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Hanover Park trustees approve budget amendments, engineering contract and routine warrants
Summary
The Village Board of Trustees approved amendments to the FY2024 and FY2025 budgets, awarded a $145,480 design contract for TIF 4 improvements and approved multiple warrant payments; several earlier approvals were formally rescinded.
The Village Board of Trustees of Hanover Park voted Tuesday to approve budget amendments, authorize a contract for Tax Increment Financing (TIF) 4 improvements and to approve several warrants and administrative rescissions.
The board approved an ordinance authorizing the eighth amendment to the FY2024 budget and, separately, an ordinance authorizing the first amendment to the FY2025 budget. Both measures required a two-thirds vote and passed with all trustees present voting in favor. The board also approved a contract with WBK Engineering for the design of TIF 4 improvements in the amount of $145,480 and authorized the village manager to execute the necessary documents.
Why it matters: The budget amendments update appropriations for fiscal years that affect projects, vendor payments and year-end accounting. The WBK Engineering contract funds design work for planned improvements in TIF 4, a redevelopment finance district used to support local public infrastructure and façade or streetscape projects.
Details of the votes and motions follow. For each item the board recorded roll-call votes with all trustees present voting yes.
Votes at a glance - Ordinance: Eighth amendment to the FY2024 budget — moved and seconded; two-thirds vote required and received; outcome: approved (all present voted yes). Amounts not specified in the motion text on the record. - Ordinance: First amendment to the FY2025 budget — moved and seconded; two-thirds vote required and received; outcome: approved (all present voted yes). Amounts not specified in the motion text on the record. - Contract: Approve contract with WBK Engineering for design of TIF 4 improvements, $145,480 — moved and seconded; outcome: approved (all present voted yes). The village manager was authorized to execute documents. - Rescindments and warrants: The board moved to rescind a motion passed Feb. 6, 2025 that had approved a payment/approval related to Jan. 16, 2025 (motion text in the record included an amount of $3,262,197.97 but was read aloud in a garbled form); the rescission motion passed. The board also approved warrants presented for payment on Feb. 20, 2025 and motions to rescind and reapprove prior warrant payments; the motions passed. (Amounts in several warrant-related motions were read aloud in the meeting record in a way that was unclear; the transcript records inconsistent numeric strings. Where the meeting record is ambiguous, amounts are listed as not specified.)
Board reports and context During the meeting President (Mayor) Craig and trustees also provided routine reports. The treasurer provided a January 2025 snapshot and noted auditors would arrive soon. Trustees reported on events including a Black History Month program and a veterans homeless housing project described as being in early design stages with assistance from the Housing Authority of Cook County.
Meeting procedure and attendance The board established a quorum at the start of the meeting. Motions were routinely moved and seconded and then decided by roll call; where a two-thirds vote was required the clerk called the roll and the measure passed. The meeting adjourned after the board voted to go into executive session under the code section announced during the meeting (executive session subject described in the record as discussion of personnel matters).
