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Tuesday, October 13, 2015
OUSD moves on 2016 Bond
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Amid community political chaos...
OUSD Board
to decide on ground work for possible 2016 Facilities Bonds
The Orange Unified School Board will meet in a Regular
Meeting on Thursday October 15, 2015 and vote on three items that may lay the
ground work for some type of 2016
Facilities Bond election.
This month's "Regular Meeting" comes on the heels
of three disastrous OUSD Special Board Meetings held since the last Regular
OUSD Board Meeting on September 10th. Those three Special Meetings ultimately
resulted in the selection and swearing-in of Greg Salas as the "Provisional
Trustee" for the vacant OUSD
Trustee Area 1 seat and a botched attempt at the Board passing a resolution
aimed at dissuading angered voters from signing petitions now widely being
circulated to oust the appointed Salas in favor of holding an election.
To characterize the selection of Greg Salas as the "Provisional
Trustee" on a 4-2 Board vote at the second of those Special Meetings as
controversial would be an understatement. Since the very moment of the Salas
appointment, community leaders across Anaheim Hills and their community allies
across Greater Orange have been in a basic open rebellion against not just the Salas
appointment, but the very backroom political process that made the unknown and apparently
unqualified Salas an OUSD trustee.
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| Surridge leads Trustee majority and OUSD off political cliff |
All this political controversy from just one OUSD Trustee- Timothy Surridge who continues to have three other elected trustees- John Ortega, Mark Wayland and Rick Ledesma...follow him like suicidal lemmings as the trio continue to follow Surridge over one political cliff after another.
Ironically, the State
of the School Report that starts off this Thursday's Regular Meeting will
be a report from Anaheim Hills own Canyon
High School
Now, amid this self-inflicted political chaos, the OUSD
Board plans now to take-up laying the groundwork for some type of 2016
Facilities Bond Election with three items on Thursday's agenda.
October 15th's Agenda Action Item 12 C (page 10) asks the OUSD Board to approve a subcommittee's recommendation to hire Irvine based Fieldman, Rolapp & Associates as OUSD's General Obligation Bond Fiscal Advisor ( the firm also has experience with Community Facility Districts). While the firm's service fee is not listed, it will only get paid if a Bond election is successful. (See below for more information.)
Also on the October 15th Agenda is Action Item 12 D (page
11) to give the OUSD staff direction on preparing for the possibility special
tax districts called School Facility Improvement Districts (aka Community
Facility Districts). These School
Facility Improvement Districts would allow specific areas in Greater Orange-
that have traditionally voted in a majority for the past failed OUSD Facility
Bonds- to approve bonds for their neighborhood's special district schools by approving
a special Mello-Roos tax assessment for their specific district. The firm
recommended in the Agenda Item to study the OUSD demographics for these specific
special districts is Escondido
The third Bond item on the October 15th Agenda is giving the OUSD staff direction on the OUSD
Facilities Master Plan. The agenda item reviews the three different facility
assessments OUSD procured in 2003, 2013 and 2014. The agenda item offers four options to the
OUSD Board: a six month Facility Condition Assessment ( estimated cost $150,000);
a 9 month "update" of
the Long Range Facility Master Plan-last done in 2003 (estimated cost $300,000); a 12 month "new
comprehensive" Long Range Facility
Master Plan (estimated cost $500,000);
or take no action on Facility Master Plans.
For
more facility bond information CLICK
ON
INSIDE the OUSD October 15 Regular
Meeting
Agenda Item 4 C-Closed Session
Property Sales Negotiations:
- Walnut
Site
- Killefer
Site
- Killefer
Annex Parking
Agenda Item 4 D-Closed Session
Superintendent Performance Review
Agenda Item 9 C - Recognition of
the Week of the School Administrator
Agenda Item 14 H-Consent Agenda: El
Rancho Charter -Charter Amendment to change requirement for parent volunteers.
NEXT OUSD BOARD MEETING Thursday
October 15, 2015
Next OUSD Board Meeting -OUSD BOARD ROOM
CLOSED SESSION- 5:00 pm
OUSD Regular Session: 7:00 pm
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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If a bond passed, the horrible board majority would have to appoint the citizen oversight committee. Why would we trust them to appoint 7 people when they couldn't appoint one qualified board member? I am a no on any bond until the board has new people on it.
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