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the orland park prairie | October 20, 2016 | 3<br />
Orland Park Village Board<br />
FY 2017 budget process continues, with tentative numbers presented<br />
Jon DePaolis<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Planning a Village budget<br />
is no easy task. And it takes<br />
time.<br />
The Village of Orland<br />
Park Board of Trustees<br />
and Village staff members<br />
continued to discuss tentative<br />
fiscal year 2017 budget<br />
items Oct. 12 during a special<br />
meeting at Village Hall.<br />
“It is a balanced budget,<br />
with no new taxes of any<br />
type whatsoever,” Interim<br />
Village Manager Tim Mc-<br />
Carthy said before more<br />
details were given on the<br />
Recreation & Parks Department,<br />
as well as the Orland<br />
Park Health and Fitness<br />
Center. “All the discretionary<br />
items, if approved, and<br />
all the personnel items …<br />
are included in [this] balanced<br />
budget. So, we’re<br />
very pleased to bring that to<br />
you.”<br />
Among the items discussed,<br />
staff estimated the<br />
parks and grounds budget to<br />
be $3.51 million. In terms<br />
of discretionary spending,<br />
staff is requesting reorganization<br />
of the department at<br />
a cost of $21,403; the hiring<br />
of a maintenance worker<br />
III at $95,303; and sign and<br />
logo replacements estimated<br />
at $10,000.<br />
“When I came onboard as<br />
interim [Village manager],<br />
one of the conversations I<br />
had with the past Village<br />
manager, [Paul] Grimes,<br />
was the future of our parks<br />
division,” McCarthy said.<br />
“It had been in limbo for a<br />
number of years. It had a<br />
maintenance worker III as<br />
an interim foreman, making<br />
overtime to the tune of over<br />
$20,000 a year.<br />
“Gary Couch is an interim<br />
operations manager. Our<br />
other foreman was on shortterm<br />
disability. I thought it<br />
was time to get this department<br />
reorganized and to<br />
increase their responsibilities.”<br />
McCarthy requested installing<br />
two operations<br />
managers and for Couch to<br />
be promoted to director of<br />
parks and grounds.<br />
“[The position] will be responsible<br />
for ponds, parks,<br />
medians,” McCarthy said.<br />
“Gary certainly has the experience<br />
and the expertise<br />
and the job performance to<br />
be our new director of parks<br />
and grounds.”<br />
Meanwhile, Director of<br />
Recreation Nancy Flores<br />
previewed tentative budgets<br />
for the Taste of Orland<br />
($192,711) and special<br />
events ($204,935). Discretionary<br />
special event requests<br />
would be $9,800 for<br />
the Zero Waste at the Taste<br />
initiative; $8,000 for weekly<br />
entertainment at the Farmers’<br />
Market; and $16,000<br />
to refurbish the grand piano<br />
that was donated to the Village<br />
this past year.<br />
“When we originally budgeted<br />
for this item, we budgeted<br />
$10,000 for refurbishment,<br />
thinking we could do<br />
half this year and half next<br />
year; however, after talking<br />
to some piano experts who<br />
do this for a living, they<br />
said that you need to do the<br />
whole thing at once,” Flores<br />
said. “You can’t just fix half<br />
the guts of a piano.”<br />
Flores also highlighted<br />
potential budgets for the<br />
Centennial Park Aquatic<br />
Center ($1.27 million) and<br />
the Sportsplex ($1.2 million).<br />
A personnel request<br />
for the CPAC would be to<br />
hire an aquatics manager<br />
estimated at $95,864.<br />
One of the goals for the<br />
CPAC will be to identify<br />
a digital payment process<br />
to “reduce pool admission<br />
lines,” Flores said.<br />
She also said nonresident<br />
daily admissions and nonresident<br />
membership rates<br />
are set to increase at the<br />
aquatic center.<br />
“We’ll be increasing fees<br />
in 2017,” Flores said. “Our<br />
nonresident membership<br />
rates will increase by 15<br />
percent, and our daily admissions<br />
for nonresidents<br />
will increase by 43 percent.<br />
Keep in mind that we’ve<br />
made a lot of improvements<br />
at the pool over the years,<br />
and the last time we increased<br />
our rates at the pool<br />
was 2008. So, it’s more than<br />
overdue.”<br />
Flores said the plan is to<br />
increase the nonresident<br />
rate by $5 for programs at<br />
the Sportsplex, as well.<br />
During Assistant Village<br />
Manager Joe La Margo’s<br />
portion of the presentation,<br />
he listed the recently<br />
acquired Palos Health and<br />
Fitness Club — to be renamed<br />
Orland Park Health<br />
and Fitness Center — at a<br />
revenue forecast of $3.06<br />
million. Meanwhile, the to-<br />
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