If you read Keaney's blog you might of seen this posted for a few hours before it was gone. Jim Dantona gave an award to Dean Kunicki for his help with BAD.

Good to know at least one non-profit being run by a candidate for Supervisor is legitimate.

Besides Brian, Kunicki posts here all the time. He just hides behind an alias.

Hello Friends,

I will have a booth at the Simi Valley Elks Wild West Weekend Saturday September 30 from 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM. The Elks club is on Kuehner drive just north of the railroad tracks for anyone who wants to come out and enjoy a fun event that will help to support our community.

On Sunday October 1st I will be at the Oktoberfest being held by the Newbury Park Rotary Club. It will be at the Underhill Farms on Tierra Rejada in Moorpark. You can find me in the Simi Sunset Rotary Booth where I will be volunteering and helping cook/serve bratswurst for our club. I am proud to be a member of Rotary and to be able to serve our community.

Both events should be a great time for everyone and will help to support our local non-profits. I hope to see you there!

Good work, Donna! Those are all great endorsements, from good people!

I wonder why Glen Becerra abandoned Dean Kunicki? Maybe it is because Dean Kunicki has given up and resigned to his fate of being beat. We know he isn't campaigning.

I'd like to think the best....that Glenn simply did the right thing, for the right reasons, because he has the Community's best interests in mind. Thanks, Glenn!

Glen Becerra has just thrown the last shovel load of dirt on this guy's campaign. Every Republican in town will soon be defecting to Prenta's campaign.

I wonder what Becerra knows that we all don't know. This guy must of been hiding for a reason!

WILL THERE BE A DEBATE?

I asked the LWV last week to schedule a debate.

Donna Prenta was endorsed by the local teachers' union.

You can make a video of the debate and have Dennert host it.

Does Prenta believe the County should be eliminated like the governor wants to do?

The County School's act as a safety net for local school district's providing specialized programs and administrative services that would be duplicated by individual school district's. I am for local control if there is a practical and fiscally reasonable way to keep programs under local school district's governance. Frankly, I have never heard a local School Board Trustee speak of wanting to take back control of programs that the County offers or any constituents for that matter. Local school district's can choose how much they participate in County Programs. For some smaller school district's it is more fiscally practical to participate in County programs.

If there was evidence that County Boards should be eliminated for the best of everyone I would certainly be open to hearing why and what the plan would be if it would serve students better and provide fiscal savings for taxpayers.

This Board should not be eliminated otherwise The County Superintendent Chuck Weiss would not have a Governing Body. That would be like Sheriff Brooks not having the County Board of Supervisors as a Governing Body.

Local school boards would have to take responibility for the education of incarcerated youth, court and community schools such as Gateway. Gateway is for youth that local school district's have expelled. Keeping our school's safe is extremely important we also want to keep kids off the street's and help them to get back on track to circumvent recidivism. SVUSD expels on average 70 youths per year.

County schools also offer's an education to youth at the Phoenix school for students with emotional disturbances and Casa Pacifica which is a shelter for abused and neglected youth as well as a level 14 residential treatment center for youth with emotional disturbances. (the next highest would be a lockdown psychiatrict hospital)Many of these kids we are trying to keep from being incarcerated. Others kids are afflicted with the onset of mental illnesses they need support to understand how to cope with their illnesses and continue to be productive adults embracing wellness and treatment. If you visit Casa Pacifica you will notice that when you come to the reception room there is bullet proof glass, there is a reason for this we do not want to have this level of security in all schools it is not practical.

Our society demands safe schools, and our cities demand safe streets County Schools offers programs to make that a reality.

County schools acts as a safety net to offer programs and services to school district's that would not be able to offer them individually for fiscal reason's. One example are specialist that are needed such as behaviorist, physical, occupational and speech therapists, technology specialist to name a few. School district's can contract for a portion of a specialist's services. County schools also provides bussing for many school district's.

Not all students are pursuing college degrees County school's offers Regional Occupational programs for students. Simi Valley/Moorpark students have to go to Camarillo for ROP except for one program that is in SSHS for stagecraft, web design and computer repair. We have a brand new mall why are students that are studying fashion merchandising going to Thousand Oaks, OUCH!

There are special education programs and day classes that are operated within school district's by County schools as well. These school district's either choose to have the County run the programs or they are unable to, especially small school districts. Again this is a safety net offered to school district's for fiscal reasons.

