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Regional office and school services present level budgets; new mental‑health screening law and lowered lead thresholds noted
Summary
The LaSalle County committee heard presentations Aug. 11 from the Regional Office of Education and school services showing FY26 requests at level funding, discussed a recently signed state law on mental‑health screenings for students, and reviewed lowered blood-lead screening thresholds and CTE program updates.
The Regional Office of Education (ROE) asked the committee on Aug. 11 to forward a level‑funding FY26 request of $302,000 to county finance. The ROE representative said the FY25 budget is $302,000 and requested the same amount for FY26, explaining that a prior IMRF ruling consolidated employment and reimbursement processes across the multi‑county ROE but that the line remains one consolidated request. Kathy Owens moved to forward the ROE FY26 budget request to county finance; Doug Stockley seconded, and the motion passed.
School services staff made a separate FY26 request that keeps operations at current levels with salary increases for…
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