Title
Resolution approving the 2012 Lake County State and Federal Legislative Program.
Staff Summary
• Annually, the County develops a list of priority projects that are submitted to State and Federal legislators who represent Lake County.
• The County’s 2012 Legislative Program seeks: reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act (federal), modifications to the state code concerning cell tower siting requirements, property maintenance, abandoned vehicles, law enforcement hiring procedures and permissive authority to establish an affordable housing trust fund.
Body
WHEREAS, legislative proposals were solicited from elected officials and department heads; and
WHEREAS, your Revenue, Records and Legislation Committee has prepared a Lake County Legislative Program for the Federal Fiscal Year 2013 and State Fiscal Year 2012; and
WHEREAS, the Revenue, Records and Legislation Committee seeks your approval of the 2012 Lake County State and Federal Legislative Program.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the 2012 Lake County State and Federal Legislative Program is hereby approved, a copy of which program is attached hereto and made part hereof; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this County Board does hereby approve and support those efforts necessary to draft, introduce, and support legislation designed to implement the objectives of this program, with those efforts to be executed by the County Administrator in coordination with the Chair of the County Board and the Chair of the Revenue, Records and Legislation Committee; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that because of the unique and often unpredictable timing by which actions occur in the Illinois General Assembly and U.S. Congress, the County Administrator, in coordination with the Chair of the County Board and the Chair of the Revenue, Records and Legislation Committee, is hereby authorized and directed to take all appropriate actions regarding other legislative proposals that may impact upon Lake County government.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on this 13 day of December, 2011.