Illinois Valley Times

Lostant Community Unit School District 425 Board of Education met Jan. 24.

Here is the agenda provided by the Board:

1. Call To Order And Roll Call

2. Public Comment

The following protocol will be followed under the Public Comment section at the board meeting.

a. Address the board when the Board President calls for public comment.

b. Identify one-self.

c. Comments are limited to five (5) minutes. In unusual circumstances, and when an individual has made a request in advance to speak for a longer period of time, the individual may be allowed to speak for more than five minutes.

d. Observe the Board President’s decision to shorten public comment.

e. Observe the Board President’s decision to determine procedural matters.

f. Conduct oneself with respect and civility toward others.

For a complete explanation of Public Participation at Board of Education Meetings and Petitions to the Board, please review School Board Policy 2:230.

3. Correspondence

The School Board welcomes communications from the community. Staff members, parents, and community members should submit questions or communications for the School Board’s consideration to the Superintendent. Written communication must be submitted before noon on the Thursday prior to a board meeting. Written communications that arrive late will be held for the following board meeting. For a complete explanation of Communications To and From the Board, please review School Board Policy 2:140.

4. Recognition

a. To Teresa Beckett, Jen Mertel, Jessica Flaherty, Nicole Larson, Jeff Skinner, Shelly Walder, Niki Rauba, Tracey Busch, Amy Shawback, Tracy Miller, Bob Lawless, Dorothy Appleby, Kelly Wiesbrock, and many Lostant parents for making the January Prairie Conference Boys Basketball tournament possible.

5. Consent Agenda

a. Approve Minutes of the Regular and Executive Board Sessions of the Board Meeting from December 18, 2017.

b. Approve Treasurer’s Report.

c. Approve Balance Sheet.

d. Approve Activity Account Report

e. Approve Disbursements in the Amount of $62,324.37.

f. Approve December 2017 Payroll.

6. Action Item

a. Approve Consent Agenda

7. Financial Report

a. Fund Activity

8. Reports, Updates, And Informational Items

a. Informational Items

i. PTO Report

ii. Employee Report

iii. Intergovernmental Agreement with Fieldcrest School District

iv. School Credit Card Line of Credit

v. Boiler Repairs

vi. Water Leak

vii. Board Policy Draft Update October 2017 - Issue 96: Second Reading

b. Committee Reports

i. Technology

ii. Finance

iii. Building

iv. Calendar

v. Negotiations

vi. Safety

vii. Closed Session Minutes

c. Legislative Update

i. Fiber Optic Infrastructure

d. Other

e. Old Business

i. School Improvement Plan-on-a-Page

ii. All School Field Trip

f. New Business

9. Executive Session

To discuss:

 The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees of the District or legal counsel for the District, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee or against legal counsel for the District to determine its validity. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1).

 Collective negotiating matters between the District and its employees or their representatives, or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(2).

 The selection of a person to fill a public office, including a vacancy in a public office, when the District is given power to appoint under law or ordinance, or the discipline, performance or removal of the occupant of a public office, when the District is given power to remove the occupant under law or ordinance. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(3).

 Evidence or testimony presented in open hearing, or in closed hearing where authorized by law, to a quasiadjudicative body, as defined in the Open Meetings Act, provided that the body prepares and makes available for public inspection a written decision with its determinative reasoning. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(4).

 The purchase or lease of real property for the use of the District, including meetings held for the purpose of discussing whether a particular parcel should be acquired. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(5).

 The setting of a price for sale or lease of property owned by the District. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(6).

 The sale or purchase of securities, investments, or investment contracts. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(7).

 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. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(8), amended by P.A. 99-235.

 Student disciplinary cases. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(9).

 The placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters relating to individual students. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(10).

 Litigation, when an action against, affecting or on behalf of the particular District has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or when the District finds that an action is probable or imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be recorded and entered into the closed meeting minutes. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(11).

 The establishment of reserves or settlement of claims as provided in the Local Government and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, if otherwise the disposition of a claim or potential claim might be prejudiced, or the review or discussion of claims, loss or risk management information, records, data, advice or communications from or with respect to any insurer of the District or any intergovernmental risk management association or self-insurance pool of which the District is a member. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(12).

 Self-evaluation, practices and procedures or professional ethics, when meeting with a representative of a statewide association of which the District is a member. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(16).

 Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed, whether for purposes of approval by the body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as mandated by Section 2.06. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(21).

 Meetings between internal or external auditors and governmental audit committees, finance committees, and their equivalents, when the discussion involves internal control weaknesses, identification of potential fraud risk areas, known or suspected frauds, and fraud interviews conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards of the United States of America. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(29).

10. Action Items

a. School Credit Card Line of Credit

b. Board Policy Draft Update October 2017

11. Action Items As A Result Of Executive Session

12. Direct Superintendent To Report To Board

13. Adjourn

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