So are you saying there’s a big cover up?

County Counsel is there to protect board members not the public. They advised on the Aguilar censure but it was up to the board to pursue action and vote on it. And there have been several Grand Jury reports on the cemetery district. Grand Jury reports have no teeth. Districts and boards can give them the middle finger and there is not a darn thing the Grand Jury can do about it.

First, it’s censured. Second, if all those things took place, one would reasonably expect that county counsel would have taken action against Mr. Avila and a possible grand jury proceeding or two would have occurred. So there’s either nothing there or it’s a cover up perpetrated by A LOT of people – lawyers, board of supervisors, grand jury. I subscribe to Occam’s razor – there’s nothing there.

My point was that for the grand jury to return an accusation against a government official, it has to be for malfeasance in office, not simply being for being a “pain in the ass.” I was not indicating that Mr. Aguilar was in fact a “pain in the ass” rather, that the grand jury can’t take action simply for personality conflicts, no matter how strongly felt.

Somehow I highly doubt that it is a lack of training, it is more of birds of a feather flying in formation. Hypocrisy and narcissism runs deep on the cemetery board. Nothing is going to change until the entire board is replaced with new members who are not involved in ongoing personal agendas. Since that is not going to happen the power games will continue.

You are on the Visalia Cemetery Board . The Grand Jury investigated your manager back in 2007 after being accused of wrong doing . You did nothing about your manager then . You said there was no evidence against her . Then that same manager was arrested 10 years later for embezzling 1.3 million dollars from 2012 to 2016 all under your watch . Had you taken appropriate action back in 2007 you could have avoided losing 1.3 million dollars of the public’s money . Three members of the 2007 Grand Jury told the Visalia Times Delta that there was “ serious wrongdoing “ at the Visalia Cemetery but you ignored that and the Visalia Cemetary paid for it later . Maybe you should focus your attention on the cemetery you were appointed to look after . Pubic Cemetary’s are sisters and should help each other out . Your current Manager has help the Tulare Cemetery out many times by sharing important information. Perhaps you could take following her example.