Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau faces a problem to his bid for a 3rd time period within the April 1 election from a former village trustee who can also be fielding a slate of candidates for the village board.
Pekau’s People Over Politics ticket has filed petitions with the Orland Park village clerk’s workplace and consists of not too long ago appointed clerk Brian Gaspardo, in addition to incumbent trustees Sean Kampas and Brian Riordan, in response to the clerk’s workplace.
Carol McGury additionally seeks one of many three trustee spots on the ticket.
Jim Dodge, a trustee for a number of years, heads the ticket workplace at Orland Park For All, in response to the chancellor’s workplace.
Dodge, a former sergeant within the Illinois Army National Guard, turned village clerk in 1989, then was named trustee in 1996.
Dodge was the Republican nominee for state treasurer in 2018. He didn’t run for re-election as trustee within the April 2021 election. Pekau was the Republican nominee within the sixth congressional district in 2022.
The Orland Park For All ticket additionally consists of clerk Mary Ryan Norwell, a former assistant Cook County state’s lawyer. Seeking trustee positions are John Lawler, Dina M. Lawrence and Joanna M. Liotine Leafblad, who’s president of the Orland Park Library Board. According to Orland Park For All, he’s additionally an assistant Cook County state’s lawyer.
The impartial Democrat operating for trustee is Mohammed Jaber, in response to the clerk’s workplace.
Jaber is a member of the Orland High School District 230 board and has raised issues about tax increment financing districts Orland Park is contemplating.
Jaber stated he’s a particular training trainer and former part-time adjunct teacher at Moraine Valley Community College.
Kampas, Riordan and Joni Radaszewski, who just isn’t operating for re-election, have been elected in April 2021.
Prior to the 2017 mayoral election, during which Pekau defeated then-incumbent Mayor Dan McLaughlin who was looking for a seventh time period, trustees accepted altering the mayor’s job from part-time to full-time, with the added obligation of being Orland Park’s lead individual on financial growth and jobs. to deliver companies to the village.
Increased wages and corresponding will increase in pensions turned marketing campaign themes, with Pekau saying forward of the election that as a result of Orland Park has a village trustee, it did not want a full-time mayor. The transfer to a full-time place went into impact after the 2017 election.
In March 2019, earlier than Pekau gained a majority of votes on the village board, trustees modified the place to part-time with a corresponding pay minimize, efficient after the April election.
In the April 2019 election, operating on the People Over Politics ticket, William Healy, Cynthia Nelson Katsenes, and Michael Milani have been elected as trustees after which re-elected in 2023.
McLaughlin tried to regain the mayor’s seat within the spring 2021 election, dropping to Pekau by simply over 500 votes.
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