That was a stark message from the district's federal lobbyist, who told
a district board committee this week that Washington is increasing national support for charter schools by nearly 32 percent but by only 6 percent for magnet schools, a difference that surprised some of the school board members.
A Park
District board committee is expected to give preliminary approval Wednesday to a three - year contract worth at least $ 1.2 million to SMG Management Inc., which runs more than 150 sports facilities and convention centers around the country.
The district's construction manager is recommending that Pacific Construction Services, 3949 N. Pulaski Rd., be awarded the contract, according to an agenda released Friday for a Park
District board committee meeting, to be held Wednesday.
Not exact matches
Mark lives in Salem, Oregon, where he serves on the school
district budget
committee as well as a number of church
boards and
committees at the local, state, and regional level.
A lawsuit filed in U.S.
District Court in Boston with the support of the Gold Anti-Trust Action
Committee accuses five investment houses, the Bank for International Settlements, and top officials of the U.S. Treasury Department and U.S. Federal Reserve
Board of conspiring to suppress the price of gold.
The village will express its opposition again next week when the Park
District presents its proposal during a public hearing before the County
Board's Planning and Zoning
Committee.
On a 4 - 3 vote, the Will County
Board's Planning and Zoning
Committee last week rejected the village's contention that building a recreation center would require rezoning and recommended granting the Mokena Park
District a special - use permit to build the recreation center on the south side of the Yunker Farm property.
Ron Crawford, member and former chairman of the park
district's Soccer Advisory
Committee, presented to the
board, before they voted last week, a petition signed by 1,000 Arlington Heights residents asking the
district to continue to allow its fields to be used for soccer.
The
committee agreed with staff that the Park
District Board should consider designating the room for the exclusive use of the 1,200 seniors who turn out monthly for activities there.
He was one of two residents appointed to a joint Park
District - Village of Gurnee
committee that earlier this year studied ways the two
boards can work together to pay for family recreation, including a community pool, without raising property taxes.
Bill Conner, business manager of the Park
District, said the
board «s Parks and Planning
Committee was to discuss the issue at an Aug. 17 meeting.
An Arlington Heights
committee has recommended that the Village
Board approve an intergovernmental agreement with the park
district to get plans started to develop a 56 - acre landfill off Nichols Road for recreational space.
In other golf matters, the
committee recommended that the Park
District board prohibit metal spikes on its courses.
The Park
District's Golf and Restaurant Operations
Committee hopes to make a recommendation to the
Board of Park Commissioners at its meeting Sept. 8, Donoghue said.
The Chicago Park
District Board said Tuesday it has formed a search
committee to find a replacement for outgoing chief executive officer Jesse Madison.
A year ago, neighbors protested so loudly that a DuPage County
Board committee sent the small Butterfield Park District back to the drawing board on plans to build a fieldhouse in one of its p
Board committee sent the small Butterfield Park
District back to the drawing
board on plans to build a fieldhouse in one of its p
board on plans to build a fieldhouse in one of its parks.
GURNEE — Members of the Gurnee Park
District Citizens Advisory
Committee voted Thursday night to recommend that the Park
District Board ask taxpayers in April to approve a scaled - down version of the $ 15 million Hunt Club Leisure Center rejected at the ballot box last April.
In its vote the development
committee agreed with the county's Zoning
Board of Appeals, which rejected the Park
District's plans three times.
PARK RIDGE — A $ 2 million renovation of the Oakton Ice Arena was the subject of a heated discussion Thursday night at a
committee of the whole meeting of the Park Ridge Recreation and Park
District Board of Commissioners.
«Basically the only legal spot to skate is in your driveway or your back yard if you can build a ramp and get past the homeowners association,» said Quarles, the
board shop owner who is on a
committee, along with the Park
District, downtown business owners and area police officers, that has sought a site for the skate park.
Scott served as president of the Chicago Park
District Board from 1996 to 2001 and was a key member of the Chicago 2016 Olympic
Committee.
According to Library
Board and ad hoc
committee member Jeff Knezovic, the Park
District no longer plans to use space in the third library branch.
The contract, opposed by parks advocates at a recent
committee meeting, may be approved this week by the Park
District Board.
She and the other new member, Robert Rettger, attended last month's development
committee meeting, but sat near longtime Park
District Board President Lynn Dunn, who has led the movement in favor of the project.
Also, a
committee will be set up consisting of Park
District staff, Park
Board commissioners and homeowners to «significantly improve communication» with residents, Brissa said.
