Members of a school committee designed to address some of the election campaign trail rumors will focus on five specific topics.

John Wood, president of the Lemont-Bromberek Combined District 113A School Board, laid out which rumors the committee believes need to be clarified at the June 24 board meeting.

They include allegations that board members did not follow the law by failing to post an open School Board seat on the ballot, approving a new literary series for the middle school with no discussion of cost, approving a $90,000 public relations contract to sell a future District 113A tax referendum and raising taxes by 24 percent. The committee also will research and report the roles and responsibilities of the School District in reference to the Illinois State Board of Education.

“These are five pieces of communications that we feel the board needs to address,” Wood said.

Lemont resident Al Malley, who ran unsuccessfully for the School Board in the April election, spoke out against the committee. He said the district’s financial situation should take precedence.

“The path taken at the last School Board meeting (to form the committee) was disappointing to me,” he said during public comments at the June 24 meeting. “I felt the rumor committee was out of the jurisdiction of the board and a waste of time.”

During the election, Malley ran with newcomers Janet Hughes, Karen Siston and Timothy Goodwin against incumbents Lisa Wright and Kevin Doherty, who ran as a slate with fellow incumbents Al Albrecht and David Leahy.

Wright, Doherty and Siston won the four-year seats, and Hughes won a two-year term.

Some school officials said a blog comment on a site affiliated with Hughes, Siston, Goodwin and Malley contained inaccurate information. The blog contained a promise that individuals could contact any one of the four associated with the Web site, and they would provide documents to back up any claims made.

The Web site, reachingthestarsblog.com, still is up and running.

Malley said he can back up some assertions made on that Web site.

Wood said committee members plan to invite Malley to work with the committee to discuss statements and assertions made.