U-46 board approves consent agenda, bills and personnel resolutions in unanimous votes

The School District U-46 Board of Education approved multiple consent and action items by roll call during its March 24 meeting. Several other proposals were presented for discussion and were not voted.

The board approved the consent agenda by motion and roll call (7–0). The consent agenda included personnel reports, workers’ compensation cases, minutes from January meetings, a personnel termination item, multiple procurement items for the new Hawk Hollow Middle School (furniture, fitness equipment, fine arts equipment), curriculum and assessment proposals to purchase classroom materials (literacy kits, classroom libraries, Scholastic books), professional-learning proposals (AVID Summer Institute), a principal-preparation contract, and other routine items previously listed in the agenda packet. Many of those consent items were listed in the board packet and were voted as a single bundle.

The board also approved itemized bills for March 24, 2025, with a motion to approve a list totaling $28,799,161.59; the motion passed by unanimous roll call (Miss Kerr, Miss Khan, Miss Martin, Miss Nolan, Miss Schwartz, Miss Thomas, President Owens voting Yes).

Separately, the board approved the secondary library and media curriculum proposal with an estimated resource cost of $456,274.50 (motion and unanimous roll call). The board approved personnel-related resolutions presented at the meeting: Resolution 2515 (authorize honorable dismissal of teachers) and Resolution 2528 (nonrenewal of administrative contracts and reassignment of tenured administrators); both motions passed by unanimous roll call.

The board approved the motion to adjourn (roll call 7–0) at the meeting’s end. Other presented items at the March 24 meeting—including the attendance-boundary proposal, OpenSciEd science curriculum recommendation, world-language resources and AP pathway proposals, multiple contracts and capital-project recommendations (Larkin roof, integrated pest control, Chromebook procurement, network refresh, and others presented in the packet)—were discussed and recommended by administration but either were presented for future approval or were not shown to have completed a final roll-call vote in the transcript excerpt.

For clarity, the transcript records the following recorded roll-call outcomes on March 24 (all unanimous Yes votes unless noted):

- Consent agenda: approved (motion carried) - Itemized bills $28,799,161.59: approved - Secondary library and media curriculum ($456,274.50): approved - Resolution 2515 (authorize honorable dismissal of teachers): approved - Resolution 2528 (nonrenewal of administrative contracts/reassignment of tenured administrators): approved - Adjournment motion: approved

District staff indicated other procurements and contract renewals (for example: Chromebooks $3,145,000; Larkin High School roof replacement $2,972,000; integrated pest-control services $246,690; Canvas renewal $962,838.10; Panorama student-success services $766,165.77; and many additional items) appear in the agenda and are recommended for board approval; some will require separate formal motions or appear in future consent packets.