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The Anaheim City Council voted on a $15 million relief package, with $6.5 million of it going to advertise for the resort industry — which is shut down indefinitely. Another $2 million goes to the Anaheim Community Foundation to provide direct assistance to residents and community nonprofits. And up to $6 million will be directed to homeless services and housing assistance for residents.
Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu, tonight, will propose a $15 million economic recovery package, including $6.5 million to help advertise for the Disneyland-area resort industry, coming from the city’s reserve funds.
Cities across Orange County cities are adopting bans on evictions due to the economic fallout from the state’s stay home order. To date, Santa Ana, Anaheim and Costa Mesa have adopted bans while cities like Irvine and Garden Grove have adopted softer consumer protections. Meanwhile, questions mount about what the bans will do to smaller property owners.
Anaheim City Councilmembers will decide on temporarily banning evictions as scores of workers lose jobs due to the state-mandated closure of large sections of the economy.
Buena Park, Fullerton and Irvine became the latest Orange County cities to declare states of emergency Tuesday in order to unlock state and federal emergency funding amid the novel Coronavirus outbreak.
Anaheim City Hall will close to the public until next month, after city councilmembers held an emergency meeting Monday evening to declare a state of emergency in the city due to the spreading novel Coronavirus in Orange County.
An Orange County lawsuit could soon shine some light on the secrecy surrounding the negotiations and land sale proposal of Angel Stadium, after a community group sued Anaheim for allegedly violating transparency laws.
Anaheim Councilwoman Denise Barnes became the deciding vote Tuesday on a controversial Anaheim Hills condo proposal, when she sided with Mayor Harry Sidhu and Councilman Jose Moreno in denying the project.
Councilwoman Denise Barnes, a Republican in the minority on the city council, is now the swing vote on a controversial Anaheim Hill condo project after she received new information about the existing property and raised questions at the Council’s last meeting.
Anaheim City Councilmembers decided to add 100 more beds to the existing 200-bed Salvation Army homeless shelter so the city can continue enforcing anti-camping laws.