| 2025 Local Government |
| Mission Statement |
The Local Government Division provides efficiency, transparency and accountability to the financial reporting process for local governments while assisting governments in fulfilling their mandated fiscal responsibilities to taxpayers. |
| Program Goals and Objectives |
- To ensure that local governments comply with statutory financial reporting requirements.
- To increase the compliance rate of local governments filing Annual Financial Reports (AFRs) to 100%.
- To provide the Comptroller Connect Internet Filing program, which allows local governments to submit their AFRs 24 hours a day, and to increase users to 99%.
- To assess the financial health of local governments.
- To collect and analyze AFRs.
- To produce the Fiscal Responsibility Report Card.
- To provide taxpayers with useful fiscal information regarding local governments.
- To make all reports available for public inspection on the Comptroller's website.
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| Source of Funds |
General Revenue Fund |
Statutory Authority |
15 ILCS 405/16.1, 405/22.1, 405/23, 405/23.7; 50 ILCS 310; 55 ILCS 5/6-31; 65 ILCS 5/8-8 |
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Fiscal Year 2026 Target/Projected |
Fiscal Year 2025 Actual |
Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected |
Fiscal Year 2024 Actual |
Fiscal Year 2023 Actual |
| Input Indicators |
| Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) |
$ 1,956.0 |
$ 1,899.0 |
$ 1,569.6 |
$ 1,858.5 |
$ 1,329.2 |
| Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) |
$ 1,956.0 |
$ 1,899.0 |
$ 1,569.6 |
$ 1,858.5 |
$ 1,329.2 |
| Average monthly full-time equivalents |
14.0 |
14.0 |
13.0 |
13.0 |
13.0 |
| Output Indicators |
| Inquiries to Local Government help desk |
1,500 |
1,400 |
1,800 |
2,600 |
1,600 |
| Inquiries to Local Government email |
1,800 |
1,800 |
2,000 |
2,100 |
2,000 |
| Outcome Indicators |
| Percentage of local governments
complying with AFR requirements (a) |
95.00% |
93.00% |
97.00% |
92.00% |
90.00% |
| Percentage of local governments using the Comptroller Connect Internet Filing Program (a) |
95.00% |
93.00% |
97.00% |
92.00% |
90.00% |
Footnotes
Compliance numbers for fiscal year 2024 are presented because that is the most recent comprehensive reporting period. Local governments do not have one uniform fiscal year calendar, and begin and end at different times throughout the year, while the state's fiscal year ends June 30. The fiscal year 2024 reporting deadline for the majority of local governments was prior to August 28, 2025.
Public Accountability Report
