DuPage County committee approves minutes, budget transfers and contract amendments including funds for in-car cameras

DuPage County’s Judicial & Public Safety Committee approved a series of routine minutes, procurement and budget items during its Feb. 3 meeting, including transfers to cover overtime and benefit shortfalls and a contract amendment tied to in‑car camera equipment.

The committee voted to approve the January meeting minutes and a procurement requisition (JPSP‑14‑26) to Curry Motors Frankfurt Inc. for a 2026 Ford Police Interceptor for campus security, with a contract total not to exceed $48,528.

Committee members approved multiple budget transfers intended to cover fiscal‑year 2025 shortfalls: $6,223 to cover deficits in the Children’s Advocacy Center and state’s attorney overtime (26‑535); $66,600 to cover the sheriff’s law enforcement overtime and holiday pay (26‑536); $11,064 for probation salaries (26‑537); $31,109 for coroner overtime (26‑538); $10,250 for sheriff personnel costs (26‑539); $2,004 for probation benefit payments (26‑540); and $1,500 to move an IT equipment capital lease to IT equipment for video equipment invoiced in FY2026 (26‑541).

The committee also approved a $95,000 transfer (26‑542) from automotive equipment to a lease right‑of‑use asset to pay for additional cameras for Axon Fleet systems. When a member asked why the camera funding was needed, Chief Bilodeau explained, “this is for the new vehicles that are being purchased this year. So we're putting new cameras into the new vehicles that were purchased that are coming into stock... we had transitioned from the WatchGuard system... those cameras are all gone. So for the new vehicles, we just don't have the cameras to put in.”

Members approved a second amendment to purchase order 6662‑1 issued to Exxon Enterprise Inc. to increase the contract encumbrance by $162,602.10, producing a new not‑to‑exceed total of $1,684,987.90. Member Dessart asked whether the increase reflected 15 additional units; the committee accepted Chief Bilodeau’s explanation about the need for cameras and voted to carry the amendment.

Other routine actions included a $8,000 additional appropriation to the coroner’s fee fund (FIR‑305‑26) and JPSR‑2206, a resolution correcting Scrivener’s errors in various budget transfers. All motions recorded in the meeting were stated as carried; the meeting transcript does not include individual roll‑call vote tallies for each motion.

The committee adjourned after members finished the agenda.