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Board approves personnel hires, contracts and leaves, including new assistant principal and bus driver hire
Summary
The board approved multiple personnel items for 2025-26, including hiring Jimmie Poulsen as a bus driver ($22.33/hr), appointment of Betty (Kiki) Panos as Assistant Principal at MJH effective 7/1/2025, and several certified and administrative contract renewals and resignations.
The board approved a slate of personnel actions covering hires, resignations, leaves of absence, contract approvals and rehires for 2025-26. Mrs. Kelli MacMillan moved to separate several personnel recommendations for individual votes; subsequent motions approved multiple items subject to background checks and credential verification. The board recorded specific hires such as Jimmie Poulsen as a bus driver at $22.33 per hour and Betty (Kiki) Panos as Assistant Principal at Mokena Junior High, effective July 1, 2025, per contract.
Other actions included resignations effective at the end of the 2024-25 school year, leaves of absence (for example Jessica Senafe Hernandez, 3rd grade teacher, with tentative dates), and approval of district-level coordinator and director contracts for 2025-26 (including Lincoln Henson as Director of Technology and Dave Rana as Director of Buildings and Grounds). Vote tallies for the personnel motions were recorded in the minutes with some motions passing unanimously and others by split votes as noted in the roll calls.
