Lake County, IL
File #: 25-1348    Version: 1 Name: Committee action amending Appendix H Section III of the County Board Rules of Order and Operational Procedures.
Type: committee action item Status: In Committee
File created: 9/30/2025 In control: Rules Committee
On agenda: Final action: 10/10/2025
Title: Committee action amending Appendix H Section III of the County Board Rules of Order and Operational Procedures by inserting a new section "III.I. Meeting guests must be treated courteously at all times. While a countywide elected official, department head, or their staff, attending the board or committee meeting at the request of the Lake County Board has the floor, board members, committee chairs and the chair of the county board shall refrain from interrupting the speaker unless the speaker is ruled out of order or engages in discourteous behavior" and inserting new section "III.I.1. If, during the course of discussion of an agenda item that includes an invited countrywide elected official, department head, or staff, a county board member makes an assertion that the countywide elected official, department head, or their staff finds erroneous, the guest shall have the opportunity to correct the record before the next member speaks."

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Committee action amending Appendix H Section III of the County Board Rules of Order and Operational Procedures by inserting a new section “III.I. Meeting guests must be treated courteously at all times. While a countywide elected official, department head, or their staff, attending the board or committee meeting at the request of the Lake County Board has the floor, board members, committee chairs and the chair of the county board shall refrain from interrupting the speaker unless the speaker is ruled out of order or engages in discourteous behavior” and inserting new section “III.I.1. If, during the course of discussion of an agenda item that includes an invited countrywide elected official, department head, or staff, a county board member makes an assertion that the countywide elected official, department head, or their staff finds erroneous, the guest shall have the opportunity to correct the record before the next member speaks.”