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Largest contract award amounts in City Council minutes, January 9, 2023 to September 8, 2026

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Ranked by the amounts the City Council minutes print, the largest single-vendor award from January 9, 2023 to September 8, 2026 was $2,726,729.50 to Builder’s Paving for street resurfacing, and the 10 largest total $17,037,427.06. All passed on consent agenda roll calls with no votes against; Builder’s Paving is the only vendor with two. These are not total commitments: payments to the new solid waste hauler point to a yearly price, three fire station trade packages listed under the same company name fragment together exceed the top award, and several awards grew after approval.

Why this connection matters

These are the largest award amounts the City Council approved in the period, as its minutes print them. Knowing who received them, for what work and by what vote helps residents follow how capital and service money is committed and which firms the City relies on repeatedly.

Research as of · 6 independent sources of evidence.

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. Source record

    How the list was built

    This review read the City Council minutes from January 9, 2023 through September 8, 2026, the latest meeting with minutes in the collection, and ranked each approved contract or purchase order with one named vendor by the amount the minutes print. It leaves out tax levies and abatements, bond ordinances, motor fuel tax resolutions, intergovernmental agreements, insurance renewals with the municipal risk pool, revenue agreements, budget actions, contract extensions, purchase order increases, and packages of several contracts approved as one item, such as the fire station trade contracts described below. Printed award amounts are not final or total costs.

    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-09-08, City Council, Sep 8 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-01-09, City Council, Jan 9 2023. Open the quote and source.

  2. Source record · May 19, 2025

    Street resurfacing drew the largest printed award

    The largest amount printed for a single-vendor award was the Street Resurfacing Program contract with Builder’s Paving LLC, approved on May 19, 2025 for $2,726,729.50 by a consent agenda vote of 6–0; the committee minutes report that this was the lowest bid received. The same program went to Builders Paving of Hillside on May 6, 2024 for $1,907,808 (vote 7–0) and to Arrow Road Construction Company on April 17, 2023 for $2,057,592.89 (vote 7–0).

    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-05-06, City Council, May 6 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-04-17, City Council, Apr 17 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-05-19, City Council, May 19 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-05-19, City Council, May 19 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-04-17, City Council, Apr 17 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-05-06, City Council, May 6 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-05-19, City Council, May 19 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-04-17, City Council, Apr 17 2023. Open the quote and source.
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  3. Source record

    Water, solid waste and public works contracts

    Trine Construction Corporation received the watermain replacement contract PW-23-16 on May 15, 2023 for $2,235,000 (vote 7–0). S.B.C. Waste Solutions received the solid waste collection contract on February 2, 2026 for $2,104,777.44 (vote 7–0). Midwest Construction Partners received the salt dome construction contract PW-24-08 on April 15, 2024 for $1,507,611 (vote 7–0), and EraValdivia Contractors received the water tower rehabilitation contract PW-24-20 on January 6, 2025 for $1,343,200 (vote 5–0).

    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-04-15, City Council, Apr 15 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-01-06, City Council, Jan 6 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-04-15, City Council, Apr 15 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-05-15, City Council, May 15 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-01-06, City Council, Jan 6 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-05-15, City Council, May 15 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-02-02, City Council, Feb 2 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-02-02, City Council, Feb 2 2026. Open the quote and source.
    Show all 12 sources

  4. Source record

    Fire and police equipment and fire station management

    On November 20, 2023 the Council approved a purchase order not to exceed $1,208,000 to Macqueen Emergency for a combination fire engine and squad (vote 6–0). On October 16, 2023 it approved a construction management contract with Cordogan Clark & Associates for a fire station renovation and rebuild ($1,025,467) and a multi-year bundle contract with Axon Enterprise for body cameras, in-car cameras and conducted energy devices ($921,241.23), both in a consent vote of 7–0.

