December 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM - Regular Meeting

1. Call to Order with the Pledge of Allegiance.

2. Roll Call.

3. Adopt Official Agenda giving the President discretion to take items out of order or in closed session as needed.

4. Approve the minutes of the Regular and Closed Meeting held on November 10, 2025.

5. Consent Agenda.   

5.A. Approve of bills as presented in the amount of $5,536,737.25 be authorized; that salaries for the month of December 2025 be authorized; that quick pay for November 2025 in the amount of $674,745.42 be approved; and that January 2025 salaries and bills to be quick paid be authorized.

5.B. Accept Principal Reports.

5.C. Accept Administrators' Reports.

5.D. Approve the 2025-2026 12-month employee calendar.

5.E. Approve Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement with Southwestern Illinois College in regards to the Running Start Program for the 2026-2027 school year.

5.F. Approve the Cahokia Unit School District #187's Cyber Incident Response Plan.

5.G. Authorize administration to enter into an agreement with SchooLinks for grades 6 through 12.

5.H. Authorize administration to enter into a MOU with Southern Illinois University to establish working procedures to ensure services to preschool children eligible for special education services are in compliance.

5.I. Amend the February 10, 2025, decision made by the Board of Education to expel a ninth grade Cahokia High School student #25677 for the remainder of the 2024-2025 school year, the 2025-2026 school year, and the first semester of the 2026-2027 school year, to allow the student to attend the Academic and Character Development Center (ACDC).

6. New Business. 

6.A. Consider adopting the amended tax levy with final levy information to be presented and voted upon by the Board of Education before submission to the county clerk's office in the spring.

7. Superintendent's Report.

8. Closed Session.

8.A. Appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, litigation, or dismissal of specific employees.  5ILCS 120/2(c)(1).

9. Return to Open Session.

9.A. Consider accepting resignations of certified and non-certified employees as presented in Exhibit 1.

9.B. Consider employment of certified and non-certified employees as presented in Exhibit 2, contingent upon successful completion of pre-employment requirements.

9.C. Consider rescinding employment offers to employees as presented in Exhibit 3.

9.D. Consider approving and denying employees' requests for leave without pay as presented in Exhibit 4.

9.E. Consider dismissal of employees.

9.F. Consider suspension without pay of employees.

9.G. Consider imposing employee discipline.

10. Public Comments.

11. Board Committee Reports:  Policy

11.A. Policy Committee Recommendations:  The following proposed policy updates to the Board Policy Manual are available for public viewing for the next thirty days with plans for adoption at the February 9, 2026, board meeting:
Updates:  2:120, 2:150, 2:270, 4:10, 4:30, 4:80, 4:140, 4:190, 5:10, 5:90, 5:100, 5:190, 5:200, 5:220, 5:280, 5:300, 6:20, 6:40, 6:60, 6:130, 6:160, 6:210, 6:260, 6:300, 6:310, 6:320, 7:10, 7:70, 7:180, 7:190, 7:290, 7:310, 7:315, 7:340, 8:30
Updates-Rewritten:  7:150
Updates-Review:  6:280

12. Adjournment.