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This is while not all of this is related to it, I can say probably about 70 grand of it is related to the asbestos abatement. And then when you look at the other work for the controls at being over half a million dollars, right? The ability to for us to weave in into that also helps with our our long-term operations and our financial security. So that is the recommendation that we move forward with Kenzai. Sorry. What was that?
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What happens when this project goes bankrupt and we're stuck with a big hole in the ground where we used to have a at one point, before this entire process started, a thriving business community. Thank you. We are concerned about the altering of of the wetland area as well. And um and the answer to your second question probably should have been answered at the previous hearings at ZBA, not at the Conservation Commission. But, thank you. Uh as as to what happens if they go bankrupt in the middle of this and the site is not stable uh is a site restoration bond on the table? Is something we could um have them post and for that? Well, that's a good question because that is part of our local bylaw, which as you know, has been waived. So, we would have to would have to have that discussion.
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So, uh again, I it's just kind of preliminary. Maybe things sort of change in the next couple months. My sense is they probably won't, uh but that's something that we'll probably have to address, and of course, I'll come up with better numbers instead of just estimates from where we are this far out, uh but we'll see where we are next year. Um and then go forward, but I wanted to give the board an update. Okay. Can I Can I bother you for some time, not next week, maybe the week after, and just to I'm curious how that works, like how the reporting works, and how up-to-date it is, because if the economy keeps going the way it's going, I feel like we're going to start seeing a lot more families in our community struggle. I I think it's not so much a function of the economy, I think it's the fact that they changed the rules for for Medicaid eligibility.
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Any questions on that award those awards and bids? All right, that was an action item to see evening debt certificates to be covered as part of the last one any last minute questions on debt certificates. Freedom of information requests, we often receive them, we fill them, we list them on our website. Uh you can find them there. That concludes the superintendent's report. Thank you for that lengthy report. Welcome, anytime. >> [laughter] >> Uh item number seven on the consent agenda. Before the board votes on the consent agenda, is there any agenda item a board member would like to pull out of the consent agenda for further discussion?
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I I think I'm I'm concerned that the risk is actually to the town. This is not to the developer. The risk is to the town if this project goes belly up. And I don't understand how we could have gotten this far and have this risk in front of us. So, I appreciate all the questions about dewatering and the cleaning off of the trucks and things like that cuz I think those are all really are important. I remember when the public safety building got built and there was untold amounts of mud ended up in the Sudbury River. And when we built the Mendes school, the same thing happened. So, these storms aren't theoretical and only in a hundred years. They're happening all the time now. Thank you. Name and address, please. Claudia Bennett, 9 Sandstone Way. I think uh the previous uh Ms. Gunfraday and Ms.
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Okay. I I think that's the big driver of it. Yeah, if you'll shoot me any numbers that you see, cuz I want to learn more about >> Sure, absolutely. Thank you. Absolutely.
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Hearing none, can I get a motion from the Board of Education to approve the consent consent agenda as presented, which includes item A, personnel report appointment certified, leave of absence certified, appointment exempt, appointment classified, transfer position classified, item B, personnel report resignation certified, resignation classified, item C, April treasurer's report and financial pages, item D, the 2025-2026 final school calendar, item E, the 2026-27 Board of Education meeting calendar, item F, SASED Board of Directors alternate and governing board appointment resolution, item G, resolution of nomination for membership of Downers Grove Plan Commission or on Downers Grove Plan Commission, item H, student trips and item I, acceptance of donation Downers Grove Junior Woman's Club. So moved. Second. April moves, Mike seconds. Thank you. April Finan? Aye. Michael Ruskey? Aye. Katie Courtney? Aye. Ken Dawson? Aye. Chris Espinoza? [clears throat] Aye. And Don Renner? Aye, motion carries. >> Thank you.
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Rooney uh touched upon something one of my major concerns is what happens uh if this gets disturbed and building begins and then it's decided that it is not feasible or not safe to move forward. You know, whose responsibility is that and what does it look like? Um a couple other comments and I guess the flood plane's not in discussion tonight, but I think it is in terms of the fact that I think over 300 cars in this open-air parking area are going to be in the flood plane. And what happens uh when indeed we do have a flood plane? Um if you've ever been in that building, um you know that there's some kind of water there somewhere because there's a lot of mold and mildew um odor. It's it's hard to segregate these things because they all are interrelated, but we're doing the best that we can so that we're not all over the place as far as topics go.
