In board news following the Committee of the Whole yesterday, funding for the Nursing Home insurance was passed, adding to the debt it owes the county or part of the cost of the county owning the home (depending on which board member you ask). Board member Tinsley who was the subject of a erroneous lawsuit about unpaid fines from an earlier chapter in his life found that they were paid by an anonymous act of generosity.
More about Nursing Home debt and charitable donation funds towards the bottom of the News-Gazette article. For criminal justice reform advocates following the Racial Justice Task Force recommendations, in what I believe was unanimous approval, urged both the City of Champaign and Housing Authority of Champaign County to stop discrimination against felons (direct link to video of the RJTF housing report and votes here.):
Champaign County Board votes to pay nursing home's insurance costs
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The board also approved, on a voice vote, two recommendations that called for changes in local policies affecting people with criminal convictions.
The first urges the Housing Authority of Champaign County to change its policies regarding applicants with criminal conviction records, and the second urges the city of Champaign to repeal a part of the city code that says that a renter with a forcible felony or felony drug conviction can be lawfully denied housing until he or she has lived outside of jail for at least five years without another related conviction.
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