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D300 board approves multiple personnel resolutions and contract items in 6-0 roll-call votes
Summary
At its April 7 meeting the District 300 board approved consent items and several roll-call actions, including a strategic planning contract and resolutions to dismiss or not reemploy three employees and a five-day unpaid suspension for an employee; all recorded roll-call votes passed unanimously (6-0) at the time of each vote.
The Community Unit School District 300 Board of Education approved a series of routine consent items and several roll-call resolutions during its April 7 meeting.
Consent agenda: The board approved consent items that included multiple contract renewals, technology purchases, and the Freedom of Information Act report; the consent motion passed by roll call with a 6-0 vote.
Strategic planning contract: The board approved the strategic planning contract by roll call, motion passed 6-0.
Personnel resolutions: The board approved an honorable dismissal under Illinois School Code section 5/24-12 for Elena Gertrudianu, terminating a 0.4 FTE French teaching position effective at the close of the 2025–26 school term; the resolution passed by roll call, 6-0.
The board also approved a separate dismissal under Illinois School Code section 5/24-11 for Jennifer L. Nichols, not to be reemployed for the next school term; the resolution passed 6-0.
Employee discipline: The board adopted a resolution finding that Brian Resendez violated Board policy 15:120 and article 12 of the DESPA collective bargaining agreement for "theft of time, lack of honesty, and a purposeful attempt to defraud the district," and suspended Mr. Resendez without pay for five days (April 8–14, 2026). The motion passed by roll call, 6-0.
Adjournment: With no further business, the board approved adjournment by roll call (6-0).
The meeting record shows roll-call tallies for each vote but does not identify movers or seconders by name in the transcript; specific individual roll-call responses were recorded by the secretary in-session.
