Budgets, ARPA Funds, Transportation Contracts Receive Attention at County Board Meeting

Cook County Board of Commissioners Committee Meetings
September 18, 2024 

Finance Committee

• Meeting reconvened from July 31, 2024. Motion to Receive and File FY 2025 Preliminary Forecast Report Period 12/1/20203-11/30/2024 from Dept of Budget and Management Services was made by Com. Lowry and seconded by Com. Britton. Passed with unanimous aye vote.   Meeting Length: 41 Seconds.
• Finance Committee.  Motions were made by Com. Lowry and seconded by Com Britton for 2 resolutions addressing uses of ARPA funding. Both passed.  Healthy Community Program Initiative (24-2908) includes guidelines amending the subrecipient agreement with Il Public Health Institute to increase funding by $8M from current agreement. Also approved was Resolution to Authorize the Use of Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Special Purpose Fund to Support the Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program (24-4131). Com Trevor made the motion and Com Britton seconded the financial reports be received and filed from Comptroller and CCH. The 8-month Comptroller report (24-4901) showed a net favorable budget variance to the General Fund of $148.9M. The State Revenues Update through July 31, 2024, shows the state owes $139.5M to the County. Cook County Health CFO Pam Cassara reported $110M favorable balance for the first 8 months of 2024(24-4901) 
• The Health Fund showed a favorable net budget variance $76.3 M. 
• Meeting Length:  14 min.

Transportation Committee.

• Supt. Killen was present to explain all contracts and extensions to Transportation Commtt.  Supt. Killen provided an explanation for the proposed ALPR system. Resolution 24-4292 authorized the approval of Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) to permit installation on county roadways; it can identify make, color, and license plate information on vehicles to assist local law enforcement and Sheriff’s Office in crimes such as child endangerment and missing persons. Personal information is not included. State regulations exist regarding lawful use of images and information.          
• ​Meeting Length 13 min.

Observer: Carolyn Cosentino