4/12/2021
This week's Illinois State Association of Counties (ISACo) News and Views e-newsletter includes our 2021 Spring Legislative Advocacy Toolkit and urges county officials to contact their state legislators about these key issues, shares an update about ISACo's efforts to address the delay in federal census data and how this will impact counties, requests opposition to legislation allowing the state to assume control over local health departments during declared statewide emergencies, summarizes new amendments filed last week that are of relevance to counties, provides a link to a recording of last week's National Association of Counties (NACo) national membership call discussing the State and Local Fiscal and Recovery Funds and proposed American Jobs plan, includes a link to new ISACo resource pages about the State and Local Fiscal and Recovery Funds and COVID-19 vaccine, discusses Governor Pritzker's extension of the statewide disaster declaration and previously issued executive orders, announces a Virtual Local Government Workshop hosted by The Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR), announces upcoming NACo webinars and an upcoming national membership call, shares information from GoRail about rail sustainability, spotlights ISACo corporate partner Christopher B. Burke Engineering and invites counties to join ISACo.