While there’s some positive change in the shelter, serious problems remain. OC needs to be transparent about the implementation (or not?) of the shelter’s taxpayer-funded Strategic Plan. It also needs to value its experienced volunteers, instead of restricting them to crowded walkways and yards deteriorating into mud pits.
Author Archives: Karen Vaughn
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Vaughn: The Board Took Positive Steps for the OC Animal Shelter, NOW Let’s Block the Bureaucracy’s Plan to Lower Standards
The community is grateful to Supervisors Janet Nguyen and Vicente Sarmiento. They’ve achieved real progress! But the bureaucracy is still trying to dilute the Strategic Plan, using a suspicious contract with a single bidder. And the county is rejecting simple arithmetic, shortchanging Animal Care Attendants.
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Vaughn: Reform is Badly Needed in Orange County Government
Orange County government is malfunctioning. Its costly centralized administration is inaccessible to the citizens. It publicizes glossy “plans” but doesn’t follow through with implementation. Its unfocused risk-management office did nothing to prevent county crews from causing wildfires. The county should confront its shortcomings and take steps to address them.
