Vote By Mail is available to voters generally now. Ballot requests for the November 6th, 2018 General Election have already started! More information on Vote By Mail in Champaign County here. Ballot request direct link for residents here. More information on County elections (including checking your registration, sample ballots when available, and early voting times and locations) at our Elections page.
Other Events:
There are a lot of political campaign and organizing events popping up (e.g. recent meeting of Republican Women of Champaign County and Democratic Party Meet and Greet for County Candidates). Check out your preferred candidates and you will likely see campaign, canvassing, or voter registration events in the area. Many are using facebook to more easily share event information and reminders. Check out the Champaign County Voter Alliance's preliminary general election candidate guide to see who is running. We'll be updating County race information from the primary election to the general soon.
Groups that crossover with Racial Justice Task Force recommendations meeting this week:
Build Programs Not Jails doesn't meet this week. Meetings are every other Wednesday at 7pm at the IMC. The next meeting is August 22nd.At last month's City of Champaign Study Session of the City Council, the reentry housing issue was raised during public participation (a full write up of the meeting is here and video here). This is following up on the preview of that discussion at the City Council meeting here: Reentry Housing Issue. The News-Gazette had a couple articles following up on the meeting linked on the Cheat Sheet here.
County Calendar:
On Monday evening there is the Nursing Home Board of Directors meeting at the 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, but with the sale of the Nursing Home looming it may have additional related information.
There is a County Board Committee of the Whole meeting this Tuesday. Agenda here. Among other items it appears that Jim McGuire will move from Assistant Deputy Chair of the Justice & Social Services Committee to Deputy Chair (on Robert King's resignation and move) and Kyle Patterson will become Assistant Deputy Chair. The County Clerk is proposing moving a few polling places due to renovations at one and another becoming unavailable for use by the County. The three locations are on campus where Democrats are already concerned with access. There also appears to be a presentation by the Housing Authority on their "Moving To Work" program on the agenda addendum. More information on what the Committee of the Whole meeting is like and how to attend here.
There is a Zoning Board of Appeals meeting Thursday night (upcoming agenda here). Board page here. The solar farm issue has moved to other committees and now to the full county board to decide. Updates on that here: One Step Closer to Solar Farms.
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.
*Meeting is broadcast live on Comcast Public Access and at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/champco1776
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1776 East Washington Street
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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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