Round Lake CUSD 116 Board of Education

7 meetings on our record, 6 of them from the past year and 1 with an unconfirmed date · typical meeting 1 h 41 min · 6,190 students · 7 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 5, 2026: Round Lake Area board approves contracts, hears proposed levy with 4.97% increase Play 18:45
Newest meeting we have: Oct 5, 2026 · District's board page ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Kevin Devera, Member · Scott Jewitt, Member · Jennifer Klingler, Member · Margaret "Peg" Larson, Vice President · Julie Lee, Member · Annette Negrete McGinley, Secretary

Watch the board’s yearA decision it made, its hours, its busiest night at the mic and where its time went, each with its source

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 1 h 41 minMonday, October 5, 2026Round Lake Area board approves contracts, hears proposed levy with 4.97% increaseAI in schoolsSpeakers: Michael Francisco, Julie Lee

Play 18:45

Board meeting · 2 h 11 minMonday, September 21, 2026Round Lake school board approves staffing contract with AnthromedChronic absenteeismSpeakers: Michael Francisco

Play 37:15

Board meeting · 1 h 41 minMonday, September 14, 2026Speakers: Margaret "Peg" Larson, Julie Lee

Watch

Board meeting · 1 h 00 minMonday, August 17, 2026Budget cuts and layoffsEnrollmentSpeakers: Michael Francisco, Scott Jewitt

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The board

Who talks on this board

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 6 board meetings, Jul 27, 2026 – Oct 5, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

Listed by seatHow much of the members' speech we name isn't measured here yet.

Coverage not measured on whole meetings yet

Minutes = time we heard them speak per meeting, from the speech we have named so far, so each is a floor: at least that much.

Runs the meeting

Michael FranciscoPresident · runs the meeting, not ranked2.8min, at least5 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · listed by seat

Kevin DeveraMember · We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—not ranked—no question counted

Scott JewittMember · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 82.5min, at least3 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked4.3questions asked per meeting, at least

Jennifer KlinglerMember · Seated for 4 board meetings on our record; we rank at 81.3min, at least2 of 4meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Margaret "Peg" LarsonVice President · Seated for 6 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.2min, at least2 of 6meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.5questions asked per meeting, at least

Julie LeeMember · Seated for 5 board meetings on our record; we rank at 80.7min, at least2 of 5meetings heard, of those while seated—not ranked0.0questions asked per meeting, at least

Annette Negrete McGinleySecretary · We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—min per meeting—We haven't identified their voice at a full board meeting—not ranked—no question counted

Minutes speaking per full board meeting held while seated; a meeting they missed or stayed silent in counts as zero · bar = minutes named so far · talk time only, never tone or stance · Hamlet

Meetings on our record

All 7 meetings on our record

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Budget and finance10%0%–23%

Ceremony and recognition6%3%–12%

Public comment3%1%–7%

Safety and discipline0%0%–3%

The two readers didn’t agree on 25% of the time; it counts toward no topic, so every share above is a floor.

Not shown: facilities, closures and enrollment, curriculum and instruction, student services and special education, labor and personnel, governance and policy, routine business, other subjects, whose checks haven’t passed

Public comment

Of the 7 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 7; 4 had at least one. The busiest, on Sep 14, 2026, heard from 2.

2 on Sep 14, 20262 speakers1 speaker0.9 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 6 of the 7 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Oct 5	Sep 21	Sep 14	Aug 17	Aug 3	Jul 27
Michael Francisco	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
Jennifer Klingler	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present
Scott Jewitt	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present
Margaret "Peg" Larson	Present	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Present	Present
Annette Negrete McGinley	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
Kevin Devera	Present	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Present
Julie Lee	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 1734990 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district