September 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting
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I. Call to Order
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II. Pledge of Allegiance
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III. Roll Call
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IV. Consent Agenda **
Description:
Minutes of regular meeting held August 21, 2025
Minutes of closed meeting held August 21, 2025 September Bills Payable August Treasurer's Report Destruction of closed meeting audio recording from March 21, 2024 |
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V. Superintendent’s Report – Recognition and Informational Items
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V.A. Student of the Month
Description:
Dianey Granados will be in attendance so that we may recognize her accomplishment in being selected as the September Student of the Month.
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V.B. Hall of Fame Ceremony and Recognition **
Description:
Recommend approval of the Resolution recognizing Paul G. Lewis as a member of the Grant Community High School Hall of Fame. Recommend approval of the Resolution recognizing Donny Schmit as a member of the Grant Community High School Hall of Fame. |
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V.C. Board of Education - Professional Development Opportunities
Description:
The IASB Lake Division dinner meeting is being held on October 8, 2025 from 6:15 pm - 8:00 pm. Legislative carousels will provide members an opportunity to gain insight into the most recent legislative updates and forge greater ties with legislators. If you’d like to attend, please let me know so we can get you registered. Also, details on sessions and engagement details are now available for the Joint Annual Conference. The IASB/IASA/IASBO Joint Annual Conference is the premier training and networking event for Illinois school board members and school administrators. The Conference offers a variety of opportunities for focused learning to support school leaders and learn from experts on critical topics such as school finance, community engagement, advocacy, safety and security, and collective bargaining. You can find the schedule and use the Online Planner to pre-plan your learning using the conference planner at
https://www.iasb.com/conference/planner/ |
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V.D. Principal's Report
Description:
Mr. Schoell will provide his monthly report.
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V.E. Student Representative's Report
Description:
Izzy Ellington will provide her monthly report.
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VI. Public Comment
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VII. Superintendent’s Report – Action Items
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VII.A. Overnight Travel **
Description:
The theater department is requesting to travel to the Illinois Theater Festival at Illinois State University, January 8 to January 10, 2026. Approximately 24 students will attend with 3 teachers. Students will pay the festival fee and for several meals. The District will cover the teacher costs, which is estimated to be $1,157.88.
The Speech Team is requesting an overnight stay to travel to a Varsity Speech Invitational to be held at Downers Grove South High School from January 23 to January 24, 2026. The majority of trip costs will be paid with activity funds, with the exception of chaperone and fuel costs. The cost to the district is estimated to be $800.00. Recommend approval of the overnight travel requests as presented |
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VII.B. Personnel **
Description:
Recommend the employment of the following individual(s):
Recommend the position change of the following individuals(s):
Recommend accepting the resignation letters from the following individual(s):
Notification of an FMLA request from the following individual(s):
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VIII. Business Affairs
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VIII.A. Public Act 97-0256 (105 ILCS 5/10-20.47) Sec. 10-20.47
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Each school board shall report to the State Board of Education, on or before October 1 of each year, the base salary and benefits of the district superintendent and all administrators and teachers employed by the school district. For the purposes of this Section, "benefits" includes without limitation vacation days, sick days, bonuses, annuities and retirement enhancements. Prior to this annual reporting to the State Board of Education, the information must be presented at a regular school board meeting, subject to applicable notice requirements and then posted on the Internet website of the school district, if any. Please find the report for the 2024-2025 school year attached for your review.
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VIII.B. 2024-2025 Compensation Over $75,000 Report
Description:
Pursuant to a modification made to the Illinois Open Meetings Act (Public Act 97-0609), which took effect January 1, 2012, an IMRF-participating employer must post on its website the "total compensation package" for each employee having a "total compensation package" exceeding $75,000 per year. Under the law, "total compensation package" is defined as salary (all compensation paid to an employee for work done in the year), health insurance, housing allowance, vehicle allowance, clothing allowance, bonuses, loans, vacation days granted and sick days granted. IMRF has taken the position that this requirement applies to "all IMRF employers and their employees (including those not participating in IMRF)." Additionally, the Illinois Attorney General has agreed and advised that employers should abide by such an interpretation. This report is informational only and is required to be posted on our website within five days of passing the budget.
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VIII.C. Administrative Salary/Benefits Report 2024-2025
Description:
Pursuant to Illinois Public Act 096-0434, on or before October 1st of each year, a school district must post on their website an itemized salary compensation report for every employee in the district holding an administrative certificate and working in that capacity. The salary compensation report shall include without limitation base salary, bonuses, pension contributions, retirement increases, the cost of health insurance, paid sick and vacation day payouts, annuities and any other form of compensation paid on behalf of the employee. As part of this public act, the report must be presented at a regular school board meeting and submitted to the regional superintendent of schools. Please find the report for the 2024-25 school year attached for your review.
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VIII.D.
Authorization to Purchase a Driver’s Education Vehicle **
Description:
We were recently contacted by Ray Chevrolet who leases our driver’s education cars to us. They have indicated that they are no longer able to do so, but that we can purchase a vehicle to utilize for the behind the wheel portion of the driver’s education program. I would recommend that we shop this purchase with different dealerships to see what is available in the used car market. I would ask the Board to approve the purchase of a used car for the driver’s education behind the wheel program not to exceed $30,000.
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IX. Other Business
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IX.A. FOIA
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X. Closed Session
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X.A. Student disciplinary cases 5 ILCS 120/2 (c)(9) **
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X.B. Other matters relating to individual students 5 ILCS 120/2 (c)(10) **
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X.C. The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1) **
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XI. Action items from closed session discussion
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XI.A. Potential Board action regarding personnel **
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XI.B. Potential Board action regarding student placement **
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XII. Adjourn
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