September 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM - Regular Board of Education Meeting

A. OPENING ACTIVITIES

A.1. Call to Order

A.2. Salute to the Flag

A.3. Reading of the Mission Statement:  Rich Nagel

A.4. Board Agreements:  Lynn Casey-Maher
Request for Information

• When an individual board member requests information, it will be provided to all board members. (“One gets, all get.”)

A.5. Roll Call

B. STUDENT OF THE MONTH

B.1. Matthew Krysinski - August 2025

C. GOOD NEWS OF THE DISTRICT

C.1. AP Scholars with Distinction:
Valeria Ballines, Jacob D. Benitez, Peter H. Bovey, Brockton Brown, Guadalupe Carreto, Alex M. Durkin, Alyson A. Dusing, Lesley I. Garcia, Sneha George, Jacob Hayward, Rachel E. Knaack, Julia S. Koput, Joshua C. Kotke, Matthew R. Krysinski, Grace M. Kuehn, Kody Albert U. Leano, Aaron P. Lorenc, Jessie Myers, Brian Nguyen, Gwenneth S. Nika, Mason A. Ostapa, Nick W. Riconosciuto, Lucas B. Rudden, Magdalena L. Schave, Daniel Szacilowski, Hailey L. Teran, Dirk A. Ulbrich, Nataniel F. Valenzuela, and Leo W. Volk

D. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

E. PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED 2025-2026 BUDGET

E.1. Overview of Proposed 2025-2026 Budget

E.1.a. Budget Presentation

E.1.b. Final FY26 Budget Report

E.1.c. ISBE 50-36 Budget Form

E.1.d. Changes to the FY26 Tentative Budget

E.2. Public Comment on Proposed 2025-2026 Budget

E.3. Board Discussion of Proposed 2025-2026 Budget

E.4. Adjournment of Public Hearing of Proposed 2025-2026 Budget

E.5. Fiscal Year Budget 2025-2026 - (Roll Call)

F. REPORTS AND INFORMATION

F.1. Executive Director of Business Services Report

F.2. Interim Executive Director of Human Resources Report

F.3. Principal's Report

F.3.a. 2025-26 Student Board Representatives - Rosie Cuautle and Mason Ostapa

F.3.b. Student Attendance Report

F.3.c. Student Discipline Report

F.4. Superintendent's Report

F.4.a. FOIAs

F.5. Committee and Representative Reports

F.5.a. LEND

F.5.b. SASED

F.5.c. IASA

F.6. Future Dates

F.6.a. October 7, 2025, Committee of the Whole Meeting

F.6.b. October 21, 2025, Regular Board of Education Meeting

F.7. Board Members' Open Comments

F.8. Future Issues

G. CONSENT AGENDA (Roll Call)

G.1. Items removed from Consent Agenda for separate action.

G.2. Consent Agenda action for all items except those listed above.

H. CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS - RECOMMENDED ACTION

H.1. Approval of Minutes

H.1.a. August 19, 2025, Regular Board of Education Meeting Minutes (Open)

H.1.b. September 2, 2025, Committee of the Whole Meeting Minutes (Open and Closed)

H.2. Approval of Financials from August 15, 2025 to September 10, 2025

H.2.a. Approve Current Expenditures

H.2.b. Imprest Fund Statement

H.2.c. Treasurer's Report

H.2.d. Balance Sheet Summary

H.2.e. Revenue/Expenditures YTD Ending August 31, 2025

H.2.e.1. Revenue Summary

H.2.e.2. Expense Summary

H.2.f. 3-Year Budget/Actual Report

H.2.g. Grant Reports

H.2.g.1. Grant Revenue Summary

H.2.g.2. Grant Expense Summary

H.2.h. Petty Cash Fund Report

H.2.i. Student Activity Account Fund Balance

H.2.j. New Vendors Monthly Report

H.2.k. Quarterly Financial Reports

H.2.l. Board Conference Travel Expenses

H.3. SOPPA Approval

H.4. Donations over $500

I. OLD BUSINESS

J. NEW BUSINESS

J.1. Postage Machines

J.2. Boiler Repair

J.3. Pool Repair

J.4. Personnel Report

J.5. Press Plus 119 (2nd Reading and Approval)

J.5.a. Draft Update:

• 2:80 Board Member Oath and Conduct
• 2:130 Board-Superintendent Relationship
• 2:220-E7 Exhibit - Access to Closed Meeting Minutes and Verbatim Recordings
• 7:140 Search and Seizure
• 7:300 Extracurricular Athletics
• 8:80 Gifts to the District

J.5.b. Review and Monitoring:

• 1:10 School District Legal Status
• 1:20 District Organization, Operations, and Cooperative Agreements
• 2:10 School District Governance
• 2:240 Board Policy Development
• 3:30 Chain of Command
• 4:50 Payment Procedures
• 4:90 Student Activity and Fiduciary Funds
• 4:180 Pandemic Preparedness; Management; and Recovery
• 5:20-E Exhibit - Resolution to Prohibit Sexual Harassment
• 5:270 Employment At-Will, Compensation, and Assignment
• 7:40 Nonpublic School Students, Including Parochial and Home-Schooled Students
• 7:90 Release During School Hours
• 7:130 Student Rights and Responsibilities
• 7:325 Student Fundraising Activities
• 8:110 Public Suggestions and Concerns

J.6. Board Questions Regarding Emails

K. CLOSED SESSION (Roll Call)
Closed Session will be held only if needed and with the understanding that possible action could be taken on matters discussed in Closed Session.

K.1. The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees.

K.2. Collective negotiating matters.

K.3. The selection of a person to fill a public office.

K.4. Evidence or testimony presented in open hearing, or in closed hearing, where specifically authorized by law, to a quasi-adjudicative body.

K.5. Evidence or testimony presented to a school board regarding denial of admission to
school events or property.

K.6. The purchase or lease of real property for the use of the public body.

K.7. The setting of a price for sale or lease of property owned by the public body.

K.8. The sale or purchase of securities, investments, or investment contracts.

K.9. Security procedures, school building safety and security.

K.10. Student disciplinary cases.

K.11. The placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters related to individual students.

K.12. 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.

K.13. The establishment of reserves or settlement of claims as provided in the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act.

K.14. Self-evaluation.

K.15. Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed under the Open Meetings Act.

K.16. Meetings between internal or external auditors and governmental audit committees, finance committees, and their equivalents.

K.17. Other enumerated exceptions as listed in the Open Meetings Act.

L. OPEN SESSION

L.1. Action, if any.

M. ADJOURNMENT