Susan Handelsman’s observations from the latest Woodstock School District 200 meeting: 5-30-17 Woodstock D200 school board meeting. At their first experience in exercising power to control spending of over $100 million taxpayer money in the presumptive highest property tax rate … Continue reading
Category Archives: Woodstock Unit School District 200
Here are the members of the Woodstock School District’s Facilities Review Committee: Gabi Anguiano Amanda Bergstrom Jennifer Bigler Amy Blalock Tricia Bogott Catherine Cantwell Diane Carter Ray Caywood Artuor Flores Diana Frisbie Linda Gabrielson Brian Gerloff Carl Gilmore Maria Gonzalez-Echevarria … Continue reading
Susan Handelsman reports on the Facility review committee meeting Motion to identify which of 49 voting committee members’ households were compensated by D200 failed to pass by a huge margin. The motion and vote were not recorded by the committee … Continue reading
A Friend of McHenry County Blog sent in a copy of the precinct letter she received from Kelly Liebmann in Greenwood Township Precinct 3. Liebmann’s letter informs voters to vote for D200 candidates Barbara Gessert and Susan Handelsman, along with … Continue reading
Susan Handelsman laid out her candidacy for the Woodstock District 200 School Board in comments, which are re-printed below. She is running with Barbara Gessert. I am running for D200 [Woodstock] School Board. It is stunning to realize that the … Continue reading
Electronic campaigning is now the order of the day and two Woodstock School Board candidates are making use of that means of communication. Susan Handelsman and Barb Gessert attack high taxes in their email message. = = = = = … Continue reading
The following letter to the editor appeared in the Northwest Herald and is re-printed with permission of author Kelly Liebmann, who lives in Wonder Lake: They Fight for Taxpayers The choices for overtaxed Woodstock D200 School District residents on April … Continue reading
This was sent by Dorr Township Precinct 7 Republican Committeeman Cyndi Hemauer: Dear Friends & Neighbors, We had a problem at one time and time ticks away because we don’t want to see the truth and now, Woodstock “We Have A … Continue reading
From Woodstock District 200 Board candidate Susan Handlesman: Tuesday night’s D200 Candidates Forum hosted by Woodstock Teachers Incumbent candidates expressed an attitude of staying the course to provide excellent education to the students, and satisfaction over their efforts on the … Continue reading
Just as with Susan Handelsman’s responses to the Woodstock Council of Teachers’ questionnaire, I found the following responses from L William Nattress III in the comment section of McHenry County Blog. I am happy to give them more readership by … Continue reading
Woodstock Council of Teachers, McHenry County Federation of Teachers, will hold a candidates’ night for those running for the District 200 School Board Wednesday night at 6 PM. The event will be held at the Woodstock High School Auditorium. Officers … Continue reading
Scott Coffey, President of Cary School District 26’s Board, has actually led the cutting of school budgets, In the discussion of the Woodstock School District’s excessive classroom space, he makes a point, which does not seem to have been given … Continue reading
The fourth count of attorney Tim Dwyer’s tax protest case against Woodstock School District 200 is below: SCHOOL DISTRICT 200 EDUCATION ACCOUNT – EXCESS LEVY Beginning in levy year 2011, District 200 has exceeded its levying power under Illinois law. … Continue reading
Attorney Tim Dwyer also has aimed his tax protest suit at Woodstock’s Unit School District 200. The first count can be found below: WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT 200 – TRANSPORTATION FUND EXCESSIVE ACCUMULATION In 2011, District 200 levied $1,400,000 … Continue reading
The lead watchdog of Woodstock School District 200, Susan Handlesman, writes of the Woodstock D200 Facility Review Committee meeting held Monday night: I attended the second Facility Review Committee meeting last night. The first meeting was attended by a 9-1 … Continue reading
From Woodstock’s Susan Handelsman: UPDATE ON TAX RATE OBJECTION LAWSUIT AGAINST WOODSTOCK D200 1. Attorney Tim Dwyer is filing a tax objection, and plaintiffs have until late October to join the suit. Recovery amount for each plaintiff is expected to … Continue reading
Taxpayers in Woodstock District 200 are invited to a meeting about paying taxes under protest. The details are below: TAX OBJECTION LAWSUIT against Woodstock D200 Attorney Tim Dwyer will explain issues and Woodstock field questions from prospective plaintiffs: Friday September … Continue reading
Taken from bond documents by bond analyst Steve Willson is the following information: … Continue reading
Inspired by Diane Rado’s Sunday Chicago Tribune article about school debt, District 200 taxpayer Susan Handelsman has written the following about it indebtedness: The Obvious Debt Load of District 200 Woodstock CUSD 200 has $115 million overt debt, roughly $30 … Continue reading
From Lakewood Village Trustee Paul Serwatka: Tonight’s village board meeting An update on tonight’s meeting. Tonight’s meeting, in my opinion, demonstrated so much of what I believe to be wrong in government, particularly at the local level. There were many … Continue reading