Roll up your sleeves Mission Viejo. This community will not sit still for rejection of what was a carefully crafted, and well supported charter school. There was no legal basis for the rejection recommendation; it is based on opinion and conjecture.
The appeals processes will in all likelihood expose the majority in this administration and Board [...]
Archive for May 8th, 2009
Letter: Denial Of O’Neill Charter Will Trigger Battle
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Mission Viejo Region Roads Worse Than Cal Average
Posted in Budget, City Aestheics, Traffic & Transportation, tagged Association of State Highway Transportation Officials, Assosication of State Highway Transportation Officials, Bad Roads Study, Mission Viejo Roads, Mission Viejo Streets and Roads, Rough Roads Report, TRIP on May 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A survey of America’s roads claims those in the Mission Viejo suburban area are worse than Philadelphia and Detroit. The report found California’s roads to be the worst in the nation, and the Mission Viejo sector was worse than the California average.
The study didn’t identify the boundaries of the MV area. Mission Viejo has a population [...]
Avery Road Construction Starts Monday For 6 Months
Posted in Traffic & Transportation, tagged Avery Parkway, Road Construction on May 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The City announced on Friday afternoon that extensive construction will begin Monday on the Avery interchange to the freeway.
The purpose is to widen Avery under the freeway to add additional travel lanes accessing the on and off ramps. The work will be inside the Cal-Trans right-of-way, but street striping will be done inside MV [...]
Workshops Announced For Multi-Million$ Tennis/Aquatics Plan
Posted in Budget, Community Service Commission, Parks & Recreation, Sports, Tennis Center Upgrade, tagged Marguerite Aquatics Center, Marguerite Tennis Center, Mission Viejo Community Services Commission on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The City today announced two public workshops for reviewing a Master Plan for the Marguerite Aquatics & Tennis Center. The hearings will be at 7pm in the City Hall Chambers on May 19 and 27.
The workshops raise questions: 1) Where is the plan? It hasn’t been released and the Council was told last Monday [...]
Farrell’s: Ice Cream Indulgence Reincarnated
Posted in Business, Consumer, tagged Bob Farrell, Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour, Mike Fleming, Mission Viejo News, Paul Kramer, Shops at Mission Viejo on May 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Some long-time residents will be able to remember taking the family to Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour for special events. Saddleback Valley wasn’t very developed back then, so there wasn’t a store in Mission Viejo, but the festive 1900’s atmosphere of Farrell’s was worth the drive north to Beach Blvd, especially for their popular party [...]
Fence Captures Alleged Drunk Trespasser
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Thursday deputies responded to the report of a man trying to climb over a fence in the back yard of a residence. The officers found the 40-something man extremely intoxicated and stuck on top of the fence near Escalona and Los Ondas, off Avery Parkway.
When the subject tried to extricate himself from [...]
Supt. Fish Recommends Denial Of O’Neill School Charter
Posted in Schools, tagged O'Neill Charter School, O'Neill Elementary School, Superintendent Fish, SVUSD on May 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Superintendent Fish is recommending to SVUSD Trustees that they deny the application submitted to convert O’Neill Elementary to a charter school. The Board previously voted to close O’Neill beginning with the next school year. Parents submitted the charter petition and made public comments to the Board last month.
Even though federal and state policy [...]
Letter: Cathy Schlicht: “Council Majority Hostile To Public Participation”
Posted in Letters to Editor, Media, Open Government, Politics, Recall, tagged Cathy Schlicht, MacLean Recall, Mission Viejo Recall, MUKsters on May 8, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Fifteen days after I was sworn in as the city’s newest council member, Council Member Lance MacLean called me a fly in the ointment.
Why? Because I was protesting the council’s decision to bar public participation in that December 15th day-long Strategic Planning Workshop. The MUKsters, MacLean, Ury and Kelley, were planning our city’s future and [...]
