slightly passed. Uh we will have an invocation by Miss Diner and a brand new p pledge of allegiance by Mr. Frzy. Lord, we pause before our business begins to seek your direction. Thank you for the opportunity to serve together.
Bless this room with peace. Open our minds and give us the wisdom to make decisions that build up our community. Amen. United States of America to the republic for it stands one nation
indivisible with liberty and justice for all. The clerk will call the role. Camman excused for joining sir. >> Oh, he's going to join. Constant
dco excused. Diner Deljouro >> Depy >> Doug Williams >> Fel >> Forsythe Frezy >> Fjenzi >> Gayton >> present >> Paul
>> Prell >> Lean Lean I know she's here >> she won't be >> Mononia >> here >> Maguire >> Mendenhole >> here >> Miller >> here >> Raider
>> here >> SCa Shackman >> here. >> Shepard >> here. >> Small Stump >> here. >> Chumlin >> here. >> Truax >> here. >> Chairman's present. 26 present to absent. >> Thank you, Mr. Clerk.
>> Um, one of your fellow board members, Sam Camman, has notified both the chair and the clerk that he wishes to attend this meeting by telephone. This is allowed under the the open meetings act if a quorum of this body is present which it is and if a majority of the
board at least 15 members vote to allow it. Mr. Cameman is prevented from physically attending this meeting for a cause recognized by the open meetings act as as one warranting participation via telephone conference. The chair will now entertain a motion to allow Mr.
Camman to He hasn't gotten on yet. Then we'll proceed further and we'll see if Mr. Cameman if Mr. Cameman joins us. >> Okay. >> Record will be 25 uh present three years.
>> Very good. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Um a reminder, we are recording and broadcasting the meeting. So, please uh remember to speak into your microphone so folks at home can hear. All right. Proceeding in the in the uh regular order. We have first up one of the
happiest occasions on the county board the opportunity to swear in a new county board member. And I am very pleased to recommend to the board to nominate to the board for your consideration
Len Clark. Len and her family are well known to many of us. Uh, I want to make a special mention that Len, when she was formerly employed at Deio, was instrumental in helping the county cut through some
really tangled bureaucratic nonsense. And I hope that she will bring that same I hope she brought her shears and that same straightforward thinking to to the county board. So, my my recommendation is that Len Clark serve as the new county board member for Sang County. All
in favor signify by saying I. >> Oppos? No. Benet, if you proceed to the well of the chamber and our clerk will proceed to swear you in. Hello. >> Hello. Hello.
>> Hello. Hello. >> I I think that disembodied voice >> is the voice of our colleague, Mr. Canman. Mr. Canman, are you out there somewhere?
>> Correct. Chairman Van Meter, you you are correct. >> Yes. Uh Mary reminds me to remind you to mute when you're not uh >> Okay. >> Okay. We'll do. >> We'll we'll proceed to the process of
admitting you to the to the board meeting. Um the chair will entertain a motion to to allow Mr. Cameman to participate via telephone conference. Motion by Mr. Monia, seconded by Mr. Deljouro. All in favor signify by saying I.
>> Post. No. The eyes have it. The motion carries. The chair asks the clerk to revise the role to reflect that Mr. Cameron is participating in this meeting via telephone conference as allowed by the open meetings act and and he is considered present at this meeting for purposes of determining a quorum and
participating in all proceedings. >> So reflected. >> Thank you, Mr. Cler. All right. proceeding back in the regular order. An you found your seat and you're ready to to All right, the first roll call is coming up. Um
proclamations. For what purpose does uh Miss Fjenzi and Mr. Sump seek recognition. Before we get started, uh we wanted to call up the family, the Harris family band. While they're coming up here, what
we're going to be reading about tonight is these are all siblings who played together as a Terry Young, please come up. Terry is a music promoter in Springfield. Come up.
Okay. And also Terry uh he's a friend of their family, music promoter and former uh SMIA board member. And uh also as you know, like I said, imagine six brothers and sisters playing together for 60
years. So while we're reading this and also just so you know, a few of them going to be playing at Pizza and Pasta and uh and they're going to talk about some other things that they got going for that like to recognize. >> I'm pleased to recognize these folks.
