Meeting Agenda
1. Call to Order
1.A. Pledge to the Flag
1.B. Roll Call
2. Superintendent's Report
2.A. Introduction of Newly Hired Personnel
2.B. FY26 Tentative Budget & Financial Forecast Presentation
2.C. Institute Day & Professional Development Update
  • Telling Our Story: Portrait, Finance, Curriculum, Program
2.D. Registration & Enrollment Update
3. Approval of the Consent Agenda Items
 
3.A. Minutes of the Regular Meeting of June 11, 2025
3.B. Minutes of the Special Closed Board Meeting of June 18, 2025
3.C. Minutes of the Special Finance Meeting of August 5, 2025
3.D. Approval of Bills & Payroll for June & July 2025
3.E. Review of Schools' Activity Accounts for June and July 2025
 
3.F. Personnel Report
3.F.1. Employment:
  1. Ariana Herrera, Pre-K Paraprofessional, Indian Hill, effective August 19, 2025
  2. Nancy Moran, Kindergarten Paraprofessional, Indian Hill, effective August 19, 2025
  3. Quinn Lyons, Paraprofessional, Indian Hill, effective August 19, 2025
  4. Melanie Burdelik, Occupational Therapist, District-Wide, effective August 19, 2025
  5. Leibelle Trejo, Custodian, Chippewa, effective August 19, 2025
  6. Victoria Puttkammer, Paraprofessional, Independence, effective August 19, 2025
  7. Tyler Buell, Paraprofessional, Independence, effective August 19, 2025
3.F.2. Resignation
  1. Destiny Martinez, Paraprofessional, Navajo, effective July 25, 2025
  2. Jessica Bender, Paraprofessional, IJHS, effective August 1, 2025
4. Old Business
4.A. Semi-Annual Review of Closed Session Minutes to Keep Closed
  • September 18, 2024
  • October 16, 2024
  • November 13, 2024
  • December 18, 2024
  • January 29, 2025
4.B. Facility Project Updates
4.C. Review of Mandated Reporter Responsibilities of Board Members
4.D. Update of Board of Education Goals in Relation to the Portrait of a Learner
4.E. Second Read and Approval of April 2025 Policy Updates

Draft Updates

  1. 2:260 Uniform Grievance Procedure

  2. 4:15 Identity Protection

  3. 4:80 Accounting and Audits

  4. 5:10 Equal Employment Opportunity and Minority Recruitment

  5. 5:20 Workplace Harassment Prohibited

  6. 5:60 Expenses

  7. 6:150 Home and Hospital Instruction

  8. 6:235 Access to Electronic Networks

  9. 7:10 Equal Educational Opportunities

  10. 7:20 Harassment of Students Prohibited

  11. 7:60 Residence

  12. 7:70 Attendance and Truancy

  13. 7:180 Prevention of and Response to Bullying, Intimidation, and Harassment

  14. 7:185 Teen Dating Violence Prohibited

  15. 7:190 Student Behavior

  16. 7:200 Suspension Procedures

  17. 7:210 Expulsion Procedures

  18. 7:250 Student Support Services

  19. 7:270 Administering Medicines to Students

  20. 7:310 Restrictions on Publications; Elementary Schools

  21. 7:340 Student Records

    New Policy

  22. 7:255 Students who are Parents, Expectant Parents, or Victims of Domestic or Sexual Violence

Draft Update - Rewritten

  1. 2:265 Title IX Grievance Procedure
5. New Business
5.A. First Read June 2025 Policy Updates

Draft Updates

  1. 2:80 Board Member Oath and Conduct

  2. 2:120 E2 Board Member Development

  3. 2:130 Board-Superintendent Relationship

  4. 2:220 E4 Open Meeting Minutes Procedure

  5. 2:220 E7 Board of Education Meeting Procedure

  6. 7:140 Search and Seizure

  7. 7:300 Extracurricular Athletics

  8. 8:80 Gifts to the District

Draft Updates Rewritten

  1. 2:120 E1 Board Member Development

  2. 2:220 E9 Board of Education Meeting Procedures

Review and Monitor

  1. 2:240 Board Policy Development

  2. 2:240 E1 Board Policy Development

  3. 2:240 E2 Board Policy Development

  4. 1:10 School District Legal Status

  5. 1:20 District Organization, Operations, and Cooperative Agreements

  6. 1:30 School District Philosophy

  7. 2:10 School District Governance

  8. 3:30 Chain of Command (Org Chart)

