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November 2007 ISSUE
We do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County Register and CID/HOA board of directors and report the facts!
The Sheriff is coming, the Sheriff is Coming! – CZ Board to old tricks again?
“I reviewed the 3Q2007 statistics and it definitely shows patrols work, said CHP Spokesperson Christopher Goodwin”, when asked what he thought about the most recent collision statistics.
October
19, 2007
Consistent with the output of
the River
Rock Muti-Purpose Forecasting System, the CZ Board
is announcing that the Sheriff is coming – yet one
more time!
Just six months or so, according
to the Orange County Register
the OC
Sheriff Mounties have mounted a
"coordinated patrol effort on Saturday, March 3,
on the county’s trails in the hills around Coto de
Caza and Holy Jim Canyon”.
Apparently the action was intended to increase
the law enforcement agency’s visibility,
“ in response to residents' concerns raised
about people causing problems and conducting illegal
activities on the trails”,
Since it is generally agreed that less than 10%
of trail
users pay for trail maintenance, perhaps the horse
trails should be closed? – but that is a different
story!
The February 16, 2007 issue of
the Orange County Register
contains the headline “Improving patrols in
Coto – Coto de Caza’s CZ Master Association board
of directors discusses improvements to security
patrols”. The
major announcement covered was the “announcement
that Universal Protection Services was revamping how
it deploys the roving patrol …and mounted units of
the Sheriff’s department would soon be patrolling
the horse trails and fire roads that surround the
community”….the same argument used by the Varo/Mezger
board to fire the CHP when they first came to power!
– However, in five years, the Sheriff has been MIA.
We should note that the The
December 29 2006 issue of CanyonLife, the
Orange County Registers “2006 Year in Review”,
fails to mention the tragic death of Mr. Morteza
Manian after he was struck by a teen arrested for hit
and run, resisting arrest and manslaughter – yet
board members blamed Mr. Morteza for “violating the
vehicle code”!
“I am disappointed
that the OC Sheriff’s Department has been unable to
get their act together as it was Sheriff Corona who
personally requested that we do not contract with the
City of Rancho Santa Margarita” – Writes Robert Varo, then CZ Association President, in the
January 2006 CZ Newsletter.
The April 29, 2005 issue of the Orange County Register includes an
article by Laura Rico and Jim Radcliffe with headlines
“Coto de Caza has traffic-control plan”,
but neither the board nor the Register were able to
produce copies of the alleged plan
The good news is
that the 3Q2007
Collision Report shows the lowest collision rate
in the community since the CHP was sent packing into
exile, without a suitable alternative.
“I reviewed the 3Q2007 statistics and it
definitely shows patrols work, said CHP Spokesperson
Christopher Goodwin”, when asked what he thought
about the most recent collision statistics.
The bad news is that
the 3Q2007
OCSD crime and vandalism data, while is shows a
consistent downward trend in crime for Ladera Ranch,
the opposite is true for Coto de Caza.
CZ residents, do not despair, according to the CZ board of directors, the Sheriff is coming, the Sheriff is coming – Again!. After all, the Sheriff makes for a game of Good Cop, Bad Cop:
Blame it On the
Sheriff
“I
am disappointed that the OC Sheriff’s Department has
been unable to get their act together as it was
Sheriff Corona who personally requested that we do not
contract with the City of Rancho Santa Margarita”
– Robert Varo, CZ Association President’s Letter
January 2006.
This
is the same CZ board that was told YEARS ago to bring
back the CHP – but won’t claiming the CHP are
extortionists.
The
same board that turned over a board meeting to Reality
TV show producers and refused to allow CHP to present
safety awareness programs during board meeting s.
The
Same board that was quoted by the Orange County
Register in an April 29, 2005
article by Laura Rico and Jim Radcliffe with
headlines “Coto de Caza has traffic-control
plan”, but neither the board nor the
Register were able to produce copies of the alleged
plan
The
same board that has refused to even acknowledge the
multiple comprehensive security proposals we have
advanced.
The
same board that refused to articulate a traffic
control plan weeks before the traffic fatality .
We even asked legal counsel to compel the board to do
so DAYS before the accident!
The
same board that refused to commit to reducing traffic
accidents to 2002 levels or below.
The
same board that refused to hold a Security Town Hall
Meeting instead of pursuing personal agendas.
The
same board that relies on the GM
security control metrics – as shown below.
It will be great if we get
more Sheriff’s time in Coto; but seeing is
believing. I just don’t believe we are high on
their priority list. When we see the black and
whites on a regular basis, we will know that hell
hasn’t frozen over. Joseph Morabito,
former member CZ Master Association board of
directors.
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