Liquidity and Financial Overview of Cook County
FY 2022 County Expenditures (Cont'd)
Full Time Equivalents ("FTES"): FY 2022 recommended
budgeted FTE count is up 7.9%¹ from 2021 to help meet the 25,000
County's existing and developing priorities/mandates
County Budgeted Full Time Employees¹
20,000
Collective Bargaining: The County has 63 collective
bargaining agreements that represent over 15,000 County
employees (83% of total workforce)1
15,000
10,000
5,000
Current collective bargaining agreements cover 2017-
2020 period
0
2016 2017
2018
2019 2020 2021 2022
County is currently in the process of negotiated successor agreements, until which time the provisions in the expiring
agreements will remain in effect. The County Board has approved 47 Collective Bargaining Agreements and has
tentative agreements with six bargaining units, representing 3,100 employees
Jail Population: Reduction in pre-trial detention population remains a primary policy objective²
•
August 2022 resident detainee population averaged 5,566 compared to 10,139 in September 2013
Starting in FY 2017, the County began the process of closing and demolishing three divisions of the county jail;
Division III and XVII were demolished in Spring 2017, Division I was demolished in 2021, and a majority of Division IA
has been demolished
Bill Backlog: A backlog of payments from the State to the County continue to accrue; payments are related to pass-
through funds from the federal government and other reimbursements from the State
.
Through May 31, 2022, the County is owed $266.3 million from the State³
1.
2.
Source: Cook County Appropriation Bills. See also pg. 15-16 of the Preliminary Official Statement dated August 3, 2022.
See p. 12 of the Preliminary Official Statement dated August 3, 2022.
3.
See p. 16-17 of the Preliminary Official Statement dated August 3, 2022.
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