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Legal costs reach over $1 million in Allyn vs. FUESD lawsuit
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Volume 19, Issue 15
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Debbie Ramsey Managing Editor Legal costs have now reached over $1 million (combined) in the Allyn vs. Fallbrook Union Elementary School District (FUESD) case that was filed in 2012. To date, legal costs paid to defend FUESD in the wrongful termination lawsuit brought about by Elaine Allyn, the district’s former information technology
see LAWSUIT, page A-4
BUSD hopes to refinance bonds Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent The Bonsall Unified School District board approved a consultant agreement with Dale Scott & Company for financial advisory services which will include potential refinancing of the district’s general obligation bonds and issuance of certificates of participation to finance the two-story building planned for the Sullivan Middle School campus
see BUSD, page A-9
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Christine Rinaldi photo Ava Elgie, 3, wears bunny ears to the annual Pancake Breakfast April 4 at the Fallbrook Community Center prepared by members of the Fallbrook Firefighters Association to benefit worthy causes. After breakfast, Ava was planning on attending the community Egg Hunt next door at La Paloma School. For more photos, see page B-1.
Governor Brown issues executive order mandating 25 percent reduction in water use
Novelist Alan Russell speaks to Friends
Calif. Dept. of Water Resources photo Standing in an area where there would normally be five feet of snow at this time of year, on April 1, Governor Jerry Brown said he was issuing an executive order mandating a 25 percent reduction in water usage. SACRAMENTO – Following the lowest snowpack ever recorded and with no end to the drought in sight, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced April 1 actions that will save water, increase enforcement to prevent wasteful
water use, streamline the state’s drought response and invest in new technologies that will make California more drought resilient. “Today we are standing on dry
see WATER, page A-5
Ken Seals photo Successful novelist Alan Russell speaks about his career as a writer and novelist as well as his newest novel, “Guardians of the Night,” on April 2 at the Friends of the Fallbrook Library Community Read luncheon. See more photos of this event on page A-7.