September 19, 2023 at 6:30 PM - Regular Meeting of the Board of Education

1. Call to Order

2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Consideration to Approve: Agenda

4. Board Recognition

4.A. Pefect Score (850) on Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) Test

4.B. Newly Tenured Teachers

5. Presentation

5.A. Hillcrest Elementary School 5th Grade 9/11 Project - Spreading Acts of Kindness

6. Information/Discussion Items

6.A. School Resource Officer Discussion

6.B. Antioch Upper Grade School Facilities Discussion

6.C. FY24 Administrator and Teacher Salary Benefits Report

7. Superintendent’s Report

8. Public Participation

9. Board Committee Reports

10. Consideration to Approve: Consent Agenda

10.A. Minutes

10.A.1. Special Meeting Open Session Minutes - August 17, 2023

10.A.2. Special Meeting Closed Session Minutes - August 17, 2023

10.A.3. Regular Meeting Open Session Minutes - August 22, 2023

10.A.4. Regular Meeting Closed Session Minutes - August 22, 2023

10.B. Financial Reports

10.B.1. Activity Fund Statements - August 2023

10.B.2. Bills - August 2023

10.B.3. Bills - September 2023

10.B.4. Imprest Fund - August 2023

10.B.5. Payroll Report - August 2023

10.B.6. Treasurer's and Investment Report - August 2023

10.C. Personnel Consent Agenda

10.C.1. New Hires/Appointments, Leave of Absence Requests, Resignations, Notification of Intent to Retire, and Discharge of Staff

10.C.2. Stipend Amounts for Individuals by Building

10.D. Enrollment Report

10.E. Overnight and/or over 200 Mile Radius Field Trip

10.E.1. Washington DC Trip

10.E.2. Camp Timber-lee Trip

11. Consideration to Approve: Action Items

11.A. FY24 Budget

11.B. W.C. Petty Boosters Digital Sign Installation

11.C. Fuel Bid Award

11.D. FY24 School Maintenance Project Grant

11.E. Long-Range Master Facility Plan Assessment with an Addendum for Facilities Safety Assessment

12. Closed Session – Per the Open Meetings Act for the purpose of:

12.A. The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees, specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in a park, recreational, or educational setting, or specific volunteers of the public body or legal counsel for the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee, a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park, recreational, or educational setting, or a volunteer of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity.  However, a meeting to consider an increase in compensation to a specific employee of a public body that is subject to the Local Government Wage Increase Transparency Act may not be closed and shall be open to the public and posted and held in accordance with this Act. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1).

12.B. Security procedures, school building safety and security, and the use of personnel and equipment to respond to an actual, a threatened, or a reasonably potential danger to the safety of employees, students, staff, the public, or public property. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(8).

12.C. Student disciplinary cases. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(9).

12.D. The placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters relating to individual students. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(10).

12.E. Litigation, when an action against, affecting or on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or when the public body finds that an action is probable or imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed meeting. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(11).

13. Reconvene to Open Session

14. Information/Discussion Items

14.A. Future Agenda Items and Meeting Summary

15. Adjournment