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MCC president may get extension Opinions differ on whether lame-duck board should vote on Smith’s contract By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – McHenry County College trustees are set to consider extending President Vicky Smith’s contract at a special meeting called for Tuesday evening. The meeting, announced late Friday afternoon, will be one of
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the last for outgoing MCC board members; it is set for just one week after three new MCC trustees were elected, and a week before they are seated. “I’m wondering what brought all this on. Why is this not being considered at a regular board meeting?” Trustee-elect Chris Jenner said. “This meeting wasn’t scheduled until after the
election results were in. I don’t know what the previous plan was, but it makes me wonder if this was on the radar before.” Two incumbents – Carol Larson and Barbara Walters – lost their seats on the MCC board after a contentious election amid growing public discontent over the college’s planned expansion. A third trustee, Dennis Adams,
did not seek re-election. The winners of Tuesday’s election – Jenner, Molly Walsh and Tom Wilbeck – will be seated April 25 after the final meeting of the outgoing trustees. Before they go, they will consider extending Smith’s agreement through 2015. In May, the MCC board unanimously extended her agreement by a year to
June 30, 2014. She was hired with a threeyear contract in June 2010 at a starting annual salary of $195,000. Her base pay in fiscal 2012 was $200,850, according to the Illinois Community College Board. When reached Sunday, Trustee Cynthia Kisser said the board
Vicky Smith’s contract will be discussed at meeting.
See MCC, page A7
One dead after ‘suspicious’ fire
District rejected online charter school By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com CARPENTERSVILLE – Some District 300 board members already have dangled the threat of legal action if a state commission doesn’t fairly consider the district’s questions concerning a proposed online charter school. Members from the Carpentersville-based school district last week rejected a proposal made by Virtual Learning Solutions to open an online only virtual charter school that would take students and tax dollars from 18 districts throughout the region. In a resolution, District 300 outlined 12 reasons why the proposed Illinois Virtual Charter School at Fox River Valley doesn’t comply with state law, detailing the legal arguments that likely will be used when the nonprofit pushing the proposal appeals the rejection to the Illinois Charter School Commission. “We are throwing a salvo out there that says, ‘We have legal questions with the proposal, and if the state approves it, there may be further legal action down the road,’” board member Joe Stevens said. Stevens said that the legal questions raised in the resolution are valid because Virtual
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A Crystal Lake firefighter removes the last of the department’s equipment from a Crystal Lake home Sunday to prepare for an investigation by the Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal about the circumstances of the fire that killed the homeowner. “It certainly doesn’t appear it occurred naturally in the home,” Crystal Lake Police Cmdr. Dan Dziewior said. By CHELSEA McDOUGALL
Police: CL man found in house after intoxicated wife is taken home
cmcdougall@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Police are looking into “suspicious circumstances” surrounding a Sunday morning fire and death of a Crystal Lake man. The man, identified by the McHenry County Coroner’s Office as 49-year-old Dunn Mizell, died Sunday after a fire in the base-
“There are many pieces to the puzzle to determine the cause of death or circumstances leading up to it.” Dan Dziewior, Crystal Lake police commander on the investigation ment of his 1709 Moorland Lane home. Police tape cordoned off the two-story home Sunday as investigators tried to piece together the events that surrounded the man’s
death. “There are many pieces to the puzzle to determine the cause of
See FIRE, page A7
See D-300, page A7
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