There's almost certainly going to be Nursing Home discussions on the potential upcoming vote to sell and budget/personnel ramifications if they do not. This will be the first full meeting with the County Board since meeting publicly with the companies behind the sole minimum bid at Special Meeting. More on the board's leaning heading towards a possible vote to sell at the end of the month here: Nursing Home Vote Count. ***
Blurb from the News-Gazette today previewing the Nursing Home discussion:
Other Events:
Groups that crossover with Racial Justice Task Force recommendations meeting this week:
Build Programs Not Jails doesn't meet this week, but next week it will be at its regular time, 7pm at the IMC.
First Followers is having an event: An Evening with Susan Burton. From the facebook event link: "Susan Burton, the founder of New Way of Life, a model reentry program for women, will speak about her experiences as a formerly incarcerated person, an individual in recovery and a movement builder in the fight against mass incarceration. The author of the recent best seller, Becoming Ms. Burton, she is an inspiration to all those who value social justice." It's likely local reentry issues such as the housing issue may come up and be addressed.
CU Indivisible will be having a general meeting (facebook event here) which will be addressing its work and collaboration with other local groups on the RJTF housing recommendations. This will include updates on another meeting together with Esther Patt of the Champaign Urbana Tenant Union to discuss the issue with with Champaign Mayor Deb Feinen.
Previous updates: There was a meeting earlier between CU Indivisible and the Mayor of Champaign on the issue (more on that here). The issue also came up at the Housing Authority of Champaign County (more from the Reentry Council meeting last month). And there was the County Board vote (more information and links on the Cheat Sheet here) and a recent Smile Politely article have motivated a lot of ideas towards movement.
County Calendar:
*** There's a County Board Committee of the Whole meeting this week. It will be meeting (agenda packet here and I believe a Nursing Home budget item on the addendum here) at 6:30pm. They will discuss a grant application for the Justice & Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) grant. More information on that here. There's almost certainly going to be Nursing Home discussions on the potential upcoming vote to sell and ramifications if they do not. This will be the first full meeting with the County Board since meeting publicly with the companies behind the sole minimum bid at Special Meeting. ***
The week kicks off with the Nursing Home Board of Directors meeting at it's new 6:30pm time (agenda here). From the previous month's minutes in this month's agenda packet you can see this is more of a managerial board discussing financials and marketing more than policy or politics.
The Labor/Management Health Insurance Committee deals with benefits issues for County Staff which is probably mostly interesting to County Staff.
The Veterans Assistance Commission meeting appears to mostly report on the commission itself, but I haven't attended one of these to know much about it yet. Here's a description from the website of what this board oversees:
The Veteran's Assistance Commission (VAC) of Champaign County is a distinct unit of local government created by State Law and funded by Champaign County. The VAC is a temporary financial assistance program designed to help veterans that find themselves in need. The VAC is managed by a Board of Directors who are veterans representing the various veteran organizations in Champaign County.The Mental Health Board Study Session (agenda packet here) will be getting into information from agencies and others. This appears to be about funding to local programs by the Mental Health Board and the various grants and funding that go through it.
The full 2018 schedule is on the Calendar page and the County page. The regular County Board meetings are back to Thursdays until next holiday season.
If you're curious about learning more about how your county government works, it's easy enough to live stream a meeting or go in person: Attend a Meeting.
Brookens Administrative Center
1776 East Washington Street
Urbana, Illinois 61802-4581
Phone: 217-384-3772
After 4:30 the Washington Street side Parking Lot is Closed See Maps for the North East Parking Lot Access
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