Tazewell County Board

Tazewell County may soon join the list of area counties and communities with a moratorium on data center proposals. The county board's land use committee has recommended a nine-month moratorium.

The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall will be in Tremont next year. Tremont resident and veteran Rick Otey made the announcement at a Tazewell County Board meeting.

If a data center is built in Tazewell County, it must be in an industrial area. That was the key takeaway from the Tazewell County Board land use committee's initial dive into a data center ordinance.

The Tazewell County Board is trying to come up with an official name for the most expensive building in county history. The $44 million Tazewell County Justice Center Annex is expected to open next year.

A Tazewell County Board committee heard from a Logan County official this week about that county's quest to create a data center rules and regulations ordinance.

Thirty-year-old chairs in the James Carius Community Room at the Tazewell County Justice Center will be replaced. The county board, which meets in the room, approved the purchase of 91 new chairs.

After a vigorous debate Wednesday, Watts Copy Systems of Springfield won out over NCI Business Systems of Morton for a five-year contract to supply and service Tazewell County's 56 copiers.

Animals and humans alike will benefit from a new Tazewell County Animal Control facility that has opened on the county's Tremont campus. The old facility, built in the 1990s, was described as a "dungeon."

The Tazewell County Board voted Wednesday to freeze County Clerk John Ackerman's salary at $101,069 for the next four years, rejecting a 3% annual raise in a meeting that became a prolonged public airing of grievances.

The board on Wednesday approved a zoning code amendment that prohibits "any use of land which is not explicitly allowed under the code or as adopted by supplemental ordinance."