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Expense proposals primed for District U-46 vote

By Seth Hancock
  The Board of Education in School District U-46 is set to vote on a pair of curriculum proposals, $8.6 million in expenditure proposals and two resolutions at its upcoming meeting on Monday, Feb. 5.
  The items were presented at the Jan. 22 board meeting.
  The curriculum items include a new high school physical education (PE) course, aquatics. It would include aquatic skills/games, aquatic fitness and aquatic safety.
  “This is a course that will introduce students to the knowledge and skills they need to be able to safely utilize an aquatics setting for fitness, recreation, sports, or career,” the proposal states. “This course will be available to all students in grades 9-12 and will support skills development, stamina, and increased access to Lifeguard Certification and Leadership Course.”
  The estimated total cost is $75,313 between instructional equipment ($55,463), professional development/training ($14,500) and instructional resources ($5,350).
  The other curriculum item is an update to the middle school PE curriculum, which was last updates in 2020.
  The proposal states, regarding the rationale, that “there have been changes to the district curriculum templates, fitness equipment, and teacher resources needed for middle school PE.” The total cost estimate is $8,633 between resource ($4,500) and professional development/training ($4,133).
  The expenditure items are mostly operations and maintenance/health and life safety fund items including renovations for Streamwood High School’s pathway program ($4.2 million/Northwest Contractors, Inc.), replacement of flooring, house lighting, sound system and seating at Larkin High School’s auditorium ($1.4 million/Omni Commercial Group), fire alarm replacement at three elementary schools ($1 million/iWire Technologies), fire alarm replacement at 500 Shales Parkway ($340,790/Austin Electric), intercom and clock replacement at Ronald D. O'Neal Elementary School ($331,720/American Electric Construction), replacement of five plant operations vehicles ($255,045/Sutton Ford) and water heater and softener replacement and installation at South Elgin High School ($229,250/Hartwig Mechanical).
  From the education fund is a bid costing $199,756 with Quality Power Solutions for uninterruptible power supply, a contract renewal costing $179,211 for the timeclock and personal time off Workforce software, a $78,809 contract renewal for the procurement process Bonfire software and a contract to join the Northern Illinois Independent Purchasing Coopeative costing $1,600 for competitive bidding for food and supplies.
  Two contract renewals will be paid by the nation’s taxpayers through grants including $213,300 for dual language teachers to earn master’s degrees from Roosevelt University and $81,497 for BlueStreak Math, a math intervention program at Title I schools.
  The resolutions to be voted on are one to allow disposal of two dump trucks and another to affirm support for the district’s facility study.