CUSD SHOULD NOT BE ABOVE THE LAW WHILE ADVOCATING FOR ITS BILLION DOLLAR BAILOUT OF FAILED LEADERSHIP, AKA "MEASURE M" AND TAXPAYERS SHOULD BE TREATED EQUITABLTY....BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THEY ARE NOT.

I attended the Ladera Ranch Civic Council meeting last night. Along with business items relative to Ladera Ranch on the agenda, their community's representative on the CUSD school board, CUSD Board Vice President Jim Reardon was invited by the members to speak on CUSD's bond measure on the November ballot. He was asked to discuss and answer questions about Measure M.
I appreciated Ladera Ranch Civic Council's Todd Stearns comment "It seems the school district added all these project needs to justify the high amount of the bond". He also asked Trustee Reardon "why couldn't CUSD carve out other Mello-Roos districts like they carved out Rancho Mission Viejo." Trustee Reardon said "it was political as the Rancho Mission Viejo would have actively worked to block it."

So those of us Mello-Roos taxpayers (should this billion dollar bond pass) get stuck with triple taxation after years of unknowingly paying millions more than our fair share that we remedied only after a collaborated taxpayer revolt. I appreciate Trustee Reardon voting NO on the billion dollar bailout of leadership of CUSD -- the only sitting board member to vote no, and the only board member not funded by the union (CUEA).

Also, a citizen last night made a comment that I have heard from many others recently, that he was disappointed over how CUSD can place fancy display boards and flyers with propaganda advocating for Measure M placed in the offices at school sites district-wide. Just today, I heard another complaint and received a copy of a flyer advocating for $17 million in improvements at Vista Del Mar schools. The concern of my friend, an attorney, was that it was blatant how CUSD was advocating for its bond measure, yet there was no literature representing the other side which opposes Measure M. If the district feels so compelled as to openly advocate for its billion dollar bond measure, then at the very least, the public should have an equal opportunity to express an opposing view. To do otherwise is a violation of the law and no one should be above the law.