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Wilmette SD 39 board accepts FY25 audits, approves $1.2M in bills and authorizes multiple staff dismissals
Summary
On March 23 the Wilmette Public Schools District 39 board accepted fiscal year 2025 audit reports with no issues, approved accounts payable and manual checks totaling roughly $1.2 million and $1.46 million respectively, and authorized several personnel dismissals and a probationary nonrenewal; all motions passed by roll call.
The Board of Education for Wilmette Public Schools District 39 on March 23 accepted the district's fiscal year 2025 audit reports and approved routine financial and personnel actions, including resolutions to dismiss several staff members and to issue a notice of nonrenewal for one probationary teacher.
A motion moved by Mrs. Pappas to approve the personnel report dated March 23, 2026, to accept the FY25 annual financial audit and comprehensive annual financial report as presented by Baker Tilly US LLP of Oak Brook, Illinois, and to accept the Wilmette Community Special Education Agreement FY25 audit was made and seconded. The board also approved accounts payable listed between 02/24/2026 and 03/23/2026 in the following amounts: Educational Fund $944,747.11; Operations & Maintenance Fund $35,351.44; Transportation $216,609.61 (total all funds $1,196,708.16). The board approved manual checks issued between 02/24/2026 and 03/23/2026 totaling $1,459,024.16 across funds, including Educational Fund $1,265,373.45 and Torts $30,556.00.
The motion carried on roll call. The clerk called the roll and the following board members were recorded as voting yes: Kristen Castro; Allison Papalas; Annie Poehling; Erin Stone; Katie Hilton; Judy Berlin; Anne Hart.
Later in the meeting, the board approved a resolution authorizing the honorable dismissal of Ellen Lee, Marisol Barnett, Jill Gershoon, Haley Hunken, Melissa Johnson and Hillary Rosenthal. The motion to authorize notice of dismissal and nonrenewal for probationary teacher William Thompson also passed on roll call.
Corey Boltsmeier, the district's finance representative, had presented the audit takeaways earlier in the meeting; he said the district finished the year with a 51.9% operating fund balance and that Baker Tilly reported no issues with internal controls or misstatements. The audits for the Wilmette Community Special Education Agreement similarly showed no noted issues.
The board subsequently moved to adjourn to executive session to discuss specific personnel matters, special education individual student matters, collective negotiations and minutes of meetings lawfully closed under the Open Meetings Act.
