GOV, did Welch's people tamper with recording? [D209]

Forest Park Review (Seth Stern) wrote about the District 209 (Proviso Township High Schools) board not being able to reach consensus on the minutes of their meetings. The minority (Flowers-Kelly-Marine) questions why the tape recorder malfunctioned for a key meeting—the meeting at which Superintendent Greg Jackson was fired. (Proviso Probe also covered this meeting.)

Here’s my proposal: the minority should write their best recollections of the meeting and request an agenda item to amend the minutes approved by a 4-3 vote. Once the amended minutes are introduced as a motion they will be recorded whether they get approved or not.

Welch’s majority (Adams-Henry-Madlock) would look pretty ham-handed to vote down more specific minutes in favor of a vague record of what happened. To the extent that the Jackson firing would ever go to trial, the judge and jury would make the reasonable inference that the Welch majority was trying to hide the truth of what happened.

Context: remember Welch is the attorney for District 88 (Bellwood elementary schools). And board secretary Ron "RC" Anderson, a childhood friend of Emanuel Christopher Welch, is refusing to let board member John Wicks have access to tapes of its closed session.

If everything is on the up-and-up, why keep secrets?