may 13

The bOARDBuzz is put together following District 25 School Board Meetings and serves as a recap of what occurred.

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5:15 PM

7:00 pm

A. Science Olympiad Teams | South & Thomas

The Board recognized and celebrated the Science Olympiad teams at South and Thomas Middle Schools for their success in Science Olympiad competition this year.

South Middle School Team

Omkar Bhat | Jack Brown | Nick Cox | Cameron Davis | Ziva Delgado | Nathan Dodon

David Duplantier | Ameera Fatina | Peyton Griffiths | Emma Gruzewski | Kendall Kuhn

Claire Martin | Moira McGregor | Diya Mukhopadhyaya | Oliver Nierman | Henry Pace

Jiana Philip | Violet Polley | Rilla Puckett | Tyler Ramirez | Claudio Rodriguez | Colette Schroeder

Jonathan Seagram | Jonah Sidereas | Keegan Skony | William Thanopoulos | John Theiss

Fritz Theiss | Sofia Turcotte | Matthew Watts

Thomas Middle School Team

Sofia Arguelles | Neha Bilfaqi | Matthew Cole | Felic Gao | Colin Hafer | Caroline Hong | Teddy Hrejsa

Andrew Ivan | Uma Joshi | Peter Koleczek | Leo LaMonica | Goodnews Lee | Razi Mahesar

Ben Malia | Joshua Martens | Alison Monish | Avi Nanisetty | Archi Patel | Kayaan Patel

Anagha Prasad | Harshan Rajkumar Anusha | Carson Rosczyk | Shravya Saboo | Aarav Singhal

Prakash Siva Subramanian | Hazel Varghese | Ishaan Varma | Wyatt Wakefield | Yena Yoon

The Board also recognized and thanked the Coaches: Shaun Marusek, Kirsten Calderone, Sara Kuhn, Lynne DeSalvo, Alison Gruzewski, Shree Mukhopadhyaya, Karen Mukhopadhyaya, Pedro Ramirez, Phil Ramirez, Mrs. Pace, Allison Buck, Matt Griffiths, Harlan Heiber, Daniel Burkhardt, Andy Anderson, Dave Cooke, Thilo Garkisch, Hannah Zimmermann, Sara Van den Akker, and Aimee Hall from South M.S.; and Kim Malinowski, Jim Grant, Bradford Keeler, Sureiya Peshek, Tina Wilson, Cindy House, Christina Wilson, Carolyn Taylor, Kaitlin Fajks, Carly Dust, and Nicole Arguelles from Thomas M.S.

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B. Retiree Reception

The Board and administration recognized and celebrated the employees who are retiring from District 25. School Principals and Administrators shared a few words about each individual as they were recognized and thanked for their service to the Arlington Heights community.

Food & Nutrition Services

Lesa Lawson, 17 years* | Terry Privratsky, 3 years*

Dunton

Kurt Kisala, 2 years

Dryden

Kathleen LaRoe, 13 years | Akemi Sessler, 13 years

Ivy Hill

Karl Pearson, 11 years

Olive-Mary Stitt

James Stewart, 50 years*

Patton

Amy Johnson, 34 years | Pat Litberg, 23 years

South Middle School

Marie-Christine Hajduk, 24 years | Oksana T. Lukaszewskyj, 34 years

Dr. Jim Morrison, 6 years | Steven Sokolik, 3 years*

Thomas Middle School

Nora Fergus, 24 years | Carol Golemo, 25 years

Westgate

Kathleen Rymark, 23 years | Hilary Nigro, 25 years

Windsor

Susan Klarner, 35 years*

*Retiree in 2024

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In this portion of the meeting, Board members catch one another up on the happenings each member has experienced as an individual since the last meeting. Also, some Board members are appointed as representatives to attend meetings on behalf of the District 25 Board of Education for different organizations. Those members convey relative information to the entire Board at the monthly meeting.

• Board Member Updates
• ED-RED Education Research Development
• Illinois Association of School Boards (IASB)
  
• NSSEO
  

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Community members are invited to address the Board during this public comment portion of the meeting. According to Board Policy, public comment is heard for 30 minutes at Board of Education meetings and members of the community have three minutes to address the Board.

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Please remember that the Board can be reached outside of Board Meeting hours by emailing boardfeedback@sd25.org.

In this portion of the meeting, the three organizations below addressed Board Members.

• AHC PTA
  
• ABC25 Foundation
  
• ATA (Arlington Teachers Association)

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MOTION: APPROVED

That the Board of Education approve those items on the Consent Agenda as follows: (A) Personnel Report and Addendum to Personnel Report; (B) Invoices; (C) Regular and Closed Session Meeting Minutes of April 22, 2025.

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There were no items presented by the Department of Student Learning.

There were no items presented by the Department of Student Services.

