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Mundelein Illinois - Lake County Board Members Advocate for Capital Priority Projects for Mundelein 21 February 2024 ( news )
Mundelein , state Illinois ( By Press Release office)
Feb 21,2024
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Mayor Steve Lentz and the Board of Trustees express appreciation to Lake County Board Chair Sandy Hart and Legislative Committee Chair John Wasik for meeting with several Illinois members of Congress to advocate for funding for Lake County’s 2024 Capital Priorities project during their recent trip to Washington D . C . for the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference .
Chair Hart and Committee Chair Wasik held meetings with the offices of Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth , Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky , and Congressmen Bill Foster , Mike Quigley , and Brad Schneider .
Mundelein projects include modifying the Sylvan Lake Dam in Mundelein and securing funding for the forthcoming new 9 - 1 - 1 Regional Operations and Communications Facility that benefits Mundelein and the entire Lake County region .
“Every year , we work closely with our congressional representatives - - and visit all of their offices in Washington - - to support projects and services that benefit Lake County communities , " said John Wasik , Chair of the Lake County Legislative Committee and Lake County Board Member . “This year , with a record amount of infrastructure dollars still available from multiple Biden Administration programs , we are even more sharply focused on funding the most impactful projects for all of our residents . We are incredibly thankful for the tremendous partnerships that we have with our federal legislators and the funding they have helped bring to Lake County . We look forward to continuing working with them to find ways to bring funding back to Lake County . ”
View the complete list of Lake County capital projects in the
Lake County ' s 2024 Capital Prioritiesbooklet .
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