December 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. Pawsitive Petty Bobcats of the Month

4.B. W.C. Petty Elementary School Student Council Officers Recognition

5. Presentations

5.A. Audit Report Review

5.B. School Improvement Plan - Hillcrest Elementary School

5.C. School Improvement Plan - Oakland Elementary School

5.D. School Improvement Plan - W.C. Petty Elementary School

6. Superintendent’s Report

7. Public Participation

8. Board Committee Reports

9. Consideration to Approve: Consent Agenda

9.A. Minutes

9.A.1. Regular Meeting Open Session Minutes - November 14, 2023

9.A.2. Regular Meeting Closed Session Minutes - November 14, 2023

9.B. Financial Reports

9.B.1. Activity Fund Statements - November 2023

9.B.2. Bills - November 2023

9.B.3. Bills - December 2023

9.B.4. Imprest Fund - November 2023

9.B.5. Payroll Report - November 2023

9.B.6. Treasurer's and Investment Report - November 2023

9.C. Personnel Consent Agenda

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

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

9.D. Enrollment Report

10. Consideration to Approve: Action Items

10.A. Proposed 2023 Tax Levy

10.B. Facilities Assessment, Master Facility Plan, and Security and Safety Assessment Approval

10.C. School Resource Officer Intergovernmental Agreement

10.D. FY24 Extended School Year Approval

10.E. FY24 Summer School Staffing Approval

10.F. Additional FTE at Mary Kay McNeill Early Learning Center

10.G. Amendment to the Doolittle Farm Lease

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

11.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).

11.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).

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

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

11.E. Dicussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed under the Open Meetings Act, 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).

12. Reconvene to Open Session

13. Consideration to Approve: Action Items

13.A. Closed Session Recordings Destruction

13.B. Closed Session Minutes Review

14. Information/Discussion Items

14.A. Future Agenda Items and Meeting Summary

15. Adjournment