Some food for thought for our million dollar man, Brad Mitzelfelt:
1. Litigation between VVEDA [Victor Valley Economic Authority--a interim step to what was rumored to be Terry Caldwell's & Jim Cox's dream of creating a supercity for the High Desert, which absorbed Adelanto, Hesperia, Phelan & Apple Valley under Victorville's leadership's control] & Adelanto; the litigation between VVEDA & Adelanto ends after an election changes the council mix to a pro-Victorville cadre, the water consultant for the Adelanto side in the Adelanto v VVEDA lawsuit (the former 3rd in command in the US EPA) mysteriously dies in his home before the case was to come to trial and the new Adelanto City leadership appoint an attorney to replace the attorney battling for Adelanto; the newly elected Adelanto City team appears to cave on the VVEDA litigation over the base/water rights despite Air Force records showing the U.S. Government considered Adelanto to be the owner of the water rights under the former Air Force base footprint (and in fact paid them for the water used!); shortly thereafter, Hesperia & Apple Valley pull out of VVEDA; Victorville develops the base, gives access to water for the power plant, makes plans for a power plant, gives water rights to a bottling plant(& the beat goes on).
P.S.
(A) Brad Mitzelfelt mentioned in the most recent County Supervisorial District Redistricting Workshop on June 17, 2011, that the Victor Valley should stay together because of the serious dialogue "about becoming one city"--mmh...revival or a continued battle plan??
(B) I served on an George AFB closure committee in the early 1990s where there were reports of all sorts of dangerous chemicals in the water from engine degreasing, JP-4 fuel additives, etc. I was inexplicably dropped off the Committee when I raised concerns about whether the plume was being properly characterized, the extent of the plume, where it was leaking into, what type of contaminants were involved (benzenes) & about low level radioactive waste (from medical equipment) tossed into the rip rap below the golf course potentially presenting a threat to the Mojave River; bad news about the water is not what Victorville wanted to hear;
2. MWA (the Mojave Water Agency, with an elected board that is far too developer & realtor friendly in this blogger's opinion) snatches up the pumping rights in a lawsuit against everyone using more than 10 acre feet a year along the Mojave River, whether or not the farmers & ranchers on the river could afford $75,000 to $100,000 in legal costs defending their water rights against being taken by MWA restrictions being imposed (which most could not afford); MWA takes control of pumping rights, implements ramp down penalties to family owned ranches and farms that did not plant until market prices changed and by that effectively seized historically owned water rights without compensation;
3. Victorville attempts to annex land along the Mojave via LAFCO, which Mitzelfelt serves on;
4. Victorville & Mitzelfelt push for the land swap with CEMEX for barren land to the North of the river which will involve, in order for there to be development, water from the Mojave basin
5. Adelanto's Re-Zones barren desert within its zone (which does not have enough water to develop)
6. San Bernardino County Flood Control does not repair the damage caused by runaway waters in their channels in the Oro Grande area, but instead is looking at getting a FEMA grant to buy everyone out and move them; Brad is pushing for the FEMA grant?
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Common demon-inator. Brad Mitzelfelt (who sits on all the key boards, panels and commissions). What super Mensch(-es) does he serve? No one has ever done an in depth investigation into Brad Mitzelfelt's masters. Mitzelfelt is slick--in the middle of corruption & conflict of interest investigations, his wife gets reportedly a $80k/yr county job (she has now "quit"), he spent discretionary funds for political photo shoots for years (thankfully that just ended by a vote of the board), he muffles/chills potential critics (reporters) in the media by hiring them to serve on his field staff at salaries 2 to 3 times more than what they were getting paid working for their former employers, he was Postmus' chief of staff during all his tweeking & hospitalizations & aided in the cover-ups of the real Postmus. During the Colonies settlement process, who do you think ran the office and lobbied the other two members of the Board & their staff, yet Kirk gets prosecuted & Brad Mitzelfelt doesn't? Maybe its time for the mainstream media to ask the hard questions and quit lobbing soft pitches. Besides, what's with the bowl cut?
Showing posts with label Adelanto Charter Academy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adelanto Charter Academy. Show all posts
Friday, June 24, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Oh Where Oh Where has Mike Ramos gone? Another Charter School Disaster on his Watch?
Gail Fry, a Staff Writer for the Alpenhorn News (San Bernardino County) reported on another scandal possibly in the works involving the Adelanto Charter Academy.
The Alpenhorn News indicated that convicted former San Bernardino County Supervisor and Assessor Bill Postmus and former Assembly Candidate and Hesperia Unified School District Trustee Anthony Riley are people somehow allegedly involved. What is it this time? [the Alpenhorn News reports they/someone allegedly received money from the Adelanto Charter Academy without performing services to earn it?--move over Rex, your cellmates are on the way?].
