Quincy Reporter

Adams County Board Finance Committee met March 13.

Here are the minutes provided by the committee:

PRESENT: Bret Austin, Travis Cooley, Tim Finlay, Keith Callaway, Brad Poulter

ABSENT:

OTHER: R. Kent Snider, Anthony Foster, David Hochgraber, Bryden Cory, Ryan Hinkamper, Tony Grootens, Pat Frazier, Gary Farha, Dave Bellis, Caitlin Hickerson

6:01 pm meeting was convened.

Bills

Approval of Prior Meeting Minutes

Motion to approve made by Travis Cooley and seconded by Brad Poulter. Motion passed.

Speaker

N/A

Reports

N/A

Resolutions

1. N/A

Finance

1. Additional Fund Appropriation

a. Additional Fund Appropriations from Judge Scott Larson – Judicial – in the Amount of $309,340 to Revenue Account Line 432-431-4615 – GRANTS-IL TMF – for a Revised Budget of $309,340 and $309,340 to Expense Account Line 432- 431-5720 – IL TMG Grant Expenses – for a Revised Budget Amount of $309,340..

i. Brad Poulter makes a motion to approve the above Fund Appropriation and take to the full County Board. Tim Finlay seconded the motion. Motion carried.

2. Transfer of Budget Appropriation

a. Transfer of Budget Appropriations from Bret Austin – Adams County Finance Committee – in the Amount of $5,000 to Account Line Number 001-001-5999 – Contingency – for a Revised Budget Amount of $195,000 and $5,000 to Account Number 501-501-5999 – Payroll Contingency – for a Revised Budget Amount of $5,000.

i. Tim Finlay makes a motion to approve the transfer and recommend to the Full County Board. Keith Callaway seconded the motion. Motion carried.

3. ARPA Review

a. Currently we are projecting to be over budget for ARPA Projects. We are tracking at $150,000 over budget for the Health Department HVAC Program. This was due to the engineer was not accounted for. Currently at $701,000 for the JDC.

There are also $399,000 worth of bills sitting out there pending.$12.7 million received so far. Currently $318,000 over.

Budget/Levy

1. Review of FY22-23 Budget

Old Business

N/A

New Business

A. Assist Homeownership Program – Approval of Program / Agreement

a. Travis Cooley spoke with someone. More information will be needed. This is a MCC Program and is centrally located. Is it the role of the County Board to provide this option or the City? No action was taken.

b. Sheriff Proposal / Review of Officer Body Cameras and Patrol Unit Cameras 

i. This is also being taken to Public Health and Safety Committee meeting. The sheriffs office presented two different quotes for radios and one quote for body cameras.

1. Radios –

a. Met with GTSI and all supervisor vehicles will be dual banned. All cars will be able to talk to the City officers. Similar to Starcom and will cover the same jurisdiction. We will eventually have to put up another tower. There are currently no antennas in the jail so the officers are not able to talk to the officers in the jail.

2. Body Cameras –

a. Motorola had a package deal. We currently have watchguard in some of our cars now. The Battery life to these cameras are important. The County has already paid for storage within the infrastructure project. We currently have 12 watchguards and 8 squad cars without cameras. There is an option to lease the cameras. The lease program costs $165,000 and to purchase the cameras they are $211,165. The radios take priority over the body cameras but both are needed.

ii. With both projects, this is creeping in around $700,000. $538,000 right away for this year. The rest will need to be built into the budget for next fiscal year. This will need to go to Public Health and Safety and to be presented to the full County Board before approval. A resolution will need to be passed and transfers made in April.

c. Adams County Cameras – Revision of Order

i. We currently have 88 cameras up from the new camera project. The cameras that were sent to Adams County only had a 30 day retention but we are in need of a 90 day retention. The new data center has new internet connections. Two options to fix this. Swap the cameras out for the 90 day cameras and have a one time cost of $204,480. OR put up the 30 day cameras and purchase additional storage for an additional $53,000 a year. The vendor is eating the restocking and shipping fees which is around $80,000. The committee suggested to hold the check to the vendor until this is taken to the Full County Board. An option is to put all the project together and take out a 1.4 million loan and pay it off in 4 installments. No action was taken.

d. OPIOD Funds

i. We have received $160,000 already. No action was taken.

e. Request of Funding from the West Central Illinois Task Force

i. This is a request for immediate funding to send officers to a training in Florida for overdoses and what to look for in the narcotics field. Overdoses are at an all time high. The total cost is $5500.00. 5 total people are going. Keith Callaway makes a motion to take to the full County Board. Brad Poulter seconded the motion. Motion carried.

Miscellaneous

a.) N/A

EXECUTIVE SESSION

A.) N/A

Adjournment

A motion to adjourn the meeting was made by Tim Finlay. Travis Cooley seconded the motion. Meeting adjourned at 7:30pm.

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