Phase 1 of Champaign’s Neil Street Plaza project is a go after the city council voted to formally accept a $500,000 grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic
Champaign will move forward with a second year of funding for its gun violence reduction plan, but the Champaign school district s participation is up in the air.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) - Champaign s city council is recommending approximately $3.2 million in budget cuts for the 2021-22 fiscal year in order to make up for a budget gap stemming from the pandemic.Â
The News-Gazette reports leaders are planning to reorganize staff and not fill some vacant positions. This would lead to about 19 full-time positions being removed, with six of them coming from Champaign s voluntary separation program. A total of 35 people have applied for voluntary separation.Â
Champaign Finance Director Kay Nees said only six voluntary separations got approval partly because the city had a focus on removing vacancies before making cuts to current staff. Nees said Champaign was helped by a higher-than-expected level of sales tax revenue and funds that came from Illinois through the federal CARES Act.
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