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Plainfield committee reviews eight policies for 30‑day public display and discusses short intergovernmental agreement for vision services
Summary
The Plainfield SD 202 Personnel Policy and Administration committee on March 19 reviewed eight updated policies recommended for a 30‑day public display and discussed an intergovernmental agreement with Lincoln Way Area Special Education to provide an itinerant vision service to a student through June 30, 2025.
At the March 19 Personnel Policy and Administration committee meeting, district administrators reviewed eight policy updates recommended for placement on a 30‑day public display and summarized changes to legal citations and language in each policy.
The policies described included: purchase and contracts (citation renumbering, no language change); facility management and building program (new language requiring board approval for renovations or permanent alterations exceeding $35,000); hiring process and criteria (added job category and a directive that the superintendent ensure district investigations comply with law); compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (legal reference update); communicable and chronic infectious disease policy (new language encouraging employees to notify the superintendent and allow monitoring by a review team); mandated reporter reporting procedures (removed requirement to confirm oral reports in writing to DCFS); employee ethics and conflict of interest (changed “guidance counselor” to “school counselor” and clarified allowable travel reimbursements); and curriculum content (board must decide by July 1, 2025 whether to implement career exploration for grades 6–12, expanded mandated instruction on fentanyl danger for grades 6–12 and required environmental education beginning fall 2026).
Intergovernmental agreement: The committee also reviewed an intergovernmental agreement between Lincoln Way Area Special Education (LWASE) and Plainfield SD 202 for vision itinerant services to a student currently attending the UCP Center for Disabilities in Joliet. Administrators said the MOU would cover services through June 30, 2025, and estimated the district’s total cost for the agreement would not exceed $735 for the contract period. The presenter said LWASE is already providing the vision itinerant services and that the MOU establishes the payment path when a therapeutic day school contracts services through a public district or coop.
Why it matters: The policy changes update legal references, clarify board approval thresholds for capital work and set curriculum decisions the board must make by July 1, 2025. The IGA is a short, child‑specific arrangement administrators characterized as cost‑limited and temporary.
Ending: Committee members asked clarifying questions about citation changes, scopes of the communicable‑disease language and the IGA cost; the transcript does not record a formal vote in committee on the eight policies or the IGA, and administrators said items would proceed according to ordinary committee/board timelines.
