After months of discussion about cost-cutting and revenue-generating proposals meant to help close a budget shortfall, Kane County Board members approved a balanced fiscal year 2026 budget for the county on Monday.

It was approved 19-4, with board members Mohammad Iqbal, Clifford Surges, Rick Williams and David Young voting against it. The county board had until Dec. 1, the first day of the new fiscal year, to approve the county’s annual budget.

The budget originally passed Monday was about $405.7 million, but, at the same meeting, the board passed a roughly $3.1 million adjustment to account for expenses in some of the elected offices and also $1 million to make up for the loss of a grant.

And the budget is being balanced with the use of about $6 million in reserves, according to the

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