Harper president already paid amply

I recently read your excellent article about Harper College President Kenneth Ender’s annual compensation package and couldn’t help thinking how ironic it is that here is an administrator of an entity that is hired with an ample salary, dictated by the assumption that he is excellent at what he does.

Then we turn around and reward him exorbitantly for doing the job he has already been amply paid to do. Is there something wrong with this picture, or are the taxpayers paying through the nose for a pig in a poke?

Why are all the extra perks needed for a man who already receives a salary in the stratosphere, compared with the salaries of the people footing the bill? Why are school boards allowed to dispense this largesse without oversight?

Will somebody please tell us how this extravagance can be prevented in the first place? Why is it always a fait accompli before it ever gets in the news? Who are these people who vote for all these added perks; how did they get elected? Did we know beforehand?

Why does the cost of lodging have to enable residence in Inverness, one of our most expensive locales? Why isn’t a house in Palatine or Schaumburg or Hoffman Estates sufficient for these “eminent” administrators?

Just asking.

Rosemary Colbert

Schaumburg