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Justice Committee approves a series of emergency budget amendments for FY2025/FY2026
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Summary
The committee approved multiple emergency appropriation ordinances and routine items: State’s Attorney, coroner (including a termination‑notice amendment), sheriff budget cleanups and jail retrofits, and a public defender budget amendment; all items passed by voice vote.
The McLean County Justice Committee approved a series of emergency appropriation ordinances and routine items affecting several county departments during its meeting.
Members voted to approve year‑end (FY2025) budget cleanups for the State’s Attorney and the public defender to move money between line items and stabilize departmental budgets. The committee likewise approved emergency appropriation requests for the coroner’s office and the sheriff’s office to address FY2025 adjustments.
For the coroner, the committee approved a service agreement amendment to add a 60‑day written‑notice termination clause and ratified an emergency appropriation to stabilize the coroner’s FY2025 budget. Coroner Yoder said the amendment formalized how the office had been operating and cited statutory indemnification language that protects contracted physicians.
The committee also approved a FY2026 request to retrofit booking cell doors to improve safety for people housed in the annex portion of the jail — a retrofit Sheriff Lane said is targeted at cells used for people with serious mental‑health needs and includes a one‑way pass‑through to prevent injuries. Sheriff Lane said parts are on order and the work could be completed by June if scheduled quickly.
All budget and housekeeping items on the agenda passed by voice vote; the committee’s next scheduled meeting is April 8 at 4 p.m.
The committee did not record roll‑call vote tallies on the record, and where financial totals were discussed they were described approximately during department presentations.
