Boysen to Retire from Public Works Post

Buffalo Grove will lose its longtime public works director next month, when Greg Boysen will step down to pursue a new position.

Boysen, who has served Buffalo Grove for 35 years, has accepted a position as the director of public works in Beloit, Wis., village officials announced last week. April 2 will be his last day in Buffalo Grove.

“It has been a great honor and privilege to serve this great community,” Boysen said in a press release from the village.

Boysen began his career in municipal service while in college working for the City of Urbana Public Works Department as a part-time/summer seasonal Engineering Technician, and later bcame a full-time engineer. Boysen served a civil engineer in Champaign before he was hired as Buffalo Grove's village engineer in 1978.

“He had a significant effect on the infrastructure for the Village of Buffalo Grove,” Village Manager Dane Bragg said in the release. “His professional and personal efforts and his service to the community are outstanding.” 

During Boysen's tenure in Buffalo Grove, the population more than doubled, which necessitated many street, drinking water, stormwater management, sewerage, sidewalk, bikeway and municipal building improvements.

Boysen said he was proud to have overseen those improvements. Further, he is particularly proud to have led his department to significant national recognition in 2004 as the 16th national American Public Works Association accredited public works agency in the USA and Canada and then achieving re-accreditation in 2008 and 2012.

“Greg has been instrumental in helping grow Buffalo Grove into the Village it is today," Village President Jeffrey Braiman said in the village's statement. "He has managed his department in a highly professional and courteous manner. He will be missed, and we wish him the very best.”

Boysen has served as the past president of the Suburban Branch and the Lake County Branch of the Chicago Metropolitan Chapter of the American Public Works Association and past Chairman of the Northwest Municipal Conference Public Works Directors Committee. Boysen currently serves as a Secretary of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District’s Lower Des Plaines River Watershed Planning Council and as a member of the Southeast Lake County Sewer Advisory Committee, the Upper Des Plaines River Ecosystem Partnership and several other organizations.

The village will recruit candidates nationally to replace Boysen, Bragg said.

A reception will be held in Boysen’s honor, Bragg said last week, but it has not yet been scheduled.