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 Anonymous on July 23, 2014 - 10:01 am
Mr Norby, I aprreciate your keen insight to what is potentially underway. Mr Levinson, thank you for telling it like it is and not holding back. Mr Imbriano, I don’t know how you have the guts to get up there and insult them like you did but they deserve it. Mr Paden, thank you for your comments with the exception of one of your points. Most of the teachers at the Junior College level have advanced degree including doctorates.The pay, in my opinion, is far below what they could be making in the private sector or at the University level.The administrative staff salaries are where the real problems exist.
I have worked at Fullerton college for almost 20 years and to witness the mismanagement continue to this very day makes me sick. There are over crowded rooms that you cannot even breathe in, restrooms in disrepair, antiquated technology, faulty wiring and I could go on. The administrative offices share none of these problems.
There are so many problems with our facility that I believe 500 million dollars won’t even begin to address. Like you pointed out, the administration has mismanaged Fullerton College for far too long.