Board elects Olga Bautista as vice president; adopts signature-proxy resolution

The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to elect Olga Bautista as the board’s vice president and adopted a resolution authorizing a signature proxy for the board president.

After nominations for vice president — Jessica Biggs and Olga Bautista — the board closed nominations and held a roll-call tally. The clerk recorded the tally as 12 votes for Olga Bautista and 7 votes for Jessica Biggs; the board announced Member Olga Bautista as the new vice president of the board.

Separately, the board adopted Board Report RS-1, described in the roll call as “rescind Board report 241220 RS-1 and adopt a new resolution authorizing signature proxy for President Sean B. Hardin.” The secretary recorded the vote on RS-1 as 19 ayes, 0 nays; the report was adopted.

Other formal procedural actions recorded in the meeting included votes to close nominations, to move the meeting into recess, and to convene a closed session under the Open Meetings Act. The motion to enter closed session (motion 25-0115-M03) passed by roll call 19 ayes, 0 nays.

Roll-call votes and tallies were read into the record during the meeting for several items. Where individual roll-call acknowledgments were recorded in the transcript, the speaker’s recorded vote was read aloud and entered into the official minutes.

No substantive policy ordinances or fiscal appropriations were adopted in this meeting beyond the procedural votes and the signature-proxy resolution.