College of DuPage considering leaving Glen Ellyn

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Glen Ellyn Village President Mark Pfefferman

Updated: August 31, 2011 12:37AM

A tift between the village of Glen Ellyn and the College of DuPage could lead the state’s largest community college to leave the village.

At issue is how much control the village has over some ongoing projects on the college’s 267-acre campus.

Earlier this month college officials said they thought the two sides had come to an agreement on the issue, but when the village sought some last-minute changes to the deal the college said it would look at de-annexing from Glen Ellyn.

Village officials contend the college knew of their demands all along, and they spent Monday night dealing with questions about the school’s possible exit at a planning meeting.

Village President Mark Pfefferman said losing the college would hurt the village’s longstanding sense of partnership with the school, and would also have some financial impact, though village attorney Stewart Diamond said the exact financial loss would be “pretty hard to quantify.”

Pfefferman said the village would decide if it would continue to provide police and water service to the college if it leaves, but said volunteer fire service protection at the school would continue either way because the fire district would just treat the college as an unincorporated area it serves.