Tonight's school board meeting is a committee of the whole meeting. The meeting is at 6 p.m., at Roosevelt Magnet School, 1704 W. Aiken Ave.
It’s being reported that among other things, that tonight the BOE will vote on purchasing more properties around Peoria High School (see story below).
What's interesting to note in the piece below, is that The District is using Woodruff to supplement PHS's needs, you know, since Woodruff already has all of the amenities PHS needs. As a result, people will once again regurgitate the old question, “why was Woodruff closed and PHS left open?”
Personally, I welcome investing in the area surrounding Peoria High School; beautiful, new athletic fields will be a vast improvement over what we currently see. For years my hope has been that every flop house in the area would be torn down. If The District has the money – they should upgrade the area and give students the needed athletic fields. #Forward
District 150 to vote on property near Peoria High
Peoria School District 150 board members are scheduled to vote on a proposal to buy two more pieces of property in the vicinity of Peoria High School, an area where the district bought four properties earlier this year.
If approved at Tuesday's board meeting, the parcels at 1803 N. Ellis St. and 1815 N. Ellis St. may eventually be used for athletic fields, said District 150 treasurer Dave Kinney. He emphasized the district does not have immediate plans for the properties.
In the meantime, the purchase will mean the school district becomes residential landlord for two more houses. "This is not necessarily where we want to be spending our money, but the opportunities came up," Kinney said. Two property owners approached the district, offering the parcels for less than the assessed value, Kinney said.
The property at 1803 N. Ellis, a frame house, includes an adjacent vacant lot. The purchase price is $30,000, while the 2012 assessed value is $42,750. The district would pay $20,000 for the second property, another frame house at 1815 N. Ellis, which is assessed at $34,080.
In July, the board approved the purchase of properties from St. Paul Baptist Church for a total of $262,000. The sale involved two church-owned houses and parking lots at 510 W. Nebraska, 602 W. Nebraska, 1820 W. Ellis and 1821 W. Ellis. But it did not include the congregation's former church at 603 W. Nebraska.
One of the houses has been rented, Kinney said. The other needs minor repairs before it is rented.
Though the purchases are bound to stir up rumors about building a football stadium in the area, Kinney said no decisions have been made. But Peoria High needs athletic fields at some point, he said.
The schools' boys and girls soccer practices and games are at Woodruff Career and Technical Center. Softball games are at Kellar Grade School and baseball games are at Woodruff. Additionally, Peoria High's baseball field has drainage problems.
In other property matters, an anonymous donor gave a 37-foot wide lot at 437 W. Nebraska, valued at $649, to the district.
16 comments:
Too bad the District cannot purchase the properties closer to PHS on North across the street from the parking lot that is adjacent to the pool. Those look like troubled properties.
Hopefully North Street will be the next target area.
Too bad the district can't get the schools cleaned up so subs would actually go to some of these schools. Too bad the district can't hire enough teachers to get classroom size numbers under control. Too bad the district can't have an effective discipline procedure in place and actually follow through.
Too bad the district has a teacher like you.
Woodruff Should never have been closed. PHS building and area is no comparison to WHS. I don't care how many houses D150 buys, it will not change the fact they screwed up, big time.
It just came across the scanner that a couple of parents are fighting in the Trewyn Office.
Well Well Well just what was Bryan Devine saying last night on TV I mean really saying. Us teachers DO NOT agree with this new evaluation system. Perhaps he is talking about some other union. You can loose your job with just one bias evaluation. Yep you can it happened to 10 teachers this year and it will happened to double or triple that this year.
Devine isn't even a teacher. He has an office in the administration building, has no students, and doesn't have to follow the evaluation system that teachers have to do. He is a sell out to the teachers of #150!
Yes, he is. He is looking ar Chumleys job...
Huh?
All Union Executive Board members should be required to be in the classroom while holding any office. Period.
President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer....all work on Wisconsin Ave. Thanks PFT for your unwavering, unbiased support. Explain why teachers who are being evaluated under the Danielson Model are not being evaluated with the FIDELITY Lathan promised. Under the Danielson Model, a formal eval is supposed to have a pre-eval conference and a post for feedback. Ok great. But when an informal eval takes place and a "group" of administrators walk into a classroom unannounced and sit, writing on clipboards for a half an hour....that is NOT part of the Danielson Model. That is bordering on harrassment....Maybe Devine can clarify that for us....hmmmmm.
Is there a list posted someplace of the administration that have passed all five levels of the test in order to be doing evaluations? If some of those doing the evaluations would be evaluated themselves properly they wouldn't even be allowed to work in the school system.
Yes. There is a list on the ISBE website. It appears that all D150 "passed" at the same time....was this a "team" test? Just asking.
Devine is an administrator is sheeps clothing. Be very careful of him. Do not trust him with anything!!! He needs to leave the PFT ASAP for the sake of everyone. He is NOT a teacher!!!
Anon above, I believe Donahue is planning on staying in the classroom, teaching half day if elected President in the spring.
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