Board approves agenda and minutes, votes to enter executive session under Illinois Open Meetings Act

During its regular meeting, the East St. Louis School District 189 Board of Education approved the meeting agenda, approved minutes from prior meetings and voted to move into executive session under provisions of the Illinois Open Meetings Act.

A motion to adopt the agenda — which gave the board president discretion to take items out of order or to call an executive session — was moved by Danielle Moore and seconded by Willie Ray. The board conducted a roll-call vote; the recorded votes in the transcript show all members present voting yes (Danielle Moore; Willie Ray; Remy Dean; Lonzo Greenwood; Walter Hood; Timothy Lockett; Latoya Mosley). The motion passed.

The board then moved to approve the minutes of the March 18, 2025 board meeting and the March 21, 2025 special board meeting. The motion was moved by Walter Hood and seconded by Willie Ray; a roll-call vote in the record again returned all present members as voting yes. The motion passed.

Later the board voted to enter executive session. The chair read the reasons for the executive session and cited the Illinois Open Meetings Act; the read sections included standard exceptions for personnel, negotiations, student discipline, potential litigation, and other specified subsections (the transcript cites multiple 2(c) subsections). The board then approved entering executive session by roll call; the transcript records members voting yes and indicates the public portion of the meeting recessed so the board could conduct closed-session business. The motion to enter executive session and the meeting roll-call were recorded as having passed.

Actions taken in executive session were not disclosed in the public record during the meeting.