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Wednesday, November 08, 2017
Were OUSD bond opponents right?
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Trustees appear to be trying to prove the facility bond opponents were right after all ...
OUSD Board looks to spend hundreds
of thousands of educational tax dollars on public relations
How bad has the OUSD Board's reputation become?
Apparently bad enough that after almost 20 years, the Orange Unified Trustees are contemplating spending hundreds of
thousands of educational tax dollars on public relations.
On the November 9, 2017 OUSD Agenda, Information Item 16 B
(Agenda page 32) will be a follow-up staff report on options for obtaining an
OUSD Public Relations position. Staff will present the cost options of an
in-house public relations position and a consultant public relations firm.
The move comes on the heels of reported blistering remarks
about the OUSD Board in the stakeholder surveys for a new OUSD Superintendent
and just a year after OUSD voters approved a massive tax increase in the form
of Measure S to update the district's high schools.
Ironically, part of the opposition to the numerous bond
attempts from the community were that the schools were in such dire disrepair
because the OUSD Trustees and the OUSD Administration could not manage the
budgeted educational tax dollars. Now
with Measure S passed after a Herculean effort by the administration of former
Superintendent Mike Christensen, it appears that the OUSD Trustees are ready to
not learn from history. First by
numerous accounts forcing a popular Superintendent out , and next by hiring a public relations firm and
returning to a educational tax wasting model.
The Reactionary Jacobson Board that was eventually recalled
in the famous 2001 Orange Recall faced a similar public relations crisis. Then
Superintendent Dr. Robert French tried to delicately bring the item of their
reputation to the OUSD Board's attention by conducting a "community
survey". The consequences of what the community thought of them was the
Jacobson majority firing French.
Hundreds of thousands of
wasted educational dollars latter on public relations, lawyers and lawsuits, phony voter measures
etc, etc, etc, and the OUSD PR person was fired and the Jacobson Majority
recalled.
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| The last OUSD PR person |
The last Orange Unified Public Information Officer
was Judy Frutig who was hired by the then Reactionary Board controlled
by Education Alliance Trustee Marty Jacobson's anti-public education
majority (that Board was eventually recalled in
the 2001 Orange Recall Election).
Frutig's position became the mouthpiece for the reactionary
policies for a board majority out-of-control with policies growing more and
more unpopular. The information disseminated by Frutig was
directly dictated by Board President Marty Jacobson. Frutig quickly became
a lightning rod for uniting the Greater Orange Community against the Jacobson
Majority.
As the Recall pressure on the Board intensified, Frutig was
unable to meet the overwhelming challenge of the growing community
communication network and the state and national news scrutiny brought on by
outrageous Board actions and by the landmark gay student rights
case Colin vs Orange Unified. The under fire Board majority, now
facing a recall election, abruptly fired Frutig.
French eventually had the last laugh when the Reactionary
Board was recalled and the newly elected Citizen's Board hired French back with
the departure of Jacobson's hand-picked Superintendent Barbara Van Otterloo.
New OUSD Superintendent search and Measure S
on Board of Trustees November 9th Agenda
The Orange Unified School Board will meet for a Study
Session and for a Regular Meeting on November 9, 2017,
The 5:00 pm public Study Session will be on the search for
a new OUSD Superintendent. The meeting is scheduled for the Building B
Conference Room near the Superintendent's Office.
The Regular OUSD Board Meeting will take place at 7:00 pm
in the regular OUSD Board Room.
During the regular session, the Trustees will receive a
report on the Measure S Capital Faculties Program Update ( Agenda Item 16 A,
agenda page 31).
NEXT OUSD BOARD MEETING November
9, 2017
Next OUSD Board Meeting -OUSD BOARD ROOM
Work Study Session 5:00
pm Building B Conference Room
CLOSED SESSION- 5:30 pm
OUSD Regular Session: 7:00 pm Board
Room Building
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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