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Monday, November 05, 2018
OUSD Board to meet 2 days after election
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OUSD School Board to meet two days after Nov 6th election
The Orange Unified School Board
will meet on Thursday November 8, 2018. The meeting will be two days after the
November 6th election that could have a major impact on the current make-up of
the OUSD Board with four of the Trustees seeking re-election.
The November 8 OUSD Agenda also
includes items to move the OUSD Board's required Annual Organizational Meeting
( where they elect board officers) from December 6 to December 13th ( Action
item 12 C and Consent Item 14 P ).
In general, the four Trustees up for reelection on
November 6th divide equally into the two factions on the current board.
Depending on the election, the
Thursday meeting could be the last for anyone of the current trustees.
In 2014, Trustee Rick Ledesma easily won reelection in
a three-way race. Controversial former OUSD Trustee Steve Rocco polled 4,213
votes (10%) giving Ledesma a clear path to reelection with 56% of the
vote. Rocco again appears on the ballot
this year with newcomer Sean Griffin.
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| Surridge's submitted Voter's Edge photo |
In 2014, Trustee Timothy Surridge won his seat against Florice Hoffman by 53. 7% to 46.3 %. In this election, Surridge faces well known community education advocate and attorney Kris Erickson in what is the most watched OUSD race. As a first time candidate, Erickson has mounted a multi-pronged professional campaign, while Surridge ( who did not even establish a campaign website) has failed to mount any serious public campaign to keep his seat.
The other marquee race is between
Trustee Kathy Moffat and Joe Ferrentino. As challenger to a popular incumbent, Ferrentino
has made an issue out of the Measure K
Bond and Moffat's years on the OUSD Board. In 2014 Moffat won reelection with
61.3% of the vote against two opponents.
In OUSD Trustee Area 1, the
popular Trustee Andrea Yamasaki faces Sandra Angel.
Inside the
OUSD Agenda
Action
Item 12 A on the November 8, 2018 OUSD Board of Education Agenda combines the
annual and five-year required accounting of developer taxes. The item shows that in the last five years,
the current OUSD Board under the "fiscal conservative" majority
increased developer taxes for both residential and commercial 9% each.
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| Agenda Item shows record of developer taxes over the last five years |
Closed
Session 4D has the Board meeting about the sale of the Walnut property adjacent
to Santiago Charter Middle School.
At
the end of last month, developer Western States Housing pulled out of the deal
to buy the historic Killefer Elementary Site. The developer had approval to
build three story 24 unit project that would preserve some of the historic
building. The school was the first to desegregate,
three years before the 1947 California Supreme Court school desegregation
ruling of Mendez v Westminster.
OUSD Public Relations costs
In February 2018 OUSD Trustees voted $219,424 for a Public Relations contract (Click on):
Here is what spending $219,424 of educational tax dollars on PR buys (For the latest in OUSD News on the web Click on):
NEXT OUSD BOARD MEETING October 11, 2018
Next OUSD Board Meeting -OUSD BOARD ROOM
CLOSED SESSION- 5:30 pm
OUSD Regular Session: 7:00 pm Board Room
For more information call the OUSD Superintendent’s office at 714-628-4040
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