Will McGuire COD Board faction boycott third meeting tonight?

After boycotting the last two College of DuPage Board meetings, COD Board Trustee Dianne McGuire has threatened boycotting tonight's special Board meeting her faction called for and accepted by Acting Chair Deanne Mazzochi. McGuire takes umbrage Mazzochi has scheduled an earlier special meeting to address one issue: DuPage States Attorney Bob Berlin's request the Board provide records of the March 6, 2014 Board meeting that preceded by one day, then Chair Erin Birt advising then COD president Robert Breuder his contract was extended through 2019. That request is relevant since no public record exits of an agenda item or a vote on Breuder's extension as required by the Open Meetings Act.  One would think McGuire would welcome such a move in the interest of responsible governance, compliance with law enforcement officials and transparency. But instead, simply dealing with this highly charged request provokes another McGuire boycott  threat, her third since resignation of the Board Chair deadlocked the Board between Acting Chair Mazzochi's new reform group and McGuire's holdover faction. Since McGuire has already advised her faction won't be available for the next regular Board meeting scheduled for January 21, that makes two boycotts and two threatened boycotts all while COD 's two year suspension from the Higher Learning Center is ignored. McGuire's rational for delaying consideration of the States Attorney's request is stunning: the state's attorney's request for closed-session material from March 6, 2014 "is not urgent....it pertains to actions occurring nearly two years ago and involving an employee who no longer works for the college." In case you're wondering, that employee is not the janitor. Just like every documented charge of misfeasance and malfeasance by former President Breuder and his enabling Board, including McGuire, that landed COD on probation, McGuire's pat answer is 'no problem here, let's move on.' 

Dianne McGuire has a small group of supporters who publicly call the new Board members  'liars, thugs, thieves and Teapartiers' as if those words promote resolving COD's disastrous two year suspension which jeopardizes COD accreditation. You won't hear those epitaphs from COD faculty and the great majority of the COD community supporting reform at COD. We simply call on Dianne McGuire, Erin Birt and Joe Wozniak to do the job we elected them to do.