COD - My $2.05 worth

The comment was made to my previous post "Why $2.05? Most provide their two cents!" I chose that number because that's how much the board of trustees over at COD took from my pocket via taxes and gave to president Robert Breuder to fund his "golden parachute."

There are 371,252 households in School District 502. School District 502 is comprised entirely of the "Community" College of DuPage.  We each "donated" $2.05 to Breuder's exit fund.

A sarcastic thanks to those board members who spent my money for no tangible purpose and did so prior to the election for the sole purpose of circumventing the will of the electorate and the community. Those people are:

Erin Blair of Wheaton, who is Board Chair
Joseph C. Wozniak of Naperville
Allison O'Donnell of Winfield
Dianne McGuire of Naperville
Kim Savage of Darien
Nancy Svoboda of Downers Grove

A sarcastic "well done" to each of you for pushing through Breuder's "golden parachute" prior to the election. You proved where your allegiance was and it certainly wasn't to higher public education via a "community" college and the taxpayers and residents of DuPage county and those others in the district.


To Omar Escamilla, who was Student Trustee during the recent machinations, I offer my sympathy. However, I am sure you learned some things about dysfunctional boards, CEOs from hell,  and a lack of fiduciary responsibility during your tenure. I hope you put your education to good use. I and the other 371,251 households supporting the College of DuPage have paid a very high price for your education.  Those hundreds of millions of dollars of bonds we allowed the college to borrow for your education, to build a "fine dining" restaurant to compete with local establishments and a hotel? We'll be paying for those for decades. After all, they were a loan and must be repaid.