Rantoul board approves $1 million electric SCADA upgrade, e-bike rules and home-repair loan fund
All three measures passed 5-0 on Oct. 13; the e-bike rules take effect Jan. 1, 2027.
RANTOUL - The Rantoul Village Board on Oct. 13 approved a $1,015,642 contract with VIPower Services LLC to upgrade the Electric Department's SCADA system, plus a $101,564.20 contingency, waiving formal bidding, according to the agenda and the village's meeting video.
The contract, Ordinance 2837 on electric bikes and Ordinance 2838 on home-repair loans each passed 5-0, the video shows.
A staff memo says the e-bike ordinance drops fines, lowers the fee to retrieve a confiscated e-bike and takes effect Jan. 1, 2027. The ordinance sets impoundment fees of $25, $50 and $150 for an owner's first, second and later impoundments. Before the vote, trustees were told police plan to educate students through the school resource officer first.
Ordinance 2838 creates a Residential Emergency Repair Assistance Loan Fund with $75,000 moved from the Micro Loan Program Fund. The memo describes loans of $2,000 to $15,000 at a fixed 2% for owners with household income at or below 80% of the county's median family income.
Trustees also approved a six-year, $40,278 generator maintenance agreement with Altorfer Power Systems and removed a $40,000 emergency clay-import resolution for the Prospect Substation from the agenda. The SCADA vote starts at 16:01 in the video (https://vimeo.com/1233581104#t=961s).
Source: Rantoul Village Board Oct. 13, 2026 agenda and agenda packet (CivicClerk, https://rantoulil.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1013,plainText=false); https://rantoulil.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1015,plainText=false)) and meeting video with village-posted captions (https://vimeo.com/1233581104).