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Council approves several routine grants, a maintenance contract, salt purchase and a trucking-terminal expansion

Blue Island City Council · March 20, 2026
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Summary

The council approved a set of routine items including a grant application to study rerouting the Calac Trail, a Forestry Board matching grant, a state joint-purchase for rock salt, renewal of a generator maintenance agreement, and expansion of an existing trucking terminal; details and next steps are listed below.

At the meeting the City Council moved several largely routine items on the consent/regular agenda.

- Calac Trail feasibility study: Council approved a resolution authorizing submission of an Invest in Cook grant to study rerouting the Calac Trail off Vermont Street to a safer alignment. The grant application was noted as due the next day and a support letter from a local friends group was mentioned; a motion carried on roll call.

- Blue Island Forestry Board matching grant: Council…

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