School Update

The Registrar of Voters continued counting votes over the weekend, posting new numbers on Saturday. While the number of votes grew for each candidate, percentages didn’t change in the Saddleback Valley USD race for three seats

SUZIE R. SWARTZ  50,913 31.2%
DON SEDGWICK     49,274 30.2%
GINNY FAY AITKENS 43,523 26.7%
JOEL QUISENBERRY 19,345 11.9%

Update for Capistrano USD in which reform candidates are winning all four races:

Trustee Area 1
JACK BRICK   61,767 51.4%
ERIN KUTNICK 58,433 48.6%

Trustee Area 2
SUE PALAZZO    69,990 58.8%
ANDREA KOOIMAN 49,105 41.2%

Trustee Area 3
MIKE WINSTEN 77,294 65.6%
DUANE STIFF  40,514 34.4%

Trustee Area 5
KEN MADDOX     64,473 56.0%
GARY V MILLER  50,636 44.0%

The percentages in CUSD contests are changing very little from day to day.

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On March 24, 2007, the OC Registrar published an article describing an attempted audit of CUSD that had been requested by the Mission Viejo City Council in June 2006. Under scrutiny was CUSD’s use of funds from Mission Viejo sources: Community Facilities District No. 87-1, the Mission Viejo Community Development Agency and the 1999 voter-approved Measure A (Neighborhood School Overcrowding, Safety/Repair Measure). With Capo schools in Mission Viejo falling into disrepair, the council was trying to discover how the district had spent money collected in Mission Viejo. A CUSD parent forwarded information to this blog last week that shows just how difficult it was for an accounting firm (Vavrinek, Trine & Day) to extract financial records from CUSD. The parent added, “It is too bad [OCR reporter] Sam Miller did not have the attached document when he wrote the story.” With the names James Fleming and David Doomey popping up, readers shouldn’t be surprised that auditors were blocked by CUSD. Follow this link to view the documents (click here and here).