The Washington County Board met for a regular monthly meeting last night. At that meeting, they approved 3 resolutions from the Highway Department. The 1st two were in the Pilot Knob district, along Kennedy Road and Lincoln Road. Kennedy road is going to have a single culvert replaced, while Lincoln Road will have the replacement of multiple culverts. Resolution number 3 was a single-large culvert replacement in Venedy at Spook Road. The county had $82,000 in claims, which is right at average. State’s Attorney Daniel Bronke announced that 3 people were transferred to the Illinois Department of Corrections, with 1 juvenile transferred this past month. There were 2 cases involving money, 6 involving vehicle inspections and 1 gun that was given to the Nashville Police Department. In total, there were 312-felinoies issued, 49 misdemeanors, 17 DUI’s, 21 traffic citations and 19 juvenile cases so far through 4 months this year. The Southern Illinois Drug Task Force also received a $5,000. Under the Sheriff’s monthly report, 15 prisoners are at the federal prison, with 18 county inmates. Two cases were approved last night in zoning. Haylee Althoff was approved to have a special use permit to have a new mobile home at an agricultural district. She plans on building a house someday at her grandfather’s property. Also Nathan Guinzy was approved to turn 3.9 acres of land from agricultural to R-1 for residential use. The board discussed the possibility of changing two precinct locations into one. Irvington 1 and 2 would be combined to one, with Nashville precinct 1 and 2 combining into one. No action can be taken until June. Since these two precincts are at the same location and have under 800 people total, the move to combine them can save the county money on election judges. The Washington County board also passed a resolution to become a gun “sanctuary county” in Illinois. The resolution passed last night sends a message to the Democratic-controlled Legislature in Illinois that if the proposed gun bills pass, the counties will instruct their employees to ignore the new laws. The Legislative and Judiciary committee met and spoke about the possible resolution. The board passed this resolution unanimously. One of those laws inside the legislature would force anyone under 21-years-old who owns a long gun to give it up, and if they do not give up their gun, they would become a felon. Other counties who passed this resolution include Jefferson county, Effingham County and Perry County. Clinton, Madison and Monroe counties are currently working at possibly passing this resolution. In other business, Ivan Meyer was re-appointed to the Irvington Sanitary District, Wall Schubert re-appointed as part of the Farmland Assessment Committee and Marvin Hake was approved to a 2-year-term on the Washington County Board of Reviews. The board also wanted to announce that the recycling truck is currently needing repairs, so they are hoping to have that fixes as soon as possible. The next board meeting for Washington County will be on June 12th at 7pm.