School
Board member Tom Tonniges, chairman of the district's curriculum committee, said the group hopes to get feedback from parents before it meets again next month and recommends the curricula to the school b
Board member Tom Tonniges, chairman of the
district's curriculum
committee, said the group hopes to get feedback from parents before it meets again next month and recommends the curricula to the school
boardboard.
An Orland Park Village
Board committee delayed a possible decision on the matter until its Feb. 26 meeting, saying it wanted to ask the Orland Park - based school
district to agree to allow the larger Sandburg High School campus to be annexed as well.
The Transportation Advisory
Board, the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory
Committee, the Naperville Park
District and Naper Settlement, as well as residents, participated.
«I want to thank John Robinson and the Arlington Aces for giving me the opportunity to join one of the largest soccer programs in the NW suburbs,» said Dwayne Cruz, «I am excited to come on
board and I look forward to working with the Arlington Aces Soccer Advisory
Committee and the families in the Arlington Heights Park
District.
Barrington Citizens for Open Space successfully lobbied the Barrington Park
District Board for a
committee that will study how to condemn the 55 - acre parcel, which is owned by Northwest Community.
If the Adler proposal is approved by a Chicago Park
District committee Wednesday, it will be submitted for approval to the full
board at its Dec. 9 meeting.
The
district «s full
board was to decide Tuesday on the building and grounds
committee «s recommendation to make the museum pay its utility bills on its current site at the Vogelei Barn beginning July 1.
The park
district board had approved the site, but asked the
committee to take another look when neighbors objected.
HOFFMAN ESTATES — The Building and Grounds
Committee of the Hoffman Estates Park
District, in a special meeting Thursday night, voted 3 - 2 to recommend that the park
board approve a revised plan for developing Pine Park.
* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State
Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School
District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative
Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change
ROSELLE — Park
District director Diane McCray told the district board's Finance Committee Wednesday evening that she is recommending that architect Art Jakl be hired to design the planned renovation and expansion of Kemmerli
District director Diane McCray told the
district board's Finance Committee Wednesday evening that she is recommending that architect Art Jakl be hired to design the planned renovation and expansion of Kemmerli
district board's Finance
Committee Wednesday evening that she is recommending that architect Art Jakl be hired to design the planned renovation and expansion of Kemmerling Pool.
Joseph Hagenbruch, chairman of the Harvard City Park
Board and a member of a park
district formation
committee, said the city's budget has never allowed for the parks to be fully developed.
Parents who turned out for the
committee meeting said their next stop would be Thursday's
District 54 school
board meeting.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS — The Park
District board, meeting as a
committee of the whole this week, made slight changes but otherwise responded favorably to an architect's proposal for reconstructing the Pioneer Park swimming pool.
A
committee of the Chicago Park
District board voted Monday to decentralize the parks system into 17 parts and to give managers of those divisions power to make many decisions on park programs, purchasing and maintenance that are now made at the distric
District board voted Monday to decentralize the parks system into 17 parts and to give managers of those divisions power to make many decisions on park programs, purchasing and maintenance that are now made at the
districtdistrict level.
«I do n`t want to see an outside developer put in a wave pool and have the park
district abandon its plan (for an aquatic park), «said Jim Jones,
committee chairman and a member of the
board that runs Sharks, the community youth swim club.
Commissioner Bob Shor, who has opposed renovating the playground without
District 54 assistance, did not attend the regular
board meeting but read a statement at the Buildings and Grounds
Committee meeting.
At Tuesday night's park
district Building and Grounds
Committee meeting, which preceded the regular
board meeting, parents argued it was unfair for the 570 students of MacArthur School to remain without a playground for the coming school year.
The
committee will make a formal presentation to the park
district board April 23.
During an end - of - year update on security initiatives at a school
board committee of the whole meeting, Hughes said
district staff had been testing cameras at Orland Jr..
Meeting as a
committee of the whole, the
district's
board of commissioners voted to place it on the March 28 agenda.
At the request of the Park
District's Citizens Advisory
Committee, the
board also approved asking residents to call a special Park
District phone number to say whether they want the CAC to serve as a liaison between residents and the
board.
Mark has been involved in a variety of local community service activities including; the NSSED Governing
Board, NSSED APS
Board, Lake Forest - Lake Bluff Learning Disabilities
Board, LBES principal search
committee, the
District 65 21st Century Learners curriculum
committee, Soccer and Little League coaching, and scouting and swim team events.
Mt. Prospect — At a
committee of the whole meeting Tuesday night, Park
District board members said they support a plan to put a bike path in the 35 - acre Melas Park and directed staff to prepare a grant proposal.
But by throwing the issue into the hands of a
committee, Village President Samuel Tenuto and
board members would be able to claim they had n`t hurt park
district plans.