    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-11-20, City Council, Nov 20 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-10-16, City Council, Oct 16 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-10-16, City Council, Oct 16 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-11-20, City Council, Nov 20 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-10-16, City Council, Oct 16 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-11-20, City Council, Nov 20 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-10-16, City Council, Oct 16 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve a Purchase Order in an amount not to exceed $1,208,000.00 to Macqueen Emergency of St. Paul, MN for one (1) Pierce Enforcer PUC Pumper (Combination Fire Engine/Squad) (Memorandum), City Council, Nov 20 2023. Open the quote and source.
    Show all 9 sources

  5. Calculation

    The listed awards total $17,037,427.06

    The 10 awards above total $17,037,427.06. The largest is $2,726,729.50 and the smallest $921,241.23. Each was approved as part of a consent agenda by roll call, and none drew a vote against. The total adds amounts of different kinds: fixed construction prices, a not-to-exceed purchase order, a multi-year equipment contract, and the solid waste amount, whose period no record reviewed states.

    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-04-15, City Council, Apr 15 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-01-06, City Council, Jan 6 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-05-06, City Council, May 6 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-11-20, City Council, Nov 20 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-10-16, City Council, Oct 16 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-05-15, City Council, May 15 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-11-20, City Council, Nov 20 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-02-02, City Council, Feb 2 2026. Open the quote and source.
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  6. Source record

    Builder’s Paving is the only repeat vendor among them

    Builder’s Paving received two of the 10 awards, together $4,634,537.50. The minutes print the name as Builders Paving of Hillside for the earlier award and Builder’s Paving LLC for the later one; the committee minutes for the earlier award name the low bidder as Builder’s Paving, with a bid of $1,907,808. No other vendor appears twice among the listed awards.

    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-01-06, City Council, Jan 6 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-05-06, City Council, May 6 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of Committee of the Whole minutes, 2024-04-15, Committee of the Whole, Apr 15 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-05-15, City Council, May 15 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-11-20, City Council, Nov 20 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-04-17, City Council, Apr 17 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-10-16, City Council, Oct 16 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-05-19, City Council, May 19 2025. Open the quote and source.
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  7. Source record

    Repeat vendors among the next largest awards

    Below the list, under the same rules, the minutes print 14 more single-vendor awards, down to $455,638. Three vendors appear more than once among them. Hoerr Construction received the sewer lining contract in each of three consecutive years: $536,717.40 on March 20, 2023, $503,736.60 on February 20, 2024 and $469,447.22 on March 3, 2025; the next one went to National Power Rodding Corp. on March 2, 2026. Tyler Technologies received Munis and EnerGov software agreements on January 9, 2023 and December 1, 2025, not to exceed $504,630 and $659,581. Thermosystems was listed for City Hall air handler contracts of $598,088 and $465,000, the first on a consent agenda printed without an outcome line, and received a smaller server room contract on June 16, 2025.

    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-03-20, City Council, Mar 20 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-07-01, City Council, Jul 1 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-06-16, City Council, Jun 16 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-03-20, City Council, Mar 20 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-08-18, City Council, Aug 18 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-01-09, City Council, Jan 9 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-11-20, City Council, Nov 20 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-03-03, City Council, Mar 3 2025. Open the quote and source.
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  8. Source record

    Other repeat awards

    Cordogan Clark & Associates, listed for fire station construction management, received several other awards in the period, including the station’s design contract, approved on February 21, 2023 (vote 6–0), for which the staff memo requested $353,949 and the minutes print no amount; a pre-construction purchase order of $86,411 on November 20, 2023; and a City Hall security construction management contract of $89,497.50 on April 15, 2024. A second Acura green alley contract, for $512,851, was on the agenda for September 21, 2026; the first, for $799,342, was approved on August 18, 2025.

    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-04-15, City Council, Apr 15 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Agenda of City Council agenda, 2026-09-21, City Council, Sep 21 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-04-15, City Council, Apr 15 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-02-21, City Council, Feb 21 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-11-20, City Council, Nov 20 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve a Purchase Order in the amount of $86,411.00 for pass-through services related to pre-construction work for Fire Station 35 to Cordogan, Clark and Associates (Memorandum), City Council, Nov 20 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-08-18, City Council, Aug 18 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-08-18, City Council, Aug 18 2025. Open the quote and source.
    Show all 15 sources

  9. Source record · Feb 5, 2024

    Fire station trade contracts approved as one item

    On February 5, 2024 the Council approved, as one consent agenda item, contracts and purchase orders for the individual trades of the fire station renovation and addition (vote 7–0). The staff memo lists trade contracts totaling $5,993,234; its general trades contract of $2,150,000 would rank third among the listed awards if counted alone. The same company name fragment appears for the sitework ($410,000) and structural steel ($270,000) packages. Together the three packages total $2,830,000; if one firm holds all three, its contracts exceed the largest listed award. The minutes print no amounts, and the only minutes text for that meeting is a draft.

