Special Meeting on Nursing Home

[UPDATE: The News-Gazette had the reason for the cancellation in a blurb today:

Tuesday was to be the night the board voted on whether to write off more than $4 million in bad debt from the county nursing home. But due to out-of-town trips, County Executive Darlene Kloeppel said there weren’t enough board members available to cast the 15 votes needed on the measure.]

Last night's special meeting on the Nursing Home was apparently canceled, but there's an agenda for a rescheduled one next Tuesday at 6pm prior to the regularly scheduled Committee of the Whole meeting at 6:30pm. A description of the original meeting from the News-Gazette's blurb yesterday morning:

Champaign County Board to vote on writing off $4 million in nursing home debt
The Champaign County Board could soon write off more than $4 million in bad debt from its nursing home.

At a special meeting tonight, board members will consider a budget amendment appropriating $4,192,062.10 as a bad debt expense to the nursing home fund.

County Executive Darlene Kloeppel said that amount of debt is more than 210 days old, "and due to that age should be considered uncollectable at this point."

Kloeppel said writing off the expense "does not preclude the county from still collecting on these obligations if it is able."

The full blurb here includes a brief reminder of the Nursing Home's delay in sale due to compliance issues. More on that from a post on the previous board meeting here. The only other issue listed so far are the appointments of the standing committee members. I don't see an agenda for the Committee of the Whole meeting yet, so that'll have to be in a future update.