Memorandum
Date: July 8, 2025
To: The Honorable Eddie Crandell, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Susan Parker, County Administrative Officer
Stephen L. Carter, Jr., Assistant County Administrative Officer
Matthew Rothstein, Chief Deputy County Administrative Officer
Subject: 1:00 P.M. - Consideration of a Report from Municipal Resource Group on Your Board's March 21, 2025, Training Workshop on General Governance, Priority Development and Organizational Effectiveness
Executive Summary:
As you are aware, on March 21, 2025, your Board engaged in a training workshop focused on general governance, priority development and organizational effectiveness, hosted by Robert Bendorf of Municipal Resource Group. The intent of this workshop was solely to provide background for your Board toward future policy direction.
No Board action was taken during the March 21, 2025 Training Workshop.
Mr. Bendorf has provided a summary of the discussion, which includes documentation of your Board's communicated expectations of the role of County Administrative Officer. For clarity, the document collects elements shared during the training workshop, and is not intended to be a comprehensive list. In addition to collecting Supervisor input, Mr. Bendorf shared roles and duties of top County Executives are typically codified in a Local Ordinance. As of this writing, Article I, Section 2-1.7 of the County Code notes the following:
Direction of County operation - the setting of policy - shall be by action of the Board of Supervisors, with implementation through the Department Heads and overview by the County Administrative Coordinator [i.e., County Administrative Officer].
Your Board provided no Direction to staff to develop an Ordinance outlining County Administrator/Executive roles and duties. Administration expects your Board would wish for an inclusive process that engages all County Department Heads to occur prior to presentation of such an Ordinance; effec...
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