Title
Resolution approving the 2019 Lake County Legislative Agenda.
Staff Summary
• Annually, the County develops a list of legislative priorities that are submitted to legislators representing Lake County.
• The County's 2019 Legislative Agenda seeks to:
o Amend the process through which a county can seek immediate injunctive relief to authorize the removal of hazardous materials from an abandoned or otherwise uninhabitable structure or property.
o Amend the Illinois Counties Code to increase the agricultural zoning exemption acreage from five acres to 20 acres for unincorporated parcels for animal husbandry (excluding equine activity) within or adjacent to residential zoning districts.
o Amend the Election Code to mandate non-attendance day for schools that serve as election polling sites.
o Amend the Illinois Vital Records Act to require that fetal and stillbirth death records be reported through the electronic Illinois Vital Records.
o Identify legislative and operational changes that simplify the process for driver’s license reinstatement for indigent individuals who have committed non-moving violations.
o Identify viable legislative solutions and/ or operational changes - through a statewide working group - that provides remedies that limit the financial and operational impact of unfunded mandates such as JULIE on local governments.
• The Legislative Agenda also identifies bills and issues of interest to the County for support, opposition, or monitoring.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, legislative proposals were solicited from elected officials and department heads; and
WHEREAS, the Financial and Administrative Committee, with recommendation from the Ad Hoc Legislative Committee, has prepared a Lake County Legislative Program for the County’s 2019 fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, the Financial and Administrative Committee recommends the approval of the 2019 Lake County Legislative Agenda.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the 2019 Lake County Legislative Agenda is hereby approved with the attached agenda.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this County Board does hereby approve those efforts necessary to draft, introduce, and support legislation designed to implement the objectives of this agenda, with those efforts to be executed by the County Administrator in coordination with the Chair of the County Board, the Chair of the Financial and Administrative Committee, and the Co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Legislative Committee.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that because of the unique and often unpredictable timing by which actions occur in the legislative process, the County Administrator, in coordination with the Chair of the County Board, the Chair of the Financial and Administrative Committee, and the Co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Legislative Committee, is hereby authorized and directed to take all appropriate actions regarding other legislative proposals that may impact Lake County government.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on November 13th, 2018.