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Board approves appointment of Student Services director and several district contracts and compensation items
Summary
At the June 9 meeting the board approved the appointment of James (Steve) Ferguson as director of student services and passed several consent and contract items including substitute compensation and a superintendent search services agreement with HYA. Vote tallies were recorded on the transcript.
The Indian Prairie CUSD 204 Board of Education took multiple formal actions June 9. Below are the motions, recorded vote tallies as read into the minutes, and brief notes from the transcript.
Votes at a glance
1) Appointment: James Ferguson — director of Student Services (effective July 1) Motion: "I move that the board of education approve James Ferguson as director of Student Services as presented." (mover not specified in transcript) Roll call recorded: Miss Gintz: Yes; Miss Deming: Aye; Mr. Karubas: Yes; Miss Fosdick: Yes; Mr. Reising: Yes; Miss Donahue: Yes; Miss Jane: Yes. Outcome: approved.
2) Consent agenda (items E through S) Motion: board approved consent agenda items E–S as presented (mover not specified in transcript) Roll call recorded: Miss Vazic: Yes; Ms. Jane: Yes; Ms. Donahue: Yes; Mr. Karubas: Yes; Ms. Gintz: Yes; Mr. Reising: Yes; Ms. Deming: Aye. Outcome: approved.
3) Substitute teacher compensation for 2025–26 Motion: approve substitute teacher compensation for 2025–26 (mover not specified in transcript) Recorded discussion: President Donahue said she and Miss Fosdick would abstain because they sometimes substitute in the district. Roll call recorded: Mr. Karubas: Yes; Mr. Reising: Yes; Miss Deming: Aye; Miss Jane: Yes; Miss Ghentz/Gintz: Yes. Abstentions: Miss Donahue and Miss Fosdick. Outcome: approved (motion passes with recorded abstentions).
4) Superintendent search services agreement with Hazard, Young & Attea (HYA) Motion: "I move that the board approve the superintendent search services agreement with Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates, HYA as presented." (mover not specified) Roll call recorded: Ms. Deming: Aye; Mr. Reising: Yes; Ms. Gintz: Yes; Ms. Donahue: Yes; Mr. Karubas: Yes; Ms. Jane: Yes; Ms. Fosdick: Yes. Outcome: approved.
Notes and clarifications - The transcript records the roll‑call votes and named yea/abstain tallies as shown above. The transcript does not record who formally seconded each motion; mover names were not consistently captured by speaker ID in the public transcript. Where a mover or seconder is not explicitly named in the recorded text, this summary lists the motion text and the roll‑call outcome as read into the record. - The board discussed next steps for the superintendent search firm selection (HYA) and confirmed the district will issue further communications to the public about search process milestones.
This item is a factual tally of actions recorded in the meeting transcript; no new policy or project spending beyond previously approved referendum projects was authorized in these procedural votes.
