February 2025 Information Meeting Information
On February 13 and 27, the District held Informational Sessions about our School District's Wants, Needs, and Resources. Our intent was then to post the slide presentation as well as the list of Frequently Asked Questions. In addition, we have posted the Budget Detail information regarding the grants that District #168 used in dealing with the Pandemic from 2020 - 2023.
The Pandemic Grant process involved the grant coordinator in that particular year consulting with the Administrative Team who in turn consulted with their staffs about the needs for the District. These grants had certain items or percentages of items for which funds had to be allocated for approval. Running the more immediate cleaning, sanitizing, and remote instruction was the initial priority. We then went on to the long list of needs that went back many years that could be addressed through these funds on a one-time only basis. The information that you see was from the final grants that were approved for a year, so if you read that something is an amendment, that would be the last approved grant for that Fiscal Year.
In our original drafts and discussions, there was an expectations for several faculty and support staff positions to be included in these grants. However, as we saw the price of our facility and materials needs, there were times that we took those employee salaries back out of these grants and put them in our Property Tax and General State Aid-Evidence-Based Funding Revenue lines as the explanations and priorities that we were allotted better matched up with these projects. The team went in with the understanding that some of those positions may still have only lasted to serve and address the learning loss brought on by the pandemic.
Included in the Pandemic Grant Information is SY 2019-2020 ESSER Amendment 2 (FINAL), 2021-2022 ESSER (FINAL), 2020-2021 ESSER II - Amendment 2 (FINAL), 2022-2023 ESSER II - Amendment 1 (FINAL), 2021-2022 ARP - ESSER III (FINAL), 2023-2024 ARP - ESSER III - Amendment 1 (FINAL), 2021-2022 ARP-IDEA Consolidated - Amendment 2 (FINAL), 2023-2024 ARP-IDEA Consolidated (FINAL), 2021-2022 ARP - McKinney Vento (FINAL), 2023-2024 ARP - McKinney-Vento (FINAL), 2020-2021 ESSER - Digital Equity Grant (FINAL), 2021-2022 ESSER - Digital Equity Grant (FINAL), and 2022-2023 ESSER - Digital Equity Grant - Amendment 2 (FINAL).
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