Wednesday, November 23, 2011
A majority of board members support a plan to begin implementation of the district’s Master Facilities Plan by borrowing $18 million
The Hinsdale Township High School District 86 Board of Education will hold a special meeting Dec. 5 to decide whether or not to borrow $18 million to pay for air conditioning and other facility improvements at Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South. The majority of the board members at Monday night's board meeting at Central agreed to proceed with some of the first steps of the district’s Master Facilities Plan, which was adopted in 2010. Those steps include air conditioning classrooms at both schools that are not currently air conditioned at a cost of approximately $13 million. That price includes upgrading the existing electrical infrastructure at the schools to accommodate the air conditioning, as well as other HVAC improvements. The …
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Two members had problems with the process initiated by Jennifer Planson and the board will seek help from an impartial mediator.
Hinsdale Township High School District 86 board member Jennifer Planson’s plan to get the divided board to at least move forward together on a few simple goals ran into opposition at Monday night’s board meeting at Hinsdale South High School. Board members could not agree even on a process for formulating goals and ultimately decided to seek assistance from an impartial mediator. Planson proposed three possible goals at the board’s Aug. 1 meeting: upgrading facilities, improving communication, and enhancing academics. Board members agreed to submit their own ideas for goals to Planson prior to Monday’s meeting. The goals Planson suggested Monday again focused on the areas of facilities, communication, and academics. She said they came out …
Thursday, August 4, 2011
The first-year board member expressed surprise the board did not have a list of goals, so she offered her own ideas.
It’s no secret that there is friction among members of the Hinsdale Township High School District 86 Board of Education, but first-year board member Jennifer Planson appears to have had enough of it. Planson was elected to the board in April after an unsuccessful effort by two Oak Brook men to have her thrown off the ballot. In the handful of meetings she has attended since, there have been a number of heated discussions between board members. Planson rarely has been involved in them and at this week’s board meeting she expressed her distaste for the arguments, recalling her feelings after the last highly confrontational meeting. “I had an epiphany of the next four years sitting around this table, going around and around and around and not…
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Opposing attorney says clients have not decided whether to appeal ruling for school board election.
Jennifer Planson’s name will stay on the ballot for the Hinsdale Township High School District 86 School Board, the DuPage Election Commission said Thursday. DuPage Circuit Court Judge Terence Sheen upheld the January decision of the district’s Electoral Board that kept Planson’s name on the ballot for the April 5 consolidated election. Oak Brook residents Donald O’Neil and Terrence O’Malley objected to Planson’s candidacy because she wrote “District 86” on her filing papers rather than the district’s full name. The two men appealed the Electoral Board’s January decision because only two members of the board, school board President Dennis Brennan and Secretary Dee Dee Gorgol, were present during the hearing. A third board member, George …
Friday, February 25, 2011
Attorneys will appear in county circuit court Monday.
Attorneys in the case challenging Jennifer Planson’s candidacy for the District 86 School Board will appear in DuPage County Circuit Court Monday on an emergency motion that the DuPage County Election Commission served Friday, according to a statement released Friday night by Terrence O’Malley, one of the Oak Brook men objecting to Planson's candidacy. Commission Executive Director Robert Saar filed an affidavit that said a hearing scheduled for March 10 wouldn’t allow the election commission enough time to remove Planson’s name from the April 5 ballot, should the judge deem her ineligible to run. The election commission would need at least nine days to change the ballot before early voting begins March 14, Saar said. O'Malley and Donald O…
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Because only two board members ruled to dismiss the objections on Jan. 6, the judge ruled that the board must meet on the matter again, according to a Clarendon Hills Doings report.
A DuPage County Circuit Court judge has ordered that District 86 school board members must meet again regarding objections to Jennifer Planson's candidacy for the school board, according to a Clarendon Hills Doings report. Judge Terence Sheen ruled Tuesday that all three members of the Electoral Board must be present in order to rule on an objection to a candidate, the report said. Only school board President Dennis Brennan and Board Secretary Dee Dee Gorgol were present on Jan. 6 to rule against the objections two Oak Brook residents filed. The school board's attorney said that board member George Kumis had been delayed at a train station. Donald O’Neil and Terrence O’Malley objected to Planson's running for the school board on the …
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Gower School Board president uncertain about finishing term if elected to Hinsdale Township High School Board.
Gower School Board President Jennifer Planson is not sure if she will continue to serve in that capacity if she’s elected in April to the Hinsdale Township High School District 86 School Board. “I don’t know, to be honest with you, what I’m going to do,” Planson said. “I want to make sure what I do decide is in the best interest of both districts.” Planson is one of six candidates vying for three seats on the District 86 board. Her term on the Gower board does not expire until 2013 and she could conceivably serve on both boards simultaneously. Planson recently faced objections regarding her nomination papers to run on the District 86 board. The Electoral Board voted in favor of Planson and she will remain on the ballot. “There’s nothing in…
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Action clears way for Jennifer Planson to remain on District 86 ballot.
The Education Officers Electoral Board of Hinsdale Township High School District 86 rejected objections Thursday night raised to the nomination papers for school board candidate Jennifer Planson. The board, composed of current school board members not up for re-election in this April’s election, voted 2-0 against objections raised by Terrence O’Malley and Donald O’Neil, both of Oak Brook. Dennis Brennan and DeeDee Gorgol were the only board members in attendance. Board member George Kumis was delayed at a train station, according to board attorney Alan Mullins, who guided participants through the hearing process. O’Malley and O’Neil’s objections to Planson’s nomination papers were based on the fact that “Hinsdale District 86” was written …
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Karen
1:45 pm on Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Dear Board Members Who are we borrowing money from? Are they FDiC , what bank. Why. Would you borrow with a surplus? Karen , more ›