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Valley View board approves consent items, personnel actions, PTAB settlement and early-childhood furniture contract
Summary
On March 24 the Valley View CUSD 365U board approved the agenda and eight consent items, multiple personnel action items including nonrenewals and nonreemployment resolutions, a $231,127 furniture contract for the early childhood center, and a tax-appeal settlement with Promenade ownership.
Valley View CUSD 365U’s Board of Education approved the meeting agenda and a package of formal actions at its March 24 meeting, including consent items, personnel motions, a furniture contract for the new early childhood center and a settlement of a property-tax appeal involving the Promenade development.
Why it matters: The items affect staffing, procurement for the district’s $10 million early childhood center grant project, and the district’s property-tax litigation exposure. Board roll-call votes on the major items were unanimous among members present.
Key votes and outcomes
- Agenda approval: The board approved the meeting agenda as presented (motion; outcome: approved). Roll call: Member Campbell — yes; Member Heil — yes; Member Satterlund — yes; Member Badouris — yes; Secretary Sikora — yes; Vice President Zak — yes; President Quigley — yes.
- Consent agenda (Items 7.1–7.8): The board approved eight consent items including minutes of March 10, 2025; gifts to individual schools; a fundraiser for Tibbett Elementary; an intergovernmental agreement with SASSA (School Association for Special Education in DuPage County); and travel/trip approvals for high schools. Outcome: approved (roll call: unanimous among members present).
- Personnel consolidated action (10.1): The board approved the consolidated action report covering certified, classified and administrative personnel items as presented (motion; outcome: approved; roll call: unanimous among members present).
- Resolution 2533 (10.2): Authorizing non-reemployment of part-time and temporary educational support personnel. Outcome: approved (roll call: unanimous among members present).
- Resolution 2535 (10.3): Authorizing nonrenewal of a professional/technical personnel employee. Outcome: approved (roll call: unanimous among members present).
- Early childhood center furniture contract (exhibits 13): The board approved a contract with Hendrickson for $231,127 to supply furniture for the new early childhood center on the Oak View property. Administrators noted the district earlier secured a maximum grant of $10,000,000 to support the construction. Outcome: approved (roll call: unanimous among members present).
- Promenade tax-appeal settlement (resolution 25-32): The board authorized execution of a settlement agreement with TPB Procol LLC resolving a Property Tax Appeal Board matter involving the Promenade development; the district’s outside counsel Tressler had negotiated terms. Outcome: approved (roll call: unanimous among members present).
- School calendar (12.1): The district presented the 2025–26 school calendar as an action item after an earlier informational presentation; the board approved the calendar as presented (motion; outcome: approved; roll call: unanimous among members present).
Other informational items
Administrators provided updates on planned public bidding for a new five-year waste-hauling contract (bids due April 2), a proposed full-color video display board at Bolingbrook High School supported by a $30,000 donation from the Live Golf League, and a planned capital fixed-asset appraisal to meet GASB Statement 34 reporting requirements. Those items were informational and were not voted on at the March 24 meeting.
Ending: Several of the approved actions (personnel and procurement) will require routine follow-up by district staff; the board scheduled its next meeting for April 14, 2025.
