Student liaisons Meghna Mitra from Hinsdale Central and Makena Camden from Hinsdale South presented information from their board reports. You can access Mitra's report by visiting http://bit.ly/3tC1Rza and Camden's report by visiting http://bit.ly/3tAtubW.

Principal Patrick Hardy provided the board with the good news report for Hinsdale South, which you can access by visiting http://bit.ly/3TAuIP6. During the good news report for Hinsdale Central, Principal Bill Walsh, athletic director Dan Jones and several of the school's coaches recognized the accomplishments that individual athletes and teams amassed during the fall season.

You can access Superintendent Prentiss' report by visiting http://bit.ly/3hStf9J.

During the portion of the meeting dedicated to new business, the board members reviewed and discussed the following documents:

As part of their conversation, they identified revisions to these documents that they will review and vote to approve during their meeting on Dec. 15.

The board members also discussed potential changes to policies 2:110 (Qualifications, Term, and Duties of Board Officers) and 2:150 (Committees).They decided not to make edits to either policy at this time. However, Board President Erik Held stated that his participation in committee meetings will be limited to the committees he currently serves on, or to situations where committee chairs ask him to take part in a session or discussion.

Members of the Parent-Teacher Advisory Committee, HR Committee, Policy Committee, Finance Committee, and Facilities and Special Committee for Community Engagement with Construction provided the board with reports from their recent meetings. You can access those reports via the links below.

The board also approved the release of the draft minutes from these meetings as part of the consent agenda.

The board approved the consent agenda as amended. The consent agenda includes personnel, stipends, board bills and meeting minutes. Please visit http://bit.ly/3XakCrh to access the consent agenda items beginning under number nine.

The board also approved items 14.1 (February 4 2022 Special Meeting Minutes - Closed Session), 14.2 (February 10 2022 COW Meeting Minutes - Closed Session) and 14.3 (February 24 2022 RAM Meeting Minutes - Closed Session), which were pulled from the consent agenda for a separate vote.

The board took the following action during the meeting:

Board President Erik Held talked about some of the things the district did to celebrate Veterans Day, and thanked veterans for their service. He mentioned that there are previously approved closed session meeting minutes that have been amended, and shared that the revised versions of those minutes will be brought back to the board for review and a vote on their approval. He also wished everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, and expressed his appreciation for the faculty, staff, administration, other members of the board and community.

You can access the current list of future agenda items by visiting http://bit.ly/3EBYUFj.

The board had a preliminary discussion about staffing for the 2023-24 school year that included a conversation about the framework that will be used to guide the staffing process.The final draft of the framework will be presented to the board for review and a vote on its approval on Dec. 15.

Per its regular cadence of reporting, the administration provided the board with the treasury and financial reports for October 2022. You can access the treasury report by visiting http://bit.ly/3hMfycq and the financial reports by visiting http://bit.ly/3txWuBa.

The board received information about the FOIA requests that have been processed since its last regular action meeting. This information included the names or titles of the individuals and departments who helped respond to the requests, a summary of the records that were requested and who asked for them, and trend data about the number of requests that have been processed and the legal fees the district has incurred in responding to them.

You can access additional information about this agenda item by visiting http://bit.ly/3ECs9HT.

Members of the public spoke about the following topics during the two opportunities they had to give audience communication:

The meeting adjourned at 9:02 p.m. You can access the video recording of this session by visiting https://vimeo.com/user9373008/videos.

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