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Evergreen Park ESD 124 board approves personnel hires and district plans; hears finance update and special-education enrollment surge
Summary
The board approved the consent agenda, multiple personnel appointments (including several assistant principals effective July 1, 2026), the consolidated district plan and a family engagement plan. Business services reported $6.5 million in recent real-estate receipts and the district heard that the Arrow special-education co-op projects enrollment up 152% since 2023, creating capacity pressures.
The Evergreen Park ESD 124 board approved a slate of routine business and personnel measures during its May 20 meeting and heard reports on finances and special-education enrollment.
On motions read into the record, the board approved the consent agenda (monthly transaction and fund-balance reports for April 2026, expenditure reports, minutes and destruction of closed-session tapes) and a series of personnel items including FMLA leaves, resignations and several new hires. Recorded roll-call votes were read into the minutes for each item.
Business services reported that the district received $6.5 million in recent real-estate revenue, bringing year-to-date receipts to about $32.8 million; staff said the fund balance has risen toward expected levels but noted that May’s payroll schedule (three pay periods) will temporarily increase expenditures.
A board member summarized an Arrow special-education co-op update, saying the co-op has consolidated procedures into one master document and that projected enrollment for 2026–27 is up 152% from September 2023. Board members noted that the increase creates capacity pressures; the co-op has stopped accepting out-of-co-op children at times and may develop a waiting list.
Formal votes recorded in the meeting minutes (as read aloud) included the following (votes are as presented during roll call):
- Action A (consent agenda): motion passed; recorded responses included 'yes' votes from R? (reading shows variations in the transcript) and a 'no' vote recorded for David Shepherd at the roll call read during that item. The motion passed.
- Action B (approve maintenance custodian summer help — Judas Paul): motion passed by roll call as recorded.
- Action C (approve summer-school staff): motion passed by roll call as recorded.
- Action D/E/F (approve new assistant principals at Northeast, Southeast and Southwest schools, effective July 1, 2026): motions passed by roll call; the board introduced Latoya Givens (Northeast), Kim Kelevoda (Southeast, message read aloud) and Amanda Perkins (Southwest) and welcomed them to the district.
- Action G (approve consolidated district plan): motion passed by roll call; staff said the plan consolidates Title I–IV, IDEA flow-through and preschool grants and includes a family engagement plan now required under ESSA.
- Action H (approve family engagement plan): motion passed by roll call.
- Action I (approve resolution honoring additional retirees): motion passed by roll call.
Where votes were read into the record the secretary recited each board member’s response; the transcript records those roll-call readouts but contains inconsistent spellings of some board members’ names in different places. The meeting adjourned at 7:03 p.m.
The board did not take policy action beyond approvals noted above; several personnel appointments are effective July 1, 2026.