And I don't know about you, but I don't know if I could do anything with my siblings for 60 years. So, I love them. Don't get me wrong. >> Okay. So, I'm gonna read. >> I doubt her. I'm sure. All right. So,
I'm gonna uh bust loose with this. Okay. In recognition of the 60th anniversary of the Harris Family Band, whereas the Harris Family Band comprised of six siblings held its first performance on July 4th, 1966 at the DAV Club at Lake Springfield. And whereas
originally known as the little big shots, the group has formed under the guidance of their par was formed under the guidance of their parents Al Harris and Wanita Harris and began performing throughout the Midwest at a young age. And whereas over time the band expanded its reach to perform across the country
while maintaining Springfield as its home base. And whereas performing as both Bust and Loose and the Harris Family Band, the group has appeared at state fairs across the nation and participated in nationally televised and syndicated performances, including appearances at the Grand Old
Opry, Disney's Epcot, and the Texas Motor Speedway. And whereas the Harris family band is recognized as one of the longest running sibling bands in the United States with its original members representing a lasting contribution to the musical arts.
Whereas on July 4th, 2026, the Harris family band will celebrate 60 years of performing which they have already together with a commemorative concert scheduled for July 26, 2026 at the firefighters club at Lake Springfield.
And whereas the Harris family band 60 years of music have brought joy to audiences and pride to Sang County. Now therefore, be it resolved that we, the Sangaman County Board, do hereby proclaim July 26, 2026 as Harris Family
Band Day in Sangaman County, Illinois, and encourage residents to recognize and celebrate their contributions to the cultural life of the community. I order the county board on this 14th day of July, 2026, Andy Vaner, county board.
Congratul being recorded. >> We invite everybody to come out to the firefighters club at 1:00 July 26th. We're celebrating our 60 years of performing music together. There's no cover. It's free. We're giving away TV
and some new guitars just to share our love of music. It's going to be a fun day. It's also a family event. We've got prizes for all the kids. So, please, if you can make it out and help us celebrate that day. Thank you. that
if that presentation opens up some seats, if the folks that are standing would please grab those seats because we really our rules don't allow people to stand. So, please take uh take the open seats. Um the the chair's informed that Mr.
Goldman, our auditor, has a has a pres proclamation to present. Like to ask brother Bob and Craig Kennedy, David come forwardation. Thank you, Andy. Mr. Chairman, members of the Sang County
Board, it is an honor today to recognize an organization that has shaped the character of millions of young men across the globe. Founded in 1919, Dalay International recently marked a historic milestone of 100 years of
leadership, brotherhood, and community service. Today, our county officially celebrates that enduring centennial legacy and the vital role demon contin to play in molding the civic leaders of tomorrow. It is my privilege to read the
following proclamation. in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the Stephen A. Douglas chap order of the Dalay chapter. Whereas the order of Dalay is a characterbuilding organization of young men from 12 to 21
years of age who are seeking to prepare themselves to become better citizens and leaders for tomorrow by developing those traits of character which have strengthened good men in all ages. And whereas the organization has carried out
the affformentioned goals for over 100 years through programs of athletic competition, social activity, civic service, and charitable projects. And whereas the members of Steven A. Douglas
chapter are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the chapter. Senior Dalay members include the late Springfield Mayor William C. Telford, Sangman County Coroner, the late Mormon Richtor and
Sangman County Board Chair Administrator of the General Services Administration and Adjun General of the State of Illinois, the late Richard G. Austin. And whereas they exemplify to all citizens here and everywhere their many
activities and to tender recognition to their millions of current and senior demise. Now therefore be it resolved that we the Sangaman County Board do hereby recognize and celebrate the contributions of the Steven A. Douglas
Order of D. Malay and congratulate them on their 100th anniversary by order of the county board. 14th day of July, 2026. Andy Van Meter, County Board Chairman. Thank you very much, uh, Chairman Ben
Meter and Sang County Board members. Um, my brother Bob and I have been part of the delay chapter here in Springfield for more than 50 years and uh, it has been a pleasure to help young men between the ages of 12 and 21 grow and become uh, good citizens. We would uh,
invite you all to our 100th anniversary celebration which will be August the 1st uh, in the afternoon 4 o'clock. the doors open at Ansar Shrine downtown here and we will have a program and uh really
a good time and uh go over some great history. the demate chapter here in Springfield. Uh as you heard some of the names, u some of the other names as we uh looked at our roster, uh the entire Kerasotas family, all those young men were members of the chapter. Uh several
local businessmen, the SCA family, several of those brothers were me members, the Lindley family run floral uh operations here in Springfield. Uh and all great members of the Dway chapter. So, thank you so much for the proclamation. Really appreciate it.
