August 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM - School Board Meeting

1. Call to Order

2. Roll Call

3. Pledge of Allegiance

4. Approve Agenda

5. Approve Consent Agenda (2:220)

5.1. Approve Personnel Report

5.2. Approve Payroll

5.3. Approve Accounts Payable

5.4. Approve Minutes

5.5. Approve Treasurer's Report

5.6. Approve Activity Accounts

5.7. SVHS Athletic Training Contract

5.8. Move to keep Closed Session Minutes closed - Action Expected
Semi-Annual Review of Closed Session Minutes: No less than semi-annually, a public body must meet to review the minutes of all closed meetings. This can occur in closed session. At the meeting, the public body must make a determination that (1) the need for confidentiality still exists as to all or part of those minutes; and (2) that Page 15 the minutes or portions thereof no longer require confidential treatment and are available for public inspection. The determination must be reported in open session. 5 ILCS 120/2.06(d).  

5.9. Move to destroy Closed Session Minutes 18 months or older - Action Expected
Destruction of Closed Session Verbatim Recording: The verbatim record of a closed session may be destroyed without notification to or approval of a records commission or the State Archivist under the Local Records Act or State Records Act no less than 18 months after completion of the meeting, but only after (a) the public body approves the destruction of a particular recording; and (b) the public body approves the minutes of the closed session that meet the requirements of the OMA. 5 ILCS 120/2.06(c). 

5.10. PikMyKid

5.11. Food Service Van

5.12. Alternative Survey of Learning Conditions

6. Year-to-Date Budget Update

7. Report of the Superintendent (2:130)

7.1. Introduce New Junior High Principal

7.2. FOIA

7.3. Month by Month BOE To-Do

7.4. Debrief of Retreat

8. Administrator/Director Report

8.1. Building and Grounds Director - Kenny Lamer
https://youtu.be/mXYIntejeSI?si=EiLXFxcLIrPHHHpP

9. Facilities Report

10. New Teacher Reception 

11. Notices and Communications

11.1. Review Code of Conduct:
I will recognize that a board member has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by a majority vote at a board meeting.

12. Community Input (2:220)
(This is the time when visitors may request to address the Board of Education on any item
relating to the role and function of the Board of Education. When the Board President
so directs, persons should stand, give their name and begin their statements.
Persons are asked to refrain from making any personal comments regarding any individual.
The Board President reserves the right to limit presentations to five minutes.)

13. Unfinished Business - Action Expected Unless Otherwise Noted

14. New Business - Action Expected Unless Otherwise Noted

14.1. FY26 Meridian CUSD 223 Tentative Budget
 

14.2. Request for Special Board Meeting to Allow for Budget Hearing and Adoption of
FY26 Budget for the 2025-2026 School Year

14.3. Policy Update (First Reading)

14.4. Hot Water System Heat Exchanger

14.5. SVHS Outdoor Display

14.6. Virtual Spanish Instruction

14.7. Fire Protection District MOU

14.8. Baseball Field Naming Rights

15. Adjourn to Closed session for 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(2) Collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives, or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees and 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(10) 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. 5ILCS 120/2(c)(8) The placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters relating to individual students and 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(11) 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.
 
 

16. Reconvene in open session

17. Settlement Agreement and General Release With Parents to Resolve
Special Education Dispute

18. District-Wide Emergency communication and Succession Plan

19. District Emergency Plan

20. Ratification of Step 3 Grievance Response

21. Adjourn