The Examiner U-46 News FeedVaried items approved via U-46 consent agenda By Seth Hancock
The Board of Education in School District U-46 unanimously approved of a personnel report and workers’ compensation cases as well as 12 expenditure items totaling $8.3 million under its consent agenda at its meeting on Monday, Jan. 27.
The vote was 6-0, board member Veronica Noland was absent.
The personnel report included one new position, Dawn Curran hired as the coordinator for the district’s education foundation.
In September, a report to the board by the foundation included a request to hire a full-time executive director and U-46 CEO Tony Sanders said at the time the “administration intends to move forward” with the hire without a board vote. U-46 taxpayers will pay the salary at 100 percent to start with the foundation expected to pay 100 percent by 2025-2026.
The foundation has raised $760,000 since 2006 according to the September presentation with the funds allocated to primarily scholarships for students and teacher grants. A survey of district parents showed that 76 percent were unaware of the foundation or how it spends funds.
The expenditure items included two items totaling $1.5 million, both to be paid through the operations and maintenance fund, including one with Hargrave Builder’s, Inc. to “modernize the Beacon Academy of Media and Digital Arts at South Elgin High School,” the proposal states, and the other with Schroeder Asphalt Services, Inc. for a parking lot and drives project at South Elgin’s Kenyon Woods Middle School.
Costing $872,000 (operations and maintenance fund) with Mechanical Concepts of Illinois, Inc., the board approved of a replacement of a Dectron unit at Bartlett High School which controls HVAC operations for dehumidification in the swimming pool area.
The board approved of the third phase of a water piping replacement project at Elgin High School with a price tag of $807,588 (operations and maintenance fund) with Northwest Contractors, Inc.
A parking lot project at Elgin’s Creekside Elementary School was approved costing $784,308 (operations and maintenance fund) with Schroeder Asphalt Services, Inc.
Two project proposals for Elgin’s Larsen Middle School were approved, both from the operations and maintenance fund, including $736,900 with Trico Mechanical, Inc. to replace the gymnasium’s HVAC system and $408,342 with A Lamp Concrete Contractors, Inc. for a site improvement project to improve the alley area and select staircases.
Also from the operations and maintenance fund, the district will spend $707,961 with Correct Electric, Inc. for fire alarm systems replacements at Bartlett, Streamwood’s Hanover Countryside and Bartlett’s Sycamore Trails elementary schools, $505,430 with Advantage Paving Solutions, Inc. for a parking lot and vault project at Elgin’s Abbott Middle School and $264,423 with Replacement Window Systems, Inc. for a window replacement project at Elgin’s Channing Elementary School.
Two items from the education fund were approved including $193,419 with Warehouse Direct to purchase replacement lunchroom tables (462 bench-style, 594 stool-style) and $72,100 with School HealthCorporation for a two-year contract renewal to keep the district’s Automatic External Defibrillators (AED) compliant.
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