Next we have uh our county auditor has arranged a very boring presentation and and this is the kind of presentation that you want to be boring. This is the annual audit.
Mr. Auditor, >> thank you Mr. Chairman. Again, ladies and gentlemen, this time we have our review of our annual audit from the outside auditors, Clifton, Larson, and Allen. We have with us tonight Brian Mateas, who is the signing director, and
Kayla Mormon, who is the man. Hello, ladies and gentlemen of the board. Um, like Andy just mentioned, my name is Brian Mattis. I am the signing director with Clifton Marel and I'm here to present the results of the county's 2025 external audit. Um, with me here I
have Kayla Mormon. She was one of the two managers that worked on the audit this year. As part of our audit, we issued five different deliverables which are on the screen here in front of you. Be touching on each of these in a little bit more detail on future slides. going to be a little bit more high level
than the finance. Try to speed it up for you. Um the first um deliverable that we issued which is the meat and potatoes of the audit is the audited financial statements. Um we issued clean unmodified opinions on all the opinion.
The second deliverable that was issued was the consolidated year and financial report or cipher. Um the cipher pretty much summarizes all the state and federal grant expenditures of the county for the year. Um and we found that the cipher was fairly stated in all material
respects in regards to financial statements of the county. The third deliverable would be the single audit report. Um the county is required to have a single audit because the county expends over a million dollars of federal awards in fiscal year
2025. Um there's two components of it. Um the first component of the single audit focuses on internal controls over financial reporting similar to last year. Um there was two financial statement findings. Um the first one being that we proposed material audit
adjustments. The second one being that um we had material revisions that were recommended on the cipher. Um and then the second component focuses more on compliance and internal control over compliance over the major federal awards.
Um part of that testing um we did issue an unmodified clean opinion over the three major federal programs that we tested. Um also as part of that testing we identified um four different um federal award findings all of which were
significant deficiencies. Um three of those federal award findings were in regards to the lie he federal program and then one of them was in regards to the Chrissy grant which um the county receives through the city of Springfield. The fourth deliverable that was issued would be the governance letter. We are
required by auditing standards to communicate um noteworthy audit related items to the board in writing. Um kind of put some of the highlights here on the screen. Um in terms of accounting policies, the county implemented Gazby 101 um which relates to compensated
absences. In regards to estimates, um there's one sensitive estimate included in your financial statements and that would beum total liability and the related deferrals. Um there's no disagreements or difficulties with management. Um we did identify a few
uncorrected misstatements. Um that is attached to the governance letter. And then the audit adjustments that we propose also attached to the governance letter. And last but not least, the final deliver rule that we issue would be a management letter. Um pretty much what a
management letter is is it's internal control recommendations and deficiencies that we identified but they don't rise to the level of a finding. Um findings are um the internal control deficiencies recommendations I talked about a few minutes ago in regards to the so don't
rise to that level but still worth communicating in writing to management. Um the first one is lack of segregation of duties specific to the accounting function office. The second one being lack of segregation of duties more focused on the dispersement process in
the veterans assistance commissioner. Um and then the third one was internal controls over inventory. We had identified a few discrepancies um with year end inventory counts and calculations. That is all I have prepared. Um would
like to just take a chance to thank Andy and Eric the team and anyone else that tolerated us with our questions and requests during the audit. Um, it's a long process and you know, we have several requests and questions throughout the process and we appreciate
your help and patience. If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer. Dr. Thank you for that suitably boring uh report. Mr. Gleman, did you have anything boring to add add to that? >> Mr. Mr. Chairman, we did have a more in-depth presentation finance. Anyone
who wants a copy >> Thank you. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um, proceeding in the regular order minutes. Motion by Mr. Madona, second by Mr. Deljon for the approve the minutes
of the June 9th, 2026 meeting. All in favor signify by saying I. >> Oppos? No. The eyes have >> uh correspondence motioned by Mr. Deljouro, second by Mr. Medonia to place correspondence on file with the clerk. All in favor signify by saying I. >> Oppos? No. The eyes have a correspondence be placed on file with
the clerk. Resolutions. Resolution number one. Mr. Clerk. >> Resolution one, resolution approving the procurement of goods and or services for the department of public health from Ethan Holloway for the purpose of evaluation and training of animals taking into animal control in the amount of 65,000.
