Ah Grasshopper - Follow the $$$$$
At the Peoria Chronicle, in reference to the Glen Oak Park site, Gary Sandberg made the comment,
April 4 -- Legal Notice to be published..... "Pursuant to Article 17-1 of the School Cole (should be Code) of Illinois, a legal notice announcing the required Public Hearing was published in at least one newspaper of general circulation on April 4, 2006. That notice set the time and date for the public hearing as May 8, 2006. It is necessary that at least one such Public Hearing be held prior to the adoption of the Amended 2005-2006 budget. Given that the Budget Hearing has concluded, the Amended Budget may now be adopted. " (PPS-Action Item, May 22, 2006, Background Information, Signed by Guy M. Cahill, Approved by Ken Hinton)
April 24 -- INFORMATION ITEMS - DISCUSSION OF SENATOR SHADID'S REQUEST -- Mr. Hinton made the following statement.......
- "The Master Facility Plan, which was formally adopted by the Board of Education on November 21, 2005, set forth a commitment to build and revitalize our community with new state-of-the-art schools. The proposed school on the Glen Oak Park site would be an example of that commitment."
- "However, due to recent events and out of respect for the Glen Oak community and in a sign of good faith, I am instructing my administrative staff to suspend the acquisition of property for the Glen Oak Park site effective 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 26th and ask the Board to delay their formal approval for the construction of a new school in the Woodruff Attendance area until a forum can be held."
- "To those 6 property owners with whom we have already entered into contract, we will honor our obligations." (PPS-BOE Minutes, 04/24/06, pp. 264-265)
April 28 -- $140,000 - 2102 N. Prospect
April 28 -- $89,000 - 2144 N. Prospect
April 28 -- $125,000 - 2212 N. Prospect
May 2 -- $100 - 2102 N. Prospect
May 8 -- "7:00 p.m. PUBLIC HEARING ON THE BUDGET - Ms. Butler called the public hearing on the amendments to the budget to order at 7:00 p.m. There were no speakers. Mrs. Butler declared the hearing closed at 7:03 p.m. The amended budget will be voted on at the May 22, 2006 meeting." (PPS-BOE Minutes, 05/08/06, p. 268)
Again from the Peoria Chronicle, Mahkno's comments on May 25th, 2006 hit the mark,
"The problems this town has does not rise high enough for them to interrupt their daily lives for something messy like politics."
"If 500 people showed up at a council meeting demanding change… you bet they would notice. If 1000 people showed up at a council meeting demanding change… the council would get restless. If 10,000 people showed up downtown for the council meeting, demanding change… we would have a revolution in local politics. But… that would interrupt their baseball or basketball game. It might interrupt American Idol. We know American Idol is more important anyways"
Please wake up "Rip Van Winkle" and to the ramparts!!!!!
May 9 -- $98,000 - 2126 N. Prospect
May 9 -- $120,000 - 2206 N. Prospect
May 10 -- $133,500 - 2208 N. Prospect
May 11 -- $90,000 - 2142 N. Prospect
May 12 -- $82,000 - 2138 N. Prospect
Peoria County Government - Property Tax Information (please click link, then search by address or Property ID)
May 22 -- Budget amendment transferred $1.6 MILLION from (20) Operations & Maintenance to (60) Site & Construction/Capital Improvement.
Asked (on 05/22/06) for the statute covering this transfer --- Mr. Cahill's response was that he would have to conduct research to find the statute reference.
(Please note, a follow-up email was sent and still no response has been received from Mr. Cahill to date - 05/26/06.)
(PPS-BOE Agenda, 05/22/06, Action Item No. 8; Amended 2005-2006 Budget, p. 3 dated 5/5/2006, approved by BOE)
(105 ILCS 5/10‑22.33) (from Ch. 122, par. 10‑22.33) Sec. 10‑22.33. Interfund loans. To authorize the treasurer to make interfund loans from (1) the operations and maintenance fund to the educational fund or fire prevention and safety fund, or (2) from the educational fund to the operations and maintenance fund or fire prevention and safety fund, or (3) from the operations and maintenance or educational fund to the transportation fund, or (4) from the transportation fund to the operations and maintenance, educational, or fire prevention and safety fund and to make the necessary transfers on his books, but such loans shall be repaid and retransferred to the proper fund within 3 years. In case such repayment is not made within 3 years the regional superintendent shall withhold further payments on claims authorized by Article 18 of this Act until repayment is made. (Source: P.A. 89‑3, eff. 2‑27‑95.)
105 ILCS 5 / School Code, ARTICLE 10. SCHOOL BOARDS
Any attorneys, any school attorneys out there???? Is this the correct statute? Is there another statute(s) to cover this type of transfer?
May 22 -- "Prior to the moratorium on real estate purchases for the Glen Oak Park School Site, Purchase Contracts for listed property purchases were executed."
(Please note, that it would appear --- from April 24, 2006 at the BOE Meeting (sometime after 6 p.m.) until Wednesday, April 26th effective 9:00 a.m., D150's property acquisition went from 6 to 8 properties.)
(Also, asked (on 05/22/06) who was the signatory on the D150 real estate purchase contracts? --- No identification was provided.
(PPS-BOE Agenda, 05/22/06, Action Item No. 9; PPS-Action Item, May 22, 2006, Background Information, Signed by Guy M. Cahill, Approved by Ken Hinton)
Taxpayers are looking for equal treatment --- they are hoping that the BOE will employ the same "raise the bar, increase the rigor and relevance" standard which Superintendent Ken Hinton announced for increasing Lincoln School Academic Performance for civic engagement and open government for the taxpayer.
Does it seem curious ....
to reference the School Code section for a legal notice ---- yet need to do research to identify the section allowing for the transfer of $1.6 MILLION ?
that D150 seemingly COULD ONLY purchase these properties once D150 made an offer, especially when no intergovernmental agreement has been signed between D150 and the Peoria Park District to develop this proposed site? What happened to the concept of a purchase option?
that D150 is able to expend funds prior to the Public Hearing AND prior to the BOE vote to make a budget amendment to transfer the funds, $1.6 MILLION from (20) Operations & Maintenance to (60) Site & Construction/Capital Improvement?
that any expenditure over $10,000 has to be put out for bid AND the accepted bid has to be approved in a regular (open) D150 meeting by D150 BOE Members PRIOR to the receipt of services .......
YET THE SAME PRINCIPLE DOES NOT APPLY TO THE ACQUISITION OF $877,500 WORTH OF REAL ESTATE PURCHASES?
and so on . . .
posted by KEAlms/SAPartridge @ Friday, May 26, 2006
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