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Board approves personnel, building and vendor contracts; defers Aurora CSA and personnel report
Summary
The East Aurora School District 131 Board of Education approved several personnel and procurement motions during its Jan. 27 meeting and took executive‑session action on a student disciplinary matter.
The East Aurora School District 131 Board of Education approved several personnel and procurement motions during its Jan. 27 meeting and took executive‑session action on a student disciplinary matter. The board also postponed action on the City of Aurora’s Aurora’s Promise children’s savings account program and elected not to address the personnel report until after executive session.
Nut graf: Most operational items on the agenda passed by roll call with unanimous “yes” votes from trustees present; the board declined to take action on the city’s data‑sharing agreement for the proposed children’s savings accounts and held the personnel report for later consideration.
Votes at a glance - Consent agenda: Approved (roll call; members listed as voting “Yes” included Schubert, Gillespie, Johnson, Olivas, De Fuentes, Lofshek; secretary called the roll). Outcome: approved.
- 6B1: Approve 1.0 FTE special‑education classroom teacher assistant for the EAEC extension campus. Outcome: approved (roll call recorded as Yes).
- 6B2: Approve Frontline proactive recruiting and hiring proposal in the amount reported in the meeting as $34,644.78. Outcome: approved (roll call recorded as Yes).
- 6B3: Approve Intergovernmental Agreement with the Illinois State Board of Education for the Visiting International Teachers Program. Outcome: approved (roll call recorded as Yes).
- Buildings & Grounds procurements: Awarded roofing base bids (Melcor Roofing; amount recorded in meeting: "536,000 66" as read aloud) and awarded a windows project to Light Construction (amount read aloud as “1,000,000, 49,700” in the transcript). Outcome: approved by roll call.
- Time‑clock integration: Approved a three‑year agreement to purchase time clocks for Skyward integration; transcript read an amount as "a 102 $251,066". Outcome: approved by roll call.
- Personal property actions: Approved resolution authorizing sale of a district school bus (roll call: Yes) and approved resolution authorizing disposal and recycling of IT equipment (roll call: Yes).
- Executive session disciplinary action: The board adopted a resolution upholding the hearing officer's recommendation for an alternative placement at the Illinois Virtual School in lieu of expulsion for Student #697‑946‑908 for one calendar year effective Jan. 28, 2025 through Jan. 27, 2026, including summer school 2025. Outcome: approved (roll call recorded as Yes).
Several motions in the meeting were moved and seconded without named movers in the public record; the meeting used roll‑call votes and the secretary read the yes votes into the record for each action. For a number of dollar amounts and bid totals, the numbers were read aloud in the meeting packet and in some places in the audio the figures were unclear; the board’s recorded outcomes were votes to award the listed contracts.
Ending: The board adjourned after taking the executive‑session vote on the student placement and elected to defer the district personnel report to a later meeting.
