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Post by d204mom on May 13, 2008 16:06:56 GMT -6
Short and sweet ... We'll see you in court!!!
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Mediation Update
Reported by webmaster@ipsd.org on 5/13/08
Mediation between legal representatives from Indian Prairie School District 204 and Neighborhood Schools For Our Children took place as planned on Tuesday, May 13. The motion to dismiss will be heard as scheduled at the DuPage County Courthouse on Friday, May 23. Construction of Metea Valley High School continues with an anticipated opening in August 2009.
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Post by d204mom on May 13, 2008 16:08:53 GMT -6
Wonder if we'll get an... "our data is better than their data" statement?
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Post by doctorwho on May 13, 2008 16:11:21 GMT -6
Short and sweet ... We'll see you in court!!! ------------------------------------- Mediation Update Reported by webmaster@ipsd.org on 5/13/08 Mediation between legal representatives from Indian Prairie School District 204 and Neighborhood Schools For Our Children took place as planned on Tuesday, May 13. The motion to dismiss will be heard as scheduled at the DuPage County Courthouse on Friday, May 23. Construction of Metea Valley High School continues with an anticipated opening in August 2009. not surprising - there is no common ground to be had..... |
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Post by Arch on May 13, 2008 16:59:18 GMT -6
Worst case scenario, they can afford it.
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Post by overtaxed on May 13, 2008 17:23:35 GMT -6
Worst case scenario, they can afford it. of course they can they have our TAXES$$$$!!!!  I knew nothing would happened today, it was only going through the motions, because it what they had to do. |
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Post by jimbob on May 13, 2008 19:00:12 GMT -6
This is really strange. Mediation normally happens between the parties not the legal representatives. There are no incentives for the attorneys to talk. The talk is supposed to happen between the parties. Attorneys are sometimes present, but a good mediator will neutralized the attorneys and give the parties a chance to talk through their differences. This was not mediation.
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Post by d204mom on May 13, 2008 19:18:13 GMT -6
NEW: Mediation fails between D204, NSFOC
May 13, 2008
By Tim Waldorf, twaldorf@scn1.com
Mediation between the legal counsels of Indian Prairie School District 204 and Neighborhood Schools For Our Children took place as planned Tuesday.
The two parties met with former DuPage County Circuit Judge Edward Duncan to see if their dispute could be settled without a trial.
Michael Scotti, the attorney representing District 204 against NSFOC, was not available for comment.
“I can only say that the mediation has concluded, there was no resolution, and there are no plans to meet again,” said Shawn Collins, attorney for Neighborhood Schools for Our Children.
So now both sides are preparing to argue the merits of the injunction case May 23 before Judge Kenneth Popejoy, who will rule on the school district’s motion to dismiss the suit brought about by the group opposed to construction of Metea Valley High School at Eola Road.
In March, NSFOC filed an injunction lawsuit seeking to block the district from building its proposed 3,000-seat high school at any site other than the 80-acre Brach-Brodie location at 75th Street and the future extension of Commons Drive in Aurora.
After a lengthy eminent domain case and jury ruling that came back in favor of the land owners at twice what the district had budgeted, school district officials abandoned the site in favor of property off Eola Road.
Last month the district closed on the 84-acre parcel at a price tag of $19 million from St. John AME Church, a more than $10 million savings from the price of the Brach-Brodie parcel.
But money is not NSFOC’s issue, at least not the cost of the land. NSFOC says the new site is environmentally unsound because it is adjacent to a now-closed power plant owned by Midwest Generation. Additionally, NSFOC says a referendum was approved on the premise that the third high school would be built on the Brach-Brodie site.
Despite the lawsuit, District 204 broke ground on Metea at Eola Road early last week, and it is scheduled to begin foundation work in mid-June. The school is slated to open to freshmen and sophomores in the fall of 2009.
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