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Hinsdale High School District 86 had to respond to a threat posted on social media just as first period was starting Sept. 13. “You may have heard that over the past couple of weeks, these kinds of social media threats have been cropping up in just about every state, all over the country,” Superintendent Mike Lach said during his report at the Sept. 26 school board meeting. “We have to take them seriously.” District officials quickly learned the threat was not viable and had notified students and parents in less than an hour,...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business at their Sept. 26 meeting, board members: • held a public hearing on the 2025 budget, which shows projected expenses of $142.9 million and projected revenues of $141.3 million. Yvonne Mayer was the only community member to speak at the hearing, asking the board to look again at the projected legal fees before approving the document. The board voted 7-0 to approve the spending plan. • reviewed a “request for qualifications” that will be sent to qualified legal f...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9 Hinsdale Central High School, 55th and Grant streets www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings Hinsdale Parks and Recreation Commission 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8 Memorial Building, 19 E. Chicago Ave. Hinsdale Plan Commission 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9 Memorial Building, 19 E. Chicago Ave. On the draft agenda: public hearing on zoning code text amendment for lighting standards, sign permit reviews on 21 W. Second St. (Modern Skin Dermatology) and 410 W....
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26 Hinsdale Central High School 55th and Grant streets www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings On the agenda: FY 2025 budget hearing and adoption, RFQ for board attorney, 2024 tax levy overview, proposed 55th Street TIF, approval of precalculus courses Hinsdale Village Board 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. www.villageofhinsdale.org...
The Hinsdale High School District 86 Board will hold a public hearing tonight on the fiscal year 2025 budget (July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025), which shows projected expenses of $142.9 million and projected revenues of $141.3 million. The $1.6 million deficit is due to expenses in the capital projects fund, which has paid for Future Ready Facilities projects approved in the 2019 referendum. The district is working to close out remaining projects and shut down the fund, Josh Stephenson, the district’s chief financial officer, w...
The Hinsdale High School District 86 Board is considering whether it makes sense to hire an in-house attorney in an effort to reduce legal bills. The board held a special meeting Wednesday night, after The Hinsdalean went to press, to hear the report of a working group assembled to investigate various legal strategies, one of which is hiring an attorney to be on staff. The group was put together at last week’s board meeting. Board member Asma Akhras asked about hiring a district attorney last week. Board member Jeff Waters as...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business Sept. 12, board members: • heard Superintendent Mike Lach report that work at the Hinsdale Central pool in on track to be finished in time for the girls swimming and diving senior night meet on Oct. 11. “There’s still a ways to go,” he said. “I don’t want to overpromise, but things right now are on track.” • listened to a security update from Geoff Cooker, the district’s director of security. Earlier that day he had attended the annual emergency operations plan m...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26 Hinsdale Central High School 55th and Grant streets www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings Hinsdale Public Library Board 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24 Hinsdale Public Library 20 E. Maple St. www.hinsdalelibrary.info...
Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 presented a letter strongly opposing the proposed Tax Increment Financing district along 55th Street in Clarendon Hills at the most recent Joint Review Board meeting Sept. 5. “To be clear, District 181 supports economic development, and we can even get behind tax increment financing (TIF) in the right situation and when properly deployed,” reads the letter, which was addressed to Clarendon Hills village manager Zachery Creer. “However, we do not support abuse of the TIF tool,...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16 Hinsdale Middle School, 100 S. Garfield Ave. www.d181.org On the draft agenda: full-day kindergarten update, summer capital projects summary, district office building update, enrollment report, summer 2024 programs review, 2024-25 curriculum and professional learning highlights Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 Hinsdale Central High School, 55th and Grant streets www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings On the...
Have you looked at your tax bill lately? The answer might be yes, if you’ve paid the second installment of property taxes in DuPage County recently. Or it might be no, if your taxes are rolled into your monthly mortgage payments. Tax bills contain a lot of information. On the right hand side is a column listing the fair cash value of your home, its assessed and equalized value and ultimately its net taxable value, to which the total tax rate is applied. That total tax rate is the sum of individual tax rates for the 13 t...
This fall’s presidential election is still two months away, but some candidates already are gearing up for the spring 2025 consolidated election. A total of 16 seats will be up for election among the four main Hinsdale taxing bodies — four each on the Hinsdale Village Board (including village president) and the Hinsdale Public Library Board, three on the Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 Board and a historic five on the Hinsdale High School District 86 Board. Tom Cauley’s fourth term as Hinsdale village president...
