Hinsdale Township High School District 86 could face a community push for a property tax cut referendum in the wake of the Board of Education’s elimination of activities at its two high schools, and intent to eliminate others.
Michele Irwin doesn't like it when others disagree with her. So when the 43 year-old Willowbrook divorcee saw Zach Mottl, a Burr Ridge manufacturing executive opposing a school district-promoted tax hike Irwin supports, quietly having dinner with friends at a local barbecue bar and grill Tuesday night, she simply couldn't stand it.
Hinsdale Central High School’s winning football coach, Dan Hartman, is the latest casualty in District 86’s “reckless” maneuver of pinning the future of high school sports on the $140 million April 2 referendum, opposition leader Zach Mottl told the DuPage Policy Journal.
Supporters of a $140 million Hinsdale D86 referendum disrupted the Burr Ridge Board meeting Monday night, accusing interim mayor Zach Mottl of constitutional violations and “scorched earth” tactics in his fight against the tax increase proposal.
The resignation of Superintendent Bruce Law from Hinsdale D86 is the “nail in the coffin” for the district’s “wasteful, unfair and unaffordable referendum,” Zach Mottl, leader of a grassroots movement opposed to the board's upcoming $140 million bond issue, told the DuPage Policy Journal.
Although District 86 school board member Kathleen Hirsman has boasted of her experience negotiating with unions, questions are now being raised about whether campaign contributions from the teachers union may have compromised her position.
The union representing the teachers at Hinsdale 86’s two high schools, Central and South, has a $29.5 million reason for getting yet another tax increase referendum on the ballot.
A Dec. 17 vote by the Hinsdale Township High School District 86 has put the Hinsdale South and Central High football and swimming teams, along with marching band and cheerleader programs at the schools, on the chopping block.