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 [...]
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D99 board to discuss court ruling
August 11th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Boards and Commissions, District 99, FOIA
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 [...]
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99 seeks input for strategic planning
July 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · District 99, Strategic Planning
Public input to be sought in strategic planning process. Community High School District 99 will seek the opinions of community members, parents, business owners, students, teachers and staff as part of its strategic planning process, which will be launched this summer.
Bandaid medicine for major surgery
May 23rd, 2010 · 12 Comments · budget, District 58, District 99, Taxes, Uncategorized
The state’s unfunded pension debt passed the $85 billion mark this summer. That unfunded liability is squeezing out money for other valued needs, such as education and health care. It means the state has less money for things like child-care aid and fixing roads and schools, or paying some of the $1 billion it owes [...]
Tags: budget·local government·municipal budget·school board·Taxes
D99 responds to AG request
January 25th, 2010 · 9 Comments · District 99, FOIA
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 [...]
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D58 field narrows to nine
October 15th, 2009 · Comments Off · District 58
Chad Walz and Keith Mature have withdrawn their applications for the D58 board seat vacated last month by Tom Cunningham. That leaves nine candidates for the seat held for 14 years by Cunningham. The school board earlier announced it will interview candidates on Oct. 22 and 23 as necessary in an effort to fill the [...]
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11 vie for D58 seat
October 13th, 2009 · 11 Comments · District 58
Eleven candidates have submitted applications for the D58 school board seat vacated last month by long-time member Tom Cunningham. The candidates are Linda Clevenger, Craig Cook, Gail Coultrap, Mike Davenport, Christy Greenblatt, Keith Matune, John Miller, Doug Purcell, Rebecca Schlorf, Chad Walz and Brian Wilson. Clevenger has children at Lester and Herrick. Cook, who is [...]
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D58 applications due by 10/9
September 28th, 2009 · Comments Off · District 58
Citizens interested in the D58 board seat vacated last week by the resignation of Tom Cunningham have until 4:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 9, to apply. The district announced today that those interested should obtain an application through Board Secretary Pamela Osika at the administrative service center, 1860 63rd St., or by calling (630) 719-5803. Office hours [...]
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D99: Best to toss these updated
September 24th, 2009 · 5 Comments · District 99, Local politics
Dr. McDonald is in the house…and case closed. Readers have probably noticed 99 Supt. Mark McDonald being kind of a calm polite center as the Board of Education’s various storms swirl around. The guy is imperturbable as near as I can tell. Efficient too. He made a point of letting DGreport know that officials of [...]
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D99: miracle on 63rd Street?
September 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · District 99
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 [...]