Thursday, January 31, 2008

Reefer Madness, a Musica Comedy at Saddleback College


Reefer Madness, a Musica Comedy at Saddleback College

The Feel Good Musical of Spring



January 31, 2007

The Theatre Arts Department at Saddleback College presents Reefer Madness, book by Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney, music by Dan Studney, and lyrics by Kevin Murphy, on February 29-March 9 in the McKinney Theatre.

Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy, directed by Patrick J. Fennell, takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana. Choreographed by Ellen Prince and musically directed by Carmen Dominguez, this musical morality tale leads these innocent teens on a hysterical downward spiral filled with “evil” jazz music, sex and violence. You won’t be able to resist the spoofy fun of this addictive and clever musical with numbers ranging from big Broadway-style showstoppers to swing tunes like “Down at the Ol’ Five and Dime.” Reefer Madness is a highly stylized and satirical political commentary.

NOTE: It contains adult humor, religious parody and drug use, as well as suggested violence and sexual explicitness. Therefore, it may be inappropriate for family entertainment.


Tickets are $13 general admission, $12 students/seniors, and $9 Saddleback community with current ASB stamp. Call (949) 582-4656 for tickets or log onto www.saddleback.edu/arts to order your tickets online. Dates: February 29, March 1, 6, 7, 8 @ 8 p.m. and March 1, 2, 8, 9 @ 3 p.m.


Saddleback College is located at 28000 Marguerite Pkwy in Mission Viejo , just east of Interstate 5 at the Avery Parkway exit. Parking is available in Lot 12. Take Avery Parkway to Marguerite Parkway turn left to the third traffic light, which is Saddleback’s Marguerite entrance. Turn right into the campus and take the second left to “ Theatre Circle ,” turning right into Lot 12.




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Monday, January 28, 2008

What HOA Boards are willing to do to hang on to power


What HOA Boards are willing to do to hang on to power - Problems With Coto de Caza’s Proposed CC&R Changes

January 28, 2007

Despite the passage of legislation mandating direct HOA/CID elections effective 2006, the Coto de Caza board of directions has been dragging its heels in attempts to maintain what critics call a most corrupt delegate system.

Now they have come up with the ShSSS , SECRET, SECRET, SECRET process: The CZ Master Association Notice on Proposed Amendments is SECRET! - in fact, is so secret, that the word SECRET appears at least 13 times, just in the first page.

What does this mean? That the process used to process these changes is so secret, that no-one will ever know how people voted (or not) – what we can already tell you are the results. These are not so secret and will guarantee that Coto de Caza will continue to operate like a banana republic.

What this also means is that the average CZ resident may elect a delegate, but cannot ask the delegate to vote one way or the other, and the delegate is not obligated to tell the resident how he or she voted – why? Because the process is Secret!

There are many other problems with the CZ Board of Director’s Planned Secret Direct Elections:

1. The proposed association rule changes to allow for direct elections instead of using the current corrupt delegate system, require ratification by current delegates!

2. Three of the seating board members are delegates

3. We asked Cane, Walker & Harkins LLP, the law firm of representing the CZ Master Association for the legal basis for the board's argument that the delegate system is required to ratify the CC&R changes. To date, we have not received a response. We also gave X. Yocham, president of the CZ Master Association board of directors the opportunity to comment on the legal basis for the CZ Master Association proposed changes to CC&Rs – no response

4. There are a number of CZ districts without representation. So “Votes cast by districts without delegates: Andalusia Masters Collection, Oakridge, Private Collection/Stonefield/San Marino, Glen Eagles, The Legacy/Enclaves,Stonfiled Estates will not be counted” However, the association is soliciting delegates for these districts – Is this not a special election of delegates? If so, should not all current delegates be required to be reelected? If not, why not?

5. The instructions seem to have been prepared by IRS employees – these are so complicated that most residents will opt to vote for a delegate – which is precisely what the board wants. NOTE: We just cast our absentee ballot on regarding the California propositions. Despite the hyperbole on both sides, we did not need legal counsel to translate the objective of the propositions – not so with the CZ proposed CC&R changes!





