Grayslake High School Gets High End Synthetic Turf
There is a story and an editorial in the Lakeland Journal this week that the residents of Grayslake High School District 127 should be aware of. The story is on the competitive “not so competive” bidding proccess for the Synthetic turf to be put in at Grayslake Central. [Emphasis mine] GRAYSLAKE – District 127 [...]
Election Results
UPDATE: Write-in votes have been tallied and posted at the County Clerk’s website. County Clerk Williard Helander replied to my email this evening to notify me of this. Douglas Nerge won the write-in vote for the fourth spot on the D127 School Board. See the updated results below. These are still unofficial results with late [...]
D127 Write-In Candidate
I recieved an email from Grayslake High School District 127 write-in candidate, Cris Tajnai (excerpt below). Next Tuesday, April 17, 2007 is VOTING DAY. I just want to let you know that I am a write-in candidate for the High School District 127 board election this coming Tuesday. Please write-in my name if you [...]
School board balks at high cost of turfing Grayslake Central field
I’m sure some of you remember last year the D127 board claiming they did not approve anything extravagant in the Master Facilities plan even though it included synthetic turf. Well, now we find out how extravagant that decision was. The News-Sun has written an article about how the board is now balking at the cost [...]
D46 and D127 No-Bid Energy Contracts
March 28, 2007 by admin
Filed under CCSD #46, D-127, General, Illinois Energy Consortium
I have finally scanned in the documentation for the Energy contracts/agreements from both D127 and D46. I did not receive any bid documents for any other bids, meaning they no-bid the contracts and awarded them directly to the Energy Consortium. You can read the documents at the following links: D46 Communication with IEC IEC True [...]
Grayslake D127 Approves Levy
The Grayslake High School District 127 approved the levies as presented at a special meeting this morning. Mr. McClain was absent, but all present board members voted to approve them. The levies as presented asked for a 30% increase over last year. However, because of the tax cap they will not receive that much and [...]
(Updated) Grayslake High School Levy Meeting
I have confirmed that Grayslake High School District 127 will be holding a special school board meeting on Tuesday, December 26th at 10 am. This meeting will be held at the district offices at Grayslake Central High School on Lake Street in Grayslake. I will have the proposed levies tomorrow and will post them as [...]
Lindenhurst TIF
The local schools districts of Milburn, Woodland and Grayslake High School have been fighting to stop the proposed TIF planned by the Village of Lindenhurst. Below is an article from the Daily Herald about the continuing effort. There will be a meeting about this Monday night at Grayslake North at 7pm. If this TIF is [...]
Stop Sitting or Get Run Over
Now that this election cycle is over is it time to start looking ahead at the school board elections next spring for both District 46 and District 127. These will be held April 17th to be exact. I’ll run through a few question and answers. Why do we need to think about them when they [...]
New School Watch Web Sites
I have noticed lately that the focus of this blog has been growing wider. Because of that, my focus on the local school districts here in Grayslake has suffered. I have finally done something about that. I have completed and am annoucing 2 new websites. To focus on Grayslake Elementaty Distirct 46 I present D46News.com [...]
