The Examiner U-46 News FeedU-46 Board approves co-op team, expenses By Seth Hancock
Pending approval from the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), South Elgin and Geneva high schools will form a co-op swimming team after the School District U-46 Board of Education unanimously approved of an intergovernmental agreement on Monday, Aug. 1.
The agreement is with Geneva CUSD 304 and will cover both boys and girls swimming/diving teams for two seasons, 2016-17 and 2017-18, which is renewable. South Elgin will host the team and will use its facilities as well as its team moniker Storm.
In response to a question from board member Jeanette Ward, assistant superintendent Terri Lozier said Geneva has only a handful of swimmers/divers, three or four, which is why that school needed to form the co-op.
“So it’s not enough to have their own team, and they’re also going to use South Elgin’s facilities which are very, very nice,” Lozier said.
Ward asked: “So there seems to be no down side to this, and in fact we get to share coaches’ salaries with another district. So both districts’ benefit, correct?”
Lozier said that was correct and added that Geneva’s athletes will pay the U-46 athletic fee, and Geneva will be responsible for the transportation of its athletes to South Elgin.
“What will happen is they’ll actually use the coaches from South Elgin High School, and they will pay our athletic fees,” said Lozier who added: “We will pay for our coach, and if Geneva is also going to send a coach Geneva will pay for their coach to assist ours. Our coach will be the head coach.”
Also unanimously approved by the board that evening were $7.9 million in itemized bills, nine expenditure items and two resolutions.
The board approved the resolution setting the date for a public hearing on the Fiscal Year 2017 budget to be held on Sept. 12 after the budget is presented at its upcoming meeting on Monday, Aug. 15. A resolution declaring the need for continued usage of mobile classrooms was also approved, with 20 total mobiles set to be in place for the start of the school year but an expectation that some will be removed early in the year as additions are built.
As for expenditure items, the board approved a proposal for a tardy accountability system with HERO ($27,519) as well as one-year contracts with the College Board ($91,854), News-2-You ($47,933) and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($75,850), all to be paid for out of the education fund. Coming out of the special education fund is a one-year contract with esped.com ($58,366).
To be paid for by the nation’s taxpayers through IDEA grant money were four contracts totaling $3.2 million. Those contracts encompass 23 total vendors.
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