If we have Direct Popular Elections in Coto, there will be NO function left for Delegates. So the two Amendments dealing with the Delegates would seem to be unnecessary. And, if the Board is trying to use the existing Delegate apparatus to defeat Direct Popular Elections, that is a road straight to court. We NEED democracy in Coto just as it exists in nearly every other HOA and governmental elective office. It is time to end the games and corruption once and for all. Joseph Morabito, former member CZ board of directors.





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Sunday, January 27, 2008

Standup Night at Saddleback College


Standup Night at Saddleback College
With Fritz Coleman, Marcia Wallace and Mark Schiff – Presented by the International Guest Artist Series of Saddleback College.

January 27, 2007

Is weather in Southern California funny? Do you remember the ditzy receptionist on the Bob Newhart Show? Why does Jerry Seinfeld think Mark Schiff is one of the funniest stage comics he has ever seen? For the answer to these questions, visit the McKinney Theatre on March 12 at 8:00 p.m.

Sit Down for Stand Up is a comedy night like no other presented by the International Guest Artist Series of Saddleback College. Fritz Coleman is not only NBC4’s weathercaster on the weekday editions of “Channel 4 News” but he’s a stand up comedian as well. He has performed at The Improvisation, The IceHouse and other Southern California comedy clubs.
Marcia Wallace, best known for her role as Carol Kester Bondurant, the receptionist on the 1972 television series The Bob Newhart Show, is the author of Don’t Look Back We’re Not Going That Way! Or How I Survived a Rocky Childhood, Fat, a Nervous Breakdown, Breast Cancer, Widowhood, Fire, Menopausal Single Motherhood and Still Manager to Count My Lucky Chickens!

Fritz Coleman



When Mark Schiff was twelve, his parents took him to a nightclub. There, live on stage was Rodney Dangerfield doing his act. At that moment, he knew the path he had to follow. “Mark Schiff is one of the funniest, the brightest, the best stage comics I have ever seen.” --Jerry Seinfeld.

The International Guest Artist Series is made possible through the fundraising efforts of the Angels for the Arts, a support organization for the performing arts.


Tickets can be purchased by calling (949) 582-4656 or online at www.saddleback.edu/arts. Ticket prices are $32 general; $30 students/seniors/Angels; $28 children 12 and under and Saddleback College students with current ASG card.

Saddleback College is located at 28000 Marguerite Pkwy in Mission Viejo , just east of Interstate 5 at the Avery Parkway exit. Parking is available in Lot 12. Take Avery Parkway to Marguerite Parkway turn left to the third traffic light, which is Saddleback’s Marguerite entrance. Turn right into the campus and take the third left to “ Theatre Circle ,” turning right into Lot 12.
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Ode to Coto de Caza- Feminine Ending, a Review


Ode to Coto de Caza- Feminine Ending, a Review

January 27, 2007

The South Coast Repertory’s 2007-2008 Winter Season includes Sarah Treem’s A Feminine Ending – an apparent autobiographical hedonistic feminist piece: When asked about the source of inspiration for the play, Treem recounts “…those three experiences together coalesced in my head – I kept mulling them over, wondering what it all meant – and A Feminine Ending is what came out”

The play is produced in association with the secular progressive Portland Center Stage, directed by Chris Coleman. Brooke Bloom performance as Amanda and Jedadiah Schultz’s as Amanda’s not-so bright first boy friend are convincing. The set, costumes and music, complement South Coast Repertory’s trademark for quality productions.

Not only is the dialogue continuously and gratuitously laced with crude and fowl language, in a foozle attempt at humor, more appropriate for a Bravo production, but the content (and/or message) seems to be a sub-plot of one such trashy reality TV show: The kid acting as a parent and parents acting as kids, while the hedonistic mistakes the kids make are not only praised, but encouraged. In other words art imitating a cabal of that infamous (thanks to Bravo) private community, devolving the quality of the South Coast Repertory’s production’s usual quality.

When Treem was asked the question: What do you believe a theater needs to do in order to be a good home for a playwright? Her response was: patience and alchemy and providing artists with “time, space and resources”, because she “the trouble comes when artists are afraid of displeasing the theater administration so they stop taking risks and then everything they create becomes mediocre”. In principle we agree with Treem's premise about experimentation and/or risk-taking ending up with an evolutionary or revolutionary art form.

