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 Joe Imbriano on July 30, 2014 - 6:55 am
http://ocpolitical.com/2013/11/04/north-orange-county-community-college-officials-received-hidden-gifts/
North Orange County Community College Officials received hidden gifts
Posted by Allen Wilson on November 4, 2013
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The Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) will consider imposing fines for seven (7) North Orange County Community College District (NOCCCD) officials and trustees ranging from $200 to $400 at their upcoming meeting on November 14, 2013.
The seven NOCCCD officials named in the agenda on the proposed fines are four trustees: Leonard Lahtinen, Molly McClanahan, Donna Miller and Manny Ontiveros along with three officials: Fullerton College President Rajen Vurdien, former Cypress College President Michael Kasler and Chancellor Ned Doffoney.
The Sacramento Bee reports that numerous of electeds and officials were named due to gifts that were received from a bond advisers that went unreported, which is violation of California gift reporting under the Government Code Section 87207.
The Sacramento Bee further explains the investigation was triggered by the Ventura County District Attorney which uncovered unreporting of gifts from bond advisers, which prompted the FPPC to do an investigation of their own.
According to the Sacramento Bee one of the bond advisers named in giving gifts to the seven NOCCCD officials is E.J. De La Rosa & Co., Inc , which has underwritten 375 bonds totaling $14.5 Billion for local governments since 2009.
Below is the stipulation and order by the FPPC for the seven NOCCCD officials due to gift reporting violations:
Staff: Political Reform Consultant Adrianne Korchmaros, Legal Analyst Tracey Frazier, and Law Clerk Kyle Levy. In this matter, Respondent, Rajen Vurdien, as the President of the North Orange County Community College District, failed to timely disclose gift(s) of: one meal valued at $153.86 on his 2010 Statement of Economic Interests; and one meal valued at $180.00 on his 2011 Statement of Economic Interests. All gifts were from E.J. De La Rosa & Co., Inc. and all omissions were in violation of Government Code Section 87207 (2 counts). Total Proposed Penalty: $400.
Vurdien – Stip
Staff: Political Reform Consultant Adrianne Korchmaros, Legal Analyst Tracey Frazier, and Law Clerk Kyle Levy. In this matter, Respondent, Donna Miller, as Trustee for the North Orange County Community College District, failed to timely disclose gift(s) of: one meal valued at $153.86 on her 2010 Statement of Economic Interests. All gifts were from E.J. De La Rosa & Co., Inc. and all omissions were in violation of Government Code Section 87207 (1 count). Total Proposed Penalty: $200.
Miller – Stip
Staff: Legal Analyst Tracey Frazier and Law Clerk Liz Smutz. In this matter, Respondent, Michael Kasler, as the President of the North Orange County Community College District, failed to timely disclose gift(s) of: one meal valued at $180.00 on his 2011 Statement of Economic Interests. All gifts were from E.J. De La Rosa & Co., Inc. and all omissions were in violation of Government Code Section 87207 (1 count). Total Proposed Penalty: $200.
Kasler – Stip
Staff: Political Reform Consultant Jeanette Turvill and Legal Analyst Tracey Frazier. In this matter, Respondent, Molly McClanahan, as a Member of the North Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees, failed to timely disclose gift(s) of: one meal valued at $180.00 on her 2011 Statement of Economic Interests. All gifts were from E.J. De La Rosa & Co., Inc. and all omissions were in violation of Government Code Section 87207 (1 count). Total Proposed Penalty: $200.
McClanahan – Stip
Staff: Political Reform Consultant Jeanette Turvill and Legal Analyst Tracey Frazier. In this matter, Respondent, Manny Ontiveros, as a Member of the North Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees, failed to timely disclose gift(s) of: golf and two meals totaling $318.55 on his 2011 Statement of Economic Interests. All gifts were from E.J. De La Rosa & Co., Inc. and all omissions were in violation of Government Code Section 87207 (1 count). Total Proposed Penalty: $200.
Ontiveros – Stip
Staff: Political Reform Consultant Adrianne Korchmaros, Legal Analyst Tracey Frazier, and Law Clerk Kyle Levy. In this matter, Respondent, Leonard Lahtinen, as a Member of the North Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees, failed to timely disclose gift(s) of: one meal valued at $153.86 on his 2010 Statement of Economic Interests. All gifts were from E.J. De La Rosa & Co., Inc. and all omissions were in violation of Government Code Section 87207 (1 count). Total Proposed Penalty: $200.
Lahtinen – Stip
Staff: Political Reform Consultant Adrianne Korchmaros, Legal Analyst Tracey Frazier, and Law Clerk Kyle Levy. In this matter, Respondent, Ned Doffoney, as Chancellor for the North Orange County Community College District, failed to timely disclose gift(s) of: meals totaling $153.86 on his 2010 Statement of Economic Interests; and meals totaling $180.00 on his 2011 Statement of Economic Interests. All gifts were from E.J. De La Rosa & Co., Inc. and all omissions were in violation of Government Code Section 87207 (2 counts). Total Proposed Penalty: $400.
Doffoney – Stip
#2 by Anonymous on August 7, 2014 - 9:31 pm
Not even a slap on the wrist and the Anaheim sup Matsuda didn’t even show up for the vote.
#3 by Bozo Esq. on November 20, 2014 - 10:18 am
It should have never been placed on the ballot.