2017_OP_Fall_Winter Newsletter

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

GETTING TOKNOW

La Margo began his government career serving as a budget analyst for the Cook County Bureau of Finance Department of Budget and Management Services. He then served as deputy director of the Cook County Clerk’s Department of Tax and Real Estate before leaving in 1999 to join the Secretary of State. La Margo completed the Leading, Educating and Development Program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He holds a Master of Arts Degree in organizational leadership and public policy from Lewis University and a Bachelor’s of Business Administration with a concentration in economics from the School of Business at Loyola University. He is a graduate of Marist High School in Chicago. He is a member of the International City/County Managers Association; the Illinois City/County Managers’ Association; the Illinois Association of Municipal Management Assistants and the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association. La Margo’s civic involvement includes serving on the Orland School District 135 School Board, including serving as the board president. He is a founding member of the South Suburban Anti-Bullying Coalition and served with the Illinois Secretary of State Audit Advisory Group. La Margo has lived in Orland Park for almost 20 years. He and his wife, Melissa, have four children.

NEWLY APPOINTED VILLAGE MANAGER – JOE LA MARGO

Joe La Margo joined the Village of Orland Park staff more than 12 years ago when he was appointed deputy village clerk by the late Village Clerk David Maher. During his tenure as deputy clerk, La Margo spearheaded the village’s application process for the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ City Livability Award resulting in Orland Park winning the first of four national awards. As deputy clerk, La Margo created the online Citizens’ Information Center resulting in Orland Park being the first government agency in Illinois to earn a 100 percent transparency rating from the Illinois Policy Institute. It was during his time as deputy clerk that La Margo facilitated and oversaw Orland Park’s first village wide citizens’ and business surveys to measure and evaluate the community’s quality of life and village services. In 2012, La Margo was named public information officer adding to his deputy clerk responsibilities. La Margo was the village’s primary spokesperson and oversaw the Public Information Department. Highlights of his tenure include overseeing a number of telephone town hall meetings, the village’s electrical aggregation referendum and increasing overall civic engagement. It was under La Margo’s leadership that the village’s presence on social media was

created and now reaches thousands of people each day with thousands of followers on all of the village’s outlets. La Margo was named assistant village manager in 2015 being the direct supervisor for eight village department heads. As assistant village manager, La Margo was the primary contact for all intergovernmental initiatives including lobbyist relationships to secure funding for major transportation projects. He was part of the village’s administrative staff during the negotiations for the University of Chicago Medical Center, Mariano’s, the village’s parking complex and has been directly involved with a number of local projects. La Margo served as assistant village manager during Orland Park Police Chief Tim McCarthy’s time as interim village manager from July, 2016 until April, 2017 when La Margo was named interim village manager. Prior to coming to Orland Park, La Margo served as chief deputy director for the Illinois Secretary of State Department of Accounting Review. He served as a deputy internal auditor for the Secretary of State’s Department of Internal Audit and joined the state staff as a budget liaison to the chief of staff.

JOE LA MARGO VILLAGE MANAGER JLAMARGO@ORLANDPARK.ORG 708-403-6134

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