Legal Report, Old Kmart Property Top Hefty Village Board Agenda

It’s another monster agenda for , which returns to its bimonthly meeting schedule starting at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Tuesday) at Village Hall.

Oak Lawn trustees will be voting on an A-L consent agenda, plus approving a With election season fast approaching there is plenty to be yanked off the agenda and discussed under the

Read the hefty Oak Lawn Village Board Agenda for 9-11-2012.

Here’s what we’ll be watching:

111th Street/Cicero Ave. – Village board members will be voting on a resolution authorizing the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Village of Oak Lawn and HP Stony Creek LLC regarding the development of the old Kmart property owned by the village. Illinois Secretary of State records list James and Paul Sheridan, Todd Berlinghof and Mark Hamilton of 300 Park Blvd. in Itasca as managing partners. Hamilton Partners is the name of the developer that is eyeing the property to purchase and turn into a new retail development. The company’s portfolio features a wide range of industrial, commercial, retail and land developments, including 30 retail developments around the Chicago region and Salt Lake City, UT.

Godfrey and Kahn Report – The Village Manager is requesting a motion of direction from Oak Lawn trustees The law firm has declined to defend the decision to keep the report from being publicly released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. The village board on will decide whether to make the report public or fight its release at taxpayers’ expense.

What’s not on the agenda – and for negotiating a rate with an alternative electricity supplier.

The Oak Lawn Village Board meets at 7:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month at Village Hall, 9466 S. Raymond Ave. The meetings are free and open to the public.