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Votes at a glance: Waukegan board approves personnel and ratifies December bills
Summary
On Dec. 9, 2025 the board unanimously approved personnel recommendations including two administrative hires and ratified board bills and payments covering 11/12/2025–12/02/2025 totaling $5,275,879.94 across accounts payable, managed checks and insurance payments.
The Waukegan CUSD 60 Board of Education approved several motions during its Dec. 9 meetings, including personnel recommendations and routine finance items.
Personnel: The board approved administration recommendations to accept appointments, retirements, resignations and terminations listed on the personnel schedules (with stated exceptions). Among administrative hires announced during the meeting were Christy Gibbs, appointed assistant principal at Miguel Juarez Middle School with a starting salary of $74,500, and Polly Roser, named manager of employee benefits and risk management with a starting salary of $78,000. The motion to approve personnel was moved by Mister Riddle and seconded by Miss Lindsey; a roll-call vote recorded unanimous yes.
Finance: The administration recommended ratification of board bills and payments for the period 11/12/2025 through 12/02/2025. The totals presented were: accounts payable $3,706,781.86; managed check requests $1,408,315.97; Old National Bank insurance payments $160,782.11. The board voted to ratify those payments in a roll-call vote that was recorded as unanimous yes.
Closed session motions and procedural votes: The board voted to enter closed session earlier in the evening under exceptions to the Illinois Open Meetings Act (C1 personnel; C11 legal matters; C2 union; C21 review of closed session minutes), and later approved a motion to allow Miss Fabian to participate remotely in closed session. All roll-call votes noted in the transcript were recorded as unanimous yes.
Vote record (roll-call voters and recorded votes): Miss Fabian — yes; Miss Hannah — yes; Miss Lensing — yes; Mister McBride — yes; Miss Ramirez — yes; Mister Riddle — yes; President Rodriguez — yes. (Votes recorded in the meeting transcript for motions cited above.)
Outcome: All motions referenced in this summary were carried as recorded in the meeting transcript.
Notes: The transcript lists motions and unanimous roll calls for the items above. Where specific agenda schedule identifiers were referenced (personnel schedules), those schedule IDs were cited in the board packet but are not reproduced here.
