Jasper County Community Unit #1, Board of Education Meeting
Report April 15, 2024
Superintendent’s Report:
Student Resource Officer
- The Board heard an update on the Student Resource Officer position for the Jasper County School District.
- Newton Police Chief Riley Britton is working to put things in place for the start of the 2024-2025 school year.
2024-2025 Handbooks
- The District is looking at student handbooks, athletic handbooks, and the creation of an extracurricular handbook.
- The Board expressed concerns with the use of cell phones in the classrooms.
First Reading of Board Policies:
- 2:260 Uniform Grievance Procedure
- 2:265 Title IX Grievance Procedure
- 2:270 Discrimination and Harassment on the Basis of Race, Color, and National Origin Prohibited
- 4:165 Awarness and Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and Grooming Behaviors
- 4:190 Targeted School Violence Prevention Program
- 5:10 Equal Employment Opportunity and Minority Recruitment
- 5:20 Workplace Harassment Prohibited
- 5:100 Staff Development Program
- 5:120 Employee Ethics; Code of Professional Conduct; and Conflict of Interest
- 5:300 Schedules and Employment Year
- 6:60 Curriculum Content
- 7:10 Equal Educational Opportunities
- 7:20 Harassment of Students Prohibited
- 7:180 Prevention of and Response to Bullying, Intimidation, and Harassment
- 7:185 Teen Dating Violence Prohibited
PRESS POLICY 5 year Review:
- 2:40 Board Member Qualifications
- 2:60 Board Member Removal from Office
- 2:140 Communications to and From the Board
- 4:20 Fund Balances
- 6:185 Remote Educational Program
New Business
- Awarded Food School Management Contract for the Jasper County School
District to OPAA for $433,425.27.
- Established Budget Hearing for FY 24 Amended Budget for June 17, 2024 at
6:20 P.M.
- Approved an Intergovernmental Agreement with Clay-Jasper-Richland-North
Wayne Delivery System for the 2024-2025 School Year.
- Approved the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) Club for NES for 6th
Grade Students.
- Approved Little Illini Conference Recommendation for Officials Pay for the 2024-2025 School Year.
Action out of Executive Session
- Approved to keep closed session minutes closed from January 1, 2022 – June 30, 2022
- Approved a Resolution Authorizing Issuance of a Notice of Remedial Warning to Tenured Teacher Jeffery Finley.
Resignations/Retirement
- Approved the Resignation of Heather Kistner as a NES Full-time Substitute as of May 21, 2024.
- Approved the Resignation of Sheryl Brummer as a NCHS Business Teacher at the end of the 2023-2024 School Year.
- Approved the Resignation of Weston Peno as the Dean of Students at JCJH/NCHS at the end of the 2023-2024 School Year.
- Approved the Resignation of Jennifer Eaton as a Speech Language Pathologist at the end of the 2023-2024 School Year.
- Approved the Retirement of Lora Semple as a Kitchen Manager at NCHS/JCJH as of May 23, 2024.
- Approved the Retirement of Angie Probst as a District Paraprofessional at the end of the 2023-2024 School Year
- Approved the Resignation of Sheryl Brummer as a NCHS FBLA Sponsor at the end of the 2023-2024 School Year.
- Approved the Resignation of a JCJH Athletic Director Weston Peno at the end of the 2023-2024 School Year.
Hires
- Approved to Hire Eric Qualls as a NES Special Education Teacher for the
2024-2025 School Year.
Advertise
- Advertise for a NES Full Time Substitute for the 2024-2025 School Year.
- Advertise for a NCHS/JCJH Kitchen Manager for 2024-2025 School Year.
- Advertise for Three (3) Summer Help Workers for the Jasper County School
District.
- Advertise for NCHS FBLA Sponsor Position for the 2024-2025
School Year.
- Approval to Advertise for a Paraprofessional Position for the 2024-2025
School Year.
- Approve to Advertise for a Speech Language Pathologist for the 2024-2025
School Year.
