While still in session Monday evening, and shortly after hearing details of the district’s proposed budget, the Flossmoor District 161 Board of Education began receiving a play-by-play update of school funding negotiations in Springfield.
They liked what they heard.
Frances LaBella, assistant superintendent of business operations, had just finished giving a detailed description of the proposed budget for the 2018 fiscal year. In her remarks at the Aug. 28 committee of the whole meeting, she…


