Schools
VVSD Board Approves Bids, Bids Adieu to Superintendent
Valley View Board of Education approved several before and after school programs for next school year.
The school board drudged through a lengthy agenda, full of routine fund transfers and contract bid approvals, Monday night before sending off Superintendent Phillip Schoffstall, who will retire at the end of the month.
The meeting was Schoffstall's last school board meeting of an illustrious 32-year career. Eight of those years were spent as Valley View's superintendent.
Much has changed since his first days. Having initiated facilities upgrades and curriculum improvements in previous school districts, Schoffstall envisioned a completely different mission upon his arrival in Valley View.
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“I thought my assessment was needed to reorder the priorities from adults to children,” he said. “I saw a lot of good teachers but the operating systems were geared to the needs of adults.”
Steve Quigley, the board's president, called Schoffstall a throw-back gentleman and one of the classiest men he's had the pleasure to work with.
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"I'm not sure what that means to everybody else," Quigley said while thanking Schoffstall for his service. "But I know what it means to me."
In Other Business
The board also approved a series of contractual bids.
The board voted to extend the before and after school programs at the following schools:
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PTO 2011-12 Tibbott PTO 2011-12 Wood View PTA 2011-12 R.C. Hill Romeoville Recreation Department 2011-12 Independence Bolingbrook Park District 2011-12 Pioneer Bolingbrook Park District 2011-12 B.J. Ward Bolingbrook Park District 2011-12 J.E. Salk Bolingbrook Park District 2011-12The board also approved the following contracts:
Purchase Company Cost School Benefit Consultant Contract Renewal Mesirow Insurance Services, Inc. $80,000 District Food and Miscellaneous Products Fox River Foods $2,122,873 District New Lockers Lyon Workspace Products $88,236 Romeoville High School New Band Lockers Lowery McDonnell $27,515 Bolingbrook High School Pavement and Sewer Replacement Flexible Pavement, Inc. $206,337 R.C. Hill and Irene KingGet more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.
