The Urbana City Council met on Monday for its weekly meeting, focusing on consent and regular agenda resolutions, followed by a budget discussion for the upcoming fiscal year.
The meeting began with public input, followed by council input and comments.
The review of the consent agenda included several resolutions, all of which approved and authorized the execution of subrecipient agreements between the Youth Services Grant Program and various entities. These agreements allocate funding to these entities for implementing specific youth-related programs.
The entities included the Angel Youth Center’s Beat the Street Summit, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Illinois Community-Based Mentoring, Cunningham Children’s Home Residential Treatment Program, Crisis Nursery Safe Children Program, STEAM Genius Urbana 11, the Urbana Free Library Teen and Youth Maker Program, The Well Experience Well Family Care Program and Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center Community Study Center.
This motion was passed by the council.
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As part of the regular agenda, a resolution approving and authorizing the execution of a subrecipient agreement between the Youth Services Grant Program and the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Youth Cultural Advisors was proposed and subsequently passed during the meeting.
The discussion on the regular agenda was followed by mayoral appointments.
The budget discussion that followed involved reviewing financial expenditures. According to the council, the City of Urbana financial director suggested that the council clearly outline their goals.
The council further discussed grant processes for funds and possibilities for financial allocations to allow for more social funding. The financial director encouraged the council to fund programs clearly aligned with their goals.
The council is scheduled for a call with the consultant firm BerryDunn later this week, which may help guide the consensus on social services funding.
