Menifee: Manolito V. Vitug and why he should be voted onto the School Board
Below is a few pieces of information from Manolito V. Vitug, who is running for Menifee School Board. I think he has some interesting ideas, if you have any comments, feel free to share them. As well if you are a candidate running for a local office, please contact us so we can make voters aware of your ideas.
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MANOLITO V. VITUG, Candidate
Governing Board, Menifee School District
Election date: November 4, 2008
A retired banker. Former Vice President & Branch Manager of Bank of America, Vice President of a bank in Northern California, President/CEO of a Los Angeles bank.
In retirement, I teach financial management, part time, at Mt San Jacinto College. I am also a member of the school’s Advisory Committee and a volunteer teacher in the G.R.E.A.T. program of the Menifee School District.
My objectives in the school board:
1. To promote better education through formation of the children’s human qualities, alongside development of their academic and technical competence.
2. To develop financial programs that will make schools less dependent on government funding and avoid issuing bonds that result in increased property taxes.
Lane (my wife of 47 years) and I have 9 children, 8 children-in-law and 20 grandchildren all residing, working and going to school in California.
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Brief on generating funds
for the Menifee School District
Background. Whenever the school budget is cut, the effect is always disastrous to the community. The consequences range from the laying off teachers and/or administrative staff to cutting back of classrooms, school supplies, etc. Or issuing bonds to raise money which, in turn, results in increased property taxes.
Objective. To develop a program of generating funds for the School District in order to enable it to continue with its normal operations in the event of budget cuts.
There are several ways of generating funds.
Strategy. One such project is the establishment of a Federal Credit Union.
First of all, the Credit Union’s creation shall provide a service to the members in terms of savings and checking accounts, time deposits, secured credit cards, car loans, and residential loans. Its profits will be distributed, as required by law, to the credit union members who are the teachers, parents and residents of the community.
Secondly, the Credit Union shall generate additional income through business brokering and consulting. Its consulting function will include assisting certain companies in the Inland Empire to obtain Federal grants for their operations. These will be those companies which can qualify for Federal grants, businesses whose operations are or can be geared towards export of their products to other countries. The school district shall be the beneficiary of a major portion of the fees that the Credit Union will generate from this business activity.
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Concept: on enhancing
The Education of Children
Our love for the youth is measured by our response to their needs. Their real needs are those things that are necessary for their moral, intellectual and social formation. Development in these areas must start in their homes. Among the qualities that need to have their foundation at home include order, honesty, sincerity and generosity.
The schools participate in the continued nurturing of these qualities and, in addition, they have the task of developing the social qualities of the students. Such other qualities include friendliness, cooperation, responsibility, sportsmanship, among other social qualities. These should be developed alongside the formation in the sciences and the arts.
In the real world, one can always hire and pay for the services of technically competent individuals. But one cannot pay somebody to possess good human qualities. Such qualities cannot be bought. They have to belong to the person who, over time, has acquired them. Therefore, a person who has a good balance of the human qualities and technical competence is the more complete person, a truly educated person. This should be the objective of especially early education. To achieve this objective, education should involve a close cooperation and partnership between parents/guardians and teachers, a partnership that will place alongside the formation of academic and technical competence, the development of the human qualities in children. It shall be the responsibility of the school district to develop a program that will put this objective into effect.