Leaving the village board

CHRIS FOX PHOTO

Albert Bulthuis ended 14 years of service on the Villa Park Village Board at the May 10 board meeting. He was elected as a village trustee in 2007. He was re-elected as a trustee in 2011 and 2015. In 2017, he won a four-year term as village president. He did not run for re-election this year. The photo from the May 10 meeting shows Bulthuis (second from left) shortly before he departed from the board. Pictured left to right are: village attorney Kathleen Field Orr, Bulthuis, Villa Park Village Manager Rich Keehner, Jr. and Villa Park Village Clerk Hosanna Korynecky. Nick Cuzzone, Villa Park’s new village president, presented Bulthuis with a plaque after Bulthuis departed from the dais. Cuzzone also presented plaques to outgoing trustees Cheryl Tucker and Robert Wagner. Cuzzone defeated Wagner in the April 6 election to succeed Bulthuis as village president.