No Resolution Yet in KenCom Funding Dispute

The legal battle over how much various local governments pay for isn’t over.

The parties set a new court date Friday, after about 10 local government representatives and attorneys met for an hour in Kendall County Judge Robert Morrow’s chambers. A hearing on motions, including one that could decide the court case, was postponed until Sept. 23.

Attorneys for both sides revealed little as they left the courtroom.

“We’re hopeful that it will be resolved,” said ’s attorney, Dallas Ingemunson.

, Yorkville, Oswego and Plano are arguing that leaders improperly kicked them out of the shared dispatch service when town leaders refused a new cost-sharing plan. Meanwhile, leaders are arguing they followed the rules for changing how the entity is funded.

leaders have threatened to stop dispatching for Yorkville, Oswego and Plano in December if the three towns don’t accept the cost-sharing plan by July 28. The date passed without an agreement.

The county has covered any operating expenses that went over the 911 telephone surcharge money collected dating to when the dispatch service was created more than 20 years ago.

Under the new agreement proposed in November, however, Kendall County would contribute only about $1.6 million, with the towns covering whatever expenses went beyond that $1.6 million and the telephone surcharge amounts.

a proposal that would increase the county’s annual contribution to $1.88 million and mandate that leaders pursue referendums to double the telephone surcharge, but on Aug. 16 with a proposal that capped the county’s annual contribution at $1.775 million.

also includes the village of Newark, the Lisbon-Seward Fire Protection District, the Newark Fire Protection District, the Little Rock-Fox Fire Protection District, the Bristol-Kendall Fire Protection District and the Oswego Fire Protection District.