Ventura County has on average 25% less for vocational training than other County's. In other County's 25% of students on average have vocational/education available to them in Ventura County our students average 2.4% available to them and for East County they have to go to Camarillo for the majority of programs.

Simi Valley and Moorpark have not had consistent representation. The current representative is not reaching out to the public to let them know what services are available worse yet if you look at a map of services there is not a single one in Simi.

How do we know Prenta isn't a throw money at the problem spend and spend Republican that will cause taxes to go up in the future?

We already know that Donna Prenta isn't a throw money Republican. She has saved the taxpayers a lot of money, long before she ever started a campaign. Donna Prenta has been walking the talk for years. Ask Gallegly, Strickland (both), McClintock, Richman and others--all of whom have have given formal acknowledgement of her efforts. Donna Prenta is just good people. Dean Kunicki is campaigning on the new conference center he supported...no tax payer dollars spent there! Right! They're going to rent it out to pay for it. How long will it take to pay off $19 million dollars with room rent!!!!

Last minute details are being worked out for a candidates forum moderated by LWV. It should be firm by October 11th.

Kunicki won't debate you! He's part of the extremist
clique and their strategy is to say nothing until it's too late for the Community to realize it's made a mistake in voting for them.

I beg to differ, but Kunicki is not one of the dangerous extremists. He is currently working for developers at the expense of neighborhoods, but he has had many careers and is really a kind person. Currently, though, he has gotten a bit too much into himself at the expense of others. Nevertheless, Dean has been a valuable member of the Board. At this time, Donna will offer new direction to a rather stagnant organization and be a breath of fresh air.

I don't doubt that privately Mr Kunicki is a kind person and has many good qualities. My experience with Mr Kunicki has been through his office as planning commissioner and consultant to local developers and in both cases he failed this Community. In addition, it would seem that Mr Kunicki's tenure as an appointed County school board member has also been a failure, with his support of a $20M clubhouse and a new charter school....each of which drain money away from existing classrooms, further compounding the problems that our educators are struggling to address.

Kunicki may not be an extremist but that's the crowd he hangs out with and that's who's backing his run for the school board.

Dean Kunicki received for his 2002 election;

Green Rark Ranch $1000
Newport Beach Devloper
Peter Kiesecker $1000
CEO/Green Park Ranch Developer
Executive Center SV $1000
SV
Isaac Moradi $3000
BeverlyHills/Developer
Urban Strategies $200
TO/Developer
Colton Lee Properties $10,000
Agoura Hills/Developer
Committee To Elect Tony Strickland $6340.20
In kind donatin for mailer

That means Kunicki received $16,200
from developers that are not from our community or the County-why do they want to make donations to a County BOE Race.

The plans to build the new Educational Conference Center were in the works when Dean was running for office in 2002. One of the big accomplishments he reprts on his sample Ballot statement are building an Educaiton COnference Center.

What does this do for our children! This is what happens when developers pay for School Board races to put a developer in office who knows nothing about school programs.

Mr. Kunicki tells people they are going to "Rent" the conference center out to offset the costs! Yeah RIGHT! What about all the staff time that was redirected from children to "Build" a conference center to rent out, what about the interest payments etc. I would sure like to see the numbers that proves it will not "cost the taxpayers " and why we should be in the commercial real estate business rather than educating children.

Are the County Schools in the business of building commercial property and then "renting it out?"

Are they in the business of not making their own Gateways Schools for at-risk students adequate so that For Profit Charter Schools can come in and provide an inferior education to our students with our taxpayers ADA money meant for educating students not lining investors pockets. Schools with no student support services, special eduication, school psychologists, extra-curricular activities, sports of any kind bare bones store front schools.

This election 2006 Kunicki received so far.

Peter Kiesecker $2500
Land Developer
PacificKies/Newport Beach

Ed Levine $390.00
Big Bear,
Real Esate Investor/Arrow Real Corp.

Alex Soteras
Calabasas/Mortgage Banker
Soteras Mortgage $500.00

Now we have real estate investors and mortgage brokers intereseted in our County schools, Hmmmmm!

Colton Lee Properties who Dean consults for made a $5000.00 donation to the VCRCC and two days the VCRCC endorsed Dean over the objections of many Republicans in our own caucus who said they should not endorse one republican over another and then they totally overlooked Charles Watson for Area 1 even though he was the only Republican running for County Board of Education.

Why do developers want Dean in office so bad? Where are the individual stakeholders that should be supporters$