Cary Grade School Board President Scott Coffey sent the following letter on behalf of his candidacy. From the reply from the Crystal Lake teachers union, you can see it was not considered favorable. The reply is below the letter. The … Continue reading
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A Friend of McHenry County Blog, John Pletz, provides the following information about the Crystal Lake High School Board’s teachers’ contract action last night: 4 to 2, teachers win 12% over 3 year “2019 through 2022 agreement between the board … Continue reading
In the “Here we go again” category is consolidation of schools. These comments by Lakewood’s Steve Willson stimulates me to re-post the analysis I did seven years ago under his reflections: I’m so tired of this “consolidate the schools” argument. … Continue reading
Cary Grade School President Scott Coffey has a suggestion for the McHenry High School board: Given that D-47 just issued $9.2 million in bonds in June with roughly an average yield of 3.0%, a similar rate on D-156’s $44 million … Continue reading
That’s pretty much the question that District 26 Elementary School Board President Scott Coffey asks in a comment under this article: Given all of the massive spending increases and new debt issued by school districts in this County, I sometimes … Continue reading
From Cary Grade School Board President Scott Coffey: FYI, D-47 just issued $9.2 million of new debt certificates on 6/26/18. The bonds will be paid off over the course of the next 15 years (2/1/33). Note: There is no statutory … Continue reading
From Cary School Board President Scott Coffey: What’s not mentioned in the above analysis is the fact that once a segment of the EAV base for taxing bodies is frozen (at $29.079 million), the rest of the community has to … Continue reading
Cary School Board President Scott Coffey weighs in on the $100 flat rate very partial rebate of money unneeded in the $40 million Valley Hi Nursing Home Fund: Should not the resolution of the question of how much fund balance … Continue reading
The following information about local school districts was organized by Cary School Board President Scott Coffey. He writes I believe this is a follow up to one of the topics of the school district meeting that took place with the … Continue reading
Cary Grade School District 26 Board President Scott Coffey explains below what the School Board did with its property tax levy for next year: D26 implemented a two-pronged approach to the levy this year. First, we applied the CPI rate … Continue reading
This appeared from Scott Coffey in a comment. I think it deserves broader readership: I always get a chuckle when someone “assures” me that something can’t be done. We were told that alot in 2010 as we tried to turn … Continue reading
From Cary Elementary School District 26 Board President Scott Coffey: Creating a D-155 Unit District with a more affordable and sustainable operating cost structure is completely dependent upon the 7 new Board members that would have to restructure operations and … Continue reading
Scott Coffey, President of the Cary Grade School District, attended the Village of Cary’s Tax Increment Financing District meeting last week and offers the following account of what happened: I think I may have been the only elected official in … Continue reading
Cary Grade School District 26 Board President Scott Coffey took a look at the Crystal Lake High School District 155 budget and offers the following observations under this article: Former CL High School School Board Candidate Calls Out Board Members … Continue reading
Cary Grade School Board President Scott Coffey suggested looking at the Woodstock School District’s “Other Post Employment Benefit Costs” in a comment under Susan Handelsman’s cost-benefit analysis of keeping Clay Academy, a special education facility, open. I asked for an … Continue reading
Here’s Cary School Board President Scott Coffey’s take on McHenry County College’s early retirement plan for faculty members: After a quick review of last week’s COTW meeting video and the board packet, there seem to be a couple of issues … Continue reading
Here are comments from Cary School Board President Scott Coffey on Governor Bruce Rauner’s State Aid to Education changes: I do have some very high level take-aways from the Amendatory Veto by Rauner. In general, I’d conclude that Rauner’s adjustments … Continue reading
Here are the highlights of the sale of Maplewood Grade School in Cary from School Board President Scott Coffey: Maplewood School Sold The property is located downtown about 800 feet from the train station. The school was closed in 2010, … Continue reading
From Cary Grade School District 26 Board President Scott Coffey: Critique of Senate Bill 1 As I see it, there are two main structural problems with SB-1. First, its basic premise is that lower income districts should get more money … Continue reading
This testimonial from current Cary School District Board President Scott Coffey appeared under the article reporting that McHenry County Board Chairman Jack Franks has nominated Chris Sproel to replace Andrew Gasser on the County Board. Chris Spoerl’s Role in Righting … Continue reading