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Committee flags formatting, fee‑schedule and fund‑use issues in chapter 37; asks staff for retype and statutory check
Summary
The committee identified multiple formatting errors in chapter 37's fee schedules and asked staff to retype the chapter to correct numbering, clarify CASA fund and a judicial facilities construction fund, and to check statutory authority for where special‑fund proceeds may be used; staff will send corrected drafts to members individually
Will County’s ordinance‑review committee scrutinized chapter 37 — the fee schedules and special funds chapter — and asked staff to retype and reformat the material before forwarding it to the executive committee.
Members and staff walked page‑by‑page through schedule tables and discovered typographical and formatting problems introduced during scanning and prior redlining: stray characters in public‑act citations, a dollar amount printed as “1 s 0” instead of a numeric fee, incorrect indentation of nested lists, and several orphaned lines. Committee members asked staff to retype the chapter rather than rely on the scanned file so the final version will have consistent numbering and indentation.
The committee also sought clarification about special funds. Staff noted the chapter includes a CASA fund — Court‑Appointed Special Advocate — and agreed to annotate the first instance with the full name and thereafter use the CASA acronym. Members asked how money in the county judicial department facilities construction fund may be used and whether funds could be applied to juvenile facilities such as River Valley; staff said they would review the relevant state statute and report back.
Because many of the fee schedules come directly from state direction (a public act that standardized fees), members emphasized the need to preserve the statutory language and dollar amounts exactly and asked staff to confirm that the chapter aligns with the state citations and the circuit clerk’s accounting practice before the chapter proceeds to executive review.
