Board approves personnel appointments, Title I plans and retiree resolutions; recesses to closed session

The Evergreen Park Elementary School District 124 Board of Education on April 16 approved a slate of routine and personnel items, adopted schoolwide Title I plans and passed resolutions recognizing retiring employees and outgoing board president Colleen Klimsack. The board recessed to closed session under the Open Meetings Act for personnel and student matters.

Key board actions (all recorded as motions and approved during the meeting unless noted):

- Consent agenda: The board approved the consent agenda, which included monthly transaction reports for March 2025, fund balance reports for March 2025, expenditure and projected payroll reports for April 2025, minutes of the March 19, 2025 regular meeting and related closed-session records, instruction to destroy closed-session tapes from December 2020 and listed personnel recommendations (including two FMLAs and resignations). The motion carried on roll call.

- Assistant principal appointment: The board approved the appointment of Britney Vienna as assistant principal at Northeast/Northwest effective July 1, 2025.

- Temporary assistant principal appointment: The board approved the appointment of Miss Sullivan as temporary assistant principal at Southeast/Southwest effective July 1, 2025.

- School psychologist: The board approved hiring a new school psychologist effective Aug. 18, 2025.

- Resolutions honoring board president and retirees: The board adopted a resolution honoring Colleen Klimsack for her service as board president and passed a resolution honoring district employees who are retiring this year (names and years of service were read into the record). The resolutions were approved by roll call.

- Schoolwide Title I plans: The board approved five-year schoolwide Title I plans for Northeast, Southeast, Northwest and Central (the district’s Title I qualifying schools). The plans allow district Title I funds to be used for schoolwide programming rather than targeted only to selected students.

- Telecommunications agreement: The board approved a 60‑month main service agreement for telecommunications as presented by the district’s technology director.

- Recess to closed session: Pursuant to the Illinois Open Meetings Act, the board voted to recess to closed session to discuss personnel and student placement matters; the meeting pause was recorded on the agenda and announced on the record.

Finance note reported in the meeting: district staff said the district had received most expected tax revenues for the year and reported an available fund balance in the general/ad fund above $13 million at the time of the report; staff cautioned this includes revenue already received and that upcoming payrolls and summer pays will reduce the fund balance.

Several motions were made and seconded from the dais; roll-call voting was used for the items noted above and the meeting minutes record affirmative roll-call outcomes for each listed approval. No contested or failed motions were recorded in the public portion of the meeting.

The board then recessed to closed session; no actions from the closed session were announced before the public livestream ended.