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Votes at a glance: Granite City SD 9 approves minutes, personnel actions, policies, procurement and safety MOU
Summary
The July 22 board meeting produced a series of unanimous routine approvals: minutes, consent agenda items, retirements and hires, policy updates, a paper‑supplies contract, approvals tied to the Evening Academy and an MOU to implement metal detectors.
At its July 22 meeting the Granite City School District 9 Board of Education approved a series of routine and personnel motions by roll‑call votes.
Key approvals recorded on the agenda included: minutes of the June 24 regular meeting and the July 8 special meeting; the consent agenda of routine items; rescission and acceptance of listed retirements and resignations; approval of requests for leaves of absence; hiring recommendations for Coolidge Junior High library aide and student worker co‑ops; approvals and rescissions of extracurricular assignments; the list of certified and classified substitutes for 2025–26; policy updates (including language on crediting years of service for hiring); employment of two special‑education paraprofessionals (Brooke Deckard and Amanda Prather) pending paperwork; hiring of three elementary teachers (Tiffany Cossador, Emily Kowalski and Megan Smith) pending paperwork; appointment of hearing officers Dottie Falter and Lisa Yarborough at $175 per hearing; Evening Academy fall assignments; updated 2025–26 student handbooks; a 6‑hour assignment at GCHS for the fall semester; award of the paper‑supplies bid to Paper101 for $70,044.95; part‑time Title I appointments; and school improvement plans required under state and Title I rules.
Administration also presented and the board approved an MOU with Local 743 to implement metal detectors at school entry points. After the listed approvals the chair announced the board would enter executive session under the Illinois Open Meetings Act to discuss personnel matters.
Most items were presented by administration with brief discussion by board members before the roll‑call votes. The transcript records aye votes on each motion with no recorded no or abstain votes on the listed items.
