Taxpayers Hoppin' Mad Over New Greenville Superintendent

Jeff Strieker had the luck-- or should I say bad luck?-- to take over from Melanie "Big Spender" Allyn as Bond County Community Unit #2 Superintendent. There have been at least five protest letters in the Greenville Advocate about the appointment, with much of the anger stemming from the fact that the school board didn't interview any other candidate for the position besides Strieker AND Strieker doesn't reside in Greenville as all other superintendents have. The president of the United States doesn't live in Mexico, does he? No, but apparently Greenville's superintendent can live in Breese.

And Greenville taxpayers can pay his "reasonable moving expenses" within three years to move him into our town where we have the pleasure of paying him $115,000 a year, one of the best-paid superintendents in the state of Illinois.

You can see why Advocate readers are hoppin' mad.

The school board owes the public an explanation for why, in these economic times, they couldn't see fit to interview even one other candidate for the superintendent's job. Is it really that unimportant that you'd spend less time interviewing for the superintendent's job than you would for a position as a janitor at the high school?

Next post: the Bond County Health Department also outsources its millions in contracting work, to Korte Co. of Highland, as if Korte weren't swimming in greenbacks already.