Glenview says goodbye to some village employees
Glenview has announced several changes in village management positions.
Amy Ahner, director of administrative services since 2009, is leaving effective June 1 after 25 years with the village. During her tenure, she helped create a hybrid public/private model for finance and accounting, helped develop Glenview's Geographic Information Mapping System (GIS) through an area consortium, managed construction of Gallery Park and Army Corps wetlands permitting for Air Station Prairie, and managed the outsourced IT contract and expanded the model to include adjacent jurisdictions to share IT services.
Ahner came to Glenview in 1996 after a private sector career as senior GIS research analyst.
Her service has included:
• 1996-99 GIS/CADD specialist
• 1999-2005 assistant director of economic redevelopment
• 2005-07 assistant director of capital projects and planning
• 2007-09 director of support services
• 2009-2021 director of administrative services
Maggie Bosley will take over as deputy village manager, effective June 1. Bosley, who has been with the village since 2009 through a contract with Lauterbach & Amen LLP, has served as finance director since 2012. She has more than 30 years municipal government experience. Her work for Glenview has kept the village in solid financial position, which includes maintaining Moody's highest credit rating of AAA.
She has been responsible for the compilation of the annual village budget and audit, both of which have annually received the Government Finance Officers Association Award. Over the past year, Maggie has been working with the village manager and trustees to anticipate and mitigate the financial impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
Bosley earned a B.A. in accounting from Bradley University. She previously worked as finance director in Barrington.
Bosley is expected to succeed Don Owen, who is planning to retire in late summer after 26 years with the village. Hired as Director of Economic Development in 1995, Owen began directing the conversion of the 1,121-acre Naval Air Station Glenview into The Glen. That work continued as he was promoted to director of capital projects in 2005 and deputy village manager in 2007.
Today, The Glen is nationally recognized as a model of success for base closures. It includes about 2,200 residential units, 1 million square feet of retail, 1 million square feet of office space, and more than 400 acres of open space.
As deputy village manager, Owen worked with state and federal lawmakers on behalf of the village's to oppose a plan for a two-mile-long freight train holding track through west Glenview. In May 2019, after several years of negotiations, the holding track was removed from the larger proposed Amtrak Hiawatha expansion project.
Owen attended the U.S. Naval Academy and earned a degree in management and technology. He was commissioned an Ensign in 1978, attended flight school and was designated a Naval Flight Officer. During his Navy career, he was promoted to the rank of commander and was awarded 17 personal and unit decorations. Owen amassed more than 1,800 flight hours and 500 aircraft carrier arrested landings. During his tenure in Glenview, he developed and tracked legislative initiatives to pursue state and federal grants; co-chaired a villagewide process evaluation and efficiency team; and was village liaison to the Glenview Public Library while it developed and constructed a new $28.3 million library building.