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Carrier Mills-Stonefort Community Unit School District #2 Board of Education met Oct. 28.

Here is the agenda provided by the board:

I. Call to Order

II. Roll Call

III. Recognize Visitors: Please remember that any comments concerning Unit #2 employees must be made in closed session.

IV. Approve Consent Agenda- September 23, 2024 Budget Hearing minutes, September 23, 2024 minutes, Activity Fund, Bills, Treasurer’s Report, and the Destruction of 19 month old audio closed session minutes.

V. Reports

A. Superintendent/High School Principal’s Report

B. Grade School Principal’s Report

VI. Action Items

A. Approve Extension of Kemper CPA Group, LLP

B. Approve Crisis Management Plan, School Safety Plans, and Drills

VII. Non Action Items

A. Review Tax Extension 2023 payable 2024 and Levy 2024 payable 2025

B. Next Board Meeting: Monday, November 18, 2024 at 6:45 pm

VIII. Closed Session: Items #1, 2, 9, 10, and 14 under the Open Meetings Act (see attached)

IX. Action on Closed Session Items

A. Consider Resignations

B. Consider Employment

X. Adjourn

Closed Meeting Act

1) The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees of the District or legal counsel for the District, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee or against legal counsel for the District to determine its validity. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1), as amended by P.A. 93-0057.

2) Collective negotiating matters between the District and its employees or their representatives, or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(2).

3) The selection of a person to fill a public office, including a vacancy in a public office, when the District is given power to appoint under law or ordinance, or the discipline, performance or removal of the occupant of a public office, when the District is given power to remove the occupant under law or ordinance. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(3).

4) Evidence or testimony presented in open hearing, or in closed hearing where authorized by law, to a quasi-adjudicative body, as defined in the Act, provided that the body prepares and makes available for public inspection a written decision with its determinative reasoning. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(4).

5) The purchase or lease of real property for the use of the District, including meetings held for the purpose of discussing whether a particular parcel should be acquired. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(5).

6) The setting of a price for sale or lease of property owned by the District. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(6).

7) The sale or purchase of securities, investments, or investment contracts. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(7).

8) Security procedures and the use of personnel and equipment to respond to an actual, a threatened, or a reasonably potential danger to the safety of employees, students, staff, the public, or public property. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(8), as amended by P.A. 93-79 and P.A. 93-422.

9) Student disciplinary cases. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(9).

10) The placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters relating to individual students. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(10).

11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or on behalf of the particular District has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or when the District finds that an action is probable or imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be recorded and entered into the closed meeting minutes. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(11).

12) The establishment of reserves or settlement of claims as provided in the Local Government and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, if otherwise the disposition of a claim or potential claim might be prejudiced, or the review or discussion of claims, loss or risk management information, records, data, advice or communications from or with respect to any insurer of the District or any intergovernmental risk management association or self insurance pool of which the District is a member. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(12).

13) Self-evaluation, practices and procedures, or professional ethics, when meeting with a representative of a statewide association of which the District is a member. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(16).

14) Discussion of lawfully closed meeting minutes, whether for purposes of approval by the body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as mandated by Section 2.06. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(21).

https://www.cmsfcats.org/documents/board-documents/board-agendas/agendas-2024-2025/668259