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Bolingbrook board approves 1% grocery tax continuation, zoning updates and routine equipment purchases
Summary
At its Aug. 12 meeting the Bolingbrook Village Board approved a package of ordinances and resolutions including continuation of a 1% municipal grocery tax effective Jan. 1, 2026, multiple equipment purchases and zoning/text-amendment updates; all formal actions passed unanimously.
The Bolingbrook Village Board on Aug. 12 approved a set of ordinances and resolutions covering local taxes, zoning changes and routine purchases, and ratified payables totaling $2,062,723.46.
The board passed Ordinance 25-024 to amend Chapters 46 and 12 of the village code, including continuation of the municipal grocery tax at 1% of gross receipts effective Jan. 1, 2026. Trustee Troy J. Doris moved the ordinance and Trustee Jose Quintero seconded; the measure passed on a 6-0 roll call.
Board members also approved three zoning-related ordinances: Ordinance 25-021 granting a special-use permit for Midwest Barber Academy to operate at 689 W. Boughton Road; Ordinance 25-022 amending the zoning code to regulate home-based day care homes; and Ordinance 25-023 adding standards to guide Plan Commission and board review of text amendments. Each ordinance was moved, seconded and passed by unanimous roll call votes.
On the consent/resolution side, the board adopted Resolution 25R-076 approving a sublease with BRT Outdoor LLC to operate and maintain a video panel at 120 S. Bolingbrook Drive; Resolution 25R-077 to purchase 16 sets of bunker gear for the Fire Department from Fire Service Inc. (not to exceed $65,449.92, $4,649.92 over budget); Resolution 25R-078 to purchase mobile data terminals from Heartland Business Systems (Village share not to exceed $30,637.88, split with the Foreign Fire Insurance Board); Resolution 25R-079 to purchase new laptops for the Police Department (total cost not to exceed $116,101.44); and Resolution 25R-080 to purchase holiday lights from Menards not to exceed $49,651.00 to decorate about 500 trees on Village property. All resolutions passed on roll calls recorded as six yeas and zero nays.
Trustee Jose Quintero moved approval of the meeting's bill listings (Payables A and B) totaling $2,062,723.46; Trustee Michael T. Lawler seconded and the board approved the payables by voice vote and roll call.
Why it matters: The continuation of the municipal grocery tax will remain a local revenue source beginning Jan. 1, 2026. The tax and the other adopted changes (assembly-use and amusement tax adjustments, a self-storage tax and zoning-code clarifications) were described in the ordinance summary as intended to update and modernize local taxation and business rules.
Next steps: Ordinances take effect according to the timelines stated in the village code; the grocery tax was specified to take effect Jan. 1, 2026. Procurement items will be ordered or implemented by the respective departments per usual contract and budget processes.
