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Tinley Park Village Board
Proposed budget includes construction on fire
station, Harmony square and hiring personnel
Jon DePaolis
Freelance Reporter
The Village of Tinley
Park Board of Trustees is
one step closer to adopting
the fiscal year 2020
budget.
A public hearing was
held about the budget
April 10, just prior to a
special meeting of the Village
Board. There were no
comments from the public.
The proposed FY 2020
budget projects a beginning
fund balance of
$197,616,477 and end the
fiscal year on April 30,
2020, with a projected balance
of $157,656,431. The
Village’s portion of the FY
2020 budget projects total
revenues of $108,556,411
and total expenditures of
$148,516,457 — a deficit
of $39,960,046.
Assistant Village Treasurer
Michael Zonsius,
who gave a short presentation
about the budget
during the public hearing,
said when including
the library district into
the budget numbers, the
projected revenues are approximately
$115 million
and expenditures are about
$155 million.
“As you can see, there
is a deficit — revenues
are less than expenditures
— but that is not by happenstance,
it is by design,”
Zonsius said. “That is because
we have the cash
reserves … that have been
accumulated over the previous
years to pay for the
capital expenditures.”
According to the proposed
budget, which is
available on the Village’s
Transparency Portal, the
projected capital expenditures
budget is increasing
from $41,477,865 in 2019
to $52,420,414 in 2020 —
with $33.8 million in carryover
projects from FY
2019 and nearly $18.6 million
in new projects for FY
2020.
Per the budget proposal,
some of the major projects
to be worked on in FY
2020 include: construction
of a fire station at a projected
cost of $5.8 million;
the Harmony Square project
at a projected cost of
$5.2 million; and the 2020
Pavement Management
Program at a cost of approximately
$3.9 million.
The Pavement Management
Program would
include the resurfacing
11.2 miles of roadways
throughout the Village,
Zonsius said.
He also pointed out
some personnel additions
that are included in the
ROUND UP ITEMS
A brief recap of action and discussion from the
April 10 meeting of the Tinley Park Village Board
•In a 5-0 vote, Tinley Park trustees approved the
2018 Tinley Park Zoning Map. Trustee Michael
Glotz said no properties were rezoned as part of
the adoption.
•In another 5-0 vote, trustees approved the
authorization of an appropriation of approximately
$1.5 million in motor fuel tax funds for the fiscal
year 2020 Pavement Management Program.
•Trustees also voted 5-0 to approve façade, sign,
landscaping and code compliance grants for
Cynthia Cecott for planned improvements at 17745
Oak Park Ave. in an amount not to exceed $58,310.
proposed budget, such as:
a commander, sergeant
and two patrol officer positions
for the police department;
a reclassification of
two clerk positions for the
fire department; a telecommunications
employee for
the Emergency Management
Agency; a maintenance
worker for Public
Works; two special event
coordinators (each at 30
hours a week) and increasing
the hours of the public
information coordinator
from 30 hours to 34 hours;
and to hire an intern for
the information technology
team.
Overall, according to the
budget proposal report, FY
2020 will see a decrease
from the current fiscal year
in expenditures — going
from $153,072,167 in
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