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Board approves broad personnel slate: resignations, retirements, hires and stipends

Board of Education of Jacksonville School District #117 · October 15, 2025
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Summary

Trustees approved multiple personnel actions including resignations, revised retirement dates, classified and certified hires (paraprofessionals at $18.67/hr), promotions, stipends, and family medical leaves; several retirement dates were moved earlier.

The board approved a comprehensive personnel package that included resignations, retirement-date revisions, new hires, promotions, long-term substitutes, stipends and leaves. Notable items approved included resignations and retirement-date revisions for multiple certified staff; hiring of classified staff such as paraprofessionals at a rate of $18.67 per hour; payroll and insurance coordinator Ryan Bartlett (listed at $25.00 per hour, effective Oct. 6, 2025); and promotion of Mary Suttles from bus monitor to bus driver with an increase to $23.00 per hour effective retroactively.

The board also approved multiple stipends for extracurricular roles (for example, Geography Bowl stipends of $861.62, and an Assistant Girls Basketball Coach stipend of $3,877.29) and granted requested family and maternity leaves. Motions to approve personnel recommendations carried on a board roll-call vote with all members recorded in the affirmative.