Cunningham Township amends FY2024–25 budget, adopts FY2025–26 budget and approves related measures

Cunningham Township Board members in Urbana approved an amended fiscal 2024–25 budget and adopted a fiscal 2025–26 budget during a meeting that also cleared a month-to-month lease for an intern office and an internship memorandum of understanding.

The board approved ordinance T202508001, the amended FY2024–25 annual budget and appropriation ordinance, and ordinance T202508002, the FY2025–26 annual budget and appropriation ordinance. Both measures passed on roll-call votes of trustees present. The meeting included a report from township staff describing new and unanticipated grant revenue, planned program expansions and capital plans tied to office consolidation and service growth.

Why it matters: the budgets fund the township’s shelter and rental-assistance programs, expand case-management and workforce services, and earmark funds for a potential office acquisition and renovations. Officials said the additional grant income enabled program expansion in the current year and underpins planned spending for the coming year.

Township finance and program highlights Danielle Chenoweth, Supervisor, and Nicole Filia, finance director, told trustees that unanticipated and higher-than-expected grant awards and reallocations drove the need for an amended FY2024–25 budget. For the past two months the township reported the following expenditures: town-fund July expenditures of $53,663.90 and general-assistance (GA) fund July expenditures…