Kevin Bueso serves as Chief Financial Officer for the Village of Oak Park, Illinois, where he leads the Village’s financial strategy, long-range planning, capital financing, and fiscal stewardship. With nearly two decades of public-sector finance experience, his work focuses on balancing infrastructure investment and service delivery with affordability, debt capacity, and long-term financial sustainability.
In Oak Park, Kevin helps guide multi-year capital planning and financing decisions across a complex municipal environment, including transportation, streetscape, utility, public facility, and other infrastructure needs. His perspective is grounded in the practical challenges local governments face in funding major capital priorities amid rising costs, evolving federal and state funding conditions, competing service demands, and pressure on local revenue sources.
Kevin is committed to transparent, data-informed financial management and to connecting fiscal policy with tangible community outcomes. Born and raised in Honduras, he is bilingual in Spanish and English and brings a broad perspective to public service, with a particular interest in equitable infrastructure investment and sustainable local government finance.
Past Sessions
Monday, September 14, 2026
3:35 pm
As uncertainty over federal funding remains, the status of the highway trust fund and Congress’ willingness to fill the holes in it has moved state and local governments to foot more of the country’s infrastructure bills. What is the industry doing to manage the funding burdens?