McLean County Times

McLean County Finance Committee met Aug. 6.

Here are the minutes provided by the committee:

The Finance Committee of the McLean County Board met on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. in Room 400 of the Government Center, 115 East Washington Street, Bloomington, IL.

Members Present: Chair Val Laymon, Members William Friedrich, Natalie Roseman Mendoza, Mark Clauss, Brian Loeffler, Buck Farley and Sean

Fagan

Members Absent: None

Other Members Present: None

Staff Present: Cassy Taylor, County Administrator; Cathy Dreyer, Assistant County Administrator; Anthony Grant, Assistant County

Administrator; Don Rood, First Assistant State’s Attorney – Civil

Division; Julie A. Morlock, Recording Secretary

Department Heads/Elected

Officials Present: Rebecca McNeil, Treasurer

Others Present: Dan Leary, Information Technology

Chair Laymon called the meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. and declared a quorum.

Chair Laymon presented the consent agenda including the minutes from the June 12,2025 stand up, July 9, 2025 regular meeting and invoices in the amount of $920,835.95.

Motion by Loeffler/Farley to approve the minutes from the July 9, 2025 regular meeting and invoices in the amount $920,835.95.

Motion carried.

Chair Laymon confirmed with Administrator Cassy Taylor there were no requests to speak from the public or County employees.

Chair Laymon noted Ms. Thomson, Director of Animal Services was not present but her reports were in the packet. Ms. Taylor noted Animal Services staff was busy with the move for Animal Services that would start the next day.

Chair Laymon noted Ms. Michelle Anderson, County Auditor was not present and did not have anything in the packet for consideration. Ms. Laymon asked if there was a status update on the 2024 Audit. Ms. Taylor noted the outside auditor, CLA had reallocated staff to work on our ACFR as they were contracted to work on this earlier in the year, but because of the delay of materials from the County’s Auditor they had to reallocate staff from other customer projects to meet our needs and the extended State deadlines. Ms. Taylor indicated CLA would be getting comments and edits to the County Auditor, Michelle Anderson by the end of this week, and would need responses from those before they would be able to finalize the ACFR. Ms. Taylor noted that we will not have anything for the Board cycle this month, and they would probably need to consider a special meeting of the Finance committee and County Board because the County will be fined by the State Comptroller for every day after the 28th that we do not have the ACFR filed with the State. Chair Laymon indicated to the Committee that she and Staff would keep the rest of the Committee apprised of the need for a special meeting.

Chair Laymon noted Kathy Michael, County Clerk was not present but her reports were in the packet. She asked that members reach out to the Clerk or Administration with any questions they might have.

Chair Laymon noted that Timothy Jorczak, Chief County Assessment Officer was unable to attend the meeting. She asked members to reach out to the Assessor’s office if there were any questions.

Chair Laymon presented on behalf of the County Treasurer a request to approve a Resolution Authorizing the County Board Chair to Cancel Mobile Home Tax Sale Certificate of Purchase. Ms. McNeil went over the parcels included in this request and the process. Mr. Fagan asked if this was a single owner with the three different parcels. Ms. McNeil confirmed.

Motion by Fagan/Farley to recommend approval of a Resolution Authorizing the County Board Chair to Cancel Mobile Home Tax Sale Certificate of Purchase.

Motion Carried.

Chair Laymon presented for action a request to accept and place on file the County Treasurer’s monthly financial reports. Ms. McNeil went over her reports including revenue summary noting no funds had been received from the City of Bloomington or Town of Normal for the Shared Sales Tax Fund. She went over the investment report noting rates remain high. Ms. McNeil then went over the Blue Cross Blue Shield report noting that in the coming months we may see our stop loss limits protecting us. She then provided information from the Nursing Home report noting numbers were through the end of June. Mr. Clauss asked about the higher transfer in May. Ms. McNeil noted it was probably the IMRF and FICA transfers. Mr. Clauss asked if the new school sales tax would be included in these numbers. Ms. McNeil indicated that goes directly from the State to the schools, so it would not be in her reported numbers. Ms. Laymon noted this was the first month shared sales tax had not been transferred and asked for an update on the situation. Ms. McNeil indicated her office had received notice earlier in the day of an incoming direct deposit from the Town of Normal but she was not sure if that was the shared sales tax or not. . Ms. McNeil noted if a pause was agreed upon they needed to keep in mind that payments from the State are three received months behind when they are collected.

Motion by Friedrich/Loeffler to accept and place on file the County Treasurer’s Monthly Financial Reports.

Motion Carried.

Chair Laymon presented on behalf of Cassy Taylor, County Administrator a request from Tim Wiley, Director of the Nursing Home to approve a reclassification of Nurse Manager Positions at the Nursing Home. Ms. Taylor noted there are nursing managers for each of the wings and Mr. Wiley wanted to upgrade salaries for those nursing managers. Ms. Laymon noted there have been several requests for salary increases in multiple departments. She also noted that we are currently in the midst of the budget process for 2026 and asked if there was an urgent need for this to be done now instead of waiting for the budget to be completed. Ms. Taylor agreed that when requests come in throughout the year it is frustrating for Board members and Administrative staff as they try to stay within the County Budget approved by the Board. Ms. Taylor noted that it is difficult for departments to build out their workload needs 9 months in advance, but we would like to be more systematic and are considering only putting the requests through 2 times a year unless it is an emergency. She noted Administration staff and the Human Resources team have been looking at different procedures they could put in place to achieve this. Ms. Taylor indicated that this request was brought forward after there were two retirements from the Nursing Home Staff, which brought this situation to light.

Motion by Roseman-Mendoza/Fagan to approve a reclassification of Nursing Manager Positions at the Nursing Home.

Motion carried.

Chair Laymon asked for a motion to go into Closed Session pursuant to 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(11). Litigation, when an action against, affecting or on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or when the public body finds that an action is probable or imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed meeting.

Motion by Roseman-Mendoza/Farley to go to Closed Session Pending Litigation. Litigation, when an action against, affecting or on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or when the public body finds that an action is probable or imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed meeting.

Motion Carried.

Finance Committee went into closed session at 5:26 p.m.

Motion by Loeffler/Fagan to return to open session.

Motion Carried.

Finance Committee return to open session at 5:44 p.m.

Ms. Laymon noting there was no further business for the Committee, adjourned the meeting at 5:46 p.m.

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