The RSCCD Board of Trustees knowingly approved an employee health insurance plan with a controversial vendor costing taxpayers approximately $1.7 million more than a nearly identical alternative. They failed in their duty to scrutinize the plans and protect taxpayer dollars. Approving millions more for comparable coverage raises serious questions about fiscal responsibility, judgment, and accountability.
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Resnick: RSCCD – A Crisis of Leadership, Accountability and Trust
The Rancho Santiago Community College District faces a deepening crisis as allegations, investigations, and financial concerns converge around Chancellor Marvin Martinez. Longstanding warnings about governance failures and ties to a joint powers authority have gone unheeded, leaving the board to confront institutional dysfunction that now demands decisive leadership and immediate accountability.
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Resnick: Will RSCCD’s Imminent $22 Million Decision Help Regain Public Trust?
A forensic audit recently found $8 million in excess insurance premiums had been held for over a decade by the Alliance of Schools for Cooperative Insurance Programs (ASCIP) for the Rancho Santiago CCD without the knowledge of the elected trustees. Now the trustees are faced with continuing their $22 million annual employee insurance contract with ASCIP or looking elsewhere.
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Resnick: Could History Repeat Itself for Local College Trustees?
Almost 40 years ago four trustees of the Orange Unified School District were indicted for willful misconduct in office. Among the charges against them were failing to obey various educational codes. Similar charges were alleged to have occurred under the watch of the Rancho Santiago CCD board. Could they meet the same fate?
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Resnick: RSCCD Chancellor Marvin Martinez Misleads Board and Taxpayers
For over 15 years the Alliance of Schools for Public Insurance Programs (ASCIP) has been holding insurance rebate funds belonging to the Rancho Santiago CCD. When elected trustee Phillip Yarbrough, who was unaware funds were held outside of the college district’s purview, started to ask questions he was stripped of his position as chair of the district’s Fiscal/Audit Committee.
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Resnick: Lifting the Curtain Behind a School Bond
While employed with the Rancho Santiago CCD, two senior administrators served at the same time as directors of a Hawaii based insurance company that received millions of dollars in premiums from the college district for bond construction insurance related to the $337 million Measure E. There were never votes recorded or minutes of any kind memorializing this company’s involvement with the RSCCD.
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Resnick: Rancho Santiago Community College District Must Make Changes
The inability to control their own largest financial commitment, questionable hires and embarrassment from leadership are reasons why taxpayers in the Rancho Santiago Community College District should not support a bond in 2024. Asking the taxpayers to support the college district when one poor decision after another is made is asking too much.
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Resnick: Will the RSCCD Trustees Keep the Community in the Dark Again?
Dr. Barry Resnick, a professor of counseling in his 39th year as a faculty member in the Rancho Santiago Community College District, writes that the trustees of the Rancho Santiago Community College District (RSCCD) are about to make a decision that can begin to move the District forward after almost a decade of dysfunction, embarrassment and a lack of direction. Interviews will begin later this week between the four finalists for the RSCCD chancellor position.
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Resnick: The Legacy of Rancho Santiago Community College District’s Raul Rodriguez
Dr. Barry Resnick, a professor of counseling in his 38th year as a faculty member in the Rancho Santiago Community College District, writes that abuses of power by Chancellor Raul Rodriguez created the conditions for unionization of faculty with the California Teachers Association and has now energized staff to challenge the status quo.