>> Motion by motion by Mr. Shackman, second by Miss Deputy to place resolution one before the board. Questions, comments, members of the board on resolution one. Seeing none, the clerk will call the role. >> Canman. >> Yes. >> Clark constant diner. >> Deljouro.
>> Depy Williams Fleet Frzy. >> Hi, Fenzi. >> Hi. >> Gayton. >> Hi. >> Paul. >> Hi. >> Monia. >> Hi. Mcuire, >> hi >> Ben Hall. >> Hi
>> Miller. >> Hi >> Raider. >> Hi >> Scman. >> Hi >> Shepard. >> I >> Small >> Stump. >> Chumlin Trux. >> All 26 approve. >> All those voting having voted affirmative resolution one's adopted.
Resolution two. Mr. Clerk. Number two, 2026-13 Thomas and Pat Patricia Scott 4476 Santara Road Horning granting a reszoning and a variance. Motion by Mrs. Clark, second by Mr. Men and all to
place resolution two before the board. We're now entering zoning portion of the meeting. It's our policy to ask if there are members of the audience who wish to speak in opposition to the proposed zoning in opposition. Seeing none, other members of the audience feels necessary to speak in support of the proposed zoning. Seeing none, Mr. Pon, Mr. Bend, I'll you a motion.
>> Since we have no opposition, I move we wave the staff report. >> Is there objection? Without objection, so ordered. Questions, comments from members of the board on resolution two. Seeing none on the question, all those in favor of adopting resolution two signify by saying I >> opposed. No, the eyes have. >> Resolution two is adopted. Resolution three, Mr. Cl.
>> Number three, 202614 Matia Tiver, executor of the estate of Deborah Larson, >> exeutor. >> Exeutor. Thank you. I didn't want to execute anybody today. Sorry about that, Matina.
On my mind. Uh 1480 block of Oh, no. Here I go again. Mumi Road. I say correctly. Mi Road Mechanicsburg. Granting variances. >> Motion by Mr. Men Hall, seconded by Mr. Raider to place resolution three before
the board. Are there members of the audience who wish to speak in opposition above zoning? Seeing none of the members audience feels necessary to speak in support of Bose. Seeing none, Mr. Men, I'll do you a motion. >> Uh, since we have no opposition, I move we wave the staff report. >> Objection without objection so ordered. Questions, comments from members of the
board on resolution three. Seeing none on the on the question, all those in favor of adopting resolution three signify by saying I >> oppose. No. Have it. Resolution three is adopted. Resolution four. Mr. Number four, 202615, Fancy Creek Township, 6728 Britain Road,
Springfield, granting a resoning and variances in part. >> Motion by Mr. Constant, seconded by the chairman, place resolution four before the board. Are there uh members of the audience who wish to speak in opposition to the proposed zoning?
Seeing none, are there members of the audience who wish to speak in feels necessary to speak in favor of the proposed zoning? Seeing none, Mr. Men Hall, do you have a motion? Uh I move we wave the staff report since we have no opposition. >> Is there objection? Without objection so ordered. Questions comes from members of the board on resolution four. Seeing
none on the question. All those in favor of adopting resolution four signify by saying I. >> Post no. The eyes have it. Resolution four is adopted. Resolution five. Mr. Cler. >> Number five 2026-16 Curtis and Kim Howard 6045 New City Road Rochester granting variances.
