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Board approves agenda, minutes and multiple action items; 4 student discipline placements included
Summary
During the March 18 East St. Louis SD 189 meeting the board approved the agenda, accepted the Feb. 25 minutes and voted to approve a set of action items that included the February financial report and four student placements in alternative settings; all recorded motions passed by roll call.
East St. Louis SD 189 board members voted on several procedural and action items during the March 18 meeting. Motions were recorded and passed by roll call.
A motion to adopt the agenda (with the board president authorized to take items out of order on executive session) was made by Remedy Dean and seconded by Willie Ray; the board recorded unanimous "yes" votes from Remedy Dean, Willie Ray, Lonzo Greenwood, Walter Hood, Timothy Lockett, Danielle Moore and Latoya Mosley, and the motion passed.
The board then moved to approve the minutes of the Feb. 25, 2025 regular meeting; the motion (mover not specified in the roll call exchange but recorded as having been offered and seconded in the meeting) passed on a roll-call "yes" vote from the same members.
Later, the board approved a package of action items (12a, 12b, 13a, 14a, 15a, 15b and 15c) on a motion by Willie Ray, seconded by Walter Hood. The roll call recorded "yes" votes from Remedy Dean, Willie Ray, Walter Hood, Lonzo Greenwood, Timothy Lockett, Danielle Moore and Latoya Mosley and the motion passed.
The action items package included: a revised proposed calendar for the 2024-25 school year (12a); student-discipline placements (12b); the financial report for February 2025 (13a); and additional action items listed as 14a, 15a, 15b and 15c (not further specified in the record).
The student-discipline placements that were included in the approved packet were described in the meeting as follows (as read into the record by district staff): student number 88923013 (alleged threats and intimidation) to be placed at Vincent Gray through June 1, 2026; student number 89988920411 (physical confrontation without injury) to be placed at Bush Alternative School through July 1, 2026; and student number 89129644 (physical confrontation without injury) to be placed at the Regional Office of Education safe school through July 1, 2026. The record indicated four students in total were included in action-item 12b but only three student identifiers and placements were read aloud in the transcript excerpt.
All recorded motions in the transcript were approved by roll call with the members listed above voting "yes." The meeting record does not show any motion failures or formal abstentions in the items presented in the excerpt.
Votes at a glance: adoption of the agenda (approved); approval of Feb. 25 minutes (approved); approval of action items 12a/12b/13a/14a/15a/15b/15c including student-discipline placements and the February financial report (approved).