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve contracts and purchase orders for individual trades in connection with the Fire Station 35 renovation and addition (Memorandum), City Council, Feb 5 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve contracts and purchase orders for individual trades in connection with the Fire Station 35 renovation and addition (Memorandum), City Council, Feb 5 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve contracts and purchase orders for individual trades in connection with the Fire Station 35 renovation and addition (Memorandum), City Council, Feb 5 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve contracts and purchase orders for individual trades in connection with the Fire Station 35 renovation and addition (Memorandum), City Council, Feb 5 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Agenda of City Council agenda, 2024-02-05, City Council, Feb 5 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Draft minutes of City Council - February 5, 2024 (Draft Minutes), City Council, Feb 20 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Draft minutes of City Council - February 5, 2024 (Draft Minutes), City Council, Feb 20 2024. Open the quote and source.

  10. Open question

    Payments point to a yearly solid waste price

    The staff memo calls $2,104,777.44 the total cost of the solid waste contract, which runs from May 1, 2026 to April 30, 2034 with yearly price adjustments of up to 4.5%; it was the lowest of the four proposals scored, which ranged up to $3,222,590.40. Other records point to a yearly price. Since the contract began, warrant reports list scavenger service payments to SBC Waste Solutions totaling $923,118.60 by September 17, 2026, mostly $184,623.72 at a time. A budget transfer memo put the account’s current budget at $3,541,850. One report lists a payment of $175,777.44 to Groot Industries, the prior hauler. No record reviewed states the period of the approved amount.

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve a Contract for Solid Waste Collections Services with S.B.C. Waste Solutions, Inc. in the Amount of $2,104,777.44 (Memorandum), City Council, Feb 2 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Staff memo of Approve a Contract for Solid Waste Collections Services with S.B.C. Waste Solutions, Inc. in the Amount of $2,104,777.44 (Memorandum), City Council, Feb 2 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 11 · Warrant report of Warrant Report C091726 for period ending September 17,2026, in the amount of $2,401,861.02 reviewed by Alderperson Muno (Warrant Report), City Council, Sep 21 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve a Contract for Solid Waste Collections Services with S.B.C. Waste Solutions, Inc. in the Amount of $2,104,777.44 (Memorandum), City Council, Feb 2 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 9 · Warrant report of Warrant report C051426 for period ending May 14, 2026, in the amount of $1,126,123.69 reviewed by Alderperson Kelly Lawrence (Warrant Report), City Council, May 18 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-02-02, City Council, Feb 2 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve a $50,000.00 Budget Transfer from the Solid Waste Scavenger Service Account to the Solid Waste Refuse Disposal Account to support a purchase order increase of $45,000.00 to KLF Trucking and the remaining $5,000.00 to cover various expenditures that have exceeded budget (Memorandum), City Council, Jul 21 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 12 · Warrant report of Warrant report C081326 for period ending August 13, 2026, in the amount of $1,768,602.32 reviewed by Alderperson Sanchez (Warrant Report), City Council, Aug 17 2026. Open the quote and source.
    Show all 13 sources

  11. Source record · Jan 5, 2026

    Award amounts are not final costs

    Approved amounts can grow after the award. On April 15, 2024 the Council approved a purchase order increase of $73,284 to Trine Construction (vote 7–0) and on October 21, 2024 another of $10,600 (vote 7–0), both on the watermain contract awarded at $2,235,000. On December 15, 2025 it approved fire station contract amendments (vote 7–0); the staff memo requested $200,477 more for the Cordogan Clark construction management contract, to $1,225,944. On January 5, 2026 it approved an increase of $372,188.65 for the salt dome contract, about 24.7% of its original award (vote 7–0), and on February 2, 2026 an increase of $67,852.05 for the water tower contract. Awards here are ranked by the amount approved at award.

