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 its highest priority."
Beall is
the Mayor of the City of Rancho Santa
Margarita.
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.
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.
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.
Jan 26, 2007
Gary Thompson, Rancho Santa Margarita
News “I think it’s
important that the residents and the businesses
that pay Mello Roos fees in their property tax
have a comfort level knowing that the money got
spent as it was intended.” RSM
Mayor Pro Tem Gary Thompson requested the
audit.
