Saturday, January 16, 2016

McGuire to COD Board: "We won't approve 7th Board member"

After boycotting four straight College of DuPage Board meetings, grinding COD governance to a standstill, Trustee Diane McGuire has escalated her official misconduct. She, along with former Chair Erin Birt, sent a letter to Lazaro Lopez, Chair of the Illinois Community College Board, stating he will likely have to pick the replacement for former Board member and Chair Kathy Hamilton. Yet McGuire, Birt and their third boycotting Board member Joe Wozniak have 24 days to sit down with the other three Board members to vet and interview the 28 local candidates to replace Hamilton. That is their job pure and simple, but McGuire and company are on strike, telling the COD community to let an uninformed outsider pick the seventh member. That is a disgrace to public service, the democratic process, the community and the 28 locals who wish to restart COD governance. 

Many are calling for McGuire and her faction to resign forthwith. Many are calling for them to be indicted for official misconduct. Once out of office the public their record is complete. McGuire and Birt are down to their last 15 months; Wozniak has an additional two years. Adding the refusal to pick the seventh Board member to their disgraceful Board meeting strike, further diminishes their legacy. But if they swallow their pride, go back to work and cooperate in cleaning up the corruption and mismanagement which landed COD on academic probation and subject of several criminal investigations, they still have a glimmer of hope of going out on a high note. 


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