Administration Department

Village Administrator: Valerie Salmons
Assistant Village Administrator & ADA Coordinator: Paula Schumacher

The Village operates with a Board of Trustees and a Village Administrator. Policymaking and legislative authorities are vested in the Board of Trustees. The Village Administrator is responsible for carrying out the Board’s policies and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Village.

The Administration Department provides general administrative services for the Village as a whole. The staff works directly with the Village Board and directs all Village departments. Additional duties include the recycling program, the health inspection program, the monitoring of municipal franchise agreements and managing the Bartlett Farmers Market.

The Administration Department also includes the History Museum curator who designs new exhibits, records museum inventory, and presents educational programs to increase awareness of local history. The Bartlett History Museum is housed on the first floor of the Village Hall.

A Community Relations Coordinator is responsible for, among other things, production of the Bartletter (the bi-monthly newsletter mailed to every Village household), maintenance of the Village cable station, and writing various news releases. A full time Health Inspector monitors business and residential sanitation including weed control.

Administration News & Highlights

Memorial Day Walk
For more than 25 years, Bartlett has been honoring its deceased veterans with a Memorial Day Walk and Remembrance. Please join us on Memorial Day, May 28, for this annual hometown commemoration.

The morning will begin at 10 a.m. at Bartlett Park, Oak and North Avenues, with an American Legion flag retirement ceremony. At 10:30 a.m. veterans, scouts, civic groups and bagpipers will begin lining up for the walk to Bartlett Cemetery, which steps off at 11 a.m. Everyone is invited to join the walk. At the cemetery, the Remembrance continues with a brief program honoring Bartlett’s local heroes.

Groups interested in participating in the walk can call Paula Schumacher, 630-837-0800.

 

Meetings via Audio
The audio recordings of all Village Board and Committee of the Whole meetings are now available on the Village website.

The audio recording of Board meetings is normally posted within a week of the meeting date on the websites “meetings, agendas and minutes” page. The text version of the meeting minutes is normally posted several weeks following the meeting date on the same page.

 

You Should Know

Bartletter
The Village publishes a bi-monthly newsletter. The newsletter is mailed to all Bartlett residents approximately the first week of even months.

Comcast Channel 17 & AT&T Channel 99
Residents can tune into Comcast cable channel 17 or AT&T channel 99 to watch a community bulletin board of area news, events and activities. Civic groups and schools are welcome to submit their special events for broadcast on the bulletin board.

Clean-Up Week
The Administration Department sponsors community Clean-Up Week events each June. Past events have included a used book exchange, prom dress collection, cell phone & gym shoe recycling collection and document shredding event.

Farmers Market
The Bartlett Farmers Market is operated by the Village of Bartlett from June to September. The market is held on Friday afternoons from 2 to 6 p.m. in the Bartlett Town Center, at the corner of Main Street and Railroad Avenue. Parking for the market is available in the Village Hall parking lot as well as behind the Town Center commercial building.

Pride in Ownership
The Village of Bartlett’s Pride in Ownership Program recognizes outstanding property maintenance of single family homes, multifamily homes, commercial properties, beautiful backyards and exceptional exterior home remodeling. Nominations are accepted in June and July.