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Votes at a glance: board approves campus projects, personnel items, bills and university agreement
Summary
Trustees approved multiple motions including roofing work, a baseball backstop, a middle‑school blacktop, personnel items, payment of bills and the University of Illinois agreement; vote tallies recorded at the meeting are included.
The Harlem Unit District 122 Board of Education approved a set of routine and capital items at the meeting. Key approvals included a reroofing masonry flashing alternate, a baseball backstop and access path, a middle‑school blacktop for additional basketball courts, the personnel agenda, payment of bills for the period and the previously described agreement with the University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign. The board recorded votes on each item during the meeting; the motions carried.
Votes at a glance
- Masonry wall flashing (Hoffman campus reroofing), alternate 1A — motion to approve $84,065. Outcome: approved. - Baseball backstop (Harlem High School) — base bid to Midwest Field Solutions $114,000; Alternate 2A (asphalt path) $10,000; Alternate 3 (backstop wall) $8,500; total recommended $132,500. Outcome: approved. - Harlem Middle School basketball court (excavating and blacktop), alternate 2 — $42,162. Outcome: approved. - Agreement with University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign for the Co‑workers and Communities in Transition project — district to host student interns, permit equipment purchases and manage grant funds; presenters outlined a timeline and budget. Outcome: approved. - Resolution declaring surplus property (Harlem Administration Center) — motion approved. - Approval of bills/payables — board approved payables and expenditures for the period; staff reported total expenditures of $4,044,297.26 and payables this period of $566,032.79 (there was one large payable of about $3,478,264.47 included in the reporting). Outcome: approved. - Personnel agenda — includes five employments, eight transfers (one transfer stricken from the list), and nine resignations after an in‑meeting correction; also included bank requests for Federation and a food service sick bank. Outcome: approved.
Vote details (recorded voices during roll calls indicated assent from the following trustees unless otherwise noted): Mister Thompson — yes; Mister McKnight — yes; Missus Carlson — yes; Mister Smith — yes; Missus Hastings — yes; Missus Smeets — yes; Mister Sterling — yes; Missus Meade/Meeks — yes; Mister McNamee — yes. Individual roll‑call utterances in the transcript used several forms (“Aye”, “Yes”, “Hi”); the meeting record shows each motion carried.
