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Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Lawsuit, Yamasaki and Bond update
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OUSD going to mediation over Peralta Golf Partnership lawsuit
The Orange Unified School District will be going to mediation over a lawsuit Orange Unified School District Recreation Center complex at the former 20-acre Peralta School
Peralta Golf Partnerships held the lease at the site from 1994 until March of 2015 after the OUSD Trustees voted in 4-3 against extending the lease in February 2015. Led by OUSD Trustee Timothy Surridge- the OUSD Board voted to sub-lease the site directly to three groups (Olive Crest School
Drotter LLC is owned by Jason Drotter, the former coach of the Villa Park High School boy's and girls' golf teams for six years who was the current the head coach of the CSUF men's golf program in addition to managing the Super Sports complex for Peralta Golf Partners.
Surridge openly displayed contempt toward the owners of Peralta Golf Partners during meetings that the owners appeared before the Board trying to save their lease after Surridge's plan to lease the property to an apartment developer fell apart as well as his next plan to sell the property.
Surridge stated that he wanted to maximize the dollars from
the site by cutting out Peralta Golf Partners as a middle man as he lead the
effort to deny Peralta Golf Partners a month-to-month lease and then to
terminate the lease.
Trustees Kathy Moffat, Dr. Alexia Deligiani-Brydges and
Diane Singer voted against ending the relationship with Peralta Golf Partners.
Yamasaki set to take OUSD seat
The Orange Unified School Board Agenda for Thursday March
10, 2016 tentatively has Andrea Yamasaki taking her seat after a landslide win
in the Special Election for the Area 1 Trustee
Seat.
Now just waiting for the Orange County Registrar of Voters
to certify the election results, Community Advocate Andrea Yamasaki won with 74.9%
over her establishment endorsed opponent Greg Salas. Voter turn out was 19.6% in the first ever OUSD all-mail-in vote.
Expecting the certification of the election by
Thursday, Yamasaki will have public
swearing in at the Board Meeting ( she will be officially be sworn in as soon
as the election results are certified).
Inside the OUSD Agenda
OUSD Bond information UPDATE
The
OUSD Agenda includes a report from Bonnie Moss of CliffordMoss the OUSD Political
Consultant on additional steps toward a 2016 bond measure. To see CliffordMoss
assesment of how to win after losing-CLICK ON: CliffordMoss
The
update will be Agenda Information Item 14 B page 43.
Also on the OUSD Agenda:
· Action Item 13 A (page 5)- Second Interim
Financial Report on the Budget
· Information Item 14 C Fred Kelly
ADA Update (page 44)
NEXT OUSD BOARD MEETING January
18, 2016
Next OUSD Board Meeting -OUSD BOARD ROOM
CLOSED SESSION- 6:00 pm
OUSD Regular Session: 7:00 pm
For AGENDA-CLICK ON
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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