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Ordinance amending a previous ordinance designating the voting site assigned to 11 of the 415 precincts in Lake County Townships.
Staff Summary
• After reviewing voting sites for the March 17, 2020 General Primary, voting site changes are proposed to provide better voting site locations to those precincts affected due to sites that have requested to discontinue serving as a polling place due to new facility owners, renovations and facility name changes.
• Each of these precincts will be reassigned to an appropriate voting site which has sufficient parking and voting space as well as full accessibility for all voters.
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ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, Lake County has 415 voting precincts in 18 Townships; and
WHEREAS, for Waukegan Township 354, 357 and 358, Misión Cristiana El Calvario is under new ownership and requested to discontinue offering its location as a polling place due to renovations; and
WHEREAS, for Fremont Township 116 and 119, Mundelein Community Center, due to renovations and can no longer provide adequate space; and
WHEREAS, for Lake Villa Township 149, 150 and 156, Lake Villa District Library has moved to a newly renovated facility and the previous facility will be obsolete; and
WHEREAS, for Waukegan Township 362, 363 and 364, Living Faith United Methodist Church is under new ownership and has changed the name of their site; and
WHEREAS, each said precinct is being relocated to a voting site which has sufficient parking and voting space as well as full accessibility for all voters; and
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, the attached Exhibit A sets forth the affected Precincts by Township name and number and previous voting site and identifies the new voting site to which the affected precincts are assigned, listing both name and location.
DATED AT WAUKEGAN, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, on this 8th day of October A.D., 2019.