Staff say increasing minimum wage and looming employee pension costs will make the admission price increases necessary.
Category: State
Sacramento sets housing law, the state budget and the rules Orange County cities have to follow. We cover the decisions made there so you don’t have to sift through council agendas and meeting minutes.
Posted inInvestigative, News Briefs, State
OC Fair Board Appoints New CEO
Fair officials appointed Michele Richards, a former executive staffer who’s promising a new era of transparency for the state agency amid years of controversy leading to the October ousting of Richards’ predecessor, Kathy Kramer.
Posted inEconomy, Garden Grove, Government, Housing & Homelessness, NEWS, Outdoors, REGIONS, Santa Ana, State, Top Stories
Garden Grove Today Could Hand Willowick Golf Course Over to Hotel Developer
Garden Grove city officials today will decide whether one of the last remaining open green spaces in a working-class area will be handed to a for-profit developer for decades, despite an ongoing local court battle over whether city officials actually have the legal authority to do so.
Posted inInvestigative, State
OC Fairgrounds CEO Sacked
OC Fair Board Directors have ousted their embattled CEO, Kathy Kramer, following recent controversy over her fundraising relationship with a private Christian college and news she’s leaving the county for another fair agency in Washington early next year. Kramer is alleging board retaliation for participating in a 2018 investigation into allegations of misconduct by two former board members.
Posted inState
Fate of OC Fairgrounds CEO Kathy Kramer Remains Unclear After Fundraising Controversy
OC Fairgrounds board directors today are expected to issue a statement on the future of Kathy Kramer as CEO following revelations about fundraising ties to a nearby college and news Kramer is leaving her post in February.
Posted inInvestigative, NEWS, State
OC Fairgrounds CEO Kathy Kramer to Leave Post
Fair officials confirmed Kramer’s departure, which comes after Voice of OC revealed Kramer sat on the fundraising board for a private college that the fairgrounds has given state money to.
Posted inInvestigative, NEWS, State, Top Stories
OC Fairgrounds Gave More than $100K in State Money to Private College while Fairgrounds CEO Sat on the School’s Fundraising Board
Orange County Fairgrounds CEO Kathy Kramer joined the fundraising board for Vanguard University, a private Christian college, in 2017. Since then, the fairgrounds has paid the school over $100,000 in contracts and sponsorship deals brought up to the fairgrounds Board of Directors by her staff.
Posted inIrvine, State
OC Veterans Cemetery Gets $20 Million from State, but Future Location is Unknown
Orange County’s first veterans cemetery got $20 million in state funding when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the budget, but the cemetery has yet to find a site in Irvine after battles between the city and the state legislature.
Posted inCountywide, NEWS, State, Top Stories
OC Fairgrounds to Increase Contract Oversight and Accountability
OC fairgrounds board members will scrutinize contracts and employee separation agreements and ensure all board members receive future audits.
Posted inCountywide, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Government, Newport Beach, NEWS, Safety, Security & Justice, Santa Ana, State, Top Stories
Cities Across OC Struggle with Law Enforcement and Fire Pensions
Many Orange County cities are struggling to maintain budgets that keep, or minimally cut services and employees, while trying to keep up with growing law enforcement and fire pension spending.
