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Kankakee ESU reports maintenance, hydro relicensing progress and preliminary FY26 finances
Summary
Staff reported street and alley maintenance updates, a new brush-cutting attachment trial, park and Hobby Avenue status, hydro plant relicensing draft due to FERC on June 20, turbine deliveries delayed to August, lab sampling for grease in Manteno, a new flow meter at Shabance, and preliminary fiscal 2026 budget figures.
Kankakee City’s Environmental Services Utility reported routine maintenance activity, updates on the hydroelectric plant relicensing effort and preliminary fiscal 2026 financial figures during its June 16 meeting.
Why this matters: the reports cover daily operations that affect streets, parks and sewer services, capital projects that could affect local energy generation, and budget projections the board will later use for planning.
Street, alley and brush work: Mr. Lopez said crews are beginning to run a rented cold planer in alleys and will move to streets, and that the department has been helping with city events. He described borrowing a Harley rake from the Village of Bourbonnais to turn over gravel on a walking path in Martin Luther King Park and testing a brush-cutting attachment to address overgrowth along creeks and right-of-ways. Lopez said the rental machine broke down during…
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