Under new leadership the Park
District Board hired Phillip Luetkehans, an Itasca attorney who had represented the park's neighbors in their protest of the initial plan.
Not exact matches
State Superintendent of Schools Karen Salmon says her concerns about Verletta White's ethical conduct and questions about Baltimore County schools contracting practices are so great that she must reject the county
board's decision to
hire her as the
district's permanent superintendent.
The
board was expected to discuss the permanent
hiring of Plainfield village trustee Garrett Peck as the
district's executive director and changes to the contract for assistant executive director Cameron Bettin.
The trio also ushered in other changes such as the
hiring of Doug Booth as communications director and amending a contract signed by the previous
board that would have named Cameron Bettin, who has served as the
district's superintendent of planning since 2004, as executive director.
The
district's public information officer also resigned after
board members
hired Doug Booth as the
district's spokesman.
Members of the park
board promised to
hire a professional administrator when they wrested control of the park
district from former General Supt. Edmund Kelly in June, 1986.
Newly - elected commissioners Silosky and Peter Steinys, along with
board president Peter Hurtado, have come under criticism since May when the three voted to
hire Village Trustee Garrett Peck as the park
district's executive director.
Residents have argued the
board had a qualified candidate — who already had a contract — to lead the park
district before the newly seated
board hired Peck.
The Chicago Park
District Board has finally made good on its 18 - month - old promise to
hire a top - ranking professional manager with experience in parks administration.
«One community alone does n`t have enough disabled residents to justify
hiring qualified therapeutic personnel in specific categories, but by combining efforts, comprehensive programs and services can be offered, «says John Egan, president of the Lombard Park
District Board.
In a story Wednesday about Chicago Park
District supervisors» role in
hiring and firing workers, one commissioner who protested that the
board had never had an opportunity to vote on such reorganization was misidentified.
PALATINE — The Park
District board has
hired an architect to come up with a preliminary design for a new family aquatic center at Community Park.
CARY — Members of the Cary Park
District Board will consider a recommendation Thursday to
hire a consultant for the development of the 260 - acre Hoffman property.
But at their Tuesday night meeting, Park
District Board members investigated expanding the building as they fleshed out plans with architects from the Northbrook firm of Sente and Ruble
hired for the project.
Don Van Arsdale,
hired in 2009 to lead the Glencoe Park
District, was the most recent in a string of executive directors who lived in the modest two - story home at 233 Linden Ave.. Now two of the five members of the park
board say the house was used to force him out of his job.
- In a story Wednesday about Chicago Park
District supervisors» role in
hiring and firing workers, one commissioner who protested that the
board had never had an opportunity to vote on such reorganization was misidentified.
Silosky and Ludemann also both pointed to the
board's recent
hiring of Rich Grodsky as interim executive director as a move toward getting the park
district back on track.
The two joined forces with Hurtado to form a
board majority that quickly came under fire for several decisions, including the
hiring last year of Plainfield Village Trustee Garrett Peck as the
district's executive director.
The Elementary School
District 25 Board of Education on Thursday night unanimously approved hiring a Lake County school administrator as the new superintendent of the Arlington Heights d
District 25
Board of Education on Thursday night unanimously approved
hiring a Lake County school administrator as the new superintendent of the Arlington Heights
districtdistrict.
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.
Butterfield Park
District Director Theresa Thoms said the district has hired a law firm to help «guide us through the zoning process» as officials prepare to seek approval for an 18,000 - square - foot, $ 2.5 million recreation center from the DuPage County Zoning Board of
District Director Theresa Thoms said the
district has hired a law firm to help «guide us through the zoning process» as officials prepare to seek approval for an 18,000 - square - foot, $ 2.5 million recreation center from the DuPage County Zoning Board of
district has
hired a law firm to help «guide us through the zoning process» as officials prepare to seek approval for an 18,000 - square - foot, $ 2.5 million recreation center from the DuPage County Zoning
Board of Appeals.
Following a lengthy search, the Lisle Park
District Board has announced that it will
hire Roy A. Cripe as its new director, effective Nov. 13.
But the
hiring of Ronald H. Dodd, an assistant director of the Dallas Parks and Recreation Department, keeps a promise made when the
board and its chief executive, Jesse Madison, snatched control of the
district from General Supt.
Cutting expenses and
hiring a private firm to manage the
district's Sanctuary Golf Course are reducing the deficit, according to Commissioner Mike O'Neill, the Park
Board's treasurer.
