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DeKalb County Board approves multiple road, facility and procurement contracts in April session
Summary
The DeKalb County Board voted to adopt an omnibus set of construction and maintenance contracts, several road and pavement projects, a forest-preserve path contract, vehicle purchase, and other routine resolutions; individual measures passed by roll call votes.
The DeKalb County Board approved a package of infrastructure and procurement measures at its April meeting, adopting multiple resolutions for road work, pavement maintenance, a forest preserve path, equipment purchases and several routine county business items.
Key measures approved included a rezoning ordinance for a 4-acre property in Portland Township and multiple contract awards for 2025 roadway projects, pavement markings and patching. The board adopted an omnibus motion that bundled several HMA overlay and patching contracts and separately approved related contracts that had been pulled for discussion.
Contract and procurement approvals listed in the meeting record (all adopted unless noted):
- Ordinance O2025-04: Zoning map amendment to rezone a 4-acre property at 18919 Fisher Road in Portland Township from A-1 Agricultural to PDC (Planned Development-Commercial) — adopted.
- Resolution R2025-036: Awarding the 2025 steel culvert project to Stepin 3D Construction, $1,348,456.70 — adopted (roll call).
- Resolution R2025-027: Awarding the 2025 pavement marking project to Precision Pavement Markings Inc., $277,829.60 — adopted (roll call).
- Resolution R2025-038: Rejuvenator project awarded to Corrective Asphalt Materials LLC, $199,326.04 — adopted (roll call).
- Resolution R2025-039: 2025 spring patch project awarded to Ace in the Hole Inc., $83,629.19 — adopted (roll call).
- Omnibus resolutions R2025-040 through R2025-045: Multiple HMA patching and overlay projects for several road districts, including amounts for Cal Grove, Genoa Road District, Pierce District and Sycamore Road District — adopted as an omnibus package (roll call).
- Resolution R2025-041: Portland Road District HMA overlay awarded to Fielders Caving LLC, $200,870.05 — adopted (roll call).
- Resolution R2025-046: DeKalb County Forest Preserve g2k multi-use path project awarded to Marchan Income Incorporation Excavating (excerpted from transcript), $93,236.40 — adopted (roll call).
- Resolution R2025-047: Purchase of a Ford F-150 pickup through Suburban Purchasing Cooperative from Current Owner's Commercial Center, $46,904 — adopted (roll call).
- Resolution R2025-048: Designating Glen Road from Illinois Route 64 to Illinois Route 72 as a Class 2 truck route — adopted.
- Resolution R2025-049: Support for the Vision Zero action plan for roadway safety — adopted.
- Resolution R2025-050: Approving payment of county claims for April 2025, including off-cycle claims, recorded in the meeting as $8,000,266,709.48 (per transcript) — adopted (roll call); the amount in the recorded roll call should be verified with county finance records.
- Resolution R2025-053: Authorizing procurement of an air-conditioning unit for the DCRNC rooftop unit from Service Concepts Inc., $35,610 — adopted.
- Resolution R2025-054: In support of the Illinois America 250 commemoration — adopted.
Board members conducted roll-call votes on many items; the clerk recorded “motion carries” after roll call on the listed measures. For the omnibus package, the board voted to approve the grouped HMA projects together. Several county and forest-preserve resolutions were presented without substantive debate and passed on unanimous or near-unanimous roll-call votes.
The meeting record also shows adoption of routine financial and administrative items, including placing several departmental reports on file and approving forest-preserve claims for April 2025. The Forest Preserve Commission approved payment of $161,133.95 in forest preserve claims.
The board treated the procurement and road-construction approvals as routine contract awards with recommended low bidders; legal and procurement staff presented the items and answered brief questions where raised. Where specific board members asked questions about scope or departmental roles (for example, whether a forest-preserve path contract was handled by the highway department on behalf of the preserve), staff clarified that the highway department was managing materials for a collaborative project.
Votes summarized here reflect the meeting’s roll-call motions and the clerk’s recorded “motion carries” outcomes. Where transcript figures (for example, the total of county claims) appear unusually large or garbled, the article flags those figures for verification against official county finance records.
