CUSD Donates $10,000.00 to the Foundation for Education

Under the State's new education funding law LCFF which limits per pupil funding to 2007-08 levels + inflation, CUSD will have flat funding of under $8,300 per pupil for 14 years straight.

1. The Association of California School Administrators.
2. Progress Advisors
3. InnovateEd (Trustee Lynn Hatton-Hodson's Company)

Source: http://www.lcapca.com/expert-help.cfm

In addition to ties to ACSA, and LCAP California; Lynn Hatton has ties to Capital Advisors the consulting firm hired to help CUSD get a $2 billion dollar facilities Bond on the November Ballot.

Jack O'Connell is a founding Partner of Capital Advisors and endorsed Lynn Hatton-Hodson in her election campaign in 2014


I am astonished that this firm has been hired by CUSD (paid with taxpayer money since 2012) to prepare for and market a $2 billion dollar facilities bond for CUSD using taxpayer funds.
http://www.capitoladvisors.org/our-team.html

I was even more appalled to learn that Capital Advisors is the Firm who worked to get the $9 billion dollar State Facilities bond on the November ballot (using CUSD taxpayer money). Listen to August 10, 2016 BOT audio:

at 1:10:00 Ex Superintendent Jack O'Connell now a founding partner with Capital Advisors - now a CUSD Consultant gave a "State Perspective". Capital Advisors helped write Proposition 51, a $9 Billion dollar State facilities Bond. Jack O'Connell also states that is is proud to have written the legislation (Prop 39) which lowered the percentage of voters required to pass school facilities bonds from 75% to 55%. He informed CUSD that if it wants to share in the State matching funds CUSD need to pass a bond.

at 1:13:46 Susan Stuart - Capital Advisors - Provision in State Bond good for CUSD. Direction they were going was to follow LCFF- meaning low income districts were going to receive money first. If CUSD gets their projects in now they will be grandfathered in before rules change.

at 1:16:40 Kevin Jordan - Capital Advisors - Tax Policy. Fundamental difference in Education Tax policy. Matching funds make your money go farther. Other Districts are happy to take your money if you don't step up to take advantage of this opportunity.

Listen very closely to Mr. Jordan's words at 1:19:50 Capital Advisor's is paid as a consultant by CUSD to represent CUSD's interests in Sacramento. Yet, here is Mr. Jordan (of Capital Advisors) is stating that he is very proud of the work that Capital Advisors has done to get the State Facilities Bond on the ballot.

If CUSD has been funding Capital Advisors efforts to get the State Bond measure on the ballot rather than advocate for the funding our students are entitled to. That is a misuse of taxpayer funds. Maybe it is not in the best interest of CUSD to be taxed yet again for facilities, rather maybe it would be in CUSD's best interest to advocate for the funding that the State is constitutionally obligate to provide every student.

Any money paid to Capital Advisors to promote a bond to CUSD taxpayers constitutes a mis-use of Taxpayer funds under Attorney General Kamala Harris's January 26, 2016 opinion.https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/opinions/pdfs/13-304.pdf

Capital Advisor has an obvious conflict of interest. Money paid to Capital Advisors is money that should have been spent to fix and maintain facilities, reduce class sizes and restore instructional time and programs. CUSD has mis-used taxpayer funds and should be prosecuted for their illegal acts and that money should be restored to CUSD students and taxpayers.

Lynn Hatton-Hodson has obvious conflicts of interest and should have recused herself in any vote to place the CUSD facilities bond on the ballot. She has also voted on massive amounts of technology spending that benefit her personally and the companies she is partnering with.

This bond should not be placed on the November Ballot as it was done with an intent to deceive the public. There are material mis-representations in the bond marketing materials such as the Districts representation as to employee compensation. CUSD states that employee compensation is "over 80% of CUSD's Budget" when in fact employee compensation has been 89% and over since 2007-08. CUSD has always put the economic interest of its employees above the educational interest of students and the economic interest of taxpayers. CUSD has intentionally mis-lead the public regarding this bond and there should be a criminal investigation into the District before any bond is placed on the November ballot.