Trish Kelley

Ury, Kelley Reject Health Benefit After Public Outrage

June 26, 2010

   It appears Frank Ury and Trish Kelley are walking a tight wire between their self interest and public disapproval.  In May 2008, just prior to Ury’s re-election bid, the two voted to terminate a city policy which granted lifetime health benefits upon themselves and their spouses. But they reinstated the benefit six months later at the first council meeting [...]

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Kelley Acknowledges Danger Of Retirement Costs

June 18, 2010

   Mayor Trish Kelley is acknowledging the ominous future liability of a previously approved retirement policy for city employees.  The City’s current unfunded liabilities are estimated at over $9 million. Kelley is recommending City Staff research and propose a less costly “second tier” plan for future new hires within the next 90 days.    Last September Mission Viejo was [...]

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MacLean Gone; Kelley Mayor; Leckness Vice Mayor

February 16, 2010

   Lance MacLean made his departing comments and left the dais last night as a result of his February 2 recall by Mission Viejo voters. He was replaced as mayor by Trish Kelley. Kelley, Ury and newly elected Dave Leckness again circumvented senior councilmember JP Ledesma who was overdue for the position of mayor. Leckness was selected Mayor Pro [...]

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Letter: Smokey & The Bandit

October 17, 2009

Allan Pilger has been on a conservative tear lately on the Dispatch, about the dysfunctional Mission Viejo City Hall. We are Smokey and the Bandit, the lovable, liberal dogs in the Pilger household who like the way things have been going in the past few years. We have some catching up to do in rebuttal: [...]

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MV May Oppose CUSD Election Change

October 7, 2009

   During Monday’s Council meeting, Councilwoman Trish Kelley stated her intention to bring an agenda item to the next meeting opposing a ballot initiative which would change the election procedure for Capo School District Trustees.     A petition by some Capo residents has resulted in a ballot item for next June which, if passed, would cause Trustees to be elected [...]

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Closing Ceremony: O’Neill School Slips Away

June 18, 2009

    It was a funeral, complete with a bagpipe player.  The corpse was the brick edifice known as O’Neill Elementary School, a facility whose history is synonymous in time and spirit with the birth of Mission Viejo.  It was, after all, the City’s first school.      Councilmember Trish Kelley attempted to console the weeping mourners by making an object [...]

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Amnesia, Delusion, Or Lies? The Kelley-Ury ULI Story

April 23, 2009

    At a Special Council Meeting on February 24, Trish Kelley denied the council ever had any interest in pursuing a high-density mixed-use development policy for the Mission Viejo Village Center at LaPaz and Marguerite. Kelley has been blaming the media for lingering concern about a 2007 report from the Urban Land Institute (ULI), a consortium [...]

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Letter: MUK-Budget

April 20, 2009

Based on its prior proclamations, the current city council majority (MacLean Ury and Kelley, better known as MUK) at tonight’s council meeting no doubt will justify the unnecessary $1 million renovation of locker rooms at the Montanoso Recreation Center by assuring taxpayers that the money is already budgeted. The $11.3 million shortfall in the last fiscal [...]

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Kelley Denies Urban Concept For Village Center

February 27, 2009

    At Tuesday’s Special Council meeting Councilwoman Trish Kelley made a statement denying City Hall was considering the creation of a mixed use development for the Mission Viejo Village Center at LaPaz and Marguerite.     She was referring to a study commissioned by City Hall in early 2007.  A subsequent report by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) found, in order [...]

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City Attorney Fighting Voters?

February 7, 2009

    It’s no secret city council members generally don’t like voters trumping the council’s power to deal with developers or other special interests. An example is the Building Industry Association, an outside lobbying consortium, which is a campaign contributor to the council majority: Frank Ury, Lance MacLean and Trish Kelley.     Could that explain why the City Attorney appears to be posturing to invalidate [...]

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