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Cook County president outlines $9.9 billion FY2025 budget; board moves proposal to finance committee
Summary
President Tony Perkwinkle presented a $9.9 billion fiscal 2025 budget emphasizing ARPA-funded infrastructure, lead-service-line replacements and behavioral-health investments; the Board voted unanimously to refer the budget to the Finance Committee and approved related referrals and a lease amendment.
Tony Perkwinkle, president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, delivered the administration's proposed $9.9 billion fiscal year 2025 budget and urged the board to refer the measure to the Finance Committee. "We are doing more than ever without asking more from our taxpayers," Perkwinkle said, framing the plan as the continuation of pandemic-era investments and structural fiscal reforms.
Perkwinkle told commissioners the county used American Rescue Plan Act funding and careful fiscal management to stabilize finances, secure multiple bond-rating upgrades and avoid tax increases. He said Cook County received $1 billion in ARPA funds and highlighted programs the administration intends to expand in 2025, including infrastructure work, lead-service-line replacement, climate resiliency planning and new behavioral-health initiatives.
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