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Mike Aurelio to leave District 113A School Board

LEMONT – The District 113A Board of Education will need to replace a member in the next year as Mike Aurelio will be moving out of state.

Aurelio said he is moving to Indiana because his family business has relocated there.

He did not give an exact date of when he would be leaving the board because he is still in the process of selling his home.

Board president Cindy Kelly said she expected he could be leaving sometime within the next school calendar year. Aurelio's four-year term is set to expire in April 2015.

Kelly said that when he does leave, the board would accept applications and choose a replacement to finish his term.

Aurelio was elected to the board in April 2011 and served as board president for his first year.

His upcoming departure was announced after the board selected its officers for the next year.

Cindy Kelly and Patrick Kerrigan were unanimously re-elected as board president and secretary, respectively.

Al Malley was chosen as the new vice president in a 5-2 vote over previous vice president Dave Molitor.

The board re-elected Barbara Germany as treasurer and also approved a change in her title to Chief School Business Official.

Interim Superintendent Pamela Hollich said the new title does not include any new responsibilities but will ensure that Germany is a Teacher Retirement System member.

In other news, in a continuation of a discussion from the April 23 meeting, the board approved $44,753.60 for warranties, licensing and imaging for recently purchased school computers.

The vote was 6-1, with board member Brian Bushnell voting against the measure because he said the amount was greater than what had been presented to the board when it approved the computers.

"About a month and a half ago, I said I would vote no on anything that is inaccurate or flawed," he said.

Other board members agreed with Bushnell's complaint but said the board had to approve the expenditure with the computers already purchased.