Tinley Park committee unanimously approves FY2025 pay plan and a slate of routine contracts

The Village of Tinley Park Committee of the Whole unanimously approved the fiscal year 2025 pay plan and a series of routine contracts and purchases at its April 16 meeting.

Items approved on unanimous roll calls (trustees recorded as voting yes: Brady, Mahoney, Mueller, Shaw and Sullivan; Trustee Brennan was absent due to illness) included:

- Approval of the Committee of the Whole minutes from April 2, 2024.
- Fiscal Year 2025 pay plan (staff-presented memo; trustees had no substantive questions).
- Façade grant for a patio enclosure at 17344 Oak Park Avenue.
- Purchase of six APX Next radios from Motorola Solutions to outfit four new officers and provide two spares, to be paid from asset forfeiture funds, per the chief’s statement.
- Quartermaster room storage cabinets for the police department.
- Contract renewal with Aqua Mist Plumbing and Lawn Sprinkler Company, Inc. for irrigation maintenance (trustees referenced the number of irrigation zones in support).
- Contract renewal with Summer Landscape for landscape bed maintenance.
- Contract with BB3 Construction Group Limited for restoration at Cherry Hill Pond and Creekside Ditch.
- Contract with Great Lakes Urban Forestry for a parkway tree inventory.

Several items were moved and seconded with minimal discussion and passed by roll call; no public comments were received during the public-comment portion of the meeting.

Why it matters: The pay plan sets employee compensation parameters for the coming fiscal year, and the approved contracts cover ongoing maintenance, public-works and public-safety equipment that support daily village operations. The police radio purchase was explicitly funded from asset forfeiture funds, as the chief stated.

What’s next: The Committee of the Whole adjourned and the record notes the meeting transitioned into a special board meeting. Specific implementation tasks (dates, contract amounts and performance milestones) were not recorded in the committee transcript and were listed as "not specified."