Elected Officials
RSM Councilmenber says Fleming trustees are complict in CUSD scandals and should resign
Sep 01, 2007 Filed in: Blais, Neil
In response to the indictments and continuing problems in beleaguered CUSD, local officials from across South Orange County are now speaking out and demanding change. Blais is a Councilmember of the City of Rancho Santa Margarita.
RSM Mayor Pro Tem calls for Fleming trustees to step aside for the good of the community
Sep 01, 2007 Filed in: Thompson,
Gary
In response to the indictments and continuing problems in beleaguered CUSD, local officials from across South Orange County are now speaking out and demanding change. Thompson is Mayor Pro Tem of the City of Rancho Santa Margarita.
Fleming trustees failed to exercise oversight of Fleming, failed to protect CUSD families
Jun 01, 2007 Filed in: Beall, Tony
Beall is the mayor of the City of Rancho Santa Margarita and a member of the CUSD Recall Committee.
RSM mayor pro tem dissappointed with interim superintendent over blanket EIR
Jan 26, 2007 Filed in: Thompson,
Gary
RSM Mayor Pro Tem Gary Thompson opposes the district-wide environmental impact report. Discussions about the report stirred hard feelings from last year’s conflicts with then-Superintendent James Fleming and the school board. In December 2005, school trustees voted to contract for the report. Reform trustee Larry Christensen wants the board to discuss abandoning the study in its Feb. 12 meeting.
RSM city council letter urging CUSD to abandon blanket EIR
Jan 26, 2007 Filed in: Molina,
Alejandra
Alejandra Molina, Rancho Santa
Margarita News "The city will send a
letter to Capistrano Unified School District,
urging it to abandon the preparation of an
environmental report studying the effect of
maximizing the number of portable classrooms at
schools. The City Council on Wednesday voted 5-0
to authorize Mayor Tony Beall, who made the
recommendation, to send the
letter."
A report to the City Council, written by Beall, says the environmental report would threaten the 1,050-student cap at Arroyo Vista, a kindergarten through eighth-grade campus, and possibly lead to higher enrollment at crowded Tijeras Creek Elementary.
A report to the City Council, written by Beall, says the environmental report would threaten the 1,050-student cap at Arroyo Vista, a kindergarten through eighth-grade campus, and possibly lead to higher enrollment at crowded Tijeras Creek Elementary.
RSM mayor pro tem requested audit of Mello-Roos taxes spent by CUSD
Jan 26, 2007 Filed in: Thompson,
Gary
RSM Mayor Pro Tem Gary Thompson requested the audit.
RSM mayor makes audit of Mello-Roos spent by CUSD a top priority
Jan 26, 2007 Filed in: Beall, Tony
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.
CUSD proposes blanket EIR to maximize portables throughout the district, City of RSM opposes EIR
Jan 26, 2007 Filed in: Molina,
Alejandra
Alejandra Molina, The Ladera
Post "The Rancho Santa
Margarita City Council backed Mayor Tony Beall in
sending a letter to Capistrano Unified School
District, urging it to abandon the preparation of
an environmental impact report. The EIR would
study maximizing the number of portable classrooms
on each of the district’s school sites. The
discussion recalled hard feelings left from last
year’s conflicts with then-Superintendent James
Fleming and the CUSD board."
The proposed blanket EIR is particularly offensive, since Marlene Draper and other CUSD leaders assured voters during the recall and ABC reform slate campaigns that CUSD had a "strategic plan" to remove portables. Now, just weeks after the November election, CUSD is scheming to circumvent the environmental process with a district-wide EIR for the purpose of "maximizing" the number of portables at every CUSD campus. Molina is a reporter for the Orange County Register.
The proposed blanket EIR is particularly offensive, since Marlene Draper and other CUSD leaders assured voters during the recall and ABC reform slate campaigns that CUSD had a "strategic plan" to remove portables. Now, just weeks after the November election, CUSD is scheming to circumvent the environmental process with a district-wide EIR for the purpose of "maximizing" the number of portables at every CUSD campus. Molina is a reporter for the Orange County Register.
Taxpayers should not pay Draper's criminal defense lawyer fees
Jan 02, 2007 Filed in: Thompson,
Gary
Thompson is Mayor Pro Tem of the City of Rancho Santa Margarita.
Newhart is example why city has concern over proposed district-wide EIR
Feb 16, 2007 Filed in: Kelly,
Trish
The Mission Viejo City Council unanimously gave authorization to Councilwoman Trish Kelley, who made the request, to send a letter to Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees urging them to rescind the approval of a blanket Environmental Impact Report that would cover every school in the district. Kelley said the EIR would allow the school district to maximize the use of portable classrooms at all school sites.