    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-04-15, City Council, Apr 15 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-01-05, City Council, Jan 5 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-10-21, City Council, Oct 21 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve contract amendments for the renovation of Fire Station 35 (Memorandum), City Council, Dec 15 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-01-06, City Council, Jan 6 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-12-15, City Council, Dec 15 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve a Budget Amendment to the Water Main Infrastructure Account and Purchase Order Increase to Trine Construction in the Amount of $10,600.00 for the Cumberland Watermain Replacement Project (Memorandum), City Council, Oct 21 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve contract amendments for the renovation of Fire Station 35 (Memorandum), City Council, Dec 15 2025. Open the quote and source.
    Show all 21 sources

  12. Open question

    What else could change the list

    Counting the City’s yearly workers’ compensation and liability insurance renewals with the Illinois Municipal League Risk Management Association as awards would add purchase orders of $1,133,570, $1,171,034 and $1,206,090, each larger than the two smallest listed awards. The list also depends on the minutes collected: an award made at a special meeting missing from the collection would not appear.

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve a Purchase Order in the Amount of $1,171,034.00 for Renewal of the City’s Workers’ Compensation and Liability Insurance for Calendar Year 2025 to the Illinois Municipal League Risk Management Association (RMA) (Memorandum), City Council, Nov 6 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-10-16, City Council, Oct 16 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve a Purchase Order in the amount of $1,206,090.00 for renewal of the City’s Workers’ Compensation and Liability Insurance for calendar year 2026 to the Illinois Municipal League Risk Management Association (RMA) (Memorandum), City Council, Nov 3 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-10-16, City Council, Oct 16 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-11-03, City Council, Nov 3 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-11-06, City Council, Nov 6 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-11-06, City Council, Nov 6 2024. Open the quote and source.

What was requested, recommended, approved, contracted, reported paid and completed?

Furthest stage the records establish: Awarded.

Total of the listed awards
$17,037,427.06
Sum of the amounts printed in the City Council minutes for the largest single-vendor awards
Calculation
Awards listed
10
Single-vendor contract and purchase awards ranked by the amount printed in the minutes
Calculation
Builder’s Paving awards, total
$4,634,537.50
Street resurfacing awards to Builder’s Paving among those listed
Calculation
Next largest awards reviewed
14
Single-vendor awards below the list whose amounts the minutes print, down to the smallest counted
Calculation
Smallest award in the next group
$455,638
Lowest printed amount among the next largest single-vendor awards reviewed
Calculation
Salt dome increase as a share of the award
24.7%
Purchase order increase divided by the original salt dome contract amount
Calculation
Three fire station trade packages, total
$2,830,000
General trades, sitework and structural steel packages listed under the same company name fragment
Calculation
Payments to SBC Waste Solutions so far
$923,118.60
Scavenger service payments listed in warrant reports after the solid waste contract began
Calculation

Which parcels, agencies, businesses and projects are explicitly connected?

Read the original sources

  1. 1.City Council minutes, 2023-01-09

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2023-01-24

  2. 2.City Council minutes, 2025-03-03

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2025-03-18

  3. 3.City Council minutes, 2026-02-02

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2026-02-25

  4. 4.City Council minutes, 2026-03-02

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2026-03-19

  5. 5.Committee of the Whole minutes, 2025-05-05

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2025-05-20

  6. 6.City Council minutes, 2023-02-21

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2023-03-07

  7. 7.City Council minutes, 2023-03-20

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2023-04-06

  8. 8.City Council minutes, 2025-06-16

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2025-07-08

  9. 9.Warrant report C081326 for period ending August 13, 2026, in the amount of $1,768,602.32 reviewed by Alderperson Sanchez (Warrant Report)

    City of Park Ridge

  10. 10.Approve a Purchase Order in the amount of $1,206,090.00 for renewal of the City’s Workers’ Compensation and Liability Insurance for calendar year 2026 to the Illinois Municipal League Risk Management Association (RMA) (Memorandum)

    City of Park Ridge

  11. 11.Approve contract amendments for the renovation of Fire Station 35 (Memorandum)

    City of Park Ridge

  12. 12.City Council minutes, 2024-04-15

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2024-06-06

  13. 13.City Council minutes, 2026-09-08

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2026-09-22

  14. 14.Committee of the Whole minutes, 2024-04-15

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2026-09-03

  15. 15.Approve contracts and purchase orders for individual trades in connection with the Fire Station 35 renovation and addition (Memorandum)

