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Beach Park board approves consent agenda, road payment and routine contracts
Summary
At its Feb. 24 meeting the Village of Beach Park board approved the consent agenda, a final pay request on the Cheney Avenue extension, landscaping and pond-maintenance contracts, and a raffle license; vote tallies and budget impacts are listed.
The Village of Beach Park board on Feb. 24 approved a series of routine items including the consent agenda, final contractor payment for a road project, landscaping and pond-maintenance contracts, and a raffle license for a church fundraiser. The board recorded roll-call votes on each item.
Votes at a glance
- Consent agenda: Approved. Items included approval of the Feb. 13 meeting minutes, bills presented for payment totaling $128,337.59, the January finance report and the January community development report, and Resolution 2025-R-5 approving rates for Klein Thorpe Jenkins Limited for legal services. Roll call recorded Trustees Johnson, Miller, Sittig and Wells voting yes.
- Chicagoland Pavement and Contractors Inc., Pay Application No. 2 (Cheney Avenue road extension): Approved. Staff confirmed the work complete and recommended payment in the amount of $7,463.99 from the capital construction fund. Roll call recorded Trustees Sittig, Wells, Jensen and Miller voting yes.
- BrightView landscaping proposal (Heatherstone at Cambridge subdivision and Bremen Totlot): Approved. The board accepted BrightView’s proposal for 2025 landscape services in the amount of $42,568; funds to come from Special Service Area No. 6. Roll call recorded Trustees Wells, Johnson, Miller and Sittig voting yes.
- Scientific Aquatic Weed Control, 2025 pond maintenance: Approved. The renewal increases the contractor’s price by $540 over last year for service covering 11 ponds (including Public Works facility pond and two Founders Park ponds). The contract amount is $13,364, charged to Special Service Area No. 6. Roll call recorded Trustees Jensen, Miller, Sittig and Wells voting yes.
- Raffle license for Our Lady of Humility Church (50/50 fundraiser, March 8): Approved. Roll call recorded Trustees Miller, Sittig, Wells and Jensen voting yes.
Each motion carried on recorded roll calls with no formal recorded no votes or abstentions during those items. Several trustees and staff noted that the price increases for landscaping and pond services were within or below current inflation rates and that the Cheney Avenue payment represented a final, satisfactory pay request.
No executive session was called at the end of the meeting and the board adjourned.
