Public Works Director Leaving Village

Public Works Director Joe Caracci is the latest at the village to announce that he will resign. In a press release on the village website today, the village announced he would be leaving to take a job as the public works director at the Village of Bensenville. 

Caracci ends a nine-year career at the village after being hired in 2002 as a project coordinator/ civil engineer. He also worked as assistant public works director before assuming his current position.

"I believe that I have made a significant impact here at Public Works during my employ. I feel I am leaving my Department in a much better state than when I arrived with a specific focus on improved customer service. I have had the opportunity to work for some incredibly talented individuals and have established relationships along the way that I am sure will last a lifetime," Caracci said in the press release.

Village Manager Steve Jones, who will be leaving the village at the end of the month, said that Caracci is a loss for the village.

"Joe's leaving is going to leave a huge, huge, huge hole. That's huge times three," Jones said. "He is an incredible manager, a great engineer... He's one of the reasons this department runs so well."

The village will have lost three longtime employees recently, first with the resignation of Jon Batek, the former finance director who left for a job in Carol Stream, next with Jones who still has not said what his plans for the future are, and now Caracci. 

The village has not yet announced who Jones or Caracci's replacements will be.