Fountain Valley School Bond Committee Fined $5,000

A Fountain Valley school bond campaign committee was fined $5,000 last week for failing to properly disclose certain campaign contributions, according to a report in the Orange County Register. 

The $23.5 million bond was defeated by voters in November. 

Last week, the state's Fair Political Practices Commission said that the committee, led by a Kansas City-based investment bank, failed to document two reports that were legally mandated before the election. 

According to the newspaper, a $10,000 check from George K. Baum, the investment bank, and $13,000 in consultation donations to the committee went unreported before the November deadline. 

Paul Rincon, a parent who volunteered on the committee as its treasurer, told the paper that the failure to disclose contributions was not intentional, and that he had never worked on a campaign before. 

"For $13,000 for a month-and-a-half of work, I would have thought they would have given us a little more help," he said.