    City of Park Ridge

  16. 16.City Council minutes, 2025-01-06

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2025-01-29

  17. 17.Warrant report C061126 for period ending June 11, 2026, in the amount of $653,981.09 reviewed by Alderperson Joseph Steinfels. (Warrant Report)

    City of Park Ridge

  18. 18.City Council minutes, 2023-11-06

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2023-11-21

  19. 19.City Council minutes, 2025-08-18

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2025-09-04

  20. 20.City Council minutes, 2025-11-03

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2025-11-18

  21. 21.Approve a contract for the replacement of One Air Handler Unit and the Addition of a Building Automation System at City Hall with Thermosystems, LLC in the amount of $598,088.00 (Memorandum)

    City of Park Ridge

  22. 22.City Council - February 20, 2024

    City of Park Ridge

  23. 23.City Council agenda, 2026-09-21

    City of Park Ridge

  24. 24.Approve a contract for the replacement of the Air Conditioning System in the Information Technology (IT) Server Room with Thermosystems, LLC in the amount of $87,321.00 (Memorandum)

    City of Park Ridge

  25. 25.Approve a Budget Amendment to the Water Main Infrastructure Account and Purchase Order Increase to Trine Construction in the Amount of $10,600.00 for the Cumberland Watermain Replacement Project (Memorandum)

    City of Park Ridge

  26. 26.Approve a contract with Cordogan Clark & Associates of Aurora, Illinois to provide architectural, design and construction management project services for the renovation/rebuild of Fire Station 35 (Memorandum)

    City of Park Ridge

  27. 27.City Council minutes, 2024-10-21

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2024-11-08

  28. 28.City Council minutes, 2023-11-20

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2023-12-05

  29. 29.City Council minutes, 2023-05-15

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2023-06-06

  30. 30.Approve a Contract for the Replacement of One Air Handler Unit at City Hall with Thermosystems, LLC in the Amount of $465,000.00 (Memorandum)

    City of Park Ridge

  31. 31.Approve a $50,000.00 Budget Transfer from the Solid Waste Scavenger Service Account to the Solid Waste Refuse Disposal Account to support a purchase order increase of $45,000.00 to KLF Trucking and the remaining $5,000.00 to cover various expenditures that have exceeded budget (Memorandum)

    City of Park Ridge

  32. 32.Warrant Report C091726 for period ending September 17,2026, in the amount of $2,401,861.02 reviewed by Alderperson Muno (Warrant Report)

    City of Park Ridge

  33. 33.Warrant Report C032725 for period ending March 27, 2025, FY 2025 in the amount of $1,039,583.73 reviewed by Alderperson Sanchez (Report)

    City of Park Ridge

  34. 34.City Council agenda, 2024-02-05

    City of Park Ridge

  35. 35.City Council minutes, 2024-07-01

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2024-07-18

  36. 36.City Council minutes, 2025-06-02

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2025-06-17

  37. 37.Approve a Purchase Order in an amount not to exceed $1,208,000.00 to Macqueen Emergency of St. Paul, MN for one (1) Pierce Enforcer PUC Pumper (Combination Fire Engine/Squad) (Memorandum)

    City of Park Ridge

  38. 38.City Council minutes, 2026-05-18

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2026-06-02

  39. 39.City Council minutes, 2024-05-06

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2024-05-31

  40. 40.City Council minutes, 2024-11-06

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2024-12-12

  41. 41.Approve a Contract for Solid Waste Collections Services with S.B.C. Waste Solutions, Inc. in the Amount of $2,104,777.44 (Memorandum)

    City of Park Ridge

  42. 42.Approve a Purchase Order in the amount of $86,411.00 for pass-through services related to pre-construction work for Fire Station 35 to Cordogan, Clark and Associates (Memorandum)

    City of Park Ridge

  43. 43.City Council minutes, 2025-12-15

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2026-01-06

  44. 44.City Council minutes, 2023-10-16

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2023-11-17

  45. 45.City Council - February 5, 2024 (Draft Minutes)

    City of Park Ridge

  46. 46.City Council minutes, 2023-04-17

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2023-05-02

  47. 47.Warrant report C051426 for period ending May 14, 2026, in the amount of $1,126,123.69 reviewed by Alderperson Kelly Lawrence (Warrant Report)

    City of Park Ridge

  48. 48.City Council minutes, 2025-05-19

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2025-06-18

  49. 49.City Council minutes, 2026-01-05

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2026-01-21

  50. 50.City Council minutes, 2025-07-21

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2025-08-05

  51. 51.City Council minutes, 2025-12-01

    City of Park Ridge · dated 2025-12-16

  52. 52.Approve a Purchase Order in the Amount of $1,171,034.00 for Renewal of the City’s Workers’ Compensation and Liability Insurance for Calendar Year 2025 to the Illinois Municipal League Risk Management Association (RMA) (Memorandum)

    City of Park Ridge

What remains unresolved?

