Meetings

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Board of Commissioners of the GRANDWOOD PARK PARK DISTRICT establishes a schedule for the Regular Meetings of the Board of Park Commissioners of said District during each fiscal year commencing May 1st and ending April 30th, at their Annual Meeting in May of each year.

This schedule is subject to such changes as the Board of Commissioners of the Grandwood Park Park District shall determine and law shall allow. Notice of such changes shall be given as required by law. All such meetings shall be open to the public, except those meetings, or portions of meetings, which the Board of Commissioners of the Grandwood Park Park District shall determine to be held in private and which the law shall allow to be held in private.

Regular Meetings will be held 6:30 p.m. at the Grandwood Park Park District Community Center, in the conference room, located at 36630 N. Hutchins Road, Gurnee, Illinois.

Meeting Dates

All meetings are held at 6:00pm in the conference room of the community center, located at 36630 N. Hutchins Rd., Gurnee

MAY 14, 2025
JUNE 11, 2025
JULY 9, 2025
AUGUST 13, 2025
SEPTEMBER 10, 2025
OCTOBER 8, 2025
NOVEMBER 12, 2025
DECEMBER 10, 2025
JANUARY 14, 2026
FEBRUARY 11, 2026
MARCH 11, 2026
APRIL 8, 2026

FY2026
MAY 13, 2026 – Annual Mtg.

Resolutions Authorizing the Release of Closed Session Meeting Minutes and the Destruction of Closed Session Audio Recordings

A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE RELEASE OF CLOSED SESSION MINUTES AND THE DESTRUCTION OF CLOSED SESSION AUDIO RECORDINGS

WHEREAS, the Grandwood Park Park District Board has met from time to time in closed session for purposes authorized by the Illinois Open Meetings Act; and

WHEREAS, as required by the Act, the Board has kept written minutes and verbatim record in the form of an audio recording of all such closed sessions; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to the requirements of 5 ILCS120/2.06(d) the Board has determined that the minutes of the meetings listed below no longer require confidential treatment and should be made available for public inspection; and

WHEREAS, the Board has further determined that the need for confidentiality still exists as to the closed session minutes from all other meetings not previously made available for public inspection; and

WHEREAS, the Board also approves the destruction of the verbatim recordings of closed sessions listed below, all of which are of meetings which occurred more than 18 months prior to the destruction of the recording.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of the Grandwood Park Park District:

SECTION 1:  The closed session minutes from those meetings set forth as follows are hereby released:

March 23, 1994
January 14, 2004
April 12, 2006
November 12, 2008
April 19, 2011
September 14, 2016
April 5, 2017

SECTION 2:  The Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to make said minutes available for inspection    and copying in accordance with the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.

SECTION 3:  The Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to destroy all audio recordings for those meetings set forth as follows:

October 10, 2018
November 14, 2018
June 12, 2019
August 14, 2019

SECTION 4:  This resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.

ADOPTED this 9th day of February, 2022

Requests for public records not on the website must be made in writing and submitted to:
Grandwood Park Park District
Attn: FOIA Request
36630 N. Hutchins Road
Gurnee, Illinois 60031