Category: $25 million school bond
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DNUSD CITIZENS OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MEMBER UPDATE
Opinion Piece By Angelina Countess-Bieber – February 5, 2022 It’s a Mad, Mad World…. I have not provided an update to the community since Thanksgiving regarding the status of my investigative work on the Del Norte Unified School District(DNUSD) Citizens Oversight Committee from which I serve. This month strikes my 18 month of a…
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CITIZENS OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MEMBER JESSICA CURRY BRANDISHES WEAPON
Commentary by Linda Sutter – February 5, 2022 February, 4, 2021 – Thursday morning was no ordinary morning in Del Norte County. It was about 11:17 a.m when Del Norte Unified School District’s Citizens Oversight Committee member Jessica Curry brandished a weapon to citizen Donna Westfall who was merely serving Jessica Curry a Writ of…
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Just Exactly Who Is A Benefit To The People?
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – December 17, 2021 Most of you that read the Crescent City Times may have noticed a lack of writingfrom yours truly in the pages of the Times. As to that, I have beentraveling for most of the past month through Oregon, Western Washington,with some brief visits to Northern California,…
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WHO CARES? I CARE
Opinion Piece By Linda Sutter – November 28, 2021 Back in the days when I worked as a Correctional Officer, I can remember getting a new job that required counting the inmates throughout the night. It is a rule that inmates’ windows and cell doors be free from covering because you must be able to…
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Latest News on the Citizen Oversight Committee (COC) – School Bond
By Freedom Writer – November 18, 2021 The agenda’s for tomorrow’s meeting (Friday, November 19th) are completely changed. First their agenda that starts at 3 pm: They completely POSTPONED our AGENDA ITEMS – Postponed – the 2020 Annual Report Postponed – the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Discussion and Postponed – the ACTION Item to create…
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UPDATE ON $25 Million School Bond CITIZENS OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE (COC)
By Freedom Writer – November 16, 2021 As many of you know, who have asked to join my email list, myself and several in the community, in collaboration with CABOC – California Association of Bond Oversight Committees have been investigating the financial information and public records of the 2008 Measure A Bond. Within just one…
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CORRUPTIVE PRACTICES OF DNUSD JEFF NAPIER AND STEVE LYONS
By Linda Sutter – November 5, 2021 In 2008 the voters of Del Norte County agreed to a 25 million dollar Construction Bond for Del Norte Unified School District Schools (DNUSD). Everything seemed to be going smoothly until January 2021. Things are never what they seem. Angelina Countess Bieber decided to become part of the…
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Are Citizens Advisory Committees Actually Protecting Citizens Or The Government Agencies?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – October 24 2021 For those citizens not paying attention to how various assessments toyour wallet are “supposedly” protected by “Citizen Oversight Committees”let the buyer be wary. What recently was exposed in a meeting of theDel Norte Unified School District’s Measure “A” Citizens OversightCommittee meeting is a lesson all…
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TRAIN WRECK At $25 Million School Bond Meeting
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – October 23, 2021 Friday’s DNUSD Citizens Oversight Bond Committee meeting was nothing less than a train wreck. The Del Norte Unified School District by law must set up a Citizens Oversight Committee which is tasked to track one of the alphabet soup school facilities Bonds you…
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The DISASTER of our $25 Million School Bond Citizens Oversight Committee – Part 1
By Donna Westfall – October 23, 2021 If I were a fly on the wall of the School Administration people wondering who to pick to lead the meetings so as to rubber stamp everything the School wants, I would venture to guess it went something like this, “Let’s pick the most incompetent, unknowledgeable, untrained person…