What the evidence does not establish

  • Whether each contract was signed at the approved amount, and what the City ultimately paid each vendor.
  • Whether the solid waste amount is a yearly price or covers the whole contract term; payments so far point to a yearly price, but no record reviewed states it.
  • The full name of the fire station general trades contractor, and whether the sitework and structural steel packages printed under the same name fragment went to the same firm; the text layer shows only part of the name.
  • Whether the Council approved the Acura green alley contract scheduled for September 21, 2026; the collection has only the agenda for that meeting.
  • The recorded outcome of the consent vote that included the first Thermosystems contract; the approved minutes print the roll call without an outcome line.
  • How often vendors repeat among awards smaller than $455,638; this review checked only the larger awards systematically.
  • Every later increase or amendment to the listed awards; this review found several but did not search for them systematically.

  • Signed contracts for the listed awards

    To confirm contract amounts, terms and any later amendments.

  • The solid waste collection contract and its price schedule

    To learn whether the approved amount is a yearly price or covers the whole term.

  • Warrant reports naming the listed vendors

    To compare payments with the approved amounts.

  • Approved minutes for the February meetings now available only as drafts

    To confirm the fire station trade contracts and a sewer lining award on the approved record.

  • Minutes of the late September City Council meeting

    To confirm the outcome of the Acura green alley contract scheduled there.

  • A legible copy of the fire station bid tabulation

    To identify the trade contractors by their full names.

What does the evidence suggest, and what would change it?

By the amounts the minutes print, the 10 largest single-vendor awards from January 9, 2023 to September 8, 2026 total $17,037,427.06, led by street resurfacing, watermain and solid waste contracts; all passed unopposed on consent agenda roll calls, and only Builder’s Paving received two. This ranks printed award amounts, not total commitments, and depends on the scope rules stated here.

Searched City Council and Committee of the Whole records from Jan 9 2023 to Sep 21 2026 (agendas, bid tabulations, approved minutes, draft minutes, staff reports, warrant reports).

Confidence
Medium confidence
Amounts and votes are quoted from the minutes, vendors are named there or in a cited memo, and scans of agenda titles, minutes and memos found no larger single-vendor award, but the ranking rests on scope choices, payments suggest a yearly waste price, and the collection’s completeness is assumed.

What supports it

  • Approved minutes list the Builder’s Paving street resurfacing contract at this amount, the largest single-vendor award found.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-05-19, City Council, May 19 2025. Open the quote and source.
  • Approved committee minutes report the same figure as the lowest bid received.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of Committee of the Whole minutes, 2025-05-05, Committee of the Whole, May 5 2025. Open the quote and source.
  • Approved minutes list the Trine Construction watermain contract at this amount, the next largest.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-05-15, City Council, May 15 2023. Open the quote and source.
  • Approved minutes list the S.B.C. Waste Solutions solid waste contract at this amount.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-02-02, City Council, Feb 2 2026. Open the quote and source.
  • Committee minutes name the earlier low bidder as Builder’s Paving, the spelling used for the later award.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of Committee of the Whole minutes, 2024-04-15, Committee of the Whole, Apr 15 2024. Open the quote and source.
  • The consent agenda roll call for the largest award carried with no votes against, as did the roll calls for the other listed awards.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-05-19, City Council, May 19 2025. Open the quote and source.
  • The largest award below the list, a water main contract, is smaller than every listed award, and agenda titles show no larger award missing from the minutes.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-07-21, City Council, Jul 21 2025. Open the quote and source.

