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 |
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| 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 23, 2014 - 6:50 am
According to a packed room of NOCCD staff supporting the bond scam, the campuses have been falling apart for a long time. I heard enough last night to have some of the NOCCD buildings shut down by code enforcement and the fire marshal while Mr. 20 grand a month with his shiny gold watch looked on with his eyes half open.
Yeah, they all had their hands last night out and the NOCCD staff were not pushing for the bond for the sake of the veterans. They wanted the new bond to fix stuff that THE LAST BOND WAS SUPPOSED TO FIX BUT DIDN’T GET FIXED.
The Fullerton College students I have spoken with confirm that the campus has been severely neglected by the administration. Indoor air quality, lack of class availabilty and overcrowding were the biggest concerns with the students I have interviewed.
What the heck did they do with all of the tax money that continues to be legally extorted from the taxpayers over the last ten years with the last bond scam these folks cooked up? When my dad came to California, tuition was free. Now we charge for tuition, parking, supplies, and now multiple bonds?
I find it amazing that the architects of this latest scam are in the education business and in order to successfully bamboozle the voters and get this passed, they rely on ignorance, and apathy while pulling on the heartstrings of the voters. This is a direct contradiction to the reason for their existence.
So they purposely pull this out of the hat at the very last minute, they make sure there is very little specific concrete information available to the public to review and research prior to it going to their elected representatives for a vote. How is an uniformed public to weigh in on whether or not the Trustees should pass it? Do they like an uninformed apathetic public? Of course they do-check out how many attend the board meetings that do not work for the NOCCD.
In the meantime, they make sure there is not enough time to amply digest the measure that on the surface with the mailer is designed to aid veterans but on the website, is a deferred maintenance slush fund in the making. Shame on you all.
They continue to allege that the current budget hasn’t the adequate funding to deliver a high quality education and services to veterans in their glossy mailer. The veterans that were there last night said they lacked printers and basic equipment? They need jobs and skill training like all the rest of the students. That is why all of the thousands of NOCCD employees there have jobs. If they don’t have enough money then they need to cut spending. Amazing how they talk about how the workplace and job market has changed but the framework of the taxpayer funded gravy train never changes with the times. The whole thing is built around the employees not the students. I believe the vets are just being used to dupe the public on this one.
Look, I didn’t just falloff of the turnip truck. These folks are dumping this a few months before the election like snake oil salesmen rolling down the sawdust trail.
Educrat teat sucking lackeys, listen up please.
You train the kids to learn how to research and yet you give their parents nothing to research.
You train the kids to think critically and you send out brochures that insult the parents’ intelligence.
You teach the kids how to do math up to levels that would blow most of our minds and you send out information that is missing all the integers.
You teach the kids how to be honest, value integrity, and do the right things for all involved. Yet you use deceptive wording, pull the veterans of the road and make them wear your sandwich board while you put unethical time constraints on the parents in regards to getting informed in time to get involved with their elected representatives.
How do you justify your actions in light of what you are teaching these kids?
You orchestrate what appears to be a con job, scam, bond measure that only covers for the mismanagement of the hundreds of millions of dollars that the last ponzi scheme was supposed to fix. What is this some kind of a joke?
You suck these places dry for the last 50 years and practically run them into the ground and yet when it comes time for a remodel, you got nothing to pay for it with?
What do we tell our kids? Do we tell them that the truth that there is never enough money available for lazy people who are addicted to the taxpayer teat. Guess what-we are going to do our best to make sure it dries up and you live within your means like the rest of the world.
Based on the fact that your outreach is aimed at and catering to the lowest common denominator, and that you are banking on the voters not being able to see through the deceptive tactics and think for themselves, your organization is not worthy of another billion dollars with interest added on. It is simply because you have violated the public trust and you have failed in your duty to educate the students and turn them into critically thinking productive citizens. Instead you rely on the ignorance and shallow thinking of the voters to further your agenda to keep your mismanagement under wraps and keep the gravy train on the tracks. If that is the finished product of the NOCCD over the last 50 years or so, then maybe we need to find something else for the administration to do besides mulling around the coffee pot all day adding break dancing and basket weaving classes to your catalogs. Maybe we need more than 50 lousy seats for the thousands of applicants who apply to your nursing program over at Cypress with NO program at Fullerton. With a wait list years long, you are using my tax money to send the kids to the rip off trade schools where they will rack up tremendous student loan debt emptying out the taxpayer funded financial aid coffers while the hospitals fill the positions with nurses from overseas. That in and of itself in my opinion, is grounds for the administrators to be fired.
You want how much again? I think all you guys all need to be drug tested.