However, Treem’s play is a mediocre and foozle attempt to please the Peter Pan (GRUPs) generation by playing up hedonism and using as much artless and gratuitous crude language as possible. We have always been under the impression that the South Coast Repertory was the place to take the family for a relaxing afternoon at the theater. This perception was was quickly dismissed ending in a Feminine Fiasco.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Extreme Makeover for Orange County Sheriff's Department?


Extreme Makeover for Orange County Sheriff's Department?

January 23, 2007

The OC Register has quoted Sheriff Anderson as saying that he is a different type of Sheriff. We have asked Sheriff Anderson if these remarks imply that he is not happy with the current organizational culture at the OCSD, and if not, what would be the desirable attributes of an Anderson OSCD's culture?

Given recent events, including the convictions of Sheriff Carona’s ex-aides & collaborators Jaramillo and Haidl, and the recent problems with Sheriff Carona himself, is not a stretch to conclude that the Orange County Sheriff’s Department indeed is in dire need of an extreme cultural make over.

Further, Orange County Tax Collector Chriss Street has been under fire for a number of alleged breaches and refuses to step down, even after long time friend and supporter supervisor Moorlach has asked him to do so.

Orange County supervisor Orange County Chris Norby has been sued for sexual harassment.

Then there is the lost file in the beating death of a man in the Theo Lacy jail.

Is it a reach to conclude that the extreme cultural makeover is not only necessary at the OCSD, but also throughout Orange County?

And of course, we do not even mention Capistrano Valley School District's Enemies' List.

We are eagerly waiting to hear from Sheriff Anderson
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Coto de Caza Honesty – has it come to this?

Coto de Caza Honesty – has it come to this?

January 22, 2007

The Wall Street Journal, arguably the most financial publication in the country, if not the world recently devoted and entire page to convince CEOs that honesty is apodictic (“Why CEOs Need to Be Honest With Their Boards”, Jan 14).

In 2006 the SEC investigates more than 100 companies for potential breaches, and in 2007 David Bachedler is appointed Home Depot’s CEO in a clear victory for board critics.

Taking a page from the Coto de Caza corrupt delegate system the SEC voted 3-1 on November 2007 to exclude from proxy statements shareholder nominations for board of directors, leaving shareholders seething. Since 1990, the SEC has argued that companies do not have to include shareholder’s board candidates on annual proxy ballots under Rule 14a-8 of the Securities Exchange Act.

The neoteric Rancho Santa Margarita (RSM) Management Society has the bombastic goal of promoting growing moral and ethical leadership not around RSM, but around the world!

And in Coto de Caza, former CZ board member Joe Morabito continues to ask for the resignation of Mr. Varo from the CZ board “to bring back ethical” management to the CZ Master Association.

Dr. Justin Starren, in a letter to the (WSJ, Jan. 19-20, 2008) editor opines that the SEC should demand all CEO contracts require “absolute and complete honesty”, or else “that little ethical lapse will cost you $10 million…” Do it again and you are outtahere, concluding with the rhetorical question: “If we don’t demand integrity from our most powerful and privileged, how can we expect it from our children?

Perhaps before the RSM Management Society tackles the world, it can start with Coto de Caza to test effectiveness of their adjuvant approach to management?
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Details of DUI Lawsuit earns opprobrium for CZ directors
As details of a DUI- related accident start to emerge a crescendo to a steady buildup in calls for a CZ director to step down is being reached. The case in question (05CC02855) involves a traffic accident that occurred September 22, 2004 at the...

Coto de Caza DUI Collision Lawsuit Notes
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Coto de Caza DUI Collision (Skendarian) Lawsuit Settlement
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Coto de Caza: 4Q2007 Crime and Vandalism Flash Report
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Former Haidl, Jaramillo Defense Attorney JG Cavallo Goes to Jail
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Coto's Dads Take Matters Into Own Hands, Get A+: CHP Collision Report, 3Q2007- Kudos Coto Moms & Dads for doing what the CZ BOD refused to even consider!
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Coto de Caza's Dangerous Curves-Around 75% of the accidents within Coto de Caza happen in three of Coto?s main roads as shown below: Coto de Caza Drive, Vista del Verde and San Miguel
October 8, 2007The 3Q2007 CHP collision statistics, clearly demonstrate that even though CHP patrol hours are down some 60% compared to 2006, and there is no coordinated safety awareness program such as the one proposed by CHP?s Captain Elzig, the...

