DECATUR â Decatur school board members expressed concern during a closed session discussion about the public backlash that could result if they moved ahead with the awarding of a proposed $30,000 bonus to Assistant Superintendent Jeff Dase.
The Oct. 27 discussion was among the closed session recordings, released Wednesday afternoon, that the board voted to make public during its meeting Tuesday.
Portions of the Oct. 27 closed session, as well as portions of the closed executive sessions held Sept. 8 and 22, were found by the Illinois Attorney General s Office to include discussions that fell outside the exceptions to the Open Meetings Act.
During the Oct. 27 closed session, Board President Beth Nolan asked board members to offer their opinions on whether it was prudent to move forward with the bonus. The release of the board s agenda a few days before the meeting, which included reference to the bonus, was met with much public opposition.
DECATUR â Decatur school board members expressed concern during a closed session discussion about the public backlash that could result if they moved ahead with the awarding of a proposed $30,000 bonus to Assistant Superintendent Jeff Dase.
The Oct. 27 discussion was among the closed session recordings, released Wednesday afternoon, that the board voted to make public during its meeting Tuesday.
Portions of the Oct. 27 closed session, as well as portions of the closed executive sessions held Sept. 8 and 22, were found by the Illinois Attorney General s Office to include discussions that fell outside the exceptions to the Open Meetings Act.
During the Oct. 27 closed session, Board President Beth Nolan asked board members to offer their opinions on whether it was prudent to move forward with the bonus. The release of the board s agenda a few days before the meeting, which included reference to the bonus, was met with much public opposition.
DECATUR â Decatur school board members expressed concern during a closed session discussion about the public backlash that could result if they moved ahead with the awarding of a proposed $30,000 bonus to Assistant Superintendent Jeff Dase.
The Oct. 27 discussion was among the closed session recordings, released Wednesday afternoon, that the board voted to make public during its meeting Tuesday.
Portions of the Oct. 27 closed session, as well as portions of the closed executive sessions held Sept. 8 and 22, were found by the Illinois Attorney General s Office to include discussions that fell outside the exceptions to the Open Meetings Act.
During the Oct. 27 closed session, Board President Beth Nolan asked board members to offer their opinions on whether it was prudent to move forward with the bonus. The release of the board s agenda a few days before the meeting, which included reference to the bonus, was met with much public opposition.
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Like dogs and cats, snakes and rats, journalists and the government are not supposed to be friends.
It is always going to be a fractious, difficult relationship. We, the voters and taxpayers, grant politicians enormous power and resources to run the government on our behalf. The media’s job is to make sure they do it responsibly and ethically.
As the American newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst reportedly once said, “news is whatever someone doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising”.
The natural order of things
requires there to be a necessary tension between those two institutions. But mutual hostility isn’t necessarily always a good thing.