UPDATE: New School Funding – PCHS
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Chapin Rose has just stated that the Capital Development Board bonds were to be sold this morning, finalized on the 10th of April and school districts…
A lesson in Judicial Construction – Corrupt Practices
EDGAR CO. (ECWd-) I took the liberty to extrapolate key points from Attorney General William Scott’s written opinion on Conflicts of Interest as outlined in File no. S787. I cannot…
Conflict of Interest – Capital Development Board (New High School funds) -
EDGAR CO. (ECWd) - While preparing several emails to send off today, I ran across the Illinois Procurement Code. This is the code the Capital Development Board, where the money…
Conflicts-Intergovernmental Agreements-New High School
EDGAR CO. (ECWd) - As most of us are already aware, there is a new high school being built just north of Paris. With this school construction comes alot of…
D-95 and the Proposed Property Tax –
EDGAR CO. (ECWd) - After several concerned citizens asked about our local school districts and their notices of hearing on tax levy, we decided to check into the situation. We…
Possible School District Consolidation Information
EDGAR CO. (ECWd) - Possible School District Consolidation Following several inquiries into possible school consolidations, I had a meeting with the District 4 and District 95 Superintendents along with some…
Shiloh School Superintendent Missing Work?
EDGAR CO. (ECWd) - New Contract Denied You probably remember this guy from previous posts, and in an interesting turn of events Mr. Wheatley presented the school board with a new…
YES ! On CERWD Trustees and Oct. Meeting…
EDGAR CO. (ECWd) - We couldn’t attend the October 15, 2012 Clark-Edgar Rural Water District meeting – we were working other issues at the time. We do find it quite…
What Price is Too High of a Price To Pay?
PARIS, IL. - Having lived in several countries for extended periods of time; some friendly and some not so friendly, I still remember the saying our Drill Sergeants taught us…
Kansas School District gets free George Washington Portrait
KANSAS, IL. (ECWd) - A few weeks ago, the Kansas School District Superintendent, Mr. Chris Long, requested a portrait from George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate, Museum, and Gardens. When he…
Shiloh School Superintendent Contract Tie Vote
EDGAR CO. - In times where funds are short and schools are at risk of closing due to limited budgets, the Shiloh School District Board of Education held a vote…
Courage, It’s burning inside you, fan the flame!
Many have speculated, falsely, that our efforts of exposing improper and illegal activity is based on some political motivation or self-serving agenda. Sadly those people have become part of the…
Parents, Do You Have A Right to KNOW?
EDGAR CO. - After several tips regarding some past legal matters for the current Shiloh School District Superintendent, Dr. Wheatley, we took the time to make some calls, send a…
Kansas School District defending lawsuit –
EDGAR CO. - A Kansas resident, Brenda Arbogast – formally known as Brenda Graves, has filed a lawsuit against the Kansas School District and its Board Members for negligence and willful…
UPDATE – District 95: Video of 5-7-2012 Board Meeting
PARIS, IL - Here it is, and once again the local paper prints only what the board wants them to print. This has become their standard reporting practice . So…
District 95 Resignation
It has come to our attention that school board member Sue Furnish has resigned her position as board member. A phone call to the Superintendent verified this. The board will…
Report: District 95 School Board Meeting 5-7-2012
PARIS,IL– District 95 School Board Meeting May 7, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. During the District 95 school board meeting, Tom Davis read a prepared statement, referencing the August 15, 2011…
Is District 95 searching for a new Superintendent yet?
PARIS, IL – I had almost forgot about this issue until it was recently brought to my attention again. At the August 15, 2011 District 95 School Board Meeting, Chuck…
TORT Fund or SLUSH Fund
EDGAR CO - TORT Fund or Slush Fund For those of you that pay property tax, have you ever wondered why we pay so much compared to other parts of…
“Per Diem” explanation.
“Per Diem” explanation. After a short phone call from a conference attendee that stated they were authorized a per diem rate for every day they were in Chicago, I decided…
WOW: $87 for one meal? A big shout-out to Sam and Dist 95 – Glad we could pay for that.
$87 for one meal? Thanks to Sam and Dist 95. Glad we could pay for that. Wow! First off, I will extend an apology to Tom for insinuating that he wasn’t…
$80 for one meal? Thanks, Tom. Glad we could pay for that.
$80 for one meal? Thanks, Tom. Glad we could pay for that. Below is just another example of people thinking the taxpayers owe them, and they are going to collect…
District 95 @ Chicago Convention
I believe it was the year 2000 that I began looking at District 95’s financial records. In addition to discovering that the district was financially in trouble, I also noticed…
Public Meeting Notices
The Public Meeting Notices that we have: Paris Cooperative High School @ PCHS Library Paris City Council Meeting: @ City Hall Conference Room Edgar County Board: @ Courthouse…
District 95 BoE meeting Dec 5, 2011
The Distric 95 Board of Education meeting was held on Dec 5, 2011. Video (thanks to the school district) is below Chuck’s comments. ”At the December 5, 2011, meeting of…
Joe Paterno: “I wish I had done more”
Let’s talk about mandatory reporting……and a recently famous case of keeping it “in-house”. Here are some key points that people may not be aware of: Report shall be…
Dist 95 BoE Meeting 11-7-2011
At the November meeting of the District 95 School Board a summary of the audit was presented. The District received a clean report, and it has one of the…
Oct ’11 – School Board Meetings
During the month of October I attended several District 95 School Board meetings. So far, the district still has not received the money for the new high school from the…
Intimidation? How low will they go?
After attending an Animal Control meeting and a Distict 95 School Board meeting, three people – two BoE board members and another “prominant” (term used loosely) person, contacted my employers…
District 95 BoE 9-19-2011 Video
VIDEO: District 95 BoE Meeting – 9-19-2011 Chuck will probably submit comments at a later date… …
