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Votes at a glance: Harlem UD 122 board approves agenda, minutes, payroll and surplus-property resolution; enters executive session
Summary
The Harlem Consolidated School District Board of Education on Jan. 27 approved routine agenda items, payroll and a surplus-property resolution, and voted to enter executive session to discuss negotiations under 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(2).
The Harlem Consolidated School District Board of Education on Jan. 27 approved routine business items and took several formal votes, including a resolution to claim surplus property and a motion to move into executive session to discuss negotiations.
The board approved the meeting agenda and later approved minutes from the Jan. 13 meeting. Both motions passed on roll-call votes with board members recorded as voting in the affirmative during the meeting's roll calls (several members individually said "Aye" or "Yes").
The board also approved payroll and expenditures for the period, with the finance report listing one payroll of $3,506,678.01 and total expenditures of $3,959,918.35. The education fund paid $3,480,176.74; operations and maintenance paid $173,765.74; transportation paid $181,798.09; IMRF/Social Security paid $122,735.24; and the capital projects fund paid $1,442.54.
A resolution to declare surplus property at Windsor, Marquette and the high school was presented and approved on a recorded vote. The board approved a personnel agenda that included transfers, a bank request and resignations, and also approved facility uses and AP testing requests.
Board members granted consensus direction to staff to compile student-origin data for advanced high-school courses: the board asked district staff to produce a three-year snapshot showing which elementary schools students in Advanced Placement and similar high-school-level courses attended. Staff said compiling that history will require time because student pathways change over time; board members narrowed the request to a three-year proof of concept and asked staff to prioritize AP and dual-credit courses.
Finally, the board voted to go into executive session to discuss negotiations under the Illinois Open Meetings Act citation noted at the meeting (5 ILCS 120/2(c)(2)). The motion to enter executive session passed on a roll-call vote recorded in the transcript with most members voting "Aye" or "Yes" and one member recorded voting "No." Specifically, the transcript shows Missus Meek voting No on the executive-session motion while other members recorded affirmative votes.
The meeting adjourned to executive session following that vote; no substantive negotiations were reported in open session during the meeting.