ROSELLE — The Park
District Board has
hired Laura Ross, a consultant with Charles H. Schrader & Associates, to seek out grants for park improvements.
Gary Schaefer, a water resources engineer
hired by the Crystal Lake Park
District Board to study the situation, queried board members last week about their expectations for the
Board to study the situation, queried
board members last week about their expectations for the
board members last week about their expectations for the lake.
The Park
District board is considering
hiring Hendricksen and Co..
Streamwood — The Park
District board is considering
hiring Hendricksen and Co..
Lori Bein, who was
hired as Arlington Heights School
District 25's new superintendent, talks to
board member Phil Crusius.
The Park
Board of Commissioners for the Hoffman Estates Park
District (HE Parks) is pleased to announce the
hiring of its current Deputy Director, Craig Talsma, CPA, CPRE as its new Executive Director.
ROLLING MEADOWS — The Rolling Meadows Park
District board on Tuesday night adopted its first - ever policy requiring criminal background checks of all new
hires and volunteers.
All that said, the best way for you to find out exactly what it takes to get on the primary ballot is to: (1)
hire a good election law attorney, or (2) contact the Suffolk County
Board of Elections and ask them to provide you with the rules for ballot access, candidate qualifications (such as residency requirements in the
district), deadline dates, and filing fees.
A civil rights consultant
hired by the Buffalo School
District to review admissions policies at criteria - based schools, is accusing
Board Member Carl Paladino of making «a clear effort to control my work and intimidate me.»
The Buffalo Public Schools — where six of the other eight
board members sought Paladino's removal — has paid $ 122,474 for legal services to a Syracuse law firm
hired to represent the
district in the case, according to
district records.
New Community
Board District Managers by Robert Press Bronx Community Board 7 hired a new district manager Ischia Bravo, and Community Board 8 is in the process of hiring a new district
District Managers by Robert Press Bronx Community
Board 7
hired a new
district manager Ischia Bravo, and Community Board 8 is in the process of hiring a new district
district manager Ischia Bravo, and Community
Board 8 is in the process of
hiring a new
district district manager.
The
board of the North Rockland Central School
District met Tuesday, July 17 to discuss
hiring a new assistant principal, a new mandatory concussion policy for athletes and a grant application for safer walking paths to school.
In an Aug. 31 letter to attorneys in the case, Democratic Commissioner David Gugerty said the
board must order ballots,
hire inspectors and program voting machines for the 15 polling sites in the
district.
As the reality of the decline in «assessables» has begun to sink in over at the City School
District of New Rochelle, the
Board of Education has been furtively discussing the idea of
hiring «tax cert» lawyers to «recoup» property tax money.
On January 18th the New Rochelle
Board of Education
hired Vigilant Resources International (VRI) to perform a «Threat Risk and Vulnerability Assessment» of all the
district's schools as
A divided state
Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school
districts who find it difficult to
hire outside evaluators.
As part of Bellwether's recent publication outlining 16 education policy ideas for the next president, I propose a new federal investment to help
districts in transforming their
hiring and on -
boarding processes.
Finally,
districts have much to learn about how to successfully on -
board new
hires.
Look, Listen, Learn
District Administration, July 2011 «When [Senior Lecturer] Deborah Jewell - Sherman began to lead the Richmond (Va.) Public Schools in 2002, she faced a
board of education that had voted 5 - 3 to
hire her.
The Wilkinsburg, Pa., school
board has voted to invite the Landmark Legal Foundation to represent the
district in its effort to
hire a private company to manage an elementary school.
A school
board is charged with the responsibility of running a school
district, and the
hiring of school administrators is an important part of that function.
He was certain that it was the school
board's job — its only job, he said — to
hire a superintendent and then sit back and let him / her run the
district.
And indeed, we had a policy on recruiting and
hiring (# 9240, written by NYSSBA), that read, «the
Board will provide and maintain qualified and certified instructional and support personnel to carry out the educational programs of the
district.»
The news was that our school
district had
hired a new principal and assistant principal for our Intermediate school, which the
board had approved the night before, but the reason for my colleague's call was my comment to the reporter, though I had voted for the
hires, that the selection process had been flawed.
We are a small
district in a small town, but her concern raises a number of questions that go to the heart of public school governance: How involved should the school
board be in
hiring and firing decisions?
Last summer, for example, the Camden, New Jersey, school
board outsourced its substitute
hiring to a private vendor because the job was so onerous: between teachers calling in sick or on leave, the
district needed to find subs for up to 40 percent of its teachers each day, it told the local newspaper.