Lawsuit Filed 12/17
The documentation for the lawsuit filed by CUSD in order to stop/delay the June election was just released.
The attorney gets many of the “facts” wrong including at one point the name of the district he represents calling it the Capistrano VALLEY Unified School District. He also has clearly not read the Ed Code that defines how this process works as he talks about the board having already set the election. The board does not have the power to set the election. He states in item 17 that the committee exceeded its authority by calling the special election but that was the job of the committee per ED CODE to set the election.
Of course, the board could have controlled the entire process had they just worked with us from the beginning. When we went to them in March and asked that they put the issue on the agenda, we got nothing but excuses for three months. That was when we took matters into our own hands. Had the board initiated the request to the OC Committee, they could have specified the date but they (as usual) couldn’t make a decision and were so sure that ignoring us would be to their advantage that they gave up their control of the situation.
So now they want to un-do a process that followed the letter of the law completely just because things aren’t going their way. And they are wasting our tax dollars to do it–not just on the complaint side but the defense side as well. Just one more grievance to add to the long long list against this board of trustees!
Tags: Capistrano Unified, CUSD, erin kutnick