>> Motion by Mr. Monia. Second by Mr. Menhal to place resolution five before the board. members of the audience who wish to speak in opposition to the proposed zoning. Seeing none, are the members of the audience feel it's necessary to speak in support of proposed zoning? Seeing none, Mr. Men, I'll give you a motion. >> We have no opposition, I move we wave
the staff report. >> Is there objection? Without objection, so ordered. Questions come members of the board on resolution five. Seeing none on the question, all those in favor adopting resolution five signify saying I >> opposed. No. The eyes have it. Resolution five is adopted. Resolution
six, Mr. Clerk. Number six, resolution amending the Sangam County code chapter 5 period 16 in regard to the regulation of massage establishments. >> Motion by Mr. Shackman, second by Mr. Krell approach resolution six before the board. Questions come from members of
the board on resolution six. Seeing none, you have a motion. Mr. Monia, >> I move for the roll call vote for resolution one. Stand for the roll call vote of resolution six. >> Second by Mr. Mr. Tjouro. All in favor signify by saying I. >> Oppos? No. The eyes have it. Resolution
six is adopted. Motion by Mr. Deljouro, second by Mr. Madonia for the waiver of 10day filing period. All in favor signify by saying I. >> Oppos? No. The eyes have it. 10day filing per wave. Resolution seven. Mr. Number seven, resolution approving the procurement of goods and or services for
court services from Springfield Urban League for the purpose of case management services, assessment services, and mentoring services in the amount of $264,040. Motion by Miss Valenzi, seconded by Miss Small to place resolution seven before
the board. Mr. Shono. >> Mr. Chairman, at this time I move to consolidate resolutions 8 through 14 and seven. >> Second by Mr. Monia. Mr. Clerk, would please read resolutions 8 through 14. >> Number eight, resolution approving the
procurement of goods and/or services for court services from Gateway Foundation, Inc. for the purpose of substance abuse treatment services in the amount of 49,000. Number nine, resolution approving the procurement of goods and/or services for court court services from Gateway Foundation, Inc. for the
purpose of providing recovery coaching to problem solving court participants in the amount of 52,258. Number 10, resolution approving the procurement of goods and or services for information systems from coverage one inc proof point for the purpose of
securing the county email and enduser security training in the amount of $91,17. Number 11, resolution reducing fees for electronic recorded documents obtained through Laredo. Number 12, resolution amending an agreement with Charles
Joseph Pel Architects for the Community Services Building in the amount of $342,725. Number 13, resolution approving the annual salaries for the Sangaman County States Attorney, Chief Public Defender, and the Sheriff. And number 14,
resolution setting forth budget policies for the preparation of the fiscal year 27 Sangama County budget. >> On the motion to consolidate, all in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Question. The motion consolidate is is passed unanimously. Questions, comments
from members of the board on the resolutions as consolidated. Seeing none, Mr. Money, do you have a motion? >> I move that the roll call vote for resolution one stand for the roll call vote of resolutions 7 through 14 as consolidated. >> Second by Mr. Monon. All in favor signify by saying I
>> opposed. No. The eyes have it. The resolutions is consolidated or adopted. Resolution 15. Mr. Clerk. >> Number 15. Resolution regarding a reszoning as R1 single family residents all land within 1.5 miles of the current boundaries of Sangaman County
municipalities other than Springfield towns and villages. And B, amending the zoning ordinance so that agricultural uses are no longer allowed in every zoning district. Motion by Mr. Hall, second by Mr. Frasy to place resolution 15 before the board.
>> Yes, sir. Um m Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask to with withdraw number 15 and have it returned back to the zoning committee committee so that it could go through the proper jails. >> Mr. Paul is the author of resolution 15 and at his request, the resolution be
withdrawn. Resolution 16, Mr. Clerk. 16 resolution approving the procurement goods and/or services for the ETSD from AT&T and Axon for the purpose of five-year contract for cloud-based AI tools and enhancements for 911 in the
amount of 3,163,85.71. >> Motion by Mr. Rder, second by Mr. Money to place resolution 16 before the board. Questions? Council members of the board on resolution 16? Seeing none, Mr. Mon, you have a motion? I move that the roll call vote for resolution one stand for the roll call vote of resolution 16.
>> Seconded by Mr. Deljouro. All in favor signify saying I. >> Oppos? No. The eyes have it. Resolution 16 is adopted. Old business. The chair is aware of no old business. Is there old business? Very good. New business appointments.
Motion by Mr. Madon. Second by Mr. Deljon for the approving the appointments as submitted at your desks. All in favor signify by saying I. >> Opposed? No. I'd like to abstain from uh board review appointment please. >> The appointments are approved but the record record reflect Mr. Madona
abstaining from the appointment to the board review. Any others? The appointments are approved as submitted. Um change of the county board meeting date to September 1st to avoid the conflict with Labor Day. Motion by
Mr. Monia, seconded by Mr. Deljon for for the uh change of meeting date to September 1st. All in favor signify by saying I >> oppose. No. The eyes have a meeting date for September is changed to September 1st.
County holidays motion by M. I informed that we just received the state holiday schedule which we follow. So we but we have to approve this motion by Mr. Medona. Second by Mr. Deljono. The approval of the holiday schedule for 2027. All in favor signify by saying I.
