Rossmoor district board needs new blood
The July edition of the Rossmoor Community Services District News brought us the welcome information that General Manager Henry Taboada is leaving.
Well, no—not really leaving but staying on as an “external affairs consultant to advise them on matters of governance.”
If you have followed the nonsense that this Board has indulged in with Mr. Taboada as manager i.e. cityhood election, latent powers, scare tactics to make Rossmoorians think that we would be made part of some other city, or to lose part of our geographic boundaries, this Board is continually going beyond it’s scope.
Governance is not one of the services that has been expressly specified, or is indispensable to the accomplishment of the purposes of the Rossmoor Community Services District.
Under Mr. Taboada, the current Board has a transparency problem. There was no public debate about Mr. Taboada staying on as a consultant.
There was nothing in the latest issue of the Rossmoor Community Services District News that informed residents of the Aug. 10, deadline for filing for the election in November. Mr. Rips, Casey and Maynard, knew about the deadline for filing.
They filed in mid-July!
This is a board that should have informed the public about the election.
Henry Taboada did not use his own column to tell the readers about the election. This is the type of governance Mr. Taboada is good at!
We should do what Los Alamitos did when their manager left. They hired their recreation director to be the new manager.
We are not a city. A bookkeeper can manage the RCSD!
We need some new people on the Board; people who can think independently and people who will not take four hours for a meeting which should be at the most two hours. After all, the number of services they provide is really only five. We need women on the Board who value the public’s time and money.
It is not a difficult job. If you budgeted your mortgage and household expenses, and managed to stay afloat you too can be on the Board.
The deadline is 5 p.m., Aug. 10. You must go down to the Registrar of Voters at 1300 So. Grand, Building C, Santa Ana and file your declaration of candidacy. It doesn’t cost anything to file. If you have any questions the telephone number is (714) 567-7558.
Joyce Bloom
Rossmoor
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