Cunningham Township is a unit of local government.

Cunningham Township serves an area with the same boundaries as the City of Urbana and is funded by property taxes collected on real properties within the Township boundaries.

The Township is comprised of the Supervisor's Office and the Assessor's Office. The Supervisor's Office is the administrative office of the Township and also has the responsibility of issuing General Assistance welfare benefits to eligible persons living in Cunningham Township (City of Urbana).

Additional programs established at the Supervisor's Office are the Homelessness Prevention Program and the Cunningham Township/City of Urbana Consolidated Social Service Grants Program which distributes grants to local non-profit agencies also serving low-income persons.

The Assessor's Office is responsible for determining the fair market value of taxable property within Cunningham Township so that the tax burden is distributed equitably.

Both the Supervisor's Office and the Assessor's Office are located in the same building.

Township Board

Since our boundaries are coterminous with the boundaries of the City of Urbana, the Urbana City Council members serve ex-officio as the Township Board of the Town of Cunningham. The Township Board meets in regular session on the first Monday of every month at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers of the Urbana City Building, 400 South Vine Street. The Township Budget Committee consists of all board members and meets as needed on the fourth Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m., also in the city building. Township board and committee meetings are open to the public.

In the municipal and township elections held in April 1997, officers for Supervisor, Assessor, Clerk and Township Board Members (City Council Members) were elected. For all township officials except the Assessor the term of office began on 5 May 1997. The Assessor's term of office began 1 January 1998. Results of the election were:

Supervisor:

Carol Elliott

Assessor:

Joanne Chester

Clerk:

Phyllis Clark

Board of Trustees:

James H. "Jim" Hayes

Laura Huth

Carolyn Kearns

Esther Patt

Tod Satterthwaite, Chair

John C. Taylor

Joseph Whelan

Ruth Wyman