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ECDA: Harbor House $2M grant demands extensive Davis-Bacon compliance and extra staff time
Summary
ECDA staff told the Dec. 1 Community Development Committee that administering a $2,000,000 Harbor House grant requires substantial additional administrative work to meet Davis-Bacon and Section 3 requirements; the bid process timeline will likely push city-managed portions of the project into February.
KANKAKEE — ECDA staff warned the Community Development Committee on Dec. 1 that overseeing a $2,000,000 Harbor House construction grant is more administratively demanding than originally anticipated because of federal wage and procurement rules.
Barbara Brewer Watson, introduced in the transcript as the ECDA executive director, said the state returned edits to the grant’s bid documents. She described the bid as substantial — "the bid document is 38 pages long" — and said the grant requires Davis-Bacon Act and Section 3 compliance. She told the committee the state must lock in the wage requirement (a roughly…
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