421 N. COUNTY FARM ROAD  
WHEATON, IL 60187  
DU PAGE COUNTY  
Legislative Committee  
Final Summary  
www.dupagecounty.gov  
Tuesday, March 14, 2023  
11:30 AM  
Room 3500B  
***11:30 AM OR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING COUNTY BOARD  
MEETING***  
1.  
CALL TO ORDER  
Meeting was called to order by Chair Dawn DeSart at 11:55 AM.  
2.  
ROLL CALL  
Staff present: Sheryl Markay (Chief Policy & Program Officer), Jason Blumenthal (Policy &  
Program Manager), Conor McCarthy (State Attorneys Office), Mary Keating (Director of  
Community Services) Joining via Zoom: Laura Flamion (Animal Services, Operations Manager)  
Additional Board Members Present: Yeena Yoo, Paula Deacon Garcia  
Guest via Zoom: Joe McCoy, Executive Director, Illinois State Association of Counties  
Member Chaplin was late due to being held after the previous meeting.  
Childress, DeSart, Eckhoff, and Zay  
PRESENT  
ABSENT  
LATE  
Galassi  
Chaplin  
3.  
APPROVAL OF MINUTES  
3.A.  
23-1071  
Legislative Minutes - Regular Meeting - Tuesday, February 21, 2023  
APPROVED  
RESULT:  
Dawn DeSart  
MOVER:  
Michael Childress  
SECONDER:  
4.  
PUBLIC COMMENT  
No public comments were offered.  
5.  
6.  
CHAIR'S REMARKS - CHAIR DESART  
Chair DeSart gave very high praise and thanks to Sheryl Markay for her extensive work reading,  
distilling, tracking and prioritizing the over 6,500 bills that were filed to create the DuPage  
County Summary Bill List.  
DISCUSSION  
6.A. Overview of the Spring Legislative Session – Joe McCoy, Executive Director, Illinois  
State Association of Counties  
Joe McCoy provided an overview of the spring legislative session. He remarked that ISACo is  
tracking 900 bills that can be tracked on their website. Seventeen (17) of the bills they are  
supporting are also on the county's bill list. Mr. McCoy also encouraged DuPage to become more  
involved in NACo, mentioning that Mary Keating was a board member of NACo. Chair DeSart  
informed the committee that Chair Deborah Conroy recently named Member Sheila Rutledge as  
the county's NACo Representative. Mr. McCoy answered the committee's questions regarding  
shell bills and other bills that ISACo is tracking. Member Grant Eckhoff noted that he is  
concerned how quickly the shell bills can change.  
7.  
ACTION ITEMS  
7.A.  
23-1073  
Action Item - Key Bill List 3-14-2023  
Sheryl Markay explained the process used when reviewing the 6500 bills filed to  
determine the bill list. Using the DuPage 2023 State Legislative Program, she followed  
the 10 legislative priorities for 2023 that the County Board adopted on Jan. 24, 2023 to  
guide the selection of twenty-five (25) bills to support and two (2) bills to oppose. Mrs.  
Markay responded to questions.  
ADOPTED  
RESULT:  
MOVER:  
SECONDER:  
AYES:  
Dawn DeSart  
Liz Chaplin  
Chaplin, Childress, and DeSart  
Eckhoff, and Zay  
Galassi  
NAY:  
ABSENT:  
8.  
OLD BUSINESS  
8.A. Motion to Reconsider Approval of the February 21, 2023 Minutes  
APPROVED  
Jim Zay  
RESULT:  
MOVER:  
Dawn DeSart  
SECONDER:  
8.B. Motion to Amend the February 21, 2023 Minutes  
Member Zay motioned to amend the February 21, 2023 minutes to reflect that he and Member  
Chaplin were absent from that meeting due to the extended Transportation Committee meeting.  
APPROVED  
Jim Zay  
RESULT:  
MOVER:  
Dawn DeSart  
SECONDER:  
9.  
NEW BUSINESS  
ADJOURNMENT  
10.  
With no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 12:34 PM.