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Dist. U-46 Board approves series of expenditures
By Seth Hancock
The Board of Education in School District U-46 voted unanimously to approve $6 million in expenditure items at its June 20 meeting.
Items presented largely came from the education fund, the largest education items being $499,990 with Warehouse Direct, Garvey’s and Frank Cooney for library furniture at five schools and $483,529 for a three-year contract renewal with Blackboard.
Several testing items were approved including $392,065 with the College Board for AP exams, $228,000 with Northwest Evaluation Association for MAP tests, $79,469 with the College Board for PSAT tests, $52,092 with Riverside Insight for CogAT tests and $40,000 with LTI for Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages exams.
The district will spend $369,985 with CDW-G for Google Workspace Education Plus, $216,176 with DeMoulin for South Elgin High School marching band uniforms, $141,286 with JX Truck Center for a distribution center truck replacement, $138,919 with Estrellita and Scholastic for reading intervention resources, $130,304 with CDW-G for Microsoft licenses and $51,930 with Microsystems, Inc. to convert former employee files to a digital format.
Also, from the education fund is $75,000 to provide a stipend for up to 10 teacher candidates from Tennessee State University, a historically Black college.
Items to be paid for by the nation’s taxpayers through grant funds is $1.7 million with 13 vendors for speech and language therapists, $336,760 with two vendors for school psychology services, $226,642 with Johnson Controls for middle school camera installation, $203,000 with Geneva Hearing Services for audiology services, $176,354 with Northwest Illinois Association for hearing and vision supervision and services, $153,747 for News2You online resources and $141,617 with Data Recognition Corporation for the LAS Links assessment for dual language.
One operations and maintenance fund item approved was $160,921 to Brightly Software for work order software.
Several resolutions were unanimously approved including a hazardous transportation area designations stating “there have been no changes in conditions” from last year, to transfer $300,000 of interest earnings from the working cash fund to the operations and maintenance fund, allowing participation in federal and state programs and to allow the treasurer to make bond and interest payments.
A modification to a 2001 intergovernmental agreement with the Streamwood Park District as well as $19.1 million in itemized bills were also unanimously approved.