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Board debate over financial transparency centers on credit-card statements; trustees table further discussion
Summary
Trustees pressed administrators for itemized expenditures and credit-card statements; administrators pointed to public check registers while saying policy changes would require board direction. After heated exchanges the board voted to table further discussion but approved the financial statements.
An extended and sometimes heated exchange over financial transparency dominated the Oak Park School Board’s Oct. 27 meeting as trustees demanded itemized attachments to the district’s financial statements, including credit-card statements and salary/fringe detail.
Trustee Corcoran repeatedly asked that credit-card statements and other attachments be provided alongside the monthly financial statements. “I want to see the credit card statements,” she said. Trustees argued the board’s…
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