Getting Started in a New Year!

It's been a tough year for a lot of folks in the past year. With the pandemic, social unrest, and divisions on what people believe is objective reality. The Cheat Sheet has unfortunately been down for most of the pandemic. At first, overwhelmed with all of the new changes in covering and accessing local government along with new limitations and time constraints. 

For 2021 there are a lot of updates coming:

• The Champaign County Clerk website is new, so a lot of our informational links need to be updated.
• There's a whole new slate of County Board members that are already changing!
• There's an upcoming local election for municipal offices that'll be covered more on the C-U Local Cheat Sheet here.
• That's just to start! More updates and information are coming soon!

We appreciate all of the support and help we've received by local leaders and local journalism to make this a helpful tool. Thanks for the kudos and complaints... both helped us in the past and will certainly help in the future.

If you're just getting started on learning what's going on with County government, there were a couple committee meetings that are available on the County's facebook page that started out the new year.

January's Facilities Committee, which usually deals with more mundane planning and projects for the vast properties the County government owns and operates, was a good start. With a new County Board the Champaign County Sheriff had an overview of the Main and Satellite jail buildings, safety issues, and pandemic updates. The agenda packet with safety inspections on both facilities is available here. The full meeting video is available here.

Yesterday's Environment and Land Use Committee (ELUC) had Part 1 of a 5 part presentation on waste management issues in the County (agenda here, waste presentation PowerPoint here, and video here). There was also an interesting overview of what the County has to do to get back in compliance on its "noxious weed" responsibilities.

The rest of the January meeting calendar is available here. Main County website with additional information here.