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The Board of Supervisors voted March 26 to approve $13 million toward the creation of an additional Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU) for those persons in Orange County experiencing a mental health emergency.
ActCoastal, the California Coast Accountability Project, released the 2018 California Coastal Commission Conservation Report Card. This annual report card monitors the performance of the California Coastal Commission, the state’s most powerful land use agency, by tracking conservation votes cast by individual commissioners.
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For Immediate Release
Contacts:
Roberto Herrera, Community Engagement Coordinator,
roberto@resilienceoc.org
Orange County Sheriff’s Department Ends Its Immigrant Detention Contract with ICE. Sheriff Don Barnes decision comes after years of pressure from human and immigrant rights organizations over conditions of detention and the continuing change in political landscape in the county. Orange County, CA – On Wednesday March 27th, 2019, Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes announced through a press statement his decision to withdraw from the county’s ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) contract.
Irvine will grapple with a City Council vacancy when Mayor Pro Tem Christina Shea succeeds former Mayor Don Wagner, who resigned Tuesday after winning a special election to become a County supervisor.
Seniors living at the Rancho La Paz mobile home park on the border of Fullerton and Anaheim have until Sept. 1, instead of June 1, to work out a plan on rent increases with the owner, after Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu brokered a deal with the park owner Wednesday.
Under the pressure of a federal lawsuit against the County and other cities for homeless policies, North Orange County cities have banded together in an effort to create two homeless shelters in the area, while each city pays a percentage of construction and operating costs.
Claire Schlotterbeck, Executive Director of Hills For Everyone, writes that there are long-term solutions to the affordable housing crisis but there is no need to change our state’s environmental laws.
Santa Ana city officials, fearing a downturn in local commerce amid a recent voter-approved 1.5 percent sales tax increase, are trying to encourage residents to shop locally, and they’re helping car dealerships first, through a $1.7 million subsidy.
Board of Accountancy Executive Officer Patti Bowers beefed up a 2018 complaint against the Great Park auditors in an attempt to have the Board of Accountancy revoke the licenses of the auditors for mismanagement of two park audits.
He comes into office as supervisors face a host of issues ranging from homelessness to where a veterans’ cemetery should go, to problems with mental healthcare delivery.