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Outrageous Superintendent Perks – $75,000 Home Loan Forgiven

November 26, 2012 By 3 Comments

With all the teacher strikes this year in Illinois and the outrageous demands of many of them, the administration gets lost in the shuffle. The story by Lisa Black in the Chicago Tribune this weekend uncovers a completely outrageous example of superintendent perks gone wild. Below are some of the perks the taxpayers are paid for before and after his retirement:

  • Forgave $75,000 home loan
  • Twice yearly travel to educators conference at California oceanfront resort
  • Hundreds of meals
  • Gave him free car at retirement
  • Full family medical costs through 2015, then $300 per month toward medical insurance for another 10 years
  • $15,000 on entertainment, travel, professional development, car repairs and membership dues
  • Possible conflict of interest, Griffith on bank board that oversees the districts accounts
  • 2006, a Griffith’s bank board colleagues, Joseph Pasquesi, sold a house next to the high school to District 115 for $477,000 — more than double the amount it cost four years earlier. Now used for storage purposes.

It is time for a new school board and it appears to be time for an forensic audit on both Lake Forest District 115 and 67.

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  • Wolf

    The extent of the fraud throughout the Public Sector and the Public Education Bureaucracies can be seen in any of the excessive operational budgets and the Public Sector Labor Agreements. There is no functional or responsibility basis for any of the excessive compensation packages in this system. And their millionaire pension plans are an outright fraud on the taxpayers even beyond the 40% inflated pension payouts in the last years before retirement. The fraud has been codified by the collusion between the Politicians and the unions. They believe that they are save from prosecution because the Politicians have legislated mandates to cover this criminal behavior. Fortunately there is an end to every despot operation as history has shown. Here we are about to witness the greatest bankruptcy in history of the World as the US will collapse even before the EU. These Public Education operations is another reason for the massive over taxation in this country when they are 300% to 500% above the efficient and effective comparable Private and Parochial systems. The basic operational management incompetence is systemic among the School Boards as they portray the charade as taxpayer representatives. The solution needed is a Voucher System with a $7K per student maximum annually to cap the fraud and immediately force the long overdue restructuring and reform here. And it would also allow for competition as parents can select from the Public, Private and Parochial Systems with their Vouchers. Additionally we need to have all Public Sector Labor Agreements approved by referendum because no one except an owner should be allowed to set their compensation packages. It is this fraud in the entire Public Sector that has reached epidemic levels over the last 50 years and is about to destroy our nation.

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