Full Disclosure Network

Was it legal for the Los Angeles Unified School District to issue $1 Billion plus in non-voter approved bonds in semi-secret meetings over the past several years? And, who advised them to do so? Did anyone challenge the LAUSD actions? The answer to these and many other questions are included in a two-part, one-hour interview by Full Disclosure® host Leslie Dutton.

The video above is a preview containing comments from David Tokofsky on the following :

• Declining enrollment in the LAUSD is merely a temporary phenomenon and illegal immigration is a factor to be considered when planning the cost of running and building schools .
• LAUSD regularly issues non-voter approved, tax-exempt bonds, known as Certificates of Participation (COPs) even though Proposition 13 mandated a vote of the people on public indebtedness.
• The controversial and obscure process of how the Board of Education issues tax-exempt bonds was advised by LAUSD legal counsel and the District’s bond counsel (who charges a fee on bond transactions).
• LAUSD has never been faced with a legal challenge on any of the non-voter approved COP bond issuances
• Nor have the transactions been challenged by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, which supports Proposition 13.

According to L.A. County Office of Education and LAUSD Inspector General Don Mullinax the school district has up to $1 Billion in outstanding COPs. A fact, of which the public is generally unaware and will have to be repaid from the General Fund.