Tinley Park Mayor Michael Glotz faces a re-election problem from a former union chief affiliated with the Park District venture on the former state psychological well being heart.
Riding with Glotz on the One Tinley Park ticket are village clerk Nancy O’Connor and trustees William Brady, Dennis Mahoney and Colleen Sullivan.
Glotz, elected in April 2021, is a member of Operating Engineers Local 150.
Brady was first elected in 2017 and Mahoney and Sullivan in April 2021. O’Connor was named village clerk in January 2022 and elected in April 2023.
Michael Maloney leads the Tinley Together ticket, working with clerk candidate Cynthia “Cindy” O’Boyle and trustee candidates Melissa Sanfilippo, Eric Schmidt and Matthew Walsh.
Maloney is the previous president of Pipefitters Local 597 and was appointed final yr by the Tinley Park-Park-District to supervise the cleanup of the 280-acre former Tinley Park Mental Health Center, which the Park District plans to redevelop for leisure makes use of .
According to the Park District, Maloney’s background in development contains managing staff on a wide range of initiatives involving extremely radioactive parts at nuclear energy crops in northern Illinois.
The Park District has begun work on the previous state property, northwest of Harlem Avenue and 183rd Street, to scrub the buildings of environmental issues similar to asbestos.
The Park District plans an preliminary section on 90 acres that features 5 baseball fields, six multipurpose sports activities fields, a domed soccer discipline, a stadium with a working observe, an accessible playground and a pond.
The state is offering the district with $15 million for environmental cleanup and demolition of buildings on the property.
Sanfilippo was appointed to an advisory committee assembled by the Park District to get resident enter on the cleanup.
The state property has been on the heart of a tug of struggle between the Park District and the village, which had hoped for industrial improvement, together with retail and leisure makes use of, that would supply gross sales tax income.
The property had been into consideration for a mixture race observe and on line casino.
The Tinley Together group was shaped Nov. 7, in line with a doc filed with the state elections board.
At the top of the July-September quarter, One Tinley Park confirmed money readily available of $231,000, in line with an announcement from the elections board.
The celebration confirmed income of $6,000 throughout the interval and bills of $12,300. One Tinley Park reported income within the April-June quarter of just below $47,000.
mnolan@southtownstar.com
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