Flossmoor board meetings often lasted two or more hours during much of 2024, and at the last meeting of the year on Dec. 16, trustees agreed to an earlier start time to help compensate, although one resident questioned whether the new time would be conducive to attendance at both village[Read More…]
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Flossmoor residents brave cold to celebrate the start of holiday season
The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District introduced a new element to the village’s Celebrate the Season event on Nov. 30: a bonfire. For Flossmoor Events Manager Stephanie Wright and the residents who attended, the timing was perfect. The temperature was in the mid-20s as the activities began during the afternoon. By the[Read More…]
Flossmoor, District 161 hire Stephanie Wright as community engagement manager
The Village of Flossmoor and Flossmoor School District 161 have hired Stephanie Wright for the newly created community engagement manager position. She started the new job on June 1. Wright previously served as the village’s program and events coordinator. She will be responsible for coordinating village and district sponsored events,[Read More…]
Flossmoor reviews planned capital equipment expenses ahead of FY24 budget approval
The latest stop on Flossmoor’s road to fiscal year 2024 budget approval: capital equipment. Village Manager Bridget Wachtel presented Monday, March 20, to the village board about Flossmoor’s planned capital equipment expenditures. The village’s fiscal year runs from May 1, 2023, to April 30, 2024. The village’s capital equipment fund[Read More…]
Flossmoor to install bullet-resistant security glass at front desk of village hall
Flossmoor’s village hall staff will soon get an added layer of protection through a measure originally pitched at least two decades ago. The village board voted unanimously the evening of Monday, March 20, to pay Premier Glass Services $36,200 to install bullet-resistant security glass at the front desk of village[Read More…]
‘Fortunate’ — Flossmoor takes stock of financial position, concerns in early FY24 budget look
Village Manager Bridget Wachtel’s message to the Flossmoor Village Board during its first public look at the fiscal year 2024 budget has been a common refrain for the municipality as of late: good news for the short-term, mixed with cautions about future sustainability. Wachtel on Monday, March 6, presented the[Read More…]
Flossmoor’s mid-fiscal year review highlights short-term improvements, long-term concerns
Flossmoor’s finances are trending better than budgeted for the current fiscal year, but the village’s short-term savings come with some concerns about long-term sustainability. So says a fiscal year 2023 mid-year financial review delivered by Village Manager Bridget Wachtel on Monday, Feb. 20, to the Flossmoor Village Board. The village’s[Read More…]
Village vehicles light up Flossmoor in annual parade
The third annual Flossmoor Holiday Lights Parade got some help with seasonal ambience Thursday, Dec. 15, as some vigorous snow flurries arrived just before the parade was about to start. “It’s like a Flossmoor snow globe,” Mayor Michelle Nelson noted. The parade was launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic,[Read More…]
Volunteers mark October as Friends of the Flossmoor Library month
The Friends of Flossmoor Library is marking October as Friends of the Library month, in addition to celebrating the 16th annual observance of National Friends of Libraries Week Oct. 16 to 22. National Friends of Libraries Week is coordinated by United for Libraries, a division of the American Library Association[Read More…]
Flossmoor pledges community forum amid continuing policing discussion at board meetings
For the fourth consecutive Flossmoor Village Board meeting since the death of Madeline Miller, discussion continued to be dominated by public calls for change in police practices. Mayor Michelle Nelson opened the meeting Tuesday, Sept. 6, by noting that the village is working on hosting a community forum on the[Read More…]
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