County Board Overview

I wasn't able to make it to last night's County Board meeting, but I'll have more information once the video is available from the County Clerk YouTube Channel. The News-Gazette had an overview today:

Champaign County Board approves zoning changes for solar farms
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On Thursday night, the Champaign County Board voted 19-3 to amend the county zoning ordinance to allow photovoltaic solar farms on certain agricultural properties...

Seven applications to build such farms around the county have already been submitted...

Board member Jim McGuire expressed concern about the impact solar farms may have on the value of nearby properties.

But Zoning Administrator John Hall said multiple studies have found solar farms have no significant effect on property values...

In other business:

The county has three new county board members.

After the board voted unanimously to appoint Jodi Eisenmann to Brooks Marsh's former seat in District 1, Pranjal Vachaspati to Shana Jo Crews' former seat in District 9 and James Quisenberry to Robert King's former seat in District 10, all three took the oath of office from County Clerk Gordy Hulten.

The new board members will serve terms through Nov. 30.

The board also voted to approve a budget amendment appropriating $4,611,946 for the Champaign County Nursing Home to cover expenses until the home's sale to two Evanston-based companies is closed.

And board members voted 13-8, with one abstention, to approve a resolution moving Cunningham 3's polling place from a University of Illinois residence hall currently undergoing renovation to the Illini Union.

More at the full article here. The various Election and office pages will be updated with the new appointments and candidates soon. There were some new candidate filings this week with a little overlap with those appointments. More details on what led to the Nursing Home and Polling Places vote available at the Committee of the Whole post here.