West Central Reporter

Brown County Community Unit School District 1 Board met June 16.

Here is the agenda provided by the board:

5:15 p.m. – Budget Hearing

I. Call to Order

II. Roll Call

III. Review of 2024-2025 Fiscal Year Amended Budget

IV. Public Comment

V. Adjournment

5:30 p.m. – Regular Board Meeting

AGENDA

I. Opening Prayer

II. Pledge of Allegiance

III. Call to Order

IV. Roll Call

V. Public Comment

VI. Consent Agenda

⮚ Approval on Minutes of Previous Meeting(s)

⮚ Approval of Financial Report

⮚ Approval of Monthly Bills

⮚ Approval of Payroll

⮚ Approval of Money Transfer, if applicable

⮚ Approval of Student Activity Account

VII. Correspondence

 Brown County State Bank Affinity Donation

VIII. Reports

IX. Discussion Items

 Building Project Update

 Next Board Meeting – July 21, 2025, at 5:30 PM

X. Action Items

A. Consideration and Action on the Amended Budget for Fiscal Year 2025

B. Consideration and Action on the Insurance Renewal Including, Property, General Liability, Inland Marine, Crime, Automobile, Workers’ Compensation, and Umbrella Coverage from ICRMT with Yingling and Nuessen Insurance

C. Consideration and Action on the Cyber Liability Policy Renewal from CFC with Yingling and Nuessen Insurance

D. Consideration and Action on the Wind and Hail Deductible Buy Down Policy with Yingling and Nuessen Insurance

E. Consideration and Action on the Student Catastrophic Insurance Policy Renewal

F. Consideration and Action on the Fiscal Year 2026 Board Meeting Schedule

G. Consideration and Action on the Risk Management Plan for Fiscal Year 2026

H. Consideration and Action on setting the 2025-2026 Registration Date

I. Consideration and Action on Student, Food Service, and Athletic Fees for the 2025- 2026 School Year

J. Consideration and Action on the Fiscal Year 2026 Consolidated Plan

K. Consideration and Action on the Milk Bid for the 2025 – 2026 School Year

L. Consideration and Action on opting out of the ISBE College & Career Pathway Endorsement

M. Consideration and Action on the Wrestling Cooperative Agreement Renewal with Camp Point Central

N. Consideration and Action on the Approval of the following forms for Fiscal Year 2026:

• Acceptable Usage Policy for Network and Internet Access (Staff and Student)

• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Program Participation Authorization and Responsible Use Agreement (Staff and Student)

• Staff Device Damage Policy

• Student-Assigned Laptop/Tablet Program Expectations

O. Consideration and Action on the Second Reading of Press Issue 118

• 7:255 Students Who are Parents, Expectant Parents, or Victims of Domestic or Sexual Violence

• 2:265 Title IX Grievance Procedure

• 2:260 Uniform Grievance Procedure

• 4:15 Identity Protection

• 4:80 Accounting and Audits

• 5:10 Equal Employment Opportunity and Minority Recruitment

• 5:20 Workplace Harassment Prohibited

• 5:60 Expenses

• 5:100 Staff Development Program

• 5:60-E1 Exhibit - Employee Expense Reimbursement Form

• 5:60-E2 Exhibit - Employee Estimated Expense Approval Form

• 6:150 Home and Hospital Instruction

• 6:235 Access to Electronic Networks

• 7:10 Equal Educational Opportunities

• 7:20 Harassment of Students Prohibited

• 7:60 Residence

• 7:70 Attendance and Truancy

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

• 7:185 Teen Dating Violence Prohibited

• 7:190 Student Behavior

• 7:200 Suspension Procedures

• 7:210 Expulsion Procedures

• 7:250 Student Support Services

• 7:270 Administering Medicines to Students

• 7:310 Restrictions on Publications; Elementary Schools

• 7:315 Restrictions on Publications; High Schools

• 7:340 Student Records

XI. Closed Session

Closed Session on the following subjects: 1. The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees, specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in a park, recreational, or educational setting, or specific volunteers of the public body or legal counsel for the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee, a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park, recreational, or educational setting, or a volunteer of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity. 2. Collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives, or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees. 3. The selection of a person to fill a public office, as defined in this Act, including a vacancy in a public office, when the public body is given power to appoint under law or ordinance, or the discipline, performance, or removal of the occupant of a public office, when the public body is given power to remove the occupant under law or ordinance. 4. Evidence or testimony presented in open hearing, or in closed hearing where specifically authorized by law, to a quasi-adjudicative body, as defined in this Act, provided that the body prepares and makes available for public inspection a written decision setting forth its determinative reasoning. 5. Evidence or testimony presented to the Board regarding denial of admission to school events or property pursuant to 105 ILCS 5/24-24, provided that the Board prepares and makes available for public inspection a written decision setting forth its determinative reasoning. 6. The purchase or lease of real property for the use of the public body, including meetings held for the purpose of discussing whether a particular parcel should be acquired. 7. The setting of a price for sale or lease of property owned by the public body. 8. The sale or purchase of securities, investments, or investment contracts. 9. 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. 10. Student disciplinary cases. 11. The placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters relating to individual students. 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, in which case the basis for the finding shall be recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed meeting. 13. The establishment of reserves or settlement of claims as provided in the Local Governmental 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 public body or any intergovernmental risk management association or self-insurance pool of which the public body is a member. 14. Self-evaluation, practices and procedures, or professional ethics when meeting with a representative of a statewide association of which the public body is a member. 15. Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed under this Act, whether for purposes of approval by the body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as mandated by Section 2.06. 16. 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. 

XII. Closed Session Matters: Approve any matter discussed in closed session as necessary and limited to that matter authorized for discussion in executive session by motion of the Board. 

XIII. Return to Open Session 

XIV. Action Items 

P. Consideration and Action on Non-Tenured Staff 

Q. Consideration and Action on the Employment of Abbigaile Ealey – Paraprofessional – effective beginning of 2025 – 2026 School Year (pending licensure) 

R. Consideration and Action on the Employment of Kristen Schenk – Summer Food Bag Assembly – effective June 16, 2025 

S. Consideration and Action on the Employment of Breyden Patton – Summer Custodian – effective June 16, 2025 

T. Consideration and Action on the Employment of Joseph Feenstra – Long-Term Substitute Chorus Teacher – effective beginning of 2025 – 2026 School Year 

U. Consideration and Action on the Employment of Gabrielle Kempf – Long-Term Substitute Elementary Special Education Teacher – effective beginning of 2025 – 2026 School Year 

V. Consideration and Action on the Resignation of Gabrielle Kempf – Paraprofessional – effective June 10, 2025 

W. Consideration and Action on the Resignation of Danielle Logsdon – Bus Driver – effective May 23, 2025 

X. Consideration and Action on the Employment of Danielle Logsdon – Support Substitute – effective June 16, 2025 

Y. Consideration and Action on the Resignation of Jordan Brown – Paraprofessional – effective May 29, 2025 

Z. Consideration and Action on the Resignation of Jami Schuwerk – National Honor Society Sponsor – effective May 30, 2025 

AA. Consideration and Action on the Resignation of Paul McGinty – Substitute Teacher – effective June 9, 2025 

BB. Consideration and Action on the Retirement Agreement for Lan Eberle – Superintendent – effective June 30, 2027 

XV. Adjournment

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