School District Has Already Spent $49,960 In Fees Over Three-Month Period.
As reported in the Octdober 30, 2009 online edition of the The Orange County Register (in a story penned by Scott Martindale), the Capistrano Unified School District has hired well-known election law attorney Phillip Greer to aid its efforts to delay the scheduled June 2010 vote on a parent-led ballot initiative about the way school trustees are elected. The school district wants to push the vote forward to November 2010 because it will save up to $487,500 in election-related expenses.
Over a three-month period ending September 30, 2009, the school district has spent $49,960 in attorney’s fees to research legal issues relating to the proposed trustee election changes. One San Juan Capistrano parent was quoted as saying that this was “an extraordinary amount of money to be spending” when the questions could have been answered by school district staff and the Orange County Department of Education.