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Votes at a glance: council approves audits, contracts, plats and routine payments

October 21, 2025 | Geneva City, Kane County, Illinois


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Votes at a glance: council approves audits, contracts, plats and routine payments
The Geneva City Council recorded multiple formal actions during its regular meeting and committee-of-the-whole sessions. Below are the principal votes and outcomes taken during the meeting (summaries are drawn from the council roll calls and committee actions recorded on the meeting packet):

Votes at a glance

- Acceptance of FY2025 annual comprehensive financial report, TIF 2 and TIF 3 reports, single audit, and IMRF allocation report — Approved (roll call: 8 aye, 0 nay, 2 absent).

- Municipal bills for payment (total $4,060,643.55) — Approved (roll call: 8 aye, 0 nay, 2 absent).

- Ordinance 2025-24: Variation to reduce required East Street yard setback from 30.91 feet to 26.12 feet for a proposed front porch at 514 Maple Lane — Approved (roll call: 8 aye, 0 nay, 2 absent).

- Ordinance 2025-25: Amendment No. 2 to the annexation agreement between the City of Geneva and Bullock Holdings LLC (extension of certain deadlines to November 1, 2026) — Approved (roll call: 9 aye, 0 nay, 2 absent reported earlier in roll call).

- Resolution 2025-126: Final plat of subdivision for Geneva Commons (second resubdivision) — Approved (roll call: 8 aye, 0 nay, 2 absent).

- Resolution rejecting bid received from Horizon Line Landscaping for Bridal Road landscape median restoration (single bid well above budgeted amount) — Approved (roll call: 8 aye, 0 nay, 2 absent).

- Contract award: Whitaker Construction and Excavating — Sanitary sewer river crossing — Approved (committee voice vote; 8 aye reported in committee; low bid reported at $4,335,000, ~21% below engineer’s estimate).

- Contract award: Williams Brothers Construction — Wastewater treatment plant screening building — Approved (committee voice vote; 8 aye reported in committee; low bid reported at $6,290,000, ~13% below engineer’s estimate; project funded via IEPA WPCLP).

- Professional services authorization: Fairgram Engineering — Construction engineering services for river crossing and screening building, not to exceed $987,000 — Approved (committee voice vote; 8 aye reported in committee).

Other procedural and ceremonial actions

- Proclamation: Red Ribbon Week proclaimed for Oct. 23–30, 2025 — Proclaimed by council (motion carried at the meeting).

How to find more detail

Each item above has supporting materials, memos and, for some items, auditor/engineer memos included in the council packet published with the meeting; where staff said more detail was requested, staff supplied an additional question-and-answer memo posted on the city website.

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