The Peoria City County Landfill Committee met on April 17th, its regular third Wednesday of the month at 
3 p.m. in Room 404 of Peoria City Hall. Committee member Rick Fox was requested to lead the meeting
by Chairman Steve Morris, who could not attend.  
​  County Sustainability staff member Karen Raithel announced  several E-waste and other collection events and April Earth Day/Month promotions, which are posted on the County website.
   The Foth Engineering report included that the 2018 Landfill #1 annual report was being completed and approval was requested for signature when done as this landfill is under the responsibility of the City/County for ongoing maintenance and monitoring.
  PDC has already completed their report for what will be Landfill #3, which they will operate when completed.
  The Illinois EPA Bureau of Air made a site visit to Landfill #2, the current operating landfill, which is run by Waste
Management (WM). The last IEPA air inspection was in 2016.
  Work continues to repair landfill gas flares that were impacted by the extreme winter weather. Foth and WM are submitting a joint report. WM noted that the amount of garbage for the previous month is again down. There was discussion that the budget for the year may need to be adjusted if this downward trend continues. Committee Member Pat Nichting asked if this could be due to the City of Peoria going to twice a month recycling pick-ups. Comment was that it could be a slight impact. Mr. Nichting said industry news shows landfill receipts are down 5% but Peoria is seeing a 15% drop and he asked for a report at the next meeting to better monitor the decline so the
Committee can discuss what can be done. One comment was waste haulers may be going to other locations.
    There was discussion of an offer from an adjacent landowner to sell property to the landfill among several
other items.
   Solar energy was still listed on the agenda, however there has been no action or updates. 
Joyce Blumenshine, Observer

​The main order of business was finishing up the April consolidated election. 
   Donations were approved to Limestone ROTC and the Peoria County Auxiliary Police.  They helped on election day to facilitate the collection of ballots that night.  Chairman Collins expressed his appreciation of their work. 
   The official canvas was scheduled for April 17, with all ballots counted.  The total count was down from two years ago, probably because two jurisdictions in the County had no contested races. 
   Where there were contests, voting was up. 
   Mail-in voting was up 175%, but on site voting was down. 
   It was reported that precinct voting results can be found on the County GIS site which can be reached from the Election Commission website.  When I checked, I found results for last November's election, but not the ones in February or April of this year.  Hopefully they will be up soon. 
​Irene Pritzker, Observer

​Linda Daley chaired the meeting 

• The meeting was convened, no additions were made to the agenda and the March 19 Minutes were approved.
• Jon Hodel from CloudPoint gave an update.  He reported that the GPS points for almost all graves have been stored using first and last names.  Also, all drone flights for mapping purposes are final.  Upcoming activity will include the mapping of the Mausoleum and on-site training for staff in June.  July 1 will be the official start date of on-going services by CloudPoint as a five year agreement.  Mr. Hodel also mentioned a pilot project that CloudPoint would be initiating which would involve the 3D Mapping of the interior of the Mausoleum using GEOSlam technology.  He showed a video demonstration of the technic and suggested that possibly SCMA would be a possible pilot partner.
• Mike Rucker gave an update regarding the volunteer work being done at the Scattering Garden.

The Peoria County Board met on April 11th,their regularly scheduled second Thursday of each month, at 6 p.m
in Room 403 of the County Building with Chairman Andrew Rand presiding. County Board has public 
comments near the beginning of the meeting.
  Two agenda items brought a large number of people and there were many commenting. One topic was a County Board resolution to the Illinois Department of Agriculture (DOA) with four proposals for improvements to the Livestock Management Act. Current state regulations do not allow counties any authority regarding large facilities confining hogs, cows or other animals; counties can only request a public hearing if the number of animals is above
1000 animal units; no assessment of adequate water supply is required for a new CAFO and CAFOs 
have only a .5 mile setback from most towns. 

​The Board of Commissioners meeting was held April 1, 2019 at 4:30 pm.
This Observer was unable to attend meeting due to set up of election equipment at polling place. Review of PHA website shows meeting Agenda available; no Board Packet was found nor prior approved minutes. Website continues to be in progress. Highlights of Agenda for this meeting: CEO Report, approval of intergovernmental agreement between PHA and Springfield Housing Authority (SHA) for management services, and 2018 Agency goals.
Next scheduled meeting of PHA is May 6, 2019 at 4:30 pm. At The Frank Campbell Community Center, 312 S. Merriman St., Peoria,