The Grayslake School Board has scheduled a community forum for this Wednesday night at 7:30 pm at Grayslake Middle School. Please attend and tell everyone you know about this forum. The more people that attend, the more likely it will be to have future sessions. Listed below are the final questions. [...]
In an article last July, the Northwest Herald found taxing bodies were overcharging for FOIA requests. Since that time I have done some research, although there is much more to go in this area. I found many taxing bodies that charge what appear to be excessive fees as well.
First there is [...]
I thought more people would be interested in how Winthrop Harbor District 1 handles FOIA requests. Below is the timeline of my requests and the district responses. As you can see it was a frustrating experience that is still not completed. Here is brief overview or the problems:
The district did not a [...]
After another defeat this spring, Winthrop Harbor Supt. James Tenbusch is getting the Illinois State Board of Education to help find ways to regulate the free speech of the citizens who speak out against tax increases. Here is the quote from today’s Chicago Tribune.
Tenbusch on Thursday accused some tax-increase opponents of making false claims [...]
Interesting charts for a district trying to blame everything on the previous administration and bleak future. The ISBE Analysis shows a surplus of over $500K up until 2003 when it decreased dramatically. Isn’t that when Dr. Tenbusch took over?
The ISBE numbers are off as well. It appears they averaged 2% growth in [...]
The National Taxpayers United of Illinois are heading to the Cook County State’s Attorney with evidence Morton Dist. 201 broke election interference laws (Hat tip: CRAFT. Read about D-300 possible violations here and Wintrhop Harbor’s D-1 here.
On Thursday March 9, NTU Vice-President Jeffrey Babbitt spoke with the General Counsel for the Illinois State Board [...]
In response to my post about “Who really paid for the Emergency Referendum?â€, the following response was placed on the GoFlo website, Winthrop Harbor Schools, page 157.
Guest Posted: Feb. 25 2006,10:24
Lennie,
Of course D1 paid for the election because it is the governmental entity that must pay for the costs. But, unlike the Beach Park [...]
The following quotes are from comments during last falls referendums:
The cost of the election is being paid for by a group of concerned citizens who raising the money.
Comment by DMcCarthy — 9/6/2005 @ 11:01 pm
The referendum comittee, who are funding the election, are called the “Citizens for Quality Schoolsâ€. It’s members (parents) have written letters [...]
There is going to be an information meeting in Winthrop Harbor monday evening about the referendum. This announcement is from the District 1 website.
Special Board Meeting
There will be a special board meeting this Monday night (February 6) at 7pm at North Prairie Junior High. Representatives from the Illinois State Board of Education will be [...]
Superintendent Tenbusch of Winthrop Harbor District 1 sent this letter to parents in the District. I am providing excerpts below:
This support seemed to be forthcoming after the spring election, but the arrival of a well funded and organized opposition group from outside our community has changed everything. It no longer appears realistic to [...]
The voters of Winthrop Harbor have spoken loudly once again. They have resoundingly defeated this referendum for the third time in the past year. The voter turnout was very heavy for a special election at over 52%. The intimidation and threats backfired again. Read more about the tactics of the friendly [...]
The opponents of the Winthrop Harbor School District tax referendum speak out even though they are being threatened with legal action by the school district.
Suit threat irks tax foes
Winthrop Harbor referendum: ‘Statements about taxpayers inflammatory’
By Ralph Zahorik
STAFF WRITER
Attorneys for conservative groups responded with outrage and indignation Friday over threats of lawsuits from the Winthrop Harbor [...]
I am going to rehash some old articles from the Daily Herald that shows their analysis of how referendums work and how school districts rake in more money than the voters approved. After you read these articles you decide whether CRAFT and VoteNoTax were telling the voters the truth or whether the District is [...]
The so called “Emergency” Referendum for Winthrop Harbor District 1 is estimated to cost over $5600. I was informed in a comment earlier that a group called “Citizens for Quality Schools” would be paying for this instead of the district. I took the liberty of going to the Lake County Clerk’s office to [...]
I just found about about this situation about an hour ago. The Winthrop Harbor School District is threatening legal action against opponents of their Tax Referendum. It looks like the school district are rainsing the stakes on opposing referendums. This is an outrage and an affront to free speech. Even if [...]
These interesting comments were reportedly made by Board President Leech at the presentation. Can someone else confirm these as well? These were placed in the comments of another thread by a user who was at the presentation. I thought I would pull then up here.
- D-1 is against consolidation (although he didn’t [...]
The presentation for both proponents and opponents of the Tax Referendum was held today. I was not able to attend.
I was able to obtain the Power Point presentation from CRAFT along with their Q and A presentation.
I asked others for the School Districts presentaion as well. When I receive [...]
Winthrop Harbor police visited Christopher Clements, a resident, asking him to take down his Vote No Sign. He refused of course and vows to go to jail instead of taking it down. Why does Big Ed or it’s supporters not want free speech? That’s easy, it doesn’t allow them to continue to [...]
Please visit the Vote No Tax website. They have updated their information about the school district and their over spending habits. They have flyers that can be printed and passed out. If you live in that district understand this is not about the kids, it is about a district that is out [...]
The Winthrop Harbor Referendum will cost the district a minimum of $5600 and probably several thousand dollars higher. Again, how much did it cost to go to court to get this Special Election allowed? As you can see, the cost is adding up? Where is this money coming from? Is it [...]
Winthrop Harbor Elementary Distict 1 is being very audacious in their attempts to get a referendum passed. They went to court to get them to allow what they are calling an “Emergency Referendum”. The election will be held October 11.
The district is trying to sneak this through folks. It’s [...]
