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 A voter on July 24, 2014 - 6:07 pm
The NOCCCD Board decided to give THE VOTING PUBLIC the opportunity to approve or disapprove a bond issue. The NOCCCD isn’t issuing any bonds on its own authority. How can anyone object to letting THE VOTERS have their say on this?? That’s the core of a democracy.
#2 by Leroy Brown on July 24, 2014 - 11:00 pm
There ain’t nothing like a billion dollars worth of debt getting shoved up to the voters glory holes on a purple heart platter by some empty suit hack with a nice watch. Behind the scenes you duds have been siphoning all the dough into salaries, pensions and bennies while the shit gasses come up through the floor drains and the theater kids get to do humanities with an improperly wired sub panel up there ass in a storage room.
My sister spent 3 and 1/2 years at Fullerton to get a 2 year degree and racked up parking tickets, parking lot accidents and messed up sleep cycles having to wait 7=9 hours between classes because some jackass decided to build sports fields instead of classrooms. This bond on the shiny card says its for the veterans, on the website it is for all that you clowns forgot to budget and plan for since you pulled of the last heist 10 years ago. In reality its just to keep the dough rolling in so you can keep the party going for a bunch of people who couldn’t find their way out of a paper bag in the private sector.
If it wasn’t for your little union, you would be cleaning floor drains at Carls Jr. Oh man, I can see it now break dancing classes at the drive through while you sing hold the pickles hold the lettuce special orders dont upset us for 8 bucks an hour part time with a bus pass in your pocket. 6 year waiting lists, useless courses,impacted classes up the ying yang with students coiming out your pie hole and you are friggin broke? Never in my life did I ever see a business who had customers beating on the door not be able to grow and keep up with the times and make a killing unless it was run by a bunch of blithering friggin’ idiots like you who expect working stiffs like us to pick up the billion dollar tab for your brie and cracker jack habit.
#3 by Anonymous on July 25, 2014 - 8:55 am
Mr. Imbriano, may I suggest that you require some respect and courtesy to be shown by your commenters. The message will be much more well received by all in an atmosphere of mutual respect. I am afraid much is being lost by the tone being set here.
#4 by Anonymous on November 5, 2014 - 10:01 am
Hey Joe, didn’t they got their respect from the voters last night? Tell them to go pound sand.
#5 by streets on July 25, 2014 - 9:31 am
Right on Leroy