The Board of Trustees of the Illinois Eastern Community College District No. 529 met
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at Frontier Community College, Fairfield, Illinois.
The Board approved the minutes of the Board of Trustees special meetings held on August 4, 2025 and September 3, 2025 as well as the regular meeting held on August 19, 2025. The 2025 Annual Security Report, 2025 Emergency Response Plans, and 2025 Violence Prevention Plan were accepted by the Board.
The Board waived a second reading and approved revisions to the following policies:
• Salary Basis Policy 400.22 to use more general language, including the removal
of the minimum weekly pay and clarification of how the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) applies to IECC’s exempt employees.
• Wages Policy 400.13 to now include wages for full-time non-faculty employees
with the addition to formalize existing practices and establish clear guidelines through the corresponding administrative procedure.
The Board approved the first reading of Board of Trustees and Foundations Collaboration Policy 100.41 to include clear guidelines and assigned responsibilities and the deletion of Relationship with College Foundations Policy 600.1.
Authorization by the Board was given to Chancellor Gower to move forward with listing the property adjacent to Olney Central College’s soccer fields for public sale with a deed restriction requiring that it be developed exclusively for student housing serving IECC students.
The IECC Athletics Report for AY26 was presented and accepted by the Board of Trustees. The report provided an overview of student athlete enrollment, distribution by campus, scholarship awards given, and financial balances of each sport across the District.
The Board approved naming recognitions at two campuses in honor of generous donor support. Marathon Petroleum Corporation contributed toward the new Technology Center at Lincoln Trail College. In recognition, the Process Technology Skills Lab will be named for Marathon Petroleum. Longtime FCC supporter Jerry Cox made a gift to support the construction of the new athletic facility at Frontier Community College. The Board approved naming the basketball court in his honor.
The Board approved an Intergovernmental Agreement with the Illinois Capital
Development Board to purchase furniture and equipment for the nearly completed Allied Health
addition at Olney Central College.
Approval of employment was given for Jaeda Thomason as TRIO SSS Academic
Advisor, FCC effective September 22, 2025.
The annual bonus for Mining and Industrial Technology Instructors was approved.
The next regular meeting of the Board of Trustees will be Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at
6:15 p.m. at Lincoln Trail College, Robinson, IL. A groundbreaking ceremony for the new
Technology Center on that campus will be held at 4:30 p.m. that same day.