Even though
districts contract year after year with textbook, transportation, and food vendors, management of public schools — a $ 400 billion segment of the economy — had been strictly off limits to private enterprise and market forces for many years.
Not exact matches
The lunch program lost $ 60,000 last
year, said Stacey Mallek, assistant superintendent for business, and was being subsidized only by the
district's food service
contracts with other
districts.
In addition, the
district has added a battery of new environmental standards to the
contract that grow tougher each
year.
It also decided to renew the Chicago company's
contract to provide food service to the school
district's students this school
year.
In another case, Park
District finance director Kenneth Swan received a five -
year contract that called for bonuses of about $ 75,000 a
year.
In October 2006, the Chicago Park
District approved a $ 5 million
contract to host Lollapalooza in Grant Park for five
years.
In another case, Kenneth Swan, Park
District finance director, received a five -
year contract that called for bonuses of about $ 75,000 a
year.
Also Wednesday, the park board approved a new three -
year contract worth at least $ 600,000 with Standard Parking Co. to run the
district's parking lots and garages.
That didn't stop the
district from paying him for another 17 months on his six - figure
contract and giving him the keys to a 1 -
year - old 2007 Ford Explorer.
«I'm still under a
contract and I'm still the assistant executive director,» said Bettin, who has worked in the field for 20
years, the last eight with the Plainfield Park
District.
In what often became heated discussions, residents argued that Peck, who had a three -
year contract and a $ 110,000 annual salary from the park
district, was not as qualified as then - assistant executive director Cameron Bettin, who was selected by a previous board to replace Greg Bott, who retired last summer.
The total cost of the three -
year contract would be $ 286,650, should the park
district use the pool for 39 weeks out of the
year, as it typically does, at a cost of $ 2,450 a week.
Under a 20 -
year deal with the Park
District, Park Grill does not pay for garbage pickup, water or gas, the
contract shows.
As part of the negotiated purchase
contract, the park
district would pay $ 15.3 million to Five Seasons for the building and $ 5 million to the Techny Land Corporation via a 99 -
year lease for the land.
The lawsuit contends the
contract to run the restaurant is invalid because City Hall holds title to most of Millennium Park but the Park
District made the 20 -
year deal with the restaurant group.
The park
district entered into a five -
year installment
contract with Suburban Bank of Rolling Meadows that will save residents any tax rate hike to pay for renovations, said Rudolph Nelson, director of parks and recreation.
The one -
year contract gives the Park
District's 19 employees an across - the - board 3 percent raise.
Service Employees International Union Local 73, which represents 85 percent of the Park
District's personnel, has been in
contract negotiations for about a
year.
Jones and his current partners in C3, 40 -
year - old Charles Attal and 36 -
year - old Charlie Walker, also have forged
contracts with the Congress Theatre to book shows at the 4,200 - seat theater and with the Philadelphia - based facility management firm SMG and the Chicago Park
District to bring events to Soldier Field.
District Supt. Rosemarie Carroll said Aramark expects to make an additional 2.5 percent from the total
contract than it did during the last school
year because it projects higher sales of a la carte items.
That is down from the 225,000 the
district provided during 1996 - 97 — the first
year that Aramark had a
contract with the
district.
The project would include two hockey rinks and office space for the Chicago Wolves hockey team, which has agreed to a 15 -
year contract paying the
district $ 300,000 a
year in rent.
The
district has had a
contract for police protection and other services from the village for the last three
years.
The American Hockey League team has agreed to a 15 -
year contract that will pay the
district $ 300,000 a
year to rent ice time on two rinks that will be added to the center, along with offices for the team.
Preferred Meal Systems, which has a 40 -
year relationship with CPS and had its $ 24 million food
contract renewed in June, donated $ 150,000 to the
district to help expand the pilot classroom breakfast program, according to company spokesman Ken Trantowski.
The Chicago Park
District staff has negotiated a 10 -
year no - bid extension of the concessions
contract for Soldier Field and Grant Park, and the extension could be approved by the park board Tuesday.
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 concert venue — to be on the north end of the island, just east of Soldier Field — would operate under a three -
year contract with the Park
District, with options for two one -
year extensions.
The Chicago Park
District board on Wednesday approved a 3 -
year contract worth as much as $ 2.5 million for private management of the renovated Soldier Field.
By
contracting out the arena's management, the
district hopes to build on 10
years of success in turning around the profitability of the stadium built in 1924.
A Philadelphia - based management company credited with restoring the financial health of the old Soldier Field is expected to win the
contract to oversee operations when the new $ 632 million arena opens later this
year, Chicago Park
District officials said Monday.
John Curran, 41, of Tinley Park has resigned as director of the Alsip Park
District to join Tinley Park for an annual salary of $ 67,000, plus an automatic 4 percent raise each
year for the duration of his three -
year contract.
The Chicago Bears are negotiating a «management
contract «with the Chicago Park
District that would give the team
year - round control of Soldier Field, the lion «s share of the revenues from their football games and even the ability to book non-football events, parks officials confirmed Wednesday.
Allen Cassady, Streamwood's former park director for five
years, became an independent consultant to the
district May 26 after his
contract was not renewed.
After two
years of searching for a new harbor manager, the Chicago Park
District plans to award a five -
year contract to Westrec Marinas, the controversial company that currently runs the city's nine marinas.
The Park
District board last week approved a three -
year contract for Henery, retroactive to June 1.
OAK FOREST — The Oak Forest Park
District Board approved a 3 -
year contract with 15 full - time union employees last week after several negotiating sessions.
The Wolves and the Park
District have orally agreed to a 15 -
year contract.
The
contract is for three
years, during which time park signage, athletic program information and Park
District collateral will prominently feature the MidAmerica Bank logo.
A Park
District committee gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a $ 35,000 - a-month, three -
year contract with SMG management, which ran Soldier Field beginning in 1994 as part of a joint venture.
After signing a 10 -
year contract last
year with the Chicago Park
District that will keep Lollapalooza in Grant Park through 2022, Jones said daily capacity was capped at 100,000, which makes its daily attendance bigger than any destination rock festival in North America, including Coachella in California and Bonnaroo in Tennessee.
Vanecko, who also works as a lobbyist, did not play any role in the new deal, although he was involved in arranging the current five -
year contract with the
district, the spokeswomen said.
The
district contracted with Sodexho Marriott to test the feasibility of hot lunch after a survey last
year showed high interest among parents.
For these new
district hospitals we are building, we have a maintenance
contract, and we have insisted that they should work with a Ghanaian company, so that after their three or five
years contract has elapsed, the Ghanaian Company will continue the job.
Myrill, who previously ran the Queens
district attorney's drug treatment court programs, began the $ 150,000 - per -
year job June 1, 2016, amid scrutiny of the county's
contracting system.
You may recall the teachers»
contract does provide for a longer school day, allowing the
district to add 25 - minutes for the new school
year.
His company
contracted with the School
District to do masonry work, and was hired each
year by the School
District as its time and materials contractor for masonry work.
We understand that the East Ramapo School
District yesterday awarded a 5
year contract worth upwards of $ 27 million to Brega Transport.
«When you get into long - term
contracts that guarantee something every
year, you've really tied the hands of
districts to maneuver and adjust,» said Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany - based think tank that is fiscally conservative and has strongly supported the state's tax - cap law.
the East Ramapo School
District yesterday awarded a 5
year contract worth upwards of $ 27 million to Brega Transport.