The position of Johnsburg McHenry County College board member, Frances Glosson, escaped mention in the Northwest Herald’s internet and print edition articles.

She was chairing the Monday night Committee of the Whole meeting which turned into a Scott Summers-Donna Kurtz bashing party.

So, I asked some who attended how she voted.

Here’s one reply:

“Glosson voted against, as she apparently thought both sides should be censured for their conduct.”

And another’s:

“She voted no on both issues. First on the original motion to censure and then later on the motion to place the censure on the Thurs (Regular meeting) agenda.

“I honor her for doing so. And I told her so.

“Oh, you might also like to know that the student rep (Katie Claypool) also voted NO.

“I thought that was very gutsy of her. She had to leave for a class before the second vote – to place it on the Thurs. agenda.”

And some more details of the meeting:

“Oh, also. . . there were about 30 to 40 (I think) people/public there. And a very nice cross section of backgrounds and interests, I thought. About 6 of us spoke.

“However, earlier on the agenda they have an item to approve the agenda and Ms. Walters made a motion to remove three items. These were actually the only items On the agenda, so everyone was wondering.

“Once that motion passed and the public spoke, Carol Larson started reading a legal doc. that had been drawn up to censure Mr. Summers and separately to remove him or to strongly request him (I can’t remember which right now – must check the recording) to step down as Chair of the Board.

“Then George Lowe did the same for Ms. Kurtz.

“What a meeting.

“There is much, much more. You would have had a Super time.

“Sorry you missed it.”

And, still another citizen reporter weighs in:

“Wow it was incredible. First off the meeting started out with Barbara Walters making a motion to remove agenda items six, seven, and eight from the meeting. Her reasoning was that there was not enough information available at this time.

“Trustee Summers, objective strongly and declared he was ready to talk about these items, and had come to the meeting with the intention of doing just that. He also express that he had no previous knowledge of any Trustee’s desire to have them removed.

“He even mentioned that there was a two page report on the Green Technology Presentation in the board packet, which gave the appearance that certainly the information for this agenda item was available.

”After the vote, which ended up 6 to 2 in favor of removing the items (only Krutz and Summers voted no), nine members of the public spoke.

“All of these speakers opposed the HWAC plans in some respect. Some more vocal than other, but each one’s overall sentiment was that they could not support the plan is it stood today.

“Not sure if I am correct on this point, but I believe all of them, and if not all, a vast majority of them still showed support for allowing the college to expand.

“A few of them publicly thanked Trustee Krutz and Summers for reflecting their concerns, and having the courage to speak up publicly.

”It was after the public had completed speaking that the bomb was dropped.

“Trustee Larson continued the meeting by reading a proposal that was seeking to censure Trustee Summers for speaking as a private citizen at the CL City Council meeting.

“She stated that the document was prepared by the Board’s lawyer Joseph Perkoski of Robbin, Shwartz, Lifton, and Taylor. It was Trustee Lowe that read the document seeking to censure Trustee Krutz.

“Trustee Larson had previously mentioned that they were only looking for a consensus of the board in tonight meeting, and that a final vote would be done at the board meeting on Thursday night.

“When the vote for consensus was taken Glossen, Summers, Krutz, and the Student Trustee Claypool voted No.

“Interesting that the youngest member, but unfortunately the one which vote doesn’t official count, showed more maturity then board members with many years of service, and voted no.

”As you can imagine, this just help to ignite an already volatile state of affairs, and an intelligent person can only conclude that the secretive bad plan that backed fired on Dr. Packard and the Board is what instigated this, and not the fact two Trustee’s heroically had the nerve to speak out publicly.

“Also, if I am not mistaken there was three Trustees that spoke at the CLC meeting, and Trustee’s Larson was equally as heroic to openly support her viewpoint to the public. I would be just as infuriated if Trustee Larsons was also being censure for speaking her opinion at the CLC meeting.

”In my opinion the board members that voted yes, showed the opposite of courage, and cowardly screened themselves behind board policy to find an apparent technicality for what appears to be for the purpose of quieting an opposing view, and then to shamefully cover their true intention by conveniently having a predetermined mediator available to do what they referred to as ‘Board Development,’ and wanted to do this ’Board Development’ in close session.

“Oh and by the way, I overheard Trustee Walters asking Dr. Packard what the mediator name was before the meeting, and then immediately she went over to introduce herself.

“So what does that tell you, it tells me they both were aware of his attendance at last night meeting, and the same courtesy of making his present known to all Trustees’ was not extended to at least two of the them. This obvious lack of consideration should have been the starting point to the ‘Board Development’ session, and what a shame that they are now using outside people as a pawns.

‘Sometime you just need to call a Spade a Spade.”