Beall, Tony
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RSM councilmember says responsibility for money or effort wasted on recall election falls on the Fleming trustees.

Mar 10, 2008
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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.
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Fleming trustees failed to exercise oversight of Fleming, failed to protect CUSD families

Jun 01, 2007
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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.
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RSM mayor says Trustees were informed of serious wrongdoing, but chose to ignore evidence and participate in cover up

May 26, 2007
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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.
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Fleming wrongdoings happened under Fleming-era trustees' watch

May 25, 2007
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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.
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RSM mayor recalls surreal experience as Fleming-era trustees praised Fleming on the very day the DA raided his offices

May 25, 2007
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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.
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RSM city council made tax audit of CUSD top priority after discovering proof CUSD misinformed the community

May 01, 2007
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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 its highest priority."

Beall is the Mayor of the City of Rancho Santa Margarita.
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RSM tax audit of CUSD delayed due to lack of cooperation, responsiveness by district; Mission Viejo has had similar delays

May 01, 2007
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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.
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RSM mayor hopes audit efforts will improve after promise of cooperation from new superintendent

May 01, 2007
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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.
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RSM mayor makes audit of Mello-Roos spent by CUSD a top priority

Jan 26, 2007
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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.
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RSM Mayor Tony Beall expresses hopes for CUSD in 2007

Jan 12, 2007
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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.”
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