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Board approves staffing changes, architect programming and several routine items; renews association membership
Summary
The Oak Park-River Forest School District 200 Board of Education approved multiple staffing and contract actions and routine consent items during its March 20, 2025, meeting, and unanimously approved a set of personnel and project authorizations.
The Oak Park - River Forest School District 200 Board of Education approved a package of personnel, contract and administrative items at its March 20, 2025, meeting, including a staffing reallocation, an authorization for project programming with FGM Architects and a series of non-reemployment resolutions.
The board approved an increase of 0.8 full-time-equivalent administrative positions at no additional cost to the district to separate the fine and applied arts division head into two roles (fine and performing arts division head; career and technical education division head) and reallocated one faculty instructional support FTE to create a special education team chair. Board members moved and seconded the motion and the roll call vote passed.
The board also approved a resolution authorizing the non-reemployment of full‑time, non‑tenured teachers not in the final year of probationary service; a separate resolution authorizing non‑reemployment of part‑time, non‑tenured and temporary contract teachers; and the approval of contract work with FGM Architects for Project 3 programming at a cost of $182,500. Each of those motions was made, seconded and approved by roll call.
On routine business, the board approved the consent agenda items that included the approval of open and closed minutes from prior meetings, personnel recommendations (hires, summer school hires, resignations and leaves of absence), an amendment to a D101 master contract with FGM Architects, the January 2025 treasurer’s report, and February–March 2025 check disbursements and financial resolutions. The board also approved renewal of Illinois High School Association (IHSA) membership for the 2025–26 school year.
Minutes show that the motions carried on roll calls recorded in the meeting; the meeting transcript records members answering “Yes” on each roll call. No member votes against any of the items listed in the meeting record portion of the transcript.
Board staff said the FGM Architects programming authorization will support Project 3 work; the $182,500 is the programming fee approved on March 20. No member requested further changes to the amounts or scope during the vote.
The actions concluded the board’s formal agenda items and the meeting moved into discussion topics, including the geothermal field update and school safety protocol rollout.
