BELLWOOD, Ill. – Superintendent Rosemary Hendricks and board members in Bellwood School District 88 are under fire after the Chicago Tribune revealed they’re milking the cash strapped district for all it’s worth.

The news site reviewed compensation, travel bills and other spending records that revealed Hendricks and board members attended numerous expensive conferences across the U.S. over the last year, and racked up other reimbursements, per-diems and other payouts as parents scrounged to raise money for classroom basics like paper and calculators.

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“We have to supply a lot of things – paper towels, hand sanitizer, copy paper,” PTA president Maria Perez told the news site.

But records reveal the school board has no problem spending gobs of cash on the superintendent and board members for luxury travel, and other unnecessary expenses.

“Over the months from March to November 2015, the superintendent and a handful of board members spent more than $20,000 on trips to Las Vegas; Nashville, Tenn.; Savannah, Ga.; Phoenix; and Washington, D.C.,” the Tribune reports. “That didn’t include the $8,300 in per diem reimbursements for related dining and travel expenses. Or the thousands more spent that year on stays in downtown Chicago hotels and per diems while attending local conferences.”

The travel is on top of several sweetheart deals Hendricks secured as part of her third tour of duty as the district’s superintendent. Since 2001, the district has changed superintendents nine times, and Hendricks was ousted in 2008 and again in 2012, receiving $120,000 in legal settlements. She also left Hoover-Schrum Memorial School District 157 with a $132,000 buyout before coming to Bellwood, according to the Tribune.

The news site’s financial review shows that the school board last July approved paying Hendricks for 18 unused vacation days out of her 24-day vacation, then for an additional 15 unused vacation days the following June. The extra nine days of pay equated to a $5,800 bonus.

The district also agreed to pay $105,503 to replenish an Illinois Teachers Retirement Account she cashed out years ago, and though Hendricks agreed to pay it back she’s only repaid about $7,300 so far.

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“While Hendricks has 36 months to repay the district for the $105,000, there are only 12 months left in her $175,000-a-year contract,” the Tribune reports. “If she leaves the district, or is not rehired next year, there is no recourse for recouping the money, which, according to the agreement, ‘shall be considered compensation for services and part of the superintendent’s severance.’”

The money contributed to the retirement system on Hendericks’ behalf will boosted her retirement payout from about $14,000 a year to roughly $77,000 a year, courtesy of taxpayers.

The superintendent, of course, doesn’t want to discuss her lucrative arrangement.

“This is personal business,” she told the Tribune.

And aside from enriching herself, Hendricks has also secured high paying jobs in the district for her children.

Daughter Brittnay Atkinson, who has one year of experience as a teaching aide, was hired as a student service coordinator last year and given a $70,000 per year salary. Hendricks’ other daughter, Jocelyn Hendricks, landed a $78,500-a-year nursing position with summer overtime at $48 an hour, the Tribune reports.

School board members have also secured positions for their kin, according to the news site.

The special deals, coupled with high turnover and a slew of lawsuits tied to personnel changes, has made the district among the most top heavy in the state, despite exceeding the state borrowing cap with $30 million in bond debt.

The situation is now prompting local residents to lash out at district officials, including several who addressed the board last week.

“Your personnel matters are touching my tax dollars and affecting my property values,” Arnetta Watkins told the board.

“You make bad decisions for this village,” resident Deborah Giles said. “Everything I’ve seen so far is hiring and firing. You’re trying to take over jobs. Everyone is trying to get a piece of the pie.”

District officials and attorneys will not return the Tribune’s calls for comment.