A longtime Ramona resident flagged years of spending on board members’ health benefits. The results of the revelations were surprising.
There are 58 special districts in San Diego County paid for by property taxes. Some districts are monitored closely. Others? Not so much. KPBS anchor Maya Trabulsi has the story of a cemetery district in Ramona.
The district’s sole responsibility is to operate the Nuevo Memory Gardens, a 10-acre cemetery that opened in 1893 and is the final resting place for more than 1,000 souls.The auditor noted that the district had been paying for the health benefits of two of its part-time trustees for years. All told, the district had shelled out more than $400,000 since 2011 to pay the insurance premiums for William Biggs and Daniel Vengler.
Stern said neither the district nor the trustees have done anything illegal, but it’s not good governing. Yet, he’s not surprised it happened, he said, because"very few people pay any attention to special districts."Ramona’s cemetery district is one of 3,300 operating statewide and 58 in San Diego County, all supported by property taxes. They are responsible for a range of infrastructure and services, including sewers, water and fire protection.
KPBS confirmed through the California State Controller’s website that Biggs and Vengler approved health coverage for themselves in a cemetery board meeting in 2011, and since then, the district has paid for health benefits on their behalf totalingReviews of the other cemetery districts in San Diego County revealed that they don’t pay their trustees health benefits.
"You know, I was shocked to learn what you learned," Anderson said when KPBS showed him Smith’s findings."We're actually doing the research on what we can and cannot do," Anderson said."I made some of these appointments back in 2021 when I first got elected, and nobody else applied. There were no complaints and I had no idea."Smith first attended a district board meeting in June, which is when he told the board about the audit report’s findings.
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