LaSalle County board approves agreements, lease and jail chiller contract; scholarship tax-credit resolution tabled
May 14, 2026 | LaSalle County, Illinois
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The LaSalle County Board approved several resolutions and contracts at its May 14 meeting and took action on a contested policy resolution.
The board authorized an extension of the existing Landcomp (LANCOM) memorandum of agreement through Jan. 30, 2027 to allow time to negotiate a successor agreement. It also approved extending the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency intergovernmental delegation agreement through June 30, 2031; the approved extension increases the county's annual delegation funding to $152,000 per year from prior amounts.
The board approved a five-year property lease for the Veterans Assistance Commission (VAC) building in Peru with Rakesh Garg, MD, raising the monthly rent from $4,200 to $5,000 starting in August.
On capital projects, the board awarded the LaSalle County jail chiller replacement contract to John Service and Sales LLC as the lowest responsive bidder for $1,015,400 with an alternate ground-cover bid of $27,000; the roll call recorded one abstention.
On policy, the board debated a resolution urging the state of Illinois to opt into a federal scholarship tax-credit program. After extended questions about uncertainty over administrative rules and scholarship-granting-organization controls, a motion to table the resolution indefinitely passed 18-9.
Additional business included approving travel and training requests for county staff under ordinance 23-79, and voting to dispose of surplus county personal property by public auction as permitted by state law.
The board authorized an extension of the existing Landcomp (LANCOM) memorandum of agreement through Jan. 30, 2027 to allow time to negotiate a successor agreement. It also approved extending the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency intergovernmental delegation agreement through June 30, 2031; the approved extension increases the county's annual delegation funding to $152,000 per year from prior amounts.
The board approved a five-year property lease for the Veterans Assistance Commission (VAC) building in Peru with Rakesh Garg, MD, raising the monthly rent from $4,200 to $5,000 starting in August.
On capital projects, the board awarded the LaSalle County jail chiller replacement contract to John Service and Sales LLC as the lowest responsive bidder for $1,015,400 with an alternate ground-cover bid of $27,000; the roll call recorded one abstention.
On policy, the board debated a resolution urging the state of Illinois to opt into a federal scholarship tax-credit program. After extended questions about uncertainty over administrative rules and scholarship-granting-organization controls, a motion to table the resolution indefinitely passed 18-9.
Additional business included approving travel and training requests for county staff under ordinance 23-79, and voting to dispose of surplus county personal property by public auction as permitted by state law.
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