Tinley's Trustee Meeting: What's On Tap For Tonight

TINLEY PARK, IL — As the board of trustees prepares for a change in power in coming weeks, they take on weighty issues at the regularly scheduled board meeting Tuesday night, including Tinley's budget, staff merit awards, creating a foreclosed-property tracking system and new liquor licenses for Hollywood Casino.

Trustees John Curran and Michael Pannitto are stepping down after losing the election earlier this month, and Brian Younker announced at the beginning of the year that he would not run for office. All three are members of Concerned Citizens for Tinley Park, headed by Mayor Jacob Vandenberg. Three new members, Diane Galante, William Brennan and Michael Mueller are preparing to take office in coming weeks. They ran on the One Tinley Park ticket, co-founded by trustee Michael Glotz.

In the meantime, the board will conduct business as usual. Here's a look at some of what is on the agenda tonight:

• The board will honor Pannitto, Curran and Younker for their service to the village.
• Vandenberg will ask for the approval to hire an executive assistant, Dominic Sanfilippo.
• Hollywood Casino Amphitheater may be able to sell alcohol at additional locations on the grounds, may be able to sell wine in cans and may be able to let roving staff sell alcohol to concertgoers, if trustees approve the measure.
• An addition to the Lakota contract — Lakota is developing Harmony Square —that will add more than $227,000 to the project, bringing the total to $416,050.
• Trustees will decide whether to create a registry for properties in foreclosure and to hire a vendor to handle the administration of the registry.
• Trustees also will decide whether to give employees not covered by collective bargaining a 2.5% pay raise and and merit raises of up to 4%.
• They'll decide whether to put the waste and recycling contract out to bid when Nuway's contract expires in September.
• The board is expected to approve a total budget of about $155 million, which includes Tinley's public library. Revenue is projected to be just less than $109 million, down slightly from $112 million in the fiscal year that just ended.

These and other items will be voted on or discussed Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. at Tinley Park's village hall. You can also watch live on the village's YouTube channel.