Mar 10, 2008
Tony Beall, The Capistrano
Dispatch "It’s a moot point
now. That was an issue before we turned in
signatures. We gave those trustees every
opportunity to resign and they chose not to,
that’s a question for them. Removing trustees
Draper and Benecke will save the district millions
of dollars. They are wasting millions of dollars
at virtually every board meeting.”
Beall is a
Rancho Santa Margarita councilmember and a member of
the CUSD Recall Committee.
Tags: Recall Campaign 2007-08, Waste, Sheila Benecke, Marlene Draper
Jun 01, 2007
Tony Beall, Trabuco Canyon
News “No family should have
to fear their government leaders will retaliate
against their children. Those who created the
lists – and the school board members who failed to
exercise proper oversight of Fleming – must be
held accountable before this school district can
heal and move forward.”
Beall is
the mayor of the City of Rancho Santa Margarita and a
member of the CUSD Recall Committee.
Tags: Enemies Lists, Elected Officials, Accountability
May 26, 2007
Tony Beall, The Orange County
Register “For more than two
years, the people have been bringing to their
elected trustees compelling evidence of
wrongdoing. They chose and continue to choose to
ignore it. They’ve crossed the line from being
just asleep at the wheel to being complicit in
covering up this wrongdoing.”
Beall is
the mayor of the City of Rancho Santa Margarita and a
member of the CUSD Recall Committee.
Tags: Culture of Corruption, Accountability
May 25, 2007
Tony Beall, The Los Angeles
Times "What we're talking
about here is Fleming, and that is only the tip of
the iceberg. All these issues that are now being
brought to light are things we brought directly
and personally to the trustees. Those trustees
turned a blind eye, put their heads in the sand.
And all of this happened on their watch."
Beall is
the mayor of Rancho Santa Margarita and a recall
leader.
Tags: Criminal Prosecutions, Culture of Corruption, Accountability, Fleming Trustees
May 25, 2007
Tony Beall, The Los Angeles
Times "And what did they do
when I sat down? I got called a liar 17 times by
elected trustees. They stood up one by one
praising him as the greatest superintendent they'd
ever known. They gave him a standing ovation, and
I felt like I was in 'The Twilight Zone.' "
Beall was
the last public speaker to address the Board of
Trustees and Fleming at Fleming's final board meeting
last summer. Just hours before, district attorney's
investigators raided Fleming's office and took
computers and files. Beall urged the board not to let
Fleming leave with a sweet retirement package. Beall
asked the board to terminate Fleming and, in the
short term, put him on administrative leave. Beall is
the mayor of Rancho Santa Margarita and a recall
leader.
Tags: Arrogance, Dishonesty, Fleming Trustees, Accountability
May 01, 2007
Tony Beall, Trabuco Canyon
News "For years, the
Capistrano Unified School District had insisted
they were going to pay for their luxurious new
$52-million administration building in San Juan
Capistrano with redevelopment monies from that
City. However, despite repeated public denials, in
November 2006, in the face of overwhelming
evidence to the contrary, CUSD leaders were forced
to admit they had been providing “misinformation”
to our residents. In fact, the CUSD leadership now
admitsted they arewere diverting millions of
Mello-Roos tax dollars from Rancho Santa Margarita
and other south Orange County cities to pay for
this massive office building in San Juan
Capistrano. As a result of these serious
misrepresentations, our City Council made auditing
the CUSD Mello-Roos payments its highest
priority."
Beall is
the Mayor of the City of Rancho Santa
Margarita.
Tags: Administration Building, Mello-Roos, Dishonesty, Culture of Corruption, City of RSM
May 01, 2007
Tony Beall, Trabuco Canyon
News "Unfortunately,
progress on this audit has been somewhat slow.
CUSD officials have not always been as cooperative
and responsive to our requests for this important
public information as we would have expected. The
City of Mission Viejo, which is also conducting an
audit of CUSD, encountered similar delays. Their
auditors actually suggested the City Council might
have to consider asking the California Attorney
General to intervene."
Beall is
the Mayor of the City of Rancho Santa
Margarita.
Tags: Mello-Roos, City of MV, City of RSM, Culture of Corruption
May 01, 2007
Tony Beall, Trabuco Canyon
News "Despite these prior
unacceptable delays, we now have reason to believe
CUSD will provide our auditors full and complete
access and cooperation. CUSD just hired a new
Superintendent, Dr. Dennis Smith. RSM Mayor Pro
Tem Gary Thompson and I recently met with Dr.
Smith and he personally assured us that Rancho
Santa Margarita’s auditors would be given full
cooperation and immediate access to all financial
records relating to the tax dollars CUSD collected
from RSM residents. I welcome and appreciate
Superintendent Smith’s promise of a new era of
openness, honesty and accountability at CUSD."
Beall is
the Mayor of the City of Rancho Santa
Margarita.
Tags: Dennis Smith, Mello-Roos, City of RSM, Culture of Corruption, Gary Thompson
Jan 26, 2007
Tony Beall, Rancho Santa Margarita
News “I want to know how
that happened and I want to see our residents’ tax
dollars stay in our city.”
After
learning that the Capistrano Unified School District
used Rancho Santa Margarita Mello-Roos funds, along
with bonds from Mission Viejo, Aliso Viejo, San Juan
Capistrano and Talega, to help pay for a new
administration building, RSM Mayor Tony Beall put the
completion of the audit on top of his to-do
list.
Tags: Mello-Roos, City of RSM, Elected Officials
Jan 12, 2007
Tony Beall, Rancho Santa Margarita
News “Over
the past five years, the biggest challenges and
controversies our city has been forced to deal
with have come from inappropriate actions taken by
leaders of the Capistrano Unified School District.
I am pleased that with the departure of former
Superintendent Fleming and the recent election of
three new trustees to the school board, the stage
has finally been set for real school district
reform.”
Tags: ABC Reform Campaign, City of RSM
