Village staff proposes moving procurement rules from code to flexible policy

Mar 17, 2026

Village staff recommended referencing procurement rules in Chapter 59 while maintaining the detailed procedures in an administrable policy, arguing the change would allow faster, budgeted purchases such as a $42,000 fire-department retrofit without a full RFP; a public hearing was proposed to review the change.

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Village staff presented a proposal to revise how the village handles procurement, recommending that Chapter 59 of the municipal code reference a separately maintained procurement policy rather than embedding detailed bidding procedures in the code.

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