Action Regarding Newhart School
Letter to city council members

Thank you again for the time you devoted to the Newhart issue during last night's council meeting. Your vote to send a letter to Capistrano Unified School District expressing your deep concern over Newhart and recent events, and to expend up to $15,000 to perform an environmental study at Newhart, if CUSD will cooperate and allow such a study, sends a powerful message to CUSD; and it lets everyone know that the City of Mission Viejo cares deeply about what happens in the city and to its residents.

Attached is a copy of my letter to Jack O'Connell, the state superintendent of public instruction and director of education, basically appealing the response from CUSD to my Complaint. I have also attached copies of CUSD work orders for Newhart for the period August 2004 to August 2006. Review of these work orders clearly shows the varied and longstanding problems at Newhart, and they confirm why the Mission Viejo City Council needed to act as it did.

Again, my deepest thanks and appreciation for being proactive on behalf of Mission Viejo children, parents and teachers.

Wayne P. Tate, Esq.
Ostendorf, Tate, Barnett & Wells, LLP
Mission Viejo