Hinsdale High School District 86 this week introduced D86 Community, a new board of education website that serves as an online hub to access board meeting schedules, agendas, documents, policies, communications, videos and more. This new website — which replaces the aging BoardDocs platform — was created to increase transparency for stakeholders and efficiency for administrators and board members. The website officially launched Tuesday can be accessed by visiting www.Hinsdale86.org, selecting “Board of Education” from the dr...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 Hinsdale Central High School 55th and Grant streets www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings Hinsdale Parks and Recreation Commission 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. www.villageofhinsdale.org...
We typically don’t write editorials about taxing bodies we don’t cover. But with all that has transpired concerning the proposed TIF district along 55th Street in Clarendon Hills — and its potential impact on Hinsdale school districts — we feel compelled to share a few observations. First, a tax increment financing district — or TIF — is a complicated mechanism Illinois law allows local governments to use to redevelop a certain area to eliminate blight or prevent its onset. Without going into all the details here, the T...
By Ken Knutson [email protected] Using data to boost academic performance is important to Hinsdale High School District 86 Board members. And they want their new superintendent to make it a priority. At the board’s Aug. 22 meeting, Superintendent Michael Lach was given his five goals for the 2024-25 school year, the first of which is to “identify and improve the academic performance of all students and address achievements gaps in performance results.” Board President Cat Greenspon said there’s room for growth in the...
Donald Patrick O'Neil, a former Hinsdale High School District 86 Board member, died Aug. 17, 2024. He was born in 1926 to Winifred (nee Magill) and Jeremiah O'Neil in Fall River, Mass. He spent his youth in Fall River and Wakefield, Mass., enjoying life with siblings Gerry, Paul, Claire and Steve. Life was challenging after the early deaths of both his parents. After high school he was commissioned into the Navy as an ensign. As part of the Naval training program starting at...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings On the agenda: new board of education website, superintendent goals, 2024-25 schedule of board committee meetings Hinsdale Economic Development Commission 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28 Memorial Building, 19 E. Chicago Ave. www.villageofhinsdale.org Hinsdale Public Library Board 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27 Hinsdale Public Library, 20 E. Maple St....
Even though the Clarendon Hills Village Board continued a public hearing on the proposed 55th Street TIF until September, trustees allowed residents who attended the meeting to speak for about an hour during the public comment portion of the agenda. All but two of the 17 residents — from Clarendon Hills, Hinsdale and Westmont — objected to the tax increment financing district proposed for 55th Street from Western Avenue to Holmes Avenue. They questioned whether the area qualifies for a TIF and how it will impact local sch...
Citing many unanswered questions, Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 Board members officially registered their opposition Monday to a proposed tax increment financing district in Clarendon Hills. The joint review board, comprised of a member of each affected taxing body and one member of the public, followed up with its own vote to recommend rejection of the TIF Wednesday afternoon. Without the board’s support, the Clarendon Hills Village Board needs a supermajority vote, or 60 percent, to enact the TIF. H...
Practice for the Hinsdale Central girls swim and dive team didn’t start out the way athletes or their coaches hoped on Monday. Instead of meeting at the school’s Don Watson Aquatic Center, they were at the FMC Natatorium in Westmont. Crews are still working to replace the tile deck at the 3-year-old pool at Central, which has been closed since May 1. Work is expected to continue into early October. Hinsdale High School District 86 Superintendent Mike Lach offered an update at the Aug. 8 school board meeting. “It’s not goo...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business at their Aug. 8 meeting, board members: • heard a report on how the district will transition from using the SAT to the ACT as the state-required accountability test. Juniors will be required to take the ACT in the spring of 2025. Freshmen and sophomores will take pre-ACT assessments. All tests will be online. The district plans to continue to offer the fall PSAT/NMSQT and spring SAT during this transition year. “Depending on what we learn and take from this exa...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 12 Hinsdale Middle School, 100 S. Garfield Ave. www.d181.org On the draft agenda: construction update, end-of-year budget highlights, safety update, D181 collaboration, new staff, Clarendon Hills TIF proposal Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings On the agenda: PaCE Framework introduction, SAT to ACT transition and...
The village of Clarendon Hills wants to establish a tax increment financing district along 55th Street to promote redevelopment and increase the area’s value. But board members of Hinsdale High School District 86 voted unanimously last week for a delay in the TIF process, questioning why a relatively prosperous neighborhood needs such intervention, which would divert some property tax revenue away from school districts for 23 years or more. At a special board meeting July 24, the board requested a continuance on a vote by t...
