Oak Lawn trustees approve liquor, tobacco licenses; hire officer, table IT lease and manage-print bids; OK $6.88M in bills

Village President Ralph Borderer presided over the Village of Oak Lawn Board of Trustees meeting on Feb. 11, 2025, at Village Hall, where trustees approved several business licenses, authorized a police hiring, approved routine contracts, and voted to table two IT-related resolutions.

The board approved on roll-call votes a new class F liquor license for Wing Pros LLC doing business as Wing Snob at 6762 W. 95th St.; an amended Class M liquor license transfer to Red Lobster Hospitality LLC at 9500 Southwest Highway; and a Class 1 tobacco retailer license for Sarah Island LLC doing business as Sarah Market at 6419 W. 87th St. Those approvals were presented as ordinances on the village president’s agenda and carried by roll call.

On the consent agenda trustees approved a recommendation from the Fire and Police Commission to hire one police patrol officer from the current eligibility list and acted on a variance granted by the appeals board (5–0) to allow a six-foot privacy fence at 10727 S. Tripp. The board also approved an ordinance amending the village code related to the salary-review process for the village electrical and plumbing inspectors, providing a salary increase for the electrical inspector retroactive to Aug. 1, 2023. Trustees approved a 12-month electricity contract with NextEra Energy Services Illinois LLC to supply power to the Harker water plant; the resolution waived competitive bidding as permitted under the terms presented to the board.

Two agenda items involving IT contracting were removed from the consent vote and then tabled for further consideration. Resolution 25-03-10, described on the agenda as approving a settlement and lease with Proven Business Systems LLC and authorizing a new lease and services agreement with Proven IT in the amount of $99,510.12, was tabled to a future meeting while trustees work to resolve conflicts. Resolution 25-03-11, which would reject all bids for a managed print solution, was also tabled.

The village clerk presented Disbursement Resolution 2025-03D dated Feb. 11, 2025, totaling $6,877,906.28; trustees voted to approve payment of those bills.

Procedural actions taken earlier in the meeting included approval of the closed meeting minutes dated Dec. 10, 2024, approval of the regular meeting minutes for Jan. 28, 2025 (as corrected to note the correct high school for special rec basketball), and a motion allowing Trustee Desmond to participate by phone for this meeting. The meeting concluded with the customary adjournment vote.

Details recorded in the meeting minutes indicate roll-call affirmative votes for the matters described above; items explicitly removed from the consent agenda were debated briefly and then tabled for follow-up. No substantive policy changes beyond the listed ordinances and the salary retroactive adjustment were adopted during the session.