After Andrzejewski filed the FOIA, he learned that the college president's office ran a special fund called an "imprest fund." Payments made from the fund had been hidden from the trustees and the public. The fund was used to pay for some of Breuder's personal expenses, including $27,931 for membership dues at a private shooting club, along with money for satellite phones for a trip to Africa, where Breuder shot and killed an African elephant. (The "Forbes" article published a photo of Breuder standing over the dead elephant). In response to learning about the imprest fund, Hamilton successfully passed a transparency initiative that forces the college to publicly post on the Internet all payments made through the imprest fund. In August 2014, the Board of Trustees formally censured Kathy Hamilton for inappropriate conduct. The censure stated that Hamilton publicly embarrassed board members; sent text messages from her phone during board meetings and refused to submit her text messages for public record; and that she had made inappropriate comments to board chairman Erin Birt at a public meeting. The censure included the following language: The censure passed with two no votes and one abstention. Among Hamilton's supporters in voting against the censure was trustee Kim Savage, who had joined Hamilton in voting no against the tuition hike earlier in 2014. Following the censure, the "Chicago Tribune" published an editorial that characterized the censure as "a teeny-bopper temper tantrum," criticized president Breuder and chairman Birt, and defended Hamilton's right to express her concerns to the media about her opposition to the classroom construction project. The editorial wrote, "Folks, this is called debate. Public bodies are supposed to have sharp, vigorous, full-throated debate. If COD officials want to secure state money again, they had better show they run a place that respects free speech, that tolerates dissent. In short, that they run a college." On April 7, 2015, a local election was held for three of the board’s six seats. Three candidates who campaigned under the banner “clean slate” won all three seats. Hamilton publicly supported all three candidates’ campaigns. After the election, Hamilton’s lawyer wrote a letter to the state attorney general and local prosecutor to ask for action to prevent the outgoing board from holding any meetings until the newly elected board members officially begin their tenure. Hamilton was chosen as the new chairwoman of the board at the first board meeting after the election. The three returning board members were the only trustees to vote against Hamilton as chairwoman.