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While D99 did not keep a ledger specifically for legal costs surrounding the six year D99/Woodridge cage match, FOIA Officer and D99 Controller Mark Staehlin, as expected, had some solid numbers on legal fees paid specific to the lawsuit: Paid in the three fiscal years from 2004/5 through 2006/7 for meetings and negotiations- $241,061 Paid [...]

Tonight at 7pm District 99 will once again violate the Illinois Open Meetings Act by holding a closed session to discuss a decided court case.  District officials said the meeting will be held in closed session because board members will be discussing litigation. Really? The exception to the OMA clearly states PENDING litigation, not decided [...]

In a Jan. 20 editorial, the Reporter takes D99 to task for its delay in responding to a request for information by the Illinois Attorney General’s office. The letter from Assistant Attorney General Amanda Lundeen, dated Nov. 10, 2009, asked for a written response within 30 days to a complaint from the Reporter alleging that [...]

Editor’s note: This story first appeared Thursday night. It drew an immediate complaint from a reader who felt Greenwood should be spared the public reporting of his suspension because of his ill health and his current status as a private citizen. The reader also noted that there was never any reason to suggest Greenwood did [...]

Even though the internet website dog ate their agenda homework, the D99 BOE tonight made some good moves.  The budget was approved (more on that later), a report was received that fewer students are smoking cigarettes.  There’s a ton of travel opportunities for students this year (which costs D99 nada — all paid for by [...]

I pulled my own post. It’s not fair to Ms. Boyle to make light of her predicament.  She is duly elected to serve as a board member and has been opposed at every opportunity by the majority members of the board, including participation in challenging her election.  One would hope board members might do a [...]

“$10,000 in legal fees to draw up guidelines for a nepotism policy.” Could have saved them a ton of cash.  I made up a simple spreadsheet of the policies concerning conflict of interest and ethics, and ran through them to see if there were any common threads that the D99 policies follow.  If so, that [...]

EJ has the skinny on the meeting.  I was mainly there to record the meeting (more on that later)-being 6’4″ makes me useful.  Here’s some of my additional thoughts on the juvenile spectacle that the D99 school board meeting turned into Monday night: 1) When a board member is recognized to speak, will the rest [...]

Saturday May 30th I received the following letter from Board President Julia Beckman, denying my May 16th appeal of the May 14th denial of my May 5th FOIA request to inspect the verbatim minutes of the April 27th meeting of the CHSD99 School Board: