The funding represents the majority of the $100 million Board President Toni Preckwinkle dedicated in her $9.6 billion 2024 budget to the county’s Disaster Response and Recovery Fund.
Migrant children stand under a small tent as rain falls outside a shelter on the Lower West Side, March 8, 2024, in Chicago. Citing the changing needs of incoming migrants to Chicago, the Cook County Board of Commissioners Thursday approved a transfer of $70 million originally dedicated to providing them health care to instead cover costs of food service for new arrivals.
Cook County legal counsel Laura Lechowicz Felicione said last year’s migrant health care expenses, which totaled $25 million, were covered by surplus dollars and “various expense lines, mostly in salaries and wages.” County officials elaborated in a press briefing Thursday afternoon, saying these additional costs would be determined in partnership with the city if money is left over once migrant food needs are met, but could include shelter operations for the asylum seekers.
“When we allocate, spend, reallocate, whatever thing we’re doing with the money — that is very apparent, gets reported out in every news outlet, and people see that,” Stamps said. “The amount of money that’s been dedicated to this humanitarian effort, which I’m really clear about, is impacting other communities in a way that is so visceral and is blowing back on the people that represent them. And so I think that we’re gonna have to address that in a way that makes sense.
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