  9. 4:50 Payment Procedures

  10. 4:90 Student Activity and Fiduciary Funds

  11. 4:180 Pandemic Preparedness; Management; and Recovery

  12. 5:20 E Resolution to Prohibit Sexual Harassment

  13. 5:270 Employment At-Will, Compensation and Assignment

  14. 7:40 Nonpublic School Students, Including Parochial and Home-Schooled Students

  15. 7:90 Release During School Hours

  16. 7:130 Student Rights and Responsibilities

  17. 7:325 Student Fundraising Activities

  18. 8:110 Public Suggestions and Concerns
5.B. Set Budget Hearing for September 17, 2025 at 6:00pm
5.C. Superintendent Goals (2025-2026)
6. Audience Participation
If you are coming up to speak, please identify yourself by name and connection to the district and we ask that comments remain brief to accommodate everyone wishing to speak. Policy ordinarily provides up to 3 minutes per speaker and 15 minutes collectively on a topic.
7. Information Items
7.A. YTD Financial Summary
7.B. Freedom of Information Act Items
8. Closed Session
Discuss the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of a specific employee; collective bargaining matters or deliberations concerning salary schedules for classes of employees; discussion of possible litigation; and student disciplinary issues. The placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters relating to individual students. 5 ILCS 120/2(C)(1)((2)((9)(10)(11)
9. Return to Open Session
10. Adjournment
Agenda Item Details Reload Your Meeting
Meeting: August 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM - Regular Meeting of the Board of Education
Subject:
1. Call to Order
Subject:
1.A. Pledge to the Flag
Subject:
1.B. Roll Call
Subject:
2. Superintendent's Report
Subject:
2.A. Introduction of Newly Hired Personnel
Attachments:
Subject:
2.B. FY26 Tentative Budget & Financial Forecast Presentation
Subject:
2.C. Institute Day & Professional Development Update
  • Telling Our Story: Portrait, Finance, Curriculum, Program
Attachments:
Subject:
2.D. Registration & Enrollment Update
Subject:
3. Approval of the Consent Agenda Items
 
Subject:
3.A. Minutes of the Regular Meeting of June 11, 2025
Subject:
3.B. Minutes of the Special Closed Board Meeting of June 18, 2025
Subject:
3.C. Minutes of the Special Finance Meeting of August 5, 2025
Attachments:
Subject:
3.D. Approval of Bills & Payroll for June & July 2025
Attachments:
Subject:
3.E. Review of Schools' Activity Accounts for June and July 2025
 
Attachments:
Subject:
3.F. Personnel Report
Subject:
3.F.1. Employment:
  1. Ariana Herrera, Pre-K Paraprofessional, Indian Hill, effective August 19, 2025
  2. Nancy Moran, Kindergarten Paraprofessional, Indian Hill, effective August 19, 2025
  3. Quinn Lyons, Paraprofessional, Indian Hill, effective August 19, 2025
  4. Melanie Burdelik, Occupational Therapist, District-Wide, effective August 19, 2025
  5. Leibelle Trejo, Custodian, Chippewa, effective August 19, 2025
  6. Victoria Puttkammer, Paraprofessional, Independence, effective August 19, 2025
  7. Tyler Buell, Paraprofessional, Independence, effective August 19, 2025
Subject:
3.F.2. Resignation
  1. Destiny Martinez, Paraprofessional, Navajo, effective July 25, 2025
  2. Jessica Bender, Paraprofessional, IJHS, effective August 1, 2025
Subject:
4. Old Business
Subject:
4.A. Semi-Annual Review of Closed Session Minutes to Keep Closed
  • September 18, 2024
  • October 16, 2024
  • November 13, 2024
  • December 18, 2024
  • January 29, 2025
Subject:
4.B. Facility Project Updates
Subject:
4.C. Review of Mandated Reporter Responsibilities of Board Members
Attachments:
Subject:
4.D. Update of Board of Education Goals in Relation to the Portrait of a Learner
Attachments:
Subject:
4.E. Second Read and Approval of April 2025 Policy Updates

