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Lockport 205 board approves girls flag football, tentative budget, contracts and other consent items
Summary
The board approved a slate of consent and action items including the girls flag football program, a tentative amended budget for fiscal 2025–26, a multiyear contract with Edmentum, a three‑year technology lease for teacher laptops, and a proposed settlement in Doe v. Lockport.
At the meeting’s consent‑agenda segment the board approved multiple routine and action items by motion and roll‑call vote.
Notable approvals included a motion to adopt girls flag football as an IHSA offering. Administrators who proposed the program said surveys showed strong student interest (about 132 respondents), that the program could field varsity and JV teams with about 15–20 athletes per level, and estimated initial uniform costs at about $9,000 and modest operating costs (roughly $4,500–$8,500 for home‑game workers and officials). The motion to approve girls flag football passed by roll call.
Other approved items recorded in roll call included a stipend for the McKinney‑Vento and foster‑care liaison, a multiyear software agreement with Edmentum, a tentative amended budget for fiscal year 2025–26, and a three‑year technology lease with American Capital Financial Services Inc. Board members also approved new instructional resources for the 2026–27 school year and authorized a potential settlement in Doe v. Lockport. Each action was moved, seconded and passed by roll call as recorded in the transcript.
Administrators said the district will continue to monitor program costs and report back; for athletics, staff said they will emphasize local scheduling to keep travel costs down and will limit roster sizes (the program would be a cut sport) to preserve playing time and instruction quality.
