DuPage County Human Services Committee Meeting, Tuesday 10/20/26

DuPage County Human Services Committee meeting, October 20, 2026. The committee approved multiple human-services and care-center spending items, including a $57,500 employment-barrier reduction pilot; a language-access contract with DuPage Federation for interpretation, translation, and American Sign Language services, capped at $34,000; and a Wells Sky Corporation renewal for homeless-management software, cloud services, licenses, training, and programming, capped at $63,838.90. Other approved items included $53,000 for care-center trash and recycling liners from Warehouse Direct, a tube bundle from Affiliated Steam and Hot Water for $27,852.72, and a $23,900 change order bringing an existing contract to $1,386,920. The committee also approved a three-year elevator and escalator maintenance, repair, and modernization contract with Jupone Inc. for up to $4,362,739. Motions were approved by voice vote or roll call. Several additional contract items were considered, but the transcript omits or garbles their descriptions, vendors, or amounts. The committee discussed care-center rate increases and short-term supplemental nursing-agency needs; a speaker said the county would review vendors again before the short-term arrangement ends in April 2027.

The committee reviewed a proposed $2 million food-insecurity challenge grant for transformational projects, including shared food storage and distribution, purchasing coordination, technology and data sharing, and local growing initiatives. Members expressed consensus on reducing the proposed minimum request to $250,000 from $500,000, subject to further approval; no grant awards were made. A December application deadline and February committee recommendations were discussed as a proposed schedule. Family Shelter Service and Metropolitan Family Services requested an increase in county support from $85,000 to $150,000, citing service demand and funding losses. The request was discussed but not voted on; it was expected to proceed through the finance and 2027 budget process.