The Ralph M. Brown Act and Bagley-Keene Act require public meetings and full transparency, which are too much of a hassle for OC Fair CEO Steve Beazley. In an effort to consolidate his nefarious power behind closed doors, he simply disbanded many of the board committees, which have served the people so effectively and openly for the last fifty years.
In the past, there were several committees that worked with staff in an open and public way to provide honest leadership that was in the best interest of the fair and the community.
No more.
Beazley has disbanded nearly every board committee and using his financial signature authority up to a whopping $300,000, he has gone on spending sprees without board knowledge or approval.
He hired Bill Charney and Associates, a Colorado-based consultant specializing in nonprofit boards, to help him restructure the OC Fair Board under a new governance plan, which helped eliminate transparency and allowed him the opportunity to work behind the scenes to spend taxpayer dollars and make decisions without full accountability to the board and the public as a whole.
Under the unquestioned, unelected and unaccountable czarist leadership of Beazley, the fair is spinning out of control, which could be why Beazley and his cabal are scheming to sell the property for pennies on the dollar before their economic chainsaw-juggling act results in catastrophe.
Beazley is nothing but ambitious and self serving. He has no regard for the stated Mission of the Fair or the people of this County. Only those who stand to profit by grafting off his ill-gotten gains support him. On a petition drive to save the Equestrian Center (one of his prime targets) 99% of every resident spoken with immediately signed the petition (there are approximately 2-3 thousand signatures to date). So Un_Fair_Bob or whoever you are…we know you’re in on it so stop pretending. Hey, you might even BE Beazley.