>> Post. No. The eyes have holiday schedule is approved. Public comment. We have eight people who signed up for public comment this evening. Each person will have four minutes to speak. And we take the people who signed
up to speak in the order that they signed up to speak. And the first person who signed up to speak this evening is Justin King speaking on data centers data center solar. My name is Justin King, resident,
farmer, land owner, western Sang County. On July 10th, 2018, the Son County Board denied a use variance request from Advanced Seed Solutions owned by two local residents to build a 240 by 110 foot building on a 5acre parcel just west of Springfield to house an
agriculture seed business. This request was approved 5 to zero by the same countyy's own board of appeals. I'm now going to quote quote a July 10th, 2018 state journal register article. I quote board member Tom Madon Jr. of Rochester. I quote, sorry, I quote, board member
Tom Mona Jr. of Rochester commented on the number of people who had signed a petition opposed to the plan. He said he counted about 210 signatures of people who live in the area and added they are the ones who are familiar with the roads. He said, "This is democracy at
its best. The people have spoken. Take their advice." End quote. The people have spoken. Take their advice. This is democracy at its best. You cared about the 210 people of Son County on July 10th, 2018 when the matter was a 240 by
110 foot a seed business building on 5 acres. But now when the matter is a 280acre data center and there have been thousands of thousands of folks locally and across this country screaming this is not okay, you turn a blind eye. You completely disregard democracy.
June 25th, 2026 Illinois Times article. Mononia told Illinois Times that while he respects King's opinion, he's comparing apples to oranges, arguing the hundreds of people who
signed the 2018 petition were verifiable nearby residents. Mononia, were you at the BOS center when hundreds of hundreds of people stood up in real life and spoke? Are you saying those people, myself
included, are not verifiable people? >> Mr. King, our rules don't allow you to engage the board or board members with with questions, but continue with your presentation. >> It's not a question. Are you um
are you saying the people, myself included, are not verifiable? Are you saying the petition with what the current petition with 1,719 signatures opposed to the data center are not verifiable? Is someone saying the residents of Saman
County are not verifiable people? Is that how the yes voters of this board, the ones that are ignoring their constituents view us as not verifiable? Monia said, unlike the data center where
I have had zero, maybe two, three people maybe that live within a mile to two miles from the area contact me. That is it. So, it's a belief that there is zero, maybe two or three people that are opposed to the data center. That's all.
Mononia also cited a local school district's opposition to the 2018 seed business, calling the proposal a recipe for disaster. So there's a thought that a 240 by 110 foot machine shed on a 5 acre parcel is
a recipe for disaster, but a 280 acre data center is not. I just think something's wrong here. Thank you. Okay, the next person who signed up to speak is Lori McCerninator.
Under Illinois law, a municipality is authorized to classify, regulate, and restrict the location of trades and industries and the location of buildings designed for specified industrial, business, residential, and other uses. This comes from the Illinois Municipal Code. The process for declaring a
moratorum must adhere to existing zoning procedures and ordinances. For a period of time, a data center moratorum effectively bans what might be an otherwise lawful use. in banning a use requires a change to zoning zoning code of the county. This is considered to be
an amendment to the zoning code and changes to zoning require public notice, a public hearing, findings of fact, and an ordinance amending the zoning code of a mun municipality to be approved by required bodies to avoid a court challenge. The zoning process must be followed. A moratorum can't be
implemented just for the sake of delaying a data center project. The ordinance needs to state what will be done during the time period approved. The or ordinance needs to define for instance that the 6 to 12 month moratorum will be used to research the impact of a data center on the community or that the time will be used to
research and implement data center regulations. So these are the data center moratorums that I'm I'm aware of in Illinois. Aurora had a 180day moratorum adopted in September. It was later extended by a week while they were finishing up their zoning regulations. Bloomington implemented a six-month
moratorum in May. Corbin, Illinois approved a day a moratorum in June that expires January 31st. Carbonddale has a 12-month mortorium that they approved in June. Normal approved a six-month moratorium in May. Godfrey, Illinois did
a 180day moratorium in January. Planefield, a 180day moratorium approved in April. Troy, Illinois, a six-month moratorium approved in March. Champagne County approved a 12-month moratorum and they also approved a task force to develop amendments to their zoning
regulations, including experts and members of the public. Christian County um approved a moratorum in August. Folton County approved a six-month moratorum in March. Lake County uh approved an eight-month moratorum in 2020 in June of 2026 and imposed an
administrative deferral on applications that were pending adoption. Logan County 12-month moratorum may have 26 Mon County a one-year mortorium was approved by their ZBA in June. Um the full court county board was going to vote June 20th but I have not verified
that they also have an ad hoc volunteer citizens advisory committee to address data centers and Morgan County a six-month moratorium approved in April. Now I do want to point out that Logan count Logan County's moratorum has been declared invalid by their local states attorney but not because a moratorum is
isn't legal. It was because they didn't follow the proper zoning process. They skipped ZBA appro approval and sent the vote straight to the county board. The moratorium is zoning change and must follow the zoning process. They didn't do that. So, it's questionable why their state's attorney didn't advise the
county prior to this vote on the moratorum, but even states attorneys can make mistakes. Our county's assistant states attorney has convinced our county board members that a moratorium isn't legal. However, I would suggest that this is just his interpretation.
