DANVILLE — The District 118 School Board on Wednesday reviewed a proposed uniform dress code.

With the board’s 5-2 approval of the proposed uniform dress code, District 118 parents are encouraged to attend two forums on the proposal: one set for 6-7 p.m. July 27 at the high school and another set for 6-7 p.m. Aug. 3 at the Danville Public Library. Board members Dan Brown and Bill Dobbles cast the dissenting votes.

“You’ve got a dress code now — enforce it,” Dobbles said.

The only change the board made to the draft was for there to be 60 percent majority vote of parents, rather than 75 percent, at a particular school on whether the uniform dress code should be implemented.

Associate Superintendent Dianna Kirk said the rationale behind the 75 percent majority vote is “you know three-fourths of the parents will support it.

“If it’s less than that, then you know only 50 percent of the parents support it, and the other half doesn’t support it, and you’re going to have problems.”

A copy of the uniform dress code proposal has been posted on the school district’s website.

During school registration Aug. 8 through Aug. 12, district parents will be asked whether they are in favor of the uniform dress code.

The school board could cast a final vote to officially implement the uniform dress code at a particular school as soon as its Aug. 17 meeting.

If the uniform dress code is implemented at a school, students can voluntarily participate during the first semester, but the uniform dress code would become mandatory at the beginning of second semester on Jan. 4.

New families to the district would have 30 days to comply.

Board member Steve Bragorgos proposed that Danville High School seniors be exempt from the uniform dress code. He said parents have told them they didn’t want to spend the money to participate in the last four months of the school year.

He also recommended changing the proposal so that instead of receiving a three-day suspension for not wearing the uniform, students would be expelled.

Superintendent Mark Denman said, “We don’t want students to find a reason not to come to school.”

City Alderman Kevin Davis, who attended the meeting, said, “Expulsion is the wrong direction to go. The biggest concern I have is how some of these families who are strapped are going to afford a uniform for their child.”

Kirk said each school could establish a uniform closet using donations from the community.

Kelly Powell, a Meade Park parent, asked the board to wait to implement the uniform dress code until the 2012-13 school year to give parents time to buy new clothes and to build up a uniform closet at each school.

Karen Omark, the mother of a South View sixth-grader, said she supports the uniform dress code.

“I’m shocked at some of the clothes the kids wear in the middle schools,” she said. “I’m shocked at some of the skin being showed off by the girls.”

Omark said she has checked the prices of clothing prescribed in the uniform dress code and found dress pants for $12, cargo pants for $9 and polo shirts for $4 at Wal-Mart and Kmart.

“It will clean up the look and it will be a uniform look across the board,” she said.