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DeKalb CUSD 428 board approves consent items, personnel actions and salary increases; assistant athletics director position approved with one abstention
Summary
The DeKalb CUSD 428 Board of Education approved a package of consent items and several personnel actions at its meeting, including a new assistant director of athletics position (motion passed with four yes votes and one abstention); the board also approved salary increases for unaffiliated staff (tally: yes 4, no 1).
The DeKalb CUSD 428 Board of Education approved a slate of consent agenda items and multiple personnel and policy actions at its meeting.
Board members voted to approve consent items 5B through 5G, which included board minutes, personnel action items, purchase order requisitions, a Northwestern Illinois Association service agreement, a Kishwaukee College early college MOU, and several employment contracts. The motion carried on a roll call vote with all affirmative responses recorded.
The board approved an employment contract for a newly created assistant director of athletics and activities. During discussion, a board member said they were not in favor of creating the position because of the expense — cited in the meeting as $150,000 per year — and stated an intent to abstain. The motion passed by roll call with four yes votes and one abstention.
Other personnel and agreement items approved included renewal of world language instructional resources and multiple DFSS letters of agreement covering experience-credit arrangements, classification moves for maintenance and grounds staff, and probationary employment evaluations.
The board approved salary increases for unaffiliated staff for the 2026–2027 contract year. Roll-call voting recorded four yes votes and one no vote on that item.
The board also approved travel and activity requests for student athletics, including an overnight girls volleyball trip to Indiana Dunes and a boys soccer tournament in Iowa; funding was noted as coming from student payments, fundraising and activity accounts. Several informational items were presented for future action, including a policy code update from Press Plus and a professional-development conference partly covered by grant funds.
What happens next: Items that were presented for further review—including the YMCA before-and-after-school program expansion and other information items—will return to the board for final action at a future meeting. The board approved the 2026–2027 meeting schedule and adjourned the meeting.
Votes and actions summarized in this report are drawn from the board’s roll-call votes and motions recorded during the meeting.
