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Planning & Development presents FY26 budget, seeks fee updates and staff reclassifications
Summary
Department staff outlined a proposed FY26 budget with staffing changes, permit-volume data and three fee-update models. Committee members signaled support to pursue a baseline fee update and asked staff to return with cost and implementation details.
McHenry County Planning & Development presented its FY26 budget review, highlighted reorganization savings and rising permit volume, and proposed three models to update user fees and reduce the department subsidy from the county general fund.
Adam, Planning & Development director, told the committee the department now has 29 full-time positions after restructuring and staff conversions and that permit reviews are performing near target. “We are currently at 90.03% of our permit reviews are getting out within 2 weeks,” he said. He noted that permit and review volumes through three quarters were on track to match or exceed recent high years and that zoning petitions had risen to 85 for the year.
Budget highlights included internal reorganizations that reduced personnel costs by converting some temporary roles and re-grading a senior position to community development specialist, producing roughly $135,000 in savings on the community-development side and additional savings by…
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