Health director: family planning cuts will shrink grant revenue; county transfer trimmed after multi‑year build up

Kathy, Lee County health department director, told the finance committee the department is a certified local health department that must provide four core services — immunizations, infectious disease control, wells and septics, and food safety — and that much of the department’s remaining programs run on grant funding. “Our overall mission is very simple, to promote and protect the health of Lee County residents,” Kathy said, describing maternal and child health, environmental health and community health divisions. Grant cuts and fund balance: Kathy told the committee the family planning grant has been cut across Illinois because of reductions in federal funding…