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North Orange County Conservative Coalition 

www.nocconservatives.org 

Local elected officials go on to become our State and National leaders. The important decisions we make at the Ballot Box on June 5 and in November effect our daily lives and our future. 

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Join NOCCC To Meet Your Local Candidates 
THURSDAY 

Please invite your neighbors, friends and familyand especially NEW VOTERS!

 

TOMORROW! Thursday, April 12, 2012
7:00 – 9:00 pm

Let's talk about how Orange County 
and the media will cover the elections 
          with special guest speaker and Master of Ceremony

Brian Calle        

Please join us as Brian introduces many of our invited local candidates running for office including 3rd District Orange County Board of Supervisors; Anaheim, Brea, FULLERTON, La Habra, Orange, Placentia, Yorba Linda City Council; School Board and Orange County Republican Party Central Committee.

Brian Calle is an Opinion Columnist for the Orange County Register and President of the Young Executives of America. He is also the Managing Director of Gambit Consulting Group, a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, Editor of FreedomPolitics.com, a Distinguished Speaker in the Friedman Foundation School Choice Speaker's Bureau and a member of the Board of Governors for the University of Southern California.

**One hour from 8:00pm - 9:00pm will be set aside for
folks to meet and chat with candidates who wish to stay. 
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The Foxfire Restaurant Conference Room, 5717 E. Santa Ana Canyon Road, Anaheim, 91 Freeway @ Imperial Highway 

Dessert & Coffee provided. $5 suggested donation to help cover costs.
Please RSVP to Desaré deseric@sbcglobal.net or Karlakarladowning@aol.com
Why not dine at the Foxfire Restaurant before the meeting?
Separate reservations required through the restaurant.

Please visit our website www.nocconservatives.org
for news, events and updated election information.

Meet the Candidates - You're Invited

North Orange County Conservative Coalition 

Make Wise and Informed Decisions

at The Ballot Box on June 5 and In November!

Join NOCCC To Meet Your Local Candidates 

 Thursday, April 12, 2012
7:00 – 8:30 pm
With Special Guest Speaker and Emcee, Brian Calle

     Brian Calle is an Opinion Columnist for the Orange County Register, the Managing Director of Gambit Consulting Group, a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, Editor of FreedomPolitics.com, President of the Young Executives of America, a Distinguished Speaker in the Friedman Foundation School Choice Speaker's Bureau and a member of the Board of Governors for the University of Southern California.

     Please join us as Brian introduces many of our invited local candidates running for office including Orange County Board of Supervisors, City Council, School Board and Orange County Republican Party Central Committee. 

One hour from 8:00pm - 9:00pm will be set aside for folks to meet and chat with candidates who wish to stay.

 The Foxfire Restaurant Conference Room

5717 E. Santa Ana Canyon Road, Anaheim
91 Freeway @ Imperial Highway

Dessert Assortment & Beverages provided.
$5 suggested donation to help cover costs.
Please RSVP to Karla at karladeane@aol.com or Desaré atdeseric@sbcglobal.net 

Why not dine at the Foxfire Restaurant before the meeting?
Separate reservations required through the restaurant.
Please call 714-974-5400 or visit www.foxfirerestaurant.com

Join North OC Activists Seeking Accountability

Please Plan To Join NOCCC This Thursday!

We have a packed schedule with extraordinary speakers and information you won’t want to miss!

Thursday, March 15, 7pm at the Foxfire in Anaheim Hills 

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government, lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."  - Patrick Henry 1736-1799

Do you know how many of our national and state laws and policies are not constitutional? If not, how can we fight back against the attack on our U.S. Constitution? Knowledge is power!

Please join us to meet and hear this special educator and speaker, former Dean of Chapman University School of Law Professor John Eastman. Dr. Eastman is the Director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence and once served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Also, Yorba Linda’s recognized speaker Constitutional Law Attorney Karen Lugo, founder of Libertas-West Project, contributing editor for FamilySecurityMatters.org and Co-director for the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence.

We joined the Tea Party, grassroots conservative movement because of what we felt in our hearts; now we must save our country by using our minds. Woody Woodrum, President Eagle Forum San Diego, Co-founder Salt & Light Council will tell us how we can be successful in taking back our country by using Tactical versus Strategic measures.

You will not believe what California’s majority liberal legislators are up to now! We'll get our legislative update from California Family Council’s Ron Prentice and then hear about Operation Swing State, the California Tea Party’s collaborative effort to get conservative legislators elected.

Bring your high school students!  Orange County Youth Associates will be there to tell us about what they are doing to reach out to bring conservative youth into the political arena.