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Okay, any questions at all? Okay, so um finally, um some sad news. I know the the board is aware, um but uh Alan Aronovitz of SCR Architects was really our He was our lead architect. I know he sat at many school board meetings and uh we found out Friday before last on on May 8th that uh that he'd passed away. Um, and uh it's a big loss for us. And uh you know, the funny thing about uh Alan is I was sharing with Mr. Herring at the wake yesterday. Uh you know, when I first met Alan was when we had our RFP with all the architects in town. So, we had 15 different architecture firms. And Alan asked more questions than all the other architects combined. Uh but every question he asked was a very good one and invited a lot of uh thought. Um, and I think it provided for a lot of information.
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Moving on to recommendations for action, item eight. Can I get a motion from the Board of Education to approve the statement of work for the 2026-27 school year? So moved. Second. Chris moves, April seconds. Thank you. Chris Espinoza? Aye. Thank you. >> [laughter] >> April Finan? Aye. Michael Ruskey? Aye. Katie Courtney? Aye. And Ken Dawson? Aye. And Don Renner, please. Aye, motion [clears throat] carries. >> Thank you. Item B, can I get a motion from the Board of Education to approve the fiscal year 27 Illinois State Board of Education consolidated district plan? So moved. Second. Ken moves, Chris seconds. Thank you. Ken Dawson? Aye. Chris Espinoza? >> Aye. April Finan? Aye. Michael Ruskey? Aye. Katie Courtney? Aye. And Don Renner? Aye, motion carries. >> Thank you. Item get a motion from the Board of Education to approve the three-year athletic training services contract renewal with Athletico Management LLC as presented?
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>> Right, I understand and I'm just um running off of common sense here, just Mhm. I don't have any particular knowledge in this area. Um then you know, I also I agree that it this might in some respects make the site cleaner than it is, but is it clean enough? And um so to say that it it will be far better, you know, I'm not sure what that means if it still isn't safe to be inhabited. Um you know, the thought of somebody saying that it we might not be able to plant tomatoes there. I mean, are we going to put a sign? Are we going to have somebody that's in charge of no planting tomatoes? I don't know what that that looks like. Uh I know that at some point moving if there if there was going to be a flood that there would be a couple of days warning so people could move their cars.
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So, I think he's good at his job as well and then I think explaining everything. I think he made us a little bit better. Um, and even before we were his client, he came to every board meeting he sat right up there and he had his yellow legal pad and his blue felt and and he and he was here before the meeting started. And when we're leaving to go to closed session, he was still here and he had pages of notes from every school board meeting. So, I know someone posted on LinkedIn that he probably went to more school board meetings than anybody else who ever lived. And I I I'd say that's that's probably true. So, um Alan was also really uh very instrumental in getting the water reclamation um process approved at North School. That is a real bugaboo um and it's made a whole lot worse when you have as much land as we do and when you have most of your all of your land being a flood plain and part of it being a floodway.
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So moved. Second. Ken moves, Katie seconds. Thank you. Ken Dawson? Aye. Katie Courtney? Aye. Chris Espinoza? Aye. April Finan? Aye. Michael Ruskey? Aye. And Don Renner? Aye, motion carries. >> Thank you. Negative item D, can I get a motion from the Board of Education to approve the textbooks as presented? So moved. Second. Chris moves, Katie seconds. >> Thank you. Chris Espinoza? Aye. Katie Courtney? Aye. Ken Dawson? Aye. April Finan? Aye. Michael Ruskey? Aye. And Don Renner? Aye, motion carries. Item E, the next item for consideration is the issuance of not to exceed 14.5 million dollars of general obligation debt certificates limited tax to be issued by the district pursuant to section 17b of the Local Government Debt Reform Act. Board of Education will consider the adoption of a resolution uh one providing for an installment purchase agreement in order to alter, repair, and equip district facilities to improve energy efficiency and safety, two authorizing the issuance of said certificates evidencing the rights to payment under said agreement, and three providing for the sale of said certificates.
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I don't know where 300-plus people are going to move their cars to or even if they would. And what how does that contaminate if if indeed the area floods? Um and finally, you know, with all due respect to Mr. Campbell, I do think that maybe the town needs to have uh another LSP working on the project. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Uh Kim Lanthier, 79 Hilldale Road. Um a comment and a question. So, I thought it was brought up at a prior meeting that uh the EPA does define the area as a Superfund site. It's on their website. It's listed everywhere and has been. My concern then becomes if that's downplayed now, what else is going to get downplayed along the road? And that's just I think um a reasonable question. But the the specific question I have, and I apologize I don't know last names, but I do know first, so I I no disrespect um there, but Jeff mentioned that in 22 seven boring samples were done, and then at that time there was nothing that was above level.
