Tinley Park to study staffing levels of village departments
Tinley Park will study staffing levels and productivity of several village departments and compare their work with counterparts in similar size communities.
The Village Board on Tuesday approved hiring Matrix Consulting Group, at a cost of $42,700, to evaluate departments including the clerk's office, village manager, human resources and finance.
The study is expected to take 10 weeks to complete, with the findings likely to be presented at a Village Board or committee meeting.
The California-based firm will look at areas such as productivity, use of technology, if there are overlapping or duplicated functions and whether some tasks now being performed can be eliminated, according to a village memo. The study wouldn't look at departments such as police or public works.
Matrix also will survey employee attitudes toward current staffing, services, organization and management issues, according to that document.
Part of the work also will involve comparing findings, such as staffing levels, to six comparable “public entities,” with Matrix ultimately making recommendations to the village based on its findings.
Matrix is doing separate work from another study being performed by a Maryland firm, Paypoint HR, which is assessing employee salaries and benefits in certain village departments. The Village Board earlier this month approved hiring the firm, which is being paid $37,500 for the work.
In other business Tuesday, trustees approved a special use permit for Holladay Properties, which plans to build a 120-room WoodSpring Suites extended stay hotel at 18644 West Creek Drive, northwest of the interchange of Harlem Avenue and Interstate 80.
Indiana-based Holladay holds exclusive rights to develop WoodSpring hotels in the Chicago area, having completed two of 15 planned locations. It has built two of the hotels, in Darien and Romeoville. Construction of the Tinley Park hotel is expected to get underway next spring.
The board also adopted a resolution recommending to the Cook County Board of Commissioners a property tax break for commercial space at 17511-17515 Duvan Drive. The resolution supports lowering the assessment level from 25 percent, the typical rate for commercial property, to 10 percent for a 10-year period.
The property owner, Conigan Partners, plans an investment of $250,000 in repairs and improvements at the property, according to the village.
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