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Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Community UPDATE: Orange High
For the most part, Saturday May 9th,
Fun for the whole family, you can get your fill of farm fun
with a petting zoo, food, games, prizes and lots of farm animals. Orange High
students have been raising sheep, pigs, and cattle and more on their own farm
and every year invite the public to come and have a look.
The 2015 Farm Fest is Saturday May 9th, from 12 noon until 4:00
p.m.
The Orange High School Farm is located at the corners of Walnut, Shaffer and Harwood at Orange High.
The Orange High School Farm is located at the corners of Walnut, Shaffer and Harwood at Orange High.
The nominal cost is only $3.00 or $5.00 for admission and
lunch, with the funds going directly to support the OHS Future Farmers of
America.
For more information call: 714-997-6299.
For more information call: 714-997-6299.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Brown Act and 2016 Bond news
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More litigation over possible Brown
Act violations for Orange Unified School
Board
The Orange Unified School Board
Agenda for Thursday April 16th includes Closed Session Item 4 C on
"Anticipated Litigation" concerning Brown Act violations. The agenda item follows item 4 B which is a
discussion on "Existing Litigation" to the Brown Act- California
Government Code 54957.
The 4 C item specifies two more cases of : "Possible
initiation of litigation pursuant to subdivision (d) (4) of Section
54956.9". That section is from
the Brown Act- the California statute that governs meetings of
local elected officials- all city and county
government agencies as well as local and county governmental boards.
The beginning of
Section 54956.9 specifically states:
54956.9. (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be
construed to prevent a legislative body of a local agency, based on advice of
its legal counsel, from holding a closed session to confer with, or receive advice
from, its legal counsel regarding pending litigation when
discussion in open
session concerning those matters would prejudice
the position of the
local agency in the litigation.
OUSD has had a history of Brown Act problems which at one point years ago had OUSD under a court order to tape record OUSD Closed Sessions for review by a judge for over a year.
OUSD 2016 Facilities Bond direction to be discussed
Action item 12 A has the Orange
Unified Trustees discussing and voting to authorize Superintendent Michael
Christiansen's Administration to identifying services and resources for
planning a OUSD 2016 Facilities Bond.
The four areas offered in a proposed timeline to be presented by the OUSD Staff
include: Planning for a 2016 Bond election; Refining Measure K cost estimates
for phase one construction; planning for possible special tax districts School
Facility Improvement Districts; Financing planning.
The interim license agreement with Drotter LLC to operate
Super Range Golf and Recreation
Center
Oakland Charter school files for OUSD Charter
For more information on the Unity MCHS Click ON; UNITY
INSIDE the OUSD Agenda April 16, 2015: Information
items
13 A: Information on Trustee Area Realignment
Realignment of Trustee areas seems to come around after
particularly political periods in OUSD. The last time was after the failure to
qualify a Recall of controversial former OUSD Trustee Steve Rocco. The
subsequent former OUSD Trustee Kimberlee Nichols proposal for a Trustee Area
Realignment moved the boundaries so Rocco was forced to run in a different
Trustee Area -not as in incumbent resulting in his loss.
13 B: OUSD Term Limit discussion
OUSD President, and long-time Trustee John Ortgea is
exploring the idea of term-limits on the OUSD Board. Originally elected as part
of the Citizen's Board in the 2001 OUSD Recall Election, John Ortgea has never
faced a re-election opponent. Term limits were originally part of Dr. Alexia
Deligianni's first campaign for
Trustee. The longest serving
Trustee is Rick Ledesma, who won his seat back as part of the Citizen's Board
in 2001. Kathy Moffat first won her seat
in 2001 with John Ortega.
13 C: El Rancho construction project update
Cost and legal ramifications will be discussed for the El
Rancho Charter School project.
NEXT OUSD BOARD MEETING Thursday
April 16, 2015
Next OUSD Board Meeting -OUSD BOARD ROOM
CLOSED SESSION- 5:00 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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