To censure or not to censure?
It’s a rhetorical question. The agenda for tonight’s District 58 regular meeting clearly indicates that the School Board intends to at least discuss censuring member Scott O’Connell.
O’Connell is in the hot seat for sending a 10-page e-mail to the Illinois Attorney General’s office suggesting that the board may have violated the Open Meetings Act.
O’Connell wanted to attend the Feb. 13 Financial Advisory Committee meeting and requested that the meeting be posted as a board meeting in order to allow his full participation. District attorneys responded that he could attend the meeting but not participate in it because to do so would create a quorum of the board.
O’Connell’s fellow board members took issue with his request at last month’s meeting and suggested that his behavior was inappropriate.
Still to be heard from on the matter is the Illinois Attorney General, which reportedly has found no case law that speaks directly to the issue, pro or con.
Whether that indecision will impact the board’s censure vote remains to be seen.
since being elected OConnell in less then a year has discovered budget errors, fund balance projection understatements, excessive insurance cost, and has stopped a potentially fraudulant Life Safety Bond issue. He exposed an unneccessary referendum that saved taxpayers 21 million dollars. What he wants is what we all should demand transparency and accountability from our school district. And if there is nothing to hide why has the Business Manager left, the Board President left, and the Superintendant left and oh yeah the Insurance Rep has given notice. No wonder they don’t want OConnell talking or asking questions. Sound like the board is spending too much time yelling at OConnell and not enough time making changes
This board is so full of itself its pitiful.
Hopefully the rest of the school board , with the exception of Scott O’Connell, will go the way of the business manager.the superintendent and the insurance rep.