I REPORT, YOU DECIDE. Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson
This Tuesday evening at 5:30 PM, the North Orange County Community College Board will meet to consider approving a $574 million dollar bond issue, which the proponents say will be primarily used to revamp two Veteran’s Buildings within its facilities.
First, over a half billion dollars for two buildings should in and of itself sound warning bells for all taxpayers throughout all of North Orange County.
Second, if the language of the bond is not specific, the Community College Board could spend the money on items not having anything to do with the Veterans.
Third, do you want to give some bureaucrats the power to have over a half billion additional dollars at their disposal to spend probably at their own discretion. I for one say absolutely not.
The current N.O.C.C.D Chancellor Dr. Ned Doffoney EARNS$240,000 PER YEAR + BENEFITS AND EXPENSES
Fourth, we demand accountability, transparency and a concern for spending every dollar of our tax money wisely and carefully. Giving the Community College that much money would not be a smart move by the North Orange County taxpayers.
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One should look to past bond issues to determine if we can trust these bureaucrats to carry out their promises.
Well in March of 2002, by a slim margin, the voters approved a $239 million dollar bond issue for the North Orange County Community College District, which governs Cypress College and Fullerton College It was called Measure X. Among the projects that would benefit from this bond issues were multimillion-dollar improvements to child development centers on the campuses that served preschool children of Fullerton and Cypress students and the communities at large.
This is what actually happened according to a story written by Dana Parsons of the Los Angeles Times on June 8, 2005. The existing Child Development Center in Cypress center closed in 2003, the year following the passage of the bond measure. In 2005, two years after the bond approval, significant cutbacks were proposed for the existing Fullerton center. According to the news story, neither center got Measure X money.
Chancellor Dr. Jerome Hunter 2000-2008
| Name | Job Title/Employer/Pension | Pension | Benefits | Disability | Years of Service |
Year of Retirement |
Total pension & benefits amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jerome Hunter | Employer: NORTH ORANGE COUNTY CCD Pension: CalSTRS, 2013 |
$198,600.00 | N/A | $0.00 | 33.36 | 2008 | $198,600.00 |
This above can be explained in only one of two ways. Either the bureaucrats misinformed the voters, or they were totally incompetent or some of both.
Show up at this Tuesday’s Board meeting to tell those bureaucrats that we reject their attempt to use our great Veterans as a ploy to get their hands on over a half billion of our tax dollars.
Meeting Location:
NORTH ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
NEXT MEETING TUESDAY JULY 22, 2014
BOARD ROOM AT THE ANAHEIM CAMPUS
1830 W. ROMNEYA DRIVE, ANAHEIM AT 5:30 PM
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#1 by streets on July 21, 2014 - 12:31 pm
Oh please, as if the NOCCD gave a rats ass about the veterans.
#2 by Anonymous on July 21, 2014 - 2:39 pm
I too recall when they floated that bond measure. I also clearly remember around late 2007 when their PR machine went to work tying up the loose ends. A boatload of money that was never spent on the voter approved measure item programs ended up being spent on glossy slates that went out just before Dr. Hunter retired in 2008.
The F.J.U.H.S.D. is working on a bond measure for the November ballot as well.
#3 by really on July 23, 2014 - 12:11 pm
$240,000 a year for The Chancellor
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