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This is to advise that the Minutes from the 7-15-2021 Membership and Board Meeting have been posted to the Members Only section of the website.  We also have pictures of the event posted to our photo gallery.  Please check it out.  

BASIL has been advised of the following from Chp 13 SDIL Trustee Russell Simon:

Members of the Bar -

Our office is modifying and improving the manner documents are submitted electronically to our office.  The new portal for document submission is called 13documents.com.

My office has contracted with this site to allow a secure and more detailed handling of the documentation you submit to our office.  By utilizing this new site, your documents will be encrypted from the time you send them over the web, thus eliminating the unencrypted transmission of such information through regular email.  Furthermore, it not only creates a history record with a date/time stamp for each submission, but you can also return to the site to review exactly what you had sent previously. 

As with our previous document submission procedure, we are accepting the following documents through 13documents.com:

341 Id’s

Affidavits/Waivers

Bank Statements

Motion to Retain Documentation

Pay Advices

Proposed Agreed Orders

Tax Return Submission

Vehicle/House/Loan Request

Attached you will find a guide to register for an account and how to upload documents.

Thanks in advance for your assistance and cooperation as we continue to improve our office procedures to better assist you.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thanks.

Russell C. Simon

Chapter 13 Standing Trustee

Southern District of Illinois

618-277-0086 Ext. 132

On September 23, 2020 BASIL had a membership meeting and elections were conducted.  The new officer slate had been approved by the board and were submitted to the membership.  A Treasurer's Report was presented.  A copy of the Report is available in the "Members Only" section of the website.

The membership approved the following slate for officers for 2020-2021:

Amanda Wiese - President

Cherie MacDonald - Vice-President

Justin Farishon - Secretary

Brian Lambert - Treasurer

Thank you to all who attended!

On Thursday September 17, 2020, the BASIL Board of Directors met.  Due to several resignations, new board members were proposed and selected.

The new Board of Directors is as follows:

Robert Eggmann

Judge Laura Grandy

Cynthia Hagan

John Johnston

Mary Lopinot

William Mueller

Marilyn Washburn

Karl Wulff

2020-09-17 BOD Meeting minutes.docx

1.  Due to the restrictions associated with the pandemic Corona Virus, BASIL will be postponing the seminar in April to a later date.  Our current tentative date (pending availability of panelists, venue, and lifting of restrictions associated with Corona Virus) is on or about Friday, October 23.  Further updates and announcements will be released as we get closer to the NEW Seminar date.  We are thankful for all the hard work our panelists, organizers and membership volunteers have done to help facilitate our seminars.  We plan on transferring all who have currently registered and paid for the BASIL seminar April date to the new tentative October date.  If you need a refund because the new date won't work, please contact our Treasurer, Justin Farishon.

2.  Given this situation we are also inviting the membership to take time to consider any questions or scenarios they may wish to submit to a member of the Executive Committee pertaining to one of the panel topics.  This would give the panelists time to potentially incorporate the questions/scenarios/issues into the postponed presentation.

3.  BASIL would remind all attorneys that everyone is still responsible for reporting your CLE hours if you are in a reporting year.  Since BASIL won't be able to assist with providing CLE hours before the June reporting date we would encourage you to consider free online alternatives such as those offered by the MCLE Board at the following website:  https://www.mcleboard.org/

4.  NOTICE to BOARD OF DIRECTORS - The Board of Directors Meeting that was scheduled for the Annual Seminar will be postponed due to the reasons outlined above.  We plan on rescheduling the Board of Director Meeting to coincide with the Summer Membership Meeting and Annual Election of Officers.  We will announce a date later in the year when we have a better idea of what meeting restrictions may be in place.  Keep a look out for a SAVE THE DATE for the Summer Membership Meeting and Board of Director Meeting - TBD.

If you have any other questions please reach out to a BASIL Executive Officer.  Our emails are available in the membership directory.

Thank you for your patience as we travel these uncharted waters together.

Sincerely,

BASIL

Please note that a meeting of the Board of Directors is being called.  All interested parties please review the attached Board Notice and By-laws of BASIL.

2020-02-24 Notice of Board Mtg.pdf

BASIL Executed bylaws.pdf

Sincerely,

BASIL Executive Officers

BASIL has been advised that Dr. Carla Samson, wife of Chapter 7 Trustee Donald Samson, passed away yesterday.  For those interested there is a visitation scheduled at Trinity Lutheran Church 503 Washington Street, Millstadt IL 62260 Sunday February 9 from 2-4 p.m.  Further details about the Church can be found at the following address:  http://trinitymillstadt.org/

Our condolences go out to Trustee Donald Samson at this time.

Sincerely,

BASIL

An updated version of the Local Chapter 13 Plan Form for use in the Central District of Illinois is now available. The changes include an additional notice in Part 1 regarding parties affected by plan provisions, clarification of the consequences of not checking boxes in Paragraphs A, B, and C of Part 1, the inclusion of a box to indicate the interest rate on secured claims for real estate taxes in Part 5.E., and a requirement that debtors set forth the liquidation analysis calculation in Part 6.A., rather than in Part 11.

Practitioners may begin using the new form immediately. Use of the new form will be mandatory effective January 1, 2020, pursuant to the First Supplemental Standing Order Regarding Mandatory Use of Local Chapter 13 Plan Form.

Please check out their website for an electronic version of the plan and the standing Order.

Sincerely,

BASIL

BASIL is pleased to announce that we anticipate having our 2020 Annual Seminar Friday April 17, 2020 at the same location as last year: The Regency Center in O'Fallon, Illinois.  The Anticipated Panels and times are as follows:

8-8:25 a.m.	Registration
8:25 – 8:30 a.m.	Opening Remarks
8:30 – 9:30 a.m.	National Case Law Update
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.	Bankruptcy Appeals
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45 – 11:45 a.m.	Mental Health Panel
11:45 – 12:15 p.m.	Lunch
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.	Featured Speaker on Ethics
1:15 – 2:15 p.m.	View From the Bench
2:15 – 3:15 p.m.	Evidence Panel
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.	Break
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.	Debtor/Creditor Interactions
4:30 p.m.	Raffle/Closing Remarks

Sincerely,

BASIL