The Alpenhorn News also says that "implicated in the developing scandal are San Bernardino County Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt’s Field Representative Jessie Flores, Adam Aleman, Charles Steven Cox, and John Dino DeFazio, two of these individuals currently facing criminal charges while a third already pled guilty in another case. All of these individuals are shown in supporting documentation as tied to contracts with the Adelanto Charter Academy ("ACA"), a charter school authorized by the Adelanto School District"... ACA contracted services with Professional Charter Management, Inc., a California corporation in exchange for 15 percent of ACA’s revenue and Educational Development, Inc., an Arizona corporation in exchange for 5 percent of ACA’s revenue. Professional Charter Management, Inc. dissolved December 18, 2010, with its chief executive officer being Mitzelfeldt’s Field Representative Jessie Flores, its chief financial officer John Dino De Fazio and Kari Murdock as its agent for service of process according to records at the California Secretary of State."
Blogger Bob's comments:
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(1) The choice of the word "revenue" is nothing less than self incrimination--schools don't generate "revenue"--they spend state tax money--that the State money dedicated to our kids is referred to as "revenue" is insulting;
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(2) Before we get too excited about another San Bernardino Charter School being used to conduit money to personal, non-educational use, what has happened to the prosecution involving the last Charter School in this County? (and the money lost)??
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(3) Aren't there statute of limitations problems (is the DA's office on this?? State AG?? or ??)
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If Educational Development, Inc. dissolved in April 2008 [putting aside the fact that they may have taken money notwithstanding the fact they weren't authorized to take money--e.g. transact business], aren't we at the end of the three year statute for felony prosecutions?
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(4) When will these charter schools quit being used to bleed our public school dollars for private agendas is what I want to know?
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The school board members (and their superintendents) are not doing their due diligence cutting checks to suspended companies (if that is what is happening). Isn't there also a defalcation of duty involved? Discretionary immunity may only go so far (as Rex Guttierrez now knows), putting aside the conflict of interest involved by theses school board members getting the support of the machine politicians benefiting from these payments.
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(5) Recovery idea: Don't the school district buy a public official liability insurance for these board members? If there has been a breach of duty or a violation of a statute, isn't that a covered claim?
The Alpenhorn News indicated that convicted former San Bernardino County Supervisor and Assessor Bill Postmus and former Assembly Candidate and Hesperia Unified School District Trustee Anthony Riley are people somehow allegedly involved. What is it this time? [the Alpenhorn News reports they/someone allegedly received money from the Adelanto Charter Academy without performing services to earn it?--move over Rex, your cellmates are on the way?].
The Alpenhorn News also says that "implicated in the developing scandal are San Bernardino County Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt’s Field Representative Jessie Flores, Adam Aleman, Charles Steven Cox, and John Dino DeFazio, two of these individuals currently facing criminal charges while a third already pled guilty in another case. All of these individuals are shown in supporting documentation as tied to contracts with the Adelanto Charter Academy ("ACA"), a charter school authorized by the Adelanto School District"... ACA contracted services with Professional Charter Management, Inc., a California corporation in exchange for 15 percent of ACA’s revenue and Educational Development, Inc., an Arizona corporation in exchange for 5 percent of ACA’s revenue. Professional Charter Management, Inc. dissolved December 18, 2010, with its chief executive officer being Mitzelfeldt’s Field Representative Jessie Flores, its chief financial officer John Dino De Fazio and Kari Murdock as its agent for service of process according to records at the California Secretary of State."
Blogger Bob's comments:
.
(1) The choice of the word "revenue" is nothing less than self incrimination--schools don't generate "revenue"--they spend state tax money--that the State money dedicated to our kids is referred to as "revenue" is insulting;
.
(2) Before we get too excited about another San Bernardino Charter School being used to conduit money to personal, non-educational use, what has happened to the prosecution involving the last Charter School in this County? (and the money lost)??
.
(3) Aren't there statute of limitations problems (is the DA's office on this?? State AG?? or ??)
.
If Educational Development, Inc. dissolved in April 2008 [putting aside the fact that they may have taken money notwithstanding the fact they weren't authorized to take money--e.g. transact business], aren't we at the end of the three year statute for felony prosecutions?
.
(4) When will these charter schools quit being used to bleed our public school dollars for private agendas is what I want to know?
.
The school board members (and their superintendents) are not doing their due diligence cutting checks to suspended companies (if that is what is happening). Isn't there also a defalcation of duty involved? Discretionary immunity may only go so far (as Rex Guttierrez now knows), putting aside the conflict of interest involved by theses school board members getting the support of the machine politicians benefiting from these payments.
.
(5) Recovery idea: Don't the school district buy a public official liability insurance for these board members? If there has been a breach of duty or a violation of a statute, isn't that a covered claim?
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