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Friday, June 24, 2016
3rd and 4th of July Celebrations
COMMUNITY UPDATE
a news service of
Greater
Orange Community Orgainization
:GOCO:
Greater Orange kicks off Independence Day
early with the City of Orange Orange County Orange
The Annual 3rd of July Celebration
is Sunday July 3, 2016 with gates opening at 4 p.m. at Orange Unified's Fred
Kelly Stadium at El Modena High School, 3920
East Spring Street Orange CA 92869
Fred Kelly Stadium’s artificial turf requires special rules for everyone to enjoy. The following rules when attending the July 3rd activities apply:
• Only blanket seating is allowed on the field.
• Strollers, wheelchairs, wagons, or other wheeled items are only permitted in designated areas-not on the field.
• Lawn Chairs, food, drinks, seeds, gum, popcorn, hard-soled or high-heeled shoes are prohibited on the field.
Tickets for the "3rd of July" Celebration are $7 for adults and children over two years old. Tickets can be purchased at the Community Services Department,
Tickets will also be available for purchase at the event after
1:30 p.m. Credit cards maybe used at the gate.
For more information please call the City
of Orange
Special Events
The 50th Annual Orange Park Acres 4th of
July Parade's theme is the fitting "Our Golden Year" .
For 50 years OPA has shown Greater
Orange what neighborhood patriotism is all about.
The fun starts on July 4th at 6:30 am with
pre-registration for the OPA Pre-Parade 5/10K. The 10K EPIC CHALLANGE race/walk
starts at 7:15 am and the 5K starts at 7:45 am.
The OPA July 4th Parade will step off at 9:30 am at Frank and Orange
Park Blvd
The post-parade awards and annual barbeque will be held on the
lawn of the Salem Lutheran Church
The 1.5 mile parade is led by a vintage fire engine.
The fun starts with the line-up at Villa
Park High
School
Anaheim Hills 4th of July extravaganza
For shear size, no community does 4th of
July quite like Anaheim Hills. The Greater Orange Community pulls out all the
stops for a day packed with 4th of July events organized by the Anaheim Hills
Community Council.
The official 29th annual 4th of July Celebration starts with the “Firecracker” 5 /10K Run – 2K Walk starts with Opening Ceremonies at 6:55 am and race time at 7:00 am. The start line for all 5K and 10K events is on
This year accurate times are assured with
the use of race timing mats and chips.
The kids 100/200 dash runs will be at 9 am
at the Canyon H.S. Athletic Field.
Beginning at 7:30 am until 9:30 am in the Canyon Hills H.S. cafeteria will be the Pancake Breakfast that includes hotcakes, sausage, orange juice, coffee and a whole lot of visiting with neighbors and friends.
This year the Yankee Doodle Dog Show also
returns at 9:30 a.m. to Canyon High
School
At 1:00 pm the Patriotic Parade
begins. See the link below for more information and FAQ.
The Peralta Park Peralta Park
The evening ends with a spectacular fireworks display with patriotic music for your enjoyment beginning at 9:00 pm at
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
OUSD meets on 2016 Bond items
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Popular Sovereignty for OUSD Communities
and their high schools
Trustees to vote on two School Improvement Districts for possible high school bonds
Faced
with polling data that shows the infamous "55 Divided" is still alive
and well in the Greater Orange Communities when it comes to eventual voting to
approve a possible 2016 Facilities Bond for Orange Unified School District High Schools, this Thursday June 23, 2016 in a Special Meeting,
the OUSD Trustees will be voting on resolutions to move forward to form two
School Facilities Improvement Districts (SFID).
Agenda
Action Item 11 C will be vote for further polling on what would could be three
potential bond items, a district-wide bond measure and polling for the two SFID
bonds. One potential political problem facing
the district is with each improvement district area having two bond measures, a
district-wide bond and a separate improvement district bond, it could lead to
voter confusion and be seen by some as the school district asking for double
the money. This presents the pro-bond
forces under C.A.R.E. with twice as much pro-bond messaging.
The
two resolutions in Action Items 11 A and B on the June 23rd Agenda move the
process forward to create two special assessment districts as an inventive solution
to the reality that a minority of OUSD voters in certain parts of the sprawling
school district have preventing voters from updating their schools in the
neighborhoods that have overwhelmingly supported the three previous Facilities
Bonds.
The
proposed School Facilities Improvement District 1 will encompass neighborhoods (attendance
areas) that feed into El Modena and Orange High Schools-areas that have
historically supported the previous bond elections.
School
Facilities Improvement District 2 will encompass the neighborhoods (attendance
areas) that feed into Canyon and Villa Park H.S- areas that have historically
not supported the previous bond elections.
The
two resolutions in Action Items 11 A and B on the June 23rd Agenda estimate
voters in both new SFID's will eventually be asked to each approve $200 million
dollar bonds to update and modernize the two comprehensive high schools in each
of the SFID's.
With
past voting data and new polling showing the 2016 Measure K and two other OUSD
facilities bonds passing in the areas that will be included in the proposed SFID
1 (El Modena/Orange) and failing in the neighborhoods that feed into the SFID 2
(Canyon/Villa Park)- it is not hard to imagine that with SFIDs the voters in
both areas are going to the kind of schools they want when they vote. Truly, basic "popular
sovereignty".
