URBANA -- County board members Thursday night are set to approve a wage increase agreement with about 160 AFSCME employees, consider a revised agreement for construction of Olympian Drive, vote on issuing bonds for building an addition to Countryside School in Champaign and will welcome a new board member.

The Champaign County Board will meet at 7 p.m. at the Brookens Administrative Center, 1776 E. Washington St., U. A public hearing about issuing $2.4 million in industrial revenue bonds for Countryside School, 4301 W. Kirby Ave., C, will be held at 6:45 p.m.

Although the bonds will be issued by the county, it will not be responsible for their payment. Hickory Point Bank has committed to purchasing the bonds.

Countryside, a private school with an enrollment of 148 kindergarten through eighth-grade students, used industrial revenue bonds to build its original classroom building in 1997. The planned addition would include a full-sized gymnasium with a performance arts stage, plus a kitchen, offices and storage space.

The board also will vote on a base 2.5 percent wage increase for about 160 AFSCME clerical employees in various county offices. The one-year wage reopener agreement will cost the county about $132,000. Union employees have already ratified the agreement that is retroactive to Dec. 1, 2010, and runs through Nov. 30.

A revised intergovernmental agreement for construction of Olympian Drive north of Champaign-Urbana, which has been modified after concerns expressed last week by board members, also is on the agenda. The agreement binds the county and the cities of Champaign and Urbana to certain responsibilities for the Olympian Drive project. The agreement does not cover construction of a new segment of Lincoln Avenue between Interstate 74 and Olympian Drive. That intergovernmental agreement is expected to come before the county board next month.

The board also is scheduled to vote on the appointment of Aaron Esry, a St. Joseph Republican, to the District 4 seat once held by Greg Knott, who resigned to run for the Parkland College board.

An agreement between the county board and the county nursing home board also is up for ratification. Under the plan, the nursing home would begin to make annual payments of $12,000 this year in order to pay back a $330,000 loan.