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Monday, October 13, 2014
Metro VIEWS: 293+155 reasons
Metro VIEWS
service of the Greater Orange Community Organization :GoCo:
293+155 reasons why
Greater Orange
by the Greater Orange Community Organization :GoCo:
Last
month at the September 11, 2014 OUSD School Board Meeting three Orange Unified
Trustees, Dr. Alexia Deligianni, Kathy Moffat and Diane Singer fought to keep
17 words dealing with public corruption from being deleted from the Orange
Unified School Board's Board Policies.
Those 17 anti-corruption words were
simple enough...
"Practices which
might result in unlawful activity such as rebates, kickbacks, or other unlawful
considerations are prohibited"
Regardless
of the fact that the deleted words in Board Policy 1740A was brought to the OUSD Board's attention
during the public speaker section on the item from Attorney Florice Hoffman-
the candidate running against Timothy Surridge in November- keeping the 17
words that list illegal activities in the Board Policy should not have been
controversial.
However,
in their disingenuous explanations of why need, waste and cost caused them to
vote to exclude those 17 words, Trustees John Ortega, Timothy Surridge, Rick
Ledesma and Mark Wayland added insult to the Greater Orange Communities injury
their votes caused.
Today
the October 14 Board Agenda was released to the public. In it is a 293 word
resolution requested from Surridge, Ledesma and Ortega that shows how disingenuous
their original explanations of why need, waste and cost caused them to vote to
exclude those 17 anti-corruption words.
At the September 11th Board Meeting:
- Trustee Timothy Surridge complained about what
a waste of time and money for staff to investigate why these 17 words were
deleted from the OUSD Board Policy 1740A-
"Practices
which might result in unlawful activity such as rebates, kickbacks, or other unlawful considerations are
prohibited"
- Trustee Rick Ledesma argued that if Measure K
passed it would have "lot's of
oversight" and these 17 words were not needed-
"Practices
which might result in unlawful activity such as rebates, kickbacks, or other unlawful considerations are
prohibited"
- Board President John Ortega declared "Welcome to political season"
as he stated politics was the reason the female trustees wanted these 17 words put back into the Board Polices-
"Practices
which might result in unlawful activity such as rebates, kickbacks, or other unlawful considerations are
prohibited"
- All the men on the OUSD Board voted AGAINST these
17 words being in the OUSD Board Policy-
"Practices
which might result in unlawful activity such as rebates, kickbacks, or other unlawful considerations are
prohibited"
Now
today, after an uproar from the Greater Orange Communities, the three Trustees who
voted AGAINST reinserting 17 anti-corruption words NOW proposed a resolution in
the October 16th Agenda that takes up three pages and includes a 293 word attorney
written resolution plus a 155 word attorney written Clerk's Certificate to replace
these 17 words:
"Practices
which might result in unlawful activity such as rebates, kickbacks, or other
unlawful considerations are prohibited"
This is just 293+155
reasons why Greater Orange
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Once again, cherry pick your facts, I love it, I love how you neglected to inform your readers that this was the third reading of these board policies, THE THIRD READING, get that. the girls on the board had 3 months to look at these policies and make changes, corrections, additions or subtractions. They waited until Ms. Hoffman could do a little political grandstanding to make a point. If your that concerned about Ethics, of which I think your lacking, Look to page 99 of the July agenda where it is discussed in detail, conflict of interest etc. Pages and pages of do's and dont's. So please, if your going to bash the boys, myself included, get all of your facts straight. Also, the ladies were very concerned with the language on one page of the new board policies. I read that language, 3 times while it was being discussed, and no where was it confusing. It was written in easy to understand English. That is what I was objecting to. These policies have been looked over by the state and the county legal department to insure we are doing everything correctly. In conclusion, if you want to bash me and the other board members who voted against delaying this language another few months, at least have the honesty to report everything. What is really tells me, is that their is a few board members that are not doing their homework. If I have a problem understanding what is in the agenda that I get one week before a board meeting, I call a staff member and get it cleared up. I dont wait until the board meeting to ask questions that I should know the answer to.
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