| Niekamp calls own special meeting for Thursday; agenda calls for discussion of whether election of new officers is legal |
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Bud Niekamp looks over his notes during a Quincy School Board meeting in March. (H-W File Photo)
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Published: 6/30/2009 | Updated: 7/8/2009
Board President Melvin “Bud” Niekamp has called his own special meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday that will precede one that has been called for at 5:30 Thursday in the Baldwin Round Room.
School Board Secretary Phyllis Stewart waited for approval by legal counsel before posting the notice at about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Niekamp was unavailable for comment Tuesday morning.
The agenda of the special meeting is to meet in open session to:
• Discuss “the illegality of the agenda, and specifically the need for an election of officer(s) of the board, of the 5:30 p.m. meeting.”
• Cancel the 5:30 p.m. meeting “until the Illinois State Board of Education, Regional Superintendent Ray Scheiter or the Illinois Attorney General can provide a legal opinion on the legality of an arbitrary election of new School Board officers in view of the resignation of only one officer” (Board President Glenn Bemis, who resigned Thursday).
• Retain a qualified accountant to “conduct a forensic audit of the Quincy School District beginning with the 2001-02 fiscal year and through the past school year.”
• Establish an ad hoc committee to “review, investigate and report on the need for a forensic audit.”
• Retain another legal counsel “or another experienced school law attorney.”
• Establish an ad hoc committee to “review, investigate and report on lawsuits and litigation and other legal entanglements” involving the Quincy School District since Jan. 1, 2004.
The agenda also says there will be no meeting in closed session, and questions or comments from the public will be allowed and encouraged. Extended time for comments will be permitted at Niekamp’s discretion.
— hwagner@whig.com/221-3374
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