County Board and Nursing Home This Week

Sunday's News-Gazette mentioned the upcoming fight in a local political roundup article. Here's the relevant excerpt:

It's not clear what's going to happen at Tuesday night's Champaign County Board meeting regarding the county budget and the county-owned nursing home.

But things aren't getting better at the home, says County Auditor John Farney.

It has tapped the last $100,000 from a total of $500,000 the county board loaned to the facility earlier this year from the county general fund. As of Friday, he said, the nursing home had $380,000 on hand. But with an expected payroll of about $250,000 on Wednesday, that could knock it down again. And the facility owes $4.6 million to vendors and the county.

One major legal question facing the nursing home and the county is what happens when that $500,000 loan comes due at the end of December? Does it have to be paid immediately or does the county get in line with all the other vendors owed money, three of which are individually owed more than $300,000?

A lot of items got moved from the Committee of the Whole meeting last week to the full board due to the 6 and a half hour marathon that became. Reactions on that meeting here. Notes on that meeting here.