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Uh there were a lot of hoops to jump through and uh his [snorts] expertise really helped us out immensely. So, um we're going to really miss him and uh we're going to miss his kindness um and his uh humor, his uh his thoughtfulness um and his experience. And uh all I would ask as we kind of going to with fully kindergarten is think about um you know what you meant to us. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mark. Just one last thing on a on a lighter note, I would like to congratulate board member Duckman who has modeled for us to be a continuous learner. She just got her Master's of Arts in Film Graphic Film Graphic Studies, correct? Congratulations. >> That's awesome. >> [applause] >> Hello. It's your grades. Thank you for uh for modeling that and continuing to push uh and you could just walk off into retirement any minute.
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Resolution sets forth the parameters for the issuance of said certificates and sale thereof by designated officials of the district. The certificates may be paid through installments made at stated intervals for a period of no more than 20 years or another period of time authorized by law, bearing interest at the rates per annum not exceeding 9% and with a purchase price amount not to exceed 14.5 million for said certificates. Can I get a motion from the Board of Education to adopt the resolution authorizing and providing for the issuance of not to exceed 14.5 million dollars of general obligation debt certificates limited tax series 2026 of Community High School District number 99, DuPage County, Illinois for the purpose of altering, repairing, and equipping district facilities to improve energy efficiency and safety, authorizing installment purchase agreement, and authorizing the sale of said certificates to the purchaser thereof. So moved.
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But Chris had mentioned that there were samples done within this 22 to 25 um soil testing that did result in above the residential threshold. So, I was wondering when those soil testings were done. Thank you. Do you want to answer that? Thank you. So, just uh just for clarity, um in anticipation of uh site redevelopment in uh 2022, uh we did sort seven soil borings, uh and it was sampled for a variety of compounds. None of those samples came up above the most stringent residential MassDEP standards. There was soil testing done back in 2010 as part of a phase two comprehensive site assessment um and site closure in regulatory site closure in 2011. Those are the samples that exceeded MassDEP standards. So, that's a just a clarification. Okay, thank you. Can I just ask a quick follow-up on that? >> Sure. Um what was the change in location?
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You're getting more knowledge instead. [laughter] She's material. Curiosity. That may be why she learns. Yeah, it was a I a long process. I worked full-time. I took classes. It was all an online program. Um but you know, I just love learning. I love um the continuing education aspect and it's done, so I don't know what's next. >> [laughter] >> We shall see. Congratulations. Yeah, thank you. Hooray. All right, next we have dashboard for wellness screening 2025-2026. Um I just briefly wanted to highlight our dashboard report. Annually, we share the results of our required screenings that we that we do. Um all staff members who are currently on our medical insurance and in the bargaining unit participate in wellness screenings. They've done so since 2008. It's a very well-attended program um cuz it's mandatory and >> [laughter] >> um but it does provide us with some good information.
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Second. Mike moves, Chris seconds. And before we vote, do we have any discussion? Hearing none, Julie, please call the roll for a vote upon the motion to adopt said resolution. Mike Ruskie. Aye. Chris Espinoza. Aye. April Finan. Aye. Katie Courtney. Aye. Ken Dawson. Aye. And Don Renner. Aye. Motion is carried and said resolution has been adopted. Julie, please record the same in the records of the Board of Education of Community High School District nine number 99, DuPage County, Illinois. Item F. Can I get a motion from the Board of Education to approve and authorize the superintendent to execute the agreement with Honeywell International Inc. regarding the $11,069,770 of energy savings performance contract to address solar, roof replacements, LED lighting and controls, HVAC controls, retro-commissioning, water conservation, building envelope improvements, and boiler replacement at DGN, and find further that all requirements of the School Energy Conservation and Savings Measures Act under the Illinois School Code have been met.
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Were they exactly the same location for samples, or were they different locations? Um I believe that was um identified on the figure. Um all the sample locations were were on the figures. Uh the 2022 and the 20 10 sample locations that exceeded So, um some of them were different, and some were at similar locations. Ms. Lentros, everything that they have submitted to the Conservation Commission is available on the Conservation Commission website. So, if you want to follow up on this stuff, uh am I correct, Becca? Yes. Wonderful, thank you. >> Okay. Mhm. Mhm. I'll just be as quick as I can. Lorraine Armenti, Chestnut Street, 418 Chestnut Street. Um there's three quick points. Um dams are being removed across the state, across the country. There's a dam across the street from this property. Hopefully, within the Conservation Commission purview, we'll be removing that dam at some point in the not-too-distant future.
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