The Maturing of Coto de Caza-Coto de Caza is no longer GRUP City!
Age distribution in the crime & vandalism and collision statistics for Coto de Caza, indicate that an underage person is as likely to be involved in a crime or collision within Coto, as is a senior citizen. This fact has led us to the conclusion that...

Dangerous Coto de Caza Roads and Intersections
The changing Coto de Caza demographics have had a major impact on the collision pattern as shown below. Whereas for the period from 2000 through November 2004, 75% of the collisions in the community involved three roads, current collision distribution...

The Sheriff is coming, the Sheriff is Coming! ? CZ Board to old tricks again?X
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Consistent with the output of the River Rock Muti-Purpose...

Coto & Ladera - 3Q2007 Crime and Vandalism report - A Tale of two cities
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Coto de Caza's River Rock Multi-Purpose Forecasting System In Beta Test
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Teen Hacker Endangers Lake Forest Couple
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The Chief's Corner, or the Chief in a Corner?- Chiefly, Mum is the Word on Coto de Caza Public Safety Awareness
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CZ Master Association - Varo & Mezger Should NOT Be Re-elected - 11 Reasons As a former CZ Board Member and concerned citizen, I can say without condition that Bob Varo and Jerry Mezger should not be re-elected to the CZ Board because they do not understand the foundation concepts of Board Member fiduciary responsibility, ethical behavior and conflict of interests

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CHP in Coto - Big Mouth CZ Bob- By Joseph Morabito, former member CZ Master Association Board of DirectorsHello All: I have heard that CHP officers are not volunteering to work in Coto even for the time and a half pay they would earn. So, we are not even...

The Enemy in Coto de Caza's Midst - The CHP!
Considering the history of Coto de Caza, Can you name all the service providers that have been on a quarterly review (rather than yearly review) ? to make sure the service it provides is acceptable? Can you name the members of the board of directors when...

The Varo anti-CHP Sentiment continues: CHP GO HOME, KEEP OUT OF OUR DUIs!
The Coto de Caza gates, including the automated ones are as reliable as the public utilities in the outskirts of Baghdad, yet the association continues paying for services barely-rendered, no questions asked.
















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Thursday, January 17, 2008

DUI Enforcement in Dana Point, San Clement and SJC


DUI Enforcement in Dana Point, San Clement and SJC



January 17, 2007

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department will be conducting DUI Roving Patrols in the Cities of Dana Point, San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano on Friday, January 18, 2008 from 7:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. The Tri-City DUI teams will target areas that have a high incidence of DUI related arrest and collisions.

Consistent with CHP’s Lt. Helzig’s assertion that a good number of “accidents” can be more appropriately referred to as “preventable incidents”, through public safety awareness, engineering and proactive traffic enforcement, the goal of the program is to reduce the rate at which the citizens of Orange County are killed or injured in DUI related collisions. Through implementation of these events, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department hopes to significantly reduce deaths, injuries and property damage.

These (and others scheduled for a later date) roving DUI patrols and checkpoints, are part of a grant the Sheriff’s Department received from the State of California Office of Traffic Safety.

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

California Law Revision Commission’s Brian Hebert’s Trough


California Law Revision Commission’s Brian Hebert’s Trough

The mad dash to pass pork barrel legislation

January 16., 2007

In a scathing letter to the California Law Revision Commission ominously titled The Temple of Blame and Wholesale Titleholder Disenfranchisement, arbitrator and author D. Vanitzian questions the motives for the mad rush to “pass pork-barrel project, as she refers to the Statutory Clarification and Simplification of CID Law.

“It has been a good year for you and the Commission Mr Hebert, you’ve have all collected another year’s worth of salaries, while the rest of California deed restricted titleholders have been paying, paying, paying with no end in sight”, she writes. “Now with your so called S.i.m.p.l.i.f.i.c.a.t.i.o.n nonsense they will keep paying, but the difference is they will be paying more”, she continues.

We have tried to reach Mr. Hebert via phone and email, to comment but as of now we have not been successful in reaching him.

