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District 186 proposes long‑term lease with UIS for 29‑acre South Side elementary
Summary
Superintendent Gill presented a request to lease roughly 29 acres of University of Illinois Springfield land for a consolidated South Side elementary; the site would remain tax‑exempt under UIS ownership and the change requires voluntary detachment by Chatham‑Glenwood School District and a regional superintendent filing.
Superintendent Gill told the school board that Springfield School District 186 has asked the University of Illinois Springfield to enter a long‑term lease on about 29 acres near the UIS softball fields and Barker Park to site a consolidated South Side elementary school.
Gill said UIS is not interested in selling the parcel but would consider a long lease “probably somewhere around 100 years” so the district could construct a school. He stressed that the land, while owned by UIS, is tax‑exempt and that building on leased, university‑owned property would not change local property tax revenue: “So nobody would be…
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