June 1, 2022 at 7:00 PM - COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING

Description:  This item allows Board Members to add or modify the agenda at the beginning of the meeting.  The Board President will need consensus to modify the agenda.

Description:  *Question 1.

Consult with the board attorney for guidance before adopting a maximum time limit for public participation; public comment rules are frequently challenged. The Ill. Public Access Counselor (PAC) has issued only unpublished, non-binding opinions approving of 30- and 60-minute overall time limits for public comment under OMA. The PAC has issued a binding opinion finding that a public body violated OMA when, pursuant to an unrecorded rule, it limited public comment on a controversial topic to 15 minutes. Public Access Opinion (PAO) 19-2. The PAC noted that while the lack of an adopted policy on the time period for public comment did not "necessarily mean that public comment must be allowed to continue indefinitely," the public body presented "no evidence that limiting comments was necessary to maintain decorum or that extending the comment period would have unduly interfered with the orderly transaction of public business."

If the Board would like to establish a maximum time limit for public participation, IASB will revise the first sentence of the paragraph as follows:

For a maximum of 60 minutes Dduring each regular and special open meeting of the Board, any person may comment to or ask questions of the School Board (public participation), subject to the reasonable constraints established and recorded in this policy’s guidelines below. The time limit for public participation at a meeting may be extended upon the majority vote of the Board members at the regular or special meeting.

If a board wants to establish a time limit other than 60 minutes, substitute with the time limit desired. Note that any extension of a public comment period cannot be based on the viewpoint of a speaker(s).

Would the Board like to establish a maximum time limit for public participation?

No (default)

Yes, the Board would like to establish a maximum time limit of 60 minutes.

Yes, the Board would like to establish a time limit other than 60 minutes. What time limit has the board established? (Enter the number of minutes.)

Description: 

*Question 1. The School Code mandates this provision for certificated [licensed] employees serving witness duty. 105 ILCS 5/10-20.7. Despite the statute’s limitation to licensed employees, many boards apply this language to educational support personnel. Would the Board like to apply this language to both licensed and educational support personnel?  No (default)  Yes (IASB will strike "licensed" from the text and correct the grammar.)

*Question 2. The School Code mandates this provision for certificated [licensed] employees serving jury duty. 105 ILCS 5/10-20.7. In contrast, the Jury Act requires that employers give any employee time off from employment for jury duty, but it does not require that employers pay the employee while on jury duty. 705 ILCS 305/4.1. Despite the statute’s limitation to licensed employees, many boards apply this language to educational support personnel. Would the Board like to apply this language to both licensed and educational support personnel?  No (default)  Yes (IASB will strike "licensed" from the text and correct the grammar.)

Description:  Question 1.

Has the Board adopted the School District Supply of Undesignated Epinephrine Injectors subhead in policy 7:270, Administering Medicine to Students? 

Note: Be sure that the Board's adoption of the subhead regarding Undesignated Epinephrine Injectors in policy 7:270 is in alignment with the District's implementation of 105 ILCS 5/22-30, amended by P.A. 102-413. If the district maintains a supply of undesignated epinephrine injectors, but has not adopted the subhead in policy 7:270, see the PRESS sample, available at PRESS Online by logging in at www.iasb.com, at f/n 12.

Yes (default)

No (IASB will delete #3 in alignment with policy 7:270.)

Description:  •The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees of the District or legal counsel for the District, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee or against legal counsel for the District to determine its validity.  5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1)

•Collective negotiating matters between the District and its employees or their representatives, or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees.  5 ILCS 120/2(c)(2).

•Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed, whether for purposes of approval by the body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as mandated by Section 2.06.  5 ILCS 120/2(c)(21).