Unfunded mandates from the state could impact the city of Mt. Carmel’s budget. Mayor Joe Judge reported at Monday’s city council meeting that he had recently attended Illinois Municipal League meetings in Chicago in which the impacts were outlined. One of the potentially most costly mandate deals with the storage of body camera footage from police officers….

Judge said the IML is also hopeful next month’s lame duck General Assembly will restore the local government distribution fund…

If the lame duck session of the General Assembly doesn’t address the issue, Judge said the IML is hopeful the issue is raised again in the Spring legislative session.