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La Grange board approves Baxter & Woodman task change order for flood‑mitigation work amid quarry questions
Summary
The Village Board unanimously approved a task change order with Baxter & Woodman to advance North and South Basin flood‑mitigation work and related design services; residents raised transparency concerns about a proposed quarry outfall analysis and accumulated spending on the South Basin program.
The La Grange Village Board unanimously approved a task change order with Baxter & Woodman Corporation that expands engineering work tied to the village’s North and South Basin flood‑mitigation projects and related utility and roadway improvements.
The action, approved during the Feb. 24 meeting, authorizes revisions to design drawings and additional technical services — including water‑main replacement evaluation, green‑infrastructure analysis, aggregate storage design, bid alternatives and an outfall construction analysis — for what staff described as a multiyear infrastructure effort funded in part by state and federal grants. "Expenditures associated with this task order are reimbursable through the economic development and public safety grant program," Trustee McGee said before moving the measure; Trustee…
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