South West Illinois News

Sparta Community Unit School District 140 Board of Education met Sept. 11.

Here is the agenda provided by the board:

1. Call Public Budget Hearing to Order

2. Close Public Hearing

3. Call Regular Meeting to Order, Roll Call, Recite Pledge of Allegiance

4. Public Comments (blue card requests)

5. Approve Minutes

6. Consent Items

a. Bills and Payroll

b. Meetings and Conferences

I. October 9, 2025 – Regular Board Meeting at Evansville Attendance Center 7 p.m.

7. Reports and Discussion/Action Items

a. Administration Reports

I. Principals

II. Building and Grounds

III. Superintendent

IV. FFA

b. Board Committee Reports

c. Other

I. Discuss/Approve FY26 Official Budget

II. Discuss/Approve Administrator and Teacher Salary and Benefits Report

III. Discuss/Appoint IASB Liaison

IV. Discuss/Adopt Resolution directing the Regional Superintendent of Schools for The County of Randolph, Illinois, to certify to the County Clerk of said County the question of expanding the use of revenues from a currently imposed retailers’ occupation tax and a service occupation tax exclusively for school facility purposes to include school resource officers and mental health professionals for submission to the electors of said County at the general primary election to be held on the 17th day of March, 2026

V. Discuss/Approve FFA Overnight Trip for National Convention

d. Proposed Policies

e. Old Business/Late Items

8. Closed Session (5 ILCS 120/2)(c)(1, 5, 21)

9. Action on closed session matters

a. Closed Session Minutes

b. Verbatim Records – Section 2.06(c) of the Open Meetings Act permits the destruction of audio recordings of closed session meetings not less than 18 months after the completion of a meeting if the Board has: (1) approved the minutes of the closed session meeting, and (2) approves the destruction. The Board’s closed session meetings from March 2024 and earlier occurred more than 18 months ago and the Board Secretary maintains Board-approved confidential minutes of all such closed sessions

c. Employment of Personnel

I. Consider Resignations of Certified and Non-Certified Personnel

II. Consider Administrator Contracts

III. Consider Termination of Non-Certified Personnel

IV. Consider Extra-Curricular

d. Other

10. Adjournment

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