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Board recognizes student athletes and approves routine business, facilities work and budget notices
Summary
The Granite City CUSD 9 board recognized multiple student athletes, accepted donations, and approved consent‑agenda items including personnel changes, bids, the track resurfacing and bleacher repairs, budget notices and several pool appointments; most items passed by unanimous roll call.
The Granite City CUSD 9 Board of Education opened its meeting with student recognitions before moving through routine business and several facilities and financial items.
Student recognitions: The board congratulated Senior Megan Sykes, named GCHS 2526 Scholar Athlete of the Year for achievements across volleyball, basketball, swimming and soccer and for 15 varsity letters. The board also honored boys' track state qualifiers Sebastian Rhodess (seventh place, triple jump), Quentyn Campbell (110m hurdles), Antonio Dean (400m) and Landon Harris (1,600m), plus multiple Koolage Junior High girls who advanced to the state 4x100 relay.
Donations and acknowledgements: Board members thanked the Pam Holton Scholarship Fund (four special education teachers received $200 each), United (US) Steel Corporation ($25,000 to cheer/dance/football and $2,500 to boys basketball) and Book Book Go (nearly 1,000 books valued at $15,000 for back‑to‑school distribution).
Facilities and procurement: The board approved the recommended low‑risk procurement and contract actions presented by administration: paper supplies bid number 1‑27 (recommended vendor: Contract Paper Group), Granite City High School track resurfacing to proceed with ATG under national cooperative contract number 737‑24, and critical indoor bleacher repairs after an annual inspection found rollers needed replacement. A board member raised a question about selecting a higher bidder for paper supplies; staff cited vendor reliability and paperwork as the reasons for choosing the recommended vendor.
Budget notices and fiscal items: The board approved a joint tentative budget resolution with a notice of public hearing to publish on July 15, 2026, and the District 9 FY27 budget resolution with publication in the Belleville News‑Democrat on Aug. 12, 2026, as required under Sections 17‑1 and 17.1 of the Illinois School Code.
Appointments and pools: The board approved resolutions extending terms for the (transcript) employee benefits pool and property casualty pool and appointed Zach Suri as voting member and Adam Garrett as alternate for those pools.
Public hearing: The board temporarily adjourned to open and then close a public hearing on the Breakfast After the Bell program; no members of the public spoke and the board approved item 9.17 after reconvening.
All agenda items covered in this roundup were moved, seconded and approved by roll call; individual roll call tallies recorded affirmative votes from the board members present.
