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Palos CCSD 118 board approves fund transfers, fuel and technology contracts, and sets lunch prices
Summary
The Palos CCSD 118 Board of Education approved a consent agenda on June 10 that included a $1 million transfer to the special education fund, abatement and transfers totaling $4.2 million for capital projects, a fuel contract with Avalon Petroleum, a three‑year content‑filtering contract, and paid lunch fee increases.
The Palos CCSD 118 Board of Education on June 10 approved a consent agenda that moved money between funds, awarded contracts for fuel and content filtering services, and set student and adult lunch prices for 2025–26.
Why it matters: The board’s actions reallocate district reserves to cover a special education deficit and to fund capital projects, finalize vendor contracts needed for operations, and set meal prices that affect families and budgeted meal-program revenue.
The board approved a permanent transfer of $1,000,000 from the Education Fund (Fund 10) to the Special Education Fund (Fund 16) to cover an existing deficit. The board also approved a resolution to abate $4,200,000 from the Working Cash Fund to the Operations and Maintenance Fund and then permanently transfer that amount from Operations and Maintenance to the Capital Projects Fund to pay for summer capital improvements.
The board awarded the contract for the purchase of ultra low sulfur diesel for the 2025–26 school year to Avalon Petroleum, using the Oil Price Information Service Chicago low price per gallon plus a published margin and applicable taxes. The finance and facilities report also recommended awarding a three‑year contract for content filtering services to Deladowa for $36,000.
As part of the consent agenda, the board set the paid lunch fee for the 2025–26 school year at $3.25 for students and $3.75 for adults, and set the price of milk at $0.50. The board also authorized contracts for school supply kits, approved a personnel report listing multiple new hires and resignations with effective dates, approved regular and special meeting minutes, and authorized payment of bills dated June 10, 2025, in the amount of $800,911.06 and payrolls dated May 23, 2025 ($910,243.55) and June 6, 2025 ($882,057.05).
The consent agenda item that would "opt out of career development activities" was listed as adopting a resolution pursuant to 105 ILCS 5/10‑20.85(d) (the cited Illinois statute appeared in the board materials). The board indicated the freedom‑of‑information requests reported earlier in the meeting had been completed.
Procedural detail: A board member moved to approve items 10a through 10m on the consent agenda and a second was recorded. The roll call recorded the following votes on the motion: Mr. Cox — yes; Ms. Zafransky — yes; Ms. Jensen — yes; Mr. Quinn — yes. The motion carried as recorded in the public minutes.
Background and context: District staff presented the preliminary fiscal‑year 2026 budget summary and recommended no planned spend down of reserve balances for FY26. The transfers and abatement are internal fund reassignments commonly used by districts to address operating deficits and to finance capital projects; the board’s actions formalize those reallocations in district accounting.
Items to watch: Contracts for recurring services (fuel and content filtering) were approved for multi‑year terms; future board reports should show annual expenditures against those contracts and any amendments.
