Board Packets

I have finally been able to catch up on loading the board packets for both District 127 and District 46 school board meetings. You can review them yourself from the document links at D127News.com and D46News.com.

It is a shame that a taxpayer has to continually FOIA these documents and provide them to public instead of the schools themselves. They continue to ask the taxpayers to provide money for education and yet they refuse to trust the taxpayer with information that would show how well they are spending the money we provide and how effective this money is utilized to increase student performance.

In addition to not trusting taxpayers, District 46 continues to overcharge for FOIA requests.

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2 Responses to “Board Packets”

  1. Confused, on October 15th, 2007 at 5:16 pm Said:

    I would guess that you must have created some animosity with the district. Any time I request info from the village, or the districts, they just give it to me; power points from board meetings, the info packets, etc. Have you done something inappropriate with the information in the past? Have you acted irresponsibly?

  2. site admin, on October 16th, 2007 at 8:22 pm Said:

    You can read my past posts on my journey as a taxpayer advocate in my school districts.

    I FOIA and post the data I receive and at times I post my analysis. I have discovered items they would have rather the public not have known about. I opposed their referendum a few years back because the data I received did not support their case.

    The first FOIA I ever made to District 46 was incomplete. That took place at the start of this website as I was asking questions and researching data to find out if I should support the referendum or not.

    I guess if asking questions about how the district spends the taxpayer monies they receive is inappropriate or irresponsible, or if providing this data to the public at large is inappropriate or irresponsible, then I have been both. When nearly 70% of local property taxes go to the local schools I have the right to ask questions and to disseminate those answers. The school district have a duty to provide this information and yet they make the process cumbersome and sometimes expensive to to find the data and the answers.

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