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Lemont Bromberek School District

Monday, December 17, 2012

Petition Filing Begins Monday for Lemont Board Elections

In the consolidated election on April 9, 2013, voters will elect individuals to several Lemont municipal boards, including the village, school districts 113A and 210; and fire protection, library and park districts.

The first day is Monday, Dec. 17 for candidates to file petitions for election to Lemont municipal boards. Candidates’ names will appear on the election ballot in the order in which their nominating papers are received. If simultaneous filings occur, lotteries will be held to determine ballot positions. Deadlines for filing petitions, objections have changed due to the holidays Originally, the last filing date for candidates in the April 9 municipal election was Dec. 24. But thanks to an amendment to the Illinois Election Code recently signed by Gov. Pat Quinn, those candidates won’t have to rush during the holidays to get their nominating petitions in – and municipal clerks won’t have to work until 5 p.m. on Christmas Eve to accept the …

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

District 113A Board of Education: Allow Public Access to Documents

Board members on Tuesday decided to reinstate practice of posting documents related to meeting agenda items on the district’s website.

In a special meeting Tuesday night, members of the Lemont-Bromberek District 113A Board of Education discussed whether to continue posting documents related to board agendas online for public viewing, as the district had in the past. In July, school district officials discovered that private documents dating back to October 2008 had somehow become visible to the public on BoardDocs, a paperless document management system that allows government entities to manage documents such as agendas, board minutes, financial statements and presentations online. After conducting an investigation, district officials concluded later that month that the public access of items such as closed-session minutes on BoardDocs was “unrelated to staff actions.” …

Indy

9:56 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012

As a parent of a child in the district I am very concerned about the handgun comment. I would like more information and I feel there can be no exceptions when weapons of any kind are brought to school. I thought that incidents such as Columbine would have taught us that!   more ›

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