Ironically,
the long traditional halves of Greater Orange's 55 Divide, the "haves"
and the "have-nots", could dramatically and quickly be switched with the
expected passage of a bond in SFID 1 and not in SFID 2. With modern remodeled schools
leading to increasing property values in the western part of the "divide"
leading that half to become the new "haves" (including the already
remodeled middle and elementary schools), the neighborhoods in the eastern side
with decaying and outdated schools will become the new "have nots" in
a post-bond SFID vote split.
Well
documented statistics show results of decaying schools could also lead to declining
student enrollment in the areas where parents can pay for private schools. It also
would not be a stretch to then see more instances of attempted district
secessions like the recent Panorama
Heights
If
the resolutions for the intent to form the two assessment districts pass on
Thursday, a Public Hearing will be scheduled for July 21 for public input into
the formation of the two SFIDs.
INSIDE the OUSD Agenda for Thursday June
23
Trustee John Ortega will be
teleconferencing from Washington
D.C.
- Agenda Item 4 C: Superintendent Michael Christiansen's Employee Evaluation continues in Closed Session.
NEXT OUSD SPECIAL BOARD
MEETING June 23, 2016
Next OUSD Board Meeting -OUSD BOARD ROOM
CLOSED SESSION- 5:30 pm
OUSD Open Session: 6:00 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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at:
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016
OUSD Term Limits win; Pauly and Deligianni out
68th Assembly Runoff will not include Pauly or
Deligianni-Brydges
Term limits in
Orange Unified passed overwhelmingly. Historically popular whenever it appears on a ballot,
OUSD Measure G to impose Term Limits on the OUSD Trustee passed keeping over 87% of the vote for most of the evening.
The 68th Assembly
Race with former Villa Park Councilwomen Deborah Pauly and OUSD Trustee Dr. Alexia
Deligianni-Brydges both running saw the two far behind the top vote getter in
the crowed field-Sean Panahi -with Harry Sidhu and Steven Choi in a close fight for the 2nd place run-off spot.
Pauly remained a far placed 4th hoovering around 14% most of the night with Deligianni-Brydges a distant 5th place with 4% of the vote most of the night.
Pauly remained a far placed 4th hoovering around 14% most of the night with Deligianni-Brydges a distant 5th place with 4% of the vote most of the night.
Pauly suffered
from numerous problems including a DUI arrest which became a campaign issue. (click on AnaheimBlog )
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| Photo source AnaheimBlog |
OUSD Trustee Dr.
Alexia Deligianni-Brydges was never able to put a campaign together at any
level-fund raising, social media or supporters.
School Facility Improvement Districts for OUSD?
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Bond Supporters call for
back-up plan: School Facility Districts
On June 3rd, C.A.R.E. (Community
Advancement through Renovation for Education)-the community organization
working to advance a Facilities Bond for Orange Unified -sent out an email
blast to supporters calling for a ballot with two choices on it- a General Bond
for all four of OUSD high schools, and creating School Facility Improvement
Districts (SFID) for Orange and El Modena high schools.
C.A.R.E. is reacting to the
latest polling from OUSD consultants that shows a future General Bond could be
defeated by voters in Anaheim Hills and Villa Park- the communities that feed
into Canyon and Villa Park High Schools.
However, the same polling shows that the communities that feed into Orange and El Modena High
Schools would support a district-wide General Obligation bond.
If the General Obligation were to
fail district-wide, but the local communities vote to support a SFID for their
schools, then Orange HS and El Modena high schools would be modernized and the
communities of Villa Park and Anaheim Hills would be left with the facilities
that they voted for- aged and outdated.
The two-choices approach would
also prevent either community- Villa Park or
Anaheim Hills from playing the spoiler for the other communities- they will get
what they vote for in their own backyard.
A 21st Century twist on "popular sovereignty".
Within a few years, the
differences would be stark in quality of education and property values between
the "have" and "have-not" high schools.
In preparation for the "two choices"
popular sovereignty approach, the Orange Unified School Board June 9, 2016 Agenda Action Item 12 A ( page 4) has the
OUSD Trustees discussing a draft resolution for SFID's for the Orange and El
Modena high school communities. The
agenda item also includes the recommendation that the Board of Education "receive information and provide
direction to staff regarding the formation of School Facility Improvement
Districts".
Item 12 B (page 14) is to approve spending $30,000
for additional polling.
Later in the Consent Agenda
-Contract Services Report, (page 46) are contracts for both Canyon and Villa Park High Schools
INSIDE the OUSD June 9th Agenda
- Agenda Item 4 C- Evaluation of the OUSD Superintendent
- Agenda Item 4 F (page 3)-Recognition of 7 of OUSD's Outstanding Academic Achievement students from the 4 OUSD comprehensive high schools.
- Agenda Item 12 D (page 17) - Adoption of the "Estimated Actuals" of the 2016-2017 OUSD Budget.
NEXT OUSD BOARD MEETING Thursday June
9, 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
ARCHIVAL Information and direct news can be found
at:
the Greater Orange News Service
http://greaterorange.blogspot.com/
ORANGE
Unified Schools INSIDE
and the
Greater Orange News Service
are independent news services of /O/N/N/
Orange
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