Union County Board members voted Dec. 29 to set property tax levies for the fiscal year beginning Dec. 1, 2025, and ending Nov. 30, 2026, and to certify two debt levies payable in 2026.

Unidentified Speaker 2, who explained levy categories during the meeting, said, "The total levy for this year is $5,026,877." The board recorded that levy amounts break out across funds including the corporate (general) fund, Social Security, IMRF and mental-health levies; the transcript indicates about $1,800,000 of the total goes to one of the listed funds though the record does not specify which fund by name.

The board also moved to certify two debt levies required to be reported to the county clerk as part of the 2025 payable 2026 tax cycle. Speaker 1 described the certification as routine for outstanding debt obligations and the board approved the certification by motion.

Board members framed the actions as routine year-end budget housekeeping. The resolutions included an abatement resolution tied to the same 2025–2026 levy package adopted the same day.

What happens next: the levies and debt certifications will be recorded with the county clerk and applied in the 2025 payable 2026 tax process. The meeting minutes list the adopted levy total; the record does not include a fund-by-fund breakdown beyond the broad categories discussed, nor does it include tax-rate calculations in the transcript.