COD job sholdn't go to lowest bidder

Regarding Stan Zegel's Oct. 1 letter titled "Don't fall in love with one applicant," capping an administrator's compensation to equal the governor's salary is ludicrous.

The governor does not have to have academic credentials, say, like a college president. The governor has a mansion to live in while he's governor. Rauner has a very high paid staff, he is spending much more than Quinn on staff, and his wife has a high paid chief of staff.

If you added all these perks up, it would probably amount to more than the best school superintendent's or college president's contract. But, most importantly, the taxpayers don't sign a contract with the governor, except with our votes. If he doesn't do a good job, he's fired at the next election.

It is going to be difficult for COD to attract a quality candidate for president to replace Brueder, as it is, with all the board's shenanigans with his contract. A contract is a contract. The board of trustees had no cause to fire him, or they would have done it last September, when they received vote of no confidence from the faculty.

Have you ever heard the phrase, "You get what you pay for!"? If we, the taxpayers, accepted only the lowest bid for a public position, we would not be in the running for quality candidates. They will go elsewhere.

Diane Niesman

Wheaton