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Lake Forest Board approves package of routine resolutions and policy updates in unanimous votes
Summary
At its Jan. 9 meeting the Lake Forest Board of Education unanimously approved the agenda, minutes, a set of policy updates on second reading, and multiple personnel, business and field-trip resolutions; no items drew substantive debate.
The Lake Forest Board of Education on Jan. 9, 2025, approved a slate of routine motions and policy changes, with most measures passing unanimously and without substantive discussion.
Vice President Starkey moved to approve the meeting agenda (resolution 2.4), and the board voted 5-0 to adopt it. The board then approved the Dec. 12, 2024 minutes (resolution 2.5) by a 5-0 vote.
On unfinished business the board approved a second reading of multiple board policies "as modified during discussion," a package that the superintendent and board reviewed individually during the meeting. The policies reviewed on second reading included CGD (state and federal programs), DJ (purchasing), GBAA (discrimination and harassment), JIB (student involvement in decision making), JICE (student publications), JLG (homeless students), and a recommendation to delete KLC (relations with social service organizations). A motion to approve the second reading carried 5-0.
The board also approved resolutions across several sections without discussion, each by unanimous vote: amendments (resolution 7.1, 5-0); resignations/presentations in Section 8 (resolution 8.1, 5-0); personnel transfers in Section 11 (item referenced as 11.1–11.3, 5-0); personnel operations/employment (resolutions 13.1–13.3, 5-0); personnel leaves of absence (resolutions 15.1–15.5, 5-0); a school-choice business item (resolution 21.1, 5-0); and approval of field trips (resolution 22.1, 5-0).
Most motions were moved by Vice President Starkey; seconds were given but not identified by name in the public transcript. No roll-call vote-by-name for individual board members was recorded in the transcript excerpt; the meeting record shows each motion passed by a 5-0 tally as announced by the chair.
Board discussion items included routine committee scheduling notes: the Delaware School Boards Association meeting was rescheduled because of the weather, and the legislative committee has not met yet, with a next meeting scheduled for Feb. 5. Board members also discussed upcoming school-board election filing and election dates: filing deadline first Friday in March (March 7, 2025) and election on the second Tuesday in May (May 13, 2025). The board adjourned by consensus; the motion to adjourn carried 5-0.
