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Columbia CUSD 4 board approves consent agenda with personnel changes, holds executive session
Summary
The Columbia CUSD 4 board approved a consent agenda that accepted several resignations and assigned extracurricular positions, then moved into an executive session under Illinois statute to discuss personnel, disciplinary and special-education placement matters; the board reported no action afterward.
The Board President called the Columbia CUSD 4 meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. and the board approved a consent agenda that included multiple personnel changes and extracurricular assignments, Dr. Gain said.
Dr. Gain presented the consent agenda and told the board, “Administration recommends that the board approves the consent agenda as presented.” The consent agenda accepted the resignation of Keith Janie as a CMS softball coach, accepted Heather Myers’s resignation as a CMS cook and accepted the resignation of Samantha Mault, Eagle View music teacher. The agenda also approved extracurricular assignments including Scott Germain as the CHS head football coach and Rachel Matthews and Sarah Brandenberger as co-sponsors of the CMS student council for the 2026–27 school year. The administration also declared vacancies for a CMS softball coach, a CHS varsity assistant football coach and two summer IT student worker positions.
The Board President moved to approve the consent agenda and a board member seconded; a roll-call vote carried the motion with the voting members recorded as voting yes and one member, Friedrich, recorded as absent. The board thereafter turned to other business.
The Board President announced an executive session citing Illinois statutes, stating the closed meeting would consider “appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of a specific employee of the public body or legal counsel for the public body” under 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1), possible disciplinary cases under 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(9), and “placement of individual students in special education programs or other matters relating to individual students” under 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(10). A motion to recess into executive session was made and seconded; the board adjourned into executive session at 6:03 p.m.
The public meeting resumed at 6:33 p.m. The Board President said, “We have no action items as a result of our executive session.” The board then approved a motion to adjourn and concluded the meeting at 6:33 p.m.
The personnel actions approved on the consent agenda and the executive-session citations were the primary outcomes recorded in the public meeting; no further public votes or directives were reported.