For the complete text of Vaitizian’s letter to the Commission, click here (.efx format)

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

John G Hedderman pretends to be an attorney


John G Hedderman pretends to be an attorney

Hedderman, a paralegal is charged with falsely representing himself as an attorney and illegally taking on civil cases related to divorces, child custody, and bankruptcy.

January 14, 2007

John Gerard Hedderman, a paralegal is charged with falsely representing himself as an attorney and illegally taking on civil cases related to divorces, child custody, and bankruptcy. Hedderman is charged with two felony counts of grand theft, three felony counts of the unauthorized practice of law, one felony count of second degree commercial burglary, and ten felony counts of false impersonation. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 12 years and three months. Hedderman is out on $70,000 bail and is scheduled for pre-trial tomorrow, Wednesday, January 16, 2008.


Hedderman was admitted to the State Bar of California (Bar) in 1988 but resigned in 2001 after a series of disciplinary actions were taken against him. While working as a paralegal between June 1, 2004 and August 25, 2005, Hedderman is accused of falsely representing himself as an attorney to clients, whom he generally met through personal referrals. He is accused of agreeing to perform legal work, including divorces and child custody cases, which he did not have the authority to perform. Hedderman is accused of taking money from clients under the pretense of being a lawyer for services that he legally could not perform.

Hedderman is accused of forging the signatures of clients, as well as forging the signature of his employer, an attorney, on legal documents to give the appearance of an actual attorney handling his cases, and filing the forged documents with the Courts.

Anyone with additional information or who believes they have been a victim is encouraged to contact Supervising District Attorney Investigator Paul Bartlett at (714) 648-3667Central Justice Center, Santa Ana.

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Monday, January 14, 2008

Fellowship for Editorial editors/writers, producers working in online news environments.


Fellowship for Editorial editors/writers, producers working in online news environments.

Best Practices: Editorial and Commentary in Cyberspace
March 2-5, 2008- Lodging, meals, instruction and resource materials are included in the fellowship.

January 14, 2007

Fellowship applications are being taken for a special seminar in which the National Conference of Editorial Writers joins with the Knight Digital Media Center to explore interactive models for community opinion.. Participating journalists will seek to identify models for online commentary and opinion that promote civic engagement. The conference will be held at the Knight Digital Media Center, USC Annenberg School for Communication, Los Angeles, CA.

Workshops are residential and fellows are expected to attend all seminar sessions as well as other related activities, stay in the host hotel and participate in organized meals with other fellows. As part of the application process, fellows agree to share the knowledge they gain from the seminar with colleagues at their news organizations in a form that is most suitable to the subject matter and the organization`s needs.

Up to 24 fellows will be selected, representing editorial writers and editors, especially NCEW members, who are working in online platforms. Among the topics to be covered are:

•A New Role? The role of a news organization`s commentary and opinion in a digital world.

•Tools of Engagement. Exploration of technology used by news organizations to engage with audience.

•Models for Engagement. Best strategies for exploring community issues.

•Best Practices. Defining guiding principles for news organizations.

•Covering communities of difference. Identifying and providing access to under-served communities.


All application materials must be filled out online. Go to http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/seminars/how_to_apply/- APPLICATION DEADLINE: FEB. 1, 2008

To make sure the selected fellows will make a difference when they return to their newsroom. In addition to passing along training,the fellows and their supervisor need to develop an action plan for putting a lessons learned plan to work for the benefit of their news organization. Plans must be submitted to KDMC@USC within 30 days after return home.

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Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona to retire – the end of an era


Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona to retire – the end of an era

January 14, 2007

It is expected that the embattled Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona will announce his retirement sometime this morning.

After Sheriff Carona was indicted, apparently based solely on testimony obtained from admitted tax evaders and former top aides. , he pleaded not guilty to federal public corruption, conspiracy and witness tampering charges, emphatically stating he does not plan to step down, “… because I am not guilty", he said. He also noted that "In America, all of us as Americans, even the sheriff of Orange County, has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty”.

The Orange County Board of Supervisors, had been circling the Sheriff’s wagons for months, culminating in a request for him to step down – a request he vowed to fight.

This morning, OCSD spokesperson Michael Schoreder is expect to announce the Sheriff’s retirement, a reversal of positions.







