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Homewood board approves claims list and consent agenda, votes to enter closed session
Summary
The board approved a claims list totalling $330,946.19 (including an $83,000 payment to Thorn Creek Sanitary District), adopted the consent agenda containing contracts and permits, and voted to enter closed session to discuss purchase or lease of real property.
At the Jan. 27 meeting the Village of Homewood board approved several routine and procurement actions.
Claims list: The board approved a claims list totaling $330,946.19. Trustees recorded no substantive questions and the roll call vote carried. The claims list included a payment to Thorn Creek Sanitary District of approximately $83,000 (described in the packet as about 25% of the total claims list).
Consent agenda: The consent agenda passed on a roll call vote and included: Ordinance M2394 (special use permit for a motor vehicle rental facility at 1149 175th Street); authorization for the village president to enter an amended traffic signal maintenance service agreement with Me, Inc. of Willowbrook for an amount not to exceed $21,471.48 for 2026; award to Bear Construction Company of Rolling Meadows for rehabilitation of the Homewood Railroad Platform not to exceed $64,456.50; and a $17,950 budget amendment for the FY2025‑26 sanitary sewer slip‑lining project plus a change order to Institute Form Technologies USA to add labor for 4,340 additional linear feet of slip lining and reestablishment of 68 service connections.
Closed session: Trustee Roman moved and Trustee Harris Jones seconded a motion to enter closed session to discuss the purchase or lease of real property; the motion passed on roll call and the board recessed for a short break before taking up closed session matters.
Votes at a glance (as recorded) - Approval of Jan. 9 minutes: Moved by Trustee Roman, seconded by Trustee Harris Jones; roll call: all present voted yes. - Approval of claims list ($330,946.19): roll call: all present voted yes. Reported notable vendor payment to Thorn Creek Sanitary District of roughly $83,000. - Approval of consent agenda (includes Ordinance M2394, traffic signal maintenance contract, railroad platform award, sewer project budget amendment): Moved by Trustee Mason, seconded by Trustee Simson; roll call: all present voted yes. - Motion to enter closed session on purchase/lease of real property: Moved by Trustee Roman, seconded by Trustee Harris Jones; roll call: all present voted yes.
The board took no other final policy actions at the meeting.
