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Community Unit School District #201 Board of Education met June 18.

Here are the minutes provided by the board:

CALL TO ORDER

On June 18, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. President Hoover called to order the regular meeting of the Community Unit School District 201 Board of Education.

Roll Call

Members Present: Adina Hoover, Whitney Rogers, Jessica Radogno, Carlos Hevia, Kevin Marren, Leah Conover

Angela Steketee entered the meeting at 6:32 p.m.

Also present: Superintendent Jack Baldermann, Business Manager,

Anthony Ruelli, the Superintendent’s Administrative Assistant, Shannon Cossairt.

Pledge of Allegiance

Adina Hoover led the Assembly in the Pledge of Allegiance.

RECOGNITION

Dr. Kevin Weck, Brian Dunne, Athletic Director, and Leann Philgren, Track Coach, wanted to recognized the following high school athletes who made it to state this year:

● Lucas Hicks

● Kyla Babb

● Abe Johnson

● Joseph Kone

CLOSED SESSION

Motion by Mr. Hevia, second by Ms. Conover, to enter closed session to discuss personnel issues, student discipline, and superintendent’s evaluation.

Ayes: Radogno, Steketee, Rogers, Marren, Conover, Hevia, Hoover

Nays: None.

Motion Carries.

The Board entered closed session at 6:50 p.m.

The Board returned to open session at 7:48 p.m.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES May 14, 2024

Motion by Ms. Steketee, second by Ms. Conover, to approve the minutes of the May 14, 2024, regular meeting of the Board of Education, as presented.

Ayes: Radogno, Steketee, Rogers, Marren, Conover, Hevia, Hoover

Nays: None.

Motion Carried.

May 14, 2024 - Closed

Motion by Ms. Rogers, second by Mr. Marren, to approve the minutes of the closed session of the May 14, 2024, regular meeting of the Board of Education, as presented.

Ayes: Radogno, Steketee, Rogers, Marren, Conover, Hevia, Hoover

Nays: None

Motion Carried.

PUBLIC COMMENT

No public comment at this time.

CONSENT AGENDA

Motion by Ms. Radogno, second by Ms. Conover, to approve the consent agenda as presented:

1. Personnel Recommendations:

● Megan Kreis, Kindergarten Teacher

● Sara Cunningham, Structured K/1 Teacher

● Joshua McLeod, Math Teacher, WJHS

● Janet Lochridge, Long Term Sub, WHS Counselor

● Stephen Davis, Summer School TA

● Kelly Iovenilli, Summer School TA

● Jaylen Jordan, Summer School TA

● Karen Magee, Teaching Assistant

● Kelby James, Facilities Summer Worker

● Andrew Andreasik, Volunteer Football Coach

● Emilia Maslany, Speech Language Pathologist

● Shannon Simpson, Elementary Art Teacher

2. Approval of May 2024 Expenditure Report

3. Approval of June 2024 Expenditure Report

4. Ratification of May 2024 Regular Payroll

5. Appointment of School Treasurer and Renewal of Treasure’s Bond

Ayes: Rogers, Marren, Conover, Hevia, Hoover, Radogno, Steketee

Nays: None.

Motion carried.

INFORMATION and DISCUSSION

Dual Enrollment Offering WHS and COD

Dr. Kevin Weck explained to the Board a new offering for WHS. The high school has had Spanish 5 in the past, but now they would like to offer it as Dual Enrollment with College of DuPage. This would allow students to earn up to 6 credit hours with COD. The class will be taught three days a week with an adjunct professor from College of DuPage along with Spanish teacher, Paul Sebedyn.

EOSullivan Update

Ed Sullivan with EOSullivan has been working with the District since March and just completed phase 1 of the project. They just worked with a committee of community members and reached out electronically to the community asking them broad questions regarding their thoughts on the District and facilities. They presented the results of the survey to the Board. EOSullivan will continue to move on to the next phase and will report back with the results. As part of the next phase there will be focus groups held and phone surveys being made to the community.

Jessica Radogno exited the meeting at 8:25 p.m. during the Quality Review Presentation.

Quality Review

Dr. Carla Braun presented data to the Board as part of an end of year update. At the beginning of the year the District and Administration set high goals for ELA, Math and absenteeism. The District met most of the goals and slightly missed a couple. Overall everyone worked very hard and Superintendent Baldermann is happy with the results. The administration and staff will be setting District wide goals again next year and they have already set a plan of what some of the top priorities they will be working on. The Board would like to make the presentation available to the public.

SELF Workers Compensation Renewal

Mr. Ruelli informed the Board about the increase in the renewal for the District’s workers compensation. This has gone up because the cooperative the District is part of looks at the claims over the last three years and the District did have large claims. The District is working with the cooperative on employee training and items, such as signage, the District can use to help decrease the number of claims.

