Fro McHery County:
McHenry County Wins Distinguished Budget Award
WOODSTOCK, Ill. – Once again, McHenry County has won top honors for budget reporting from an international organization of its finance professional peers. McHenry County received the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada for its current FY 2024 budget.
The award recognizes that McHenry County met stringent and nationally accepted standards and guidelines in presenting its annual budget to policymakers and the public.
This is the 10th time that McHenry County has won the prestigious award; only seven counties in Illinois, and 317 nationwide, received the honor for 2024.
“Our repeated recognition by GFOA is an honor – but more importantly, it’s a testament to our fiscal responsibility, and an assurance to the taxpayers we serve, that we are careful stewards of their money,” County Board Chairman Mike Buehler, R-Crystal Lake, said.
The GFOA is a nonprofit professional organization that advances excellence in government finance by providing best practices, professional development, resources, and practical research for more than 21,000 members.
“McHenry County takes its fiduciary duty to the public very seriously.
“We work hard every year on these reports, and we’re proud to once again win this prestigious award and be recognized as among the best of the best when it comes to budget reporting,” Chief Financial Officer erri Wisz said.
McHenry County offers the public a number of tools to review county government revenue and expenses.
The full 2024 budget is on display through Questica OpenBook, a powerful tool that allows viewers to easily examine it in as great a detail as they wish; it can be found here.
Taxpayers also can visit the county’s Financial Dashboard, a simpler tool for reviewing expenses and revenues; it can be found at www.mchenrycountyil.gov/financialdashboard, and dashboard reports are available going back to 2017.
The County Board’s standing committees are in the process of developing the budget for the 2025 fiscal year that starts Dec. 1 – you can watch these meetings in their entirety through the McHenry County Meeting Portal. The link to the Meeting Portal can be found on the top bar of the county homepage at www.mchenrycountyil.gov.
McHenry County government also streams and archives its meetings on its McHenry County Meetings channel on YouTube; it can be found at www.youtube.com/@mchenrycountymeetings.
