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[casey]

Apr 10, 2008 12:19:23 GMT -6 sushi said:

Casey, you called Holmes' office?

Of course, I did. Do you honestly think that I would tell others to confirm it without actually doing so myself? I try to verify all my information to be accurate before posting. Although sometimes info can still be wrong (remember the whole CB moving thing ). Like a good reporter, I check my sources.

I do think this is good news for the whole district. That land was just wrong!!!

[rural]

Well, the tarot cards totally missed this one.

[doctorwho]

Apr 10, 2008 12:57:24 GMT -6 rural said:

Well, the tarot cards totally missed this one.

maybe somebody spilled something on them....

[rew]

Midwest Generation made a business decision not to sell.

But now we have Dash blaming the community for the mess?

All I did was what I was asked to do...vote YES and work my butt off to get my friends and neighbors to vote YES.

The blame lies with the school board/school admin, pure and simple.

They have cost the community tens of millions of dollars, flushed down the toilet. They have shredded neighborhoods and they have HURT the kids.

Recall the old couple at the first board meeting after the verdict? I believe the gentleman called for all the SB to resign...I think they call it wisdom with age.

[sashimi]

Again, it is very important to note that this is far from over. The Board and Administration have demonstrated that they are fully committed to doing whatever they have to do to avoid building on BB (whether it be out of retribution to BB or now perhaps out of spite the NSFOC orginization).

In addition to the NSFOC lawsuit, which is primarily focused on the violation of the Illinois and Federal constitutions and established election law, there are two other lawsuits which seek upwards of 20-25 MILLION Dollars should our District fail to proceed with the purchase of BB. I believe that there is but one logical and responsible path forward here....to proceed as represeted in the 2006 referendum and allow the construction of the Metea high school on the BB land as promised and voted for by the 204 electorate. This avoids or minimizes any added transportation costs as well as the splitting of our schools.

Everyone who cares...it is time to reach out to the Board members and Administration to continue to allow your voice to be heard. Send emails, make phone calls...do whatever you have to do to get them to listen! Please demand that the gamesmanship stop and that they proceed responsibly and negotiate in good faith with BB.

When taking the Administration and Board's assurances that none of the three lawsuits have any merit and there is no exposure to the District for damages, please remember these promises as well:

"There is no way that the BB land judgement will exceed $300,000 per acre";

"We will close on the Midwest Gen land by March 19th".

"We will be breaking land on the Eola site by the beginning of April."


Time to come together as a community and support the commencement of a new school on the BB site AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. How much do we need to continue to spend to support the miscalculations and negligence of our 204 leaders???

[scarbroughknight]

Clowns belong in the circus. Not on the School Board. Don't be so confident about BB. The Dash might just announce that the new school will not be needed after all. This was a reputable SD once. Now its a soap opera. AS THE STOMACH TURNS

[kimmie]

rew, I agree with you. The end product of this is we have lost millions of our tax money, the SB/SD has pitted neighborhoods agains each other, wasted time (years), as well as much more. The whole school board should all resign that would be the best for all.

[rural]

Apr 10, 2008 13:17:52 GMT -6 sashimi said:

Again, it is very important to note that this is far from over. The Board and Administration have demonstrated that they are fully committed to doing whatever they have to do to avoid building on BB (whether it be out of retribution to BB or now perhaps out of spite the NSFOC orginization).

In addition to the NSFOC lawsuit, which is primarily focused on the violation of the Illinois and Federal constitutions and established election law, there are two other lawsuits which seek upwards of 20-25 MILLION Dollars should our District fail to proceed with the purchase of BB. I believe that there is but one logical and responsible path forward here....to proceed as represeted in the 2006 referendum and allow the construction of the Metea high school on the BB land as promised and voted for by the 204 electorate. This avoids or minimizes any added transportation costs as well as the splitting of our schools.

Everyone who cares...it is time to reach out to the Board members and Administration to continue to allow your voice to be heard. Send emails, make phone calls...do whatever you have to do to get them to listen! Please demand that the gamesmanship stop and that they proceed responsibly and negotiate in good faith with BB.

When taking the Administration and Board's assurances that none of the three lawsuits have any merit and there is no exposure to the District for damages, please remember these promises as well:

"There is no way that the BB land judgement will exceed $300,000 per acre";

"We will close on the Midwest Gen land by March 19th".

"We will be breaking land on the Eola site by the beginning of April."


Time to come together as a community and support the commencement of a new school on the BB site AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. How much do we need to continue to spend to support the miscalculations and negligence of our 204 leaders???

Does this negotiation involve a barrel and bending over?

[sushi]

Apr 10, 2008 13:20:07 GMT -6 @scarbroughknight said:

Clowns belong in the circus. Not on the School Board. Don't be so confident about BB. The Dash might just announce that the new school will not be needed after all. This was a reputable SD once. Now its a soap opera. AS THE STOMACH TURNS

Yep, not so sure this means a school on BB. Not sure what it means at all.

[kimmie]

question:
I don't know, is there anyway the school could fit on the AME land?

[rural]

Maybe if there were four stories to the building instead of two and they had a parking garage instead of a lot. Still would be too tight and too expensive.

[kimmie]

GOOD

[doctorwho]

well here's the upside -- quicker ( at least) communication:

IPSD News
Metea Valley Land
Reported by [e-mail] on 4/10/08
For the past few months, the school district has pursued the purchase of 49 acres of land from St. John AME Church and 37 acres from Midwest Generation for the construction of Metea Valley High School. Midwest Generation announced today that it is no longer willing to sell the district its 37 acres. A copy of the letter the district received from Midwest Generation stating such may be viewed at the link below.

Our two high schools are overcrowded today with 8,200 students. As our existing middle school students move up through the grades, we will have an additional 1,000 high school students by 2011. Several of our middle schools are also facing overcrowding which needs to be alleviated with the opening of our seventh middle school.

We are currently investigating fiscally responsible land options that will move construction forward to ease the overcrowding.

I will continue to bring you updates as we have more information.

Stephen Daeschner
Superintendent

[d204mom]

I wouldn't be surprised if we filed a condemnation suit for the rest of AME to avoid Brach Brodie at this point. Now ego and pride are involved there is no telling where it will stop.

[sushi]

Hamman? Macom? The fiscally responsible puts BB out, IMO