Roscoe staff outlines FY2025 operating and capital budgets, demos ClearGov portal

Village of Roscoe staff presented the draft fiscal year 2025 operating and capital budgets at the Jan. 21 Board of Trustees meeting and demonstrated the ClearGov online budget portal trustees will use to review departmental detail.

Staff framed the session as the board’s “big first discussion about budgets and operational budgets,” and walked trustees through how the village consolidated multiple legacy account numbers into standardized account objects, how to use ClearGov to comment on specific line items and view attachments, and the high-level capital spending capacity staff expects to draw from general and capital fund balances.

The presentation aimed to make the village’s accounting and budget detail easier to review. A staff member described the work as consolidating “multiple different account numbers, multiple ways of tracking budgets,” so the village now groups expenses into standard objects (salaries, benefits, contracted services, etc.) that can be viewed by department or by object in ClearGov. The presenter said trustees will be able to add comments on specific line items that route to staff and department heads and that many backup documents and vendor quotes are attached to capital-project entries.

Why this matters: staff said the village will continue to…