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File #: FM-R-0010-25    Version: 1
Type: Facilities Management Resolution Status: Sent to Finance
File created: 9/17/2025 In control: Public Works Committee
On agenda: 10/7/2025 Final action:
Title: AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF DU PAGE, ILLINOIS AND CASA OF DU PAGE COUNTY, INC. FOR LEASE OF SPACE AT DU PAGE COUNTY JUDICIAL OFFICE FACILITY WHEREAS, the County of DuPage ("County") operates and maintains a facility at the County's seat of government in accord with the authority granted by the Illinois General Assembly at 55 ILCS 5/5-1001, et. seq., which facility is commonly known as the DuPage County Judicial Office Facility; and WHEREAS, CASA of DuPage County, Inc. operates a not-for-profit corporation utilizing unpaid volunteers to speak as a child's only independent representative in the courtroom during certain Judicial processes; and WHEREAS, CASA supports the Judicial process by helping to break the cycle of child abuse and neglect; and by maximizing opportunities for abused and neglected youth to become productive members of our community as young adults; and WHEREAS, The County has office space available at the DuPage County ...
Attachments: 1. CASA Lease Agreement_FINAL_Redacted.pdf

 

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AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF DU PAGE, ILLINOIS

AND CASA OF DU PAGE COUNTY, INC.

FOR LEASE OF SPACE AT DU PAGE COUNTY

JUDICIAL OFFICE FACILITY

 

WHEREAS, the County of DuPage (“County”) operates and maintains a facility at the County’s seat of government in accord with the authority granted by the Illinois General Assembly at 55 ILCS 5/5-1001, et. seq., which facility is commonly known as the DuPage County Judicial Office Facility; and

 

WHEREAS, CASA of DuPage County, Inc. operates a not-for-profit corporation utilizing unpaid volunteers to speak as a child’s only independent representative in the courtroom during certain Judicial processes; and

 

WHEREAS, CASA supports the Judicial process by helping to break the cycle of child abuse and neglect; and by maximizing opportunities for abused and neglected youth to become productive members of our community as young adults; and

 

WHEREAS, The County has office space available at the DuPage County Judicial Office Facility for use by non-profit agencies that support the Judicial process; and

 

WHEREAS, CASA of DuPage County, Inc. desires to operate and maintain an office in the DuPage County Judicial Office Facility, Wheaton, Illinois; and

 

WHEREAS, it is in the interest of the County of DuPage, it’s residents and the Judicial process, to enter into                     a lease agreement with CASA of DuPage County, Inc. to allow its operation of an office at the DuPage County Judicial Office Facility, subject to terms and conditions of the attached lease; and

 

WHEREAS, the County Board has established an annual rate of One Dollar ($1.00), and other good and valuable consideration, including but not limited to the societal services and benefits to the public described above, for CASA’s lease of approximately Two Thousand Two Hundred Sixteen (2,216) square feet of office space at the DuPage County Judicial Office Facility; and

 

WHEREAS, the lease term shall be in effect commencing, approximately, November 1, 2025 and expiring October 31, 2035.

 

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the County Board of the County of DuPage that the County Board Chair and the County Clerk be and they are hereby authorized and directed to execute on behalf of the County of DuPage the attached lease of office space for use by CASA of DuPage County, Inc.;

 

 

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that certified copies of this resolution along with copies of the lease, be transmitted by the County Clerk to CASA of DuPage County, Inc., Attention: Suzanne Skala, Executive Director, 505 N. County Farm Road, Wheaton, Illinois, 60187; and Nicholas Alfonso, State’s Attorney’s Office.

 

 

 

 

 

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Enacted and approved this 14th day of October, 2025 at Wheaton, Illinois.

 

 

 

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DEBORAH A. CONROY, CHAIR

DU PAGE COUNTY BOARD

 

 

 

Attest: ___________________________________

 

JEAN KACZMAREK, COUNTY CLERK