Take the bag back in the car. >> How can it be that all >> I can with the bird on my shoulder? >> Mr. Cameron, would you mute your phone, please? >> Go ahead. >> I'm sorry, Chairman. I thought I was on mute. >> All of these other counties and
municipalities have decided differently. How can it be that all of these cities, towns, and counties are all wrong and our assistant states attorney is the only one who is right? I ask that you get another opinion of Mr. interpretation of this decision. It just makes no sense that we're the only government in Illinois that sees a
moratorum to not be a valid legal. >> Miss Mccernin, Miss McCarn, did you cite a statute in your in your can can we have can we have a copy? Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Okay. The next
person who signed up to speak is Salem King. Salem King, not here. Okay. The next person who signed up to speak is Aaron Kirkpatre.
Good evening. I'm Erin Kirkpatrick and I live in district 11. I'm here tonight to ask this board to consider all data center projects to be zoned as special use. Sometimes in life you find yourself on a continuing education webinar for lawyers. And you're not a lawyer, but
you're hearing lawyers being educated about the law, the law about data centers and their zoning. And specifically, you're hearing about how moratoriums are perfectly appropriate regarding their application to data centers as data centers do not fit into any previous category of zoning. And it
specifically may allow time for us to update zoning. Look at Sangaman County. We pass zoning for a data center to be placed on land zone for agriculture, not industrial use, but agricultural use. And you don't need me to enumerate the seemingly endless ways in which data
centers are not the same as plant or animal. My take away from the moratorum component of that webinar is that a six to 12month moratorum to be able to objectively understand data centers and their potential impacts to our community is perfectly legal as long as it is introduced and approved just as we would
update any zoning ordinance. That's the part Logan County got wrong with public notice and a public hearing which could be as simple as a meeting such as tonight where the public has an opportunity to speak. And I wanted to share this due to my degree of frustration, disappointment, and incredul at the legal council. I heard
all receive regarding. But my primary concern tonight is regarding special use zoning. It is my opinion that we need to significantly update our zoning pertaining to data centers. And yes, I'm aware of the proposed updates. I'm also aware that
current Sang County zoning of wind and solar projects are a combined 60 pages, so 30 pages each, and that the revised data center zoning would total five pages. I have never copy and paste more in my
life. Did you know we have full decommissioning plans outlined in our solar zoning? Why don't we have a word about decommissioning in our current data center zoning? Our data center zoning looks like a junior high student submitted an outline as a final project and forgot to go back and fill in the
substance. And regardless of any updates we make to the specific language in our zoning ordinance, I could not more strongly recommend that if we only implemented one rule regarding data centers, it would be that we consider them special use. The presentation we heard at the BOS center regarding why more time was
necessary to consider community impacts of the Cyrus 1 data center was a sound argument. specifically the concerning the consideration of the LAL factors. As we heard, the LAL factors are considered foundational legal criteria established by the Illinois Supreme Court regarding local zoning boards and criteria to
determine if zoning is constitutional, reasonable, or arbitrary. These include, but are not limited to the extent to which property values are diminished by the zoning, the public welfare, including public's health and safety, as well as the community need or lack of need. What the special use designation
does, as I understand it, is it allows for the county to determine on a case-byase basis whether or not each proposed data center meets those factors. Further, special use designation allows the county to place a fee on zoning consideration. For example, the county could charge $1,000
per acre for zoning consideration. For the Cyrus One project, that would have allowed $200,000 to be able to hire our own investigators or specialists to determine the positive or negative impacts on our community for that specific project. It would have been funded by the multi-billion dollar company and it could have raised any
questions, points of clarification or concerns before approval while keeping our community's best interest in mind. So, please pass a moratorum to give us some time to do some heavy-handed copying and pasting and add a special use designation to our data center zoning ordinance now before the next
data center comes to your district. Thank you. >> Um, I wanted to make a note to staff. I I think we need to get a longer microphone at these two podiums so it's easier for public to speak into them.
