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Board approves broad personnel slate including hires, resignations and extra-pay assignments
Summary
Trustees approved Personnel Reports 1–14 covering resignations, leaves, salary advancements, additional assignments, change-of-status recommendations, extra-pay coaching and activity positions, and multiple new hires including an Assistant Director for Activities & Athletics.
On June 16 the Joliet Township High School District 204 board approved a comprehensive personnel package covering professional and classified staff changes, summer assignments and extra-pay activity recommendations.
The motion to approve Personnel Reports 1–14 passed on a roll call vote with Ayes from Mr. Coffey, Mr. Kennedy, Mrs. Lynn, Mrs. Guerrero Neumayer and Dr. Huntington. The personnel slate included professional resignations (for example, Jennifer Sitar, Coordinator Special Services, effective June 30, 2026, and Maurice McCullum, Special Education, effective June 30, 2026), leave requests (e.g., Laura Flaherty requesting maternity leave August 17–September 28, 2026), multiple salary advancement and change-of-status recommendations, and numerous extra-pay athletic and activity assignments for Central and West campuses.
Notable employment recommendations included hiring Kyle Novak as Assistant Director for Activities & Athletics (West Campus), effective July 1, 2026, at an annual salary listed in the minutes as $95,000, and hiring school psychologists Lauren Hardaway and Kierra Richardson-Whittley with specified step placements and start dates of August 14, 2026. The board also approved student summer worker appointments and classified hires and changes of status that will take effect July and August 2026 as listed in the personnel report.
The public minutes list dozens of specific positions and names; the meeting record does not include individual discussion of every hire or resignation in open session beyond the roll call approval.
