BINA Hearing

Thursday, December 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM

CPS Loop Office
42 W. Madison Street
Chicago, IL 60602
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BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO
BOND ISSUE NOTIFICATION ACT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Please take notice that the Chicago Board of Education (the “Board”) of the Board of Education of the City of Chicago (the “School District”) will hold a public hearing on December 18, 2025, at 9:30 a.m.  The hearing will be held in the Board Room at the Chicago Public Schools Loop Office, 42 West Madison Street, Garden Level, in the City of Chicago, Illinois.  The purpose of the hearing will be to receive public comments on the proposal to sell general obligation unlimited tax alternate bonds of the Board, in one or more series, in the amount of not to exceed $1,800,000,000 for the purpose of financing (i) the construction and acquisition of school and administrative buildings and equipment, site improvements and other real and personal property in and for the School District, (ii) the funding of obligations of the Board, including but not limited to working capital (iii) the refunding of obligations of the Board and (iv) costs of issuance and other costs and reserves related to the foregoing.

For this BINA Hearing, advance registration to speak will be available beginning Tuesday, December 16, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. and will close on Wednesday, December 17, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. Anyone interested in speaking can sign up. After the 24-hour registration period, a lottery will randomly select a set number of speakers from those who registered. For example, if 100 people register, the lottery might select 10 of them to speak. This process gives everyone a fair chance to address the Board. Advance registration during this period is available by the following methods:

• Online: www.cpsboe.org (recommended)
• Phone: (773) 553-1600

The Public Participation segment of the Public Hearing will conclude after the last person who has registered to speak has spoken, or at 10:00 a.m., whichever occurs first. Staff members are encouraged to participate.

To ensure equity of access to address the Board, an individual may not speak at back-to-back meetings and more than one meeting per month. If you register for back-to-back meetings and more than one meeting per month, you will not be included for that meeting lottery. In the event an individual registers to speak at a consecutive meeting, the individual will not be called to address the Board. However, if less than the allotted number of speakers register for a meeting, the limitation on speaking at consecutive meetings and/or more than once within a month will not apply, and those previously ineligible to speak will be reinstated in the lottery and may be eligible to speak.

Members of the public may submit Written Comments related to the hearing via the Written Comments Form on the Board’s website at www.cpsboe.org or by mail to 42 West Madison, Garden Level. Written Comments received between the day the public agenda is posted through 5 p.m. the day after the Board of Education hearing will be submitted to the Board and posted within five (5) business days on our website at www.cpsboe.org.

Dated December 10, 2025

/s/ Susan J. Narrajos
Secretary, Chicago Board of Education

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