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Finance committee questions 15-year Centrica energy contract, seeks missing appendices and performance data

2857650 · April 1, 2025
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Committee members reviewed the county's long-term energy-efficiency contract with Centrica (formerly SmartBot), requested missing contract appendices and updated performance reports, and noted a September 2025 payment of $57,002.85 due under the loan tied to the project.

Iroquois County Finance Committee members on the record discussed the county’s contracted energy-efficiency project with Centrica (formerly SmartBot), raising questions about missing contract appendices, the length of the agreement and the absence of recent performance reporting.

Committee members said the contract—signed after multi-year discussions that began around 2017—covers a roughly 15-year term and funds a large technology-and-infrastructure project. One speaker described the project cost as about $1.8 million and said the county received…

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