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IPCSA BUSINESS MEETINGBusiness Meeting Minutes—Spring 2012 Conference—Effingham, ILCall to order: President David Beery called the meeting toorder at 9:01 am.President’s Messages: President Beery addressed theassociation and thanked the host counties, Christian County,Clay County, Clinton County, Effingham County, JasperCounty, Fayette County, Marion County, MontgomeryCounty, and Shelby County for their hard work and forhosting a great conference. Plaques were presented to eachCounty. Retired Board Member, Kim Becker was presentedwith a plaque for her outstanding dedication to theassociation. President Beery thanked the Program Committeefor all the hard work and effort put forth toward thisconference. He also thanked Margi Gilmour with the resourcecommittee for her great work with getting vendors toconference, as well as thanking the vendors for theircontinued support of the association. The hotel staff was alsothanked for helping to provide a great conference.Future Conferences: President Beery announced FallConference 2012 will be held in Rockford, Illinois. SpringConference 2013 will be hosted by the 13 th Circuit.Charitable Contributions: IPCSA Treasurer MelissaSmith asked Sister Carol Beckman with Catholic Charities ofEffingham to accept the donation from the association on thebehalf of nine area food pantries. $962.00 will be splitbetween the nine areas food pantries along with nonperishableitems donated by members of the association.Committee Reports:Awards Committee: Tom Gregory with Vermillion Countypresented on behalf of the Awards Committee. Tomencouraged counties to please nominate their employees.Applications will be sent out this summer.CMO Committee: Tim Shumaker with Coles, Cumberland,and Edgar County advised AOIC is sponsoring a Symposiumin June; Chief Justice Kilbride will be present at the CMOSymposium. CMO Committee in collaboration with IPCSABoard will be sponsoring a reception at the symposium. Timalso spoke highly of the increased and improvedcommunication with AOIC staff. Tim indicated the CMOcommittee is looking forward to continuing these open linesof communications. Tim also urged departments to returnsurvey sent out by IPCSA.Detention Committee: Tracy Burke-Carriere presentedon behalf of the detention committee. The committee hopesto become a voice on the Illinois Juvenile JusticeCommission. A letter has been drafted from AOIC requestingparticipation. The committee continues to focus their effortson the need for adequate re-instatement of funding. MargieGroot with AOIC was in attendance at the meeting andassured committee members the concerns are being heard.The committee also spoke about the difficulties of providingtrainings while running detention facilities. The committeediscussed developing some web-based training to assist in thisarea. The committee also has made a request to review a draftof the IDJJ Juvenile Detention Standards prior to the actualpublication. The committee will meet again on June 22, 2012at the Committee Appreciation Day located at Starved Rock.Domestic Violence Committee: Chris English with St.Clair County reported both chairs of the committee arestepping down. He encouraged anyone interested in chairingthe committee to contact him.Gender Responsive Committee: Tara Arthur Bergmanwith St. Clair County presented on behalf of the committee.She reported the committee met Wednesday April 11, 2012with two co-chairs and four members in attendance. GenderResponsive Committee sponsored a food drive at thisconference and raised approximately $480 for area foodpantries. The committee discussed some gender specifictrainings offered by AOIC as well as offering trainings at thefall conference. The next meeting will be held at CommitteeAppreciation Day on June 22, 2012 at 10 am at Starved Rock.Legislative Committee: President David Beery withDewitt County presented on behalf of the legislativecommittee as John McCabe could not be present. It wasreported Chief Justice Kilbride has asked to increase fundingfor probation due to the known struggles financially withinthe field of court services. David Beery encouraged everyoneto contact their legislature in support of this bill. PresidentPresident Beery also indicated IPCSA is supporting Senate Bill1049 which assesses an additional $10 on each case. LeeLoBou with Macoupin County was announced as a newcommittee member.Membership Committee: Melissa Smith with TazewellCounty reported the committee continues to focus onincreasing membership. She reported there were fifty-one(51) new members thus far for 2012, and encouraged countiesto continue to support the association through theirmembership. Rosecrance was thanked for their continuedsponsorship of the New Member Reception held onWednesday. It was also reported the committee would likebring back a vendor sponsored scholarship for attendance to10