New spending unlikely next year for McHenry County

How the supplemental budget process works in McHenry County. 

supplemental budget process after a late 1990s budget crisis forced the county board to drastically slash spending and lay off some workers.

Under the process, county departments receive in each annual budget the same amount of spending they received the prior year, plus funding for "natural" growth like employee wage hikes and increases in vendor costs and service contracts.

Beyond that, any new funding must be submitted to the board through a supplemental request.

But the funding available for supplementals has been falling steadily in recent years - from about $3.1 million in 2007 to about $500,000 this year. It could be gone entirely in 2010.

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