Mark Your Calendars For These Upcoming Events
 

Saturday, March 24, 2012, 1pm at Placentia City Hall

All are invited to attend a Town Hall Meeting hosted by Congressman Ed Royce on Saturday, March 24 at 1:00 pm at Placentia City Hall, 401 East Chapman Avenue (at Kramer). Free and open to the public. Call 714-744-4130 if you have questions. This will give him an opportunity to meet with us, to address our questions and listen to our concerns and hear our suggestions.

Thursday, April 12, 7pm at the Foxfire in Anaheim Hills

Know your candidates before you vote! All local candidates are invited to be introduced and a forum will be held for some races.

OC Register columnist Brian Calle will be our guest emcee and moderator. Brian is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, President of the Young Executives of America and editor of FreedomPolitics.com. Stay tuned for more information.

*We will also have important information on Precinct walking for your favorite candidates.

NOCCC's Convenient Meeting Location 
Foxfire Restaurant Conference Room
5717 East Santa Ana Canyon Road, Anaheim
91 Freeway @ Imperial Highway

Dessert & Coffee provided. $5 suggested donation to help cover costs.
For more information, please email Desaré at deseric@sbcglobal.net

Why not dine at the Foxfire Restaurant before the meeting?
Separate reservations required through the restaurant.
Please call 714-974-5400 or visit www.foxfirerestaurant.com  

Despite Missing Key Documents, Fullerton City Council Approves Deficient Deed

Item 18 of the Fullerton City Council Agenda for tonight (December 21, 2010) seemed innocuous enough.  It made simple mention of “HAWKS POINTE DEVELOPMENT CONSERVATION EASEMENT”.  It certainly sounds like a dullard. 

As a licensed professional land surveyor and Fullerton resident, it is my business to understand what the council is up to and what it means for me and my family.  Item 18, it simply peaked my interest.  It is also safe to say that a lay person would likely not have been so intrigued.

(Download the agenda and item 18)

I downloaded and poured over the document which was labeled “Conservation Easement Deed”.  Ok, so what are they doing, granting or accepting an easement?? 

Like so many instruments of this sort, the first recital directs the reader to exhibit “A” for the legal description of the encumbered property.  And being a licensed professional land surveyor, the only type of professional authorized to prepare legal descriptions in California, I turned to exhibit “A”.  At least I tried to…

It appears that someone at City Hall neglected to include the now missing exhibit “A”.  If you are not a surveyor, you may be wondering why this is a problem.  It is a huge problem in that there are rights being transferred along with covenants, terms, conditions, and restrictions and it would be nice to know where these obligations began and ended. 

Imagine walking into an escrow office and being asked to sign the documents.  When you notice that there are pages missing, the escrow officer blows off your concern and tells you that the pages will be added later.  A person with average intelligence would put the pen down and refuse to sign anything else until the documents were complete. 

When item 18 came up on the consent calendar (that’s the part of the agenda which gets approved without discussion because f its routine nature) one well informed and conscientious council member, Bruce Whitaker, pulled the item from the consent calendar for discussion with staff. 

When he asked the staff about the missing document, he was told that the description will be added later.  That’s the same as negotiating the purchase of 40 police cars with all of the various options and warranties but without including the price tag.  In both instances, you just don’t know what you are getting yourself (or your taxpayers) into.  

Perhaps the next time Chevron shows up with a proposal for their West Coyote Hills property they simply omit a few key provisions which they can add later when they are ready to do so. Surely the council won’t object. 

Had the staff brought the documents to the assistant city engineer, I believe the omission would have been caught and corrected prior to any decisions being made by an uniformed council. 

The City Attorney was quick to note that the legal description would be added later.  Would he buy and accept a deed with no property description?  I think not.

One staffer, Alice Loya, stated that legal descriptions are more accurate but not as easy to read as a map would be.  I beg to differ with respect to the accuracy of legal descriptions but I’m digressing from my pointed concern.  The staffers seemed to get hung up on the mention of a missing map and just did not care that a key element to the agreement was missing. 

How many other documents has the Fullerton City Council approved wherein key elements were missing because someone was too lazy or inept to provide the council with complete documentation?  Maybe it is time for a forensic audit of the numerous fee and bond packages the council has approved over the past several years.

In the end, the Fullerton City Council voted 5-0 and agreed to the terms and conditions set forth without having any clue as to what land was covered by the terms of the agreement. 

The action leaves the city and taxpayers wide open for a civil action in the future as well as a cloud of title on whatever property description is slipped into the deed prior to recordation. 

With any luck, the OC Recorder’s Office will deny the request for recordation so that the city can get its collective at together.