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DeKalb Council amends 2024 budget to cover transportation overages, transfers $1.5M from general-fund surplus
Summary
Council approved amendments to the fiscal 2024 budget to transfer up to $1.5 million from general-fund surplus to cover higher-than-anticipated local shares for state-assisted bridge and road projects and related engineering costs resulting from utility delays and higher bids.
The DeKalb City Council on April 28 approved an amendment to the fiscal 2024 budget that includes transferring up to $1.5 million from the general-fund surplus to cover overruns and higher local shares on recent transportation projects.
Background and need: City staff told the council that delays from utilities and higher-than-expected bid results increased local project costs for two bridge projects and the Peace Road widening. Utility coordination delays—requests for relocations and responses from ComEd and Frontier—forced…
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