A few years ago I noticed that the Rancho Santiago Community College District Trustees did not provide the public with a direct way to reach them. I complained and they listened. For awhile you could email them directly, from their respective web pages. I checked again today however and they are hiding from view again. Now they only provide one, generic email address, for the entire Board.
That is still better than the Trustees on the Santa Ana Unified School District’s Board of Education. The SAUSD Trustees do not provide you with any way to reach them. I think that is terribly wrong.
We elect the Trustees to serve us. They should provide both a contact phone number and an email address. Why don’t they? And haven’t any of the Trustees made a stink about this? SAUSD President Audrey Noji has been on the School Board for over 20 years – and has never provided the public with a means to communicate with her. And now she is running yet again for reelection!
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That stinks. Is it real rep. gov’t elected officials at SAUSD?
Leo,
It does stink. Some of the Trustees have been on the board for as long as twenty years. They clearly don’t answer to the public. Time to toss them all out!
Twenty years!!! No wonder they don’t give a hoot about the real meaning of representative government. What gives?????
Leo,
They have been taking advantage of a community that has been shut out of the District. Now, with our blogs, we are knocking down the walls at the District and making sure folks know what is going on at the SAUSD. We will leave no stone unturned…
Art,
What, if anything, has John Palacio done to make the board more open and accesible to the public? Surely he would support making their contact info public right?
Art,
Unfortunately blogs and other people like you have to keep the unrepresentative government representative because obviously they don’t.
Leo,
Indeed. The newspapers don’t do much anymore. All they do is run the district’s press releases. It is up to us to dig deeper.
I have been told that both incumbents are paralyzed by fear as to what could happen in November. Two days left for candidates to file…
Her attitude makes me sick. Her kid went to school in Irvine and she is only on the board because she can double dip pentions with her college job and gets LIFETIME MEDICAL! When they get tired of looking at the city of Bell they should take a look at Noji’s sweet deal! And yet she can’t buy a cell phone just for parents to call her. Go get her Art!
Vote no,
if your statement holds true, a townhall she be organized to talk about undeserving tax dollars at SAUSD.
I am sure the district has set aside a blackberry just for the trustees, however, most of the trustees decline it for they don’t want to be accountable to answering to the public via phone calls, emails, etc. Keep in mind that most local elected officials have full-time jobs (not like the Board of Supervisors, legislature, etc. or Bell City Council) away from their official duties as school board trustees, city council, etc. and they only want to show up for their once or twice a month meeting, collect their stipend, health care insurance, and their retirement, then go home and not be bothered.
Art/Sean..would you rather have a person on the school board who put her kids in another district and does not return calls to parents or a concerned, involved parent who happens to not have papers to be in the U.S.? I vote for the concerned parent every time.