DuPage County Finance Committee approves series of contracts, grants and transfers including CSBG subgrants

DuPage County Finance Committee members on Feb. 11 approved a bundle of contracts, federal grant subaward agreements and budget transfers, including several Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) subgrantee agreements that county staff said are being backdated by the state and will be paid on a reimbursement basis.

The approvals included subgrantee contracts with Catholic Charities ($65,000), Garden Works ($70,000), 360 Services (not to exceed $37,000), Team Parent Connection (not to exceed $40,000), Outreach Community Services Inc. (not to exceed $100,000) and Home DuPage Inc. (not to exceed $46,888). County staff also presented a rental contract for wound-vac therapy supplies for the DuPage Care Center and multiple county IT, public-safety and public-works procurement awards.

The CSBG agreements cover services from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2025. During discussion Member Krogewski asked whether the county would be paying organizations for work already performed before the agreements were approved. Mary Keating, a county staff member, said the contracts fund ongoing programs and that “the state ... backdates it to those dates,” adding “All of our grants like this are reimbursement based anyway, so they would have incurred those expenses and then get reimbursed.” Keating said the state had received the federal funds for the first quarter of 2025 but that the state’s process caused the county’s paperwork to be delayed.

Committee members voted unanimously on the items shown below. Several members asked about the county’s long-term options for avoiding state delays, with one member suggesting the county seek more direct federal funding flow in future federal rounds so nonprofits would not need…