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New Lake County Historical Society Officers Elected and Fistfights Prevented

Tavares, FL - April 29, 2013 by Vance Jochim, FiscalRangers.com The Lake County Historical Society had two competing elections for new officers and one slate received approval by the County Manager, and the doors of the Lake County Museum were then locked to keep out the opposing "rebel" faction. This is important because the Society has an agreement with the County Government to administer the Lake County History museum AND receives $20,000 from them to do so. I wrote last week about the controversial Lake County Historical Society, the recent audit disclosing numerous fiscal and operational problems and pending elections where two fighting factions would make it a nail biter. Here is the prior article: http://webworks.typepad.com/lakecountyfiscalrangers/2013/04/lake-county-publishes-audit-of-controversial-lake-county-historical-society.html Here is a good account of the Friday elections by Greg Jones of the Daily Commercial: http://www.dailycommercial.com/news/article_0f6f00a8-21c3-55fd-959c-6f3314f7f618.html And, attached here is the internal audit of the Historical Society finances and SIGNIFICANT, unacceptable operations problems which I described in my earlier post: Download BCC-107_Audit_of_Lake_County_Historical_Society And here is my overview of the elections and comments: The two fighting factions held separate elections on Friday, Apr. 26. One was the existing "legal" officers led by Bob Grenier, and the other I call the "rebel group" which was... Read more →

Lake County Publishes Audit of Controversial Lake County "House of Horrors" Historical Society

Tavares, FL - Thursday, Apr. 25, 2013 - Lake County, FL by Vance Jochim - updates will be added as received. Update: Apr. 29th - Historical elections were held and a new slate was elected and no gunfights broke out - update posted soon on this blog in separate posting. Update Apr. 26th - see details below about today's meetings for elections. An earlier version of this article was also published on the national newswire service WatchdogWire.com HERE. Does Lake County, FL have a HOUSE of HORRORS instead of a Lake County History Museum? A new audit indicates that might be the case, and it is a House of Mis-Management Horrors right here in Lake County. The Lake County Board of Commissioners requested that the Court Clerk's Audit Office audit the operations and financial records of the Lake County Historical Society which manages the Lake County History Museum under an agreement with the County. It was published today in order to be available before tomorrow's April 26th Historical Society Board Meeting. It is a GOOD audit report indicating an appalling situation where many poor or illegal procedures are used. No inventory exists anywhere of an estimated 2,000 to 5,000 items... Read more →

Lake County School Board Votes to TABLE discussion on allowing Gay Clubs at Middle Schools

Tavares, FL - Thursday, Apr. 25, 2013 by Vance Jochim - FiscalRangers.com - UPDATES will be added to this document as received. The Lake County Board meeting this past Monday, April 22nd, included an agenda item for the second and final vote to approve extra-curricular clubs at Lake County middle schools, which would include a proposed Gay Straight Alliance club (GSA) at Carver Middle School which many people objected to because they believed 6th & 7th graders should not be confronted with groups focuses on sexual lifestyles. The only other alternative allowed by the Federal “Equal Access” law was to prohibit all extra-curricular clubs, including those focused on community service, Christian groups, etc. but it would also exclude the GSA club. Note: This blog writer was against formation of Gay Clubs at Middle Schools (see why in attachment below). This picture taken from the right side of the room, which had about 1/3 of the audience in the "Communist Red" shirts, indicating support of the liberal coordinated GSA club. The other 2/3 on the far side of the room were LOCALS who were against it. Plus there were many sitting outside this filled room watching on monitors. Normally, Lake County... Read more →