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Flossmoor SD 161 board approves playground and construction contracts, asbestos abatement and an expulsion
Summary
The Flossmoor SD 161 Board of Education approved multiple construction contracts for Heather Hill and Serena Hill schools, accepted an asbestos abatement contract, and approved an expulsion recommendation during its March meeting. All items were approved by roll call.
The Flossmoor SD 161 Board of Education voted to approve capital projects, vendor contracts and an expulsion during its March meeting.
The board approved installation of a playground at Heather Hill School for $294,239 and swing sets at Serena Hills School for $204,559.25. The board then approved a contract with Low Voltage Systems for low-voltage construction at Heather Hill and Serena Hill for $141,403. The board also approved a contract with NES Environmental for asbestos abatement at Heather Hill and Serena Hill; the amount was read aloud during the meeting in a nonstandard verbal form and is recorded in the minutes as spoken in the meeting transcript. Finally, the board approved an expulsion recommendation for student 2025-D-6.
Why it matters: The capital and remediation contracts fund play- and site-related improvements at two elementary schools and address hazardous materials found during renovation work, which are necessary steps before construction can proceed. The expulsion is a formal disciplinary outcome recorded by the board.
Details and outcomes - Playground and swing-set installations: motion made, seconded and approved by roll call; motion recorded as passing. - Low-voltage construction contract (Low Voltage Systems, $141,403): motion made, seconded and approved by roll call; Nelson explicitly recorded a “Yes” during the roll call. - Asbestos abatement contract (NES Environmental): motion made, seconded and approved by roll call; the dollar amount was read during the meeting in a spoken form (see provenance) and appears in the official minutes as read. - Expulsion recommendation for student 2025-D-6: motion made, seconded and approved by roll call; the board recorded the motion as passing.
The consent agenda — which included the personnel report, a FOIA response, Board of Education and executive session minutes, and a Project Sincere summer STEM camp agreement — was approved by roll call earlier in the meeting.
The board recorded the motions as passing; the meeting transcript shows roll-call “Yes” responses and the moderator’s confirmation that each motion passed. The transcript does not contain full numeric tallies for each vote in a machine‑readable format; the official minutes should be consulted for the formal roll-call tallies.
Notes: The transcript presented the asbestos contract dollar amount in a nonstandard spoken form (the clerk read a long numeric phrase rather than a single numeric string). The article quotes the three clearly stated dollar values from the transcript for the playgrounds and low-voltage contract; the asbestos amount is described as read aloud in the transcript rather than normalized here to avoid misstatement.
