Committee approves renewal of ScribeLab membership; transcript does not specify final fee

The Waukegan Government Operations and Oversight Committee on July 7 voted to continue the police department’s ScribeLab membership and to pay the annual membership fee.

The motion to renew the membership was moved and seconded and passed by roll call, with Chair Bolton, Alderman Newsom, Alderman Turner and Alderman Felix recorded as voting “aye.” The committee chair announced, “Ayes have it.”

The transcript of the meeting contains garbled language when committee members read the dollar amount for the ScribeLab renewal: the line appears as “pay the annual scribe lab membership fees of a $133,000 a 133 and and for for $9,” and no clear corrected amount was placed on the record. Because the precise fee amount was not clearly stated in the hearing record, the article reports the fee as not specified in the transcript.

No discussion of the services covered by the membership, funding source, or contract length were provided during the meeting. The committee did not specify implementation steps or a payment schedule during the session.