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Public-health staff overhaul fee schedules for food, nursing and community services; committee forwards changes to county board
Summary
Health-department staff proposed consolidated food-service tiers, new temporary-permit options, modest screening-fee increases and a $50 CPR class fee; the committee approved forwarding the Article 7 fee changes to the full McHenry County board. Staff projected roughly $89,755 in additional revenue from several line items presented.
Christine Miller, introduced as the field staff supervisor for the food program in environmental health, presented a restructured fee schedule intended to simplify food-safety permitting and reduce administrative confusion. Miller said staff averaged previous tiered fees into three risk categories (risk 1–3) and removed square-footage calculations for plan-review fees to make the schedule easier for applicants to understand. "We just took an average of those tiers and that's what the new fee is," Miller told the committee.
She outlined other changes: a new seasonal temporary-permit category to allow an eight-month option (up from the current…
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