Orland Park trustees approve FY2025 budget amendment after split roll call

The Village of Orland Park Board of Trustees approved Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Amendment No. 2 after a divided roll-call vote. Trustee John Lawler moved to increase the capital improvement fund by $246,671 and to increase general fund expenses in an amount read into the record as "$471,000,155 dollars and 9¢." The motion passed after roll call with recorded “no” votes from Trustee Healy, Trustee Katsenas and Trustee Malani and “aye” votes from the remaining trustees and the mayor.

Trustee Lawler made the motion and a trustee seconded. During discussion, a trustee raised a procedural point about items being separated for the consent agenda earlier; the vote on the budget amendment proceeded after brief discussion and a roll call. The board chair called the motion passed after the votes were recorded.

The record does not include a line-by-line budget detail in the motion text read into the record; the figure for the general fund expense increase was read aloud during the meeting but the transcript does not include an explicit breakdown of where that general fund increase will be applied. Trustees who voted “no” did not provide extended on-the-record remarks explaining their negative votes during the roll call sequence as captured in the transcript.

Because the transcript records the general fund amount only as it was read aloud, staff or official meeting documents should be consulted for the precise budget document and line-item allocations.