New Lenox-based Dale Incorporated had a year sliced off a three-year suspension from the Village of Orland Park.
Dale was given the ban in April for what Orland Park Prosecuting Attorney Donna Norton called “misrepresentation” and submitting “falsified documentation” for an asphalt phasing project. She said it went against the village’s Responsible Bidder’s Ordinance.
“It’s an ordinance which ensures that the village contractors meet well-established standards of responsibility, integrity and compliance with village procurement requirements,” she said. “The ordinance is intended to safeguard public funds from ensuring that only qualify responsible and most importantly ethical contractors are awarded village contracts.”
Dale project manager Sergio Zepeda said that his company has done work for the village in recent years and that some changes to the Responsible Bidder’s Ordinance changed in 2026 and there was also some confusion with a union on this project.
“We had some clerical things that happened in this bid with the paperwork and to this project,” he said. “We had no ill will to try to change the documents. It was a clerical error.”
In an appeal letter to the village, Dale President Odilon Maldonado said that obtaining union paperwork caused the problems.
“Dale does not want to have this mark against us with the Village of Orland Park or not to be able to do work in the future,” she wrote. “Especially after completing your concrete program last year as your prime contractor.”
A review of the suspension of the village using Dale came before the board in a special meeting on July 20.
The board had the option of decreasing or increasing the length of the suspension or lifting it.
After going into executive session to hash it out, board members voted to reduce it to two years.
“There was no financial damage (to the village) that I could see,” Trustee William Healy said.