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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
OUSD takes on big issues
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OUSD Board will vote on resolution to sell Peralta
Site
The majority on the Orange Unified
School District Board of Education trustees lost no time making good on the
promise to proceed with the controversial sale of the former Peralta School
Items to sell the Peralta Property
are on the January 22, 2015 OUSD Board agenda.
The OUSD Trustees will meet in
Closed Session starting at 5:30 pm with the sale of the Peralta Site on the
agenda as item 4 B (Agenda page 1). The
item lists the potential buyers of the Peralta Site as:
"An unidentified number of potential buyers who may buy the
Property through statutory rights or public bid process".
Under California law, other governmental entities
have priority in buying public lands for sale. Lacking another public agency buying the site,
the site could be sold to the highest private bidder.
Later in meeting, during Open
Session, Action Item 12 A is the
Resolution to authorize the sale of the
Peralta Site. If approved, the sale of the property is to take place
after the end of the current lease on the site ends on March 31, 2015.
The title of the Resolution to
sell the site begins;
"RESOLUTION No. 13-14-15 RECOPNFIRMING ACCEPTTANCE OF THE ADVISORY
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION AUTHORIZING THE SALE
The price of the property is set
at $23 million, but allows consideration of lower offers if no offer matches
the $23 million price. By law, money
raised from the sale must go towards school facilities.
The OUSD attempt to lease Peralta
to an apartment building conglomerate failed when the neighborhood untied under
the Save
the Peralta organization. Those efforts and the fight of the Orange
Park Acres neighborhood fighting the
Sully-Miller development led to the formation of a city-wide organization
of neighborhood organizations called
United Neighborhoods of Orange (UNO).
UNO has notified its members of the pending Thursday night action of the
OUSD Board.
OUSD employee contracts on January 22
agenda
The OUSD Board of Education is
again scheduled to take up the contracts of its three bargaining units at its
January 22, 2015 meeting.
The OUSD Board has twice
postponed the vote on the Tentative Agreements, once to move the original scheduled
vote at the regular December 2014 Board meeting to a Special Board meeting a
week later. That Special Meeting was then cancelled by OUSD Board President
John Ortega ( Click on: Meeting Cancelled Release )
The Tentative Agreement contract
votes are Action Items 12 B ( Agenda page 15-30). The item includes a copy of the legally
required budget analysis (Agenda page
14) shows that if the OUSD approves the contracts, with the current funding
level, OUSD will continue to have a budget surplus for the next three years.
Resolution calling for repeal of Section
27 of SB 858
Action Item 12 C ( Agenda page
31-33) calls on the OUSD to vote on a resolution calling on the state
government to repeal wording in Section 12 of Senate Bill 858. Similar
resolutions have been passed by other school districts across the state in
response to a request for those resolutions by the California School Board
Association.
In wake of passage of Proposition
2 passed in November 2014 (aka the Rainy Day Fund), Section 12 wording puts
caps (per a specific formula) on reserves school districts may have in years following
any year that the state pays into the new reserve fund called the Public School
System Stabilization Account (PSSSA).
Opponents of Section 12 point
to local control issues and insist that the Proposition 98 reserve will never
be enough to help in major economic turn downs.
Those favoring Section 12 argue
that school districts should not act like banks and hoard money intended to be
spent on education.
If the Section 12 language
remains, it is estimated that the timeline for the state emergency fund to be ready and for districts to
spend down their reserves is after 2020.
Measure K election results and future
options
Measure K results and possible
future options will be also be discussed at the January 22 meeting. Information Agenda Item 13 A calls for staff
to present "election results, possible options for funding facility
improvements". Detailed information on voting patterns are expected in the report.
This agenda item is for information only therefore the Board members will not be voting on any proposals.
This agenda item is for information only therefore the Board members will not be voting on any proposals.
NEXT OUSD BOARD MEETING January
22, 2015
Next OUSD Board Meeting -OUSD BOARD ROOM
CLOSED SESSION- 5:30 pm
OUSD Regular Session: 7:00 pm
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For more information call the OUSD
Superintendent’s office at 714-628-4040
For budgeting questions call Business Services at
714-628-4015
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Saturday, January 10, 2015
Bus driver of April crash arrested
COMMUNITY UPDATE
Former OUSD bus driver arrested and charged in April 2014
Anaheim Hills crash
Former OUSD bus driver arrested and charged in April 2014
Anaheim Hills crash
ABC News is reporting that the former Orange Unified
School District
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