The CotoBuzz Journal
Community Journalism, Newsletters and Blogs Covering South Orange County, CA
The CotoBuzz Journal is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and NAHJ
October 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!
HOA SELLS DISABLED’S HOME FOR LATE $380 DUES
News 4 WOAI Trouble Shooter Brian Collister is investigating the case of one family who's being evicted by their Homeowner’s Association. Full investigation is scheduled to run Tuesday night at 10pm on News 4 WOAI.
For preview, visit http://www.woai. com/news/ local/story. aspx?content_
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No
Decision-Making Outsourcing for Supervisor John
Moorlach- On your face Association of Orange County
Deputy Sheriffs! - Do As I Say Not as I Do! - Moorlach
et al
Orange County supervisor John Moorlach has been
described by local media columnists as the only
politician solid enough to have accumulated sufficient
political capital to take on the powerful Association
of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs. A few weeks...
Desperate
Homeowners ? From OCWeekly Perspective- Disgruntled
rich folks wrangle over the question: ?When is a Coto
de Caza resident not a Coto de Caza resident??
"?If the board members only used their heads and
had no personal agendas to take care of first, they
could see where they are going is wrong,? says the
72-year-old security consultant, who splits his time
between working in Nevada and his daughter?s home...
AP Writer Tom Hester has just filed a report focusing
on supplier management New Jersey style Hester reports
that according to the US Attorney?s office, ?FBI
agents arrested 11 public officials in towns across
New Jers
OCSD Overly “vested” – Orange County Sup. Moorlach - As described by the failed bid by Cassie Young’s for a seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors, the Orange County’s pension plan, in dire financial straits, would soon erupt. The eruption heard around OC law enforcement community was heard Friday July 18, 2007 when Supervisor John Moorlach, announced his plan to cut pension benefits retroactively
Public
Spectacles Work!
Public Spectacles worked For Ladera Ranch, and Laguna
Woods Village, Why Not Coto de Caza? CHP enforcement
hours in Coto de Caza have dropped some 60% from 2006
levels, mostly, because resources have been allocated
by CHP management to other...
Forensic
Audit Request: Conflict Of Interest
Despite Milt Johns?, General Manager of Professional
Community Management (PCM) emphatic defense of his
business practices, the Laguna Woods Village oversight
committee continues to call for Johns? removal, as
well as a call for a forensic financial...
A
$1,400 parking ticket, a lawsuit, and a lien to
preventing from selling or refinancing a home!
We don't mean harm to anyone -- Dan Newkirk.If you
thought the $67 million lawyer pants law suit was an
isolated instance??In the Laguna Audubon II homeowner
association in Aliso Viejo, and 82 year old couple
face a $1,400 parking ticket, a lawsuit,...
Lawyer
seeking condominiums' business goes over the line
Question: I manage a large condominium project in Los
Angeles. Unsolicited, an attorney sent me an
invitation to meet with him over lunch. He then phoned
me several times, including the day before the lunch,
explaining the purpose was to speak only with...
CONDOMINIUMS
ARE A GREAT INVESTMENT- FOR LAWYERS
About every two months I get a call, or a client comes
in to ask me about condominiums. It usually starts off
with, ?I bought this adorable little condo? and then
the upstairs neighbor had a flood?. And then the
Homeowners Association refused??
Where
Our Taxes Go ? To Build Madrassahs!XWill the CZ Master
Association's Hoffman Report recommend Coto residents
learn Arabic?
A public school, some argue is simply a madrassah, is
set to open in Brooklyn NY shortly.
Coto de Caza Supplier Management, Fleming and Street on the Street - As is usually the case, there seems to be at least two sides to every story. Such is the case with embattled Orange County Treasurer-Tax Collector Chriss Street, who has been fending off accusations of fiscal irresponsibility triggered by a 1.5 million dollar office remodeling, paralleling the street traveled by Capistrano Unified Superintendent James Fleming who faces criminal charges related to the creation of an enemies lists. In May, Fleming and former Assistant Superintendent Susan McGill were charged with using taxpayer money to create two lists of political opponents.
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