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Hundreds of families have been impacted by the spread of COVID-19 through at least 20 nursing homes and long term care facilities throughout Orange County.
City Council members on Tuesday night directed staff to move funding away from capital projects, postpone improvements to the city’s technology and software systems as well as dip into reserves to address the loss in revenue they will face the next fiscal year.
Nearly 11,000 voters were in favor of ousting Iglesias, while more than 8,600 were opposed as of Tuesday night.
The City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday night to start a $250,000 emergency loan program to help keep small businesses devastated economically in the city alive.
Santa Ana’s looking at millions of dollars in financial losses from Coronavirus, as officials are preparing a new budget that proposes to increase public safety spending by $13.5 million.
What happens today could set the stage for the November general election, and impact the future of Santa Ana politics. If voters want Iglesias out, they’ll have three different replacement candidates, all backed by different people, to choose from.
A Voice of OC flyover captured video of beaches up and down the OC coast, to see what members of the public were doing while Coronavirus social distancing restrictions is in effect.
After a marathon meeting that stretched into Tuesday morning, the council directed staff to draw up a plan converting outdoor areas to eating areas but did not move to reopen the majority of businesses.
Multiple councilmembers are bringing requests to have city staff start looking at reopening restaurants and other businesses across the city.
“The United States Supreme Court has long recognized that the Constitution ‘does not import an absolute right in each person to be, at all times and in all circumstances, wholly free from constraint,’ ” wrote OC Superior Court Judge Nathan R. Scott.