Celebrate Boysen's Retirement at BG's Open House

Buffalo Grove residents are invited to honor retiring Public Works Director Greg Boysen at a reception from 6:30-7:30 p.m. April 1 at Village Hall.

Boysen is leaving Buffalo Grove after 35 years of service to assume the role of public works director in Beloit, Wis.

During his tenure in Buffalo Grove, the village's population more than doubled, necessitating many street, drinking water, stormwater management, sewerage, sidewalk, bikeway and municipal building improvements. Boysen led the Public Works department to national recognition in 2004 as the 16th American Public Works Association accredited public works agency in the USA and Canada, a distinction that has been repeated in 2008 and again in 2012. 

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. He 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 and the Upper Des Plaines River Ecosystem Partnership. 

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

— Information provided by the Village of Buffalo Grove