Policy First Reading

Before tonight's meeting, the Policy Committee met to discuss changes in policy that PRESS has issued. PRESS is a subscription the District has comprised of lawyers who review and create policy based on legislation. PRESS notifies its subscribers of changes that are being made to a specific policy based on new legislation and school code. The policies that have recently been changed or updated are presented in BoardDocs.

The Board would like to make some changes to policy 2:110, which relates to the terms of office for the Board President, Vice President, and Secretary. Currently, the CUSD 201 policy has one-year terms. Starting with the next election of officers, the Board would like the terms of office to be two-year terms. This is a change being requested by the Board and not a PRESS Policy change.

Policy 2:110 and all the policy changes by PRESS will be presented in July for a second reading and approval.

ACTION ITEMS

Year 2024Motion by Mr. Hevia, second by Ms. Steketee, to authorize and 1. Approval of Authorization to Pay Additional June/July Bills for Fiscal direct the Treasurer to pay any additional bills received in June/July 2024 that have been budgeted for the current fiscal year.

Ayes: Rogers, Marren, Conover, Hevia, Hoover, Steketee

Nays: None

Motion Carried.

2. Adoption of 2024-2025 Routine Business Office Resolutions

Motion by Mr. Marren, second by Ms. Conover, to approve the adoption of the routine 2024-2025 Business Office Resolutions, as presented.

Ayes: Marren, Conover, Hevia, Hoover, Steketee, Rogers

Nays: None.

Motion Carried.

3. Approval of Intergovernmental Agreement with Westmont Park District for a Before and After School Daycare Program

Motion by Ms. Conover, second by Mr. Marren, to approve the Intergovernmental Agreement for Before-After School Program at Manning Elementary School, as presented.

Ayes: Conover. Hevia, Hoover, Steketee, Rogers, Marren

Nays: None.

Motion Carried.

4. SELF Worker’s Compensation Renewal

Motion by Ms. Conover, second by Mr. Marren, to approve the SELF Worker’s Compensation renewal in the amount of $104,368.00 for the 2024-2025 school year, as presented.

Ayes: Hevia, Hoover, Steketee, Rogers, Marren, Conover

Nays: None.

Motion Carried.

5. Approval of Contract with College of DuPage for Dual Enrollment

Motion by Ms. Steketee, second by Ms. Conover, to approve the Memorandum of Understanding 2024-2025 for a Dual Partnership with Community College District 502, College of DuPage and Westmont High School, as presented.

Ayes: Hoover, Steketee, Rogers, Marren Conover, Heiva

Nays: None.

Motion Carried.

6. Resolution for Termination of Support Staff Employment

Motion by Mr. Hevia, second by Mr. Marren, to approve the termination of employment with the following support staff member: Dawn Marchese.

Ayes: Steketee, Rogers, Marren, Conover, Hevia, Hoover

Nays: None

Motion Carried.

7. Approval of SASED Lease Agreement

Motion by Ms. Conover, second by Ms. Conover, to approve the lease agreement between SASED and Community Unit School District 201 for the 2024-2025 school year, as presented.

Ayes: Hevia, Steketee, Rogers, Marren, Conover, Hevia, Hoover

Nays: None.

Motion Carried.

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

Communication

In a recent article in Chicago Magazine about the suburbs, Westmont was highlighted for their highly rated schools. Superintendent Balderann also would like to remind all the students to read 20 minutes a day.

FOIA Request

None at this time.

Update on Meeting Minutes/Agendas/Curriculum

None at this time.

BOARD REPORTS

Ms. Steketee would like to invite everyone to the play which is being put on by PVPN but will be held at Westmont High School.

The play will have some of CUSD 201’s students and parents in it.

Mr. Hevia would like to remind everyone to sign up for Hoopfest.

Ms. Hoover would like to let the community know the Board meetings will be starting at 6:30 p.m. per the Board approved calendar. This will allow for committee meetings to take place beforehand.

PUBLIC COMMENT

No public comment at this time.

FUTURE MEETINGS/EVENTS

All buildings will be closed on June 19, 2024 in observance of Juneteenth.

All Buildings will be closed on July 4, 2024 in observance of Independence day.

CUSD 201 Regular Board Meeting

July 16, 6:30 p.m.

Miller Elementary School

CLOSED SESSION

Not at this time.

COMMUNICATIONS

None at this time.

ADJOURNMENT

Motion by Ms. Conover, second by Ms. Steketee, to adjourn the June 18, 2024, regular meeting of the Board of Education at 9:17 p.m.

Motion unanimously passed.

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