Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Students, taxpayers gain from new College of DuPage Board reforms

I'm gonna save about $25 next year because the reform COD Board of Trustees just cut my COD taxes 5%. That's money I don't need so I'll probably donate it to my favorite 2016 candidates. But what's really significant about the 2016 budget passed Monday was the $5 per hour drop in hourly tuition, from the current stratospheric $140, which will put a cool $150 per year in cash strapped student pockets. That's money saved by ending the gravy (actually lobster and wine) train enjoyed by suspended President Robert Breuder, his administrators, and incredibly, the former Board members, at the money pit vanity restaurant Waterleaf, and other horrifically wasteful practices of Breuder and his enabling Board. One of the three holdover Board members voted against the streamlined budget; the other two didn't even show up to vote. But when Breuder was spending like Charles Foster Kane at Xanadu (or was it William Randolph Hearst at San Simeon?) they showed up with bells on to feast at the students' expense before enabling more goodies for their money obsessed employee who played them like a symphony. It's been six months since the voters said "Enough" to the gluttony of Breuder and the old Board. The three holdovers need to consider their legacy in their remaining time on the Board. Their endless "NO" votes to reform measures are purely symbolic at this point. Participating in further reform will remove some of the tarnish they leave behind from the sorriest chapter in COD's history. Come to think of it, I may donate my $25 to Bernie Sanders, since one of his loftiest goals in $0 per hour tuition at public colleges. Come on new Board, only $135 to go.

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