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Board reviews community-use, facility-lease and public-conduct policies; discussion of fee waivers and enforcement

McCook Central School District 43-7 Board of Education · December 9, 2025
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Summary

Trustees advanced several policy items (community instructional resources and facility use) on second reading and reviewed a draft public-conduct policy; discussion focused on fee waivers for local nonprofits, facility-lease language, and how penalties and enforcement would be applied.

Administrators brought policy items forward for the board's second reading, saying the community instructional resources and community use policies required no substantive changes and were ready to continue through the policy process. "If a group is coming in and they're ... not a not-for-profit, we typically waive the fee [for local nonprofits]," a presenter said, describing how local affiliations are treated in practice.

The board also reviewed a draft public-conduct policy for district property and debated enforcement and penalties. A trustee asked whether reprimand and immediate removal provisions would be adequate and how those rules may overlap with activity-association regulations. "I do think the enforcement and penalty on this is gonna be interesting," a board member said, flagging potential operational challenges in applying the policy consistently.

Members agreed to move the policies forward for formal consideration following the second reading and to return to facility-lease language for additional review where outside groups profit from using school facilities.