McLean County Board members on Dec. 9 handled routine governance business, advanced committee recommendations and moved into closed session to discuss personnel matters.

The Board approved the consent agenda (motion by Member Alex Duffy, second by Member Buck Farley) and ratified several standing-committee and Liquor Control Commission assignments per the Chair’s recommendation. The Board approved the Executive Committee’s appointment to fill County Board District 4 and administered the oath of office to William Bessler.

Committee actions included: Finance Committee reporting no items for action; the Health Committee’s package of ordinances and emergency appropriations (see Health Department article); the Justice Committee’s intergovernmental agreement to use the City of Bloomington police shooting range (7D1A), which passed with one abstention and a recusal; and a Property Committee emergency appropriation ordinance (7E1A), which the Board approved.

Member Klein and others also discussed technical literature on carbon capture shared by the University of Illinois Prairie Research Center. Chair Johnston noted a typo in the consent packet (pages 319–320) related to Public Building Commission rents; the packet will be corrected in the final published materials.

Before adjourning to closed session under the Illinois Open Meetings Act to discuss personnel-related matters, the Board conducted a roll-call vote and then entered closed session. Eric Hansen was recorded as absent in the roll call.