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Multiple resolutions given support from U-46 board

By Seth Hancock
  The Board of Education in School District U-46 unanimously approved, via 7-0 votes, of nine resolutions at its meeting on Monday, June 26.
  Included were two resolutions pertaining to upcoming capital projects based on the voter approved bond referendum, a transfer of $45 million from the operations and maintenance fund to the capital project fund as well as a resolution expressing intent regarding certain capital expenditures to be reimbursed from proceeds of the bonds which allows the district to spend funds now and “reimburse itself once it receives the bond funds,” said Ann Williams, deputy superintendent of operations.  
  A resolution allowing the disposal of surplus personal property was approved which includes eight vehicles, a front end loader and six buses.
  The remaining resolutions were basically annual resolutions including one designating hazardous transportation areas with the current 48 locations remaining the same.
  The hazardous area designation allows for the district to seek “reimbursement from the state for transportation services provided” to students in those areas, the resolution states. If a student lives less than 1.5 miles from their school, they are not provided busing unless they live in a hazardous area.
  Another approved resolution is related as it was a resubmittal for a location at Elgin’s Channing Elementary School to be deemed a hazardous area. The resubmittal was necessary due to an error in the original resolution.
  Resolutions allowing the school treasurer to make bond and interest payments in the upcoming fiscal year, allowing participation in federal and state grant programs, allowing the transfer of interest earnings from the working cash fund to the operations and maintenance fund and declaring the need to continue use of temporary classrooms were also approved.