Official seeks team approach to fund social services

URBANA – The state of Illinois owes more than $7 million to social services agencies in Champaign County, and they've had to borrow $2.5 million just to keep operations going, a new survey shows.

That's actually less than Peter Tracy expected.

As executive director of the Champaign County Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities boards, Tracy has complained for months about how the state's backlog of bills is pushing some nonprofit social services agencies to "the brink."

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