The Board of Education approved a series of personnel and grievance-related actions during its meeting, including support-staff dismissals, adoption of an investigator's written decision related to a Feb. 28, 2025 uniform grievance filed by a former Maine West High School administrator, and sustaining a student grievance appeal.

The board voted to approve personnel actions that included support-staff appointments, certified-staff appointments and the support-staff dismissals of John Vilek and Alexander Kucovic. A roll-call vote followed the motion; members recorded their votes as "aye."

The board then moved to adopt the findings of an investigator and approve the investigator's written decision on the uniform grievance complaint filed Feb. 28, 2025, by a former administrator of Maine West High School. The motion passed on a roll-call vote with board members recorded as voting "aye."

Separately, the board voted to sustain a uniform grievance appeal concerning student number 90225-1. That motion passed after a motion and second and a roll-call vote in which members were recorded as "aye." The board also moved on a notice of remedy for Teresa Simpson and approved it by recorded vote.

The meeting record shows the board approved the semiannual review of closed-session minutes for items a through g and approved closed-session minutes for a regular board meeting dated 08/04/2025. All of those motions were carried by recorded voice/roll-call votes during the session.

All actions described above were recorded as formal motions with seconds and passed by the board during the same meeting; the transcript does not show extended public debate or substantive floor discussion about the underlying facts of the grievances or personnel matters. The transcript does not name the investigator or provide the written decision text beyond the board's vote to adopt it. The transcript also does not provide details of the grounds for the student grievance appeal, the full identity of the former administrator who filed the Feb. 28 complaint, or the specific remedies ordered for Teresa Simpson beyond the board's motion to approve a notice of remedy.

The meeting concluded with the board adjourning after the recorded votes.