Santa Clara Vanguard 2024

[Boss Anova]

9 minutes ago, Richard Lesher said:

I have personally given DCI everything and more. I filed multiple ethics complaints (evidenced with violations in accordance with DCI ethics and standards required of participating organizations), handed DCI the CA DOJ letters on a silver platter, handed them the delinquent status the DOJ has placed SCV in on a silver platter. 

I set these communications to the Ethics mail, and the individual emails of every single DCI Board Member. 

Things are simply going to get to the point where the State of California acts upon the notifications they have been giving SCV and revoke their non profit status as already requested of the California State Franchise Tax Board. 

 

SCV is in violation of:

Santa Clara Bingo Ordinances 

5.75.060 Eligible organizations.
5.75.080 Exclusive operation by members of the licensee organization.
5.75.150 Profits to be kept in a separate fund or account – Records.
5.75.190 Licensee organization’s submittal of financial records.
5.75.270 Suspension and revocation of bingo permit.

State Law

CA Gambling Laws § 326.5 - Payment of Bingo Staff with Bingo Revenues.
CA Gov Code. 12586 - Failure to submit Audited Financial Statements
Cal. Code Regs., title. 11, § 999.9.4 - Solicitation of prohibited donations as a delinquent entity

 

Per the law, SCV is eligible to have $80,000 in fines imposed upon it, their nonprofit status removed, and Bingo License revoke. 

These complaints are evidenced and documented, and submitted to the State and City. 

SCV is just meandering along presuming regulators will simply never act. They are mistaken. 
 

  You could be right. Only time will tell if behind the scenes, SCV new mgt there is still " just meandering along " with the regulators there.  One thing that is not in dispute is that SCV as of November was still in delinquency status, as your linked info illustrated earlier.... and the clock is ticking.

[IllianaLancerContra]

2 hours ago, Terri Schehr said:

I’m so out of the pop culture loop. 

Me too. My students find it hilarious.  
 

ETA - apparently Game of Thrones and Harry Potter are not the same thing.  

Edited December 18, 2023 by IllianaLancerContra

[scheherazadesghost]

All this and young people are still choosing Vanguard. Some of it is the Rennick effect, but I think there's still more to it. Actually, as an alum, I know there's more to it. That je ne sais quoi has never gone away, thankfully.

I just hope they know to ask the same questions we are... for their own safety and wellbeing. It's kinda why I'm so public about it.

They're the primary stakeholders here and have the most power to get answers to these questions.

[Richard Lesher]

37 minutes ago, Boss Anova said:

  You could be right. Only time will tell if behind the scenes, SCV new mgt there is still " just meandering along " with the regulators there.  One thing that is not in dispute is that SCV as of November was still in delinquency status, as your linked info illustrated earlier.... and the clock is ticking.

The ONLY new person running SCV is the CEO, the CFO herself has been there since 2016, and was the treasurer at the time the delinquency started, the board President at the time SCV defaulted on loans and closed down the corps, and the CFO as SCV continued to receive elevated DOJ notifications. 

At every point along the history of failure she has had 100% oversight of finances. 

The CEO is neither the final authority for SCV policy, nor compliance, and does not have the authority to remove the CFO. 

Edited December 18, 2023 by Richard Lesher

[Jeff Ream]

11 hours ago, Boss Anova said:

Maybe . I wish I knew more about DCi reported involvement according to SCV recent press releases and what they knew and when they knew . DCI will have a lot of “ splainin “ to do if ScV does not make it to the field next summer . On the other hand if they do , some posters on here that spent a lot of man hours  on the SCV situation , won’t have a hell of a lot to show for it in the end if SCV returns .  It’s interesting to watch this all unfold if nothing else , as there really is not much else of interest to talk about this off season , imo 

if anything i typed here gets them to get their #### together and back on the field and be a healthy organization, it was all worth it.

[Jeff Ream]

4 hours ago, Terri Schehr said:

I’m going to as many shows as I can this coming summer.  World class, open class… if it’s in the general vicinity, I’m going.  I hate the seating in Allentown but I might even go there.  

you know where the tailgate is

[Jeff Ream]

2 hours ago, Boss Anova said:

 I am of the current thinking that SCV will be able to get the state of Calif. to vacate the current delinquency status there with the state. Principally on my belief that Gov't tax officials there in Calif.  are likely a bit more favorable there to non profit status organizations there that serve youth, than ( for example ) individuals or for profit businesses.  I can see the state of Calif. giving in to " forgiveness " so long as they get the money owed. Its in the state's financial interest SCV  not to go belly up, as future dollars dont future flow to the state should SCV be kaput. Calif needs revenue even more than does SCV. Calif. currently is operating at a 68 billion dollar deficit, by far the largest in the history of their state,( or any state for that matter ).

 On the other hand, should my thinking be inaccurate, and SCV does not rectify this with the state soon after the first of the year,forcing then an embarrassed DCI to step in if SCV declares a 2nd consecutive year of inactivity, I don't anticipate a suspension. I would anticipate a permanent revocation of SCV's DCI membership with that.

and DCi can't afford too much more embrassment.

 

SCV last year

Cadets this year.

 

now two lawsuits.

 

and a new CEo trying to make connections to the outside world for DCI with all of this.

[Jeff Ream]

1 hour ago, Richard Lesher said:

I have personally given DCI everything and more. I filed multiple ethics complaints (evidenced with violations in accordance with DCI ethics and standards required of participating organizations), handed DCI the CA DOJ letters on a silver platter, handed them the delinquent status the DOJ has placed SCV in on a silver platter. 

I set these communications to the Ethics mail, and the individual emails of every single DCI Board Member. 

Things are simply going to get to the point where the State of California acts upon the notifications they have been giving SCV and revoke their non profit status as already requested of the California State Franchise Tax Board. 

 

SCV is in violation of:

Santa Clara Bingo Ordinances 

5.75.060 Eligible organizations.
5.75.080 Exclusive operation by members of the licensee organization.
5.75.150 Profits to be kept in a separate fund or account – Records.
5.75.190 Licensee organization’s submittal of financial records.
5.75.270 Suspension and revocation of bingo permit.

State Law

CA Gambling Laws § 326.5 - Payment of Bingo Staff with Bingo Revenues.
CA Gov Code. 12586 - Failure to submit Audited Financial Statements
Cal. Code Regs., title. 11, § 999.9.4 - Solicitation of prohibited donations as a delinquent entity

 

Per the law, SCV is eligible to have $80,000 in fines imposed upon it, their nonprofit status removed, and Bingo License revoke. 

These complaints are evidenced and documented, and submitted to the State and City. 

SCV is just meandering along presuming regulators will simply never act. They are mistaken. 
 

is it possible they have lawyers engaged in negotiations to work through all of this?

[scheherazadesghost]

5 minutes ago, Jeff Ream said:

is it possible they have lawyers engaged in negotiations to work through all of this?

Pfff, I hope they do! Competent ones with nonprofit expertise, ideally.

[Boss Anova]

46 minutes ago, Jeff Ream said:

and DCi can't afford too much more embrassment.

 

SCV last year

Cadets this year.

 

now two lawsuits.

 

and a new CEo trying to make connections to the outside world for DCI with all of this.

 For sure.