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Sesser-Valier Community Unit School District 196 Board of Education met July 14.

Here is the agenda provided by the board:

1. Call to Order

2. Roll Call

3. Public Comment & Correspondence

4. Reports

a. Sesser-Valier Education Association

b. Laborers’ Local 773

c. Custodial & Maintenance Supervisor

d. Elementary/Junior High School Principal

e. High School Principal

f. District Superintendent

5. Consent Agenda—The following items(s) will be considered for action (consent approval):

a. Minutes of previous meeting(s), including closed session minutes (if applicable):

▪ June 16, 2025 (Regular Board Meeting)

b. Payment of bills & salaries

c. Treasurer’s report

d. Approval of Centerstone Memorandum of Understanding

e. Approval of Food Service Agreement with Franklin-Jefferson Special Education District No. 801

f. Approval of Memorandum of Understanding with Regional Office of Education #21 regarding tuition-based, alternative school services and authorization for district superintendent or designee to execute MOU

g. Approval of Intergovernmental Agreement Between the Lake County Regional Office of Education #34 and the District regarding the Illinois Virtual Schools & Academy (IVSA)

h. Authorization for district superintendent to execute Fiscal Year 2026 Teen REACH program agreement

i. Authorization for district superintendent or designee to execute dual-credit agreement (Rend Lake College)

j. Authorization for district superintendent or designee to execute 2025-2026 Section 125 plan(s)

k. Authorization for district superintendent or designee to approve facility-use request (Football Field Complex—SV Jr Football)

l. Approval/display of revised board policies (1st Reading)

6. Old Business—The following item(s) will be considered for action: (None)

7. New Business—The following item(s) will be considered for action:

a. Status of closed session minutes and/or destruction of closed session verbatim record audio recordings

8. Closed Session

a. The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees of the public body (5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1), as amended by P.A. 93-57)

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

c. Security procedures and the use of personnel and equipment to respond to an actual, a threatened, or 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)

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

e. Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed under this Act, 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))

9. Personnel (New Business)—The following item(s) will be considered for action:

a. Employment of extracurricular coach(es) and/or sponsor(s)

i. High School Football Assistant Coach

b. Acknowledgement of employee resignation(s) and/or retirement(s)

i. Special Education Aide

c. Approval of volunteer extracurricular coach(es) and/or sponsor(s)

d. Approval of district superintendent authorizations

i. Authorization for district superintendent to post positions as needed

ii. Authorization for district superintendent to make faculty/staff transfers and/or appointments as needed

10. Other Business

11. Adjournment

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