Recall Campaign Against Centinela Valley Union High School District Board Started

Citizens in the Centinela Valley Union School District (the Hawthorne-Lawndale area of Los Angeles County) have taken the initial steps in recalling the district's school board members for fleecing the district's taxpayers by:

• Giving Superintendent Jose Fernandez a fat $663,000 salary.
• Giving Fernandez a sweetheart $900,000 loan at 2% for 40 years.

The district is comprised of only three high schools with a combined total of 6,500 students. This hardly warrants giving the superintendent a salary of $663,000. The superintendent of the L.A. Unified School District has a much larger district with many more students, yet his salary is nowhere near as much. The loan was granted at a time when the superintendent had already declared bankruptcy. He sure sounds like great risk for a $900K loan, doesn't he?

Although the board recently fired Fernandez, that doesn't let the board members off the hook for voting for the extravagant salary and the the sweetheart loan.

The recall campaign has set up a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Recall-Centinela-School-Board/1456803904593704

And, they have also set up a Twitter page: https://twitter.com/RecallCentinela

If you agree that these board members must go, visit either (or both) sites.

A Recall Is In Order For Centinela Valley Unified School District School Board

Regarding the current scandal over the $663,000 salary (and perks) Centinela Valley Union High School District Superintendent Jose Fernandez, I posted this at our high school alumni message board:

Superintendent Jose Fernandez wouldn't be getting his fat $663,000 salary were it not for the generosity of the school board. Let's not forget his sweetheart $900,000 loan at 2% for 40 years. Gee, all that money could be going to the sports department and other departments in need of funding. It's the same-old, same-old political machine politics in Hawthorne. Looks like the jackasses on the school board didn't learn anything from the scandal in the City of Bell.

Back in the 1980s, a recall campaign was launched against three Hawthorne City Council members for consolidating city elections and thereby increasing their terms of office without voter approval. The campaign was successful and the three were ousted.

It appears that the time is ripe for another recall campaign against the school district board members who approved Fernandez's salary, perks and loan. Unless these board members are recalled, the taxpayers will continue to be fleeced.

Residents Explode on Superintendent, Centinela Valley High School Board

Well, I see nothing has changed back in the Centinela Valley Union High School District. Cronyism, greed, malfeasance, corruption, machine politics and you-name-it still permeates the district. The CVUHSD includes Hawthorne, Lennox and Lawndale. From what's happening now, the district could include the City of Bell.

I used to live in the Hawthorne area (I attended Hawthorne High School) and once ran for the CVUSHD School Board in 1977. If I hadn't run, the election would have been cancelled.

According to The Blaze:

A school superintendent in California got an earful earlier this week when parents were given the chance during an emergency meeting to question his supposedly excessive salary. 

“You should all step down and walk away from this! This is ridiculous! This is nuts, this is crazy! I give my wife everything! I do anything I can for my wife! I’m sleeping with her! Who are you sleeping with?” one man shouted during the meeting. 

Jose Fernandez, who oversees the Centinela Valley Union High School District in Lawndale, Calif., reportedly earned $663,000 in 2013, according to KCAL-TV. 

His district includes only three high schools with a combined total of 6,500 students. 

The district also reportedly floated Fernandez a loan of more than $900,000 at 2 percent interest over 40 years. The loan was granted at a time when the superintendent had already declared bankruptcy.

It appears that the school district didn't learn anything from the corruption scandal of the City of Bell. $663k for a school superintendent?! Plus a 2% loan for $900k?!

Above, the Centinela Valley Union High School District
School Board. Which of these members voted for
Superintendent Fernandez's lavish salary, loan and perks?

Yes, this is like the City of Bell scandal all over again!

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