Okay. The next person who signed up to speak is Ken Pesa. Not here this evening. Okay. The next person who signed up signed up to speak is Nick Anderson. Okay. The next person who signed up to
speak is Gary Schultz. here. I apologize. I didn't my speech ready that I wanted. So I threw some oneliners together. Um when I was out getting signatures
for petitions from the people the data center, nobody wanted it, but they said the the board members wouldn't change their mind. They're going to do what they had their minds made up. And that's something I didn't like hearing. People should feel that they
should be able to talk to their board members if they have a problem with something not already not worry not think that they can't how how don't answer this but how do you board members feel about that I would
hope that you guys would tell people to talk to you I've talked a lot in my speeches about the construction side of data centers because that's what I know the most That brings me to data center data
center projects being pushed through having board members vote on them who don't who aren't educated about these data centers. The only education that a lot of people get is what the data center gives them
and the dangers of them. that this that's a heavy responsibility put on the shoulders of people who need to be educated on what they're voting on. Especially something that's so negatively life-changing for so many,
especially when some members said they going to vote yes because it's not by them. That's not educated. Members who vote yes just to keep the peace is not educated. And that doesn't make it right.
I am against the data center as as are many. We have a group that we have a group that is against it. And if anybody wants any information about it, see me after the meeting. Thanks.
>> Thank you, Mr. Schultz. All right. And the last person who signed up to speak is Jordan Shaw. Good evening. I'm also going to talk about data centers except I will be perfectly honest. The uh previous public
speakers did a lot more uh intellectual discussing about it where I'm just going to go with the good oldfashioned. I've talked to people and they're mad. I've been saying this for months. It's all good. Uh but first things first, I After
that, I do like to um give a shout out to the residents of Louder and around Waverly Inver uh for their recent lawsuit against Cyrus One. That's very exciting. Yay. Especially considering uh that I
know for a fact that they weren't able to get a lawyer around the area because Cyrus one decided to retain a bunch of like lawyers. Interesting. interesting like they almost like they knew that a
lot of people weren't going to want this especially the people who live within the area where the data center was going to be built. So I am very happy for them. I know it's going to be a long road and it's going to be very difficult but I am hoping beyond hope that
you know David's able to fight Goliath in this instance. But now that I've stated that, it's still just more and more infuriating the longer you sit with it because I know you guys thought this was
going to be done March 23rd. I know. And then it ended up getting a stay to April 7th and then it pushed through, but it's July. We're still here. And I believe all of the speakers were able to speak tonight was in regards to the data
center. We're not going away. We're not just going to stop talking about it because, oh, you can't fight city hall, can't fight the county board. No, this is serious. These are people's livelihood. This is their the how where they work,
where they live, their animals, their generational lives. You honestly think this is about just a simple, oh, that bully is going to be ugly. I want to see that ugly building outside my house. No, this is going to
affect people physically, healthwise, mentally. You know, there's actual studies that that there it's messing with farm life that there are animals who are having consistent and constant
still births because of the data center and the noise and it's messing with them. Look, I get it. Money's shiny, money's pretty, and we're all broke. I get it. But you got to actually care about the
people who live in these areas. You got to care. Like, if if you're going in a situation where it's like, okay, I as a public official have to have to vote yes on things that I don't agree or I have
to give this. It doesn't matter because at the end of the day, you voted yes. And a lot of people are furious with that. Yes. And that's you're going to have to live with for the rest of your tenure. Thank you for your time.
>> Okay. That concludes the public comment portion of the meeting. Returning to the regular order. Reports of county officials, reports of special committees, reports of standing committees, reports of the committee on claims. Motion by Mr. Monia, seconded by Mr. Deljono that the report reports be placed on file with the clerk. All in
favor signify by saying I. >> Oppos? No. The eyes have it. The reports were placed on file with the clerk. Motion by Mr. Deljouro, second by Mr. Mononia that we do stand in recess until our regularly scheduled August meeting. All in favor signify by saying I.
We stand in recess.