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McHenry County committee approves Fleming Road IGA and opens wide debate on township bridge funding
Summary
The county committee approved an IGA and $4 million draw from the RTA sales-tax fund for Fleming Road rehabilitation and then spent most of the meeting addressing a countywide shortfall in township-bridge funding, possible joint-levy options and steps to restart engineering pipelines.
A McHenry County transportation committee voted to approve an intergovernmental agreement to transfer Fleming Road to a village and use $4,000,000 from the county's RTA sales-tax fund to fund the rehabilitation work, clearing that IGA to move forward if the budgeted funds are available.
The approval, moved and seconded on the floor, came after staff clarified the $4,000,000 had been budgeted for fiscal year 2026 and therefore did not require an emergency appropriation. "You're taking $4,000,000 from the RTA sales tax fund," an unidentified committee member said. Staff confirmed that the county had budgeted the amount and that the agreement would hand the road to the village "as is" with money for the village to complete the rehab.
Why it matters: the vote was routine compared with the rest of the meeting, in which members and staff spent the majority of the session confronting a larger problem: a near-blank county bridge-match balance and a growing inventory of aging township bridges. Committee members warned that years of shifting levy space and using RTA funds for non-transportation priorities left the county's matching fund essentially depleted…
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