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Beall, Tony
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RSM city council made tax audit of CUSD top priority after discovering proof CUSD misinformed the community
May 01, 2007 | Permalink
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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 | Permalink
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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 | Permalink
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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 | Permalink
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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 | Permalink
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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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