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Sunday, January 13, 2008

The Power of the Coto de Caza Dely


The Power of the Coto de Caza Dely

January 13, 2007

Given the CZ Master board of directors irrationally vehement support for what critics have called, a most corrupt delegate system, we decided to take actual events to explore the value of the CZ Dely:

Public Safety event

On Monday, October 29, a speeding incident report was forwarded to a certain property management company employee and the CZ board.

On 10/31/2007, a reply came back fro Keystone stating in part "The Board has a procedure in place wherein a resident will contact Patrol to file an incident report regarding speeding as the report requires the reporting person to sign it as a witness".

Keystone then contacted UPS, the private security. The following Monday, a UPS employee comes calling for information. When asked if he had received any of the details sent to Keystone and the board, he responds he had not. He is then read the information previously sent to Keystone and the board. The UPS employee is then asked if he needs additional information to fill out an incident report. He confirms he has everything he needs to forward to Keystone.

Later that day, the UPS employee calls back wanting to meet face-to-face,
because "apparently Keystone requires a physical signature".

A Coto Discussion Forum participant and ardent board supporter, immediately fires back as follows:



Only a professional law enforcement officer (i.e. Sheriff or CHP) can cite a traffic violation. UPS and the management company are not law enforcement officers and thus cannot do what you wish. Why do you continue to think that they are?

Do you not see the potential problem with private citizens reporting problems and demanding action by law enforcement? ? Sorry, but something more than your word would be needed before any penalties were imposed upon a resident.

Apparently this board supporter in one of the burke “good men” - "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."-Edmund Burke – meaning that apparently this reader would rather see the world go by and instead of asking why not, he would rather ask “Hey, what happened”.

This good man apparently is not familiar with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department crackdown on irresponsible driver campaign taking part across the country, where the California Office of Traffic Safety (OPTS), which provided grant funding for the Avoid program’s efforts is asking for the public’s help in reporting suspected irresponsible drivers by calling 911.

So, we respond using the property management company’s own words: "The Board has a procedure in place wherein a resident will contact Patrol to file an incident report regarding speeding as the report requires the reporting person to sign it as a witness". If neither the board, nor the property management company is going to do anything, why have a procedure in place? Secondly, why even have the property management company in the middle, since the property management company may dictate what the security company can or cannot do? Thirdly, why even have a security guard involved?

So now with a Dely in place to play interference: What would have been the value of a delegate in this case? The same as the property management, and UPS. The difference is that if the resident was to complain, the board and or property manager. Could blame the delegate – as has been done in the past.



Defective night-lights

The assassinated CZ president argued recently that the problem with night light maintenance was that the two service providers had limited resources and suggested CZ residents call the property management company. This is exactly what was done to report a defecate light. The property management company responded with a form letter, informing that a work order would be started. Weeks went by and the light was not fixed. The property management company corporate office however, sent a customer satisfaction survey thanking the resident for the report and asking whether the matter was handed properly – the matter was not, and so was stated in the survey – no further contact from the property manager. The residents then contacts Edison – the process to report a faulty light is automated and does not allow the option to contact a warm body. Weeks went by, and the faulty light is still there – faulty.

In comes you Dely. What would happen now? Nothing – but the property manager and the board could certainly use the Dely as a convenient scapegoat!

Emergency Response System

Rancho Santa Margarita demonstrated the effectiveness of an automated proactive emergency response system during the 2007 Santiago fires. The latest argument used by the CZ board for retaining a delegate system is for emergency purposes. As was proven with the failed Saturday Delegate Walks, a volunteer system in place as a function of partisan politics is fleeting at best and for the most part ineffectual. If the CZ board was serious about emergency response, perhaps it could subcontract with RSM for the communications infrastructure, making the property manager the implementation branch.

CZ Control and Spin Center

The past general manager wondered why residents were upset when property management company employees contacted potential delegates sympathetic to the Varo/Mezger administration, in clear violation of election rules. More recently, the CZ Newsletter contains a Delegate’s Corner column – a spin center column – basically calling the deposed CZ president unequivocally saying there was never an attempted political assassination.

So what is the value add of a delegate system in Coto de Caza? Simply a symbiotic relationship between the CZ board and those who are significantly vested in the community to maintain the status quo.





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