Is animosity making newspaper myopic?

Does your animosity toward the prior administration and school board of District 300 know no bounds?

First, you take credit for getting a financial institution to release information (one week after a court order) and then accuse the district of contract impropriety for following the rule of law.

Maybe you have spent too much time stewing because the taxpayers of this district ignored your opinion and passed the referendum and thus you have forgotten the first rule of journalism -- get the facts.

• The contract renewal with Burnidge Cassell Associates (BCA) was signed before the referendum

•State law prohibits the "bidding" of architectural services. You have to issue a "Request for Proposal" and then interview the respondents based on experience only. You are not allowed to discuss the costs for services rendered.

As for BCA, the principal architect grew up in Hampshire (the location of two of the three new schools) and has intimate knowledge of the residents and the construction site.

The majority of BCA's work is in K-12 school building design. They have designed the last five buildings constructed in our district, all of which are outstanding facilities.

We knew going into this project that the timeline was going to be extremely tight and therefore it has been a great benefit to us to have the services of not only an extremely experienced firm but an existing relationship where we know all of the players involved.

I am urging you to stop these myopic attacks and regain your professional integrity.

This program of constantly bombarding the public with your half-truths and black- and-white opinions only serves to further stratify the constituents and therefore inhibits the discourse necessary to operate an organization as large and complex as ours.

We would like to move forward, please.

David Ulm Jr.

West Dundee