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 meeting.
“Our emergency operations plan is in good shape and I feel very confident in it,” Cooker said. “The plan we have here in District 86 is one of the best I’ve ever seen. I’m very proud of it and I tell a lot of my former colleagues just how great that is.”
• heard a presentation from Josh Stephenson, chief financial officer, on the fiscal year 2025 budget, which shows projected expenses of $142.9 million and projected revenues of $141.3 million. The board will hold a public hearing on the budget and plans to adopt it at the Sept. 26 meeting at Hinsdale Central, which begins at 6 p.m.
• agreed with a plan to pilot AP precalculus AB and BC courses during the 2025-26 school year. The board is expected to vote to adopt the courses Sept. 26.
Hinsdale Village Board
Among other business at their meeting Tuesday, trustees:
• agreed to install a four-way stop at the intersection of Grant and Fourth streets. Three crashes have occurred at the intersection in the past six months and the intersection is close to St. Isaac Jogues School and Madison School and not far from Hinsdale Middle School and Hinsdale Central High School, Trustee Luke Stifflear said in introducing the matter. Residents who live nearby said they regularly witness near-miss accidents. Trustees plan to take an official vote on the stop signs at their Oct. 1 meeting.
• voted 5-0 to spend $1.67 million for a Rosenbauer aerial snorkel truck from Sentinel Emergency Solutions of St. Louis. The vehicle will be ready in 2026, and the village will not have to pay for it until delivery.
• supported granting an A3 liquor license (packaged sale at boutiques) to Gone Grazy, a charcuterie shop that plans to open next month at 19 W. First St. The license will be official following an Oct. 1 vote.
• supported hiring HR Green of New Lenox to complete a drainage study in an area near Phillippa Street and Fuller Road in an amount not to exceed $26,425. Because the area discharges onto tollway property, the Tollway Authority agreed to pay for half of the drainage study. The item will be up for a board vote Oct. 1.
• reviewed a proposal to award a two-year contract extension to Christopher B. Burke Engineering in an amount not to exceed $138,000. The village uses Burke to support the engineering division by reviewing residential and commercial development and performing other services. A vote will take place Oct. 1.
