The Cook County Board overwhelmingly accepted a virtually $6.2 billion price range Thursday, over the objections of 1 holdout commissioner who warned that “rate of growth and spending is not sustainable for the long term fiscal health” of the county. The price range was balanced with no layoffs or tax will increase and even added some workers engaged on taxpayer appeals of property assessments and expunging previous hashish convictions. But the spending blueprint did minimize 638 vacant well being care positions, regardless of an emergency nurse’s warning that these cuts “hurt my patients.” Despite the ripples of dissent, the board voted 15-1, with one absence, to approve its fiscal plan for subsequent yr. Preckwinkle mentioned it