CHESTER – A regular meeting of the Chester Community Unit School District No. 139 Board of Education will be held tonight, July 16, 2026, at 7 p.m. in the Chester Early Childhood Center located at 2319 Old Plank Road, Chester, IL.
The tentative agenda for tonight’s meeting:
- Call to Order and Roll Call – 6:30 p.m.
- Executive Session
2.1 For the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees of the public body.
2.2 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. Regular Session
- Call Regular Session – 7:00 p.m.
- Pledge of Allegiance
- Opportunity for Public Comment (please be mindful that these meetings of the BOE are required by the Open Meeting Law to be held in a public setting. Each participant will be limited to 5 minutes, which the board will listen to but will not respond during this time.
- Board Correspondence
- Approve Consent Agenda Items as Listed
7.1 Approval of Agenda
7.2 June 18, 2026 Regular and Executive Board Meeting Minutes
7.3 Bills & Payroll
7.4 Financial Reports
- Departmental & Administrative Reports
- Old Business
9.1 Conduct a second reading and approve the 2026-27 Employee Handbook
- New Business
10.1 Approve the Expand of Scope Work with GRP Wegman to remove the press box in Colbert Gym and install mini-splits in the nurses’ office in the amount of $51,445
10.2 Approve Pay Application #2 with GRP Wegman for HVAC in the amount of $540,818.13 10.3 Review E-Learning Plan for verification year 3 of 26-27 SY 10.4 Accept the annual review of closed meeting minutes
10.5 Approve registration dates, fees, and meal prices for the 2026-2027 SY
10.6 Accept paper bid from Midland Paper in the amount of $31.83/case for the 2026-27 SY 10.7 Designate Kimberly Briggs, Superintendent, to develop a tentative budget and adopt the FY 2027 Budget Resolution
10.8 Approve CEA Collective Bargaining Agreement for 2026-2028
10.9 Conduct first reading of the Board Press Policy 122 updates
10.10 Approve the Certificate for Final Payment for Samron Midwest Contracting’s Final Pay Application #10 for the Chester Early Childhood Center Renovations in the amount of $5,000 10.11 Approve Pay Application #1 with Samron Midwest Contracting Inc. for Chester High School Tuckpointing and Window Replacement in the amount of $264,072.76
10.12 Approve the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) established with Chester Education Association for Kenneth Handsbury
- Employment, Coaches, and Volunteers
11.1 Consider approval of coaches and volunteers
11.2 Approve employment of non-certified personnel
11.3 Approve the resignation of non-certified personnel
- Adjournment