January 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting
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I. Call to Order
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II. Pledge of Allegiance
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III. Roll Call
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IV. Consent Agenda **
Description:
Minutes of regular meeting held December 19, 2024
Minutes of closed meeting held December 19, 2024 January Bills Payable December Treasurer's Report Destruction of closed meeting audio recording from July 20, 2023 Quarterly list of authorized depositories, investment managers, dealers and brokers |
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V. Superintendent’s Report – Recognition and Informational Items
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V.A. Student Recognition
Description:
Malia Henriot will be in attendance so that we may recognize her accomplishments in being selected as the January Student of the Month.
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V.B. Excellence in Education Award Winner Recognition
Description:
Michael Gaughan and Czara Trujillo will be in attendance to recognize their receipt of the 2nd quarter Excellence in Education Award.
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V.C. Semester One Activities Update
Description:
Kevin Geist, Assistant Director of Activities and Athletics, will be in attendance to share first semester co-curricular highlights.
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V.D. Girls’ Flag Football Proposal
Description:
The Athletic Director has put forward a proposal to add girls’ flag football for the 2025/26 school year. Dave Behm will be in attendance to review the proposal in detail. Also provided are the procedures for adding a new sport that were followed by the administration prior to presenting this proposal to you for consideration. Program participation numbers by gender were evaluated and the District would remain Title IX compliant if flag football were to be added.
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V.E. Vision 2030
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Leadership from the five statewide educational organizations (Illinois Association of School Administrators, Illinois Association of School Boards, Illinois Principals Association, Illinois Association of School Business Officials, and Illinois Association of Regional School Superintendents) have come together, once again, to advocate for K-12 public education changes. You may recall our support of Vision 2020 a decade ago, advocacy that resulted in many positive changes, including passage of the Evidence-Based Funding Model.
The key tenets of Vision 2030 include:
This will be listed as a potential action item for the Board to consider approving this evening. |
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V.F. Principal Search Update
Description:
Initial interviews for a principal for the 2025/26 school year took place the week of January 6th. A second round of panel interviews will take place the week of January 13th, including the involvement of students, parents, staff, teacher leaders, and more. The administration is optimistic there will be a recommendation for hire at the February Board meeting.
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V.G. Principal’s Report
Description:
Dr. Schmidt will give his monthly Principal’s Report.
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V.H. Student Representative’s Report
Description:
Casey McCleery will provide her monthly report.
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VI. Public Comment
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VII. Superintendent’s Report – Action Items
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VII.A. Spring Coaching Recommendations **
Description:
Recommend approval of the spring athletic coaches as presented.
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VII.B. Girls’ Flag Football 2025/26 **
Description:
Recommend approval of a girls’ flag football team for the 2025/26 school year in accordance with the proposal as presented.
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VII.C. Vision 2030 Board Resolution **
Description:
Recommend approval of the Resolution in Support of Illinois Vision 2030, showing our support of advocacy efforts related to future-focused learning, shared accountability and predictable funding.
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VII.D. Personnel ** REVISED
Description:
Recommend the employment of the following individual(s):
Recommend accepting the resignation letters from the following individual(s):
Notification of an FMLA request from the following individual(s):
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VIII. Business Affairs
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VIII.A. Banking Services Request for Proposals
Description:
The District banking services have been the same for the last 13 years. In order to determine if we are receiving the best services and rates as well as lowest fees, we requested proposals for banking services the last week of October. Proposals were due back on December 10th and we have been assessing and reviewing the proposals we received. We are scheduling interviews/presentations for the next two weeks, with the intention to make a recommendation to the Board at the February meeting.
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VIII.B. Audit Services Request for Proposals
Description:
Our three-year agreement with our current auditor is up now that the 2023-2024 audit is completed. In an effort to compare pricing and services, we will be preparing a request for proposals of auditing services to send out to auditing companies in early spring. Our intention would be to implement a new auditing firm effective with the 2024-2025 audit. We will bring that recommendation to the Board once the process is complete.
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IX. Other Business
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IX.A. FOIA
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X. Closed Session
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X.A. The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1) **
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X.B. Student disciplinary cases 5 ILCS 120/2 (c)(9) **
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X.C. Other matters relating to individual students 5 ILCS 120/2 (c)(10)
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XI. Action items from closed session discussion
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XI.A. Potential Board action regarding personnel **
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XI.B. Potential Board action regarding student disciplinary matter**
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XII. Adjourn
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