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Five County AOG seeks revised contribution model to rebuild reserves
Summary
Five County AOG executive director told the commission the organization is operating with effectively zero reserves and proposed a new contribution split (counties 65%, cities 25%, school districts 15%) that would add about $400,000 annually to the AOG budget to build a multi-year reserve.
Darren Bushman, executive director of the Five County Association of Governments, presented the AOG's services and financial status to the commission on June 30 and described a proposed contribution-change plan to build organizational reserves. Bushman said the AOG administers aging services, Medicaid-waiver functions, transportation planning, veterans services, CDBG and EDA access, and other regional programs; he stated the organization currently operates with "basically, 0 surplus revenue" and has no reserves to cover federal program interruptions.
Bushman said the steering committee is proposing adding about $400,000 a year to AOG administrative revenue with a proposed funding split where counties would cover 65% of the increase, cities 25% and school districts 15%. "For Kane County, specifically, I think you go from about $18,000 in our annual ask to $26,000," he told commissioners, and he requested feedback rather than immediate approval. Commissioners asked questions about which services are statutory county responsibilities and whether municipalities and school districts could afford the proposed increases; staff pointed to the AOG's leverage of local contributions into roughly $13.5–14 million in regional services as a rationale for the ask.
