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Orange County supervisors moved Tuesday to remove independent oversight of their actions, county finances, and the practices of the Sheriff’s Department and District Attorney’s Office.
Dana Point Harbor Director Brad Gross retired Thursday following an audit that determined the county-owned Dana Point Marina Inn handed out steep discounts to high-level harbor and Dana Point city workers for hundreds of room nights.
High-level employees of Dana Point Harbor and the city of Dana Point took advantage of a poorly documented employee discount program for room stays that had no approval or oversight from the Board of Supervisors.
Auditor Controller Eric Woolery, after a meeting with the county’s top lawyer, has decided to allow payments to go forward for questionable mass mailers sent by supervisors Andrew Do and Lisa Bartlett. However, the state Fair Political Practices Commission is still considering whether to launch a formal review.
Orange County Auditor Controller Eric Woolery is questioning several mass mailers sent by supervisors Lisa Bartlett and Andrew Do over concerns they might violate a state law that limits how elected officials can display their names on publicly funded mail.
The move, brought on in part by Supervisor Michelle Steel’s opposition to an ethics ballot measure, would require the county’s auditor controller to provide a fiscal impact statements.
Orange County’s elected Auditor Controller Eric Woolery argues that Supervisor Shawn Nelson’s pension payout doesn’t smell right. He’s asking questions. And he says the answers don’t make sense.
Dave Zenger, a former political aide to County Supervisors’ Chairman Shawn Nelson, who left the county after his own investigations turned up too much heat, says today’s landscape at the County Hall of Administration screams for an elected auditor.
Orange resident Eric Woolery, who will be sworn in Monday, is warning county supervisors that he’s ready to head to court to enforce his elected mandate to audit agencies as he sees fit.
County vacancies, including public administrator, clerk-recorder, auditor-controller, along with the 2014 race for the coastal supervisor’s seat trigger political musical chairs.