In the latest attempt to solve a looming budget shortfall, the Kane County Board has OK’d a recommendation that county offices and departments reduce their expenses by roughly 8% from last year’s budget.

A recommendation to reduce expenses in the budgets that have been proposed by the county’s offices and departments was presented to the board for a vote last month, but a final decision was ultimately delayed, and the proposal went back to the Kane County Board Finance Committee to be revised .

That revised recommendation with a new metric for how much the board is suggesting the offices and departments cut is what was approved on Tuesday as part of the meeting’s consent agenda.

For months, the Kane County Board has been grappling with how to close a budget gap Kane County Board Chair

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