended as Follows: Sec. 2-9. Gender Inclusive Documents and Forms. (a) Instead of sex, forms and documents issued by the county shall ask for an individual’s gender. No form issued by the County shall ask an individual's sex unless it is necessary for medical reasons, legitimate government data collection, or required by another law. (b) Where selection of gender from predetermined options is required by design of any County form, the gender options on said forms shall include at least multi-select options for "man", "woman", "non-binary", "cisgender”, "transgender",, “a gender not listed here”, and "decline to answer" and may include additional genders. Any time the County asks for an individual's sex, the form or document shall ask for an individual's "sex assig   Not available Not available
25-2816 1 Danita Childers CCLB AppointmentAppointmentPROPOSED APPOINTMENT Appointee(s): Danita Childers Position: Director - Representative from the Housing Authority of Cook County Department/Board/Commission: Cook County Land Bank Authority Effective date: Immediate Expiration date: Three years from date of approval; 6/12/28 or until a successor is appointed and qualified.   Not available Not available
25-2819 1 AUDITOROrdinance AmendmentPROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT AUDITOR BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Chapter 2., Administration, Article IV. Officers and Employees, Division 6. Auditor, Section 2-311 through 2-311.13 of the Cook County Code is hereby amended as Follows Sec. 2-311. Office created. There is hereby created the office of County Auditor who shall be appointed by the President of the County Board and ratified by a majority of the members of the County Board. Sec. 2-311.1. Term of office. The Auditor shall serve for a term of five years, and removal from office must be for cause and by a vote of a majority of the members of the County Board. In case of a vacancy in the office of Auditor caused by death, resignation, term expiration, or removal from office, the vacancy shall be filled in the manner aforesaid and to the extent possible, the candidate recommended for Auditor shall be made within six months of the vacancy. Sec. 2-311.2. Qualifications. The County Auditor must hold at least one of the following credentials: (a) Certified Public   Not available Not available
25-2821 1 Appointment of Heather A. Steans to Cook County Health Board of DirectorsAppointmentPROPOSED APPOINTMENT Appointee(s): Heather A. Steans Position: Director Department/Board/Commission: Cook County Health Board of Directors Effective date: 7/2/2025 Expiration date: 7/2/2029   Not available Not available
25-2822 2 Appointment of Gina Massuda Barnett to CCH Board of DirectorsAppointmentPROPOSED APPOINTMENT Appointee(s): Gina Massuda Barnett Position: Director Department/Board/Commission: Cook County Health Board of Directors Effective date: 6/13/2025 - filling the vacancy of Inger Burnett-Zeigler Expiration date: 10/24/2028   Not available Not available
25-2848 1 ESTB Kevin Sisk AppointmentAppointmentPROPOSED APPOINTMENT Appointee(s): Kevin Sisk Position: Member Department/Board/Commission: Cook County Emergency Telephone System Board Effective date: 6/12/2025 Expiration date: 6/12/2028   Not available Not available
25-2852 1 ETSB Tim Doherty AppointmentAppointmentPROPOSED APPOINTMENT Appointee(s): Tim Doherty Position: Member Department/Board/Commission: Cook County Emergency Telephone System Board Effective date: 6/12/2025 Expiration date: 6/12/2028   Not available Not available
25-2855 1 SCCMAD Jon Currin AppointmentAppointmentPROPOSED APPOINTMENT Appointee(s): Jonathan Mark Currin Position: Trustee Department/Board/Commission: South Cook County Mosquito Abatement District Effective date: 6/12/2025 Expiration date: 6/12/2028   Not available Not available
25-2881 1 DECLARING COOK COUNTY’S EMPHATIC DEFENSE AND RECOGNITION OF ALL RESIDENTS' RIGHT TO DUE PROCESSResolutionPROPOSED RESOLUTION DECLARING COOK COUNTY’S EMPHATIC DEFENSE AND RECOGNITION OF ALL RESIDENTS' RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS WHEREAS, Clause 39 of the Magna Carta, issued in 1215 declared, “No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land”; and WHEREAS, in the statutory rendition of the Magna Carta in 1354, the term ‘due process’ appeared for the first time with Clause 29 stating that, "No man of what state or condition he be, shall be put out of his lands or tenements nor taken, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without he be brought to answer by due process of law”; and WHEREAS, the Magna Carta is the bedrock of the U.S. Constitution and established the foundational principles of the rule of law, due process, the protection of individual rights, and served as the model for safeguarding individual liberties and principles that bec   Not available Not available
25-2890 1 SCCMAD Shonda DeVasher-Williams AppointmentAppointmentPROPOSED APPOINTMENT Appointee(s): Shonda DeVasher-Williams Position: Trustee Department/Board/Commission: South Cook County Mosquito Abatement District Effective date: 6/12/2025 Expiration date: 6/12/2028   Not available Not available