During Tuesday morning’s meeting of the Kankakee County Board. The Board approved the annual budget and appropriations ordinance for the 2026-27 fiscal year. Finance Director Steve McCarty
McCarty noted the budget has a fund balance of about 15-million dollars. He also pointed out when the County Budget took a downturn in the early 2000’s, county finances went from a five-million-dollars fund balance to a negative five-million-dollar position in a few years. He said he’d like to see the fund balance closer to 20-million to be certain the county could withstand another financial downturn.