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Orland Park approves $41,500 amendment to Tinley Creek streambank design after easement gaps
Summary
Board approved an amendment to the Tinley Creek streambank stabilization design contract after four property owners withheld easements; village will redesign to exclude those parcels and sent legal notice about future costs.
The Village of Orland Park approved an addendum of $41,500 to the professional-services agreement with V3 Companies for redesign work on the Tinley Creek streambank stabilization project, raising the contract total to a revised not-to-exceed amount of $408,455.
Staff told trustees the village had secured funding from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) and village funds to address long-standing erosion issues, but four property owners refused to grant the easements required for the previously planned design. Village Manager George said designers must now rework the plans to avoid those parcels. “After securing all of the funding ... we still have four property owners that would not give us the easements that are required for this,” George said.
The board was told the village had incurred and collected fines related to earlier violations (including heritage-tree removal) and those matters are in good standing. The village attorney will send letters to the property owners notifying them that future localized erosion repairs on those parcels may be their financial responsibility and that the village will proceed with redesign work.
Trustee Lawler moved and the board approved the amendment on a roll-call vote. Trustees and staff described the change as necessary to move the project forward once funding and maintenance commitments were secured, although the alteration increases design costs and the village must proceed without full easements from all adjacent owners.
