District 210 to Hold Workshop Thursday to Discuss Finances

The Lemont High School District 210 Board of Education will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday to discuss the district's financial plan.

The Lemont High School District 210 Board of Education will hold a workshop meeting Thursday to discuss district finances, Board President Beverly Marzec announced Tuesday. The workshop, which is posted on the Lemont High School website, will focus on the district's financial plan, according to the meeting agenda. Tony Hamilton, director of school and community relations for District 210, characterized the workshop as "proactive planning." The board and administration regularly use a variety of sources — PMA Financial projections and historical data on revenue and expenditures, for example — to determine "how to plan for the future and best use district resources," he said. For more information, visit www.lhs210.net.

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Live Blog: District 113A Board Meeting

Check back with Patch throughout the night for updates from Tuesday's meeting at River Valley School.

The school board has reconvened. No action was taken as a result of closed session. The District 113A Board of Education has adjourned for closed session. 2011 Financial Audit Board President Mike Aurelio and Board Member Al Malley raise concerns over interfund loans reflected in the district's audit for fiscal year 2011. According to Malley, the audit reflects interfund loans above and beyond the amount approved by the board earlier this year. The loans were made without board approval, he said. Aurelio asked if approving the audit would set a precedent for the administration and business office approving interfund loans without the board's approval. Business Manager Barbara Germany stated that the loans were made by the auditor, not the …

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Jorg Manteno

11:46 pm on Friday, October 21, 2011

Actually Ms. Ristow and Mr. Keller, I heard the same thing from individuals who attended the board meeting. Perhaps community members should be more careful not to harass state officials.   more ›

Five Things You Need to Know Today

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Five things every Lemonter needs to know Monday.

The Lemont Board of Trustees is expected to approved Monday night the village's operating budget for fiscal year 2012. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at Village Hall, 418 Main St. The Lemont-Bromberek Combined School District 113A Board of Education will hold a special meeting at 7 p.m. Monday to discuss "the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees of the District or legal counsel for the District, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee or against legal counsel for the District to determine its validity." According to the meeting agenda, the Board does not anticipate action as a result of closed session. The Lemont High School District 210 Board …

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For the First Time, LHS Falls Short of AYP

Lemont High School school board members on Tuesday heard results of the 2010 Illinois School Report Card, which has yet to be released to the public.

For the first time, Lemont High School has failed to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) in standardized state testing. The Board of Education for Lemont Township High School District 210 briefly discussed the 2010 results at its meeting Tuesday. "We did not make AYP, and we'll be getting the report card together and putting out the information to put this into context for the community," said Superintendent Sandra Doebert, who presented the board with the 2009-2010 Illinois School Report Card. Under a federal mandate from the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, all students must meet or exceed state standards in the subjects of reading and mathematics by 2014. Since 2003, the state of Illinois has used AYP to determine whether students are …

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