More money to be wasted
The Orange County Register on Saturday confirmed the name of the attorney hired by the Board of Trustees to fight the parent-led initiative to change the way we elect trustees. The contract and the amount that we will have to pay for the trustee’s latest mismanagement is still unknown.
What is known is that the attorney has a questionable past and has been disciplined by the State Bar twice for ethics violations. Great! Perhaps the most amazing thing in all this is that our board has already squandered $50,000 on unnecessary legal fees just to block and delay this change and now they want to waste more of our money?
They ran on a platform of change and have not lived up to their promises. Now they have a chance to do something positive and they are pulling out all the stops to prevent this from happening. This is not representative government. This petition was signed by people who want change and it is their fiduciary responsibility to support it. They have no mandate from anyone asking them to delay and fight this EXCEPT for their financial backers and political friends in the recall committee.
It’s all a game to them. A game where students and tax-payers lose.
Tags: Capistrano, CUSD, erin kutnick
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:40 pm
I go to the board meetings, the vast majority of speakers are FOR area voting. I’ve only seen that one guy tell the trustees he’s against it (and then the Bealls, when it was before the county, but they must’ve already told the trustees privately.) I’ve never even heard the board say they’re against it (except when their attorney said they were.) And most admit they were for it when it was their idea.
If feels like they aren’t listening at all. Amazingly, I voted for three of them, and not a one will support what I want.
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