The Joliet Township High School District 204 Board of Education voted on a package of action items during its regular meeting. Most items received brief discussion and were approved by roll call.

Key approvals and votes

- Staffing recommendations (Agenda item A): Board approved the district's 2025'6 staffing request (462.4 FTE). Vote: recorded affirmative roll call.

- Special board meeting for May 5, 2025 (Action item C): Approved.

- 2025-26 Board meeting dates (Action item D): Approved; the board confirmed meetings will generally fall on the third Tuesday of each month.

- IHSA membership renewal for Central and West campuses (Action item E): Approved.

- Agreements with community partners (Action items F and G): Continued partnerships with Redeemed Connection Ministries NFP and Involved Inc NFP were approved. The Involved Inc partnership was funded with IDEA funds and limited to students with IEPs, the transcript records.

- ROE 56 Alternative Learning Opportunities Program intergovernmental agreement (Action item H): The board approved a pilot placing a student-success advocate provided by the Regional Office of Education (ROE) at each campus. The pilot will assign 32 students per campus to receive additional academic, behavioral and social-emotional support. The presenter described the ROE employee as being provided by the ROE and the district will request bilingual candidates where appropriate.

- Course eliminations and additions (Action items I and J): The board approved recommended course eliminations (including Music Appreciation 2 and select lower-enrollment offerings) and a package of course additions that included Heritage Spanish 3, Latin American Studies, semesterized Sociology and Psychology courses, and History of American Popular Music.

- Donations (Action item K): Approved.

- Resolution authorizing preparation of the 2025-26 budget (Action item L): Approved.

- Breakfast and lunch pricing recommendation (Action item M): Approved; pricing will be maintained for the 2025-26 school year.

- 2025-26 fee and refund schedule (Action item N): Approved. The board also approved continuing a policy to waive the $160 summer-school fee for students eligible for free/reduced-price meals who successfully complete summer school (previously funded with ESSER funds).

- Agreement with ATI Physical Therapy (Action item O): Approved a three-year contract for athletic training and sports-medicine services; administrators said outsourced services were currently more cost-effective than hiring full-time athletic-trainer staff.

- Exempt and non-bargaining compensation proposals (Action items P and Q): Approved, including a 3.34% package increase for the non-bargaining group.

- Personnel resolutions (Action item R, series R1'R14): The board approved resolutions authorizing notices to remedy for individual employees listed in closed session as part of personnel actions discussed in closed session.

Several motions were made and seconded on the record; roll-call tallies recorded affirmative votes for each listed action. Where funding sources were mentioned on the record, the transcript cited IDEA for the Involved Inc summer supports and ESSER as a prior funding source for the summer-school fee waiver.

What the approvals mean

Most approvals were routine or continuations of existing partnerships; the ROE 56 pilot stands out as an operational pilot that places ROE-employed student-success advocates on campus to work with selected students during non-academic time. The ATI contract commits the district to a three-year arrangement for athletic training services while administrators continue to evaluate long-term staffing alternatives.

The board did not take up new districtwide policy changes in this session beyond budget and personnel approvals; they will continue facilities planning, staffing implementation and course scheduling in the weeks ahead.