The Lisle-Woodridge Fire Protection District board could adopt a new residential sprinkler code when it meets Tuesday, Sept. 22.

The five-member Board of Trustees will consider Ordinance 2026-02, which would establish a district-wide residential sprinkler code, according to the meeting agenda. The agenda lists the item under new business as "Discussion and Possible Action," meaning trustees may vote, table or simply discuss the proposal.

The ordinance text is not public. What types of homes would be covered, whether the code applies to new construction or renovations, and when it would take effect remain unclear.

The board will also receive its latest update on the district's position toward proposed Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts. Under Illinois TIF law, incremental property tax revenue inside a TIF district goes to the municipality that created it rather than to overlapping taxing bodies like fire districts.

That revenue question has been on the board's agenda since at least June 2025, when trustees began discussing proposed TIF districts along East Ogden Avenue, Lincoln Avenue and 75th Street. Chief Keith Krestan has presented the updates at each meeting.

The district has already acted on several TIF-related agreements. At the March 24 board meeting, trustees voted 5-0 to approve the Village of Lisle Downtown TIF Extension, a joint intergovernmental agreement for the Woodridge 75th Street Corridor TIF District, and a separate IGA between Woodridge and the Lisle-Woodridge and Darien-Woodridge fire districts.

At a Feb. 5 Joint Review Board meeting for the Woodridge 75th Street Corridor TIF, according to draft meeting minutes, Krestan abstained on behalf of the fire district and asked whether IGA negotiations could continue after the vote. The village's attorney confirmed they could.

Pat Broncato, representing Woodridge Grade School District 68 at that same session, raised the revenue question directly. "It's problematic that the TIF statute contemplates taking tax dollars from affected fire departments, libraries, park districts and school districts … to give to unidentified private entities, and especially to residential builders," Broncato said at the Feb. 5 meeting.

By August 2026, the TIF discussion had shifted to the Lisle Route 53 TIF, according to the Aug. 25 board agenda. Krestan gave an update at that meeting and received no questions from trustees.

The Sept. 22 meeting begins at 5 p.m. at Station 51, 1005 School St. in Lisle. The agenda also includes approval of $375,263.45 in September expenditures and reports from the Board of Fire Commissioners, Pension Board and DU-COMM. A special board meeting was listed for Sept. 29 at 5 p.m. in the Aug. 25 meeting minutes.