Draft Updates

  1. 2:260 Uniform Grievance Procedure

  2. 4:15 Identity Protection

  3. 4:80 Accounting and Audits

  4. 5:10 Equal Employment Opportunity and Minority Recruitment

  5. 5:20 Workplace Harassment Prohibited

  6. 5:60 Expenses

  7. 6:150 Home and Hospital Instruction

  8. 6:235 Access to Electronic Networks

  9. 7:10 Equal Educational Opportunities

  10. 7:20 Harassment of Students Prohibited

  11. 7:60 Residence

  12. 7:70 Attendance and Truancy

  13. 7:180 Prevention of and Response to Bullying, Intimidation, and Harassment

  14. 7:185 Teen Dating Violence Prohibited

  15. 7:190 Student Behavior

  16. 7:200 Suspension Procedures

  17. 7:210 Expulsion Procedures

  18. 7:250 Student Support Services

  19. 7:270 Administering Medicines to Students

  20. 7:310 Restrictions on Publications; Elementary Schools

  21. 7:340 Student Records

    New Policy

  22. 7:255 Students who are Parents, Expectant Parents, or Victims of Domestic or Sexual Violence

Draft Update - Rewritten

  1. 2:265 Title IX Grievance Procedure
Attachments:
Subject:
5. New Business
Subject:
5.A. First Read June 2025 Policy Updates

Draft Updates

  1. 2:80 Board Member Oath and Conduct

  2. 2:120 E2 Board Member Development

  3. 2:130 Board-Superintendent Relationship

  4. 2:220 E4 Open Meeting Minutes Procedure

  5. 2:220 E7 Board of Education Meeting Procedure

  6. 7:140 Search and Seizure

  7. 7:300 Extracurricular Athletics

  8. 8:80 Gifts to the District

Draft Updates Rewritten

  1. 2:120 E1 Board Member Development

  2. 2:220 E9 Board of Education Meeting Procedures

Review and Monitor

  1. 2:240 Board Policy Development

  2. 2:240 E1 Board Policy Development

  3. 2:240 E2 Board Policy Development

  4. 1:10 School District Legal Status

  5. 1:20 District Organization, Operations, and Cooperative Agreements

  6. 1:30 School District Philosophy

  7. 2:10 School District Governance

  8. 3:30 Chain of Command (Org Chart)

  9. 4:50 Payment Procedures

  10. 4:90 Student Activity and Fiduciary Funds

  11. 4:180 Pandemic Preparedness; Management; and Recovery

  12. 5:20 E Resolution to Prohibit Sexual Harassment

  13. 5:270 Employment At-Will, Compensation and Assignment

  14. 7:40 Nonpublic School Students, Including Parochial and Home-Schooled Students

  15. 7:90 Release During School Hours

  16. 7:130 Student Rights and Responsibilities

  17. 7:325 Student Fundraising Activities

  18. 8:110 Public Suggestions and Concerns
Attachments:
Subject:
5.B. Set Budget Hearing for September 17, 2025 at 6:00pm
Subject:
5.C. Superintendent Goals (2025-2026)
Subject:
6. Audience Participation
If you are coming up to speak, please identify yourself by name and connection to the district and we ask that comments remain brief to accommodate everyone wishing to speak. Policy ordinarily provides up to 3 minutes per speaker and 15 minutes collectively on a topic.
Subject:
7. Information Items
Subject:
7.A. YTD Financial Summary
Attachments:
Subject:
7.B. Freedom of Information Act Items
Attachments:
Subject:
8. Closed Session
Discuss the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of a specific employee; collective bargaining matters or deliberations concerning salary schedules for classes of employees; discussion of possible litigation; and student disciplinary issues. The placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters relating to individual students. 5 ILCS 120/2(C)(1)((2)((9)(10)(11)
Subject:
9. Return to Open Session
Subject:
10. Adjournment

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