The Illinois Tollway Board approved a new strategic plan and a series of finance, IT, facilities, engineering, legal and safety items during its meeting and later moved into executive session to consider pending litigation and closed-session minutes.
Board members approved the minutes of the regular board meeting of 06/18/2025 and then approved multiple consent items across committees by voice vote or roll call. The board approved the Tollway's new strategic plan on a voice vote; the motion "passes" was recorded after directors signaled their approval.
Several recusals were noted on the record: Director Manish Mehta indicated in advance that he would recuse himself on information technology item 1 and later on legal item 3. Director Gomez indicated a recusal on engineering item 5; Director Perez indicated a recusal on engineering item 9. Engineering items taken separately recorded roll-call tallies; for engineering item 5 the chair recorded "7 yeas, 0 nays, and 1 recusal" before declaring the motion passed. Legal items 3 and 4 were taken after executive session and were approved; the roll call for legal item 3 was recorded as seven yays, zero nays and one recusal.
The board voted to enter executive session pursuant to sections 2(c)(11) and 2(c)(21) of the Illinois Open Meetings Act to consider matters related to pending or probable litigation and the minutes of closed meetings. After returning from executive session, the board approved chair's item 2, approved redacted executive session minutes for public release, and approved legal items discussed in executive session.
The meeting transcript records that most committee items were approved without substantive debate; there were no public commenters recorded for the public comment period at the start of the meeting.