It's almost always about the children...
The public relations and tax revenue fixated OC Children and Families Commission needs oversight. How do I know? Because of the amount of money these people pay to PR types and lobbyists – who just happen to be pals of Commission members. Hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, in fact.
Last year the Riverside County Board of Supervisors addressed the same issue when their “First 5” Commission members were busted for distributing grants to their own organizations. Here’s a 2009 article from The Riverside Press-Telegram that talks about the problem. The solution proposed by the Riverside BOS was to subsume their “First Five” Commission into the County government structure.
Read the rest of “Time to End the Children and Families Commission’s Autonomy”
Wasn’t there supposed to be a meeting of this commission last night or something? Did anybody go?
Who do you think they give all their money to their friends… Non-profits is another word for “MY BUD”.