Police patrol officers get new contract
Tinley Park trustees approve pay increases in deal through 2024
Tinley Park trustees have approved a new contract covering the village’s police patrol officers, months after the previous contract had lapsed.
The contract, approved Tuesday by the Village Board with Chapter 192 of the Metropolitan Alliance of Police, extends through the village’s fiscal year 2024.
The previous contract expired April 30, with officers continuing to work under the terms of the prior agreement.
The new agreement gives officers a 2% pay increase retroactive to May 1, the start of the 2021 fiscal year. That would be followed by increases of 2% in fiscal 2022, 2.25% in fiscal 2023 and 2.55% in fiscal 2024.
Officers will also have to contribute more toward insurance premiums, according to the agreement.
The contribution had been 10% in fiscal year 2020, the last year of the prior contract, with the rate increasing to 11% in this fiscal year and 12% in fiscal years 2022 and 2023. The contract does not specify what the contribution will be for the final year of the agreement.
Trustees also moved forward a plan by Crana Homes Inc. to build 50 duplexes at the southwest corner of 191st Street and 80th Avenue in the Brookside Glen subdivision. The 31-acre property would also include a small amount of commercial space. A final vote is still required by the Village Board.
Crana and Malone & Moloney, now Malone Builders, were responsible for developing the 830acre Brookside Glen subdivision, which boasts hundreds of town houses and detached single-family homes.
The property the duplexes would be builton had, when it was annexed to Tinley Park in 1990, had been envisioned as being developed with large retail uses and potentially a hotel.