DuPage County board approves workforce and other grants, transfers totaling multiple millions

The DuPage County Board on Sept. 9 approved a slate of grant acceptances, appropriations and contract authorizations affecting workforce, probation, elections and veterans services.

Among the approvals, the board accepted the Adult Redeploy Illinois program grant for probation and court services for $429,853, and approved the Illinois Voter Registration Systems grant for the county clerk’s election division for $577,123. The board also authorized creation of a county automation fund and the transfer of up to $60,000 from the recorder document storage fund into that automation fund for fiscal year 2025, and approved an additional Veterans Assistance Commission appropriation of $92,352.

County officials recorded several Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)‑related actions. The board accepted and appropriated funds under the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) WIOA program for program year ’25; the transcript lists an amount of “$66,140,000 and $333” in the roll call discussion (the figure in the audio record appears garbled in the transcript). The board also approved the issuance of payments to training providers and youth contracts under WIOA totaling $3,425,380 for the workforce development division. Separately, the board accepted an Apprenticeship Expansion Grant for $95,000 and authorized payments to training providers under that program totaling $33,000.

All items were brought by Member Garcia and carried by roll call votes recorded in the meeting transcript. The motions recorded in the public meeting packet use agenda identifiers such as FIR013725 (Adult Redeploy), FIR013825 (Voter Registration Systems grant), FIR013925 (automation fund transfer), FIR014025 (Veterans Assistance Commission appropriation), FIR014125 (DCEO WIOA acceptance) and related items for issuance of payments and apprenticeship funding.

The transcript does not record any substantive dissent that altered the outcome of the motions; roll calls recorded board members voting in favor and the clerk announced passage for each item. Where numeric amounts in the transcript were unclear (notably one WIOA figure), the record lists the audio‑text as spoken and that amount should be confirmed against the posted county packet or financial documents for precise accounting.

The approvals move funding and contract authorities to county departments including Probation and Court Services, the County Clerk’s election division, Workforce Development and Veterans Assistance.