Proviso Twp. HSD 209 board approves minutes, bill list, personnel nonrenewals and consent agenda

The Proviso Township High School District 209 Board of Education approved routine and personnel actions at its April 8, 2025 meeting, voting to adopt minutes, authorize a $5,732,225.33 bill list and approve a consent agenda that included multiple curriculum renewals, textbook purchases and an intergovernmental agreement with the Village of Melrose Park.

The board approved the minutes of the March 11, 2025 meeting after a motion and roll-call vote. The bill list for April 8, 2025, in the amount of $5,732,225.33, was approved by roll-call vote. The board also adopted resolutions authorizing the nonrenewal of several probationary teachers (names provided at the meeting) and approved routine personnel appointments and terminations in the personnel report dated April 2025.

The consent agenda passed on a roll-call vote and, as presented, included: Policy update PRESS 117; the Renaissance Star renewal; purchases of physics and chemistry textbooks and three-year digital licenses; a contract renewal for an instructional program (listed as PLA/Newsela/Renaissance/Nearpod items in the packet); a renewal for the credit-recovery/online-learning platform (listed as Imagine/Edgenuity); a band-equipment purchase; and an intergovernmental agreement with the Village of Melrose Park concerning a TIF reimbursement of $250,000. The board’s vote on the consent agenda was recorded as “motion carried.”

Roll-call tallies were read on the record for each motion; in multiple roll calls one member (identified in the roll calls as Mr. Alexander) was recorded absent. Where roll calls listed members by name, those members' recorded responses were read aloud by the official conducting the roll.

The meeting also included a public-records (FOIA) update noting a request received 03/27/2025 for the complete personnel file of a named employee; the district’s response was reported as “in process.”

The board adjourned in open session at 8:31 p.m.

Votes at a glance - Minutes (03/11/2025): Motion approved (roll call; motion carried). - Bill list (04/08/2025): $5,732,225.33 — approved (roll call; motion carried). - Resolution: Nonrenewal of named probationary teachers (names read at meeting) — approved (roll call; motion carried). - Personnel report (appointments/terminations/stipends) dated April 2025 — approved (roll call; motion carried). - Consent agenda (see list above, including Renaissance Star, Nearpod, Newsela, textbook purchases, Imagine/Edgenuity renewal, band equipment, Melrose Park IGA) — approved (roll call; motion carried).

The board record shows that motions were made and seconded and that roll-call votes followed. Specific vote-by-name tallies were read into the record during each roll-call; the public minutes or official meeting packet should be consulted for the verbatim roll-call transcript and the final certified vote sheet.