MOTION: APPROVED

A. Food Service Equipment Bid

That the Board of Education award the bid for food service equipment to Culinary Depot.

School districts that operate federal meal programs are required to formally procure food service equipment when the estimated dollar value exceeds $25,000 (2 CFR 200). Bids were solicited for food serving equipment, Rational Combi Ovens, for South and Thomas Middle School kitchens.

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MOTION: APPROVED

A. Paper Bid

That the Board of Education award the bid for paper for 2025-26 to Murnane Paper.

Assistant Superintendent for Business/CSBO, Stacey Mallek, presented a recommendation for the District's paper contract for the 2025-26 school year based on the paper bids submitted.

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C. 3rd Quarter Budget Update

Assistant Superintendent for Business/CSBO, Stacey Mallek, presented a 3rd Quarter Budget Update to the Board of Education..

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There were no items presented by the Department of Facilities Management.

There were no items presented by the Department of Personnel & Planning.

A. Superintendent Update

Superintendent Dr. Brian Kaye first noted the following:

• Thanking the Board for the time allowed to honor and celebrate District 25's retirees during this meeting.
• Recognized the school PTAs for making Staff Appreciation Week so special.
• Brief mention of the Strategic Plan meeting from Wednesday, May 7 and thanked the Board and all involved for the work to make that meeting a Special Board of Education meeting.
• Mentioned the great PTA Scholarship Breakfast event.

Superintendent Dr. Brian Kaye also included the following videos to show the Board to update them on a few events that occurred:

• Windsor's Multicultural Week (1:24)
• PTA Scholarship Breakfast (2:03)
• Westgate Multicultural Fair (1:23)

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B. Freedom of Information Act Report

Superintendent, Dr. Brian Kaye, updates the Board on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from the public. The following were the FOIA requests:

• Michael Ayele requested information on records related to National Child Abuse Prevention Month; a response was provided on April 24, 2025.
• Karen Garcia, Data Acquisition Specialist at SmartProcure, requested information on employee/staff contact information; a response was provided on April 25, 2025.
• William Boodro requested information on electric bills; a response was provided on May 1, 2025.
• Owen Wang, Lake County Gazette, requested information on emails and memos regarding Units of Study; a response was provided on May 6, 2025.

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C. NSSEO Draft Resolution

Superintendent, Dr. Brian Kaye, presented this portion of the meeting. The Arlington Heights School District 25 Board of Education was asked to consider adopting a resolution that clarifies and formalizes expectations for its appointed representative to the Governing Board of the Northwest Suburban Special Education Organization (NSSEO).

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D. Professional Learning Presentation Questions

Superintendent, Dr. Brian Kaye put aside some time to follow up on District 25's Department of Student Learning's presentation last month on the District's Professional Development Plan, its impact on the staff, and the plan's Program Review Process.

Last month's meeting was running long, and the decision was made to table Board follow up questions to this month's meeting.

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E. Combined Local Government Board Meetings

This topic was lead by Board President, Greg Scapillato. The purpose of this topic was to see if the Board had interest in holding collaborating meetings between the District 25 Board of Education and different Arlington Heights organization boards such as the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Arlington Heights Park District, etc.

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F. Finance Committee

This topic was lead by Board President, Greg Scapillato. The purpose of this topic was to discuss the possibility of a regular meeting with Assistant Superintendent for Business/CSBO, Stacey Mallek, and two board members to greater increase the Board's capacity for understanding the District's finances.

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G. Updated Board Committee Names

This topic was lead by Board President, Greg Scapillato. The purpose was to discuss and possibly more accurately name two committee groups:

• ED-RED Report
• IASB Report

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The District 25 Board of Education often offers a second opportunity for public comment at each Board Meeting that takes place once all the agenda items have been presented, discussed, or voted on.

*No community members chose to address the Board during this public comment at this meeting.*

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FUTURE TOPICS & TOPICS WITH DATES TO BE DETERMINED

• There are no future topics with dates to be determined.

NEW TOPICS

• No new topics brought up.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2025 @ 6:15 PM

*The meeting will begin at 6:15 p.m. at which time the Board will move into Closed Session until approximately 7:00 p.m. Following Closed session, the Regular Open meeting will begin.*

This meeting will be held at the Dunton Administration Building (1200 S. Dunton Ave.) and broadcasted live and recorded. The link for the livestream can be found on the Board Agenda page (www.sd25.org/BoardAgenda) the week of the meeting.

Public Comments

Anyone who wishes to make a public comment can do so, in-person, at our Board of Education meetings. The Board hosts two public comment opportunities on their agenda: 1) at the beginning of the meeting, prior to any agenda items, 2) at the end of the meeting after the agenda items have been discussed/presented.

Meeting Recordings

A video of the meeting will be recorded and uploaded to our site on the 'Board Agenda' page and on our 'Catch up on Meetings' page.