What points the other way

  • The fire station general trades contract in a staff memo would rank third if counted as a separate award.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve contracts and purchase orders for individual trades in connection with the Fire Station 35 renovation and addition (Memorandum), City Council, Feb 5 2024. Open the quote and source.
  • The same company name fragment appears on two more trade packages; if one firm holds all three, its contracts together exceed the largest listed award.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve contracts and purchase orders for individual trades in connection with the Fire Station 35 renovation and addition (Memorandum), City Council, Feb 5 2024. Open the quote and source.
  • Risk-pool insurance renewals, if counted as awards, are larger than the two smallest listed awards.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-11-03, City Council, Nov 3 2025. Open the quote and source.
  • The account budget suggests the solid waste figure may be yearly; over its term that contract would then outweigh every other listed award.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve a $50,000.00 Budget Transfer from the Solid Waste Scavenger Service Account to the Solid Waste Refuse Disposal Account to support a purchase order increase of $45,000.00 to KLF Trucking and the remaining $5,000.00 to cover various expenditures that have exceeded budget (Memorandum), City Council, Jul 21 2025. Open the quote and source.
  • A later purchase order increase shows that some awards grew after approval, so approved amounts can understate the final commitment.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-01-05, City Council, Jan 5 2026. Open the quote and source.
  • Payments to SBC Waste Solutions in the contract’s first months are already a large share of the approved amount, which points to a yearly price; over its term that contract would outweigh every listed award.
    • p. 9 · Warrant report of Warrant report C051426 for period ending May 14, 2026, in the amount of $1,126,123.69 reviewed by Alderperson Kelly Lawrence (Warrant Report), City Council, May 18 2026. Open the quote and source.
  • The fire station trade contracts approved as one item total more than the largest listed award; the list counts only single-vendor awards.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve contracts and purchase orders for individual trades in connection with the Fire Station 35 renovation and addition (Memorandum), City Council, Feb 5 2024. Open the quote and source.
  • The fire station construction management contract, a listed award, was amended upward after approval.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve contract amendments for the renovation of Fire Station 35 (Memorandum), City Council, Dec 15 2025. Open the quote and source.
  • The watermain contract, the second largest listed award, received two purchase order increases after its award.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-04-15, City Council, Apr 15 2024. Open the quote and source.

Assumptions

  • Builders Paving of Hillside and Builder’s Paving LLC are the same company.
  • The amount printed with each consent agenda item is the amount the Council approved for that award.
  • The collection holds minutes for every City Council meeting in the period that approved a contract, and the minutes read are complete.
  • Insurance renewals with the municipal risk pool, motor fuel tax resolutions and similar funding actions are not contract awards to vendors.
  • Groot, named in the staff memo, and Groot Industries, named in the warrant report, are the same hauler.
  • SBC Waste Solutions Inc, named in the warrant reports, is S.B.C. Waste Solutions, Inc., the approved vendor, and its scavenger service payments are for the approved contract.

Other explanations

  • The two street resurfacing awards went to different companies with similar names. (still open)
  • Counting the fire station trade contracts individually would place the general trades contract third, and if one firm holds the three packages printed under the same company name, its contracts would outrank every listed award. (still open)
  • Counting risk-pool insurance renewals as awards would push the two smallest listed awards out of the group. (still open)
  • The solid waste amount is a yearly price, as the payments so far suggest; over its term that contract would be by far the largest commitment of the period. (still open)
  • A larger award was approved at a meeting whose minutes are not in the collection, such as a special meeting. (still open)

What would change this

  • A single-vendor award larger than the smallest listed one turns up in minutes this review did not read.
  • A contract document or price schedule shows that the solid waste amount is a yearly price, as the payments so far suggest.
  • The fire station trade contracts or the risk-pool insurance renewals are treated as awards.
  • Signed contracts show amounts different from those printed in the minutes.
  • Final costs, including later increases and amendments, are ranked instead of the amounts approved at award.

Editions and corrections

Each published change is a new edition. Corrections say what changed and why.

  1. Edition 2(current)

    Edition 2: 20 revised.

  2. Edition 1

    First edition.

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Suggested citation: GroundSignal, “Largest contract award amounts in City Council minutes, January 9, 2023 to September 8, 2026,” sources reviewed 2026-09-25, source records listed on this page.

Initial permanent evidence page published September 10, 2026. Follow the dated evidence above for later additions and changes. A source-check date alone does not establish a government action or project outcome.