Topic:
County budgets
(Nekritz, D-Buffalo Grove; Morrison, D-Deerfield) requires a budget to be made available to public inspection and provided to the public at a public meeting at least 15 days prior to final action taken on that budget in all counties not required by law to pass an annual appropriation bill within the first quarter of the fiscal year and required to adopt each year an annual budget for the succeeding fiscal year. Allows a county board to act at a public meeting to amend a budget after notice has been given. Requires notices pertaining to the budget meeting and the proposed budget to be posted on the county’s official website, if it maintains one. If a county does not maintain a website, it requires the county to comply with the Open Meetings Act in giving notice of such agenda items and make the proposed budget available for public inspection. Passed both chambers.