Schools look to us to find the balance between aesthetics and cost. Public schools typically have tighter budgets.

School districts throughout the state are using the tort fund to balance their budgets because they can secretly, without voter approval, impose a virtually unlimited tax. This is a widespread practice throughout the State of Illinois. The Stephenson County cases are the first cases in the State of Illinois to successfully challenge the illegal use of the tort fund to pay salaries. [So far] the taxpayers [have] won the majority of the issues that were before the court.

If you have to have a ramp, try to respect the architecture.

The goal is transparent accessibility. It's not always necessary to have big ramps.

Companies have budgets to balance as well, but unlike the federal government, we can go out of business.

This will help our schools tremendously. Their budgets have been strained, and they have had to use reserve funds to be able to reopen schools while paperwork for insurance and FEMA is being processed.