Other Events:
There are a lot of political campaign and organizing events popping up. Check out your preferred candidates and you will likely see campaign, canvassing, or voter registration events in the area. Many are using facebook to more easily share event information and reminders. Check out the Champaign County Voter Alliance's preliminary general election candidate guide to see who is running. We'll be updating County race information from the primary election to the general soon.
Groups that crossover with Racial Justice Task Force recommendations meeting this week:
Champaign Human Relations Commission August 6th at 5:30pm. More information on City of Champaign meeting times here. This commission recently reaffirmed its recommendation to the City Council that they remove the exemption to their housing discrimination protections as recommended by the RJTF.At last month's City of Champaign Study Session of the City Council, the reentry housing issue was raised during public participation (a full write up of the meeting is here and video here). This is following up on the preview of that discussion at the City Council meeting here: Reentry Housing Issue. The News-Gazette had a couple articles following up on the meeting linked on the Cheat Sheet here.
The Champaign Community Coalition meeting, this Wednesday, August 8th at 3:30-5pm at the Champaign Public Library, it is likely to be again focused on the uptick of gun violence in our community. There is certain to have a lot of overlap with criminal justice issues and key players from law enforcement, activist, and social service communities there.
Build Programs Not Jails meets Wednesday, August 8th at 7pm at the Independent Media Center. Meetings are every other Wednesday at 7pm at the IMC.
County Calendar:
The week kicks off on Tuesday with the Labor/Management Health Insurance Committee. It deals with benefits issues for County Staff which is probably mostly interesting to County Staff. I don't have a link to the agenda and previous meeting minutes yet. (Previous meeting agenda along with earlier meeting minutes here.)
The Facilities Committee later that same day deals with County facilities maintenance and projects. More information can be found in the meeting agenda packet, including previous minutes to get an idea of what they do.
Thursday has a meeting of the is the Environment & Land Use Committee, which deals with environmental issues and how land is used within the County's jurisdiction. This week they will be looking at revised rules for solar farms after a preliminary vote last month. More at the agenda packet here (additional details start on package page 33, or page 35 of the PDF file).
The Highway & Transportation Committee meets at the Highway Building and oversees the Highway Department which "bears responsibility for preparing plans, specifications and estimates for County bridges and culverts and supervising construction of same. The Department also supervises the construction and maintenance of all Champaign County highways. In addition, the Department keeps records of contracts, purchases of materials, machinery, etc. and administers the County Motor Fuel Fund, County Bridge Fund, State & Local Bridge Fund and Township Motor Fuel Tax Fund."
The full 2018 schedule is on the Calendar page and the County page. The regular County Board meetings are back to Thursdays until next holiday season.
If you're curious about learning more about how your county government works, it's easy enough to live stream a meeting or go in person: Attend a Meeting.
*Meeting is broadcast live on Comcast Public Access and at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/champco1776
Brookens Administrative Center
1776 East Washington Street
Urbana, Illinois 61802-4581
Phone: 217-384-3772
After 4:30 the Washington Street side Parking Lot is Closed See Maps for the North East Parking Lot Access
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